On 12/31/08 I canceled my direct deposit online and called into Payroll Services to verify it. I was assured that the cancellation was in effect.

It was very important that I receive a paper check and not a direct deposit for my 01/09/09 pay. However, the pay has still been directly deposited and I have no access to my funds.

I was told that this happened on behalf of a computer glitch. And although it was not my fault, I am still the one to suffer for it. As it stands, I am literally penniless with rent, phone and electricity past due. I have no money for food, transportation or the basic necessities...and it is the middle of winter. I cannot even possibly make it into work for the next two weeks without the money to pay for my regular ride or bus fare.

To put it more simply, I am stuck. I am stuck because all of my hope rested on the fact that I would be getting paid on January 9th. I made promises to pay to people and would never have guessed that I would not be able to come through on those promises because of a computer glitch.

So as it stands, my job is in jeopardy. Not only due to the fact that in another day or two I won't be able to even get in to work, but also because it's very, very hard to concentrate on even doing my job with so much despair and utter unfairness hanging over my head. My livelihood is in jeopardy. Not only due to the fact that I need money to live on a day to day basis and have none, but because I have to wait two more weeks after having already waited that length of time for the current check. That’s a month without a dime except for the little bit I had in my pocket already, and that ran out a few days ago. I’ve been scraping change together and borrowing from whoever would lend to me with the idea that I was getting my check on the 9th.

I am sending you this email because you are the highest authority I currently know to go to. Are there any options? Plans? Deals? Advances? Can I liquidate my vacation time? Anything? I need this money yesterday and so far I am basically being told "tough luck, wait it out.” Wait either for the deliberations of people that do not see me as a human being but a grouping of numbers or for another two completely grueling weeks until the next payday. In a fair environment, both options would be completely unacceptable, especially given the circumstances that led to this result. But I have no choice but to take it, which is the most unfair part of all. Is there anything else that can be done?

Sorry for writing you an essay.

Rasheen Armstrong

Your Honour,....

A judgment was made on behalf of the Plaintiff on December 02, 2008. It was done without any warning or prior notice to me. I received no notice of it until 12/31/08 when I learned of the restraint on my bank account. I didn’t receive an official notice from the bank itself until some days later when the fees notice and a copy of the subpoena for information came in the mail. By this time, the bank already held my rent money and overdrafted my account for twice the number of the claimed debt, leaving me penniless, confused and a little scared.....

My bank gave me the name of the attorney for the Plaintiff as well as a number with no further explanation. I tried to call several times but never made it anywhere through the automated system. I was placed on hold automatically and never got anybody after long waits or instead the phone would continue to ring until it stopped of its own accord.....

On January 5, 2009, I managed to get in contact with someone at the Lawyer for the Plaintiff’s office. I was told that this was being done to collect on a six-year-old credit card debt. They said the papers were served on an address that I have not lived at in six years and to a person I have never heard of. I asked to receive a validation for this debt as I have learned that it is quite possible the plaintiff does not even own the debt that it is attempting to collect on. After I gave my current address, the employee told me that it would take 30 to 45 days to receive the requested paperwork…....

The restraint has created a cruel hardship for me. My payroll funds are deposited directly into my bank account and I have no access to the money that I work for, and I cannot do anything about it. I have no income from any other source. The bank itself is charging me daily fees as well. With no money at all I could not retain the services of an attorney or do much of anything else. I did research on the Attorney for the Plaintiff and found that Mel Harris and Associates practice foul and underhanded sewer techniques to do to me just what they did. There are long lists of complaints from others suffering the same situation as me. The unfairness of the whole ordeal added weight to the despair that I was already feeling.....

Through independent research into the matter, I learned the only course of action open to me was to file the Vacate Default Judgment paperwork. ....

I was not sure what to include as proof of a meritorious defense, so I enclosed various proofs of address from 2005 to now to show that it has been several years since I lived at the address the plaintiff claims to have served. I am also enclosing copies of the notices sent to me from the bank for establishing a time line of events through the dates printed on them.....

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Rasheen Armstrong....

SciFiSynop1: Space Opera

This is literally an idea I had for a Space Opera story that I want to write, super condensed into a rap song structure (ya know, 3x16 4/4 bars) - I made the beat around a sample from a show that I really enjoy and will be blogging about as soon as I finish writing the article...one of these days.

If you can tell me where I got this sample, I'll send you a gift...well, no I won't, but I will think very highly of you. If you are a female and can tell me where this sample came from...then you should definitely consider gettin at me;)

It's just a pet project as I'm still trying to learn some of the ins and outs of making beats, therefore it's for PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. It is NOT of a professional quality and the fact that I had to turn it into a mp3 makes it even worse.

I'll speak more on it later as everything about this track ties into several geeky interests of mine. Tell me what you think of it.

Oh yea, it probably helps if you have the lyrics to this one:

SynopsisOfAScienceFictionStory

I found where they were keeping her. At the same time, they found me. I'm in one of Old Earth's seedy little hotels out beneath the New Amsterdam Dome. Talk about shitty service. I can sense them but can't really pinpoint them. Something is wrong with my Degrees. I'm not scared, just a little…concerned.

