lots of stuff
Three day weekend for the win!
But, first, Friday was both boring and annoying. Boss was gone so I watched a couple eps of PLL while organizing shit, as well as the last ep of Gotham while eating lunch. I spoke with our accountant about the annual payroll taxes and asked how I got reimbursed for 3/4 of my health insurance now that boss and I were no longer in a group plan and my 1/4 just came out of paycheck and Blue Cross took the monthly premium from our bank account.
Apparently there are no clear laws on this. She said to just write myself a business check for that 3/4 and they'll monitor any changes or clarifications to the tax law and fix anything necessary before the end of the year.
Or, I could be hit up with a $100 a day fine.
Lovely.
I don't think I mentioned that I got my insurance package a week ago but still don't have a card, so I have to call on Tuesday and hope I get it quickly as I only have a week left on my very expensive drug.
Stupid insurance company.
Oh, I got the second bill, too, but still no card.
On Friday night I went to my parents for dinner and work for the first time in about a month. Oh, and the accountant called me twice on my cell phone--where she got my number, I have no clue, since the first call was for the password to get into Quickbooks (where my info is stored). Poor dear was working at 8:00 on a Friday night! The life of a tax accountant must suck from January through April 15.
The annoyance at work was that, after nine days of accepting RTF files, the court now finds them "incompatible". What the fuck???? I've had several RTF files signed by judges so, y'know, they were compatible for the first nine days! Stupid court. So I saved a Word Perfect document as a Word one (I have like a dozen options so I just guessed at one because, y'know, I despise Word and have no clue what most people use. I have no clue why WP gives me that many options, but at least, unlike Word, it does) and it opened fine in our Word lite at work. I resubmitted it, but god knows when they'll get around to it because it's taking them forever. I'm guessing sometime Tuesday. I just hope all the other RTF documents that were accepted and forwarded to judges aren't now going to be rejected.
GRRRRRRR
And, of course, when I open the document I saved in Word in Word Perfect, it looks like crap because Word insists on adding a bunch of useless code. I mean, tabs all over the place or removed, center no longer centering, etc. Whereas RTF files look just fine in either Word Perfect or Word.
I actually wrote a nasty email to the clerk but didn't submit it, because why the problem NOW?
Also not sure why they don't seem to be spending the time between 4:00 and 5:00 every day approving stuff because the deal about five years ago when they started closing the Clerk of the District Court's Office for that time period was to catch up on work they couldn't get done while dealing with the public! I have a feeling they all just skip home at 4:00.
I kind of like that the Sheriff's Department never closes so I can go over there with documents to be served over lunch or after 4:00.
Friday's happy, before all that shit, was that the actress who plays Emily on PLL looked incredibly sexy in her Christmas party dress. She's got a great hourglass figure with lovely big boobs.
Yesterday I was basically lazy and watched a buttload of basketball (including KU losing at Iowa State which wasn't completely unexpected as we were #9 and they were #11; but at least we fought back several times; and, really, the officiating was atrocious).
I did start editing my poly big bang which posts next Sunday but I have got to get it finished before then since I have to put together a service and write a sermon next Saturday and really don't want to wait until Sunday.
Right before the KU game started, mom called and their toilet had backed up into both toilets upstairs and the shower and she needed the name of the plumber I'd used. They were afraid to use the toilet downstairs or run any water. This was 7:30 on a Saturday night and, yet, good old Floyd was able to get there within an hour and solved the backup problem so they didn't have to go to a motel. Dad taped the game but I told him not to bother.
Basically their septic tank is nearly full, but the problem was a blockage caused by those supposedly disposable/dissolvable moist wipes that say they're fine for septic systems. He said, yeah, no, they don't actually dissolve like toilet paper does. He got that clear and dad will call the septic company on Monday.
Saturday's happy was laziness. Oh and I watched the first episode of "Twelve Monkeys" and really liked it. I saw the movie when it came out but really don't remember much about it.
Today I so did not want to get up and go to church but the choir was singing for the MLK service. Mom managed to get to church, but it pretty much wiped her out. We have a couple rockers at the back for nursing moms and she sat in one of those for comfort. The service was good, dealing with Ferguson and white privilege. We ended with Sweet Honey and the Rock singing "Ella's Song" which I know because Holly Near sang it, but I never knew why it was called Ella's Song because there's no Ella in the song. Well, duh, the words were written by African American activist, Ella Baker, in the 1960s.
