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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I was being unselfish...leaving it for someone else.
Really!
OK, back to werk...
Heh... I saw the scene with the truck this morning blocking your driveway... :~)
Spy! ;-) So you saw me yell “Hey!”
It’s a frequent scene. :-\ I guess I need to mark it better, but I never think about it except when there’s a problem. He said “Oh...that’s a driveway?” It’s kind of a mess, so I don’t altogether blame him.
I kinda felt bad for the poor trucker. There really isn’t a good place to park — unless you turn around and head back the other way.
As it was, he parked me in, and also parked in a guy by the store. Lonnnng trailer.
They’d park there anyway, even with a sign, unless you were sitting right there. They think they’re only going to be a few minutes so....
That's what bein' a nosey neighbor is all about! :~)
Yeah, I think you’re right.
It isn’t as bad as my brother’s place in San Francisco, at least. Parking is at a premium, and they live above a busy bakery. Seemed like there was ALWAYS someone parked in the drive, hanging out at the bakery gabbing, and they’d have to go in and yell “Who’s parked over there?” in order to get into their parking space.
At least this time I caught the guy before he went into the store. But I was right there when he pulled in! Grr.
Heh....
Heh,... did you hear about our major crisis yesterday? I don’t know if I remembered to ping you or not!
We paid our next month’s rent in emergency septic tank pumping.
You need carefully positioned tire-ripper strips. Somewhere you won’t run them over but a truck parking would...
We paid our next month’s rent in emergency septic tank pumping.
Aw, geesh. That stinks. Er...wait. Poor choice of words....
Seriously, what a drag! That's not something the landlord will partially help out with, is it?
How long was the power out? My computer was complaining when I got home, but the fridge seemed OK and all.
The trucks don’t annoy me as much as the people-chatting-on-cell-phones who give me realllly dirty looks if I honk at them to get their attention, having failed in every other way. Fortunately, I don’t see as many of those.
Oh yeah - the landlord will pay it. Septic is really a basic needs thing that I think the landlord is responsible for, like electricity and water hookup. But we just paid for it and it’ll cover next months rent. A little over actually, but close enough. That’s what I meant.
Power was out for about 20 minutes.
It is a 'public' parking lot. I don't think she can booby trap it. ;~)
And plus... then the truck would be stuck there till he could repair all the tires.
Hmmm...
Maybe paint a big “handicapped” logo on the area right in front of her driveway? I’m assuming it’s far enough from the store that no actual handicapped person would park there.
The guy I’d like to shoot is the guy who’s been coming to the espresso stand at 0:dark:30 in the Harley Hog you can hear from a mile away. That thing must rattle your windows. It’s loud over here.
Oh, yeah. *AND* there's a guy (not sure if it's the same one) who stops by every day at about six in the evening and lets the bike roar for fifteen minutes at a time. Ungh.
We live in an interesting neighborhood, I guess.
When I had my troubles last year with the drainage, the landlord told me if the tank needed pumped instead of it being some other sort of issue, I had to pay. So if that every happens...I’m gonna be out a bunch. Hopefully I’ll move first....
It was bout $300 just to pump the tank. It’s not a lot, every five years, but that really should be the landlord responsibility.
I have a feeling it’d be interesting trying to convince him of that, though.
*sigh*
I understand! In your place, I’d probably just pay it and not even ask. We don’t ask our landlords for much either. We just do it... or not. The situations are sortof similar but not really. I have a feeling if I asked mine for too much they may do it, but they’d raise the rent too to cover it.
Or they’d decide to sell it.
Yours really should fix up the place, but it’s condition isn’t really his doing and he’s probably not all that comfortable making improvements with you there. I actually bet if you moved out, he’d either fix it up (make it look real nice), or haul that out of there and bring in a new trailer before renting it out again.
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