in case you're curious.

i turned 30 in january, 2011. i did have some part time jobs over 2011, but i don't believe i had a full time job in that space.

i worked briefly for fortinet in the spring of 2010, when i was 29. they fired me for being late to work repeatedly, and i was late pretty much every day for two weeks. it was in bells corners. this was something that pissed me off about ottawa - i wanted to live downtown, but all of the tech jobs were in places like bells corners and kanata that i'd otherwise never want to go to for any reason, ever. so, i was always late for work because all of the jobs were always in the middle of nowhere. i would have actually preferred to work fast food downtown, but i was overqualified, and i couldn't get anybody to call me back.

that was my last full time job - the spring of 2010, when i had just turned 29.

i have not had any job at all since mid-2011. at this point, i have no intention of working ever again.

so, i can't exactly claim i retired at 30. but, it was pretty close.

fwiw, i graduated with a b. mathematics in late 2006, at the age of 25. i went back to school in 2008, and dropped out of a b. sc a half credit short of a programming degree in 2010, with a pretty high gpa. i have more than 6 mathematics credits at the graduate level, as well.

so, if i graduated at nearly 26 and retired a few months after 30, and spent most of 27-29 back in school, that's a lot of "fuck working", isn't it? if i can win some serious money soon, i can really retire at 40. and, i'll say it again and again: fuck working.

also: when microsoft laid me off in mid-2007, they gave me a huge severance. so, i didn't work that summer either.

i only worked actual full time jobs from about 11-2006 to about 06-2007, and (after taking the summer of 2007 off with the severance from microsoft) from about 11-2007 to about 06-2008. i was fired for not showing up to work on canada day, 2008, because i was drinking in my friend's living room, instead. i didn't bother working the rest of the summer. i had around 10 jobs in that period, and was fired for being late or laid off due to offshoring (don't tell me it doesn't happen. i lost three jobs in a year because of it.) repeatedly. and, then my dad tricked me into going back to school...

that's really barely a year of actual working.

am i too stupid to figure it out, or too smart to get stuck in it? you tell me.

but, if i can turn the arrest into a retirement plan, you can be sure i will.

why not buy a condo now and sell it at twice the price in 20 years?

well, if i don't want to buy your 20 year old condo, why would i think somebody would want to buy mine? i mean, really. then, you have maintenance costs and property taxes...

on top of that, you're essentially betting that 1000% inflation in the cost of housing is sustainable, which is something i'm pretty skeptical about.

i'm ultimately not going to base my decisions on ways to turn a profit, so much as i'm going to base my decisions on ensuring that things work out, even in the worst case. i don't even want to put the money in the stock market. i'd rather put it in secure bonds. "but it's only 5%" isn't much of a disincentive to me when inflation in rent is restricted to 2-3% by law. i just don't want it to lose value.

will i be able to buy something new for $200,000 in 20 years? i''ll be happy to move to sudbury, if i have to. as long as there's stable internet and access to health care....

so, the hrto claims i should expect a decision on the request for an order for the police to reveal the identity of my accuser shortly. again - i don't even know what this person's real name is, but s/he was able to put me in jail for the night. that should never happen. she needs to pay up. and, i'm hoping she settles.

see, about the only thing i know about this person, who may or may not be female, is that she owns a large amount of property in the region, which would put her net worth in the millions, minimum. my understanding of the situation is that her wealth and power is how she got me thrown in jail in the first place. i filed for $100,000, which would likely not be a lot of money to her. more importantly to her is going to be that i asked for a loss of rental license, which is something i can use as leverage. if she gives me $90,000, that's enough to pay off my student loan and hit the maximum donation amount under odsp. like, i'm not going to be able to keep more than $10,00-$15,000 of this without getting off of disability, which would not be a smart choice given the amount we're talking about. how much do i need to win in a lawsuit to get off disability?

my income is currently roughly $15,000/yr and it's enough for me to live comfortably and see a show here and there. on top of that, if i save up over the winter, and get a few dollars thrown at me here and there from lawsuits or relatives, i can have more fun over the summer than i should. so, if i budget for $25,000/yr, i'm living in luxury relative to what i actually want. and, if you think it through, it's not that frugal, once you take out unnecessary expenses like cars, vacations, cell phones, televisions....and especially considering that i should be slowing down on the partying, not picking it up.

i'll be 39 in january. i know. yikes. neither my father nor his father made it to 60, although my mom's side is fairly long-lived, and the last i checked my father's mother was actually still alive. you know the cliche - who wants to live to be 70? 69 year olds. - but i'm the type that knows i'm going to hit a breaking point. it's less that i'm going to off myself in my 70s and more that i'm not going to mind being desperately poor. i'll be happy to sit and read the news with a cup of coffee on the bare minimum pension levels. because, what will have changed, right?

so, i don't even feel the need to plan for retirement, or not really. i'll be happy to live with the other poor seniors, for as long as i can drag it on.

planning for 70 is consequently reasonable, and less because i don't plan to make it there and more because it doesn't matter anymore, once i do.

if you give it to me all at once, i should be able to figure out something to do with it that beats inflation. (31 years * $25,000) = $775,000. for right now, i want to live downtown; at some point in 15-20 years, i'll want to buy a small house or condo and be less concerned about being downtown. so, if you give me a million dollars, i think i can stretch out most of the way. but, if  you give me two million dollars, then i'm sure that that's enough from now until the end of my life, more or less no matter what...

is spending a night in jail on bullshit charges worth two million dollars? probably, yeah. but, not from the human rights case. that's the constitutional challenge, which is next.

so, if i can get the order to contact her, i'm hoping that she just writes me a cheque to pay off the loan - it's pocket change to her, it acknowledges wrongdoing on her behalf and it gets me out of debt and on to the next hurdle.

the ltb is claiming that my own file hasn't been processed yet (which i find to be odd.). so, if my own file hasn't been processed, it's too early to tell if he's filed or not, yet. it's actually a good reference, though - if i call back tomorrow and my file is in the system and his isn't, it indicates he hasn't filed yet.

at the least, if he did file, he didn't file using the electronic system, meaning he either mailed it (a bad choice on his behalf.), or he got there earlier in the day. i was there about 11:00, and he was banging on my door around 9:30 (and woke me up). he could have gone very early, it is true. there were two other ltb cases before me, based on the numbering.

but, all communication i've had with him indicates that he either doesn't understand the process, or naively thinks he can just bully me into it because property. as you surely know by now, i happen to be exceedingly anti-propertarian. i'll drag him through court out of the principle of it...

we'll try again tomorrow.

for now, i want to finish the rebuild for november before i start thinking about today's meal, and planning for that overdue trip to toronto to file the appeal.

so, i slept all night; i had a roughly 28 hour day yesterday, so let's try to keep it up.

i'm going to start by making some calls, and then get back to work for the rest of the day. what's the status of the order at the ohrc? did the landlord file to evict or not?