The Art and Science of Crying at Work - Sometimes, work sucks. Sometimes it sucks so much that you cry. However, showing vulnerability in front of your coworkers can potentially make work suck even more. This week, we offer tips on how to avoid that. - http://jezebel.com/5885735...
I rooted for Gary when he played for the Montreal Expos in the early-mid 80s. I can't help but feel old when ballplayers I watched as a kid start dying.
- Bubba Botts
Experience with gashes that have stopped bleeding but the skin isn't quite going back together? Not sure if we should go to the emergencey to get a stitch. What are the long term ramifications if we don't?
Open wounds are really prone to infection if they're not closing on their own. Do you have a nursing service that you could call for advice? (Also, how long since the injury?)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yes. Scarring and infection. If there's a visible open wound it's time for medical care.
- Bubba Botts
I'd probably call the doctor, but not go to the emergency room.
- Rochelle
from iPhone
thanks All, looks like the skin has come back together ;) Melly: i'd probably put a bandaid on it if it weren't for his hair
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
from Android
That waste of human DNA would have to emulate Mother Teresa's lifestyle for the next 40 years to work UP to being a horrible person. I literally wanted to cry when I saw the clip.
- Bubba Botts
OK, kids, I'm home and assembling my Valentine's Day gift for m'girl. Pray it goes well. If you don't hear from me in 24 hours, assume the worst and call the authorities.
Called the clinic to talk to the on-call doc, who just happened to be my primary care doc tonite. He said go to the ER, so that is where I am. Waiting for triage...
So I have cellulitis, a raging infection. I've had morphine, broad-spectrum antibiotics, nasty ass contrast & a CT scan. I'm being admitted so they can continue the antibiotics & a surgeon's gonna drain it tomorrow. Thank you for the love & support, y'all. It only gets better from here.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Oh, yikes! How awful. Hope the drugs kick in asap and you start feeling better really soon! xoxoxox
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Oh dear! Please heal without any incident! So glad you talked to your PC!!
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Oh man, I hope they can get you on the mend quickly. How's your little man?
- Anika
from FFHound!
I may have a bit of a broken heart lately, but I do know that I have some fantastic friends. No matter how low I feel, their love and support fills my heart with gratitude and appreciation. Somehow, I must have done something right to deserve these wonderful friendships. I cherish them always. <3
That's just the crazy talkin', honey.
- Bubba Botts
Seriously, it means I can start on the other 10,000 things in life that need to be done. Not 30 seconds after I posted this m'girl texted me asking if I'd pay a bill. *sigh*
- Bubba Botts
I never did claim to be quite sane where school work was concerned. But yeah, probably better to prioritize other stuff.
- Kirsten
Ah, the most precious cargo a freight elevator's ever had the honor to carry.
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
Yeah, it seems like a lot of people will be using the freight elevators so it might be a long wait. The elevator bank has six elevators for the odd numbered floors between 31 and 55 (I think).
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
I've taken the freight elevator before when transporting my office fridge up and down. :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
I'd offer to carry you down myself but...well, I'm married. And fat. And in Arizona, natch.
- Bubba Botts
"Last week, Federal Wildlife officials articulated the threats faced by Everglades wildlife from invasive pythons, but there's another non-native species nearby which may pose an even greater problem for humans. For the last 80 years, a hardy population of rhesus monkeys has been living in the wild of central Florida, where they've long been considered an attraction among tourists. But according to park agents, the unwelcome monkeys present "a true public hazard" -- namely because many of them are carrying a form of simian herpes which can be deadly to humans."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
How does it make ANY SENSE that when you do a short sale that you get taxed for the amount of your mortgage that is above the sale price of the house?
In what sick world is a LOSS of monetary value considered to be an EFFING GAIN?
Our tax code is deliberately effed up to help the few and not the many imho.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Alex, can't you claim the loss as a deduction? If so, then it makes perfect sense. You pay tax on the original asset. When you sell, you lose that asset in exchange for liquidity, which results in a redeemable loss for an itemized deduction. In that case if it wasn't taxed, the loss would effectively be accounted for twice, once as a deduction and once not being taxed.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sigh. I think what I said was right; I just don't feel like defending numeracy in this case.
- Walt Crawford
This actually does make sense. A mortgage is a secured loan for a set amount of money. In one example, Borrower X takes a mortgage for $200,000 to purchase a $250,000 house. As part of that agreement, X agrees to pay back the $200k plus interest. If the home later drops in value to $100,000 the fact that X was given $200,000 by the bank does not change - X is still required to pay back the $200,000.
- Bubba Botts
The fact that the collateral has lost value does not change this loan. Therefore, if a portion of the $200,000 is forgiven due to short sale, that money is no longer a loan but income. That's why it's taxed.
- Bubba Botts
That's right. Alex Scoble took my hard earned money and squandered it by buying bad real estate. Now he doesn't even want to pay the taxes he owes on the stolen money. Next he'll complain that the cocaine he bought was cut with baby powder, so he couldn't make a profit. Ridiculous.
- Cristo
I'll give you a 7 on that troll. Well, OK. 7.5.
- Bubba Botts
Well, you'll have to try harder. And furthermore I'm taxing you on the 2.5 you didn't earn. Net 10 days, please.
- Bubba Botts
I think my LOL should be graded on a curve, and I'm not seeing much funny here lately.
- Cristo
Not sure I can argue with that logic. I got 64 out of 100 on my final exam for my last class and somehow still earned full credit for it. OK, I'll forgive your tax bill. But you'll have to claim it on line 73M on your tax form.
