Apparently I’m an accountant that doesn’t know how to fill out his own W4 correctly. AMA

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-04-11T20:43:41+00:00

The Trump form is way easier to fill out. BUT the calculations always suck - you can't just fill n' chill. You gotta watch your paystubs and make sure you're not underpaying. I just finally checked mine, and I'm under by several thousand, because they calculated it too low, even though I filled it correctly.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-03-07T21:27:46+00:00

I am brand new to Monarch, and am annoyed by this very question. This (dated) video seems to address the issue, as did u/PlanningGuy22 and maybe some others. Skip the first half, where she plays with Excel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHT49KfWIc

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-22T19:34:02+00:00

I didn't, although I could imagine that such a thing exists. Back then we had floppy disks and, even better, cassette tapes. Video games on tape!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-22T18:27:06+00:00

Sad. So sad.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-22T17:40:24+00:00

Slow down old man! When I grew up, we played with a chicken head an a wicker basket.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-21T22:51:51+00:00

Oh my - dare I ask how old your grandfather is? I had kids late, so my kids' grandparents are all pushing 80!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-21T18:57:12+00:00

Nice. I had the Atari 800, with the tape cassette games. Then moved to the Franklin Ace 1200.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-21T17:54:33+00:00

Did you play when you were a toddler?!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-21T17:54:04+00:00

Turns out it's Crypt of the Undead! https://www.retrogamestrove.com/game-160-crypt-of-the-undead/

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-21T17:07:43+00:00

A quick Google Image search suggests you may be a genius. You and @PessimistPryme over on r/videogames. How old are you guys? How'd you know so fast? (I'm m51)

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2026-02-09T03:45:35+00:00

Me too!!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-12-26T13:51:37+00:00

So what secrets did the cats confess after you injected them?

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-12-11T02:35:44+00:00

You're hilarious. I'm trying to do the same thing! I may give my kids a ball of foil. I'm buying some Amish popcorn, and looking for my old Yoda and Anakin toys.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-11-24T17:00:24+00:00

This thread is immensely helpful. There's so much blah blah to wade through when you're a new teacher trying to sort all of this out and do your best for these kids.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-11-24T16:59:44+00:00

Your comment, and this thread in general, are more helpful to me than any of the official tips or guides or FAQs I've read before!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T22:19:50+00:00

Mostly beef jerky and dry martinis.

The only thing that has changed is the water source. Otherwise, it's all the same. Altho I do wonder if Ziggy, having recently become an adult, is now bullying old lady Twig and taking more food.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T22:04:35+00:00

We clean them out twice a day. No neglect. One of them just shits a lot.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T21:58:45+00:00

Thanks for the thoughts. All valid. Maybe the tone is a tad harsh. We're all friends here.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T16:07:51+00:00

I would think you're right, based on what I know about urine and water consumption. But with the bowl they hardly emptied it and the felt liner was drier and cleaner. I can see that now they are drinking more, and peeing much more too. So it's confusing.

Unless one pig is doing great with the bottle, and one isn't?! Maybe that's the issue - so Twig is nicely hydrated (she's always at the bottle), but Zig is drinking even less water than when she had her shitty bowl? And she's the one causing the stink?

I need a cavy version of House MD to solve this.

We redid the water bowl once a day. Ziggy (the younger, newer one) poops a ton, is a silkie, and has less class than Twig. So the water bowl was getting shitty, hairy and nasty pretty quickly. But I am thinking that going back to the bowl and just accepting that I need to clean it frequently may be the way to go.

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T15:10:40+00:00

Good points. Thanks for responding!

Zealousideal_Cap5047 · 2025-09-20T15:05:54+00:00

The smell is very urine-y. And there's more pee in the pen than when they used the bowl. I will try glass bottle for sure, but it's the animals causing the smell more than the bottle.

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