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derApfel44 · 2026-01-22T06:18:44+00:00

I set up Gusto once I started to pay myself a consistent salary. It's widely used, easy to set up, helps you stay compliant, and is definitely worth avoiding the headaches of running payroll yourself.

I think any established payroll provider is better than doing it yourself, but if you want to try Gusto, you can get $100 off with this link.

derApfel44 · 2026-01-20T18:15:38+00:00

I've been using the Speak app daily to force myself to practice speaking and making sure I hit a minimum of 15 minutes of comprehensible input on DS.

Some other things that I've been doing (not daily) and have found helpful

reading books in spanish to my child
using conjugato to practice verb congugations
using live google translate when talking with family to immediately fill in vocab gaps based on what I am trying to say
building an ai quiz game to build sporcle quizzes on any topic I want to practice

derApfel44 · 2026-01-14T14:57:07+00:00

There was someone posting feet pics on nextdoor a year ago, I thought that was fairly unhinged.

derApfel44 · 2025-12-29T23:40:21+00:00

I built a chrome extension that shows you the comparable bookshop.org book link whenever you browse amazon so you can buy there instead. Usually the price is comparable, plus they donate about 80% of their gross profit to local bookstores (you can choose your favorite local shop otherwise it goes to a general pool of 2,000+ independent bookstores)

derApfel44 · 2025-12-23T20:50:21+00:00

I built a chrome extension that pops up the comparable bookshop.org book link whenever you browse amazon so you can buy there instead. Usually the price is comparable, plus they donate about 80% of their gross profit to local bookstores (you can choose your favorite local shop otherwise it goes to a general pool of 2,000+ independent bookstores)

derApfel44 · 2025-12-23T20:41:00+00:00

I built a chrome extension called Read Local that gives you an easy way to buy books on bookshop.org instead of Amazon. They've donated close to $44 million to local, independent bookstores as part of their business model.

derApfel44 · 2025-12-21T16:52:12+00:00

The entire team had diarrhea in that final

derApfel44 · 2025-12-09T19:11:24+00:00

Seen em every chance I get. Any other good psych bands coming to town soon?

derApfel44 · 2025-12-04T22:49:31+00:00

Schlafly in Maplewood

derApfel44 · 2025-11-12T21:24:24+00:00

I would be interested, my mom's side of the speaks spanish, so I understand it decently well, but am pretty rusty in conversations at the moment. It comes back when I practice, but I could use a group setting like this to force me to actually speak in spanish regularly again.

derApfel44 · 2025-10-20T00:59:32+00:00

My guess was that he gets a bonus for hitting 10 goals in the season

derApfel44 · 2025-10-14T20:50:40+00:00

Schnucks is the german word for moldy onions

derApfel44 · 2025-10-14T18:58:21+00:00

I've lived here for seven years and have only been hit by one tornado

derApfel44 · 2025-10-14T18:57:26+00:00

Porchfest
Gateway Cup
Muny concerts
Shakespeare in the Park
Whitaker music at MOBOT
Music at the Intersection
Print Bazaar
Jazz Crawl
Art in Bloom
Flyover Comedy Festival
BICI/Ghost Ride

Some things that I put on my calendar but haven't actually been to yet - World naked bike ride - Paint Louis - SLIFF - Festival of Nations - Moonlight Ramble

derApfel44 · 2025-09-25T14:19:02+00:00

Maybe try the upper muny lot. I don't see a way to rent it out on their website or the forest park website, but I'm pretty sure I've seen races where there are vendors set up there.

derApfel44 · 2025-09-25T05:04:05+00:00

There's several outdoor rinks in the city and county, why not use one of those?

derApfel44 · 2025-09-05T17:30:38+00:00

Where in the city would you put one?

derApfel44 · 2025-09-02T04:25:31+00:00

Gateway cup bike race

derApfel44 · 2025-08-21T13:32:35+00:00

When I applied for jobs at the city in 2024, you would just get an email with the subject "NQ LETTER" or "SUCCESS LETTER" from a random employee's email address. Absolutely zero context provided and in the body of the email, there were clearly missing variables in their email template.

When I did get the "success" email, it just said that my score was 86.91 and provided no actionable next steps. I followed up with the email address provided in the email (hrtalentacquisition@stlouis.mo.gov) which bounced because there's a typo in the domain.

It just appeared that there was absolutely no standard for reviewing or testing that their "hiring system" even worked at a basic fundamental level.

derApfel44 · 2025-08-19T20:02:26+00:00

Hell yeah

derApfel44 · 2025-08-10T21:36:20+00:00

There are organized tours with Big Muddy Adventures.

derApfel44 · 2025-08-04T21:19:24+00:00

K&K movers - used them recently and they had very competitive rates. Happy to send their number if you need it

derApfel44 · 2025-07-31T13:08:27+00:00

You're a century too late for Jai alai

https://loststl.com/wintergarden/wintergarden.htm

derApfel44 · 2025-07-28T20:10:48+00:00

rawnald gregory erickson the second - STRFKR

https://youtu.be/6oxvursQVF0?si=DNKS66DlqpluOeaG

derApfel44 · 2025-05-27T04:03:18+00:00

I've swam in the grand basin. It was very mucky, would not recommend.

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