*Sigh...* Ok, I'm busted! ?
Which I guess makes sense since I'm also broke... Yep. I'm selling one of my custom guitars (the one in my avatar) to pay the back-rent I owe and survive for a few months until the complete BS going on in the world hopefully blows over. The fires that wiped out five towns in Oregon and over 200 days of rioting along with the Draconian idiocy basically took out most of our clients (our main business was IT Consultancy). One client burned to the ground, several were heavily damaged by the BLM/Antifa riots (for some, they couldn't get clients to go downtown because it wasn't safe and that included some of the top restaurants), and others had to pretty much shutter due to the moronic restrictions. I picked up a couple of side-jobs, but now those are either gone or have nothing left for any employee to do.
Unfortunately, it's tough selling anything right now. I've had a lot of other items up for sale, but they either don't move or I have to almost give them away (I've literally given away well over $10k worth of stuff when I had to empty my storage unit!).
I've got a LOT of music-related books that are going up for sale soon (music theory, instrument learning, song theory, audio recording, mixing, studio design and a bunch of tab books). I'd really love to sell the whole lot at once, but I'm all ears for the best way to move 'em!
The Government has screwed me nine ways from Sunday (instead of getting $430 back on last year's taxes they claimed I owed $770 which I had to pay first before I can fight it, then they dorked up my unemployment claim which they are STILL trying to get straightened out so I've received ZERO from that, plus I was literally been told at some interviews that I am too over-qualified, too old and, get this, "not dark enough" while trying to just get basic work - that last one actually came from Home Depot "off the record" of course! ?). In the meantime, I've done a lot of training and I'm writing a full-featured Windows program (which includes an SQL Server database with over 40 tables) that will help me and my business partner trade in the market should THAT ever get back to moving! YAY LIFE! ?
