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Woah! I was looking at my older posts and decided to go on over to typingtest to see how fast my encoding speed has improved. And I scored 58 WPM (gross was 59 WPM), yay! Last month I was at 53 WPM so that's good. I guess I'm pretty comfy today so I typed faster. lol! My goal is to type 60 WPM. And now to the weather -- it's so HOT today! I'm getting a cough from the heat. I've recently received a request to adjust the tax report format (which I've been using for the past five years!) for my bookkeeping client. Their tax people wanted to have the column name "Expense" changed to "Net". All right. Oh, and they wanted to have the "Net" column moved beside the "Amount" column and the "Tax" column moved after the "Net" column. Okay. I suppose they'll want to have the "Amount" column changed to "Gross" too but they didn't say anything about that. Therefore, I'd take the liber

This was actually pork nilaga that was left over from lunch today. We got home at around 8 o'clock tonight so we were too hungry to cook something else. This turned out fine because heating it up again made it more... savory. Looking at this picture, you'd think that it would need soy sauce (toyo) or fish sauce (patis). On the contrary, it didn't need any of those because it tasted... well seasoned. Sometimes, reheated food tastes so much better than newly-cooked ones. Like this boiled pork over here and... lechon paksiw, adobo, menudo, morcon, lengua, et cetera. Wow, sounds like fiesta food! lol! Anyway, I saw like four Mini Stop stores in the city tonight. I've got to buy something good at a Mini Stop so that I can erase their bad fried dumplings from my head. It's just that each time I saw a Mini Stop tonight, I was remembering the bad-tasting fried siomai that I had yesterday. Blech!

We had dinner of fried chicken (again) tonight and some fried dumplings (siomai) they bought from a Mini-Stop that just opened around here. The siomai were... ewww. lol! I didn't like it one bit. Usually it'd take me two or three bites of whole siomai before I get sick of dumplings - it's just like maki where the first bites are always amazing but you get sick of it quite quickly - but these dumpling from the Mini-Stop tasted very much like uncooked flour and MSG (vetsin). Me not likey. We had fried tilapia and veggies for lunch today. That was a good combination though I mostly ate the sauted mackarel with shallots that was left over from this morning. Unfortunately, we didn't have an amazing cold radish salad that would've gone well with our fried tilapia. This amazing radish salad goes well with any fried or grilled fish kasi. This cold radish salad is a made with grated radish, thinly sliced small white onion and a thinly sliced tomato. What makes this cold sala

When you're doing online WAH jobs, a lot of challenges pop up. For one, you rely on your pc. Two, you rely on your ISP. Three, you've got to have reliable clients. Four, you can't afford blackouts (or brownouts, as it's popularly called in the Philippines). And five... I can't think of a fifth one right now... Oh, I'm going to call this fifth one "unpredictables". lol! That would cover it. The machine that I have now is working well. I've no complaints. Now, the ISP.... hmmm, there was this one time when some underwater cables or pipes were damaged during an earthquake last year. That was a really inconvenient. Now, you got to have dependable clients. As you can see here , not all 'big-time and they have a cool website' organizations are reliable. I am so lucky to have a dependable writing affiliate and transcribing affiliate right now. And I also have an accounting job that doesn't entirely rely on the Web except for sending emails and