Rant: Where I work there is still a guy who wears bracelets that supposedly do magic things to make them feel better. You should know better than to believe something because people say so, especially when your profession is based on empirical evidence for things.
RAVE: Sit down interview with my preferred police service today. Hopefully all things go well for September intake to OPC. WIsh me luck, TiB'ers!
RANT: Stupid ancient tax problem rant. Spoilered for length. Spoiler So I lived in Ohio for three months in 2003. I moved to DC and lived and worked there the rest of that year and filed my federal and DC taxes. I messed up and ended up not filing my Ohio taxes for those three months. I was contacted in 2009 and I had the guy who did my taxes at the time fill it all out and I thought it was sent in and dealt with. It was not. I was finally contacted again in May of this year......20-fucking-12 and I got a nice nasty letter and a bill for $2800. They are saying I worked in Ohio all 12 months and are levying heavy fines, etc. and are acting like I didn't pay any taxes. My return that they somehow never received in 2009 showed that they actually owed me $17. I didn't think about it because I never heard from them again. I just had a nasty conversation with a lady from the Ohio Attorney Generals office about how she can't do anything for me and I need to make payment arrangements immediately. Finally she saw notes in my tax file that the Ohio Department of Taxation did get my package of info and it's being reassessed. I have to wait a couple more weeks to find out the results of this insanity. Funny thing is that I was told that the statute of limitations is up and they will not be paying me the $17 I was originally owed with interest but I most likely could still have upwards of $500 in fines and penalties for missing this filing. I've paid every tax owed prior and after and my federal and DC taxes were paid and filed that year and they even show that I paid my share of all state taxes. This is disturbing. Lesson here is don't fuck with taxes. Don't even make mistakes. They'll get you. I'm still not even sure what they can assess fines and penalties towards. I owe them $0. Percentage interest and fines on $0 owed should be $0. Do I have any grounds here if they come back saying I owe an obscene amount still? Can they just fine people who miss filing even if the state actually owed them money. I'd pay a small penalty because I did not file but $2800 is absurd and even $500 is absurd for a tax situation where THEY FUCKING OWED ME!!!!! Nobody at the Ohio Department of Taxation or the Ohio Attorney General's Office has been helpful or nice about this. I've tried reading online there is a lot of info that says that it's not illegal to not file if you are actually owed money. It's when you owe that you are screwed. So in my case I could be fine. Frustrating as hell. Anybody knowledgeable in taxes or situations like this have any suggestions? This all could be moot as it is being reassessed, but still infuriating.
RANT: My sister and her father in law are having a very LOUD argument. In Thai. I can't understand what the fuck the yelling is about, but apparently Percy can. He's joined in the hollering with his parrot-eese. I've now got a fucking headache.
Rant: Day one of four days in a row with the wife working and just me and the kid. It's not spending time with her all day, It's the lack of sleep that gets to me. Rave: Haven't taken a math class in 9 years. Just got my scores for my math Praxis II and I aced that bitch. I barely even studied. I hate math, but I am really good at it.
Rant: Saw it coming. Still sucks. Nothing like a hard shot directly in your pride. Rave? Who has two thumbs and a free summer? This guy.
Rave: My dad is a cathodic protection engineer and works on lock and dams. My brother took a video of a set of opposite flowing whirlpool the size of a couple houses from one of the work trips and posted it on youtube. He now has over a million views and has made several hundred bucks.
Rave The doorman at my bar posted this on facebook this morning after all the idiots posted their daily weather report from their smart phones and batman is lucky he can get away with it because I want to kill people who complain about it being hot in Phoenix.
Rant: My only flight this week got cancelled because of bad weather and broken helo's. Rave: Because it was a night flight, I showed up to work at 4pm. I then did very little work after being told i was cancelled, then left at 630. Easy day. Rave: I come home to my standard parking spot, but... Rant: The upstairs neighbor and her kid are jumping around and have been for 20 minutes. She won't tell me what she's doing and I don't want to go up there to tell her to shut the f up. I just can hope her kid comes crashing through my ceiling, then I'll have a good laugh. Rant: My cars wheel hub got jacked up from I don't know when and it costs $450 to replace it. At least my clutch slave cylinder was free. And they figured out what was wrong with my cars a/c, but would have charged me another $400 to fix it when I can do that shit myself. At least I'll have my car back tomorrow morning.
Rave: Got Tech of the Quarter. Rave: Got a CertComm for it, among other things. Rant: Newly arrived Lance Corporal in my shop is 25 and has never driven a car in his life. You NEED a driver's license to be a tech here (walking the five miles to the TACAN would take a while). And so, the first iteration of Omegaham's Driver's Ed just started today. Rant: Hooooly fucking shit. I now know how a parent feels, and I feel for every father who has to sit in the passenger's seat and watch his nervous sixteen-year-old get behind the wheel. How do people do it? I managed not to scream like my mom did when I was learning how to drive, but I was definitely ill at ease the whole time.
RANT/RAVE/I don't even know: Cosmo, when giving tips inspired by 50 shades of gray, suggested the following sexy form of kinky play Get him to wrap your wrist and ankles in toilet paper for a lighter restraint. While you are bound, he should tease you to the point where you're so turned on, you have to rip free of your shackles. What. The. Fuck.
RANT: I hate the people of my town. I hate the people who drive 50 or 60 mph on 25 mph curvy roads. I hate the people who hit dogs and leave them to die. I hate myself. I hate myself for thinking a light up collar and 200' of driveway and 30' of trees were enough. I will work from sunrise to midnight tomorrow to make sure it never happens again. I miss you Tonka. There is not enough rum in the world right now. I can't get drunk enough.
Rant: Coworkers are PISSING themselves laughing. I got caught up with what I was doing and started singing outloud to several songs in a row while wearing background noise suppressing headphones. . What was I listening too? 'The Greenskeepers - Lotion', 'The Beards - You should consider having sex with a bearded man', 'Skin - Mah-na Mah-na', 'DJ Kool - Let me Clear my throat' and 'N.E.R.D - Rockstar'. Rave: Could have been worse - next songs on playlist were 'Jay-Z - 99 problems' and 'Eminem - Shake That'.
Rant: Due to a combination of circumstance and lazyness I haven't shaved in over a week. I look like a damn hobo. Rave: Got a 260 lb clean last night. Score. Rave: Three of the Pets are in the office today since some event they were supposed to work apparently got cancelled due to the weather. It's been an interesting morning.
Rave: My girlfriend will be living in the apartment she really hoped to next year. Sounds like a great place, ideal location. Rant: Fighting this uphill battle at work had goddamn better be worth it. After this, I am not going to be the guinea pig again. Someone else can have fun with it.
Rave: After being at this job for 5 months, I found out today that I'm being laid off and my position is being cut. Why is it a rave? Because I was told this at 11:30 AM and at 2 PM I originally had a meeting scheduled with my boss to tell her that I'm leaving for another job. Now because they're laying me off, I get a decent severance package and they had no idea I was quitting anyway. BOOM ROASTED.
Rave: Anyone coming into my office for super important accounting queries has gotten to hear this in the background. I got that shit on loop. Serious porn business. Rant: WHAT THE FUCK? WHY CAN'T I HAVE THIS? I WANT.
RAVE: Was finally healed enough to do some deads last night RANT: God Damn have I become weak. Down to repping 275. Now if I can figure out this "getting light headed & clammy" shit while doing CrossFit, I'll be set.