I've spent the day watching football (great first game, horrifically boring second game) and writing the poly fic. I have several more scenes to add, so I'm thinking tomorrow is not going to be dedecorating day, but writing pretty much the whole day until KU plays OU at 8:00. *sigh* One of my problems was that there was no build up to the Stiles/Peter sex; it just seemed to come out of nowhere, so I have to add in several scenes that show their growing attraction. And then it was unfinished, so I have to write Stiles and Derek talking and him accepting her relationship with Peter (it's girl!Stiles; god first ABO and now girl!Stiles, all tropes I have avoided for years, but then I also used to hate mpreg...)
Today's happy is that I'm taping Librarians and have it on mute and Christian is looking damn sexy as some kind of explorer or something...
I'm going to a Superbowl party and I was really hoping that either Green Bay or Indy would win today so I'd have someone to root for. I don't like it when it's teams that win all the time or make it to the championship game all the time (unless it's KU or the Chiefs or the Royals, but then aren't all fans like that?) It's kind of why I'm not really excited about this year's March Madness because I figure, like pretty much everyone else in the world, that Kentucky will run away with it. Boring. Plus I can't stand Calipari. At least Duke's no longer looking invincible.
I really came on here to whine about an inaccuracy in a fic throwing me out of it, though I'm trying to get past it because it's an interesting story. It's just, I get frustrated when people don't do any research, even the basics. But, then I'm still baffled as to why on the show itself, 1) Scott and Melissa live in a huge house but can't afford it--move out?--and doesn't she get alimony or at least child support? and 2) the whole crappy insurance that won't even pay for Stiles MRI. I can understand the Eichen House thing, because Stiles committed himself and not at a doctor's recommendation, but a doctor ordered that MRI. Civil servants usually have the best insurance coverage and if a deputy with less than a year of experience makes $40K a sheriff makes a hell of a lot more than that. I'm guessing at least $100K.
Anyway, the issue in the fic was foreclosure. Sorry writer, it doesn't happen overnight (no matter what tv shows us as "real"--evictions don't either). Even at the quickest and if the owner gives up their redemption rights (after the foreclosure sale, usually three months) it's going to take around three months. Notifications, petition filing, publishing of said petition which takes three weeks, hearing, notification of hearing, getting a judgment, waiting two weeks (at least in Kansas), motion and order for sale, setting a sale, publishing again for three weeks, and the last publication date having to be no more than fourteen days and no less than seven from the sale date, and then that redemption period which can be surrendered, but there has to be a hearing.
*sigh*
But the fic is really good so I'm just going to go with extreme artistic license.
Okay, back to writing.
But, first, Friday was both boring and annoying. Boss was gone so I watched a couple eps of PLL while organizing shit, as well as the last ep of Gotham while eating lunch. I spoke with our accountant about the annual payroll taxes and asked how I got reimbursed for 3/4 of my health insurance now that boss and I were no longer in a group plan and my 1/4 just came out of paycheck and Blue Cross took the monthly premium from our bank account.
Apparently there are no clear laws on this. She said to just write myself a business check for that 3/4 and they'll monitor any changes or clarifications to the tax law and fix anything necessary before the end of the year.
Or, I could be hit up with a $100 a day fine.
Lovely.
I don't think I mentioned that I got my insurance package a week ago but still don't have a card, so I have to call on Tuesday and hope I get it quickly as I only have a week left on my very expensive drug.
Stupid insurance company.
Oh, I got the second bill, too, but still no card.
On Friday night I went to my parents for dinner and work for the first time in about a month. Oh, and the accountant called me twice on my cell phone--where she got my number, I have no clue, since the first call was for the password to get into Quickbooks (where my info is stored). Poor dear was working at 8:00 on a Friday night! The life of a tax accountant must suck from January through April 15.
The annoyance at work was that, after nine days of accepting RTF files, the court now finds them "incompatible". What the fuck???? I've had several RTF files signed by judges so, y'know, they were compatible for the first nine days! Stupid court. So I saved a Word Perfect document as a Word one (I have like a dozen options so I just guessed at one because, y'know, I despise Word and have no clue what most people use. I have no clue why WP gives me that many options, but at least, unlike Word, it does) and it opened fine in our Word lite at work. I resubmitted it, but god knows when they'll get around to it because it's taking them forever. I'm guessing sometime Tuesday. I just hope all the other RTF documents that were accepted and forwarded to judges aren't now going to be rejected.
GRRRRRRR
And, of course, when I open the document I saved in Word in Word Perfect, it looks like crap because Word insists on adding a bunch of useless code. I mean, tabs all over the place or removed, center no longer centering, etc. Whereas RTF files look just fine in either Word Perfect or Word.
I actually wrote a nasty email to the clerk but didn't submit it, because why the problem NOW?
