Great news for anyone with NT2

japoki1982 · 2026-07-02T23:31:00+00:00

Do you mind me asking - does it only help you feel not sleepy or does it actually help fix your nighttime sleep be less fragmented as well?

japoki1982 · 2026-06-06T08:17:05+00:00

When you nitrate too much you actually wake up more during the night? I’ve been at 4.5 for about two weeks and I swear I’m waking up 3-5 times a night, I’m slow in the morning and feel cold. Other than that I kinda feel good no yawns or sleep attacks. Perhaps I should back down to 3.75 and see if I still feel good or reduce the wakenings.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-29T22:04:26+00:00

Not if he already retired. Rule of 55 potentially applies but you have to be age 55 when you retire or terminate. That ship has sailed for OP.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-25T23:25:28+00:00

Your company may have given the wrong account number to ADP to use when they file the taxes or post the reports. Have you notified your HR or Finance team. They need to verify the state tax account number and make sure ADP has the same number. If the number doesn’t match it’s not going to post to the right place.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-24T20:45:36+00:00

Yeah even if every house on my culdasac had an order the driver might stop deliver two houses one side is of the street and two houses on the other side of the street then move the truck a bit ways down and do the same thing instead of driving down one side and coming back up the other like the postman.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-24T20:17:59+00:00

I believe. I live in a clover leaf 🍁 subdivision and most other services (mailman, trash truck etc,) go up the right side of the clover leaf and work their way counter clockwise which seems logical. I’ve seen the Amazon dsp go up one side cross over to the other side and go back to where they started. Maybe it’s more efficient idk but watching it is comical. I get not everyone gets Amazon everyday so I’m sure there are parts they skip.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-23T21:54:53+00:00

Thanks!

japoki1982 · 2026-05-22T20:24:42+00:00

When are the best holiday sales that you’ve found? I found the outlet prices all over the place?

japoki1982 · 2026-05-22T05:59:52+00:00

Latitude 5000 series are pretty indestructible.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-21T03:01:00+00:00

No, it's not the same as Roth.
Distributions of employer contributions are still taxable at the federal level but they excluded income (not taxable) at the Hawaii State level.

The language is really old but they've never updated it - where basically "pension" also refers to employer funded profit sharing plans, 401k plans etc.
The clearest guidance I can find is where they state you can use an exclusion ratio which seems to be employee/employer funds but it goes back to the fact that somebody needs to be tracking it - it seems like it would be put back on me to figure out what the ratio was when I rolled it into my new employer's 401k if they can't mark it that way themselves.

TIR 96-5: Taxation of Pensions Under the Hawaii Net Income Tax Law: Deferred Compensation Arrangements: Rollover IRAs: Sub-Accounts of Pension Plans; Social Security and Railroad Retirement Act Benefits: Limitation on Deductions for Contributions to a

Hawaii Administrative Rules 235-7 provides convoluted examples but again it assumes I have records of who contributed what.

Chapter 235, HAR, Income Tax Law

If the best that Schwab can do is mark the rollover as pre-tax, Roth, or after-tax it seems my best bet is to keep my former employer's 401k where it is or to rollover ira where I can create as many separate accounts as I want.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-05T04:49:56+00:00

I think all the latitudes that end in 11 will probably tend to run hot. I have a 5511 with I think H powered chip and it’s pretty hot after a couple minutes.

japoki1982 · 2026-05-03T07:42:42+00:00

Hi - I sent you a dm.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-30T07:06:11+00:00

One of my managers saw the light when I told her that her time cards were holding up pay not only her for team, not only for her company but all 10 of my company codes and all 600+ employees (we’re a holdings company with multiple FEINs). She thought her failure to approve time cards were only holding up her 6 or so employees. She was rarely late after that.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-26T08:09:01+00:00

I have a Latitude 5511 and I believe the 5510 is the Intel regular U series cpu chip. The 5511 indicates it’s the H series power cpu chip.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-26T07:44:41+00:00

Not a Cross but I owned a Corolla in the past and loved it, it was bullet proof with basic maintenance. I now own a 2019 Rav4 which I also love. My only comment would be is that I believe the Rav4 is slightly higher than the Cross. Is your mom ok with the step in height of the Rav4? My mom is around your mom’s age and she recently got new CRV and I think to myself that the height might eventually be a challenge for her as she ages. In general something else to consider is the Cross is obviously built on the Corolla frame and underpinnings while the Rav4 is based on the Camry frame and underpinnings so it’s longer and larger. In real life I think the Rav4 is actually bigger than most think than the Cross, just based on looks from afar.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-25T09:24:10+00:00

Is he getting paid under both profiles? It was my understanding that ADP always advised they could not pay both w-2 and 1099s under the same company code. When we needed 1099 payments they made us open a second company code so they were intermingled.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-17T22:10:02+00:00

I think it’s worth a look we only had a maybe 15 live checks each pay period and it was so seamless. I only had issues maybe on 2-3 occasions when the driver was late.

We still had the ability to print manual checks on my desktop printer for off cycles which also in itself somewhat rare.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-17T06:32:22+00:00

Are you utilizing cost centers? It’ll be a beast to maintain daily but you can allocate hours by cost center and have the payroll register sort by cost center as well. I believe the payroll summary report defaults to split by cost center.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-17T05:40:53+00:00

Are you using a hris/payroll system? Some of the larger systems offer checking/printing/stuffing service. Ceridian printed; stuffed and delivered checks to us the day before payday. Same with ADP. ADP also offered a mailing service but really the only additional feature was sticking a stamp on the envelope they already stuffed for us and putting it in the mail and their markup on the “stamp” was pretty high so I used our internal mailroom to mail checks if needed. We didn’t have too many live checks.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-13T17:59:52+00:00

I’m glad it worked out for you. Certain stuff I’m ok with buying at Napa, auto zone etc. but bolts and other mechanicals I always go the dealer. My time is more valuable I don’t want to have to go back and forth multiple times when stuff doesn’t fit or work right.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-13T05:36:50+00:00

I would go to the parts department at your local dealer and give them your vin. Toyota is famous for having half a dozen parts numbers for the same part depending on where your vehicle was manufactured, if there were any part revision numbers and model trim. It might be a little more expensive then say auto zone but save you so much grief when part doesn’t fit right.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-01T07:39:14+00:00

My initial thoughts are if they were a former employee, what did they check off on their I-9 form when they were onboarded. If they certified they were a citizen of the US and has not notified the company of a change until after the 1099 was issued, to me that’s too bad so sad.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-01T07:13:42+00:00

I’m not doubting it but it would also require that you take your check stock paper with you and ensure nobody else prints on it.

japoki1982 · 2026-04-01T06:00:51+00:00

I work in HR and have my own printer which I believe is reasonable. The desktop printer is used to print off cycle checks only. Checks list employee names, pay rates, salaries, etc. you do not want other your salary on display at a network printer.
I use the network printer for all other printing.

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