Archive for January 2nd, 2012

A small rant.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

If you apply for a concealed handgun license in the great state of Texas, you can do most of the work online. You still have to take a class, and you still have to submit certain things (certificate of class completion, fingerprints, photo) offline for understandable reasons, but most of the process can be done online.

So why in the name of all that is holy is it impossible for me to do a DBA search and file for an assumed name online? No, I’ve got to take time off work and go down to the county office. Or apparently, I can pay someone $99 to do this for me. No, I can’t even mail this s–t in.

(My amazing psychic powers tell me that Lawrence is going to come back with a one word answer: “Money.”)

You folks in other states: can you file DBAs online, or do you have to physically trek down to some county office?

(Ha. I clicked on a link I found at another site: “The Official Website of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Forming a Business, Step-by-Step”. Yeah, that would be a 404 error. Is this what we call “ironic”?)

The firings will continue until morale improves.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

I had a pretty good day. Bad news: I had to work. Good news: nobody else apparently did. Better news: since nobody else was working, they started letting people (including myself) leave for the day at 11 AM. Even better news: because I left at 11 AM, I was able to spend much of the rest of the day leading my nephews on my sister’s side of the family on a grand expedition. (Slightly bad news: guns were not involved in this expedition. But we had fun anyway.)

The only drawback was that, being on a grand expedition, I wasn’t able to blog the NFL firing news beyond the Rams. Most of these have made FARK, but just for the record:

Gee, Officer Kroenke.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

We have our first sports firings of 2012: Steve Spagnuolo and Billy Devaney of the St. Louis Rams.

2-14 this season, and they didn’t even get the first pick in the draft. Spagnuolo was 10-38 over three years.