Now that the Fed has hiked rates, here’s who will get hit first

(์˜ˆ์ƒ+ํ™•์‹ ์€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ) ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ๋นš๋Œ์ด๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค~ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค~ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค~

Rate Hike

http://a.msn.com/00/en-us/AAoolK5?ocid=se

Fireplace

Thanks to broken furnace, using the fireplace for the first time ๐Ÿ™‚

Furnace๊ฐ€ ๋ง๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋•(?) +์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ์ง‘ ๋•์— ์ด ์ง‘์— ์‚ฐ์ง€ 2๋…„๋ฐ˜๋งŒ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘์—์„œ ํ›ˆํ›ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํƒœ์›Œ๋ณธ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋”ฐ๋•ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹๋„ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํฐ์• ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๋‚ ๊นŒ๋ด ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ถˆ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์“ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํฐ์ƒ์ˆ˜ ํ•œ๋ณ‘ ๋†“๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ”๋‹ค…

2017.3

1040X – attempting to fixing one more things in life..

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1040X – attempting to fixing one more things in life..

One good thing about tax return filing is Turbotax does everything for people and process every possible information to get to the finish line. However, as usual as other services in US :), it never steps up to provide “opinioned” recommendation. – Yes I do miss that thing from years in Seoul – everything is based on “This is better because it does XXX for you” while here it is always “refer to professionals”

During this year’s process, I noticed one of my old tax return was filed on standard deduction instead of itemized deduction at the first year we purchased house. I kind of knew there might be something missing by doing the standard deduction at the time I own a house, but pushed out to “later I will fix it” at then.

So I just decided – as usual things in life – to file 1040X, which I have already filed once back in 8 years ago to amend one interest income -which sent the tax doc after I filed. All in all, spent nice 2-3 hours of reading and following one by oneย in reviewing the contents of 1040X instruction, 1040 instructions (and some instructions on schedule sections). So crossing the fingers that my late comeback argument works!

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์—ฐ๋ง ์ •์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค… ๋ฌผ๋ก  ํšŒ๊ณ„์‚ฌํ•œํ…Œ ๋ˆ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํ• ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์Šค์Šค๋กœย ํ• ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ„ฐ๋ณดํƒ์Šค๋ผ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฑ™๊ธธ๊ฑฐ ๋‹ค ์ฑ™๊ฒจ์ฃผ์ง€๋งŒ – ์—ญ์‹œ๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋งž๋‹ฅ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์„ ํƒ์˜ ์˜ต์…˜์ด ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ – ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ๊ฐœ์ž…๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„  ๋‹ต์„ ์ •ํ•ด์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค…

๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ…ย ๋‚˜๊ฐ™์€ “์ด์ฃผ๋…ธ๋™์ž”๋“ค์ด ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ (๋‚˜๋„ ํ•œ 1-2๋…„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ ์„œ์•ผ ์•Œ์•˜์œผ๋‹ˆ..ใ…Žใ…Ž) ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์›”๊ธ‰์—์„œ ์„ธ๊ธˆ ๋–ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธˆ์•ก๋„ ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์„ค์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค…(๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด๊ฑฐ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ทœ์ •๋„ ์ข€ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ .. ์•”ํŠผ, ์ฃผ์œ„์˜ ์‹ ์ฐธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋“ฃ๋Š” FAQ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” “๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ •๋ง ์„ธ๊ธˆ์ด ๋†’์•„์„œ ์‚ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”” ํ˜น์€ “์—ฐ๋ง์ •์‚ฐํ™˜๊ธ‰๊ธˆ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ๋„ค์š”…” ใ…Žใ…Ž)

2๋…„์ „ ์ง‘์„ ์‚ฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐ”์จ+Itemized๋ฅผ ๋ญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ž˜๋ชจ๋ฆ„+์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ท€์ฐฎ์ด์ฆ˜์œผ๋กœ itemized deduction ๋Œ€์‹ ย ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ system์—์„œ ๊ฐ„๋žตํ•˜๊ฒŒ recoํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ standard๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์˜ฌํ•ด filing์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด์ „๋…„๋„๋“ค์˜ filing record๋ฅผ line by line์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์ง‘์‚ฐ ์ฒซํ•ด์—ย ์ผ์ „์ด๋ผ๋„ ์†ํ•ด๋ดค๋‹ค๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ํŒ ์™€์„œ (์ž‘๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ด itemized๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐฐ์šด์ ๋„ ๋งŽ๊ณ …) 2๋…„์ „ tax filing์„ ๋’ค์ ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์ถœ๋ ฅ+ ๋ช‡์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ •๋…๊ณผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ ํ›„์— 1040X๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.. (์‚ฌ์‹ค 1040X๋Š” ์ด์ „์—๋„ -๋’ค๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ ๋ผ์˜จ ์€ํ–‰ ์ด์ž ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—- ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ•ด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ “๊ณตํฌ”๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ์Œ…ใ…‹ใ…‹)

์ด์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š”… ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์ •๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ค„๊นŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ.. ๐Ÿ™‚

2017.3

Casio Marine Hunter and Little Bunny

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Recently, my parents dug up my old things and brought this from Seoul which reflects my childhood memories…

Surprisingly the old handheld game from sometime around 1984 works perfectly and little bunny which has my memories of preKย atย Madisonย (Wisconsin!!) is still in a decent shape…

