This is a test post, following some troubleshooting of broken post and category permalinks. Turned out to be transient, I hope, since i have no idea when the problem started.
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Month: November 2009
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Sometime In October…
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New Allergy?
I have reason to believe that we can add macadamia nuts to Henry’s list of allergies. And that it’s at least as bad as any of the others. I’ll try to have them add it to the battery of tests when he goes for his yearly retest in February.
To review, the official ones that are “oral allergy syndrome” are:
Dairy
Eggs
Peanuts
The one that tests fine for OAS but provokes a strong reaction in keeping with a crossover with latex allergy (of which he’s shown little sign) is:
Banana
He seems to have outgrown, or mostly so, a sensitivity to salicylates and azo dyes, degree of which depended on which color, and to some component of screen printing ink on contact with it.
One problem we’ve had lately is exactly this dead zone, which you can see as a sharp drop in the 30s before the steadier line upward. You have to click the chart to see a bigger version.
And basically if I do anything other than what I am now and/or work at home/online work as allowed, we then run into daycare issues. If I were on my own, I’d keep what I have for security and bootstrap from it. A part time other job even if I could get nothing full time. Return to being available for unpredictable side computer/support or other gigs. Use any spare time for building more passive but by no means self-constructing income streams. Six months and I could probably be back to “real money” without even relying on a single “full time” thing.
Right now our net effective income is actually down because our income went up, but not enough. A full time job roughly opposite the other full time job would net less than I do now up to hourly rates that start to approach those of a “real job.” It’s a conundrum.
The good thing is the kids are becoming more self-contained, so I’m starting to see clear to being able to do some of the passive side stream and work from home stuff without having to leave for on-site/emergency work of the sort I used to do. Just trying to work out a system where that is organized and balanced against housework…
Update:
This is the source and has more, and a second, more impressive chart of how implicit marginal tax rates fluctuate.
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Happy Mid-Life
If it’s not 35, then when is it?
Happy birthday to Deb.
Cake tomorrow, maybe. It’ll be cold, so baking is good, and the kids will be happy. She works late today and goes out after, thus not today. Though baking would be good today, too, before I freeze. Which I’d probably be feeling less like doing if I weren’t sick, but hey.