What are you doing right now?

Me and my parents are at my sisters house watching my niece and nephews while my sister and brother in law teach other farmers a butcher class at another farm. At least there is Netflix I love tv. I could watch tv all day I prefer that instead of my phone.
 
Working a homemade financial spreadsheet. For fun.
I've had one for years. Keep updating tax brackets, trying to estimate tax load. It's as good as the effort put in. Bit of a pain: this past year I was given some stocks, some of which were sold to pay taxes. But I didn't sell the stocks... and the stock sold to pay for the income tax was in the next up bracket... so it's starting to convoluted.

Each year I do a save-as and keep last years version. I can dig back into the past if I wanted. No good reason but sometimes it's nice--I can tell that I really didn't care about this stuff in pre-2013 as a result, as I don't have records.

But making a budget is different than keeping to a budget, I've found. As a rule I like to keep a healthy buffer at the end, money not allocated. Because somehow it gets spent anyhow.
 
I've had one for years. Keep updating tax brackets, trying to estimate tax load. It's as good as the effort put in. Bit of a pain: this past year I was given some stocks, some of which were sold to pay taxes. But I didn't sell the stocks... and the stock sold to pay for the income tax was in the next up bracket... so it's starting to convoluted.

Each year I do a save-as and keep last years version. I can dig back into the past if I wanted. No good reason but sometimes it's nice--I can tell that I really didn't care about this stuff in pre-2013 as a result, as I don't have records.

But making a budget is different than keeping to a budget, I've found. As a rule I like to keep a healthy buffer at the end, money not allocated. Because somehow it gets spent anyhow.
This one is a special new one just for all the bond funds I bought at peak rates.
 
Mulling over the day--wife wants me to drop her off at 12 someplace, then I think I get the afternoon at Warner Fall Festival. Wife thinks I should look at an XC70 that I found, but I have concerns about it, '04 is in that valvebody era of problems.

What I should be doing is starting to rake leaves. But with as windy as it is, I know i'll be doing that several times.
 
Working on my antenna tower lowering project. All set with 150 ft of steel 3/16" cable and two pulleys for added entertainment. Plan on using the old JD F510 mower to do the work and a floor jack to get it started. Probably wait until I get some moral support to watch for cable fouling to actually do it.

So I'm planting 100 tulips and 80 crocus until any help shows up.
 
Still at my sisters house. I’m loosing patience lol. I want to go home and watch baseball. I have no food either because they made beans and I won’t touch any types of beans.
 
Riding around with mom and dad. I’m going to go crazy if the arguing doesn’t stop. Is it normal for the average American family to not be able to decide where to have dinner? Most people I know plan out meals ahead of time. My vote is eat at home I don’t particularly like eating in restaurants but dad thinks he has to be in a restaurant for every meal. And then you list every restaurant in town to which he replies I don’t want that. I just stay quiet and scream in my mind lol. I’m a picky eater but I’m easy to please too especially if I’m not paying for it lol.

Oh well, aside from that I’m excited about post season baseball. Hate the Padres were eliminated last night and the Tigers today but now I’m rooting Mets and Guardians (formerly Indians). I’m glad I got my antenna set up to be able to watch World Series in my room if pops isn’t home or doesn’t want to watch it.
 
Working on my antenna tower lowering project. All set with 150 ft of steel 3/16" cable and two pulleys for added entertainment. Plan on using the old JD F510 mower to do the work and a floor jack to get it started. Probably wait until I get some moral support to watch for cable fouling to actually do it.

So I'm planting 100 tulips and 80 crocus until any help shows up.
Sounds better than the one time I did it,it was more of "drop and hope for the best". Never again... once going, it was going.
 
Riding around with mom and dad. I’m going to go crazy if the arguing doesn’t stop. Is it normal for the average American family to not be able to decide where to have dinner? Most people I know plan out meals ahead of time. My vote is eat at home I don’t particularly like eating in restaurants but dad thinks he has to be in a restaurant for every meal. And then you list every restaurant in town to which he replies I don’t want that. I just stay quiet and scream in my mind lol. I’m a picky eater but I’m easy to please too especially if I’m not paying for it lol.

Oh well, aside from that I’m excited about post season baseball. Hate the Padres were eliminated last night and the Tigers today but now I’m rooting Mets and Guardians (formerly Indians). I’m glad I got my antenna set up to be able to watch World Series in my room if pops isn’t home or doesn’t want to watch it.
That is a real sign that you need to strike out on your own

Gonna be Janks v Doggers. Sucks but there it is
 
That is a real sign that you need to strike out on your own

Gonna be Janks v Doggers. Sucks but there it is
I could do fine on my own other than panicking at night time over non sense and having a phobia of driving. I just don’t want to eat alone or live alone. This is why I need a girlfriend plus that could be my new taxi service lol. Now just have to get past the phobia of talking to people lol.
 
Watching Rocky Horror Picture Show. Daughter has not seen yet, but is headed towards dance school next year (college) so we thought it time.
 
Sounds better than the one time I did it,it was more of "drop and hope for the best". Never again... once going, it was going.
I had it down once about 20 years ago. Used a 1/2 ton electric winch but had a bad angle. So once it hit 45* going down it spun the winch reel. Pulling it up once it hit 45* it stopped. Had to use a tractor bucket to get it over the hill.

This time I have two pulleys. But no help showed up yesterday.

Here's the tulips and crocuses though ready for the dirt nap. The ground is so dry here I watered this a couple times and still was dry below 3".


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Riding around with mom and dad. I’m going to go crazy if the arguing doesn’t stop. Is it normal for the average American family to not be able to decide where to have dinner? Most people I know plan out meals ahead of time. My vote is eat at home I don’t particularly like eating in restaurants but dad thinks he has to be in a restaurant for every meal. And then you list every restaurant in town to which he replies I don’t want that. I just stay quiet and scream in my mind lol. I’m a picky eater but I’m easy to please too especially if I’m not paying for it lol.

Oh well, aside from that I’m excited about post season baseball. Hate the Padres were eliminated last night and the Tigers today but now I’m rooting Mets and Guardians (formerly Indians). I’m glad I got my antenna set up to be able to watch World Series in my room if pops isn’t home or doesn’t want to watch it.

I hope your parents can retire someday.
 
I hope your parents can retire someday.
Not anytime soon lol. Dad used all his retirement when he left his job of 16 years. His excuse was simply that he didn’t want to work. He would still be at that job if it wasn’t for a wreck that wasn’t his fault but he never could go back to driving a truck with that company due to their requirements. Then when all that money was gone he realized he had to find a job again.
 
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