There’s no way I could possibly carry out these complicated processes first thing in the morning until I’ve had my cup of coffee.

Great, so you’ll easily be able to afford the extra $50/month for unlimited! Thanks for the tip!

The windchime restriction by itself would make me run away.

It is included in the total, but it’s broken out and listed separately in the bill. Verizon could just include the $4 or whatever in your base fee, like they do for all the other channels, but they don’t. It’s separate so that:

Good stuff. As I always say, it’s a lifestyle choice, not a financial one. I like having my own property, making my own decisions, not having to deal with landlords, etc. But I certainly understand the decision to rent, if you don’t want the responsibility of owning and don’t really care about all the things I see as…

Yes. But remember that it’s not really an extra fee - it’s only a breakout of an amount that they would normally just include in your monthly fee. By breaking it out like this they tell customers exactly how much they’re paying extra for the sports networks, which they might not want, but are being forced (by the…

I think we are saying the same thing. The sports network’s contract with the provider forces the provider to offer it to everybody (maybe everybody with a certain level of service). The networks are popular enough that they have the leverage to do this. So Verizon has to include the network’s fee in everybody’s bill.…

You can blame the Regional Sports Network for that, they refuse to allow Verizon to price their channel ala carte, because it would be much more expensive. And the channel is too popular for Verizon to leave it out. They break it out like this so that everybody knows that the network is forcing them to do this.

FIOS here. Love it.

It’s a cardinal number, not an ordinal.

Is this like a reverse glory hole?

You can always identify Hebrew from the fact that there are no vowels.

DFW’s definition of addiction: When you view the substance you’re addicted to as the solution to the very problems it is causing.

#9. Follow up on commitments you make. Show up when you say you’ll show up.

Thanks, you're correct. My main point is that these posts underemphasize the impact of the marriage penalty, implying that it only has an effect in unusual circumstances. Which is wrong.

You’re wrong. My wife and I pay almost $5k more than we’d pay in total if we weren’t married. You’re only looking at the personal exemption, not the brackets.

Who books over the phone anymore?

Why does it need to be a carousel microwave oven?

I need the opposite - something that will mute ALL other sounds while iTunes is playing.

TL;DR: be a grownup