{"id":598,"date":"2005-03-18T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=598"},"modified":"2005-03-18T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T17:42:00","slug":"home-again-and-more-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Home again, and more taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, watch this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckykazoo.com\/media\/2005\/03\/cillit-bang-remix.html\">piece of genius<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>Then read <a href=\"http:\/\/alaskanalpineclub.org\/IceWall\/04-05IceWall1.html\">about these guys<\/a>.  There&#8217;s one picture with humans in it to give an idea of scale.<\/p>\n<p>Today was better than yesterday, but not much.  I again spent the morning with my laptop connected to a projector, with three system admins watching on the projector as I wrestled with building a cluster.  It would have been better if two of them had made any pretense of having a reason to be there.  At least the senior one was helpful and interactive.  <\/p>\n<p>Got home to a $2400 unpaid real estate tax bill.  What?  I thought that my mortgage was escrowing for this!  Even better, had that been paid through 2004, it would have reduced my taxable income, resulting in a refund from the feds.  Gah.  Time to ask the H&#038;R Block person if we can amend or something.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Edit<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Called Wells Fargo this morning, and they&#8217;re taking care of the tax bill.  Their position is that they were responsible for getting the taxes paid, and so they&#8217;re responsible for the late fees and interest.  They&#8217;re paying the full amount due out of our escrow account to avoid further fees.  When the time comes to rebalance the escrow account, they&#8217;ll adjust our monthly payment to make sure that we&#8217;re paying it off on time this year.    Our monthly payments will increase (to what they should have been (had our &#038;^$^$&#038;%$ closing attorney done his $^$^%# job right), but I don&#8217;t need to front the money now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, watch this piece of genius. Then read about these guys. There&#8217;s one picture with humans in it to give an idea of scale. Today was better than yesterday, but not much. I again spent the morning with my laptop connected to a projector, with three system admins watching on the projector as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}