Meeting with Eric, Cory, and I to go over expense/receipts and what we want things to look like as we pay for or lower the sales tax liability that Eric is working on, through his sales tax aggregation project. We made some great progress and things are looking good. It was fun to see Eric get excited as things come together. Sometimes, as we build these projects, it feels so disjoined and then it starts coming together. There is a natural high that happens as it starts working or get that lightbulb moment where you get it. That is fun.

Most of our conversations were dealing with lowing the system generated tax liability and declaring earned tax credits or discounts for early re-payment.

One of the keys to what we do is try to help the system simulate or follow what happens in real life. If we can capture the data, and then make it flow out in a natural way, than we have done a good job and have a digital simulation of what happens in real life. We keep shooting for that kind of cross over - simulate what happens in the real world.

As we wrapped up the meeting, there was some conversation about branches, merges, resolving merge conflicts, and mass migration on the live servers (update routines to prep data, tables, corporations, and servers) for the new changes.

Eric is excited and is seeing things better as it unfolds. Your view changes when you start seeing the whole picture or bigger picture. That is fun. Everything just takes time. Eventually, it comes down to building it, deploying it, and then being willing to do the required maintenance on it. The maintenance piece is a big piece, not as fun, but very needed. Good lesson for all of us. Remember the maintenance!