Life Thread v2.0

agentwhale007 wrote: My S/O got a Nissan Juke. She was happy to get a slightly larger car as not to be so intimidated on the interstate. It also thoroughly checks her box for liking bizarre vehicles. I decided I wanted to get a few more years out of my car. I got new tires, new shocks/struts.  We are gearing up to maybe try to buy a house sometime this summer. It's hard to know what will be on the market when, but it's worth the shot.  Other than that, life has generally been a bummer. My great aunt died. My dad is doing way worse. My S/O's sister-in-law has stage three cancer. My grandma's husband has stage four liver and stomach cancer. My research gets getting rejected from journals. That last one isn't as bad as the others but it sure doesn't help.

Dude, that all really really sucks, I feel for you.

On the flip-side, at least your 4yo isn't getting ready to get kicked out of his preschool for being a violent and belligerent a-hole. Doesn't do it at his public pre-k in the afternoon. Doesn't do it at home. Shies away from contact during sparring at TKD, but something about his morning preschool just sets him off.

We didn't get the school that I poured my heart and soul into the bid process for. Sucks for now, but they'll come crawling back in 3 years asking us to bid again. Same happened with our bid for the Avenues School in Manhattan. Now, they're begging us to bid.

I think my car is close to needing some major repairs (again) and was hoping my tax return would cover it. Turns out we're right in the sweet spot for getting screwed with the new tax code. We make too much to get things like EICs, we use a FSA for child care, so don't get to write more than 5k of that off. While the child tax credit doubling helped, the fact that we can't take personal deductions more than makes up for that help in hurt, and being in a high-tax state, we got screwed by the SALT caps. Last year, we saw $3300 back in our pockets. This year we're seeing a couple-hundred more annually in our take-home, but only ~$900 coming back, and that's almost all from the state.

I get that we're "rich" on a national level income-wise, but around here, we're just barely breaking into middle-class.

So yeah, will have to save up a lot more before repairing my car.

impulse418 wrote: And if I get the gig I'll be near DC for 3 weeks! So that'll be cool to be able to go visit tallen

FTFY

Edited by tallen702 - 06 February 2019 at 8:05pm

It was different... But pretty cool that you can do it anytime, any day in the comfort of your home. And if I get the gig I'll be near DC for 3 weeks! So that'll be cool to be able to go sight seeing on the weekends.

I will buy a house, someday...

That's kind of uncomfortable, like reading off questions to record?

Welp, looking for a new job again. I absolutely despise working in an office. Have a interview with Geico this week as a claims adjuster.

Edited by Mack - 22 January 2019 at 12:12pm

US out of everywhere, dismantle the military

impulse418 wrote: Jeff Sessions getting fired sure is interesting.

2 years of nothing.

Jeff Sessions getting fired sure is interesting.

I saw the word "Chromium" on the internet and had to check in.

No real updates but glad to see you guys still talking about your preferred timber varieties and businesses/products I have never heard of.

I've now been living in England for nearly a year (Jan). They're bastards as expected.Thinking of taking up flying lessons and getting a PPL, starting guitar and burning my career down to start something different (not that i have any ideas what though) but not really started anything on any of these fronts other than 1 "lesson" in a 152.

If Scotchycam ever took off you guys would be thrilled at how pedestrian life has become. Like if David Mitchell's character in peep show got what he wanted all the time.