An excellent nights sleep. Even woke up before the alarm. (Easier to do on the 11-8 shift.)
Going to be dialing in from my place today, as the DSL is still over there. So I’ve still got a commute, but it’s 10 minutes vs 45+. I can deal with that, and I can come back here at “lunch” and let the dog out and feed him dinner. Only have to go in on Friday to pickup the beeper.
Remembered to get the trash out (GO ME!) Did the dishes this morning already, really should get some laundry done tonight, but the knowledge of the fact I’ll be in jeans all week somewhat dampens my resolve on that. Since my promotion, I can now telecommute up to 50%. Talking w/my old manager that went back to second line, she’s going to take advantage of it too - we really should take a couple minutes and coordinate days out and present it to management that way so we can show that someone will be in the office and it should be easier to get a quick OK on it. (In theory there should be no question about it, but you never know…) Neither one of us wants to do a full week in/out - I’d rather take 2 days every week. Man, that would ROCK. Extra sleep is a good thing.
Just got word back from said coworker - she’s gonna ask for Tues/Wed’s out. This should work perfectly.
Going to put the order in to get the DSL changed over next week, need to have it intact at my place to work this week, and since there will no doubt be a gap in service, if I’m not going to have any DSL for a couple days, I’d rather it be the week I am not trying to telecommute. It will be good to have my computer over here. Just need to figure out where it’s going to go. If my brother does decide to move back in, I’ll definitely get the wireless setup going so we can have the computers wherever we want in the house and not have to worry about cable length proximity to the router.
Still slogging through paperwork. Little bro needs to locate his birth certificate for one thing, and as soon as we’ve got that, we can send that out. Brokerage house is sending a packet of forms and whatnot so we can get together whatever documents we need to get that switched over. Appointment with attorneys is next week so we can get rolling on getting the will probated and see if we’re gonna have to do an estate tax return or not. I still don’t have a “complete”
list of assets - I’ve got them identified, but valuation on some is unknown at the moment.
If we do have to do an estate tax return…I may hire it out - it’s not a difficult return, but with the added issue of my grandfather’s trust, I may just put it into someone else’s hands. We’ve got 9 months to do it anyway, so it’s not like it has to be done this week. I do need to file an extension on the regular 2004 tax return, since I am not 100% sure we’ve got all the docs to do it yet - this week/end I’ll do a preliminary run through on it and see where that stands. May actually have everything and be able to just submit it, which would be good to get it off the plate.
Still have not notified the mortgage company, if they want to call the loan, I’d rather they do that *after* we’ve got funds to pay it off, which we will, just not today… So, they can wait - they shouldn’t really care since the monthly payment is being made, but I just don’t feel like tempting fate on it by calling them now.
