The adventures of Almigo

I took my son on a birthday shopping spree yesterday to find things to buy with the money from relations. In the process of looking for books, I managed to meet the world's most infuriating sales person. *Yes, roughly the same level on the 'Please stop trying to sell me that' table as Leon the Samsung kid. 

So I've got my tax return back. In my usual process of working through the list of things I've been keen to buy when I finally have some money, I've been looking out for a memory upgrade for my home PC. And in my search for some DDR3 ram I've come across a truly terrible negotiation technique. Hello, I'm Mr Long Term.. Long term silence.

Glory be, it's Tax Time in Australia once again! The end of financial year has clocked over (10 days ago at the time of writing) and it's now that time to go through your receipts, log books and purchases over the last 12 months to work out what you can claim. And if you're like me and got into the world of cryptocurrency in 2017-18, then it's time to calculate any capital gains and losses for the term. Considering how many tiny tiny trades I have made up until now (and only since November when I kicked off my portfolio with just $10 of Bytecoin..) - I was looking at a tonne of entries to painfully work out. 298 all up. That's a tonne of data entry if you're trying to plot where your money went and how much it gained and lost along the way. Thankfully I figured a much easier way to work it all out using your exchange, excel, a website and a couple of hours...

I have three of the four things it can plug into. This is a good thing. There's nothing like reading the fine print a couple of hours before an event starts and realising you're one part of equipment short. In today's case it was a free online 3d moddeling course my wife had organised for my son as part of keeping him entertained these school holidays. 'Do we have a microphone that can plug into the laptop?' Er, no. We don't even have a microphone that could plug into anything else either. Thankfully the closest JB Hi Fi was only ten minutes away and Jackson's course wasn't kicking off for another couple of hours. On the way I had the genius move of trying a gaming headset - he could use it for this, I could use it for potential recording for Youtube work (and playing games loud at night and not waking the neighbourhood.) So we ventured into the car yard like selection of gaming headsets at JB and got lost incredibly quickly..