And On This Farm He Had A Blog

In this edition of "Your Tax Dollars At Work"..

IRS 941¹

Our software fills in the official PDF. We have a custom form language that we can whip up drivers in to do this.

This form almost never changes but I have to write a new driver every damned year.

Why?

They arbitrarily change field named for no rational reason.

Let's take the first checkbox as an example.
2016

topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Header[0].ReportForQuarter[0].c101[0]

2017

topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Header[0].ReportForQuarter[0].c1_01[0]

Yes, every field in the form is the same except they removed the final underscore. Why is anyone's guess. They do this every year.

grumble

1. for non-US people or US people who do not do business accounting, the 941 is filing quarterly federal tax

Spring cleaning successful. It was at 11gb free this morning.

@streakmachine I could think of worse henchmen to have.

Reading riveting word count updates from Sidekick. She's in "prolific mode" again.

Now watching OnyX render my Air all but unusable for the next 45 minutes or so.

@streakmachine Ordered as in, "Please send me a squirrel" , or ordered as in, "Hey, squirrel, go over there and do this then do that."?

Okay. everything that should be in the Dropbox folder is in the Dropbox folder now and is where it should be.

Since this Air is teetering on the edge of being 'full', I may as well do some spring cleaning on the drive. Already zapped 10 gigs of stuff (Old Android and QT dev crap).

@kdfrawg That was my initial reaction.

@joeo10 No. The old 'Public' folder is still there but it's empty and I haven't used it in forever. I generally share with Google Drive.

Correction. Dropbox has arbitrarily merged a couple of folders.

Still not happy.