First the light dies and in the dark I envision sunshine
So bright that it takes the sight to leave them sunblind
It doesn't work they must've brought the inhibitors online
They're trying to damage my mind and blame me for their own crimes

I activate the neuron partition and enter my line
Of code to make it work they don't know I own the design
When they find me I'll be dead, at the same time alive
Catatonic shallow breaths heart rate on decline

(But it takes about five minutes) I don't have the time
They can find me before it activates and take what's mine
I stand up quick and take a breath then focus my eyes
And See through the walls that I'm surrounded on all sides

With the blocks in place I can't move through the sub lines
My inner-chronics tell me it's an hour til sunrise
I need to stall em keep em back I try to think of ways to fight
All I needed was a coupla minutes and I'd be alright

And I got lucky! They waited. Something must be on my side this night…for once. The neuron partition kicks in and everything starts to fade, I lay back and I'm not sure but I think I dreamed, dreamed about how it all started…

I think I dreamed a dream of my earth born Queen
Skin acorn brown eyes marijuana green
We met of all places out on the colonies
I told her my secrets she told me her dreams

And when the time came she told me a being
Came to her sleep and told her these things
The connection was broken the universe bleeds
What was once dormant comes now to bring pain

She said there would be screams and unanswered pleas
As the darkness eternal stretches over this plane
At first I didn't believe I thought she was playing
She had weird sense of humor slanted not straightened

She said that we would have to leave on a journey through the sea
Of blackness to the very heart of this corrupt eternity
But we'll be hunted every moment so right now we gotta flee
We'll be guided by the being it can teach us how to See

We traveled for years, always a step ahead of our followers. We grew, we learned…we loved. The being disciplined us in the 361 degrees; eventually our adventures took us to the Mother Planet, Old Earth – What a joke that was

Global economies victims of hypocrisy
Witness my constituents leading lives of poverty
Greedy misers clocking me them billionaires ain't watching me
Instead they watch the moniscreens while fondling a prostiteen

The U.S. is a bitter dream no longer holding premacy
Instead the streets that used to gleam teem with our iniquities
The U.N. folds when China seized control of many industries
The dollar dies the euro bleeds the Russians dine with enemies

This is where we found ourselves beneath the domes of energy
That marked the Old Earth's surfaces to keep out harmful sun degrees
This is where they followed us and took my Queen away from me
They knew we knew and wanted to sequester all our memories

By this time I could See through screens and started searching for my Queen
Through tears through blood through laser swords I finally found a fruitful lead
I did some dirty often sinful sometimes evil wicked deeds
But as I hunted I was hunted and knew they'd come eventually

And they did. They found me. But I knew they wouldn't kill me. They wanted my secret, THE secret. But it was all a part of my plan. I gambled that they would take me to the same place where they kept my Queen. I was right. When I woke up I couldn't remember anything except the code to unlock my neuron partition. But I think I'll keep that particular secret locked up just a little bit longer.

Dumb Americans by George Carlin - an excerpt from his 2006 album and show "Life is Worth Losing". I ripped it and turned it into an MP3

My motivational music. Love the chorus...think the lyrics are so-so. But the beat bangs the right way, and the message actually motivates me. LET'S WORK! If you don't work you don't eat! I don't wanna hear it's hard in these streets! Mufucka, Let's Work! If there's money to get, get off ya mufuckin ass and GO GET THAT SHIT! Let's Work!

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On Love (Refrain)

Oft quoted poet

You can have those summer days

I cherish the darkness and the secrecy

Of a black blue night

When you can see right through

Light's absence

Eyes reflecting eyes

Reflecting eyes

To one who asked how

Could forever be in a glance

Gift wrapped soul

Ribbons of silver and black

For you

Unlike harmonizing angels

And the basic nature of god itself

More like raucous

Sometimes annoying

Your laugh

I would not trade

For beads or lands

Never a part without the whole

Struggling to be deeper

Than ancient minds

Or blood diamond mines

Trying to express

What I already understand

Never about sex

Aroused despite your stance

By outright femaleness

Calling the essence

Of what makes me a man

Wrap and trap the universe

Into a locket

Gently clasped

By somewhat nervous hands

Around your neck

Noose of forever

Pardon platitude

We die

On Love

Realization struck

Chord of dissonance

Opening the universe

Revealing truth

Youth

A condition of unbearable want

Disguised as need

Between Heaven and Hell

Lies a conversation

And you laugh

A poet

That can't express himself

Exhortation

It's time to start cleaning this blog out.

I just noticed I have stuff on here stretching back to 05 - Nobody's ever gonna scrutinize my blog hard enough to make it back that far.

I was hesitant to move out a lot of the poetry during my previous move, because there are comments attached to a lot of them - But, I guess they gotta go anyway.

If I move them to the RaPoetic page, I'll copy the html of the comments as well - If I move them to the Eternal Figments blog, the comments will be lost:(

But, I will maintain html copies of everything, so I'll always have the kind words that many of you left for me over the past couple of years.

Maybe one day I'll put them all together into one of those "praise for SilencioBarnes" sort of blurb amalgamation thingies.

I STILL have subscribers! Some of you have been with me for a LONG time - I fuckin love you people. And I wish there was something I could think to do to show my appreciation.

Most of you joined me during my poetry phase on this page, and some of you still leave me comments. Thanks for that:)

Some of you have gone away from me:( - It's alright, I know I've been a bit anti-social.

But I've been trying to change;)

Some of you have dropped me as a friend but still remained subscribed to my blog...I'm not complaining...but what's that all about?

Some of you haven't logged on in over a year or have deleted your pages - I hope the world is doing ya'll right, wherever you all are.

And some of you probably don't even remember or notice that you are subscribed to my blog. That's cool too ~I Like Numbers~

Silence