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So are you not full time staff? Did I miss that?Abraham said:My business that is surviving by the thinnest of hairs is getting a reorder of the low six figure job we are finishing up now. Strangely, we will probably gross 3x this year as last even though our full time staff has gone from 5 to 0. Anyway. So
I have a full time job at an IT company. I also blog. And I run my semiconductor Bisibess.So are you not full time staff? Did I miss that?Abraham said:My business that is surviving by the thinnest of hairs is getting a reorder of the low six figure job we are finishing up now. Strangely, we will probably gross 3x this year as last even though our full time staff has gone from 5 to 0. Anyway. So
Really all we gave him was a copy of an email saying we didn't NEED that info for 2011, but you are 100% correct. Big failing on our part. We called our accountant right away, but couldn't get him. Guy produced a business card and a badge....do IRS officers even have badges? I think we just wanted him gone.Henry Ford said:
Oh yeah. Forgot about the semiconductor bidness.I have a full time job at an IT company. I also blog. And I run my semiconductor Bisibess.So are you not full time staff? Did I miss that?Abraham said:My business that is surviving by the thinnest of hairs is getting a reorder of the low six figure job we are finishing up now. Strangely, we will probably gross 3x this year as last even though our full time staff has gone from 5 to 0. Anyway. So
They do have badges, my dad was an agent. They generally don't show up unannounced unless they are bringing the guys with the shotguns with them and are there to take your #### though.
He blogs.So are you not full time staff? Did I miss that?Abraham said:My business that is surviving by the thinnest of hairs is getting a reorder of the low six figure job we are finishing up now. Strangely, we will probably gross 3x this year as last even though our full time staff has gone from 5 to 0. Anyway. So
That's your pet name for bentley, isn't it? NTTAWWT
RAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!That's your pet name for bentley, isn't it? NTTAWWT
I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me. The Shark vs. gets me every time.
Totally firing this up with Mrs O this weekend for date night. Looks awesome.
:( Sorry to hear. #1 has been a dream for us (though, admittedly, I'm up with her now), but we've got #2 coming in August and a fussy baby who doesn't sleep through the night is a nightmare of mine.Newbornwatch sucks. I frankly don't get the fascination with babies. They are just a whole lot of noise and work with little payoff. My 3 year old is literally my favorite person on the planet, don't get me wrong, but if there were a service where I could just ship them off when they're born and welcome them back to a huge first birthday party, that would be ok in my book. I'm certain it wouldn't fly with Mrs. O anyway...
I for some reason volunteered for the nightly 3am feeding slot after Mrs. O was sleep deprived and sort of losing her #### with a baby who cries A LOT. Which of course ends up involving a lot more than just feeding, because the burping makes a spit up mess and she ends up crapping on me and so I have to open up the mummy wrap my wife has her in (seriously includes boots and gloves, she's got more gear than that moon man carrying the MTV flag), change the diaper, change all the wet clothes, reconstruct the moon man costume (which I never get right), and all the while she's teetering on the brink of meltdown and endangering the toddler's sleep and my wife's. I then finally get it together and bring her back in the room and I have no idea where the pacifiers are hidden (hint: NOT somewhere sensible like oh say the nursery), so now she's screaming again and I'm fumbling around in the dark without my contacts in looking for these stupid things and it turns out a whole lot like an Easter egg hunt because Mrs. O wakes and tells me to go to the kitchen to find one, and it's in the kitchen alright, so long as I would have thought to look in the cabinet, in a plastic bucket, underneath a bunch of bottles and caps, to find exactly one (1) clear colored rubber pacifier (with all the crap we buy in this house, we really can't spend the $3.99 for say buy oh I don't know I've more package of these things?). Except I don't have xray vision and so I dont find it and instead start turning on all the lights and wandering the house like I'm trying to find a jumbo jet in the Indian ocean until Mrs. O comes down to show me the really sensible place where we keep our one (1) pacifier, and now everyone is fully awake and fully annoyed and the baby is in fit mode which I'm left to tend to since it's my shift. And as such what should be a 15 minute feeding process turns into a 3-5am block of time, the conclusion of which leaves me wide awake and wondering if it's really worth trying to go back to sleep for one hour. Of course 5 hours a night when you have to go through a miserable commute to a job with miserable people every day is not sustainable over a prolonged period.
T&P ammiright??
So now everyone else is sleeping peacefully but me. #### it, I'm going on Amazon to re-up my Prime for 99 bucks (they could have charged me double) and order a pallet of pacifiers.
