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I hired a law firm in Oct 2015 regarding some ugly, slightly complicated issues, and I paid them a $1500 retainer.

Recently, in Aug 2016, with the firm's help, I formed an LLC. Now, I didn't know that was what I was going to do when I paid the retainer, but the reasons for incorporating is directly related to my initial retainer. And I haven't (quite) exhausted the funds in my initial retainer yet. Or maybe I barely have, and they haven't billed me yet.

So anyway, I'm trying to get my general ledger started, and was wondering how to record the retainer payment as the first business expense under a double-entry method.

I'm guessing that I'd have one transaction where I give t

Make two trade depots, one that the wagons can reach, and another that only the non-wagon traders can reach. When all the wagons get to the Depot, all the traders will run away, leaving the goods that were in the wagons in a forbidden pile of goods on top of (but not inside) the depot.

I made this discovery quite by accident on version 40.24, on a new fortress where I built an underground trade depot, but had difficulty deciding how to build the wagon entrance. So I just built a temporary above-ground depot for the first season, and discovered this issue. I haven't experimented all that much with this technique, in fact I don't have much interest in stealing from caravans

Ok, I'm a pretty much a newbie to Dwarf Fortress, I've been playing DF 34.11 for a little while now, but one annoyance I haven't been able to get around yet is figuring out how to clear out stone from my aquaduct early in the game, using wheelbarrows, without clearing out all the stone from the rest of my fortress.

As it's still a young fortress, I have lots and lots and lots of stone laying around that I haven't bothered to clean up yet, as I'd rather expend my limited dwarf labor budget on setting up more useful industries. And as I've learned, hauling stone any distance without at least a wheelbarrow is futile. (And it's a long tunnel!)

If I set up a nearby garbage dump and