- Bubba Botts
Wasn't the Mortgage Relief Act supposed to fix this?
- Victor Ganata
Victor, only temporary amnesty was given to deficiencies.
- Bubba Botts
from BuddyFeed
Holding my tongue on this one, save to agree with Bubba.
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
It still applies through this year though, AFAICT http://www.irs.gov/individ... "The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 generally allows taxpayers to exclude income from the discharge of debt on their principal residence. Debt reduced through mortgage restructuring, as well as mortgage debt forgiven in connection with a foreclosure, qualifies for the relief. This provision applies to debt forgiven in calendar years 2007 through 2012."
- Victor Ganata
Someone has to pay for everyone the tax breaks the rich get. Did you know they are allowed to protect their 2nd house from a bankruptcy?.
- Jim
The funniest part? The bank takes all the interest, mortgages the short and gets to bill the loss to their insurance company, AND take it as a loss on their returns. Everyone is overed but the citizen. This kind of shite? Really makes me want to say god f@ck America.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Rudi, banks own a very small percentage of mortgages. Chase, BOA, and everyone else merely service them even if a bank created it.
- Bubba Botts
from BuddyFeed
Alex - we need tax money to help fund the USPS. You should be thankful you get to pay this tax and help out your fellow neighbor.
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
Well, no, the USPS's operations are not primarily funded by taxpayer money (they get some subsidies for delivering mail to the legally blind and for mailing out absentee ballots for overseas voters), but I guess they're going to need help with those pensions….
- Victor Ganata
I don't know, trying to extract maximum amounts of money out of people who just took a huge financial hit just doesn't seem like a very robust way to reliably generate revenue.
- Victor Ganata
I'm not the one who did a short sale. I'm able to pay on my house just fine. And seriously, in what warped world is a forgiven loan seen as "profit"? It's a complete and utter loss for the home owner. It's this sort of "accounting" that allows Hollywood to take a loss on every movie ever made and is completely unfair to regular Americans.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The problem is that you just know that corporations would totally abuse the cancellation of debt if wasn't taxable.
- Victor Ganata
Because he was in the Senate when they passed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 by unanimous consent? Or because he voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that extended the exception to 2012? True, it's all his fault.
- Victor Ganata
Alex, I've been through this (am going through it), but I didn't do a short sale. I declared bankruptcy and the bank foreclosed. In January, I received a 1099 Acquisition or Abandonment of Secured Property from Freddie Mac stating that I'm still liable for the full outstanding balance and therefore it's taxable income. It's interesting that there's no consistency in the mortgage amount between the creditors statements for my bankruptcy, the foreclosure notices and the amount on the 1099.
- Greg Guitarbuster
Yeah, Greg, now I have two personal reasons to be pissed off about this. This situation needs to be fixed because it's absolutely stupid.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Wow, I thought bankruptcy was an already existing exception to levying tax on cancellation of debt income, even prior to the Mortgage Relief Act. Damn.
- Victor Ganata
It's not stupid, it's a contrived, rigged game. Freddie Mac made the loan, secured by the property. They have the property. Did I mention that Freddie Mac was declared insolvent before I was delinquent on my mortgage and that the American taxpapers had to bail them out. Or that I was paying PMIP to protect them in case I did default. So the original loan was covered by the insurance company (someone like AIG which was bailed out). The home builder declared bankruptcy several years ago.
- Greg Guitarbuster
Victor, you're correct. At least, I think you are based on what I've read so far. There are other IRS forms to file regarding my bankruptcy and the discharge of the mortgage obligation.
- Greg Guitarbuster
It does seem in keeping with the recent news about possible shady goings-on at Freddie Mac.
- Victor Ganata
100% LOL for my comment compared to all other comments.
- Cristo
Sigh. After all the drama at our church during the past year, a phone call about "Did the church vote to do away with the archives?" makes me nervous. Even though the archives are in a safer place now. :(
I hope the person was just asking in order to answer someone's question, not out of any kind of malevolence. ETA: I don't think the person who called me is malevolent. But still. :(
- LB so u no it's real
Also, the archives are now in a secure, climate-controlled space, not in a storage room with a bunch of random stuff from the youth ministry. So there's an improvement. I'm not crazy, right?
- LB so u no it's real
I no longer see my youngest son naked. He's 9. I followed his lead on this.
- Que Sarah Sarah
Or before if she doesn't want him to see her naked anymore.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
...when they become old enough to start dressing themselves
- .LAG liked that
I used to shower with my dad and brothers. I think that stopped when I became 5 or 6.
- Spidra Webster
I think it's also interesting to discuss this the other way around - at what age is it inappropriate for a child to see their parent/s naked?
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
5 or 6, Spidra? Did you start grabbing their appendages and make elephant sounds? :P
- Bubba Botts
Probably, Bubba. It was right at face level. I honestly don't remember exactly what age I was when I stopped showering with the rest of them. It may have been earlier. I know it was no later than that, though.
- Spidra Webster
Melly, I stopped letting my daughter see me naked at about 3 or 4. I'm sure this is different for mothers of daughters and fathers of sons.
- chrisofspades
Hahahaaaaaaa, my Mum likes to tell the story of me going to use the toilet when I was a toddler, walking past Dad in the shower, and grabbing his tackle with freezing cold hands.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Josiah is 5, he sees both of us naked on a daily basis, and he showers with one or the other of us at least once a week. At this stage we still very rarely shut the bathroom door. Every now and then Josiah will ask for privacy and close the door, but most of the time he's the kind of kid who likes to do a lap of the house naked before he gets in the shower, yelling out "LOOK AT MY NUDIE BUM!"
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