{"id":1742,"date":"2014-04-04T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2014-04-04T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:03:11","slug":"friday-4-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/04\/friday-4-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 4 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:40 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Well, someone just did to me what I sometimes do to other people. I just tried to order, among other things, 300 5\/10\/15X folding pocket magnifiers from one of my regular vendors. As of a week ago they had 2,000 of them in stock, but as of this morning they&#8217;re back-ordered on them. Someone swooped in and ordered all 2,000 of them, and it&#8217;ll be a couple months before the vendor can get another batch from their factory in India. Fortunately, I have enough remaining in stock to hold me for a couple months, I hope. One of my other vendors also carries them, but at more than twice the price.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;m still working on taxes. One bright spot is that North Carolina still has a huge small-business deduction in effect. It goes away starting this year, but for 2013 taxes small businesses can still deduct up to the first $50,000 in profits for an individual or $100,000 for a married couple. In other words, a married couple whose only income is from the business can earn up to $100,000 without having to pay any state income tax. That&#8217;s $100,000 net, not gross. I still can&#8217;t believe this deduction exists, but it does. Alas, it was too good to last. The legislature repealed the deduction for tax years 2014 and after.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Several people have asked if I planned to publish the contents of our vehicle emergency kits. I&#8217;m still working on the list, <del datetime=\"2014-04-04T19:00:10+00:00\">but if people who&#8217;re interested send me their email addresses I&#8217;ll send them a PDF of the list once I&#8217;ve finalized it<\/del>. You can download the current version of the list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/emergency%20kit.pdf\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:40 &#8211; Well, someone just did to me what I sometimes do to other people. I just tried to order, among other things, 300 5\/10\/15X folding pocket magnifiers from one of my regular vendors. As of a week ago they had 2,000 of them in stock, but as of this morning they&#8217;re back-ordered on them. Someone swooped in and ordered all 2,000 of them, and it&#8217;ll be a couple months before the vendor can get another batch from their factory in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/04\/friday-4-april-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 4 April 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}