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Messages - Istefan Perþonest

#1
That Discord invite link is either invalid, or it won't let me join. Can that be fixed, either way?
#2
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 07:00:33 PM
More on how I got confused. When I took over at STUFF/Tech, the attached was the screen I looked at to see what needed renewal. You can understand why, looking at this screen, I thought the domain names were up for renewal on 18th October, rather than 2 July.
Yeah, this is part their fault, part mine.

The their-fault part is that they based the renewal dates there not on when the domains expired, but when the domains were transferred from the previous administering body to DoRoyal. (Back when the King was handing this privately instead of the Kingdom, he had bought the domains in July and renewed them in July, but the transfer of the domains from the King's hosting to DoRoyal happened in October.) They've apparently acknowledged this on their part, and have decided to renew our other two domains (the ones not authorized in this PD) for free, which is nice enough.

The my-fault part is that I noticed that back last October and that we were okay though this July, and accordingly pulled the pin on the renewal panic back then, but I did not make noise about this early in June even though I knew it was coming up. I've got issues that explain why I didn't (I've had some physical health issues lately on top of my mental health ones), but I still should have said something.

On the general hosting renewal, there just isn't a place I could find to pay an invoice that hasn't been sent. They'll invoice on the auto-renewal, and I'll pay it then, same as I did last year.
#3
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 06:21:26 PM
Apologies, Istefan. I found out about the $4 difference yesterday and asked the Seneschál to update the PD, but he didn't get to it before the King signed it.
Well, you currently have a semi-functioning Burgermeister instead of one who's on top of things. If I'd been up to how I used to do this job, this would have been handled a few weeks ago.

On the webhosting renewal, there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to pay it right now, so I'm waiting to be invoiced in a few weeks. Don't panic, my eye is on it.
#4
Okay, I went through and paid the domain renewals from the Kingdom's PayPal account.

Contrary to the numbers listed in the PD, the fees for the two renewed .net domains were $20.95 instead of $18.95.

I went ahead and paid them anyway, y'all can either pretty that up in the regular budget legislation or decide to bill me the $4.
#5
Cosa: PRESENT

Referendum:
RZ9 -  Abstain
RZ10 -  Abstain
RZ11 -  Abstain

Provincial Election: PRESENT
#6
Wittenberg / Re: Burgermeister Status Summary
March 18, 2022, 11:16:41 AM
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 18, 2022, 10:38:32 AM
@Istefan Perþonest, you have been in the position for years but do you recall your appointment process?
Oh, yes. It was a very simple "process". I was the Minister of Finance in the government of the day, we needed to appoint a new Burgermeister, I volunteered, the Sensechal recommended me to the King (since the appointment procedure in that era was through the Seneschal).

It was not exactly a textbook model of careful vetting, but it worked out well enough.
#7
Wittenberg / Re: Burgermeister Status Summary
March 17, 2022, 06:12:29 PM
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 17, 2022, 05:13:19 PM
Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on March 17, 2022, 05:06:12 PM
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 17, 2022, 04:55:22 PM
OK, on official matters, can you confirm you have not received the payment for the Talossan National Congress? They are not listed in your initial post.
There have been three PayPal payments of $10 since January 28th that are matched to those three parties, and no $10 payments since then that are unmatched. I have not received anything in the mail, or email notification of a payment through some other method.

There have been some receipts of $25 donations; if one of those was intended as a party-fee-plus, I don't have any communications that make that clear.

Yep, there should be a $25 donation from copebh@gmail.com or Brandon Copeland or Our Commonwealth. Those are three possible senders. It was $10 for the party fee payment and a $15 voluntary donation to the Treasury.
Okay, that would be the TNC registration fee, then.
#8
Wittenberg / Re: Burgermeister Status Summary
March 17, 2022, 05:06:12 PM
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 17, 2022, 04:55:22 PM
OK, on official matters, can you confirm you have not received the payment for the Talossan National Congress? They are not listed in your initial post.
There have been three PayPal payments of $10 since January 28th that are matched to those three parties, and no $10 payments since then that are unmatched. I have not received anything in the mail, or email notification of a payment through some other method.

