I was just about to make a token post here yesterday when I noticed a message from Google declaring that I needed to supply tax-related information as a result of having a Google AdSense account, or I would never again receive a payment.
To put this into perspective, I have $54.37 in my account, but nothing will ever be paid out until my balance reaches $100. And the last time that happened was back on October 23, 2016 when I was paid $101.23.
So, in the nearly 4½ years since that payment, I am not much more than halfway to qualifying for a next payment.
But Google was pushing to have me not only figure out what tax form I need to fill out as a Canadian, but even figure out how to complete it. I did my best, figuring that it was likely a W-8BEN.
As it was, I only had a little time to make a blog post, and this idiocy exhausted it. As a result, I never blogged yesterday.
My wife had been home that day, but in the early evening she went off to visit her close friend and employer who lives quite a distant drive from us.
Well, it seems that some wine was drunk. And of course, during my wife's drive back home, she naturally got pulled over.
The punchline is that she now has her car impounded (probably for 30 days at her expense), and she was issued a three-month driving suspension. But even then, it's going to take quite a few hundreds of dollars that we cannot afford for her to be able to be back on the road.
This VancouverCriminalLaw.com website for a lawyer outfit called Acumen Law purports to lay out what is in store for my wife: Quick Facts: 90-day Immediate Roadside Prohibitions IRP.
My wife was only working part-time in a Thai restaurant as it was, and now we don't have that little bit of income. And she had to phone her eldest son (26 years old) to go and pick her up last night, for I do not drive.
It is 11:10 a.m. as I type these words, and she is still in bed, so I expect that I will be learning a little more eventually.
Normally at this time I would be watching some T.V. with my younger brother this rather sunny day, but he hustled off around 10:15 a.m. to see one of his drinking buddies ("John") at the guy's home for some reason.
Since I have the free time, I opted to open up this post early; and now I am going to head on out to the backyard toolshed for a little exercise while I am still unencumbered.
I actually managed to sit in a lawn- or deckchair out on the backyard lawn for just over 40 minutes early this afternoon from 12:40 p.m., barefooted, and facing into the Sun. It was reasonably pleasant, apart from the neighbour's two damned dogs beyond our backyard fence hysterically barking at every little thing they could see or hear; and then some aggravating crow spending the last half of my time out there making the same two monotonous "caws" over and over and over until it seemed my hearing was being adversely affected, and my nerves frazzled.
This was my first exposure this year to sunshine like this. It looks as if my beard will be getting drastically trimmed before too long so that I can best benefit from the Sun's rays.
I feel like I am falling behind in my video-watching where the "Great Reset Summit" at Librti.com is concerned. I had planned to watch with my brother the final two interviews late this morning that were posted last evening.
Yesterday my brother and I saw the three from the previous evening:
- Salim Mansur - The Globalist Agenda & Mass Migration/Immigration (Mark Friesen interviewer • 1:02:24)
- Mark Moss - What Will a Cashless Society Look Like and What Can We Do To Prepare (Odessa Orlewics interviewer • 39:41)
- Maxime Bernier - UBI is Marxism (Mark Friesen interviewer • 27:40)
It's unfortunate that Salim Mansur struggled as much as he did in expressing himself ─ his interview could have otherwise been shortened to about half of what it was.
And speaking of T.V. fare as watched via our Android TV Box, last evening while enjoying a can of strong (8% alcohol) beer, I watched the final episode of Frontier. However, even though Wikipedia does not offer any mention that the episode ended 'wide open' and without very much resolution whatsoever, I have seen a few indications elsewhere that there may eventually be a fourth season.
The episode was actually more of a 'cliffhanger', for there were several storylines that were not finished. If the series does actually end where it seems to have, then this is just another of those heedless wastes of viewers' time. Series get cranked out, and then networks cancel them and leave the viewers cheated for being loyal, never knowing the fates of characters we have come to care about.
Canada certainly has some beautiful Indigenous Canadians ─ I was most impressed by Jessica Matten (her own website showcases her magnificently) and Ellyn Jade (whom I did not recognize as having been something of a regular in Vikings nor Letterkenny).
Back in the 1990s, I was a fan of North of 60, and thought that Tina Keeper was truly gorgeous. Why did I have to live in the thick of society and its overdevelopment instead of someplace with a natural environment as pure and wholesome as that?
Unfortunately, this is where my only hope of employment was. And now I am a 71-year-old falling into decline much too apace.
Okay, back to my wife.
She never emerged from our bedroom until nigh 3:15 p.m. Initially I suspect that she assumed I was ignoring her and maybe even angry, but I was just eating by myself in the living room. Her eldest stepson was home, but I think that the younger lad likely had to work today.
When I finally finished my meal, I went to her where she was seated at the dining table reading her driving suspension paperwork, and I gave her a bit of a hug and some sincerely-meant consoling words like, "Poor thing!"
Unfortunately for me, my meal included a 250-mg niacin hit; and very soon, I was experiencing that wretched overall prickling flush that ultimately forced me to resort to my brother's bed to lie as still as I could with earplugs and a bandana blindfold to try and slip into a bit of a nap.
I was probably down for around an hour. When I came forth from the bedroom, I was home alone. My wife is going to be getting quite a lot of time with her sons hence since they will have to drive her about to do things like shopping and her other errands.
I gave her some additional bad news, incidentally. I noticed today online that a banking account of hers had $100 taken from it. From what I can tell, the banking institution is only recognizing a recent deposit she had made as being $1,500 instead of the $1,600 she had punched in.
I am not positive, but the deposit might have been in cash, so she will of course be unable to prove that she did indeed deposit $1,600 if she in fact had supplied that higher figure and there was not some shenanigans going on behind the scenes.
She had needed to negotiate that deposit the same day, and was then left with something over $70 as her balance. Thus, the institution claimed back that remaining figure and has left her with a negative balance of something over $28.
I suspect that next they will be hitting her with a charge for some version of non-sufficient funds. I may be wrong on the potential figure for one of those, but it might be as much as $48.
Anyway, she is now back home at 5:46 p.m. Her eldest son basically just dropped her off and has left again, so I am going to wrap up this post for today.
I do want to say before I go that I feel nearly as 'put upon' as does my wife about the enormously expensive Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) and now this latest considerably smaller financial blow. Apart from the monthly mortgage coming up around the 22nd for $1,854.78, our annual utilities bill is due April 6 for $1,855 ─ that's in effect an amount equal to a sudden duplicate mortgage payment!
We're not catching the good breaks ─ only the 'bone-breakers'.
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