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For our second attendance and participation posting, I have to choose one of the following prompts and do a 150 - 300 word response... Trying to decided which one I want to do. How are budgets created and used? What success have you had with creating and using a personal budget? What are two cash management products or services offered by financial institutions? Provide a short description of each. According to the "Interactive Figure 3.2: Liquid Assets" in this week's Learning Path, what are some examples of liquid assets? How are liquid assets different from fixed assets? Why is it important to have liquid assets? Some individuals prefer to have their employers withhold more money than they will owe so they can get big refund checks in April or May. Others prefer to minimize withholdings, so they can either spend the money throughout the year or put it into a retirement or other savings account. Which strategy do you think is better? Explain why.

Another great chapter, tim.

Off to do school stuffengens.

It is. Last year, the NHL All-Stars Weekend was the same Weekend as the Pirate Fest. The Pirates stole the Stanley Cup and kidnapped its handler. This year, because we have the 2-year-old, and it's too cold to take him out to be along the water, we'll be watching it on the TV 2:30 pm is the Parade and Mario Lopez is the Grand Marshal this year.

You see the notorious pirate king Jose Gaspar plundered the Spanish Fleet and used Tampa as his port of call. He died taking his secret to the grave of where his buried treasure is out. Then in 1904, the YE Mystique Krew of Gasparilla started to invade the city of Tampa, forcing the mayor to turn over the key to the city and look for the plundered booty. Every year since they have come, but instead of looking for treasure, they throw beaded necklaces, gold coins, and other things to the crowd along Bayshore Blvd.

Nothing like the sound of cannon fire in the morning. The Pirates have arrived! The clouds of burning cordite and black powder will be floating by soon.

Yes. I talk to you. LOL. I find talking it over with someone that can slap me upside the head is a good way to get out of them.

Later as well.

Back later... off to drink some nice wine, and chill for a bit.

Interesting prompts this week. 729 reminds me of my series.

I just got back. It was a very welcomed experience. Spent about an hour there. Hope everyone is doing Okay.

Hey everyone, I posted something inappropriate earlier, and I apologize for it. It has been deleted. A personal apology to tim and to Mike, for posting that here.

It took me a couple of times reading this for me to come up with an adequate response. To start off, there was a lot of imagery in this piece that I found excellently told. The rhyming sounded spot on to me, and it flowed well from start to finish. I couldn't help but to make a connection to one of my favorite poems by Dylan Thomas - Don't Go Gentle Into That Good Night. While Dylan's is more about raging at the end of your days; yours made me think of someone who's accepted it's his end. Not only acceptance but flowing through the good memories he's made over the years. Spectacular job, my Brother.

True. It was meant more of a joke.

Fly-by hello. School going well, just been Hell the past couple of days. Even though I went to the fitness center yesterday, I may end up back there again today. It's great stress relief. Later Tatters.

It's a very good series. I highly recommend it.

Welcome to the DiC!

Thanks, everyone. Our professor suggested it for not only the rest of this class but our future accounting classes as well. To quote her, "Knowing the equations are nice, but being able to do the equations quickly when you have clients in the professional world, is more important."

It's somewhere between watching flies fuck and watching paint dry. On the positive side of things, once all this is done, and I have my C.P.A. cert/Lisc. I'll know how to game the system legally.

Also, if anyone has a suggestion on a good Financial Calculator, I'd be much obliged to hear that advice.

Just a Fly-by to say Hi. This week's focus in my Accounting/Math class... Introduction to the US Federal Tax Code.

Thank you very much, Marty, for reading and the comment. It was a difficult topic, had to stop and walk away a few times from being pissed off. I appreciate the compliment, thank you again.

Thank you very much, mfa607, for reading and the comment. It was a hard short to write as well. I see Eric being on the path.

Sleep Well, my Brother

Not to sound flippant, but the answer to how long a chapter needs to be? Is as long as it needs to be. Some chapters can be as small as 500 - 900 words, or as large as 10,000. It all depends on your story and the motivation/reason to write it. Some chapters may be longer than others. I'll echo my colleague above, 4000 - 5000 words is a good place to be in for online postings. If you find your chapter is getting a little long for you, find a breakpoint, and split them it into two, three, four, etc. parts.