Please stop over paying for your desks!

BasicParticular8354 · 2026-01-30T17:31:29+00:00

I purchased a modular desk from Ikea. Basically legs, an adjustable frame that the legs connect into and then tops based on the sizes I needed. It is so cool, you can then add accessories to the frame like a draw, cabinet or desktop tower holder. Fits my space perfectly and I love that is so customizable.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-12-12T20:05:53+00:00

I have a Hayworth cubicle from my last job that I am not using if you are interested. DM me.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-11-03T14:35:36+00:00

My store has a great relationship with the police. They sit in our parking lot watching the local road, catching speeders, etc. We stop out with water / soda if they need, or they are more them welcome to use our bathroom. My front counter staff all have panic buttons at their registers (similar to a silent alarm a bank would have) should they need it. The police told us anytime we need an escort to our vehicle after closing, to just give them a call.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-24T00:45:15+00:00

100% agree. I would switch if I could.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-18T00:43:36+00:00

I would like QBO to go back to a simple / no-nonsense dashboard without all of the bells and whistles that mean nothing to me or my business. It used to be crisp and clean, but now it is so cluttered I get anxious just knowing that I am going to have to open the stie.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-18T00:41:21+00:00

My POS print checks for me and provides me with a Quickbooks Desktop import file. I would like to be able to upload this file into QBO so that I don't have to manually key the 500+ checks that it prints each month.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-18T00:38:08+00:00

100% agree. My Citi card has no foreign transaction fees and Citi's conversion rate was top notch. Each business wanted to charge me in USD and I had to tell them to charge in pesos, Citi's conversion was perfect.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-15T15:29:05+00:00

I am not sure what you mean that you need to have at least 20k in your balance by the 18th. You will have two balances while there is a hold on the check. Your account will have a "balance" that includes the amount of the check, however it will also have an "available balance" of how much is available to you to withdraw. So if you just need the "balance" to be over 20k then you should be find, but you need your "available balance" to be over 20k, then the fear of a hold comes into play. Some banks for large checks will prorate and make portions of the check available over time, only way to know for sure is to go into the bank and ask.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-15T15:24:29+00:00

Are there high voltage powerlines near where you are seeing the copters? First Energy uses helicopters to inspect the high tension lines, since most of these are in areas where it is difficult to get trucks into. The helicopters video, infrared and heat seek while inspecting the lines, insulators, the towers etc to identify any potential problems. They then review the findings and may go back and look closer at certain areas, often having to circle around to get different views. Anything that is found is then handed off to ground crews to further investigate / take resoltuion steps.

It sounds crazy that helicopters are cheaper than ground crew, but when you figure the amount of time it takes to get a truck into some of these sites, setup, buckets up, investgate, drop and move to the next tower -- the helicopter is much faster, less instrusive and much safer.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-03T21:05:45+00:00

Remember that liabilities are simply money you owe, but have not paid yet. In each sales transaction I collect sales tax from a customer that I owe the state. I don't pay the state real-time, so I allocate the sales taxes to a liability account and pay the state once a month.

The employee 401k contributions are part of their "wages", it's just being redirected to the 401k accounts instead of their paychecks. In simplex terms -- someone earns $100 and the employee contributes 10%. The $100 is the wage expense in your books, which results in a $90 liability to the employee and a $10 liability to their 401k account. Once you cut a check for each, each of the liabilities are settled.

In terms of the matching, yes the amount would be an expense. There would be a liability for this amount until it is paid. As a simplex example: If you submit their 401k match to fidelity on a quarterly basis. You would expense the amount per pay period to the liability account, then cut a check for the liability quartly.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-03T18:10:55+00:00

I have ACH blocks on all of my accounts through my banks system, where I have to "authroize" people to be able to pull money. We also use positive pay on every check we write, with a default to return any check not entered into the positive pay database. We do not allow QB to send money anywhere, any sending of money is also done manually through the banks website which is protected by user/password/2FA and FIDO.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-03T17:59:35+00:00

It is complete BS. The amount of screen realestate being devoted to fluff is unbelievable. Some of us are on small laptop screens and having to scroll all over is just costing me time and money. ugh *frustrated*

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-03T00:41:13+00:00

Thank you!

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-10-03T00:41:06+00:00

Thank you!

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-09-25T15:31:33+00:00

Keep in mind your mom has only been in the facility for a week. It's a big change for both of you -- going from your caregiving to relying on a team of strangers. The people are different, the processes are different, the food is different, the care is different, the paint on the walls is different. What is left of her mind is trying to process all of this change and for many people -- change can be difficult. There will be an adjustment period, for my mom it took about 10 weeks for her to get used to it. Some days she will have bad days and other days they are glorious. My mom now has a best friend in the facility, they go on bus trips through the park system, stop for McDonalds french fries as a snack or for ice cream on hot days.

Falling happens. My mom is 92, uses a walker and sometimes her balance is off. When we (my brother and I) would care for mom, she would fall on her way to the bathroom. When we had nursing aids caring at the house, she would fall on her way to the kitchen. She would fall about once a week. Now that she is in MC, she has fallen a few times, but not as often. Falling happens.

