I don't know why, but the end of summer always reminds me that I didn't go out and do all the things I never realy wanted to do in the first place. Things involving volleyballs and becahes and sunlight. So the end of summer is always a little sad. Not because I didn't go out and do those things, but because most people consider them worth doing. So the end of summer always reminds me that people are morons.
Anyway....
One thing I leave to the morons are televisions. So I'm not sure yet whether CNN and all are spamming 11th September shit these days. Probably. That would make the most sense to me: this is CNN; top story this hour--more proposed bans on violent films, videogames, and comicbooks; now let's broadcast more video of people leaping to their deaths from atop the twin towers....
Something is wrong with this country.
On that subject: Radio Free Duhmerica has been updated with today's show. You can also catch that at AtheistRadio.com in about two hours. Since you might not read this in the next few seconds: it'll play today at noon DenverTime, and again at 6AM and 6PM on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Hunter, of course, wasn't on the show this week. Again. This time, it's because she had to go to hospital yesterday. It turned out that there was nothing really wrong, but she ended up being asleep when we recorded this week's show. Hopefully, she'll be awake for the next one on 8th September.
For those keeping up on this developing bullshit: I'm still waiting for this place to be finished. Rent is technically due today, althoug I doubt anyone will be availabe before Tuesday. I assume I'll know when they're available because they'll call me. This is why.
Not only does nothing work around here, but the parking situation is retarded. The idea is that each address has one parking spot. Because these are townhouses. The problem is that the morons next door have the entire state of Alabama living there, and there are something like seven cars attached to that address. So they keep using up all the damned parking spots.
Now...the logical thing would be to literally assign one spot per address. Since one of the morons next door is crippled, there's already an assigned crippled spot out front. Technically, anyone considered crippled is allowed to park there; realistically, there's only one car in the whole carpark with a LimpTag, and it belongs to one of the morons next door.
Aside from that, there's no assigned parking at all. So the morons fill up all the damned spots with the uncrippled cars.
Why they can't just designate spots for each address is beyond me.
So, Friday night, I came back here with the last of the stuff which had been in the tunk of Greenback's car in his parents' garage [read back through the What's News for more on that unbelievably stoopid situation] and all the spots were taken. So I did the most logical thing. I parked sideways behind everyone and went inside. If anyone had to leave before I left, then too bad; they shouldn't have parked illegally.
I went to the office to see what could be done, but they'd left. So I called the emergency number, which turned out to be useless. The emergency number is only for emergent problems...like the air conditioner not working, maybe. So that was a dead end.
Then I EMailed the main office. Of course, I had to use their New Applicant form, since that's all they had; but then, it might get the attention of someone in power that way. The funny part is that I had to write this EMail into the Special Needs section of their online form.
Here's the slightly-modified EMail I sent:
Special Needs include a parking spot. I've been told by everyone I've talked to that there's one spot per address, and yet the tenants of [address next door] appear to have at least three cars parked in front of the building; my car--one of the only ones in the parking lot with a [name of property] parking permit--is currently parked in front of the dumpsters, blocking half of the cars from exiting, because I have nowhere else to park. I called the emergency pager number [I've complained about this before, and I was told to tell the office or, in the event that the office was closed, to call the emergency number], and I was told that this isn't the sort of emergency I should call that number over.
Additionally, I'm still waiting for my air conditioner to be repaired, along with most of the bathroom, and nearly everything on the list I submitted back in July; the dishwasher was finally replaced on 20th August, although the installation somehow knocked out the garbage disposal in the sink.
Please respond as soon as possible with an acceptable solution to these problems.
Thanks in advance....
admin@wastedinc.com
I'm not sure what I'm expecting for this. I just know that I'm not paying rent until I get some sort of answer on the damned issue.
Everyone's telling me that I should just sue these people for everything and move out. I'm beginning to think that it might be the only option. Nothing seems to get done for playing by the rules.
This may well end up being the topic of a forthcoming episode of Radio Free Duhmerica
More later....
--Gremlin