What's annoying you today?

[creep]

i am currently on a live chat with the california tax board. they messed up my taxes and i think i am chatting with etty. stupid questions and the grammar is horrible. they also take 10 minutes to answer.

this is the last message

How many times you sent your 2016 tax return?

is there a possible answer other than 1?

[Hype]

i am currently on a live chat with the california tax board. they messed up my taxes and i think i am chatting with etty. stupid questions and the grammar is horrible. they also take 10 minutes to answer.

this is the last message

How many times you sent your 2016 tax return?

is there a possible answer other than 1?

They write like people talk!

[SR]

Speak to youself

[nausearockpig]

people generally, but specifically today those who are rude, unhelpful and disingenuous.

[Pandemonium]

i am currently on a live chat with the california tax board. they messed up my taxes and i think i am chatting with etty. stupid questions and the grammar is horrible. they also take 10 minutes to answer.

this is the last message

How many times you sent your 2016 tax return?

is there a possible answer other than 1?

The flip side to this is we filed our state and federal taxes online (via Turbo Tax) the first week of February and got both our refunds direct deposited within a week. Up until about 3 years ago, we always had a CPA do our taxes and it finally got the the point (like everything else) we just figured we could handle it ourselves.

[creep]

i am currently on a live chat with the california tax board. they messed up my taxes and i think i am chatting with etty. stupid questions and the grammar is horrible. they also take 10 minutes to answer.

this is the last message

How many times you sent your 2016 tax return?

is there a possible answer other than 1?

The flip side to this is we filed our state and federal taxes online (via Turbo Tax) the first week of February and got both our refunds direct deposited within a week. Up until about 3 years ago, we always had a CPA do our taxes and it finally got the the point (like everything else) we just figured we could handle it ourselves.

i've used turbo tax for the last ten years. makes everything super easy.

i was supposed to get both of my refunds within about a week....got the federal

[Pandemonium]

My desert/box tortoise escaped from my yard and got squashed by a car on the street corner.

It originally wandered into my yard almost exactly 9 years ago, no doubt escaped from someone's yard but no one ever claimed it. Unfortunately, it was always trying to escape, either digging tunnels in the garden or even climbing up on bushes, but it never actually got out of my yard. It disappeared a couple weeks ago and I thought it went back into hibernation but when it got sunny and warm this week, it seemed weird it wasn't roaming around so yesterday after not finding it anywhere in the yard, I took a walk and found its remains on our corner intersection.

[nausearockpig]

That fucking sucks. Sorry to hear this.

[Matz]

[Pandemonium]

That fucking sucks. Sorry to hear this.

Yeah, turtle kinda followed Jane's post-Y2K career arc.....

Strays - Great Escape Artist - Dead on the Street.

[dannyboy]

Sorry about your turtle.

I was given a stray tortoise last summer just after i moved to italy. I originally said no but my friend said his dad was just gonna let it go into the wild and i thought it would be fairly low maintenance. I was wrong, tortoises are evil geniuses. He escaped a bunch of times from his enclosure and a bunch of times I was worried about him in the middle of the night during epic thunder storms and went out in my pants to check on him.

All winter I've been stressed about how he's doing hibernating but I dug him out the other day and he seems fine! (btw, his name is Linford Navarro Daglish, and actually i think he's a girl!)

On an unrelated note, I'll tell you what annoys me ... on kids TV, in that part between cartoons when they read out and show the birthday cards which kid's the family has spent obviously spent hours making and then they show a little disclaimer saying that they don't return any cards which are sent in. That sucks! Couldn't an intern do it?

[Artemis]

A friend of mine in Las Vegas has a tortoise called, Mulder.

(The dog is Vincent.)

[wally]

not really annoying as much as it is disturbing and sad, but someone I worked with for about 10 years and considered a friend decided to end his life in a tragically horrific way.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/0 ... -shooting/

He was laid off from his job of nearly 20 years about a year ago and went downhill from there.
I wasn't aware he was going through a divorce but I guess that stuff started about a month or so ago.
I feel so bad for his wife and daughter.
fuck.

[Larry B.]

Fuck, that's awful.

[Artemis]

Fuck, that's awful.

My sentiments exactly.

Sorry to hear this news about your friend, wally. Maybe he had some mental health issues already and the loss of his job and wife pushed him over the edge.

[mockbee]

[SR]

Crazy game. O really didn't score except the FT's and couldn't rebound anything yet were in the game. Then the UNC missed frees....weird.

Go ZAGA!

[nausearockpig]

Pretty sure I've lost my cap. I've had it for 15+ years and it's gone... I had it in the car and I'm sure I put it in the door recess pocket thing, and I guess when I opened the door at some point it fell out and I didn't notice.

I have a replacement that my wife bought me but it's not the same. it doesn't have the elastic thing on the inside, rather it has those clip things at the back, and it's too big on my head - too high so it pushes my ears out if I push it all the way down on my head.. plus it's all rigid and tight....

sigh...

[Artemis]

Water in the basement!

Yesterday, after heavy rain for a couple of days.
This is facing the front of the house. That cupboard is where the water meter is and directly below the front porch. Outside there's a downspout which appears to be clogged, water barely come out. The eavestroughs were overflowing and running down the front of the house. I'm not sure if that would have caused this flooding though. It could be a foundation issue too, not sure. It's not a sewer backup as there is no smell.




Today, I cleared out some junk and saw the carpet was also wet by the wall. This is also facing the front of the house, in the corner.



I wetvacced the carpet and have a humidifer goin to try to soak up the moisture.

Next week a guy is coming to clean/check the eaves and downspouts.

I also have to find some companies that deal with basements and foundations. I have no experience in this area. I fear if it's a foundation issue, it'll be a big and expensive job to fix. The house(my mom's) is a semi and at least 70 years old.

[creep]

Most likely once you clean the gutters and the downspouts you should be fine?? With the water overflowing it can seep down the foundation walls. You also want to make sure that the dirt or whatever is surrounding the house slopes away from the house. The overflowing gutters could have eroded a slope away. Also make sure to get it really dry because the last thing you want is a mold problem.

[Hype]

If you have a couple cheap newer (i.e. safer) fan+space-heater combos I'd run those near the wettest areas, too.

[kv]

Fans for sure....Get a big cheap box fan and run it till dry...Tilt it on angle towards the floor

[Pandemonium]

Art, do you have homeowners insurance? It may or may not be covered because homeowners insurance and flood insurance covered specific water damage issues but the insurance company might at least be able to nail down what the problem is at less cost then you going it alone. Like Creep mentioned, mold is the big long term issue along with rot in any wood behind the walls unless it's like a brick/concrete bunker style basement. Whoever works the problem should have to tear out some of the wall to definitively determine what sort of damage you have. Because you mention the water meter is directly above the area were you have water, I'd bet it's a cracked or rotted pipe leak of some sort, probably running inside the wall. Good luck, these things aren't fun to deal with.

[creep]

Driving down the road today my ball joint decided to come out making me unable to steer.

[nausearockpig]

Jesus. I assume you're ok though? No nasty no-streering related accidents?