I have a match on my 401k that doesn’t vest until 5 years. I really doubt I’ll be at this company for 5 years. Should I track the match in my net worth or just my contributions?
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I only track how much has vested (mine is 20% of the match is vested every year I’m there, so I just track that). Both my husband and my 401k has a super handy “balance vested” section.
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I don’t track the amount that vests. Mine is a bit more complicated, in that 20% of profit-sharing vests each year over 5 years. It’s just too complex, so I just pretend it doesn’t exist. I figure it will just be a nice bonus I can figure out the exact amount of when I leave.
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That’s what mine does too. Does yours not have the handy little “balance vested” on the front page? SirB and I have different companies and I’ve had another in the past and all Three had it front and center. Seems crazy they wouldn’t! 
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I don’t think it does. It shows the total amount on the main page but the amount vested is down a rabbit hole somewhere.
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Disclaimer: I am not an artist, but I have an urge to do some arty stuff. I’m looking for paint markers to draw fun designs on varnished wood (old door rescued from dumpster that is already mounted to our house outside as a decorative feature. Hubs got ahead of me in the process). My plan is to lightly rough up the surface, paint draw some stuff, then apply a polyurethane over it. I’m stuck regarding what to buy for paint markers. I want paint markers because that will less be messy and easier for me to control than brushes and paint. Any ideas? I’m thinking I want a water based paint in a variety of colors? I’m kind of stuck and have no idea what to buy. We might use these markers to paint random Doodles on other things in our yard as well.
Edit: I’d also like to doodle on our rain barrel.
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Do any other animals have something analogous to crawling? Changing motor patterns without changing body plan? (So like, jellyfish hydra don’t count)
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It seems like other apes do, at least – e.g. gorillas crawl before learning to walk around 9 months.
Are you generally thinking of young animals with differing locomotion patterns?
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Yeah, specifically as a developmental stage. Didn’t know that about gorillas, cool! I need to go find a video of a gorilla crawling
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I was thinking about this and one big thing is humans are bipedal, and we have a short quadripedal stage (crawling) when we’re young.
Most mammals are quadripedal. Birds are typically bipedal but without any sort of viable quadripedal gait. For other animals – many are non-terrestrial (fish). Others change body plan (amphibians).
So that type of change in locomotion pattern, between bipedal and quadripedal, is gonna be real rare.
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I watched kittens learning to walk videos
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Ahhhhh that makes a ton of sense.
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But also, baby birds can hop before they can fly.
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Ooh! That is a good one. Although adult songbirds also hop, so they don’t stop using it the way we do. Might be the closest non primate example though.
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A lot of adults crawl sometimes!!
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Yeah but we don’t use it as a normal mode of locomotion. We CAN do it, but it’s not a typical every day choice.
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From looking around their website, I kind of assume they send you the whole packaging since they need to send protective knife sleeves.
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Please share if you do, the wiggler loves gorillas!
My friend is trying to compile a list of fiction (meant for children/teens/young adults) that represent major belief systems. So far she has Narnia for Christianity, His Dark Materials for secular humanism, and she’s asking about Judaism and Islam. As the only one of our friend groups who has brushed elbows with either of those belief systems, she’s asked me, but I have no idea.
Any recommendations?
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