Chris's Life

Dinner tonight was a "mixed grill": I had sausage, my father had chicken, and my mother had $20/pound steak with an unusually high grizzle content (or so she claims, I don't have any hard data on the average grizzle content of $20/lb steak). The sausage was interesting as it was very lean.

Normally, high fat foods are though of a bit like calling in sick to work when you want a day off — it tastes great and there's no identifiable way that it's significantly immoral — but somehow it still is thought of a bit like murdering a nun. It's just wrong. So I got a contrast today by having lean sausage, or at least comparatively lean sausage. It was mostly red with the occasional little white bit, which is leaner than most hamburgher meat looks. The curious thing about lean sausage is that, even with barbeque sauce, it's very dry. It was so dry that I ate it with salad to add moisture.

I enjoyed it, but there was definitely something missing. I'm not sure what to make of it, but it certainly reinforces the idea that fat tastes good.

Oh, when my father and I went to get ice cream, I was reminded of how old I'm getting. There were three girls working at the ice cream place, and despite them likely being in late high school, I had a distinct feeling of walking into a room with children. They all look so young. It's really scary. Of course it didn't help that my father and I were talking about the tax benefits of corporations versus LLCs, but even so. Teenagers are not supposed to look young to me.

My first ever post is from my parents house in Suffolk County, LI. The work that they had done on the pool has been finished for a few weeks and looks very nice. I especially like the bull nose edging around the pool.

I was recently reading the book my father borrowed on how to do corporations and LLCs (Limited Liability Companies), and I'm now really interested in forming a corporation to run powerblogs.com, rather than an LLC. In some cases the corporation is cheaper and it offers some tax benefits.

The primary tax benefit of a corp over an LLC seems to be that instead of acting self-employed (and paying all of the tax penalties for that), you can be an employee of the corporation and then your other half of social security, as well as medical benefits, are tax-deductible to the corporation. Basically, it would put running a business on a more even footing with being employed by someone else. Also, if I can grow the powerblogs business, a corporation will scale better to hiring employees and aquiriing investors. I'm going to wait until powerblogs.com generates a net postive cash flow before doing anything, but it's very interesting.

Also, I realized another possible source of revenue — doing installations on corporate intranets. I should price out a reasonable rack-mount server and then set up a price to buy a drop-in solution. That would require a web-based front-end in place, which I haven't written yet, but that shouldn't be hard. Mostly it would just be a wrapper around my account creation script and then creating an account removal script. I need that anyway.

Something worth thinking about, as I understand it some corporations are looking into using blogs on intranets to foster communication. Worth looking into.

Well, going to help my father with some weeding in the flower beds and then go jump in the pool again.