2022-02-23 — Tired Little Boy

Hiya, folks. 🙂

I am on tired little boy right now. It’s 1:30. I’ve spent pretty much my whole day, apart from a handful of conversations in Spanish with my mother, working on finance stuff. I spent a long time trying to figure out what was going on with the issues with the AutoZone receipts. I have something like 35 receipts from AutoZone that can’t be found in my credit card history (I found more today after the ones I wrote about yesterday).

I called my credit card company, and they were like–“no problem here on our end. You’ll want to talk to AutoZone.” So… it’s possible that I’ll owe AutoZone like $1200ish dollars in purchases that never actually went through, but I’m not sure. It’s pretty weird. Perhaps I’ve uncovered a glitch in their software, as I have receipts from multiple months, so it’s not just one isolated incident/time frame. It’s missing receipts mixed in with others that are properly found in my card statements.

Yeah, it’s weird.

So I spent a while on that in the morning. I finished going through all the bajillion receipts. I went through my labor claims. I started pulling together final totals of things in the various categories. I’m making great progress on 2021. This AutoZone/Card statement hiccup is definitely a pain in the tail, but… I’m moving along nonetheless.

Finishing by Monday really looks like a realistic possibility. Cross them fingers.

Aside from finances finances finances, it was really cold today–really cold. Wind chill of -6 degrees, and it’s Arkansas cold, so it bites bites bites–not a dry cold like the mountain west.

Stayed home today. No car work. It’ll be the same tomorrow. I’ll be doing tax stuff all day, pounding pounding pounding. I’m beating 2021 into submission. I’m grateful for what I learned from previous years that helped me be better prepared for 2021. Been busting my tail, and we’re getting so close to having the huge projects done. Then it’ll just be the much smaller ones that will take a day or so each instead of weeks and weeks and months like this has taken.

Ok. I’m rambling. I’m tired. Time for bed. Good night, my lovelies.

Lift the World.

~ stephen