You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

There's a station in the TD Core parkade that does a similar concept, but does it for free...

Some of us uhh... used to go there with empty containers and fill those up along with the vehicle washer fluid. For the price of parking, you could get a ton of washer fluid. During the pandemic, I think I could get in there for free at times and top up.

I think they shut it down at some point. Not sure if that station is back up and running yet.

Hrmmmmm....hrmmmmm.....


This is why we can't have nice things.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Oh god, I empathize. You use Locke?

No, it was a professional audit - Global Institute of Internal Auditors. They go through all your claimed CPE. I passed the audit and knew I would, but the system for declaring and providing evidence was painful to use.

It wasn’t helped by me needing to search for all my CPE certificates.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

No, it was a professional audit - Global Institute of Internal Auditors. They go through all your claimed CPE. I passed the audit and knew I would, but the system for declaring and providing evidence was painful to use.

It wasn’t helped by me needing to search for all my CPE certificates.

If it’s like when I was, prepare to be audited again the next two years.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Hrmmmmm....hrmmmmm.....


This is why we can't have nice things.

IIRC, they never shut it down for cost. They shut it down because of covid pandemic surface reasons, and then in other instances, the machine nozzle actually would break.

Based on the links and recipes from earlier, it's basically just water with a few hundred bucks worth of additives a month. Nothing to even sweat about.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

No, it was a professional audit - Global Institute of Internal Auditors. They go through all your claimed CPE. I passed the audit and knew I would, but the system for declaring and providing evidence was painful to use.

It wasn’t helped by me needing to search for all my CPE certificates.

I know for CPA, you are allowed X amount of "unverified" CPD hours and you require X amount of verified hours.

Verified hours are courses provided by someone verified by the CPA and they will send you a certificate of verified hours via PDF, but it's up to you to save the schedule in case CPA wants the topic break down on CPD. Certain topics like "ethics" cannot be accumulated in manners other than verified hours. I just put together a folder in Dropbox separated by year with the certificates and course schedules in case I ever need them. That way I can access from different computers easily if I ever need it.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

If it’s like when I was, prepare to be audited again the next two years.

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[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I know for CPA, you are allowed X amount of "unverified" CPD hours and you require X amount of verified hours.

Verified hours are courses provided by someone verified by the CPA and they will send you a certificate of verified hours via PDF, but it's up to you to save the schedule in case CPA wants the topic break down on CPD. Certain topics like "ethics" cannot be accumulated in manners other than verified hours. I just put together a folder in Dropbox separated by year with the certificates and course schedules in case I ever need them. That way I can access from different computers easily if I ever need it.

The first thing I had evidence for was the two credits needed for ethics.

I’m definitely going to be more diligent about organising my CPE in future - there were occasions where I didn’t even request the certificates for online CPE because it was something I’d get round to.

But as everyone know, you never get around to this until you’re forced to.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

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Yeah… and I was a student. Making dog #### yearly income. Over a discrepancy that was less than $150 (in claim amount, not rebate).

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Yeah… and I was a student. Making dog #### yearly income. Over a discrepancy that was less than $150 (in claim amount, not rebate).

I think Barnet was walking about professional upkeep hours to a regulatory body, not personal tax audit.

But what you're saying sounds like an information request and not an actual personal tax audit. The difference is that a request for information is kinda like an entry level course where the prof goes, "This is what you stated, please show your work." A full blown audit is, "We are pretty sure you're wrong. Prove otherwise."

If there are discrepancies on your T2202 vs what is registered on the MyCRA portal, I think it's closer to a request for information, no? Either way, they're still a pain to meander through.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

how much washer fluid do you guys go thru?? i might fill the reservoir in my truck once every two years.
which reminds me of a windshield wiper fluid gear grinder... why can't they make the windshield wiper fluid reservoir a little bigger than the standard 4L jug of fluid you find everywhere. nothing like having to save a 90% empty jug of washer fluid for (in my case) almost 2 years!

Doesn’t every modern vehicle have a 4+L tank. I always thought they changed to 4L tanks when they added sensors. As the small left over amount was your back up supply when you ran out so it works like the sensor does now.

[calgarygeologist]

Today is a probably a good day to go home early. Last night our IT group had a scheduled outage to replace a switch in our datacenter. Of course that has screwed everything up this morning and none of BI reports updated at their scheduled times. Now I need to track down where the issues stems and get this resolved. I also brought some new pants into the office today. Changed into those after my bike ride and within the first five minutes of wearing them I spilt coffee on them. It is going to be a long day.

Edit: if things weren't bad enough before our network went down at the downtown office now so no work can get done.

[Reggie28]

Originally Posted by GGG

Doesn’t every modern vehicle have a 4+L tank. I always thought they changed to 4L tanks when they added sensors. As the small left over amount was your back up supply when you ran out so it works like the sensor does now.

My 2022 F-350 will not take a full jug. The Chevy/GMC trucks I have ran take the full jug and have room for more.

My gear grinder as well. What do you do with the 50 cents worth of washer fluid left in the jug? Give it away at the station? Toss it? I’m always worried about it leaking if I put it in the cab of the truck.

[Fuzz]

I buy cheap fluid at Rona(typically half the cost of at the gas station) and keep it in my garage. With 2 vehicles I can usually use up a jug, but if I don't I save it. But yes, they should all take 4.5l, with the warning light coming on at 0.5l.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by 1qqaaz

As someone who goes through tons of plastic bags for cat litter and dog poop for walks, whenever I'm in Canada, and there's no plastic bags, I resort to buying small garbage bags for cat litter.
So not only am I not reusing grocery bags, but I'm having to buy new plastic bags, with thicker plastic, to get the job done.

But in the Midwest, you can still take as many grocery bags as you want for free.

All grocery stores have compostable produce bags. Rolls and rolls of them in the produce section.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by keratosis

All grocery stores have compostable produce bags. Rolls and rolls of them in the produce section.

Wait, all those are compostable?

[Fuzz]

Safeway's aren't.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Safeway's aren't.

They are in Okotoks. Maybe they are using up the old ones first.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Reggie28

My 2022 F-350 will not take a full jug. The Chevy/GMC trucks I have ran take the full jug and have room for more.

My gear grinder as well. What do you do with the 50 cents worth of washer fluid left in the jug? Give it away at the station? Toss it? I’m always worried about it leaking if I put it in the cab of the truck.

Just do half a jug every time, no need to worry about it. like do 2 and 2.5 instead of 4 and 0.5. You're pouring twice anyways.

[CroFlames]

Haha, jugs.

I've never come across a vehicle where the reservoir doesn't hold the full 4 liters.

Weird.

[woob]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Today is a probably a good day to go home early. Last night our IT group had a scheduled outage to replace a switch in our datacenter. Of course that has screwed everything up this morning and none of BI reports updated at their scheduled times. Now I need to track down where the issues stems and get this resolved. I also brought some new pants into the office today. Changed into those after my bike ride and within the first five minutes of wearing them I spilt coffee on them. It is going to be a long day.

Edit: if things weren't bad enough before our network went down at the downtown office now so no work can get done.

Sounds like your IT is having a heck of a day. Hope they get it sorted! They're probably all having minor heart attacks regarding this.