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Jan. 12th, 2008 05:51 pmOffhand Manor is transformed! For example, you can see the floors now. And the carpets are clean! The new futon frame was delivered early, and after some grunting and a lot of swearing, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kshandra and I assembled it. We have plans to add some further SE Asian accents to the place, but that is going to be an ongoing project. The next big thing is a new lamp or two for the living room, as the old floor lamp is slowly fading away. One of us will post some pictures soon. One side effect of this cleaning is we now have a mountain of CDs and DVDs. There is also a penguin on top of our television set. (No eggs yet, we keep checking down the back of the set.)
We've come into some money (can't say more than that at Kiri's request.) The big upshot for me is that I finally can get my new teeth! Monday I'll double-check to see that I have the current dental plan card, then start shopping for dentists who do full denture work.
The phone/net outage was annoying at best. The worst part was I'm in a large "ring" Ultracorps game (the players all start out spaced around the edge of a circular set of stars, with a large body of fairly strong neutrals in the middle ) and I'm doing fairly well. Not having the net meant I could catch up with the daily turns, and I was paranoid that I'd be attacked and not know it for days. Luckily, both my neighbors were fairly quiet.
I'm going to be writing a fairly nasty note to our landlords. This whole cleaning and redecorating frenzy was triggered by a threatening letter from the management company telling us to clean up or face eviction. Well, we did everything asked in the poorly written and spelled letter (our apartment was evidently a "breading ground" for vermin. mmmmm.. breaded vermin.. mmmm..) The letter stated that a re-inspection would take place on January 12th. Well, that's today, and the sun has gone done, and nothing. Even without the work we did today, we stayed home just because we knew that the landlords were coming by. No phone call, no visit, nothing. And the tree branch that came down in last week's storm is still sitting in the front yard.
Recent reading: The Coyote Trilogy by Allen Steele. I hesitate to call this a true trilogy, since the books are more collections of novellas linked by a general theme and progression. A bit heavy-handed on the political preaching, but very enjoyable with a few surprises. 4 penguins out of 5.
kshandra and I assembled it. We have plans to add some further SE Asian accents to the place, but that is going to be an ongoing project. The next big thing is a new lamp or two for the living room, as the old floor lamp is slowly fading away. One of us will post some pictures soon. One side effect of this cleaning is we now have a mountain of CDs and DVDs. There is also a penguin on top of our television set. (No eggs yet, we keep checking down the back of the set.)We've come into some money (can't say more than that at Kiri's request.) The big upshot for me is that I finally can get my new teeth! Monday I'll double-check to see that I have the current dental plan card, then start shopping for dentists who do full denture work.
The phone/net outage was annoying at best. The worst part was I'm in a large "ring" Ultracorps game (the players all start out spaced around the edge of a circular set of stars, with a large body of fairly strong neutrals in the middle ) and I'm doing fairly well. Not having the net meant I could catch up with the daily turns, and I was paranoid that I'd be attacked and not know it for days. Luckily, both my neighbors were fairly quiet.
I'm going to be writing a fairly nasty note to our landlords. This whole cleaning and redecorating frenzy was triggered by a threatening letter from the management company telling us to clean up or face eviction. Well, we did everything asked in the poorly written and spelled letter (our apartment was evidently a "breading ground" for vermin. mmmmm.. breaded vermin.. mmmm..) The letter stated that a re-inspection would take place on January 12th. Well, that's today, and the sun has gone done, and nothing. Even without the work we did today, we stayed home just because we knew that the landlords were coming by. No phone call, no visit, nothing. And the tree branch that came down in last week's storm is still sitting in the front yard.
Recent reading: The Coyote Trilogy by Allen Steele. I hesitate to call this a true trilogy, since the books are more collections of novellas linked by a general theme and progression. A bit heavy-handed on the political preaching, but very enjoyable with a few surprises. 4 penguins out of 5.
