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Last Wednesday I had a very important task to do when I got home. That task was to call the Internal Revenue Service in order to have the $17,000 that they say I owed them removed. A 1099 had been generated in 2006 against my personal Social Security number but I had filed all that income against my business taxes. I didn’t know about the 1099 and the IRS only recently notified me of the owed taxes, plus the penalties they have been charging since 2007.

So this phone call was going to an extremely important one. I arrived home to a very nasty storm outside. What it was really a feeder band for the hurricane that was hitting Texas at the moment. So with everything ready I prepared to make the call to the IRS.

“No service available”

WTF? My phone had no service, Rai’s phone had no service, Abra’s phone had no service. All three dead. I drove up the road to the in-laws. They had cell service, but I still didn’t. The difference being that we had 3G phones and they didn’t. I ended up calling the IRS on their land line. Only took 5 minutes to clarify with them how to removed the tax debt, yet I was on hold for over an hour to have the 5 minute discussions.

Same thing Thursday night. My phone service was fine in Orlando, but in Deland it wasn’t available. So we called AT&T. Another hour on the phone with them, changing conigurations, rebooting phones, etc nothing. So the tech transfered us over to another tech.

The second tech informed us they had just spent the last three hours on calls similar to ours. Seems the hurricane in Texas has sporadically wiped out service in Louisiana, and Florida. Now I’m not sure how that’s even possible since 15 miles south of here I get good reception. They opened a case for us so that the repair crews would look into it.

On Friday I got a text message from AT&T that problem had been fixed. Sure enough, when I got home I had phone reception.

It’s things like this that drive me absolutely mad.

IZEA has done some restructuring to improve efficiencies and along with it I was made a senior dev. In the role I’ll be given projects to manage which includes project development of requirements and project resources planning.

With this I’ll be able do both the things I love, project management and coding!

I’ve spent another weekend writing code on my off time. It’s a bad habit of mine that I understand. truthfully if I could find the key that brings the whole family together in what they want to do and have fun I would certainly throw the computer in the lake and be with the family. That being said we are all fine with doing what we want and need to.

Kel did give me a Father’s day present of her name in Egyptian Hieroglyphics and that was very cool.

While I punch away at the keys I can only keep in mind this one poem by and anonymous author:

What Makes a Dad

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle’s flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so,

He called it … Dad

Wishing you and your’s a Happy Fathers Day.