{"id":611,"date":"2004-02-03T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/611"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:28:20","slug":"freakin-llamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/611","title":{"rendered":"Freakin&#8217; Llamas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stress! Stress!!! Stress!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I hate shitty financial paperwork, especially when it involves me giving away lots of money and not getting anything tangible in return. Taxes, for example. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Boring financial whining&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, I slipped up and neglected to submit all of my paperwork, so now I have to find all sorts of small, elusive figures so my wonderiffic friend Mae can help me finally file properly. THEN I get to pay all sorts of $$$ to the government, PLUS the ever-accruing interest. AND my 2004 property tax. AND my landlord raised our rent. <\/p>\n<p>THEN I have to finally get the Membership Enrollment papers for my OPSEU pension signed, sealed, delivered, and find out how much I&#8217;ll owe in backpayments for the time I worked here on contract (which will be a lot). More $$$ to the government.<\/p>\n<p>THEN I get to deal with the $1600 repair to my broken circuit board in my heater. At least I have my wonderful Mum calling the bastards who manufactured it (the inappropriately named &#8216;Climate Master&#8217; corporation), to make sure they aren&#8217;t completely ripping me off for the cost of the part. I already know I&#8217;m getting ripped off for the labour, but there&#8217;s not much I can do, since my poor tenant is freezing her bonbons off and relying on space heaters in this terrible weather. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;m spending my lunchhour in an appointment at the bank, reorganizing my mortgage and line of credit.<\/p>\n<p>In other shitty news, can&#8217;t go home to visit Dad, as there&#8217;s been another outbreak of flu in his facility, so he&#8217;s under quarantine again.<\/p>\n<p>Time to stop whining about all this, buy some bubble gum, and start kicking some financial ass.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tonight&#8217;s fun adventure in keeping my social life alive despite two jobs: going to the Duke of York for a dinner with the old University College crew. Looking forward to seeing Olivia, Marty, Darcy &#038; Aly. Also looking forward to a pint of Strongbow.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress! Stress!!! Stress!!!!! I hate shitty financial paperwork, especially when it involves me giving away lots of money and not getting anything tangible in return. Taxes, for example. Boring financial whining&#8230; Last year, I slipped up and neglected to submit all of my paperwork, so now I have to find all sorts of small, elusive <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/611\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}