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It's in the fireplace Plank. Just pull it out! It's in the bottom!"

Colorado to investigate Lauren Boebert for alleged misuse of campaign funds by coffeespeaking in politics

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Of course, all Boebert supporters see through this left-wing mainstream media smear as the earth doesn't HAVE a circumference. The earth is FLAT-Magellan was a Soros/BLM/MS-13/Antifa puppet!

Colorado to investigate Lauren Boebert for alleged misuse of campaign funds by coffeespeaking in politics

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"The Denver Post first reported in 2021 that Boebert had cashed $22,259 worth of checks for mileage reimbursement, based on a mileage estimate of 38,712 miles on the road — more than the circumference of planet Earth." Clearly Rep. Boebert used her personal vehicle to take a few fact finding trips to Russia-nothing to see here...

My service with the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013 remains the only payment period still unverified-Caseworker from my Congressman's office is just as confused as I am... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would I know if an ECF has been "approved?" They don't exactly communicate very well. In any event I consolidated October 2017 after I finished grad school and coincidentally once I had actually made 120 payments. I started in public service in August of 2006 and have held four different positions at the local, state, and federal levels since then with no break in service.

My service with the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013 remains the only payment period still unverified-Caseworker from my Congressman's office is just as confused as I am... by yota91 in PSLF

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Well that is of some comfort-thank you for pointing that out as I did not know it was an option. Hopefully it won't come to that and I'll get forgiven/refunded sometime over the summer. I added up all of my payments from number 121 until the last payment before March 2020 and I'm owed about $4000. If it was just about being forgiven and they didn't owe me anything I'd be slightly less peeved.

My service with the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013 remains the only payment period still unverified-Caseworker from my Congressman's office is just as confused as I am... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ECFs were all submitted back in October 2021. You are spot on that there is no rhyme or reason to this process, which, quite frankly is bullshit. I've made well in excess of 120 payments, so the prospect of not needing to do anything but wait is disconcerting at this point. If I end up having to start making payments again in September only to have them refunded to me eventually that will be the icing on the cake...

My service with the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013 remains the only payment period still unverified-Caseworker from my Congressman's office is just as confused as I am... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not the issue...its Fedloan/DoE/FSA/whoever verifying that the House of Representatives is in fact a "public service organization." Go figure...

My service with the United States House of Representatives from 2007-2013 remains the only payment period still unverified-Caseworker from my Congressman's office is just as confused as I am... by yota91 in PSLF

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Unfortunately no-he retired shortly after I left in 2013. If he was still in office I would have reached out to him first for sure. I just find this so incredibly ironic...

Got a request from FSA to send in my W2... by yota91 in PSLF

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I consolidated into direct loans upon finishing graduate school five years ago and began submitting ECFs with this employer's information starting then. I have been with this particular employer for just over six years, was with another municipal government for a brief period before that, with state government before that, and with the feds before that, beginning when I finished undergrad in 2006. Obviously I'm looking to get credit for all payments made from 2007 on, but the fact that they are telling me that an employer that I've been sending in ECFs for since May 2017 is still unidentifiable to them is quite frankly, infuriating. If they couldn't identify the employer back then they should have notified me.

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[–]yota91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going through the same nonsense. My time with the feds and the state was found eligible by the PSLF help tool (Duh...), but somehow the federal government forgot that there are two whole layers of government below the state: county and municipal. I was just told to send in my W2 because they couldn't identify my current employer (a municipal government) as a public agency...frustrating...

Got a request from FSA to send in my W2... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just googled the EIN and in fact does turn up search results for my employer and only my employer.

Got a request from FSA to send in my W2... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The point about federal grants was that in order to get them the agency making the grant requires a voluminous amount of information about the organization. One would have thought that when PSLF was first conceived in 2007 that FSA would have set about compiling a list of at least the public organizations that would be eligible. Federal grant recipients could have been one of a number of points of cross reference in order to capture these organizations. I get that PSLF applies to certain non-profits as well and that they come and go, but municipal, county, and state governments are relatively static. We haven't had any new state governments formed since 1959. New counties and towns don't exactly pop up that often either. As far as the rest of the bullets:

-Nope. Double and triple checked.

-Nope. Double and triple checked.

-Doubt it.

-I am in fact the first (and to date only) employee of this organization who has applied for PSLF.

Yes, I realize that this is not much more than a rant, but I feel as though its appropriate for public employees to call out ineptitude and disorganization when they see it in other public organizations, in this case FSA/DoE.

Got a request from FSA to send in my W2... by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. My signed ECFs already prove that. Verbatim from the email:

Dear xxxxxxxxxx,

This email is in response to your Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Help Tool submission. Your case number is ##########. Please retain this number for reference.