Also not sure why they don't seem to be spending the time between 4:00 and 5:00 every day approving stuff because the deal about five years ago when they started closing the Clerk of the District Court's Office for that time period was to catch up on work they couldn't get done while dealing with the public! I have a feeling they all just skip home at 4:00.
I kind of like that the Sheriff's Department never closes so I can go over there with documents to be served over lunch or after 4:00.
Friday's happy, before all that shit, was that the actress who plays Emily on PLL looked incredibly sexy in her Christmas party dress. She's got a great hourglass figure with lovely big boobs.
Yesterday I was basically lazy and watched a buttload of basketball (including KU losing at Iowa State which wasn't completely unexpected as we were #9 and they were #11; but at least we fought back several times; and, really, the officiating was atrocious).
I did start editing my poly big bang which posts next Sunday but I have got to get it finished before then since I have to put together a service and write a sermon next Saturday and really don't want to wait until Sunday.
Right before the KU game started, mom called and their toilet had backed up into both toilets upstairs and the shower and she needed the name of the plumber I'd used. They were afraid to use the toilet downstairs or run any water. This was 7:30 on a Saturday night and, yet, good old Floyd was able to get there within an hour and solved the backup problem so they didn't have to go to a motel. Dad taped the game but I told him not to bother.
Basically their septic tank is nearly full, but the problem was a blockage caused by those supposedly disposable/dissolvable moist wipes that say they're fine for septic systems. He said, yeah, no, they don't actually dissolve like toilet paper does. He got that clear and dad will call the septic company on Monday.
Saturday's happy was laziness. Oh and I watched the first episode of "Twelve Monkeys" and really liked it. I saw the movie when it came out but really don't remember much about it.
Today I so did not want to get up and go to church but the choir was singing for the MLK service. Mom managed to get to church, but it pretty much wiped her out. We have a couple rockers at the back for nursing moms and she sat in one of those for comfort. The service was good, dealing with Ferguson and white privilege. We ended with Sweet Honey and the Rock singing "Ella's Song" which I know because Holly Near sang it, but I never knew why it was called Ella's Song because there's no Ella in the song. Well, duh, the words were written by African American activist, Ella Baker, in the 1960s.
I've spent the day watching football (great first game, horrifically boring second game) and writing the poly fic. I have several more scenes to add, so I'm thinking tomorrow is not going to be dedecorating day, but writing pretty much the whole day until KU plays OU at 8:00. *sigh* One of my problems was that there was no build up to the Stiles/Peter sex; it just seemed to come out of nowhere, so I have to add in several scenes that show their growing attraction. And then it was unfinished, so I have to write Stiles and Derek talking and him accepting her relationship with Peter (it's girl!Stiles; god first ABO and now girl!Stiles, all tropes I have avoided for years, but then I also used to hate mpreg...)
Today's happy is that I'm taping Librarians and have it on mute and Christian is looking damn sexy as some kind of explorer or something...
I'm going to a Superbowl party and I was really hoping that either Green Bay or Indy would win today so I'd have someone to root for. I don't like it when it's teams that win all the time or make it to the championship game all the time (unless it's KU or the Chiefs or the Royals, but then aren't all fans like that?) It's kind of why I'm not really excited about this year's March Madness because I figure, like pretty much everyone else in the world, that Kentucky will run away with it. Boring. Plus I can't stand Calipari. At least Duke's no longer looking invincible.
I really came on here to whine about an inaccuracy in a fic throwing me out of it, though I'm trying to get past it because it's an interesting story. It's just, I get frustrated when people don't do any research, even the basics. But, then I'm still baffled as to why on the show itself, 1) Scott and Melissa live in a huge house but can't afford it--move out?--and doesn't she get alimony or at least child support? and 2) the whole crappy insurance that won't even pay for Stiles MRI. I can understand the Eichen House thing, because Stiles committed himself and not at a doctor's recommendation, but a doctor ordered that MRI. Civil servants usually have the best insurance coverage and if a deputy with less than a year of experience makes $40K a sheriff makes a hell of a lot more than that. I'm guessing at least $100K.
Anyway, the issue in the fic was foreclosure. Sorry writer, it doesn't happen overnight (no matter what tv shows us as "real"--evictions don't either). Even at the quickest and if the owner gives up their redemption rights (after the foreclosure sale, usually three months) it's going to take around three months. Notifications, petition filing, publishing of said petition which takes three weeks, hearing, notification of hearing, getting a judgment, waiting two weeks (at least in Kansas), motion and order for sale, setting a sale, publishing again for three weeks, and the last publication date having to be no more than fourteen days and no less than seven from the sale date, and then that redemption period which can be surrendered, but there has to be a hearing.
*sigh*
But the fic is really good so I'm just going to go with extreme artistic license.
Okay, back to writing.