Steph, I am mentally giving you a gif with someone clapping with glee in appreciation of that. I am almost as thrilled as if I had done it myself.

Although also, WTH? Who's writing a medical article for a professional journal and using literally wrong? Heavens above, they're winning this war, aren't they?

Who's writing a medical article for a professional journal and using literally wrong? Heavens above, they're winning this war, aren't they?

It's not a hard data article, like "We studied a cohort of 12,000 patients and literally every one died!" It's a soft article on the history of how a branch of medicine developed. It mentions how an important article was published in 1985, which implied that how patients were being pre-screened for heart surgery was inadequate, and "laboratories were inundated, literally overnight, with patients being referred for preoperative screening prior to noncardiac surgery."

And yet I just don't think it was *literally overnight.* Which night? Citation needed.

I changed it to "laboratories were quickly inundated," and I will push back if the author doesn't like it.

Current plan for the downpayment is borrowing against my 401k. I know it isn't the wisest thing, but I'd rather do that than try to fight for a zero down loan.

There's a lot worse ways to go about it. As long as you stay in your job/plan, the interest on that loan goes to you. You would need to worry if you were planning on changing jobs any time soon though.

Tell them you want to see the FedEx tracking slips.

I am currently fostering some orphaned baby field mice

Just keep them away from Little Bunny Foo-Foo!!!

Why do I have so much work left to do this week?? On the up side (?) I have very few plans this weekend, so could do some of later without too much pain, but still.

Tell them you want to see the FedEx tracking slips.

I don't even want to know how to cite them in the references, though.

Which night? Citation needed.

*snerk*

Just keep them away from Little Bunny Foo-Foo!!!

There will be NO head-bonking of my little orphans!

The first is much simpler, while the second would require a gift letter and could subject you to taxes on the amount above $14,000.

The gift tax is horrendously complicated. I read a lot about it to make sure my mother wouldn't have to pay tax on the money she's been giving me. The person who gives the money, not the recipient, owes the tax. Amounts above $14,000 a year are classified as "taxable" and should be reported on their own special, incomprehensible form. However, and it's a big however, the current lifetime exemption for gifts is $5 million, so the taxable amount only kicks in after someone has given away $5 million. It's a tax designed to keep rich people from using gifts to reduce the estate tax.

Note: I am not an IRS agent. YTaxesMV.

I love it when I can overhear my coworkers on the phone. A lot of our calls are routine, but you know you've got a doozy when the librarian says, "Well ma'am, this is the public library..." (and now, we did not call you this morning to offer you a discount on your electricity bill.)

The best call ever was when my boss said to the caller, "Well, I think manna is a spiritual food, so I can't tell you the nutritional content of it." (Which led to me looking up manna in Wikipedia and discovering there were intellectual debates about whether people who survived on manna pooped or not.)