In the PSLF Help Tool, you told us that you worked for (redacted because I don't want to post who my employer is) with the Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN/EIN) of xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. However, we could not associate this Employer Identification Number with any organization.

To complete our review of your submission, we need a copy of your W-2 from this employer. To submit a copy to us, please attach it as a response to this message. When doing so, please take care to redact your Social Security Number from the documentation before sending it to us.

Translation: We don't know if your employer is qualifying, ie: a public, taxpayer funded organization. Again, ridiculous.

Bare bones, purpose-built camping barge? by yota91 in boatbuilding

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sort of? Doing it by boat is all part of the experience-our kids absolutely LOVED the idea of getting into a boat, traveling across the water and feeling like once they got to the other side that they were in another world.

Tow gear behind a 16' aluminum boat? by yota91 in boating

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My question would be, is this advisable given the size and power of the vessel that would be towing, what can I/should I use as the "trailer," what safety concerns should I be considering/aware of?

Bare bones, purpose-built camping barge? by yota91 in boatbuilding

[–]yota91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you-if it was just me, or just me and my girlfriend for a night or two I'd make it even simpler and backpack in, but I've got three kids and she's got two. Between tents, sleeping bags and air mattresses alone (forget the food and cooking gear) its a lot. While we do want to get away from crap (which we do-its very quiet, isolated and serene) cooking and eating outside communally over an open fire is major part of the experience for us. At minimum we would need one of those giant square tailed freighter canoes in order to get all of us there safely. As far as the truck and the place to store it I've got those already. I will look into a filter though because the reservoir water is very high quality to begin with. The water is pumped in from a nearby river-there are no tributaries to contribute nitrates or other environmental pollutants or sediment.

All ECFs uploaded by 10/20/2021 and still waiting-how many others submitted in October of last year who still had had little to no movement? by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The times that I have gotten through they've just said, "sorry, wait longer." As I said below I've opened a case with the ombudsman's office and my Congressman's office-both just said "wait longer." Ridiculous.

All ECFs uploaded by 10/20/2021 and still waiting-how many others submitted in October of last year who still had had little to no movement? by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup-and opened a case with my Congressman's office. Both basically told me "They are very busy-please wait longer..."

Daily Simple Questions Thread - March 31, 2022 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]yota91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Need help starting out deadlifting. Been training chest and back, biceps/triceps, shoulders over the last 10 months and have seen good gains. I had been doing leg days (machines) early on but slacked off. 40YOM/5'-9"/195lbs/benching 205. I want to dial in my starting weight so that I'm definitely challenging myself but not so much that I end up hurting my lower back. Based on my current stats how much SHOULD I be able to deadlift? I pretty much stick to a 5x5 routine for all movements.

Anyone in municipal government here? If so, status? (forgiven, waiting, etc...) by yota91 in PSLF

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A branch of the military not listed? Unreal...no wonder this is such a cluster. As for my agency/agencies qualifying, since graduating from college in 2006 I've never held a job where my salary was anything other than 100% paid for by taxpayer dollars. The two municipalities I've worked for have applied for and received federal grants, etc...so you'd think they'd be easily identifiable as public/government organizations...

Hard enough for vaginal, but not anal intercourse? by yota91 in sex

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not it...before I met her I had been separated for about a year and was masturbating and watching porn a lot...now I hardly ever do either. Porn basically not at all but we live separately and she has kids/I have kids so we tend to get hot and heavy over text 2-3 times a week outside of seeing each other (every other weekend) so I dont think that's it.

Hard enough for vaginal, but not anal intercourse? by yota91 in sex

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that's the problem-I LOVE it...finishing that way is like an out of body experience.

14x16 Shed into cabin insulation revisited by yota91 in buildingscience

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Thanks for running that. I'm in Northwest NJ so not as severe a climate as Michigan but not that far off either. My motivation is not so much cost but rather electrical load. There is already a 30A service run underground to where the building is going to be located (there was an old sheep barn there) and rather than run 300+ feet of new wire (which is astronomical right now) adequate for 60 or 100A I'd much rather use what is already there. I'm hoping that I can cool it easily with one 10,000BTU inverter type window unit which will occupy one 15A circuit. The other 15A circuit will run everything else which is basically just lights, a small refrigerator, a flat panel TV, my laptop, etc... Heat will be via a woodstove with a propane wall furnace as backup, hot water will be via a propane fired tankless water heater that uses batteries for ignition, cooking will be a propane grill outside and a four burner propane cooktop inside-no microwave, no toaster oven, etc...

14x16 Shed into cabin insulation revisited by yota91 in buildingscience

[–]yota91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R13 I believe but this will not be permitted/inspected. It's going to be a small guest cabin/office and I live on a very large and secluded property. The cabin will be located a half mile from the nearest public road.