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NOYB,
You are just upset because you would have to fill some cavities to
write
off your trip, but it still might be a good deal.
There are all sorts of "grey area" methods to save taxes. Writing
off
non-business related trips as a business expense is not my way to
save
taxes. As a corporation, I could make my wife an officer, and then
write-off *any* trip that I take by simply keeping a journal of daily
"business meetings". But I consider that unethical...and would never
do
it.
But there are always those educational seminars held in luxury
vacations
spots. The medical doctors seem to really be hooked on those.

The only one I take advantage of is the annual Florida Dental
Association
meeting in Orlando. But I must get an advertisement for a new one in
some exotic locale almost every day in the mail.

I *will* be attending the ADA meeting in Hawaii in 2009 though. ;-)


I get clients to pay for many of my trips. They usually want some sort
of
presentation from me at their meetings. Since I am on a retainer fee,
they
don't have to pay more for me to be there, so they're glad to pick up my
airfare, hotel, meals, et cetera. I was invited to a meeting next month
in
Seattle, but I talked the client into putting me off until Spring. I do
hope the sun shines a little in Seattle in the Spring.

Do you claim the trip as income?


"Narcissists are grandiose. They live in an artificial self invented from
fantasies of absolute or perfect power, genius, beauty, etc. Normal people's
fantasies of themselves, their wishful thinking, take the form of stories --
these stories often come from movies or TV, or from things they've read or
that were read to them as children. They involve a plot, heroic activity or
great accomplishments or adventu normal people see themselves in action,
however preposterous or even impossible that action may be -- they see
themselves doing things that earn them honor, glory, love, riches, fame, and
they see these fantasy selves as personal potentials, however tenuous"

"Narcissists' fantasies are tableaux or scenes, stage sets; narcissists
are hung up on a particular picture that they think reflects their true
selves (as opposed to the real self -- warts and all). Narcissists don't see
themselves doing anything except being adored, and they don't see anyone
else doing anything except adoring them. Moreover, they don't see these
images as potentials that they may some day be able to live out, if they get
lucky or everything goes right: they see these pictures as the real way they
want to be seen right now (which is not the same as saying they think these
pictures are the way they really are right now, but that is another story to
be discussed elsewhere). Sometimes narcissistic fantasies are spectacularly
grandiose -- imagining themselves as Jesus or a saint or hero or deity
depicted in art -- but just as often the fantasies of narcissists are
mediocre and vulgar, concocted from illustrations in popular magazines,
sensational novels, comic books even. These artificial self fantasies are
also static in time, going back unchanged to early adolescence or even to
childhood; the narcissists' self-images don't change with time, so that you
will find, for instance, female narcissists clinging to retro styles, still
living the picture of the perfect woman of 1945 or 1965 as depicted in The
Ladies' Home Journal or Seventeen or Vogue of that era, and male narcissists
still hung up on images of comic-book or ripping adventure heroes from their
youth. Though narcissists like pictures rather than stories, they like still
pictures, not moving ones, so they don't base their fantasies on movies or
TV."

"Narcissists have strange work habits. Normal people work for a goal or a
product, even if the goal is only a paycheck. Normal people measure things
by how much they have to spend (in time, work, energy) to get the desired
results. Normal people desire idleness from time to time, usually wanting as
much free time as they can get to pursue their own thoughts and pleasures
and interests. Narcissists work for a goal, too, but it's a different goal:
they want power, authority, adulation. Lacking empathy, and lacking also
context and affect, narcissists don't understand how people achieve glory
and high standing; they think it's all arbitrary, it's all appearances, it's
all who you know. So they try to attach themselves to people who already
have what they want, meanwhile making a great show of working hard."