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Thank you so much, frihet. I showed this to DH; it made us both happy. You also reminded me to get back to work on another piece of my story.

The startup revolves around an extremely interesting broad-skills based, braintrusty, engineering, robotics, farming, permaculture, organic, R&D position. That does sound remarkably interesting. Do you have a strategy planned for not getting stressed out again? Also: +1 to dividends. Growth-onl...

A lot of great advice here about what to do with your life, but first you need to deal with the emergency of feeling suicidal. Call a crisis help line and get a doctor's appointment. Maybe you have a severe vitamin deficiency; maybe you need to be on medication for awhile; whatever it takes to stop ...

My accountant hates QB because you can delete transactions. He would like a software where a general ledger entry is used to make a correction instead of a deletion. Your accountant sounds like my accounting professor 30 years ago. He wouldn't let us use pencils because they could be erased; pens o...

It's also stupid how byzantine the tax-deductiblity of health insurance and health care is determined. Pay for the plan for yourself? Not tax deductible. Just to clarify: if you're self-employed, your medical insurance premiums (and those of your spouse/dependents) are deductible in much the manner...

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Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:58 am

I know where we would give it, but we do it quietly.

Agreed.

Could you get your hands on a cheap PC and dedicate it to your business accounting only? I have a copy of QB 2011 I no longer use and would be happy to mail to you (or anyone else here if you don't want it). Anything older than 3 years isn't supported for linking to banking or payroll, but it's othe...

I've used QuickBooks Pro (desktop) on a PC for the past 20 years for client accounting, my own business, rentals and personal finance; before that I used software that no longer exists. I currently use versions 2014 and 2017 so I can have two company files open at the same time (can't otherwise). It...

most heat is lost through respiration and brain exertion and lower legs are pretty impervious to cold I tried googling the brain exertion thing and only came up with increased cerebral blood flow at the start of exercising. Is this what you mean? Also: are your lower legs cold-tolerant? Mine aren't...

Regarding taxability of cryptocurrency trades: the IRS (don't know about Canada) is pretty definite that anything realizing a gain is taxable. The only real question is whether it's a capital gain or ordinary income. I anticipate a lot of extra business for tax preparers over this. ;) https://www.ir...

BlueNote, you have my utmost sympathy. I prepare my family's tax returns; it's frustrating. It does, however, give me notice (though not advance) of any ill-judged moves on their part. I live in dread of discovering that any of them have "invested" in bitcoin. These relatives are all older...

I've recently been informed that I will be demoted pending the hire of a person to fill my position. There is no change to my job title or compensation, just adding a layer of management above me that will absorb some of my responsibilities. If you'd rather be retired than pursue your career, how i...

Ewww...

Trust a real farmer to remind us of that.

Absolutely true, of course. Elitism wins nothing but high prices. Market-driven innovation and cost efficiency in panels, batteries, inverters and other components have benefited everyone across the spectrum of usage. Damn; I really wanted to be Special. *stamps foot*

Home Power is a good magazine for learning about renewable systems. A neighbor of mine had stacks of them so I perused through quite a few. The older issues are better. The newer ones turned me off as much of the focus was on families who spent a shitload of money to turn their 4,000 sq ft house in...

a poor human working in the lab who had to scissor snip little newborn-sized mice heads off of newborn baby mice all the time FBeyer, that sounds like a candidate for the most horrific job ever. Maybe you should start a thread and see if anyone can possibly top (bottom) it. ...my general modesty......

I'm assuming being off the grid you don't have a television but if you did I guarantee your retired ass would already have been sucked through it where you would reanimate in some type of alternative world reminiscent of early to mid 20th century Europe but with Buddy and his friends rockin' the li...

Empathetic = projecting.

Did I mention that Buddy was never near a female in heat even before the demise of his testicles? Maybe he was just frustrated from the start.

It's true that given current investment costs and efficiency, individual off-grid systems can't compete with grid electricity in price/kWh. I think of the "free" aspect more as freedom from dependence than free of cost. An independent energy system gave us the freedom to live in the mounta...

Jason, maybe Buddy's spirit is contacting you so he can experience once again the Joy of Testosterone. The neutering was an attempt to stop him from provoking Joey into beating him up, but it was too late. Buddy had already learned to be a jerk and no longer needed hormones to prompt that behavior. ...