the deep moans round with many voices

Company Owner is back in Ithaca for a bit, and yesterday he asked me to do some market research on two new apartment complexes on/near the Commons. So I made him some printouts because he is not great with technology. Today he called me into his office to explain that I should always put my name on reports like that (to take credit for my work), and also that I should include the date I did the research and the date I printed the report.

And I was thinking to myself, "Oh yeah, good point about the name, but surely he realizes the other information is in the file metadata?" until I remembered that he's not good with computers so obviously he will never see any metadata, and this is not a case where redundancy will cause any problems. I will be more redundant in any future reports I write for him.

On a tangentially related note: I also had to stay over 20 minutes late at work last night to convert a PDF into a Word document, because Company Owner doesn't know how to do that. First I tried to do the conversion on his own computer, but I don't know what on this good green earth he has done to his setup. I'm not even sure he actually had the file open in Adobe rather than some strange browser extension? Then I tried to find his email program so I could email the file to myself, but fuck if I could work out where he'd stashed that either.

So I asked him to open his email and send me the file. He did so, whereupon the email spent over two minutes in transit because of the inscrutable whims of the internet.

And then, when I received the email, downloaded the file, and tried to open it, Adobe announced that it had just finished updating and I would need to restart my computer before I could do anything relating to PDFs. *headdesk*

Anyway, once I was FINALLY able to open the file, I converted it and emailed the Word version back to Company Owner in about a minute. Because that's not a hard process unless the universe is conspiring against you!

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Tonight I completed two tax returns for in-person clients, and got through about 85% of a digital drop-off return. I messaged the drop-off clients to let them know what information was missing, and hopefully they'll send that in tomorrow.

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And in completely unrelated news, I gave blood on Tuesday evening. I wanted to do that back in mid-February, but first I was ill, then I couldn't find a drive that worked with my schedule, and then I was ill again. Tax season is always frustrating that way. But I persevered!

I enjoy donating blood. It is a small, relatively simple way to make a positive difference in the world, and I have good veins and don't mind needles. The world is very big and full of problems, but at least I have this tangible action I can point to and say, "See? I am helping."