I already knew that ssa.gov, the site for Social Security, won’t let you sign in from an iPad. It doesn’t tell you that’s the problem — you get an error message saying there are “technical difficulties” — but that’s what happens.
ttp.cbp.dhs.gov — the site for the Trusted Traveler Program, which includes things like Global Entry — lets you sign in just fine.
irs.gov lets you sign in. Or so I thought. You can look at your account. You can make payments. But set up a payment program to pay your taxes on a monthly schedule? “Technical difficulties” again.
Fortunately I have a Windows 11 laptop in here, so I could do what I needed to do. But the trial and error to find out what is allowed, and what isn’t (especially since they won’t just, you know, tell me) may drive me mad someday. (Statler! Waldorf! Stop that snickering about “someday.”)
Ha! Sweet memories: Dukakis online. Straight ahead. I remember when they had him put on a baseball cap… He looked so UnAmerican (and that didn’t go down well… nor his breakdown some time earlier in life).
Obviously I’d never have made it as POTUS, though I do believe a baseball cap wouldn’t have looked that bad on me. Love to all!