Tax Season

This is a happy time in the car biz as people get their refunds and have money for a down payment. Sad, the number of people whose only savings account is overpaying their taxes.

This year I’m getting back a few shekels from Uncle Sam and a bit more from the Centennial State. Pisses me off. I try hard to game the system so every year I owe. Let them use my money for free? Hell no! Then file on 4/12 and request an extension to pay. Some years I’ve strung them out till July.

When I was in my 30’s went five years without filing a return. Working straight commission you can avoid having anything withheld (at least at that time). Nothing happened. Filed my return and waited for the SHTF. Nada.

Being of Celtic heritage, I hold grudges forever. Any chance I get to stiff Colorado Revenue pleases me. I am still pissed they taxed my service pay when I didn’t spend even a full day in Colorado as a serviceman. We were sworn in, walked to the train station, and shipped out in a matter of two hours.

Going Green

New neighbor has a Nissan Leaf "Zero Emissions".

We have had some cold weather. -8° to 14° warming to the upper teens. Yesterday she was a passenger in my 1986 Mitsubishi Might Max going to Safeway. Seems the Leaf won't move when it is this cold.

It is possible it is operator error. She didn't impress me as to her automobile knowledge and I'm not interested in looking into her vehicle problems.

Crazy Like A Fox?

Once again WSF goes down the rabbit hole with political speculation. You have been warned.

Why are the Democrats going ape shit? Makes no sense on the surface.

When President Trump was running, he dominated the news, for free, with Twitter. (Full disclosure. I don’t have a Twitter account, wouldn’t know how to use it, don’t want one, and only know what those who have accounts share). He kept the Main Stream Maggots in an uproar and his name was constantly in front of the public. Still uses it. Are others trying to copy, with a twist?

The (P)regressives are past masters at deflection, distortion, showing confusion, discord, smearing and outright lying. Until President Trump came along it was all going their way. They still haven’t recovered. Worse, from their point of view, the mid-terms brought in a whole crop of new people that, “Don’t have no proper fetchings”.

Pelosi, Schumer, their staffs and allies are damn smart and cunning. What to do? Use the nutjob New York bartender and the banko failed Georgia governor candidate, et al, to be their “Trump Twitter”. Let them dominate the news keeping the great unwashed distracted while they conduct business as usual.

These new comers are getting some “plum” committee assignments. Pelosi is betting they have no staying power and a year from now will find they have all the influence of a middle school student council on the running of the school.

Meanwhile, we of a rule of law bent need to ignore the monkeys and the circus. Instead, we need to keep our focus on the ringmasters, IMO.

A New Blogger on My Reading List

My grand niece has started blogging and I’m proud to list her.

This young lady (third from left – back row) is making her way toward a university degree playing soccer. Division III to be sure but she won’t graduate with a six figure student load debt.

Two years ago she and two classmates made it to my sister’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. Bright well mannered women, as we talked I realized we had nearly zero in common. My history was an unknown world to them as was theirs to me.

When it came time to scatter my mother’s cremains, she came with her mother and mother’s significant other. During that time we “connected” so to speak and I was even more impressed.

Her mother, my niece, is a Progressive. She is also that gutsy person in Public Health going out at night on the mean streets of Reno working to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases. Anyone who has that kind of grit can have any political view they want, IMO.

If you care to see into the world of an articulate millennium, go read LESSONSFROMMYEXES.blogspot.com. Let us hope she continues her blog.

Maybe leave a comment. We old people are allowed to do so.

For Coffypot

https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/frederick-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-marijuana-possession-after-skipping-out-on-12-waffle-house-tab/

Maybe a coincidence, that one Waffle House has closed. Now there is only one in Northern Colorado. Fort Collins at Hwy 14 and I-25.

Thank you, President Trump

Going over some records, noticed I'm paying about $8 less per fill up compared to two years ago.

Now if we could get rid of ethanol.

The Move

Done!  Thursday I picked up a small U Haul truck. Cost me $59 for the day (I always take their overpriced insurance – still about the price of a case of beer). Hired two men out of a temp labor shop. Both were “on paper” but were decent workers. Two loads for the five miles between the old digs and the new place. One more trip to take my middle son’s stuff to a storage shed I’ve rented for years.

He’s moved out a year and a half ago but still hasn’t picked up all of his stuff. (Yeah, I know I shouldn’t let him slide but I’m an indulgent parent).

The new place is quite nice. Brad new. All of us here are the very first residents.

https://hamiltonpropertiescorporation.com/locations/peakview-trails

Once again my dislike of the government, at any level, was reinforced. The place is operated by the county housing authority. One vastly overworked woman was on site to process the 96 units. 

A “compliance” officer located in Denver had to sign off on everything. Said functionary wanted “pay stubs”. Fuck! It has been years since I worked a job with pay stubs.  Getting the paperwork in the fashion wanted was a PITA. They had already decided as a productive citizen I made too much money. Dropped the medical courier job and had document that. It wasn’t until Wednesday afternoon, 1/30 I was approved. I had to be out of where I was living 1/31.

Courtesy of my sister I had a plan “B”. Those who know me well know how much I hate “pulling things out of my ass”. I plan, checklist, timetable, etc. Many readers will understand I operate in a CPA/CPM method.

 My sister calls this over thinking.

While I dropped the medical courier job, I continued to work off the books until they found a replacement. Spent today training him. Now I really am done.

The unpacking and organizing will consume the coming week.

About 2/3s of the residents are females, all over 62. Many have ankle biter dogs. Several are busy organizing this and that. I suspect my social life will take an uptick. 

Maybe more?