Saturday, March 15, 2008
Breakfast: granola with fresh sliced banana. Folded laundry. Processed photos. Taught Patrick how to sew by hand. Mended two socks and a pair of underwear. Did some dusting and vacuuming. Organized take-out menus and discount offers into two 3-ring binders. Cleaned the Apple keyboard and mouse. Paid bills. Can you believe this week I received another Starbucks gift card from a student? I don't know how much is on this one. Someday I'll be able to walk in with all my gift cards and walk out with one of those $500 automatic espresso machines. Thanks, CW! Patrick visited Aaron for a few hours. Lunch at home by myself: leftover veggie stir fry with steamed white rice. Started preparing my tax return and in the middle of entering data Turbo Tax crashed unrecoverably! Here's the problem report I sent in: I was using Turbo Tax Personal Pro at 4:23 PM Pacific on March 15 and my window was suddenly replaced with "chat error, fault: http request error, fault code: server.error.request, detail: error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]. URL: /ttpp/comet/AsynchServlet (OK)—after this, I received a second error message that was identical, except the 1st line said "auth test request failed". I closed my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.12 on OS 10.5.2) and restarted it and attempted to log back in and received a 3rd error message: "Proxy Error—The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request POST /ttoauth. Reason: Error reading from remote server" The problem now happens in both Firefox (version as mentioned before) and Safari 3.0.4 in OS 10.5.2. I am unable to continue my return. Please help! Thanks! (The tech info popup window below says my time zone is MST but it's really PST.)—I'm certain some of my data was lost, but not everything as I was smart enough to save partway through. Imagine if this happened to you minutes before midnight on the last day to submit your taxes! Amputagged two shirts. Archived documents. Mended holes in my backpack. Dinner at home with Patrick: beef stew, steamed white rice, dinner roll, Smart Balance Light.