It is nearly over.....

I have reached complete and total burnout for the year. Fortunately, the shit I have left to be worked on between now and the 3d of September, when I plan to close shop for the year, will not be 'taxing'. The problem will be psyching myself up to doing the day's work, once my morning is over.
From the start of the day - be it 5:30am or 7am - I have the routine set for my daily start. It works.
From early evening until bed time, I have my routine set. It works. It is that time of day, after my nap, where now I have work but later, ???, from about 2-2:30pm - 6pm.
I want to play music - I will have to structure my practice time, more....that I know if I ever hope to take it to the next level.
I must read, take pictures, experiment and learn the software if I ever truly want to have photography as an element of my time. Same for cartooning.....and obviously, same for tax writings.......
Ah, the choices of my life.....at least there's a baseball game on one computer as I write away on my iPad.....

The Great Passage

That's the name of a Japanese film we saw, last night in Hong Kong.  Firstly, Monday nights are now discount nights - all seats are $HK70.  Not bad!

We'd have gone to see this film, anyway, as it dealt with the 15 year  'passage' from conception to publication of a new Japanese dictionary.   This might have been a work of fiction but there had to be some reality upon which it was based.

It was a long film.  It dragged at times.  Yet I would recommend it to others to see.    I personally rate films, fitting them into 3 categories:

a)  forget about it - either all or the part of it that I saw prior to 'giving up in despair'.

b)  yeah, it was o.k. (or better) and I'd recommend it to someone else

c)  I liked it well enough that at some point of life, I'd like to see it again!

After a couple of days not feeling as well as I'd have like to have felt, I'm now feeling better.  En route, this morning - back home to Guangzhou.  Seven more days of tax work to be done!!

Oh how it's tough to get going in the morning.....

Is it simply a matter of age or is it age and a couple of other things?  Among those other things is the non-stop, never seemingly ceasing tax return work causing that physical breakdown or is it psychological?

Who knows....who has time to care......

Yesterday, I caught a frog in my throat and simply could not stop coughing.  This went on through the evening and night.  I woke up, this morning, in utter exhaustion.  Here it is, 27 August.  8 days left.  Oh, I'll complete everything I am responsible for completing but never again will I work to this degree, for so long throughout the year.

And as for other matters:  I have not stopped reading - am thoroughly enjoying the chance to read!!!  I was up to 8 books at one time.....brought it down to ....and am now back up to 7.

....and for the second time, today.....Mets vs Tigers

A lazy afternoon in Hong Kong.  That followed a morning that started with being stretched, followed by a bank meeting with a client.

Then back to my apartment and psyching myself up to work on another return....and actually completing sufficiently to be satisfied about the stopping point I am at, today....

One more meeting, today......after???

Following today, there are 8 more scheduled work days.......some will include writing time.  Other days, music,perhaps......once this season is over and I've returned home from Japan, it's time to learn new routines!!!

Oh, and why watch the Tigers-Mets for the second time?  Because the two broadcasters are interesting!!!

The blog routine!

How sweet it is!

This morning, at the FCC, I went to my site and, specifically, to the blog.  Now that the blog is set up, it'll work, worldwide....but a 'qualified' worldwide because there are jurisdictions of this world that limit some applications and this is one of them - in China.  Thus, in China, where I live - where I happily plan to spend the rest of what I consider will be a very long life - does not let this app on my site.....so only those outside of China or those, perhaps, who have an effective VPN in China will see it.

Do I care?  Not really, anymore.......I'll write when I can, enjoying myself in that process but I never really expect anyone to read me, anyway......I write primarily for myself!!

I have a brief lunch meeting.....then I've got to be back home from 2 - 4pm for Netvigator to show up.  Luckily for me, I figured out the 'hieroglyphics' of Netvigator's telecommunications system and, with the speakerphone on, waited patiently through the 'lines are busy' cycle........

And then......time to psych myself up for more tax work.

That's it for today.   Starting tomorrow, I expect to get into a 'detailed, daily blog groove', knowing now, when, where, how.......!

I got those Thursday morning, shitload of work to be done blues

I have made progress:   I came home to 216 emails (none of them 'junk') on my primary email account.  Two days later,  I'm down to 128 emails and content, now, to review my other email account and let things reduce - naturally.

I have tax research to do, this morning.  That's undoubtedly boring but it has to be done prior to my being able to work on the items I have scheduled......

And in-between all the work, I am reading 7 books.

And, perhaps, also doing some writing - first for TII and later, for TA

I'm in my solitude in Hong Kong - could not really work on the stuff I have to work on without that solitude.

Heading home.....

It's not quite 6:30am in Bangkok on my final day of travel.

Inspite of:

a)  a major travel screw-up, as Thai Air does not fly directly to Los Angeles and I came down to BKK only to find that I had to fly, first, to Seoul, to get to L.A.
b)  food poisoning:  either the kimchee on Thai Air or the cold food at the Asiana business lounge in Incheon, during the stop over, caused a horrendous entrance to the States.
c)  travel in the U.S. - what a horrible situation that no one who has not traveled outside of the U.S. would never quite comprehend - domestic travel in the U.S. is rough and uncomfortable - not a pleasant experience.
d)  my brother falling ill over the last couple of days in L.A.

it was still worthwhile trip.

I now have a 'sense' of direction in my writing - will I do a novel?  Who knows?  I'll start but am not quite sure about the extent to which I will continue ......

Anyhow,  it is time to go home and work this month, with a slight, additional carryover to the end of  September/beginning of October.

Back to the real world!!!!