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Since our last installment, I have snapped a couple of pictures of some of the higher points of my day.  This is what I like to call “Job security.” As long as you fine folks keep behaving like such, I should be able to ink out some sort of living.

Aside from the foul smells, most of this doesn’t really bother me. It’s fairly interesting to see how people live. The only real sad thing I keep thinking of is that they had an infant living in absolute filth. Very sad. It’s like watching the little starving Ethiopian kid on TV with Suzanne Summers.

So without further ado…

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Aside from about 10 pairs of latex gloves, the only other casualty of the day was my sense of smell. Oh the smell!

Good times!

Six is an arbitrary number that I just pulled out of my head. I have no idea if there are six reasons yet.. but I will not revise this title, unless i come up with like 20 or something.

1. You love to litter

It doesn’t matter what it is. Aluminum cans, food wrappers, beer bottles and cigarette butts; everywhere. One can literally spend a half of the day picking up trash, and the next day it’s like we never even tried.  For one, cleaning out your car shouldn’t mean that dumping everything into the parking lot; including the contents of your ashtray. Seriously, where the fuck did you grow up?  I mean, really.  You look at us like we’re degenerates for being the guy with the rubber gloves and the little picker thing walking around the building picking up garbage as you chain smoke; We look at you as white trash because you don’t care enough to not trash your own home.

2. Those security cameras? Yeah, they’re real.

We’ve seen you break into the vending machines, steal people’s laundry; hell we even saw you give that guy a hummer. Your first instinct in such a situation? Walk right up to the camera so we can get a good look at your face, while you try to decide if the camera is real.  Newsflash; it is. Even better, they’re networked on the internet, so as if we don’t see enough of your mugs in the morning, we can make fun of you in the evening.

3. The no pets thing…. We really meant it.

It’s not that we hate animals. In fact, most of us have our own pets. I have two dogs myself.  However, much like everything else in your life; you can’t be trusted with an animal. We’ve already seen what you do to the parking lot, do you honestly think you care enough to clean up after an animal if it pisses on the floor?  Mistakes happen, and sometimes even the best pet owner will find a stain on move out.. However, dog crap ground into the carpet doesn’t fall under this umbrella.

4. Lightbulbs, they stay with the apartment.

Much like you’re not allowed to take the toilet with you when you leave, the lightbulbs stay too. We made sure each and everyone of them worked when you moved in, least you could do is not steal them on your way out.  Come on people, they’re $3.96 for 12 down at Lowes.  There’s ~17 lightbulbs in a two bedroom apartment, including the fridge.  The only ones you didn’t take were the ones that were already burnt out.

5. Drywall and your fist, an introduction best not made.

I’m not sure why it is, but it seems that a high number of adult male apartment dwellers love to play “Human Stud Finder.” Some win, some lose. In any event, no matter if you find the stud with your fist, the maintenance guys always lose. Our only consolation prize is that if you do happen to find a stud, you might break your hand and learn a valuable lesson about physics.

6. What you do in your apartment is your business, as long as you shut the door and the blinds.

We give you a door because well, they come that way. We give you blinds so that when you’re walking around your apartment in the nude, we don’t have to see. There are some exceptions to this rule, of course. However, thus far;  I have not seen anyone naked in an apartment that was a positive experience.  I’m just sayin.  Also, when answering the door, clothes would be nice. Hasn’t happened to me, but it has happened. Purposefully.

So anyway, that’s six for now. I’m sure there’s more. Good times.

September comes around..

I haven’t written anything since before I left Texas. It’s been 3 months since then.. A lot has happened, but it’s hard to even pinpoint what those things are. Both Megan and myself are still unemployed. Both of us have tried, but the job market her is just crap. Kinda sucks, since we both had decent jobs in Texas.

I’m working on getting a consulting business off the ground, and looking for the next big thing. I have a couple ideas, hopefully something will work out. If you’re in Shepherdsville or Louisville and you need someone to work on your computers, network or website; Check out my site FIVE OH TWO.

I guess that’s about it for right now.

Today is the 24th of May. Over a month after normal people have filed their taxes. I have not.

For the first time in the last 5 or 6 years, I thought I was going to get my taxes done on time and might even get a refund. However, due to my former employers thoughtfulness, I am still trying to get my W2 correct.

Best I can tell, Turbochargers.com and it’s owner David Rafes, decided to withhold taxes from my checks, but only pay about half of that money to the IRS/SS/Medicare/etc.  Instead I ended up with a 1099 and a W2. Both for roughly half of my total income from.

Undoubtedly, this is his way of screwing me and at the same time, saving himself $1000′s of dollars in taxes. He claims that the computer records were lost. His own accountant suggested that I just deduct the withholdings as “an expense.” Sounds like the fail to me. I offered to provide copies of all of my paystubs. They ignored this idea.

I have filed a complaint with the IRS, and I will continue to press this issue as long as possible.

From: Ann McKenzie <ann.mckenzie@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: update
To: Sean Newton

Sean,
I went to turbo yesterday. David took every document related to all
payments to all parties down to TWC and they reissued the wages for
all, grossing them back to gross pay.

David does not want to reissue anything not that the TWC is done. I
recommend reporting the W-2 and 1099 income as issued to you and
counting the taxes withheld (and employers portion ) as an expense
so you can be done with the return.

Ann M. McKenzie
Attorney/CPA
281-374-9600 (phone)
281-374-9601 (fax)

Perfect advice. FAIL.

If you are still using Frontpage in 2010, please set your computer on fire. Seriously.

All day, people email in with problems with Frontpage Extensions under cPanel.. they have no idea that this support is largely a hack. They don’t know that we are praying for it to be removed in the next version.

The fact of the matter is, the functionality barely works, and our troubleshooting is limited to remove and reinstall. Most of the time we get lucky and this works.

Sometimes, not so much. Frontpage Extensions haven’t been updated since 2002. There’s a reason for this, and it’s not because Microsoft got it perfect. Just sayin’.