Archive for January, 2008
My landlady stopped by today to tell me that they’ve put my building up for sale.
My childhood was pretty nomadic – I’ve lived in this place longer than I’ve ever lived anywhere before. This is the first place I’ve ever had that truly was a home. My home.
Now, it’s for sale and I’m helpless. [...]
This sort of sums up this particular winter storm – it’s not just that it’s rainy and windy, but it’s rainy with an occasional strong gust of wind. There’s just enough time between gusts to give you and your umbrella a false sense of security and then…Pow!
You’re left standing in a downpour with an inside-out-brella, [...]
The anklebiter (the small dog I found) was kept by her ‘foster’ home – so I still have visitation rights and I don’t have to pick up poo! Best of both worlds!
The toilet is fixed.
I’m appealing my unemployment denial, and when I got the statement from unemployment about contributions, I saw that Axium reported none [...]
Today I got a very important piece of mail – the statement from the pension and health plan which tallies my qualifying hours for the previous semester.
As previously mentioned, we have to work at least 300 hours every semester in order to keep our health insurance – we can ‘bank’ hours in excess of 300 [...]
Today’s LA Times hit me like a hammer*, and it wasn’t so much of a surprise as it was a confirmation in my not having much faith in humanity these days:
Go Here and Here
Of course the suits looted the company. Of course.
You know, if I lose my health insurance** and pension qualifying hours [...]
One of the wonderful commenters left this link:
http://axiumclosed.blogspot.com/
Sweeeeet. I’ll continue posting what I know here, but since I’m just a toolbelty schmuck, the above link might be a better source of information.
Oh, and my unemployment claim has been delayed for six weeks – about a year ago, I made an accounting error that resulted [...]
Over the weekend, the recent crash and burn of the Axium payroll company has been the subject of many panic-stricken phone calls and late nights spent rocking back and forth talking to oneself while clutching a bottle of cheap whiskey.
For tax and unemployment insurance purposes, when we work, we are technically employees of the payroll [...]
Since most of the awards shows and all the accompanying parties (so far) have been cancelled this year (plus the whole unemployment thing), I now have nothing to do except dig up the garden.
I don’t mean dig a little hole here and there, I mean really dig – this last round of being busy at [...]
Los Angeles is a desert-ish city.
Sure, we have the baking heat, tumbleweeds and single digit humidity, but we don’t get the monsoonal rains like a ‘real’ desert, so when any water at all comes down, the whole place grinds to a halt.
Drainage is poor, so even a fairly light rain (by the rest of the [...]
Instead of the normal list of completely unrealistic resolutions (“I will only eat healthy things” “I will always be nice to people” “I will not scream ‘cocksucker’ out the window of my car every three minutes”), this time I’ve decided to just be happy and make a list of things which I will not be [...]
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