Although I did not make it to bed until a little after 10 p.m. yesterday for my latter evening nap to both wait out my younger brother and to shore me up for my overnight hours here at my computer, I felt inexplicably keyed up, so sleep was not easily arrived at.
Yet it did come, and thereafter anytime I surfaced from it, I would easily enough slip back into the state.
There came a point when I had just shifted position to again get back to sleep, when it occurred to me to check the time in case it was into the midnight hour and my brother had at last gone to bed for the night.
Imagine my surprise to discover that it was 1:44 a.m. ─ I was not going to be able to do everything overnight that I wanted to, for there would not be sufficient time. During the workweek, I have to ensure that I am back to bed before my eldest stepson has risen to ready for his workday because he will not otherwise lock the front door if he sees that my light is on here upstairs where I sit at my computer.
Since I have no desire to remain up until after he has finally gone to work, it is best to retire just before he rises from his bed downstairs and ventures to the kitchen from where he would anon notice my light being on if indeed it still was.
At least I was able to finally publish the post I have been working on for well over a month at my hosted website Thai-Iceland.com: Iceland Travel Information.
The post contains over 31,000 words, yet I could have easily continued adding to it. But to what end? I have two websites, and it is time now that I gave some attention to the other.
I was to sleep well enough, and never checked the time again until well past 9 a.m. My younger brother was by then downstairs watching T.V., but after I rose and dressed, I remained here at my computer until near 10 a.m. before I went downstairs to boil water for a black instant coffee, and I then joined him.
We were to watch various shows via our Android TV Box that I operate, and then around 12:45 p.m. he sought some rest in his bedroom before heading away for the afternoon ere it was yet 2 p.m.
If he undertook a walk somewhere, he had a good day for it. There has been more sunshine than cloud; but even so, there are such quantities of those massive white things floating about that I decided against attempting to sit in the backyard to benefit from the Sun. If one of those floating monsters was to drift over and obstruct the Sun, I could be sitting out there for 20 minutes beneath naught but shade ─ a waste of my time.
At least I had a little exercise before my day's first fairly large meal, and then I had a good nap before getting started on this post.
I want to continue on a topic featured largely in yesterday's post ─ the tax returns for my wife and I that I have easily spent over six hours working on by hand. As reported yesterday, I had become so despairing of correctly completing them that I decided to look into some free Canada Revenue Agency-endorsed tax preparation software.
I settled on one programme that I could download into my computer ─ GenuTax. I did that early last evening, and then began the long process of entering the required data relating to the tax information for my wife and I.
It was more work than I anticipated, but at least I did not have to worry about making calculations over and over to ensure that I was performing the math correctly.
Nevertheless, there were 'growing pains'. For one thing, initially I did not realize that the programme would be 'jumping' from one return to the other when it was having me enter the data to the various questions it would present. At one point I had filled out an income slip ─ entering all of the data from the physical one onto the virtual one GenuTax was presenting ─ and I moved on to the next couple of questions, when I realized that GenuTax was directing the questions at my wife and not at me as I had thought it was.
And so I had to figure out how to reverse direction and delete the income slip that I had inadvertently created for my wife when it should have been mine.
That was quite educational. From thence onward, I paid better attention to just whom it was that a series of questions were being directed toward.
When finally I seemed to be finished with the simultaneous work on the two tax returns, I declined to have them immediately forwarded somehow via NETFILE. I did not want to take that step last evening without being able to look over the two virtual tax returns and their various schedules.
But how to do that? There is an option to print them out, but I could not find one allowing me to access them ─ nor to even download them so that I could view them in that fashion. Evidently because they are hidden away with in GenuTax software programme, I expect that GenuTax deems the two returns to have already been 'downloaded' ─ even though I can only view the briefest of summaries that offers less data than does what one would find in a Notice of Assessment.
But I did not have time to get deeply into that conundrum last night. This afternoon, though, I resolved the issue. I selected the print preview option for my wife's return, and was rewarded with the relatively slow process of seeing that more than two dozen pages were being materialized for me to check out ─ these would represent my wife's tax return and all of the various pertinent schedules.
I cannot recall now if that print preview of her tax documentation ─ which basically resembled what one would find had the pages been offered as an Adobe Acrobat document ─ allowed for it to be saved separately; but at least I have a sense now of how I can view the two tax returns.
My wife will likely be home overnight, and won't likely have to work tomorrow and will thus be home (she has not been home since she left for work late last Friday morning ─ such is our sorry marriage). Consequently, I will fill her in tomorrow on this tax preparation software and what results it has achieved; and then I will better review the two tax returns, and finally look into what is involved in NETFILE to get them submitted online to Canada Revenue Agency.
I am going to stop work on today's post now, for due to lack of time overnight, I never made a post in my private blog ─ I must now get that responsibility out of my way, for my early evening is already upon me.
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