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Apartment Living in The DC Metro Area Part 2

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I sent this as a maintenance request this morning:

SUBJECT:  Bird chopped up in bathroom fan vent?

This morning when I turned on the vent in my bathroom, feathers shot out of it. I am assuming because the weather is cold animals have been seeking shelter in any warm access possible. Now the bathroom vent wont work probably because of a dead animal in it. (It’s making my cat crazy).

At writing, the thing is still scrambling around in there.  I can hear it.  Gladys is FREAKING OUT!

Anticipation!

Here is the bird after extraction.

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Apartment Living in The DC Metro Area Part 1

 

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I sent this email to building management this morning:

SUBJECT: Hallway etiquette, or How can we say this nicely?

Since I have been living here at Avalon at Grosvenor Station, I have noticed some behavior in the hallways that seems to be acceptable and I do not understand how this is reasonable:

1. Every weekday morning (6:50am) and evening (4:30pm) it is apparently ok to let your kids run screaming, yelling, chanting or stomping as loudly as possible in the hallways. This is similar to releasing your hyper children into a McDonalds play place. So apparently the halls of Avalon Grosvenor are a place to allow your kids to have a discipline free LOUD wild run in the hallway EVERY WORKDAY.

2. Apparently if the weather is not the best, it is okay to turn the hallway into an exercise yard for your dogs. I guess its okay (and even comical) to let them run up and down the hallway with no leash at top speed chasing each other like it’s a grey hound track.

I had no idea that this was accepted as common courtesy in a shared apartment complex hallway.

Next time, if I come home drunk early in the morning or at any odd hour, I’ll be sure to hire a brass band to march down the hallway and play loudly OR I will allow my cat to use the hallway as a litter box.

I realize that this negligence of others is accepted behavior in Montgomery county and the DC metro area (as I had the unfortunate pleasure of living in this area before and I realize coming back here is not a step up in quality of life). I have grown to consider that, in this area, one cannot expect other people (especially strangers) to be considerate of others. If that was the case, the traffic around here wouldn’t suck so bad.

Do you think I’m out of line by expecting anything different for a common use hallway?

 UPDATE 11:32 AM SAME DAY!

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UPDATE 11:54 AM SAME DAY!

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Now I guess I should just wait for the flaming bags of poop and dirty diapers in front of my door.  We’ll keep you updated!

UPDATE 11:57AM SAME DAY!

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Yeah!  Go!  Go!  Go!

This Guy Should Get a Medal for Service to His Country!

… and the smug do goodery comments of the law enforcement in this article, are so transparent and full of PR bullshit, it makes me want to puke!

This boy is a patriot! Give him a medal NOW!

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Click for story

He paid restitution to “Xerox State and Local Solutions”.  At least we know our tax sucking corporations wont skip a beat on their crock shit loads of cash flow!

EVIL EVIL EVIL!  Shame on america!

The NFL Can Suck It! BOYCOTT!

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Ever realize how much taxpayer money is dumped into the already inflated NFL coffers? Not a fan of the NFL and yet you pay taxes for it! A lot of taxes! Mad yet?

Cant fund programs for the poor? Cant help the disabled? Cant treat and cure disease? BUT WE PAY THIS MUCH FOR THE NFL?!?!?!

Mad yet?

Click here and get madder!!!

Are you ready for some football? FOOLS!

Snopes even says they suck! IT’s TRUE!

Is The NFL’s Tax-Exempt Status Corporate Welfare? Click here! Sounds like it to me!

Corporate Welfare Queens!!!

Watch this space. I’m frustrated and may expand this post. Anyone else want to pile on?

(Thanks to Bitchin Bob for the first article!)

Media Terrorism = Weather Terrorism

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Click for previous sinister weather terrorism news….

Cold Weather = Media Terrorism!

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The Way We Were…

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Let’s see where we are now….   A whole new congress under new republican power.

Let us now review where we were 6 years ago (2008) (according to Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders):

  1. Healthcare only for the rich
  2. Two wars going on (losing combat troops every week).
  3. More people living in poverty than anytime in American history.
  4. More wealth inequality.
  5. Financial system on verge of collapse.
  6. Losing 700,000 jobs a month
  7. 1.4 Trillion dollar deficit (the largest in history).

What the new republican congress will do:

  1. Go after social security (privatize).
  2. Go after Medicare (de-fund).
  3. Major cuts in federal education aid.
  4. Major cuts in nutrition aid.
  5. Major cuts in environmental protection.
  6. Huge tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations.

What a wonderful world to look forward to.   Go ahead, ask me why I shorten my life by smoking!

The Trashing of Twinbrook Parkway

It has been a little over a year since I ended my 10 year romance with the garbage addled city of Philadelphia. I’m now living in the Rockville/N. Bethesda area. On my way home from work yesterday (walking to get to the subway), I noticed this scene on Twinbrook Parkway.

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The question I have is the following (feel free to speculate in the comments):

1. Disgruntled office worker, project manager, tech writer, etc… with a truck full of proposals decided he/she wasn’t getting what they deserved for their hard work and pitched them out the window.  I could have considered doing this myself many times.  (The “take this job and shove it” theory).
2. Oops, I missed the recycling bin.
3. Should’ve put those proposals in the back seat instead of the back of the pickup. (The “used to carrying immigrant workers in the back” theory).

The funny part about this is that there was a street cleaner sitting at the side of the road less than a block away just idling with nobody in it. Typical!!!