์–ผ๋งˆ์ „์— ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ณธ๊ฐ€ย ์ง์ •๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œย ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€๊ธ‰ ์•„์ดํ…œ๋“ค์„ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„ ์•ˆํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.. ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋‚˜ ๊ฒ๋‚˜ ๋Š™์—ˆ๋‹ค!!! ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์นด์‹œ์˜ค ๊ฒŒ์ž„๊ธฐ๋Š” 100% ์ •์ƒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์œ ์น˜์›๋•Œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ ํ† ๋ผ ์ธํ˜•์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋ฉ€์ฉกํ•˜๋‹ค… ํ…

2016.7

 

Berry Picking: Raspberry & Strawberry

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Berry picking at Remingler Farms @Carnation

Picking or eating while picking? ๐Ÿ™‚ Maybe this day will be remembered as the day I had most raspberry in my life..

์ˆ˜๋ ต์ฑ„์ทจ ๋†€์ด… ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์†์— ๋งด๋ˆ ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋Š” “๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ฐญ์—์„œ ๋”ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•˜์–ด…๋”ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€์ข‹์•„์ข‹์•„์ข‹์•„์ข‹์•„์ข‹์•„์ข‹์•„…”

2016.6

 

 

Sagging Gutter & Repair

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Owning a home – to be exact – owning a responsibility to fix a home, taught me one more thing – Gutter can “sag”. All of sudden from some point there were extreme noise of water dropping at the backyard deck so I looked up and found a gap between gutter and roof-end and found out gutter was getting flatter and separating from the roof..ย  another priceless moment ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

After hours of research on web & youtube, finally found the right materials to fix and enjoyed the few hours of climbing up the roof and crawling flat on the roof with drill on one hand outside to plant the fixers. I guess kind of band-aided maybe for 2-3 years, hopefully…

๋ด„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฉด ๋ฑ์— ๋ฏธ์นœ๋“ฏ์ด ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•ด์„œ ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ดค๋”๋‹ˆ ๋ฌผ๋ฐ›์ด๊ฐ€ ํ‹ˆ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ ธ์„œ ์ง€๋ถ•์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฌผ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋ฑ๋„ ๋ง๊ฐ€๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•˜์—ฌ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ๋„ํ•œ DIY…

๋•๋ถ„์— ๋ช‡ ์ฒœ๋ถˆ ์ง€์ถœ์„ delayํ•˜๊ณ  ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋‹จ์–ด ๋ฐฐ์› ๋‹ค.. sagging ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š”๊ตฌ๋‚˜… ํ•œ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋กœ 3์ธต์ฏค ๋˜๋Š” ์ง€๋ถ•์œ„๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ผ ๊ฐ€์„œย ํ›„๋œ๋œ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ๋ฉด์— ๋ฐ”์ง ์—Ž๋“œ๋ ค ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ผ์šดํ›„ ๋Œ€๋กฑ๋Œ€๋กฑย ํ•œ ์†์„ย ๋ป—์–ด ๋“œ๋ฆด์„ ์ฐ”๋Ÿฌ ๋„ฃ์—ˆ๋‹ค…

ํœด… ๋ฌด์„œ์›Œ์„œย ๋‚ด ์ƒ๋ช… ํ›„๋œ๋œ๊ฑฐ๋ ค ๋ช‡๋…„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ๋“ฏ ์‹ถ๊ธดํ•œ๋ฐ… ํ•œ 2-3๋…„ ์ •๋„ gutter ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ์—ฐ์žฅ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋”ํ•  ๋‚˜์œ„ ์—†์ด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค… ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ํ™ˆ๋””ํฌ & ๋กœ์Šค ์Šน…

2016.5

Back to office…

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Finally started to feel like a normal person, after suffering from fevers and coughs for almost 10 days and back inย office in stable way…

๊ทผ ์—ดํ˜๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์—ด๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์นจ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์กฐํ‡ด, ๋ณ‘๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์— ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค… ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋‚ด ์ž๋ฆฌ ํ™˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ย ์ด์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค์‹ถ์–ด ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ฒญ์ •๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋“ค๊ณ …. ๐Ÿ™‚

ํœด~ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ์ ์  ๋А๋ผ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋งŒํผ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ๊ฒŒ ์—†๋‹ค… ์–ด๋ ธ์„๋•Œ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผย ๋ป‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„ํ”„์ง„ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•œ ๋ฒˆย ๋ป—์œผ๋ฉด ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ป—๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋ฅธ์ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ถ๋‹ค… -.-;

2016.5

 

Apple iPhone 6S

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Finally, my paying-attribute-to-wife arrived.

๋‚ด๊ฐ€ย ๊ทธ๋‹ฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”ย ๊ณผ์ผํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์•„์ดํ,ย butย ๊ฐ€์ •์˜ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•ซํ•‘ํฌ์ƒ‰์„ ์กฐ๊ณตํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต์ˆ˜.. ๊ฐ€์ •์˜ ํ‰ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ๊ณผ์ผํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์•„์ด๋„™์ ์ด์— ์ด์— ๋ฒŒ์จ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ๋„ค… ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋‹ค์Œ์—” ์ฒญ๊ณผ์—…์ฒด๊ฑธ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ๊นŒ๋‚˜?

2016.5