ArcticLlama

01/15/2025

Here comes the all new and/or updated tax content for 2024. Yipee ki yay!

The standard deduction 2024 amount has been set by the IRS. This year, there is an increase in the deduction amount for all taxpayers.

09/15/2024

When you ramble too long on Twitter, you make it a post. When you write something that doesn't really fit on any of your current projects you put it on Medium, or something like that. -- This is getting started on becoming an Aurora Hunter, seeing the northern lights with the disadvantage of being from the southern suburbs of Denver.

The northern lights has been a bucket list thing of mine for years. My best chance to see it (everyone’s best chance in decades) without…

09/04/2024

A little bit of quick hit writing over at Finance Gourmet. Time for a power run into the end of the year.

The main credit unions in Colorado have left behind the days where marketing meant sitting there, serving your customers well, have lower fees, and higher

07/07/2024

Been looking at switching cell phone companies. Sat down to write about it, "real quick." 2500 words and an hour later, I made this. https://undefeateddaddy.com/save-money/family-cell-phone-plans/

07/06/2024

I stopped building on Facebook much because my kids made fun of me. It's weird. Decades of not giving a damn about peer pressure and I end up caving to 8-year-olds that I made.

Anyway, I'll be building everything back up. If you need me, I'm always at arcticllama.com, plus all of these places https://tr.ee/g7wiN5a-Zw

I'm one with the force, the force is with me. Non-stop 80s & 90s movie quotes.

06/02/2024

I wrote about my new electric car on Medium. (It didn't really fit on any of my current projects.)

I bought a new car.

05/27/2024

A new one over at Finance Gourmet, which is slowly updating to sound more like its name, where the articles are recipes for various financial situations.

Inheriting a house can be an emotional experience, but it doesn't have to be a financial problem. Use this inheriting a house recipe.

03/13/2024

I just tried to use "holler" in a message and now I'm questioning all of my life choices. - The good news is that it really is a word, and it really does mean what I think it does (give a shout). The bad news is that it does not mean a hole or depression in the ground.

(I asked AI to make an image of a man hollering at a man standing in a hollow. - still a way to go before it locks me out of the pod bay doors.)

03/13/2024

As a freelancer you probably have more than a few bank accounts. Be sure that each one has its own password (get a password manager) and never give anyone the four-digit (six-digit?) code that they text you for verification, not even employees.

Don't ever give anyone the 4-digit (or more) code that they text you when you log into your account, ESPECIALLY if they say they are from your bank or credit union. When they say they will never ask for that code, they mean they will never ask for that code. If someone does ask for that code, hang up immediately and change your passwords. If you have to enter it wrong three times and lock your account.

02/10/2023

Writing about Bitcoin? Here are the AP Stylebook rules to using words like Bitcoin, blockchain, Ethereum, and altcoin, all in one place.

Cryptocurrency AP Style February 10, 2023 by Brian Nelson How to use cryptocurrency AP Style rules: If you have written much about tech in the last couple of years, you know that the vocabulary moves fast, and the lingo even faster. For those of us old enough to have owned a print copy of the AP Sty...

01/06/2023

Yes. It is too good to be true. Money you get from Patreon counts as income, no matter who many times they put the word donation on their website.

Are payments from Patreon taxable? If so, what are Patreon taxes? The question comes down to the turn of single word. Are they gifts?

01/04/2023

Our jobs are next. Sort of...

Will AI Replace writers?

10/23/2022

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10/23/2022

5:55 am takeoff. Disapproving looks of children is the only reason I’m not taking advantage of Travel Rule #2: Day drinking in the airport is totally fine.

10/14/2022

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10/13/2022

Need some AP Style tips for writing about the Federal Reserve and interest rates?

How to write Federal Reserve and interest rate stories in AP Style. Notes on how to write Federal Reserve AP Style.