Also like Ken - he’s completely smooth...down there.

Totally agree - I don’t think that show does it on purpose but it happens enough on their shows that I would think they’d have learned their lesson by now. There are many shows on HGTV that are unwatchable because of the reason you stated. I find that I just don’t have time to watch TV anymore, especially these home…

Basically everything that costs more than about $50,000 can, and may need to, be depreciated. If it cost $700 million to build and it’s on a 30 year schedule, that lands right at $23 million a year.

It’s not cash-out-the-door but it is something you have to claim as an expense on your filings as you depreciate those assets.

Those are valuable numbers, but for perspective sake this museum is new and very much of their dollars are in amortization. As a poster put up above, they have $20+million hitting that on a yearly basis. That’s about a third of their operating costs. You take that out and they are running on about $50 million.

The construction is a capital expense and has an amortization schedule. Everything that has to be capitalized, and much of it HAS to be due to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), has an amortization schedule. Software is usually a five year schedule, computer hardware is often three years, physical…

I’m not sure that article ‘completely dismantles’ anything. It’s a good article and it is valuable to temper any fanatical new movement with a dose of reality and perspective.

The pre-inspection and changing your mind are critical. How many times on even home improvement shows do they plan out some grand design only to open the wall up and find a sewer vent or duct work (I’m looking squarely in your guy-liner-ed eyes, Property Brothers)? It makes me crazy to see this happen.

I’d rather see them with foam filled tires. Twheels can have issues with mud/marshes that limit durability and travel. I to like twheels and want to see them everywhere, though.

Wow - $40k drag car. Flame paint job. Drag slicks. AND A HANDICAP TAG!

Where’s my LeBatard style *You Don’t Get the Show* sounder when I need it.

This would never have been allowed if Goose Gossage was still alive...

I think the biggest thing for me was to not expect too much. Don’t expect a hugely insightful speech from the speaker. Don’t expect the words of the Dean/President/Regent to move you at all. Don’t even expect them to pronounce your name correctly if you have one of those where they actually read your name and hand you…

Two words - Gold Bond. Early and Often especially if there is humidity in the area.

I’d let it happen. Sometimes there’s nothing more entertaining than sitting there and watching someone dig their own grave verbally.

That popping noise you heard was Gossage’s fatal aneurysm popping in his temple.

Kansas checking in here - no idea why I see Salt Life stickers in my state. We are literally 11 hours from any body of saltwater. SMDH.

I use lots of sanding sponges. they keep you from pressing too hard and they help wrap around the high edges of what you’re trying to knock down. Depending on what you’re doing and the nature of the door you should be very careful how you sand, though. If you want to post pictures I can give you hints and tips as I’m…

‘Fun at Parties’?

So very much this, Geoff. We have a Maltese. She’s old (13), crabby, has to take heart medicine, has an eye thing that makes her face look like she’s dipped it in roofing tar when it acts up. She’s had her knee worked on (luxating patella) and doesn’t get around well. She was 10 when we had our son, so she was already…