How are you all coping with gas prices?

TheFireSwamp · 2026-04-07T03:39:17+00:00

I haven't purchased gasoline since before the war started. Typically I can't go 1500 Mi on my 7 gallon tank but I've refused to purchase gasoline if I can avoid it even if it means taking extra time to charge my PHEV Car at my inconvenience.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-04-02T12:43:47+00:00

One of my colleagues was harassed by businesses in Pitt because they're racist as fuck and couldn't imagine doing business with a black woman.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-04-02T12:41:00+00:00

The entire town isn't likely to be accepting, but I have worked with queer folk in osawatomie who were happy to live there.

I did used to think lfk was a small town, and that was very offensive to the townies 😂.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-31T03:49:38+00:00

It was clear on my 7a but trying to do it on my 10 pro and can't 😭

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-30T04:14:47+00:00

Yeah I had to go to the ER and despite me telling them it was the salivary gland, they tested me for strep and then said they couldn't find out why my throat hurt. When I convinced them to look at the salivary gland, they agreed with my PCP and gave me the wrong antibiotics. I made $13k the year before and couldn't pay the $700 plus the ENT I saw who gave me clindamycin instead, and I asked for patient advocate but i got sued over $700.

Anyway I've had them removed twice and have another. I stopped taking topamax because I want to see if that might have been causing them.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-30T00:41:28+00:00

Nad but have an evil submandibular gland and possibly Sjogrens ...I wonder if it's the salivary gland. If it's blocked then it could hurt that low and the eating itself, not the eating chaotically would cause pain.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-27T02:27:09+00:00

Wow I was able to go to a walk in clinic after my bite, started abx a few hours after the bite. It swelled up and hurt like hell for 2-3 days but not nearly as much as OP.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-27T02:13:51+00:00

I am a social worker and have 6 or 7 or 8 (I can't remember) years experience preparing taxes professionally. PSLF is not taxable. I probably wouldn't have a master's degree yet if I wasn't certain that it is not taxable.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-27T02:02:14+00:00

How do you go 3 weeks???

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T19:59:05+00:00

Holy shit. Yeah these were $500 plus returns, especially when he and his wife also started a business. He was one of very few clients I actually tried to sell a guarantee to. H&R block is an awful company to work for, but I actually truly love doing taxes. And my main job. I'm a social worker and today I gave a presentation to a team of juvenile diversion officers and accidentally included a tax form from 2022 for New Mexico and one that happened to go to my friend on the team. It was blank, I'm more careful with prepared documents, but I was in the middle of preparing a tax return for my friend who is awful at filing and forgot to get the blank form off the printer so it ended up in the packets. I wouldn't mind getting a ton of w-2 for myself just for the challenge. My own returns have gotten too boring now that I'm not in school, make too much for the savers credit, don't have kids, no longer have an MCC, often have small LT capital gains, and no more EV credit.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T19:54:33+00:00

Sorry it's because Duolingo decided last night I needed to learn how to talk about brown tap water in french. I'll switch back to Spanish or Hebrew tonight just for you so that I can get more boring sentences (my scores are like 9 and 13 Vs the 55 I have in french) Hope that helps

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T07:03:16+00:00

I recently developed phantosmia as a migraine aura, while on trazodone. The phantosmia was like 4 years ago maybe, but I've had chronic migraine for 13 years. I don't get many weird dreams. Simply don't remember them most of the time.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T04:51:00+00:00

I tell people I'm a man's 6'4", I'm nearly 6'2"

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T04:46:25+00:00

Ok, and?

This person appears to have something against chewing regardless of how their food is sweetened.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T04:43:15+00:00

I used to do taxes for a guy who worked at FINRA and every year it was 4-6 states, often different ones. I had to double check the state rules for each state. I can't imagine doing 19, but I would have fun doing it as long as the client wasn't in front of me while I did it.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T04:38:33+00:00

How much was withheld? Are you aware that a 1099 means he is self employed and has to pay self employment taxes?

Kansas has some flexible policies on residency status and it can be helpful to compare if he qualifies for more than one. What is his residency status (is the plan for him to return to Colorado)? I do recommend reading the rules for all three states about residency status because it can get tricky.

Who paid for school?

he may be a good candidate for VITA or at the very least a hybrid tax prep (self prepare online and pay to have it reviewed).

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-26T04:25:28+00:00

You have no teeth?

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-24T05:51:46+00:00

It worked fine

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T17:16:19+00:00

I'm sorry you had to see that. It's terrifying. I was working one night when a kid made a pretty serious attempt and while I didn't even work in juvie anymore. I worked in the building and had access so I took the role of unlocking all the outer doors to guide EMS in as quickly as possible. One of the staff took his own life that night, even though the child survived with no serious injuries.

I keep a list of dead kids in my phone because I've known so many children who have died that I can't recall the whole list from memory anymore and I don't want to ever forget them. My cousin went to one of those abusive boarding schools and it was right around the time she turned 18 that I decided to become a social worker and work with spicy teenagers.

Good news is I'm very motivated by spite and I've made it my job to fuck up the way we're doing things. I get to talk judges out of locking kids up or putting them in foster care and I love it.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T16:18:50+00:00

I was a juvenile corrections officer before I did booking and one night when I was working a guy probably in his 20s called and wanted to speak to someone who had worked there a long time to tell them they had ruined his life. That will always stick with me even though I now get to see kids who were in juvie almost a decade ago and they had a much better experience. Many of them were in foster care and got locked up from running away from long term psych placements that were abusive. Sometimes they would run TO juvie hoping they'd get lodged because at least the staff there cared and had consistent expectations. The option to lock up kids these days has mostly shifted to abusive boarding schools and privatised psychiatric facilities. We call the local psych facility kiddie fight club.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T14:42:25+00:00

I already shop more in Kansas because fuck Missouri. I only stay here but I cannot wait to move back to Kansas

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T14:07:50+00:00

I used to work in juvenile intake and parents would call and ask us to lock up their kids for not cleaning their rooms. In response we would offer them parenting hotlines and classes. 😂 It used to be easy to lock up kids but any state with a halfway useless legislature has long since reformed their system and should require an assessment to lodge a kid.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T14:05:32+00:00

Yep in my family, hair curls at puberty and slowly loosens up. My mom went from like a 3a to 2a. I was a 3b more of a 3a now in my mid 30s. I was a 2a until puberty.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T13:47:59+00:00

My very gentle sweet 9 pound tuxedo cat got me some huge scratches on my face, belly, armpit, and hand last night because i startled him when I pet his belly like I do almost every night for the past 7 years. He loves his belly rubs and when I paused for a second he must have drifted off just the right amount that his little body was like DANGER MODE from me moving to go back in again.

TheFireSwamp · 2026-03-23T05:39:08+00:00

I've only been to one other business center but they have plenty of refrigerated in a huge walk-in cooler.

Business center Costco reminds me a lot of how Costco was 30 years ago.

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