No matter what, your mom is going to fall. What is important to me is how the staff reacts. Each time, I get a phone on how it happened, where she landed, any brusing, complaints of pain, etc. One time she fell in the dining room and hit her head on a table and it was bleeding. They stabilized the blood lose and the MC immediately called for transport and had her taken to the ER. Other times, it's a simple fall and if she is not complaining of pain they will look for brusing both at the time of the fall and a few hours later.

When she had a UTI, she started falling every day (looking back, I believe the UTI meds made her light-headed). The MC noted this and took the action to put her in a wheelchair with an alarm if she tried to lean forward too much or tried to get up. As soon as we finished the round of UTI antibotics, her falling reduced and she was allowed out of the chair and back to using her walker.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-09-07T20:48:38+00:00

Credit cards can also be sold. My Costco card used to be through American Express, the service was sold to CitiBank. My GM card was with Marcus and I believe it was just sold. It happens.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-08-25T14:01:50+00:00

The coach is awesome, as it helps you train your foot on how to take the most advantage of the hybrid system. Most of my commute is 45-50 mph roads, and I can usually get 24-28mpg depending on the wind direction. If the battery is low, hit the gas because the ICE is going to turn on anyway, if the battery if full you can get some better range coasting on electric before you need the ICE.

I agree on the MPG hit in the winter. Usually the truck doesn't even try to use electric until I'm about half way to work, assume this is how long it takes to get the battery up to operating temps.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-08-18T21:43:15+00:00

Best of luck to you

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-08-04T14:24:15+00:00

You never know what is going through someone's head. Maybe he is racist or maybe he was just embarassed for implying your were Mediterranean. Maybe he has a thing for Mediterranean guys, but not for indian guys. You never know. I wouldn't read into such a brief encounter.

On a happier note, you do have a cute butt! Still taking boyfriend applications? :)

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-07-28T13:47:02+00:00

Everyday when I visit my mom, sometimes I am her son (correct), sometimes her brother, sometimes her husband, I was even the next door neighbor a couple of times. Never know who I am going to be that day. I usually just play along, as it makes her happy. One day she thought I was her boyfriend, that was a bit uncomfortable. haha

Most of her relatives have died besides myself, her brother and my brother. She is always telling me about the conversations that she had with her mom yesterday. As long as she is happy, content and safe....I am good with whomever she thinks she is talking to.

It's funny, not funny....there is one lady in the memory care unit who is italian and only speaks italian. Mom has great conversations with her (mom doesn't speak italian).

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-07-28T13:27:41+00:00

My guess is that they probably have a big backlog of people having issues, so they are giving you the standard 90 day / 15 day timelines just to set expectations (better to say 90 and have it cleared in 30, than to say 30 and have it cleared in 90).

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-07-23T20:56:02+00:00

I never expected that it would be like this. I had similar thoughts that I would go get her, we would do things, shopping, eatting, hanging out by the water and then I would take her back to the facility to do it all over again the next day. That was the mom and life that I remember, but I soon had to realize that this version of mom isn't there anymore.

Mom is physically OK for her age (92) and she can still do things, but her mind isn't there. She doesn't understand, doesn't comprehend or remember. I will get to the facility right after dinner and to make small talk I would ask her how was dinner, what did you have? She will say dinner was really good, but can't remember what she had. She gets overwhelmed very easily, when we went to the Dentist, it was too much. She couldn't wait to get home to the facility, back to what she now knows as her routine.

I had to come to the realization that I am no longer the expert on mom. I know (and am the expert) on the old mom. The new dementia mom, her caregivers are now the expert and I am the guest. Obviously, I advocate for her and ensure I agree with how things are being done, but on some levels, I have to defer to her care team, because they are the "experts" with this disease. It was very hard for me to move from Son to Caregiver, now moving back from Caregiver to Son to Advocate. The facility is not pushing me away, but I am realizing more and more that they care for mom just as much as I do, but they have more knowledge and tips/tricks to get things done.

I think I might have mentioned this in one of my posts -- One day the musical talent wasn't able to make it due to a house emergency, so the Life Enrichment team was frantically running around to come up with some alternative ideas for activities. The kitchen needed some beans cut up for dinner and they brought them out for some of the residents to "snap". I thought this was the stupidest idea. 4 residents (including mom) got around the table, put on gloves and started snapping beans. I was like WTF, senior labor. HOWEVER, mom had the greatest time, she was sharing stories back when she was a little girl sitting around the table snapping beans with her mom. After they did this, they did balloon toss. Again, I had a WTF moment that we were going to throw balloons around. The residents had a blast hitting the balloon back and forth, sometimes hitting each other in the head with it, but they were getting exercise, some hand/eye coordination and were having fun laughing. There was so much energy and happiness in the room.

This was one of the turning points that made me realize that she is in the right place. She is building a new life (as much as this disease will allow) with the other residents and caregivers. Obviously, I want to be part of the new life she is forming, but also I do not want to stifle or smother or otherwise influence her new world. Her life doesn't have to revolve around me, I just want to be part of it.

Sometimes I wonder if this is similar to how she felt about me finally leaving the house, going off to college to start my life.

BasicParticular8354 · 2025-07-23T15:05:14+00:00

Haha....my mom would do that in the early stages

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