If there's one thing you can count on here, it's solid advice on pharmaceutical consumption.
I have 3 kids and when we move, I am sure to find some massive store of pacifiers somewhere in my house. Over the last ~8 years, I have bought hundreds of those things, only to have them vanish into thin air within the first 48 hours.Newbornwatch sucks. I frankly don't get the fascination with babies. They are just a whole lot of noise and work with little payoff. My 3 year old is literally my favorite person on the planet, don't get me wrong, but if there were a service where I could just ship them off when they're born and welcome them back to a huge first birthday party, that would be ok in my book. I'm certain it wouldn't fly with Mrs. O anyway...
I for some reason volunteered for the nightly 3am feeding slot after Mrs. O was sleep deprived and sort of losing her #### with a baby who cries A LOT. Which of course ends up involving a lot more than just feeding, because the burping makes a spit up mess and she ends up crapping on me and so I have to open up the mummy wrap my wife has her in (seriously includes boots and gloves, she's got more gear than that moon man carrying the MTV flag), change the diaper, change all the wet clothes, reconstruct the moon man costume (which I never get right), and all the while she's teetering on the brink of meltdown and endangering the toddler's sleep and my wife's. I then finally get it together and bring her back in the room and I have no idea where the pacifiers are hidden (hint: NOT somewhere sensible like oh say the nursery), so now she's screaming again and I'm fumbling around in the dark without my contacts in looking for these stupid things and it turns out a whole lot like an Easter egg hunt because Mrs. O wakes and tells me to go to the kitchen to find one, and it's in the kitchen alright, so long as I would have thought to look in the cabinet, in a plastic bucket, underneath a bunch of bottles and caps, to find exactly one (1) clear colored rubber pacifier (with all the crap we buy in this house, we really can't spend the $3.99 for say buy oh I don't know I've more package of these things?). Except I don't have xray vision and so I dont find it and instead start turning on all the lights and wandering the house like I'm trying to find a jumbo jet in the Indian ocean until Mrs. O comes down to show me the really sensible place where we keep our one (1) pacifier, and now everyone is fully awake and fully annoyed and the baby is in fit mode which I'm left to tend to since it's my shift. And as such what should be a 15 minute feeding process turns into a 3-5am block of time, the conclusion of which leaves me wide awake and wondering if it's really worth trying to go back to sleep for one hour. Of course 5 hours a night when you have to go through a miserable commute to a job with miserable people every day is not sustainable over a prolonged period.
T&P ammiright??
So now everyone else is sleeping peacefully but me. #### it, I'm going on Amazon to re-up my Prime for 99 bucks (they could have charged me double) and order a pallet of pacifiers.
1. You poor dumb *******Newbornwatch sucks. I frankly don't get the fascination with babies. They are just a whole lot of noise and work with little payoff. My 3 year old is literally my favorite person on the planet, don't get me wrong, but if there were a service where I could just ship them off when they're born and welcome them back to a huge first birthday party, that would be ok in my book. I'm certain it wouldn't fly with Mrs. O anyway...
I tried it last night and got like 6 minutes into American Hustle and then it wouldn't stop trying to buffer. Ended up watching Goon on Netflix instead.
Amen, brother.1. You poor dumb bastard2. Remember, that newborn is yours and special but it's still a human being - we all have bad days and good, we all get moody, we all can be #######s. We all go through phases in life. A colicky baby (not saying yours is one) is probably one of the hardest things to deal with - let this teach you to be patient.Newbornwatch sucks. I frankly don't get the fascination with babies. They are just a whole lot of noise and work with little payoff. My 3 year old is literally my favorite person on the planet, don't get me wrong, but if there were a service where I could just ship them off when they're born and welcome them back to a huge first birthday party, that would be ok in my book. I'm certain it wouldn't fly with Mrs. O anyway...
3. You poor dumb *******.
Everyone keeps telling us that having an easy first baby is "God's cruelest gift" because you get into the exact mindset you've laid out here. And then when you decide to have another because you know it will be a breeze, BOOM. So not only are we expecting a colicky baby, we decided to have ours 13.5 months apart to up the ante a little.
I'm already tired because my wife gets up every 2 hours to pee and then plops back into bed and takes 10 minutes to get comfortable again. It's going to be a long 18+ years.
Yeah, you're screwed. There's always a light sleeper and a deeper sleeper. If you're waking up because she has to pee, congrats, you're the light sleeper. That also means you'll be the one getting up the most often in the middle of the night for the next 3 years.
