What an awesome day yesterday. My ball team gets mercied to the remnants of my old team before my ankle injuries, my Hawks lose to the Kings in game 7, and as I was untangling the long bars, one snapped back and got me on the forearm, and I’ve got to pitch tomorrow.
And apparently Rob Van Dam is still wrestling. He’s got to be up there. He’s apparently jobbing for some new(?) guy.
Oh well. This was largely to test out posting in the new forum.
So uh, I’m back. Got busy with offline stuff + wasn’t up for learning a new layout at the time, as well as my mental health taking a bit of a nosedive again.
But I’m back! …Hopefully. I’ve got a lot more time now that my move’s been settled and I’ve felt bad about suddenly disappearing and not even trying to check in (despite email notifs of news/updates/posts in the forum). I even got a new phone recently, one that actually is a smartphone and can do things like use the Maps application and doesn’t come with less than 4GB internal memory, so I’ll be able to check the forum while mobile again!
I’m hoping someone buys my house soon so I can get out of the sticks and move back into town. Then I could actually use the internet at home again.
And I won’t have to worry about oil prices again when it comes to heating my home. I’ll take this though. Mild weather and the lowest they’ve been since a few months after they implemented the HST here.
HST?
I live in southern Nevada, so while it’s cold, I don’t really need to heat the apartment that I moved into out here.
Oh! and I went to the Video Game Awards that were hosted last month? I got free tickets from Nintendo last minute, and went with a friend from work, since she’ll be moving soon. It was really fun seeing her freak out about every game and get all excited. xD [meanwhile I was like ‘i own none of these systems and never will until well after the games are in $15 bargain bins, there is little for me to be excite about :c’ ]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 
It’s already 5 minutes since 2015 started here.
And a belated happy new year from me as well!
also HECK YES IRIDIUM STUDIOS FINALLY ANNOUNCED A RELEASE DATE FOR “THERE CAME AN ECHO” AND STOR EPAGE FOR IT. SO EXCITE IT IS SOON, THERE WILL BE NO MONEY SPENT ON 3DS, ONLY ON A GAME WHOSE PLOT GENRE I WOULD NORMALLY HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF INTEREST IN.
SUPER EXCITE. CANNOT CAPSLOCK ENOUGH.
oh maaaaaaaaaaaaan
more Persona 5 news and a new trailer was released today
SO. MUCH. HYPE.
I love that interface too.
The HST is the Harmonized Sales Tax. They combined the federal sales tax (GST) with the provicial one (PST). Basically what happened then was they got rid of a bunch of exemptions. Also when they broght in the GST back in 1990, they would add that tax on to things that were basically already tax like stamps and other government fees.
When it came to gas prices here, there is a federal and provincial excise tax on gas (some of the larger cities like Montreal and Vancouver have their own as well. I think Rob Ford got rid of Toronto’s.) In ontario they work out to almost 25 cents a litre (or $1/gallon.) Let’s say the gas company is charging $.60/litre for themselves and the gas station. That brings the price up to $.85/litre. When they brought the GST in (then 7%, now 5%), they would add it to the entire amount of $.85/litre, not just the $.60 that the gas company was charging. (Using 5%) That would bring the price of gas to $.893/litre. If they charged it on to what the gas company was making, it would be $.88/litre. Since they harmonized the taxes, add 8% to that. Now it costs $.961/litre. If they just charged it on to what the gas company charged, it would be $.928/litre.
We pay 3.3 cents per litre for tax on a tax. In a city with their own excise tax, that amount will be charged and extra 13% as well for HST. I think BC has that. Otherwise it is just 5% GST.
That’s all fine and dandy, but it’s the same for all oil. I heat my house with that. When they brought that in, it basically now cost me almost an extra $100 a tank.
They government gave some “relief money” to help with the transition, but they were very indiscriminate about who they gave it to. In my case, they gave it to my then common law wife because her tax return was filed right before mine. I had the car and paid the bills so I got no relief.
Dang, that sucks. D: I mean I hope the tax goes towards useful and beneficial things, but it sucks when you’re trying to live on your own and you’re getting doubly taxed for something.