Planet Money #760 Tax Hero

The taxes in the United States could be far easier. However, the billion dollar tax industry want to keep it complicated.

Are you Into It?

Found Zettlr today and I think I’ve found a home for my personal knowledge base.

Markdown-based. Plain text. Intuitive.

I lost 2 hours after work tonight in it and look forward to losing many more.

🍿 Watched US last night. 🍿 It was suspenseful, tense and deeply creepy. Jordan Peele can tell a tale. And the various versions of I got 5 on it used throughout the film. chef kiss

Look at this glorious guy. Clearance from Target.

Dinner might be late.

<span style=“color:rgb(102,102,102); font-family:” avenirnext",avenir,-apple-system,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size:17px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;">📚 I finished listening to We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 by Dennis E. Taylor, narrated by Ray Porter.

Walking through Georgetown with my wife and father we passed this tree. I had to stop and admire it.

Malcolm Gladwell is giving a keynote at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium.

www.psychnetworker.org/2019/2018…

My wife is going to get to see him.

I’m jealous.

Last night I went to bed about 7:30pm. Tonight I was asleep by 8:30pm.

Hug your furnace. Mine didn’t work for 48 hours.

Built a Leprechaun Trap with my nephew this past weekend. It has a path of golden arrows leading into the trip wire. Then the Leprechaun will fall into the tall section and be trapped there because of the bars on the top. There is fake gold inside to keep him busy.

[caption width=“3000”]This is not a trap. [/caption]

[caption width=“1667”]Fake gold awaits.[/caption]

[caption width=“3000”]Trip wire[/caption]

Watching a 6 year old experience forgetting to save the game and replaying Cerulean City’s gym in Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee.

Isn’t this a rite of passage for gamers?

I wrote about starting my first podcast with two friends.

Social Media.

Woke up this morning to some fuzzy friends in the back yard. They stayed all day. I went out to talk to them about rent if they’re going to live here now. 

My Dell T20 tower server has arrived from eBay today. Now I just need time to set it up, move drives from my NAS into it, setup some VMs as a home learning lab and explain to my wife why there is another computer in my office. 

Whether I stop the puck or it goes in, I do the same thing afterward. I squirt the water bottle and I follow one drop all the way down to the ice. It’s just a little ritual to keep me focused. We’re just here, trying to stop the next puck, you know. 

Fun story about teamwork, friendship, focus and Mario Kart. 

During dinner, I looked up and see this on the wall. 

I may have had dinner in The Good Place. 

Optimistic flowers. 

Couldn’t figure out what this was for. I do feel ISB needs our support but I don’t recall giving them money. 

(It’s for the US Botanical Gardens.)

We made it!

My favorite hockey players were born in the 1990s!
I don't know how to feel about this.

My wife made Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Boat from Pinch of Yum tonight and they were incredible. 

The ricotta gave the squash a gooey cheesy core and the ground turkey was seasoned to perfection. I wanted to sail away with her in that boat and die happy.