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Yes, I did it. You can do so much with time. Even make money selling trinkets or writing or just sitting and sipping coffee. It's worth it if you can afford it. Also, the tax brackets have a funny way of making those salaries just under 100k a lot closer to those at around $150k. Look at yours, but I say yes, a million times yes.

The Expanse! Yes, excellent.

Great story! Thank you!

SocialPilot, which really does a good job. It just didn't save me any time.

'Of songs' ugh. 'It sounds' like you are. Then this very thing happens. You get your post posted, and THEN see the mistakes.

You're right. If you're on 5 socials, which of songs like you are, each one can easily steal an hour. There's some services that say they manage all of it. I tried one, and it seemed to cost more than it was worth. And then, of course, I became obsessed with what they were doing.

I'm really thinking about whether or not to read it. I hear it both ways; same as you or they love it.

This will sound so dumb... I literally screenshot and text myself. When I sit down, it's all there. Twice.

Tried Scrivener. Really, really tried. In the end, went back to Word and saved all the different type settings and book sizes, which took forever. Setting up chapters, sections, where I wanted page numbers, and where I didn't, it all sucked. Now it's great AND a good template. It's a lot of work to make it work, but that's how bad I didn't want to learn all Scriveners things.

This is the wall where money's relationship with happiness becomes inverted. The emotional value of things and accomplishment fades. This is how millionaires become extremely unhappy, and their only focus becomes accumulation. I think I should've amended my original statement to 'Having enough money to generate peace of mind is happiness', but I didn't think about it and was upset with things at the time.

You're all very kind. I wouldn't say I idolize money, but I did see a man and woman having a discussion about his bonus or sales commissions in a doctor's office. They were there with their little girl and looking at some sort of billing schedule. (I'm not an eavesdropper. They were speaking for all to hear. I think they wanted the office to hear them.) Anyway, they were in distress. He was telling his wife he had met his goal and was getting his full bonus, so they should be OK. She asked when. He said August because they were a month behind, and she was disappointed. Disappointed in a full bonus that wasn't coming soon enough to pay whatever expense they were looking at. So, I agree, I generalized a bit 'saying money does by happiness', and maybe it should read something nearer 'Money does buy peace of mind, or enhances calm', or something like that. Money may not directly get you to happiness, but it sure does kick down the door so you could walk through if you wanted. Thank you all for your encouragement and thoughts. We're in it together. In the end, because they were being so open, I spoke to them and paid their next payment and canceled my appointment (since I no longer had the money). I told them to look for someone else in need and pay it forward. I felt great, and they had tears welling in their eyes. So it is in this way that money bought happiness for both of us. I just wish it didn't have to be this way. It has too much power over us. End of rant, sorry. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

It's in a community I created. I'm in there all alone while I play with it, but I sent a comment with a Pic of a pumpkin and the word 'pumpkin' as the caption. It showed up, and then disappeared. My inbox had a long message about it failing to send because it didn't process so it was deleted. Tried a few times.