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[Anthony Bonner]

someone is operating a hotel in my building. there was an entire eastern european family with their luggage camped out in the lobby.

maybe the (no joke) undercover police that the landlord hired to prevent loud partying will catch on.

there at least 2 or 3 of these operating within a block of our apartment. I always bewildered Europeans getting out of taxi's.

Someone in my building clearly rents their place out a lot. Its annoying.

[AaronS]

at least it's funny where I am.

[Suzanne F]

someone is operating a hotel in my building. there was an entire eastern european family with their luggage camped out in the lobby.

maybe the (no joke) undercover police that the landlord hired to prevent loud partying will catch on.

If you're in a co-op, you probably have rules against that sort of thing.

If the building is rentals, and the apartment renter is rent-stabilized, there are regulations about that, too.

Whether it's worth pursuing is your call.

[AaronS]

I think I'll save the complaints for the pot smoke wafting under the door.

it's a rental, we had to move quickly and we ended up in a pretty crappy situation, the building is full of people who act like children and there's crazy stuff happening all the time. I feel like I'm paying a lot to live in a billyburg loft in 2001 or something.

apparently people fuck in the halls, although I haven't seen it. there's a guy on my floor who plays guitar and sings through an amp and doesn't even bother to close the door most of the time. the baby prevents me from using my stereo to deafen him.

I'll live. our lease is up in six months.

[splinky]

i need another gosh durned crown. my dentist will finally have the last of my life savings

[ghostrider]

They tore down the oldest house in town, which was just up the road from us, without so much as a by-your-leave. It was a converted pre-Revolutionary farmhouse. We were considering buying it when we were looking 20 years ago, but then there was a bid that we didn't feel like countering. We got to see the interior, which may have had the original wainscotting, or something close to it. We were told at the time that there were structural problems. Still, it seems a shame that they had to level it, probably to replace it with a McMansion.

[Wilfrid]

I remember when women tennis players didn't wear their granny's bloomers.



They wore other garments instead, I hasten to add.

[mongo_jones]

fuck these mosquitoes, man! worst in five six summers here. and almost as bad as delhi in the late 80s.

[splinky]

yesterday, return of the cleaning fairy. recovery required chemical help and a late sleep in, today.
eta: still trying to locate stuff in my kitchen. it's all in its proper place now, i just have no idea where that might be.

[SLBunge]

fuck these mosquitoes, man! worst in five six summers here. and almost as bad as delhi in the late 80s.

We were camping along the St Croix river last weekend and they were fierce. Swarms of them.

Thankfully the old fashioned mosquito coils still work.

[mongo_jones]

we've graduated from "natural" insect repellent--which i think is only good for separating liberals from their money--to 15% deet. there are parts of the yard (including the neighbourhood of the vegetable garden, alas) which feature swarms out of a horror movie.

[splinky]

2 hours spent in the waiting room in my doctor's office, then more delays once i get inside with him, because none of my medical records have been scanned into their fancy new system. the next hour was spent with the doc creating/populating an electronic file for me. then the examination. there's half a day, i'll never get back.

[ghostrider]

2 hours spent in the waiting room in my doctor's office, then more delays once i get inside with him, because none of my medical records have been scanned into their fancy new system. the next hour was spent with the doc creating/populating an electronic file for me. then the examination. there's half a day, i'll never get back.

But think how much faster all of your future app'ts will go from here on out!

[splinky]

2 hours spent in the waiting room in my doctor's office, then more delays once i get inside with him, because none of my medical records have been scanned into their fancy new system. the next hour was spent with the doc creating/populating an electronic file for me. then the examination. there's half a day, i'll never get back.

But think how much faster all of your future app'ts will go from here on out!

well, now that you point that out, i'm all happy again

[memesuze]

2 hours spent in the waiting room in my doctor's office, then more delays once i get inside with him, because none of my medical records have been scanned into their fancy new system. the next hour was spent with the doc creating/populating an electronic file for me. then the examination. there's half a day, i'll never get back.

But think how much faster all of your future app'ts will go from here on out!

well, now that you point that out, i'm all happy again

I''m hopeful that the next time I ask for a copy of my records, they'll be able to provide me with an electronic copy instead of a paper copy, the last one of which only had the front of pages copied, not the back.