just realized that, according to my summary page, I have tied my longest consecutive day running streak...at a whopping 37 days! I'm kind of surprised I haven't gone longer than that before.  And, it pales in comparison with some of the streaks others here have had!  But, I'll take it.

 

fyp

But I didn't 

 

might a well just move to the midwest!

Started doing our taxes--the SALT cap (state and local taxes, includes property tax) at $10K kills us here in CA since they changed it last year. Makes me want to move to a different state.

if you are freaking out over 36 degrees, you might want to rethink that

LOL.

She might mean Florida, though...

I have the opportunity to go to a group run this weekend... it starts at 6 AM. It's an hour away. Seems silly when we all know I'm just going to end up being dropped and running alone anyway, though on the plus side, that means I'd get lost and end up with a VERY long run

That would be a big nope for me. IDK why people think they need to start weekend runs at 6 AM. Bad enough mine is at 7, and 25 min away.

When I was running with the Friday AM group (6 AM incidentally), I would sometimes end up alone but it was only 6 miles, so NBD, and the same loop around the lake every time so no getting lost. It was sometimes tough because I had to run a couple miles to get there, so I was already warmed up. So either I’d have to slow down to run with people who will eventually end up at my pace, or run with people who will eventually drop me. Sometimes I’d end up running with one group, then alone, then another group. Anyway for my Saturday group run now, I make sure to find people at the start who plan the same pace & distance, and it’s worked out pretty well so far. I don’t always finish with all the exact same people I started with, but I’m generally not alone. Especially important since it’s a different route every week and I’d likely get lost otherwise.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

Actually, I asked about pace and it's not like they're running super duper fast, I should be able to hang with them. But then again, my long run pace is generally pretty universal and yet I still somehow end up running myself anyway

Are you running with Olympians or something? You are wicked fast. I can't imagine a lot of ordinary people being faster than you.

 

 $10K

 

Yes! Florida is a tax friendly state. Only higher expenses we had there was homeowners insurance and car registration. And property tax % was higher, but housing cost was lower.

I am a bit skeptical of any state that considers itself tax-friendly. I don’t think any one state government is more efficient than another. They will get it from you some way, either from sales, income, or property. I do like that WA has no state income tax, but mainly because it saves me from filing a state tax return. But our sales tax is about 10%. Next door in OR, they brag about having no sales tax, but they get hit in other ways. 

Last year with the tax law changes, I ended up taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing for the first time ever. I guess that’s supposed to make filing taxes easier. But I still had go through the whole itemizing process to figure that out, so it didn’t save me any time.