{"id":417,"date":"2004-03-22T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=417"},"modified":"2004-03-22T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T19:37:23","slug":"bureaucratic_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratic Entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goddamnit. Something had to come along and foul up my mood before vacation. On Friday, I received a letter from my condo association saying I owed $900 in overdue association fees. I figure it must be a mistake because I always pay my fees on time. I call the management company this morning to straighten things out. I discover that my association fees had been raised by $20\/month in January. January, 2003<\/strong>. Why did I never find out about this? Because they were still sending billing statements to the previous owner of my place. So I’ve been unknowingly racking up late fees for over a year now. The management company waived the late fees after realizing their fuck-up, but insisted I had to pay the remaining $300 and some dollars. I wrote a letter of appeal to our Board, so we’ll see what happens. If I had a little less dignity, I’d play the “poor cripple” card, but I can’t bring myself to do that. I refuse to let this affect my trip, so I may just have to resort to a couple drug runs to Mexico. After all, who’s going to search the inside of my ventilator? Or I may have to start producing and selling some amateur porn on the Internet. Other ideas on how I can make some quick cash?
\nYou know, I’d like to think that Richard Clarke’s allegations<\/a> regarding the Bush Administration’s pre-9\/11 handling of counter-terrorism will piss off a lot of voters, but I think so much of this comes across as too wonky for the average American. It gives something for the talking heads to joust back and forth, but I think most people just want to know whether they’ll have a job in six months and how the hell they’ll pay for the next hike in their health insurance costs. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Kerry can find a way to spin it so that people sit up and start asking questions. But I’m not optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goddamnit. Something had to come along and foul up my mood before vacation. On Friday, I received a letter from my condo association saying I owed $900 in overdue association fees. I figure it must be a mistake because I always pay my fees on time. I call the management company this morning to straighten […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}