KittenBiscuits

I truly appreciate devotion to authenticity.

Small technical correction:

To DEcrease withholdings (the dollars shown on the Fed line of your paystub)

One must INcrease exemptions claimed on Form W-4

But the rest is correct. If you underwithhold/underpay you risk penalties come April.

However, if you try to claim so many exemptions as to get to zero federal withholdings, employers are required to second-guess you and make you document the exemptions you are claiming (not all will do this but they're required to nonetheless). But if you go to very little federal withholding, just not zero, employers generally don't give a shit and will just make the payroll adjustments accordingly.

I just boarded a flight and had a moment where I hoped you were also not at my gate!!

I guess if you have to sit on the street overnight, sitting with a whole group of martial artists is the universe's way of recognizing that it did you dirty and it's sorry.

Yeah me too but such is not always possible in some cities. Or for some budgets.

When they close the office for the night. I've run across this with small hotels, b&bs. But sometimes they also can make arrangements if I tell them I am arriving late. Always ask!

Oh lawd Jesus, this probably is the future.

It doesn't. The naming and shaming is claimed to be a deterrent. But the juicy gossip is too loved by the law-abiding folk for the elected Sheriff to consider not doing it.

🎶 We'll. Make. Great pets!
We'll make great pets! 🎶

They were always going to be permanent additions. We have enough room that H.S. could live on another floor. I wouldn't have put her in that situation if we were in a condo. She wasn't restricted; she had free rein of the whole house; the kittens were cloistered to the upstairs via baby gate. And while they were kittens and rambunctious, they were getting put to bed in their own bedroom, not allowed to sleep with us. I.e. the calico would take advantage of that and get her snuggles in at night (as well as on & off throughout the day as we both WFH).

We did become their fosters when they got unfortunately early weaned, as we had put in adoption applications on them when they were 2 weeks. We got them at 5 weeks. I fed them a wet food/formula slurry and monitored their weights, got them that stuffed cat surrogate that has a heartbeat, etc. And basically I hedged and adopted 2 instead of only 1 in case the calico didnt like them, they would have each other.

Wait are you coming from PA or DE? Because the Maryland roads near Virginia are god awful. And I mean the little roads as well as the Maryland half of the beltway that seems to always be under construction.