Well, into each life a little rain must fall. Yesterday it rained on my parade. I was on the verge of finishing the reconciling of all the different reports. Hey, you never know how much cross checking they are capable of doing. Since I have been doing this task, the numbers have always "matched". 941's, FUTA, TWC, and W-3. But the streak ran out yesterday.

The W-2's have been out for a week or more, so it is not really feasible to re-issue a corrected version. Knowing most of my co-workers they have already filed, especially if they are expecting money back! So, with that in mind, everything else has to match the W-3 transmittal (which isn't due out until the end of February, but it must match the W-2's.) I was looking for a $24 discrepancy out of a rather large six figures to the left of the decimal. In other words, I was looking for the needle in the haystack. I began just before three yesterday morning, and I am glad to report that I found that blasted needle just about mid-morning yesterday. (Normal mid-morning.) After six or seven hours I found the error. Since the employee files are alphabetical, that is the way I worked it. The mistake was on a company employee who's name begins with "V". In fact there was only one other employee after him. A "W". But the riddle has been solved.

If they aren't satisfied I will send them my reports!

Hey all we can do is give it our best shot. It works for me.

I ran some errands yesterday, grocery store, and office supplies. While I was out I stopped by Super Suppers and picked up a couple of casseroles. Krl has been wanting chicken enchiladas, and I have been wanting authentic Mexican food. Hot and spicy! They didn't have what she wanted but she told them over the phone what I was to pick up. While it was quick and easy it still didn't hit that taste bud that is standing up and screaming! I hate it when I'm hungry for something and can't figure out exactly what it is. Of course we couldn't just have casserole, we fixed guacamole and then Krl fixed Mexican rice, refried beans and a little lettuce and tomato. It looked like that big order at Abuello's.

The most important errand was the office supply store. I had run out of adding machine tape and that really handicaps you when you are looking for something like the $24 I spoke about before. I'm loaded for bear now!

The rest of my day was pretty well spent requisitioning some truck parts, and trying to put together some driver files to forward to K.O.. Everything was good until I went to print a file and had a printer malfunction. This is the same printer that I blogged about being so hard to load the software on the laptops last week. Of course most of those problems were computer related, or so I thought, but this was a third computer that the printer was originally loaded on several months ago. It kept on giving an error message and asking for the software to be re-installed. One minute it was printing, the next it was ADD.

I finally shut the computer down for the night. I'll punish it by depriving it of power.

About one this morning, the casserole paid a return visit. Heartburn. Wow. I did get to watch a cute movie though. I don't even know what network it was on, but it featured Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and was called Life. They were sentenced to life sentences for a crime they didn't commit. I don't know, I just sometimes need mindless programming and laughter.

Currently I have tbs on in the background with the movie Stuck on you. I've never seen it, but so far it has been cute so far. Co-joined Siamese twins. I can only imagine what it would be like to live like that, it would definitely be a practice of patience and compromise. While this movie has had its funny moments there are some serious undertones. I would bet it would be quite an adjustment to find yourself separated and alone.

FYI, the printer responded well to my punishment. This morning the error message is only a bad memory.

I had better get. Have a day!

FATHER, make us all we should be.