Bob Crantz wrote:
Autocad is fine for those type of schematics, you aren't
fabricating any circuit boards or the like from them.

Get Orcad! Bob, your work will go twenty times as fast. I wouldn't hire anybody to draw schematics
in AutoCad; I'd figure I was paying to much for their time.

Cheers
Marty

I use Cadence.Amen!
Bob Crantz

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
...
Bob Crantz wrote:
Autocad is fine for those type of schematics, you aren't
fabricating any circuit boards or the like from them.

Get Orcad! Bob, your work will go twenty times as fast. I wouldn't hire
anybody to draw schematics
in AutoCad; I'd figure I was paying to much for their time.

Cheers
Marty

"Bob Crantz" wrote
Sounds like you have a good set up.
Don't make a full deduction for the home office, it will raise IRS flags,
especially if you don't have a space solely dedicated to the work. Another
IRS test is how much of your income, percentage wise, comes from your home
business? Do deduct for electricity, heat, travel, flowers, food, etc.

Yes, I use a factor of 15% for home and utility costs. Since it's part time,
I don't want to push it too hard.

The best thing about your situation is that you are not involved in the
day
to day soap opera at the office. You do your work, you're done. Office
politics and shennigans can ruin otherwise great work. You don't have to
deal with people's personality disorders 8+ hours a day. Stay at home.

AMEN! I love that and working in my underwear. Of course, asa fills my need
for daily distraction and drama.


Those engineer stamps are a liability firewall, and to a lesser degree,
customer sign offs. Autocad is fine for those type of schematics, you
aren't
fabricating any circuit boards or the like from them.
Yes, there are faster programs out there, but the contractor has supplied me
with AutoCAD 2000 and asked me to use it. Previously, we've used Drafix,
Designer 3.x and 4, AutoCAD Lt, and an MS product whose name has slipped my
mind.

Sounds like you work all the time. What do you do for fun? Does the steam
plant have a Hagan Control board? Like Doug, I once worked in a 1350 psi
steam plant. Two boilers, D type. I spend my spare time fantasizing aboutr
Katysails.
The boiler room is small. 4 low pressure (100 psig) fire tubes (3 Superiors
and 1 Power-Master), each 350 HP; and 2,000 tons in centrifugal chillers.
Nothing fancy. But we take good care of them and they still look new when we
open them up every year (they were built in 1953). Same year as Katy?

Hey Scout
I hope you are banking a good part of your part-time earnings, You
will need it if you get audited. One of the tests for a home office
deduction is that the space is not used for anything else. I doubt that
your kitchen table would pass that one.
JR

Scout wrote:
"Bob Crantz" wrote

Sounds like you have a good set up.
Don't make a full deduction for the home office, it will raise IRS flags,
especially if you don't have a space solely dedicated to the work. Another
IRS test is how much of your income, percentage wise, comes from your home
business? Do deduct for electricity, heat, travel, flowers, food, etc.


Yes, I use a factor of 15% for home and utility costs. Since it's part time,
I don't want to push it too hard.


The best thing about your situation is that you are not involved in the
day
to day soap opera at the office. You do your work, you're done. Office
politics and shennigans can ruin otherwise great work. You don't have to
deal with people's personality disorders 8+ hours a day. Stay at home.


AMEN! I love that and working in my underwear. Of course, asa fills my need
for daily distraction and drama.



Those engineer stamps are a liability firewall, and to a lesser degree,
customer sign offs. Autocad is fine for those type of schematics, you
aren't
fabricating any circuit boards or the like from them.

Yes, there are faster programs out there, but the contractor has supplied me
with AutoCAD 2000 and asked me to use it. Previously, we've used Drafix,
Designer 3.x and 4, AutoCAD Lt, and an MS product whose name has slipped my
mind.


Sounds like you work all the time. What do you do for fun? Does the steam
plant have a Hagan Control board? Like Doug, I once worked in a 1350 psi
steam plant. Two boilers, D type. I spend my spare time fantasizing aboutr
Katysails.

The boiler room is small. 4 low pressure (100 psig) fire tubes (3 Superiors
and 1 Power-Master), each 350 HP; and 2,000 tons in centrifugal chillers.
Nothing fancy. But we take good care of them and they still look new when we
open them up every year (they were built in 1953). Same year as Katy?

Thanks JR,
but with my equipment covering the entire table, and a few smaller tables
around it, I don't expect any IRS problems. We eat at the dining room table!
Scout

"JR Gilbreath" wrote in message
. ..
Hey Scout
I hope you are banking a good part of your part-time earnings, You will
need it if you get audited. One of the tests for a home office deduction
is that the space is not used for anything else. I doubt that your
kitchen table would pass that one.
JR

Scout wrote:
"Bob Crantz" wrote

Sounds like you have a good set up.
Don't make a full deduction for the home office, it will raise IRS flags,
especially if you don't have a space solely dedicated to the work.
Another
IRS test is how much of your income, percentage wise, comes from your
home
business? Do deduct for electricity, heat, travel, flowers, food, etc.


Yes, I use a factor of 15% for home and utility costs. Since it's part
time, I don't want to push it too hard.


The best thing about your situation is that you are not involved in the
day
to day soap opera at the office. You do your work, you're done. Office
politics and shennigans can ruin otherwise great work. You don't have to
deal with people's personality disorders 8+ hours a day. Stay at home.


AMEN! I love that and working in my underwear. Of course, asa fills my
need for daily distraction and drama.



Those engineer stamps are a liability firewall, and to a lesser degree,
customer sign offs. Autocad is fine for those type of schematics, you
aren't
fabricating any circuit boards or the like from them.

Yes, there are faster programs out there, but the contractor has supplied
me with AutoCAD 2000 and asked me to use it. Previously, we've used
Drafix, Designer 3.x and 4, AutoCAD Lt, and an MS product whose name has
slipped my mind.


Sounds like you work all the time. What do you do for fun? Does the steam
plant have a Hagan Control board? Like Doug, I once worked in a 1350 psi
steam plant. Two boilers, D type. I spend my spare time fantasizing
aboutr
Katysails.

The boiler room is small. 4 low pressure (100 psig) fire tubes (3
Superiors and 1 Power-Master), each 350 HP; and 2,000 tons in centrifugal
chillers. Nothing fancy. But we take good care of them and they still
look new when we open them up every year (they were built in 1953). Same
year as Katy?

Take clients out in it and write it off as an expense....get your sails
printed with your company logo and write them off as advertising...

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...

"Scout" wrote

My retirement plan includes doing all this from a sailboat. I wonder
if I
can write off the boat as a floating office.
Scout


Should be like an in home office, where you can deduct a portion of
it.

Scotty

Bob Crantz wrote:

I use Cadence.

I thought that was a magazine?

Cheers
Marty

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
...
Bob Crantz wrote:

I use Cadence.

I thought that was a magazine?

No... that's "Cannabis".