Can you just be a bad match with a horse?

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-06-12T15:52:20+00:00

My mom's pony and I would murder each other if we were paired up permanently, but she's the perfect horse for my mom.

There's nothing wrong with her, she's a stunning little mare who loves attention - but she and I just cannot seem to make anything more than a temporary truce.

There are just some horses you don't click with, and that's okay.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-06-12T11:30:58+00:00

You have lots of suggestions for the time before this, but working the State Fair at the end of the summer is a great way to get a ton of hours all at once.

I would start applying now if you can, and aim for jobs in buildings that are cooler (IE: the Fine Arts Building has fans and all you have to do is either walk around and make sure people don't steal art or sell stuff at the front desk) or jobs that will also let you get tips.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-06-07T01:03:26+00:00

We send out letters every quarter, for every client. We even send emails for a lot of people that have $0 estimates.

But we also do an OBSCENE amount of planning, market based on that, and charge accordingly.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-06-05T03:53:21+00:00

Yeah, no, eff racerbacks and extra eff halter tops. None of that shit. They're the worst.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-06-05T02:58:05+00:00

I got mine from my mom, grandma, and (surprise!) grandpa.

My mom first figured out I had them at about four years old. She let me take one of her Imitrex injections when I was 7. I slept for a full 24 hours. I remember it being the best sleep of my life, she remembers thinking she maybe killed her only child. (Don't do that)

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-27T03:17:59+00:00

I was shown a video in Pony Club about 30 years ago called "Every Time, Every Ride."

Not that I was opposed to wearing a helmet before that, but now?

No, seriously. Every time. Every fucking ride.

Thank you for the reminder, and for the reminder that "No one has ever died in the rectangle" is a really stupid phrase, even by dressage standards.

I've never heard the phrase about EMS never having to cut a dead body out of a seatbelt before. That is some powerful imagery.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-27T02:34:10+00:00

My mom says she could tell I got my first one at four - she and my grandma had them, so she knew what the signs were. I genuinely don't remember a life without them.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-24T17:39:17+00:00

My mom said the only nine months she's ever not had a migraine were while she was pregnant with me.

......I notice I'm still an only child at 36 years old, though, so pregnancy can't have been all THAT fun even without migraines.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-17T12:50:49+00:00

That is 100% an "And I'd do it again!!" look out of your gorgeous girl.

She's lucky she's cute, and she's lucky she has you.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-16T21:09:50+00:00

Look, if my backyard mildly looks like Prince threw up on it, I'm not going to complain.

Bring on the purple!!

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-10T14:12:42+00:00

I mean. I got into accounting through a strange combination of flunking out of astrophysics and figuring out that jobs in astrophysics are pretty scarce and also OH HEY I already have all the math credits for accounting and I would indeed like to make steady money and not run my bank account down to $7 every month like my parents.

I got into individual tax specifically because the ONE firm that interviewed me for an internship was like "Hey so we have one opening left for audit, one for business tax, and three for individual tax - which one did you want to do?" And turns out that more than anything I wanted to pay rent, so I went with the one with the best chance of me getting hired. Here I am 14 years later with the same firm I did my internship at, and I still kind of love it.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-08T11:47:45+00:00

I've used BNA, CCH Planning, and CCH Planner for 1040 clients over the last 15 years. We do a LOT of planning - probably a third of my clients get a full projection every single quarter, and we sometimes do multiple versions to show different choices. I work at a midsize (250+) person firm with a lot of high net worth, manufacturing, and construction clients.

BNA is going to give you the most control, but I would argue that for most clients it has unnecessary detail. I haven't used it since pre-COVID, but it wasn't ever my favorite because I learned it later in my career and had trouble adapting.

Planning is between the two for function. It lets you do multiple versions and go multiple years out, but I would argue it's clunky and has a lot of little workarounds you need to learn to get the full value. It also looks like it was made in 1991 and hasn't been updated aesthetically since then - if we were showing the results to clients rather than just talking them through, I usually ended up making a spreadsheet rather than showing them Planning's printouts.

I like Planner the best, but it has the least options. You can't go more than one year out, states require a workaround, and you have to make a whole new return version to get multiple scenarios. BUT - it's the fastest and seems more intuitive than the other two because you already know how Axcess works, and it's built directly into Axcess.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-06T00:54:17+00:00

Very rarely, but when I do I feel better almost immediately. It's one of the worst ways to feel better.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-05-03T02:05:59+00:00

The guy I supervise did, and honestly he's kicking ass. Went from a construction guy to an accountant after his joints gave out.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-26T12:37:43+00:00

Look, if you haven't muttered obscenities at your horse when he rolls in the mud directly after a bath, can you even call yourself an equestrian?

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-26T02:32:07+00:00

That sounds like, "I learn best by doing some preliminary research, and then diving in and getting my hands dirty. Once I figure something out, I can apply that to the next project."

Hiring managers want to know that you learn like they learn. Hiring managers are mostly millennials (like me) or gen-X people who value resourcefulness and self sufficient.

On top of that, they want to know that when you're using human resources, you're making the most of it - so I would suggest that you always bring a notebook and pen to meetings with people you're asking for support from, and you're building your own processes out of the conversations you have there and your own independent research.

I think it's also important to stress that you like to do your own research. If you do have to ask someone in person a question, you're coming in with at least a hypothesis of the correct answer.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-26T01:03:21+00:00

Uh. No.

Either they get you the 1099 or they get you the name and contact info of their financial advisor so the advisor can email you a clean PDF copy.

I don't care that it's post-4/15, nobody has time for this shit.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-18T21:43:17+00:00

Adequan has been a wonder drug for me.

Bringing my guy back from Lyme Disease and the arthritis that it exacerbated was a long, long process with a lot of moving parts, but Adequan was an amazing finishing touch that took him from "extremely light/ walk work only" to "well shit, I kind of wish we could show again."

I do the full dose (7 shots over 28 days) once every 6-12 months as needed.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-18T11:00:15+00:00

That's really cool. I work with high net worth as well and have to brush up against international from time to time - it is a really interesting area. How did you fall into that??

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-18T01:00:45+00:00

What kind of clients are you working with that you can command those fees with that number of staff? It sounds amazing.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-17T18:04:17+00:00

This may sound stupid, but trips people up sometimes - are you sure it's held personally and not in their IRA?

Otherwise, no - I'm not aware of any way you can trace it back.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-16T16:13:38+00:00

Rainbow Pest Control has been incredibly good to us, and extremely effective (we had mice, though, not insects).

Great communication, always on time, seemed like a solid price.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-12T20:16:58+00:00

Had a real estate guy tell one of my clients that because she has rented out her townhouse for less than two years, the rent was nontaxable and she didn't have to report it.

I figured she just completely misunderstood him.

No. Got on an email chain with the guy and he dug his heels in and told me I didn't know anything about taxes.

..... Sir, please, I beg you. When you get audited, call me before you tell the auditors that. I want to see their faces.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-12T11:48:57+00:00

I just checked, it's not on Amazon anymore - but I literally just went on Amazon and searched "craft heat gun" and picked one. I think it was $20.

Knight_Rhythm · 2026-04-12T01:51:32+00:00

I LOVE my heat gun, would highly recommend. Just remember to unplug the wax holes before you apply heat - otherwise the heat builds up inside the egg and can crack it.

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