Oh, right. Taxes.

[prog]

I got my first more-or-less Jmac's Arcade fan mail today from the fellow behind a video podcast called Coin-Op TV. I've so far only watched the most recent episode, which features interviews with stuntmen and T-shirt vendors at a J-pop convention. Scrolling down the page I see a lot of more game-related stuff, though. Wow, there's an interview with PONG's creator?! Cool. I shall watch it more later.

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Feeling really deflated today. I'm objectively aware that there's interesting stuff for Volity on the horizon but right now all I can see is business crap that nobody told me about, until it happened to come up in conversation recently: oops, yes, I probably should have distributed tax information to people a month or two ago, eh? At least I'm on it now instead of a month from now, but I could still hear our accountant's eyes rolling at me over the phone yesterday. I am going to meet with him next week, which I predict will be me saying "Dude, whatever. You do it. I'll pay you." repeatedly. I loathe this shit.

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One of the horizoney things: I'm tentatively scheduled to present about Volity at the April 10 Boston Perl Mongers meeting, at 7:15pm at MIT, E51-376. I'd love to see some familiar faces there! I haven't been to a Boston.pm meeting in years, but will probably attend next week's (Tuesday, March 13, same time & location) to get a feel for it.

Comments

[radtea.livejournal.com]

Dealing with accounting is the biggest hurdle I've had to being on my own. The thing that freaked me out and kept me up nights. The one good thing about my loser partners is that there was always someone else do deal with that nonsense. A year or so on it doesn't seem as daunting as it used to.

My accountant is a very nice lady, and I have the advantage that my company makes money, which keeps her from rolling her eyes too hard, but even so I can at times see her grind her teeth at my casually good-natured contempt for the whole enterprise. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm a long-haired hippy-freak egghead who shouldn't be let near an account book.

The good news is that contempt for accounting correlates well with business success. The bad news is that you still have to pay attention to it.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Did you submit the paperwork for checking the bank account via web, so that you can get the numbers out before the accountnt meeting?

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yup.