Cogg’s Neighborhood

Go forth and fill your libraries with media.

Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.

~daisy

I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.

I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.

Cheers,

daisy

Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.

We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.

I will keep you posted.

Thank you for being so patient.

~daisy

Blog Action Day

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Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.

This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!

Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.

Can't wait to read your posts!

~ daisy

This week on "God radically turning my life upside down." Dun dun DUN. Intimacy yep I said it. INTIMACY. *scary ghost sounds* Now I know some of you are thinking "What's the big deal?" Well obviously you are ridiculous and abnormal. For the rest of us I will refer from now on to it as the "I" word. I realized on a major level this week how much I sensor myself which is so infuriating. (And yes infuriating is a word, I decided) I pride myself on being very honest and to the point. I wear my "honesty" badge with pride. 

I think I'm going to start to blog. Obviously this will be very very sporadic as I have little time. Also I plan on it being very random and to the point. A lot like myself. Grammar and spelling will be horrific. Don't take anything personal and don't have high expectations. Thoughts to come soon.....

Clusterfuck. Sure, I don't update this thing unless there's been some crazy shit goin' down, but there's been tons of it.

First off, some good stuff. The band I joined have finally recorded an EP, have them professionally reproduced and have shirts as well. We've played a few shows now and it's been great, we're on hiatus at the moment due to Josh's other obligations until about half way through October, but we'll be picking things back up then. We have 6 completed songs that has become our setlist and it gives up from 35 to 40 minutes of stage time. I still think we need to perfect October Mourning to throw that into the mix at some gigs and work on some new material instead of just riding on the 6 we have right now, but I like to write, so whatever.

Anyway, that's the good stuff. The bad stuff mostly focuses around Virginia's family and the craziness that ensues there. There's miscommunication, subterfuge, lies and now straight out attacks.

To start with, I'll say that I've never liked John. At all. All other people who have dealt with him in the past say the same thing. There's just something not quite right with him. I get a feeling of uneasyness. So, years ago, he latched onto Marilyn (Virginia's mom) that he met from going to that church before it exploded. They conceived a child (Travis) and shortly after, John was fired from his job, convicted of stealing tools from the company and sent to prison for a couple years. At that time, I didn't really pay attention to anything, I couldn't really say if he did or not, but since he was convicted, that's the story I'm going with.

This left Marilyn to raise Travis for those years essentially by herself, and I believe that John was supposed to be paying back child support for someone (I'm assuming Chiloh, but I never really talked to her about any of that). Being that he was already screwed and paying back child support, and being sent to prison meant that he couldn't keep up with those payments and it severely messed him up. He is not eligible for anything involving credit, and since Marilyn is married to him, she's in the same boat too.

This was the last I'd heard about things other then that sometimes Marilyn would borrow money from Sean. I lost track of all of that stuff when I moved to Sacramento in 2002.

Enter 2008 when I move to Denver. They're living in Denver too, and apparently have had financial trouble ever since. Some times being better than others, but from what I've been hearing, Sean has had to bail them out of all sorts of financial troubles through the years, and it seems like their tactic has been to widthold information until the last minute so that they wouldn't have time to react besides just cough up the money (none of which has ever been paid back).

There has been at least two situations in the past couple of years in which they needed money to pay a bill before collectors come or they're without power, etc that Sean could not help because he has a damned family to take care of himself and they didn't have the money to help. At those times, their church stepped in to offer what they could.

This brings us up to the present. Sometime about 2 months ago it seems that they decided that they didn't have to pay rent anymore... not just be late about it, but they just flat out stopped paying their fucking rent. They had the same income coming in to the house, nothing else had changed, but they didn't tell anyone that they were in trouble, didn't discuss anything, nor have they tried to apply for financial aid from government agencies (that they're eligible for and put off and refuse to do). So, their landlord finally had it, and gave them 3 weeks to come up with ONE of their past months of rent ($700). They wait on it and wait on it, until there's 5 fucking days left before they come to Sean asking for the money. Sean's been broke for 4 months now due to speeding tickets, Kaelin's schooling requirements and other various things.

So, they start asking everybody for money, they get V to annoy people on facebook and myspace. Now, I had $50 that I could have given toward their rent and I chose not to, and I'll tell ya why. One, they've been taking other people's money for so damned long that it means nothing to them. They will not use that money to good effect and to help them re-establish themselves, the next time a rent payment is due, they'd be in the same situation and that money would have been useless. Two, it's not my fucking responsibility. I had to hide John's facebook messages a couple weeks ago, because it was nothing except day after day of bible verses about helping thy neighbor and sad emo bullshit. And three. They could have helped themselves looooong ago. Welfare, Section8, even non-profit foundations that are more than willing to help them, and they've just blown it off all these years, and why do you think that is? When they need money, they've been able to coax it out of others. Fuck that, fuck them and fuck everything.

So, what happened? The church turned them down for financial help because they've used that avenue too many times in the past and they've been evicted from their home. As a result of this, John has apparently gone a bit crazy and has spread some slander against Sean and Virginia to their church, getting far too many people involved than is necessary. If all this had happened to me, I would find out first hand what the difference is between the exit wounds of starfire and hollowpoint rounds from a 9mm.

Let me also state that John seem to keep a job for more than a month or two at best, if he even looks for them. That family just seems to be great at destroying good opportunities around them.

The other frustration I've been dealing with is PG&E. There's been a bill that's apparently gone to collections in my name, but it's for an account that was accidentally opened and had been properly transferred to the proper account and mine was closed. When my account was closed, there was no mention of a balance due, just an "ok, is there anything else I can do for you?" Much less, there was a phone number attached to that account, that being Adgee's phone and there was no call to her at any point about a past due bill.

After countless hours of calling the collectors and PG&E, we have finally sorted the bill out, $120-something was improperly transferred to the other account, so that was taken care of, and the other $50 was owed through the other addresses of Rancho Cordova and Fairfield where they had lived prior to moving. These charges were never seen to be billed to the account even though they existed and that was the money that I apparently owed for after the clarification. The $54-something had been paid over the phone by Adgee after that had been dealt with (with both of us on the phone so that we could officially get information on each other's accounts). The problem I'm fighting with now is that PG&E is still throwing that on my credit report as a paid collection even though it never seemed to have been billed properly, nor did they let the account owner know of this balance due at the time the account was closed. That, and PG&E and the collectors have issues communicating, so I got called a couple days later by the collectors and had a fun time trying to calm the operator down so I could explain the error on PG&E's part and that the debt has been paid regardless.

At the end of the day, I guess having a collections paid on my credit rating isn't the worst thing ever, but it's already screwed up the two cards I have jacking their interest well over 20%, this was before the status of "paid collection" has been applied though. This is still the EXACT reason why I wanted them to move the PG&E account into their name YEARS ago, but they didn't want to pay the security deposit I guess they needed to pay to start it up in their name... well, I've paid a DEAR cost toward their security deposit in the end, and I'm really not happy about it.

And my shoes have essentially shit the bed. the insoles have become ratty and smell like death depending on what socks I'm wearing on any given day. The insides are just as messed up as the outsides are, so I don't want to pay the ~70 it takes to get them resoled right now. I'm in the market for some boots, probably harness boots. Cheapest ones I've found in my size are $130 and they'll go right up to $240. But I need 'em, so I'll have to deal with it, possibly get my rack at a little later date, we won't be playing gigs 'til halfway through October anyway, so I guess I have plenty of time. Can't wait for payday.

The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.

Have a great weekend,

daisy, Team Vox

In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.

Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.

Thanks! :)

daisy