Sunset

Well, I haven't posted since about this time last month. So there's an even bigger backlog of things I'd like to post, like really old, but exciting news everyone should already know. Heritage week went really well, and we had Andrew come and visit... and then had a little busier end to the peak season than we expected.... and...

I thought I should get our BAS done before I began posting it all... For those of you that don't know - BAS stands for Business Activity Statement. Which requires us to be up to date with our paperwork for the quarter [... so to the end of March], so we can report on GST [Goods and Services Tax]. Since the January - March quarter is in our peak season, we made a profit, so had to hand over some cash. It's OK... I believe in paying my taxes.

Now, some of you that know all about BASs might be thinking, 'aren't you late to be doing that in May?' Well yes... but we did it online, so got a two week extension to lodge and pay. To which you might say, 'I didn't know about that'. Well, apparently neither do the people on the ATO helpdesk! One guy knew about but didn't think that the ATO advertised it. So I sent them the letter we got from the ATO advertising it, which you can read here. Seriously... check it out.

The problem is that there is no indication during this extended lodging process that actually tells you that you've got the extension. I was even told that we couldn't lodge online, because we weren't registered to lodge online in our 'file'. However, once we lodged online our 'file' would be updated to say that we could lodge online. I'm paraphrasing... but it's almost word for word... two sentences, one after the other.

So we got that out the way. We've just had a few quiet days, so we've had some sleep ins, some gourmet breakfasts we've cooked for each other, and burned through that rest XP [see WoW posts].

The photo is of a sunset from our front door yesterday that Jodie and I caught at 1722. Yes, it's getting darker and colder, so I'd better get chopping some firewood too.