I called my Accountant this past Friday to see if he finished my taxes yet...My taxes have never been done later than March, ever...The first year he did my taxes they were completed before the end of March and I had my refund before April 15.  I met him the third week in March to give him all of my paperwork, my W-2 and client invoices; I e-mailed him all of my expenses in two handy spreadsheets at the beginning of March, one for my Writing and one for my Web stuff. 

I told him I will be at a trade show for work April 9 - 13 and will not be available to discuss my taxes during that time at least three times...I called him a little while ago to see if he was done yet.  He told me he got caught up in some other things.  Huh?!?!  WTF!!!  I'm one of his clients...I might have to fire his lazy ass after he does my taxes and I pay him.  I'm much too busy to be calling my Accountant to see if he did his job.  I am many things, but babysitter isn't one of them!!!

Most of my friends got their refunds weeks ago...

I met my Accountant, Brian Wash at an Ithaca College Alumni Event this past January; my father used to do my taxes, but they've gotten extremely complicated, what with 1099's, publishing royalties and such. Brian is extremely personable--he's always happy to answer my questions, no matter how simple. Tomorrow will be spend filling in the handy spreadsheet he e-mailed to me at the beginning of the year; it's a bit tedious, inputting all of my various earnings and expenses, but it's worth it in the end--last year I got a nice chunk o'change from the IRS!

One of my expenses is Leopard, the latest version of MAC OS X; its packed with all kinds of cool useful tools I can't wait to play with. Yes, I'm a geek! I bought a copy the other night at Tekserve--I've been going there for years--and plan to backup my files and install it sometime over the long weekend--I don't have to go back to work until January 2! So I'm wondering if anyone has upgraded their MAC OS and made the leap to Leopard. Was all of your software compatible, or did you encounter problems...I want this upgrade to be relatively painless. I'm currently running Panther, 10.3.9; I bypassed Tiger entirely...