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Struggling
May. 20th, 2009 02:15 pmI may be posting a bit less often in the near future, for the mere reason of lack of inspiration. Nothing of interest is happening to me, nothing of much interest is going on in world economics (in the sense that things are all progressing roughly along predictable lines) and writing up poker hands is just a bit of a bore.
Geoff emailed me to inform me that he had now received four tax codes on me from HM Customs (I knew this, as I filed all four of them at the weekend) and that "the most recent is the most crap". I assume that I should be glad that they are under-taxing me AGAIN, but it's all debt being built up for eventual payment. Let's hope they get round to collecting it before I retire.
On a different continent, the IRS is overtaxing me, in the sense that Schwab has decided to ignore the W8 form that I sent them, thus leaving me subject to US withholding tax. It's only pennies, so I haven't bothered writing to them, but I really ought to get my act in gear. Need to renew my AA membership this evening as well. It's just such a pain phoning them up, because the AA person at the other end is determined to offer you everything else available via the AA (I seem to recall that last time they actually asked me when my car insurance expired...) before hanging up. So you patiently have to say "No" 5,000 times. Perhaps this evening I'll pretend that the Chinese takeaway delivery boy is at the door.
Smile is quite smiley as a bank, despite its attempts to get you to switch to services that offer you stuff you don't need at a higher cost. But for some strange reason it insists on sending me two tax invoices for my savings account, and none for my current account. It does this every year.
I've had four losing days on the trot at poker, with no loss greater than $78 (i.e., hardly registering on the Ricvhter scale of poker losses at more than 2.8). But it does get tedious. Oh, and I've been running bad those four days as well. You know, there might be eight or nine all-ins against a short-to-medium-stacker (about 50 times you get them to fold, but sometimes you don't, and you need to get lucky) where you need to hit an eight- or nine-outer to win. You expect one or two of those to come up, but I haven't smegged a thing. I then managed to lose an all-in with 77 against QQ on an unthreatening 237 board, without a Queen appearing on either the turn or river. "Standard" the experienced poker players will say, while it might be a bit of a poser for the more casual player...
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Geoff emailed me to inform me that he had now received four tax codes on me from HM Customs (I knew this, as I filed all four of them at the weekend) and that "the most recent is the most crap". I assume that I should be glad that they are under-taxing me AGAIN, but it's all debt being built up for eventual payment. Let's hope they get round to collecting it before I retire.
On a different continent, the IRS is overtaxing me, in the sense that Schwab has decided to ignore the W8 form that I sent them, thus leaving me subject to US withholding tax. It's only pennies, so I haven't bothered writing to them, but I really ought to get my act in gear. Need to renew my AA membership this evening as well. It's just such a pain phoning them up, because the AA person at the other end is determined to offer you everything else available via the AA (I seem to recall that last time they actually asked me when my car insurance expired...) before hanging up. So you patiently have to say "No" 5,000 times. Perhaps this evening I'll pretend that the Chinese takeaway delivery boy is at the door.
Smile is quite smiley as a bank, despite its attempts to get you to switch to services that offer you stuff you don't need at a higher cost. But for some strange reason it insists on sending me two tax invoices for my savings account, and none for my current account. It does this every year.
I've had four losing days on the trot at poker, with no loss greater than $78 (i.e., hardly registering on the Ricvhter scale of poker losses at more than 2.8). But it does get tedious. Oh, and I've been running bad those four days as well. You know, there might be eight or nine all-ins against a short-to-medium-stacker (about 50 times you get them to fold, but sometimes you don't, and you need to get lucky) where you need to hit an eight- or nine-outer to win. You expect one or two of those to come up, but I haven't smegged a thing. I then managed to lose an all-in with 77 against QQ on an unthreatening 237 board, without a Queen appearing on either the turn or river. "Standard" the experienced poker players will say, while it might be a bit of a poser for the more casual player...
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