Banging my head on a wall

I sure have been dealing with a lot of computer issues lately. It's getting old. Yesterday morning I start to work on doing the 1099 tax forms that I need to do for both companies I work for. I use the same process/program for both. It should have been maybe an hour process for each, at the most. First off I find out that the IRS has now changed and added a new 1099 form called 1099-NEC, which will be used for most, in place of the 1099-M. And usually I just click on "process 1099's" in my accounting software and it shows a report of who needs a 1099 for the previous year. For both companies it was coming up blank. Huh? Finally, I got a report to work. Then I have to transfer the data to this online tax form website. I already have an app installed in my accounting software to do this. Been using it for years. I go to do the quick transfer and get an error message. Then switched over to my regular job and tried to transfer the data and same error message. I tried to google it, but couldn't find anything.

Then in the middle of all this I realize for my regular job I am back to where I can't print/save as pdf or email a form. OMG! give me a break! In messaging with my boss about it and that I will have to put in a ticket with our IT company, she tells me our main IT guy no longer works there :(.  I'm like what?! no way! She said she is bummed and honestly now worried about our service level going forward. Then I asked her if she still ever heard from our old IT guy we had for years, who was actually a company employee. He left the same time I moved, so he and his wife could travel in a camper for a year. He was in his early 30's. She said she hasn't heard from him in awhile, but last she did he was now divorced and working/living back in the area. That made me sad to hear.

So, back to 1099's. Since I can't directly import the data I did realize I could just manually enter the info. Since I have used this same service previous years most all the info for each company or person needing a 1099 is already there, so it was just a matter of putting in the dollar amount. I decided that was faster than me spending another hour or two trying to figure out how to upload it. It still took me awhile, as for my regular job we had several new vendors I needed to pay and add all their addresses and tax ID# info.

And in between all that we start getting a spam call on our landline here at home. I have to say we never get those calls. The first one no one answered. The second one they asked for me but the connection was so awful, I told them to call back. It shows calling from an in state #. They didn't call back. Then around dinner time they did and they asked for me. Again an awful connection where I could hear about 2 or 3 words but something to do with I've been pre-approved for a home refinance (nothing to do with who I am currently working with, they have my cell#). I said no, I'm not interested. They called back just before 9pm and then just before 8am this morning. Our phone company here isn't very advanced, so it's not like when I used to have Comcast and could go online and add in #s to block. But I called the phone co and she said I can add #'s to block via my telephone. So far they have used 3 different #'s so I put in those 3. Hopefully that will work.  

And in between all that my mom decides she needs to update her checkbook register. But, as I was going to start to help her, her lunch came, so I told her I'd call her back later. So, just before I'm done working for the day and to head downstairs, I give her a call. UGH! I'm trying as gently as I can to suggest I just start doing this for her. Every time she doesn't know/have her log in info and then when she tries she doesn't enter it right. Then she says "well, you can see it from your computer, right?" Yes, so I ask her if she wrote down the deposit from 1/6 where I transferred $ from her retirement account to her checking. No, she did not. I was sure she hadn't, as I told her the day I did it, but she just said oh ok, I'll get that written down, then of course forgets. She hadn't written down her social security deposit on 1/13. The only things she had of course are any checks she wrote (rent and dd). 

So, just to get her to write down the $15k deposit is a good 5 minutes of back and forth. Then we move on to the next transaction she needs to write down and again it's another 5 minutes of back and forth and then realize she never wrote down the $15k deposit we spent 5 minutes talking about, so then it's back to that one for another 5 minutes. Plus, somehow I still need to get her to write down her cell phone and internet charges. I start to mention those and she's seeing the one's she wrote down for December and thinking she already did it, and I'm like no, these are January that you still need to write down and before I can get her to do that, she's back to the $15k. I said to her I don't mind doing this for you, it's easy for me, since I can see your bank account online.....she always comes back with she knows she should be able to do this but since I'm doing some of it now she's getting out of practice. Finally I just said I'm going to email you a list of the transactions you need to put in your register and tell you what the ending balance should be. So, I did, after dinner, and of course she's probably forgotten, as she still hasn't opened the email.

I get off work, tired, making dinner, and realize I forgot to submit the monthly state business tax report and payment due for my company. It has to be done by end of day or big penalty. So, while eating my dinner I went back upstairs and got that done and submitted. I'm just relieved I remembered it!

I'm hoping today goes better.........oh, who am I kidding....it's payroll day, LOL.

Oh, and now dd has another order for her hall tree (1 sold, 5 being made) LOL.