They've been cracking down on this in Manayunk recently and it's glorious. One guy even complained on our FB group that he got ticketed for parking on the sidewalk because he "didn't know it was illegal" and he "wasn't blocking the road." Bruh you were blocking the sidewalk which is [shocker] NOT FOR CARS.

I also love taking cabs from airports for the exact same reasons. I don't want to mess around requesting and waiting for Uber/Lyft. I literally walk out the door and into a taxi, and am on my way. It's a little more expensive for me in Manayunk, but WELL worth it in times like when I landed the day of the NFC Championship game. Rideshares were surging $80-$90 whereas my cab was my usual $45-$50. Pretty much any airport I fly into, I will use taxis if they are available.

lol some people like/tolerate cold better - I'm one of them. I keep my house at 65 during the day and would actually prefer it a little bit colder, but I have shorthaired dogs that wouldn't enjoy it.

Sign up for the budget billing, called Easy Way. Spreads it out so you don't get hit with giant bills.

My approx 1000SF 1920s rowhome is around $80 per month on budget billing. I keep the therm at 65 during the day and 60 overnight.

Please do not the cat

They used to have pretty decent food, I would get mussels pretty regularly. Last time I was there it seemed all my favorites were no longer on the menu

HH has several different options. I pick the smallest veggie box but there are medium and large sizes as well. Also ones with both fruit and veggies.

Check out Hungry Harvest! I subscribed during covid to cut back on store trips and you get to select your options every box (out of whatever list they have). My mini veggie box is $18 every 2 weeks and it's more than enough for one person. They also have an awesome marketplace for add ons (the pasture eggs I always buy never increased in price with the egg shortage and are way cheaper than the store)

That looks like a fake sign, that's not what the official ones look like

lol yeah it also stressed me out not having anything to go along with the money I was sending. Just here ya go, here's a few thousand bucks hope it's what I owe. But at least now my new job is taking it out so I won't have to worry about it in future years. My old job couldn't even get me in the right state, I wasn't going to attempt to have them add the city tax on too lol

The whole quarterly payment thing is insane to me - you basically just blindly send the city money without filing anything at all. Then come tax season is when you actually figure out if you overpaid or underpaid. I switched jobs last year and Job 1 was NOT taking the money out, but then Job 2 was. so I had half a year I had to figure out lol

I actually just had this done literally yesterday lol by a local company. They figured out all the paperwork for me, but I still have to file it through the Philadelphia Tax Center website (or I can mail it). I'm not sure if I can just upload the paperwork or if I have to fill it out line by line but I have to do it (not the tax preparer).

As others noted, you'll want to double check first that your employer wasn't taking the wage tax out. If they did, you don't need to do anything. If they didn't, then yes you need to file.

Back atcha! We'll have to grab a drink sometime soon!

Fellow DCF fan!! I bought my house through him, he's so fantastic!

The old Italian restaurant in Manayunk, Il Tartufo, I'm convinced was some kind of money laundering or drug front. I ate there one time to scope it out and it was the oddest experience and only further convinced me. They're closed now though

There was a sink hole on my neighbor's street and it took us constantly reporting it for 3 or 4 months for them to even come out and look at it

They're SUPER fast! They beat me to my house in Manayunk from DC lol

Mambo is an awesome local company, used them about a year ago and they were great

Summoning our resident fairygodrealtor u/decentchinesefood

Top right corner of this image is Regional Rail

They're in the same building, you just walk inside around the corner - takes 2min

Martin's is the BEST

I mean, that's what happens for ANY budget billing. You don't get to not pay what you owe, it's just spread out to lessen the blow.

LOL I'm going by myself so no drama expected this time

Phew 2023 already, how the heck did that happen? Hmm what can I report for 2023?

Starting with a weeklong cleanse, then back to keto. I was doing this in the fall and then work blew up and I had to travel all over the place and said to hell with it, I'll get a fresh start in the new year. I was ordering out WAY too much so need to get back to a routine for my sanity.

Upcoming trips! Going back to New Orleans at the end of the month for my cousin's wedding - staying walking distance to Frenchmen and plan on hanging out there and going back to Magazine St during my free time. Will take the list we had back in the summer and knock a few more off it. Then a string of work trips Feb/March - DC, Indianapolis, and a conference. Want to plan a personal DC trip in March/April probably just a long weekend to see my friends and hit some museums (Air and Space has reopened!). The big one is Germany at the end of May/beg of June - friends moved to Kaiserslautern so I'm planning about 10 days out there (free tix thanks to airline miles ftw) and will also do a side trip to Paris maybe. More stuff the second half of the year I'm sure and also expect random work trips to pop up as well, but at least I'm covered for the next 6 months lol.