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  1. Oldest has done extremely well on acceptance rates to the colleges she applied to including several solid academic scholarships and honors college acceptances at most of them. However, she got her acceptance letter to UGA today so looks like we’ll be paying out of state for her to go to her top pick. She thought she had no shot, her advisors told her she had no shot, but she’s in.
  2. Brew

    RIP Shane Macgowan

    We were at a Symphony Christmas concert last night and they closed with Fairytale of New York in honor of MacGowan. The conductor is Irish and really did a great job handling the lyrics. Not sure many people there had a clue what he was talking about as he explained what the song and the Pogues meant to him, but it was well done.
  3. To be fair they started off at 2 and moved to 1 in week 3 when they throttled Mizzou and Ole Miss back to back. I would say 40-1 over 3 seasons and the current year performance earns them some benefit of the doubt, but seriously who are you ranking ahead of them right now? If you’re trying to argue them behind TX if they lose, then just go with the conference champ argument. To question their standing as of right now and argue media bias is just dumb based on any metric you look at.
  4. It’s a very odd take with a team that has no losses that they are living on past achievements until they lose Wouldn't they also be living on current achievements by definition since they are undefeated?
  5. Wife came into the bedroom last night a few minutes after 11 PM with her phone trying to buy something online. The online deal went live at 12 PM EST on 11/24. She couldn’t figure out why she couldn’t get it to work and had already tried her computer as well. I mean, I guess I’m impressed she knew that CST was an hour behind.
  6. Did a 12 pounder on the BGE. Brined all day yesterday in a Cajun brine mix, air dried overnight, attempted to smoke it this morning but temps got away from me so it cooked faster than planned. Don’t know if it was the brining or the BGE, but it far and away exceeded expectations.
  7. It’s fun when you can get on some nice specks. We fished north of Tampa last week and even though conditions were terrible, both of us fishing ended up with the FL version of an inshore slam, a good run of dink reds, and a bunch of trout. We hit on a spot where we were catching them pretty much every cast. It’s the first time I’ve been out since selling my place down there and it had me ready to start shopping again.
  8. The “why bother” crowd is always interesting in these discussions. Of course we’re all doomed, but incremental improvement/change still makes some measure of difference. It’s too late to turn the faucet off, but I’m not sure that means that everyone should just say fuck it. There is some aspect of virtue signaling involved in there as well, but that still requires some amount of positive movement.
  9. That’s a pretty decent idea for any of these long-term anniversary’s especially as kids have gotten older, grandkids come into play, the realities of life kick in, etc. I’m probably not doing it (any time soon anyways), but I can recognize a good idea
  10. Spa appointments are usually the easy go to. I suck at gifts though. We don’t buy gifts and just buy what we want which essentially means my wife buys what she wants and I usually buy her something as well. She informed me today that she was replacing her engagement/wedding rings for our 25th and had met with the jeweler to design what she wanted. I would rather be spending $100 on something she doesn’t want than what I found out this is going to cost me.
  11. UTI’s also make them do stuff like that. We had one that was going under a bed and we didn’t know it for a while. Cat went outside after that, bedroom got all new carpet and pads. Cat was older and lived out it’s days in the garage.
  12. I’m not sure any “known” college can keep up with growth needs in today’s environment especially for those that are on the lower side of the pricing spectrum if there is such a thing. Knoxville sent out information to high school counselors last week saying they had crossed 56k applications already for a class size of roughly 6000. Housing is terrible on campus there right now because they haven’t kept up. The large state colleges appear to all be in the same boat. We toured UNC and Michigan and both campuses felt old. Georgia probably felt the most up to date of the state college campuses we have been on.
  13. I bought boots that I liked the fit of after trying on several pairs over a couple of trips before I found a pair that felt comfortable which is still relative in ski boots. For ski’s, I rented demo ski’s and traded them out several times over a couple of times until I found the length/style I liked. I went in knowing generally what length I wanted which made it easier because I ski a 174 which limited what places had available. Ultimately, my advice would be try a few things until you find the right fit.
