So many things going on….

Refinancing the mortgage on my house. When we bought the house we received a rate that was good at the time, but of course times have changed. There’s enough of a difference in the rates, so might as well refi. It’s almost done, set to close next week. Never refinanced before, but this was surprisingly non-painful. Just lots of papers to shuffle in a timely manner. Don’t want to count my chickens too soon tho… there can always still be pain yet to come. 😉

Also working on establishing an LLC for myself. This has involved lots of reading and researching to figure out which entity would be best (C Corp, S Corp, LLC). I used to like Nolo Press for such things, but recently their materials are rather thin and cross-promoting. That is, it’s hard to know which book to buy then when you buy it you find out it doesn’t answer all the questions but for another $30 you can buy another one of their books to learn more. Bleah. Friend turned me on to LegalZoom, which seems cool but I’m a little nervous. On the one hand, will the end wording actually suit me or could it risk being too general? Thus if I really need to get things done right I’d have to see a lawyer anyway so why waste the money on LegalZoom in the first place? As well, using LegalZoom creates no relationship, but having a lawyer does. There’s something to that, should things go ugly. But, I’ve got lots of lawyers in my family, so I’m talking with them too. 🙂

And of course, the day job is rather involved. Deadline is quickly approaching, the expectations are … um … ambitious, to be polite about it. But I’m enjoying the little projects I’m working on. I’ve come to accept that in life. That there’s always going to be loads of bullshit around you that you can’t control, so try not to sweat it. Meantime, just find the little gold nuggets in what you can control and influence and relish those things. I will say, being able to discover little obscure nuggets like what the hidden info fields in an FSVolumeInfo structure mean and interpret out to? Kinda cool.

How can I really tell I’ve been busy? My slacking off has fallen. 😉  I can’t blog as much as I want. Facebook just gets the occasional glance. And blog reading… lord, I’m so far behind. But ah well. It’s how it goes sometimes. I’m at least happy it’s time spent productively.