It's Personal...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:09 am

I think, despite some troubles clarifying to TaxAct that there was repeated income between my 1099-K and 1099-MISC, that I actually like dealing with receiving a 1099-K. Because I got one, I didn't have to spend hours with CSV files doing math. I think it reduced the time required to do my taxes by about 60%.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:51 am

Oh dark gods, I think we lost Maj.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:05 am

Why am I lost? Is that a good thing or bad one?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:53 am

you are talking like a BORING ADULT! x.x

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:37 am

Barrels of cocks. Go suck them, now!

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:52 am

Hey... Can you guys send good thoughts into the universe on behalf of my sister? She was just in a car wreck, and while I know enough to know that she's alive and able to use a phone, that's all I've got.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:44 am

Good vibes, good vibes, good vibes...

Just right.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:23 am

My tax act shows that I'm due a 65k$ refund right now. If only I actually had that big a refund....

/non-barrel-of-cocks

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 5:04 pm

My sister walked away from the accident, but she's planning on making an appointment with her doctor because of some numbness in one of her hands (she has neck problems from another car accident where she was the passenger). I don't know much more than that, but that's the important part.

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Holy crap, Cynic! How is that kind of error even possible?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:38 am

Went to a MtG prerelease tourney today with a friend for his birthday, and he said he'd been looking for the Ciaphas Cain novels but couldn't find them. I said I could probably find torrents, but a quick search on my goto book site turned up nothing and he said he'd been having trouble too.

I get home in front of a real computer and it takes me longer to download and upload to dropbox than it did to find them.

I continue to be an online book "Fixer" and was able to give my friend a gift for his birthday even though I'm broke.

So that was cool.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:49 am

Prak_Anima wrote:Went to a MtG prerelease tourney today with a friend for his birthday, and he said he'd been looking for the Ciaphas Cain novels but couldn't find them. I said I could probably find torrents, but a quick search on my goto book site turned up nothing and he said he'd been having trouble too.

I get home in front of a real computer and it takes me longer to download and upload to dropbox than it did to find them.

I continue to be an online book "Fixer" and was able to give my friend a gift for his birthday even though I'm broke.

So that was cool.

I can send you the first seven books, if you didn't find any of them.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:58 am

I found all of them, thank you though.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:05 am

Some asshole burned microwave popcorn at midnight.

At least it wasn't at fucking 3AM like last time.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:16 pm

name_here wrote:Some asshole burned microwave popcorn at midnight.

At least it wasn't at fucking 3AM like last time.

I lived in dorm in my freshman year of college that had the worst fire alarm. You see, the building was 40 years old, but the fire alarm was new and oversensitive. Among the things that could set it off were:
•Taking a shower with the bathroom door open. (The steam would trigger it)
•Opening the bathroom door after taking a shower with walkway door open. (too big of a heat differential)
•Opening your door after turning the heat on high.(too fast of a temperature change)
•Turning on the heat for the first time after it was unused for a long period.(the burning dust was smoky enough)

The worst was the night when it went off at 12AM, 5AM, and 6AM. That night was in the mid 20s and none of us were at all ready.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:17 pm

At least you didn't have an apartment roommate+their significant other leave a fucking ham roast in the oven at god knows what temperature before they went to sleep.

Wake up to horrible smell in a closed bedroom full of smoke, wondering if you are going to have to fight a fire. Discover the douchebags already awake and outside the room just standing around because they "Didn't want to wake you."

My hair and clothes smelled forever.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:45 am

http://www.stjoshi.org/news.html

hee

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:52 am

Maj: I have no idea what the error is about. I've redone my taxes on there like three times to recheck and it still does the same thing.

I inputted it into Turbotax and got a much more reasonable return that was also very disappointing.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:32 am

Where can one find online games (RPGs - not MMOs)? Roll20 is one option, are there any others? Don't offer PbPs.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:47 am

I think Myth-Weavers has a forum for where you can recruit for realtime online games.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:02 am

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:50 am

I'm tired of series being rebooted. It occasionally works out, but damn, there's been so many, usually in the flavor of "Let's make it grittier! Or in modern times!"

Look, can you imagine if they did a reboot of Sesame Street? Cookie Monster would be wandering an endless urban wasteland in a search for the mythical Sesame Street, and would hulk out when he eats cookies, like unto Popeye and Spinach. Big Bird would be some sort of spirit-guide.

(Not that I object to that one)

And Oscar would be the crime boss of the city, who would have his enemies stuffed into trashcans, which would then be welded shut.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:47 am

Maxus wrote:I'm tired of series being rebooted. It occasionally works out, but damn, there's been so many, usually in the flavor of "Let's make it grittier! Or in modern times!"

Look, can you imagine if they did a reboot of Sesame Street? Cookie Monster would be wandering an endless urban wasteland in a search for the mythical Sesame Street, and would hulk out when he eats cookies, like unto Popeye and Spinach. Big Bird would be some sort of spirit-guide.

(Not that I object to that one)

And Oscar would be the crime boss of the city, who would have his enemies stuffed into trashcans, which would then be welded shut.

The main thing that grinds me is that it's the same plot told over and over. Like "Spider-Man", for example. The last movie is pretty decent, but it lulls me to sleep because there've already been ten other movies/cartoons that told us about UNCLE BEEEEEEEEEEN!.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:52 pm

Maxus wrote: -snip- Urban cookie monster wasteland - snip -

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Maxus, just for you. I wrote this in like 2 minutes many years ago. I need to get back to this blog at some point.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:39 pm

Anyone know of a method of moving cash from a cash gift card into a bank account without deducting any fees?

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:58 am

So, here's basically what's happening, job-wise:
The principal was under the impression that I was just going to be there for the year. The lady in HR who informed me I wouldn't be getting paid and needn't keep showing up has basically just been trying to put a bigger workload on my (former) team leader, just to piss him off. Because he has tenure and she wants him to quit.

So some discussion has happened with others, and I'll be back tomorrow, helping out in the school library. Still volunteer work, and just for the one term before we decide where to go from there - the principal doesn't want me "trapped" in if there is any kind of better offer I can take elsewhere.

Meanwhile I'm going to do IT training with Tafe (~= community college). Starting with certificate II, which I can do from home, and probably get some stuff signed off as recognition of prior knowledge.