It just keeps getting better.
Oct. 30th, 2014 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI went in the kitchen to take out the trash. Ants were walking on the counter and INTO the closed jar of peanut butter. Honestly. Sealed as tight as closing goes.
Took out the trash, simultaneously with next door neighbor (a plumber) and he was 'how's it going' and I'm all "WOE IS ME" so we talked and he discussed the power failure (the one that killed my computer, and he said he'd SEEN the workers, supposedly fix it, and then TURNED it back on and it WENT UP IN FLAMES. Which is probably what was the final straw for old mac.
Anyway, I mentioned the toilet leak which I'd gob-stopped with toilet paper and glue (yeah, he winced). He said I should have called him.
Then he went on to point out the tarp on his roof.
His CEILING fell in in the bedroom his mother in law was going to stay in that night (she hadn't yet arrived and cancelled of course)! He still had the roof insured/warranty another 2 years. Called in the insurance assessor and while they're standing there talking the ceiling falls in another room! The city inspectors had checked out the roof when it was done, but eh, they missed the HUGE crack in my hurricane door, so they're not that reliable.
So, he's got an appointment with another insurance guy tomorrow around 10am and says he'll call me around noon to see if I'm ready for him to look at the toilet. Which... I don't think he can do anything unless he puts in a new shut off valve... oh, heck. I forgot I needed to mow the back so he can get to the house shut off. Well, I doubt he's going to do anything tomorrow.
Anyway, as I'm running out of Whine I point to the shitbox across the street and say, 'And that's rusty' and we walk across the street and the FILTER isn't just brown with rust (all I could see from my yard) its SWISS CHEESE full of holes big enough to drop a rat in. GOD DAMN it, the sewer workers come by several times a WEEK and they never reported it? It's sitting right out in plain view.
So. I just.
Am.
So.
Tired...
Took out the trash, simultaneously with next door neighbor (a plumber) and he was 'how's it going' and I'm all "WOE IS ME" so we talked and he discussed the power failure (the one that killed my computer, and he said he'd SEEN the workers, supposedly fix it, and then TURNED it back on and it WENT UP IN FLAMES. Which is probably what was the final straw for old mac.
Anyway, I mentioned the toilet leak which I'd gob-stopped with toilet paper and glue (yeah, he winced). He said I should have called him.
Then he went on to point out the tarp on his roof.
His CEILING fell in in the bedroom his mother in law was going to stay in that night (she hadn't yet arrived and cancelled of course)! He still had the roof insured/warranty another 2 years. Called in the insurance assessor and while they're standing there talking the ceiling falls in another room! The city inspectors had checked out the roof when it was done, but eh, they missed the HUGE crack in my hurricane door, so they're not that reliable.
So, he's got an appointment with another insurance guy tomorrow around 10am and says he'll call me around noon to see if I'm ready for him to look at the toilet. Which... I don't think he can do anything unless he puts in a new shut off valve... oh, heck. I forgot I needed to mow the back so he can get to the house shut off. Well, I doubt he's going to do anything tomorrow.
Anyway, as I'm running out of Whine I point to the shitbox across the street and say, 'And that's rusty' and we walk across the street and the FILTER isn't just brown with rust (all I could see from my yard) its SWISS CHEESE full of holes big enough to drop a rat in. GOD DAMN it, the sewer workers come by several times a WEEK and they never reported it? It's sitting right out in plain view.
So. I just.
Am.
So.
Tired...
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Date: 2014-10-31 03:01 am (UTC)It does sound like you're having the most awful time. Can I send you anything? Do you have a working bathtub for aromatherapy bath salts or something?
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Date: 2014-10-31 03:07 am (UTC)Send me best wishes, and good vibes? :^) Postage is much more reasonable on those items. :^)
The bathtub is actually functional (although I usually have to let the tap run a minute to wash out THE ANTS. (This is new, only started a few weeks ago.)
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Date: 2014-10-31 06:25 am (UTC)I have lived in places where the ants are that bad. They can walk around and around the threads of the jar and get in that way. But peanut butter is a really odd thing for them to go for!
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Date: 2014-10-31 06:28 pm (UTC)