  14. I would say that most everyone on the CPA side would support a free file system. We don’t deal with the filers impacted for the most part. It’s a much larger risk to H&R Block, TurboTax, and all the f-ing hacks out there that shouldn’t be doing tax returns then it is to me. There are a lot of things that still aren’t covered by an IRS submitted form, so you are really only dealing with people that have W-2’s, investments (not great because there are still plenty of 1099’s missing basis information), retirement payments, etc. Rentals, businesses, K-1’s, a number with kids under 5 or over 18, etc all would fall outside of a free file system. As far as the code, it’s complicated because it has always been a means for social engineering and that has been compounded the last 20 or so years. No one knows it front to back, so we’re all likely missing something at this point.
  15. Similar story here, just the younger one. She’s not abusive or harming herself, but man can she find some deep holes to climb down. Phone/internet/school issues have compounded it so we hired an IT company to provide all the internal hardware in the house and monitor the traffic similar to what I have at the office. Her phone and kids at school have brought at the worst in her. Therapy hasn’t really helped either because it seems to us at least the therapist has spent most of the time being her friend and not enough time helping her cope. She has asked to make a change there which is a positive I think. If I could go back and change anything, it would have been how/when the internet/phone was introduced to her but her school required access earlier than what we preferred.
  16. Person giving has the responsibility to file, it is their estate issue.
  17. The new W-4’s are set to calculate your individual tax balance. There is no married 0 any more. You have to accurately fill it out with the combined incomes for the withholding to work properly because they have complicated it. Your individual withholdings are taking double advantage of the 10%/12% brackets and the combined income has some in the 24% bracket so you are short. Total tax is what it is so you pay it now or later, number is the same.
  18. Depends on the structure of the business for tax purpose and her will. Generally the estate would operate it until liquidation and they would get a K-1 for the estate, but if the business was specifically left in 1/3 interests then they answer would change.
  19. Old question, but it’s $17k a year individual to individual with no requirement to file a gift tax return. Over $17k requires a gift tax return and uses up part of your lifetime estate exemption over the $17k annual exclusion. $17k basically works like the standard deduction in your individual return, it is deducted from total gifts to determine “taxable” portion offset by the exclusion.
  20. It’s the 2020’s version of cat facts, but worse.
  21. Has Breitling made a change in their watches or am I off in thinking they were quite a bit more expensive several years back? Did they just come out with a cheaper automatic line? I’m looking for another white face / blue band and have looked at this SuperOcean a couple of times. The pricing seems less than what I remember from past looking. Also, really like the looks of the Omega Speedmaster Chronoscope but I’m kind of looking for something other than another Omega I think.
  22. One of my partners that works our office there was at a bar this past spring and got roofied. He’s in his 50’s. He doesn’t remember anything from the bar, woke up the next morning in his apartment beat up and everything of value gone.
  23. We’re holding a company event there next month, we’ll see what it’s like.
  24. The bars along Division usually have live music. It’s usually a younger crowd as it’s pulling from Vanderbilt and the new condo developments through there. The Chef and I and Patterson House are both in that area as well as Hattie B’s if you want to give it a try. There really isn’t much there outside the bars and quick service places though. You can easily take a 5 minute ride over to the Gulch and SoBro areas and open up other opportunities like Kayne Prime, Martin’s Biscuit Love, Etch, Milk and Honey, etc. The capital area also isn’t far and has Skull’s Rainbow Room (in Printer’s Alley) which usually has music along with excellent food, Puckett’s, etc.
  25. I looked at some numbers on some SEC schools. From 2016 it looks like enrollment is up roughly 10% on average. What has really changed is the apps and acceptance. Apps are up more than double, acceptance is up 50%, but first year enrollment was up 10-15%. Looks like most were enrolling half of accepted which is significantly less than past history. Private schools I looked at were actually much closer with 10-15% growth in each category. There wasn’t the big anomaly in apps like with the publics.
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