Working on year end here.
Oh, before I forget: I wasn't here yesterday to wish a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KEN AND TWINS DH.Thought it was time to look at online posting of W2, and W3. Much time spent looking at instructions. The Govt. sure doesn't make it easy. Easy system to put IN the taxes, not an easy system to report them at year end. Ok, so registering should be ok, I understood all that. But making the W2 and then submitting and going back to print out for employees more complicated.
So I figured, oh well, just throw my forms into my typewriter.. (I already got them from the tax system in mail) 2 color so can't just download and print and send...they insist on the red and black... and take to post office. Huh. 1 more year.
Typewriter has been plugged in all year, not used all year, only keep it for the W2 and W3 and 1099 stuff (subcontractor reporting). Turned it on and
BANG!! Sparks and smoke from inside. Pulled the plug and got rid of smoke. Praying hard, I put it in front of open window and crossed my fingers, plugged in again and got form printed, having to stop twice to pull plug and wave away smoke. At the middle of W3 it quit working. They don't accept handwritten ones.
I guess it's done for. Makes my life much more complicated. I have no idea of anybody around who still has a typewriter. Other services online to print out require 2-color printer, so assuming DH doesn't quit in 2019 I will have to figure out the more labor intensive online stuff. Sigh.....
Did find that 1099's are accepted handwritten if legible and 100% correct and since I do all the lettering on our plans, my printing is superb.
Don't see a way to get inside the bottom of the typewriter to see if there's just a wire to replace. Years ago I took typewriter to a repair place for something and they only worked on manual ones. Yikes! Who would ever use one of those any more? Maybe a toy one someplace? Really! I wonder is
Sunny still has hers...she and I had similar. Mine, one of the first word processors, the screen being a 2 1/2" x 1/2" window! It should be an antique!
Oh well. That's my day so far. Just us here for New Years... I could open the bottle of Rum.....nah...
Reading
blessed's post made me think about the other day looking at Christmas budget for this year. I went 25% over and know exactly why but it couldn't be helped this year. Still...my gifts were mostly way beneath everybody else's and I have always thought that I just can't keep up with everybody else.
LadyM,
Amazed at the house description. Myself, I'm not motivated to live in such a place...we're talking about downsizing here a bunch.