Thanks for that link, Mustard. I'll have to look it over more in depth later, but it looks to reinforce what I've already learned so far. I gave up on the library thing because I couldn't find anything besides that one little mention of it. I don't do section 179; I depreciate my computer.
It's been pretty interesting to have to file like this for the last couple of years because of my freelance status. I'm not a book author, but as a freelancer it's the same kind of thing tax-wise. Personally, I'd much rather just have the company have me as a regular employee and have them take all the taxes out, etc.--plus you get benefits. And now I'm on contract at Houghton, and benefits did just start for me this week.... whew, it's nice to have again. But I do want to continue freelancing, and if I can get a first draft done like I'm intending by the end of summer, it might just be a possibility to do more than just articles for Electrical Apparatus magazine. :-) So it's good training, I guess, to have to figure all this out.