There have been some receipts of $25 donations; if one of those was intended as a party-fee-plus, I don't have any communications that make that clear.
#9
Wittenberg / Burgermeister Status Summary
March 17, 2022, 04:42:54 PM
1) The ICRC donation for Ukraine has been made, not that I communicated about it.

2) I am rather backlogged on sending out purchased stamps and coins, sorry

3) Received party fees so far for this election are from the FreeDems, RCT, and Independent Monarchist.

4) My snail address for anybody who needs to send a check/cash for a party fee is is 645 Moondale Drive, El Paso, TX 79912

5) It would, in fact, be a relief to me to pass off the Burgermeister and related stamp/coin job to someone else. I'm having anxiety issues every time I deal with it (thus lack of communication and backlogs), and medication is just not working like it should. So, if you guys line someone up, I'll ship the stamps and coins, send the PayPal password along, and transfer the Ally account balances. (The relevant email addresses should be redirectable to the new person by the website management.)

This is not a positive request to be replaced. I'm willing to muddle along. But I'm definitely going to be muddling through this anxiety stuff, so I'm not remotely going to object to being relieved of the responsibility.
#10
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 16, 2022, 07:51:12 AM
@Istefan Perþonest Is there an alternative to Paypal in paying the election fee? I am unable to transfer money into my Paypal account for some reason.
Sure. While PayPal is the form most personally convenient to me, past party fees have been paid both by check and cash physically mailed to me, and we can try to work out some other method if you like.
#11
Benito / Re: Provincial Assembly Elections
February 11, 2022, 11:19:05 AM
Benito's provincial assembly elections are by party, but it doesn't have to be a registered national party. Just pick a "party name" and announce you're running under that banner.
#12
Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 23, 2021, 05:18:12 PM
Is there any link available to the latest financial report?
Unfortunately, I've been having severe anxiety attacks every single time I try to compile the thing, so, it doesn't exist.

The current balance total is $1,267.76 (versus the $1,165.34 of the last report one year ago; the increase is about half party fees and half sales and donations, plus a few cents in interest).

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on September 24, 2021, 09:08:18 PM
Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 23, 2021, 05:29:33 PM
How many commemorative stamps would be produced for this amount?
The Burgermeister informed me that we could get 1,000 stamps for $140. Therefore we should be able to get at least a couple hundred for $50, even though the unit cost would likely be higher for a smaller order.
Um. I wish you'd specifically asked me. The place I was quoting from (the same place as we got the current stock of stamps made by) actually charges more for their minimum order of 500 ($169.05) than for 1,000 ($140.87). (No, I don't know what the logic is for that pricing, but.)
#13
Wittenberg / Re: Am I still Talossan?
August 26, 2021, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: Audrada Roibeardet on August 26, 2021, 04:12:00 PM
Got to thinking about this place a few days ago. I'm not sure why that happen, it was just out of the blue.

Anyhoo, just checking to see if I'm still Talossan. Fairly confident I didn't vote or fill out a census. Was there a census?

Not here to cause trouble, simply enquiring about my status.
Looking at the database, you are still an active citizen.

It's true you have no recorded Census responses, and you didn't vote in the 56th Cosa election, but you cast a vote of PRESENT in the 55th Cosa election, which was held less than two years ago, so you're still a citizen.
#14
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on August 25, 2021, 06:52:53 PM
I mean, if you want an argument for excluding the CpI from the convocation (or maybe only allowing them 1 representative member), then you've just made one.
Having seen a potential case of conflict-of-interest, I pointed it out. Whether it's actually an issue of sufficient valence to require addressing, and if so, how to address it, I by necessity leave to the judgment of those who are involved in politics and the legislative process.
#15
Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on August 25, 2021, 04:31:25 PM
Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on August 24, 2021, 06:11:33 PM
(plus there should definitely be some rules to establish what happens if no candidate gets 2/3rd of the vote anyway).

Then the UC continues as a Council of Regency until the Convocation gets its act together. Like what happens with papal elections. A pity we can't actually lock them up and put them on bread-and-water.
I will note that this would create a temptation for members of the CpI (as members of the convocation) to deliberately vote against every candidate for king in order to retain their power as a Council of Regency. Granted, they (we) likely wouldn't have enough votes to do that on their (our) own, but if support for a candidate among the other members wasn't near-unanimous, it could happen.