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Yesterday, I got this nice paper taped to my front door. I’ll give a quick run down of where I live here. It’s in a condo neighborhood, in which all of the units belong to an HOA. The area has two entryways from the main street. About two weeks ago, the entry closest to the street, I’ll call it entry one (the lower right entry on the picture), was torn apart, and hasn’t been repaired. I don’t know why it got torn apart, perhaps to install a gutter that runs under curbing instead of the large dip that used to be there. Well, that has sat there untouched for about two weeks. I live in the J building there on the bottom row, so you can see the inconvenience this has already caused me and my neighbors.
Now, this paper I mentioned. It has the drawing below on the back side, and explains that over the next few days, the pavement in the neighborhood will be sealed. I won’t go into how unnecessary I think this sealing is at the moment, for I have other issues. The paper lines out that in order to “allow maximum alternative parking solutions,” this will be done over a three day period, in sections. The planned “Day 1″ closes entry two (the upper right entry on the picture) for a 24 hour period. This means that entry one will be closed due to construction that has been apparently forgotten, and entry two will be closed due to sealing. This of course would cause everybody in the neighborhood to have zero vehicular access to the outside world. That’s awesome.
The HOA is mostly populated with geriatrics, so who knows, maybe this logic has escaped their ever fading minds. We’ll see. Luckily, I’ll be forced into not being trapped…at least I think. I leave for work before 7am, the planned starting time tomorrow, so I may have no option but to park on the main street upon my return. I’m hoping for the sealing to be postponed for a week to allow the other construction to finish before all this chaos takes place. If that’s the case, I’ll miss the whole thing because I’ll be in Florida, sweet!
Oh boy did I see me a doozy today at work! I was doing one of my glamorous duties by changing out some lights in the furniture store. While up on the ladder, I noticed a guy walk buy who was holding some kind of face mask filter to his face. I looked to see if there was a hose connected to oxygen, even though he was probably around 50 years old and looked healthy, but found no such thing. As far as mask filter things go, it was about the nicest I’ve ever seen, looked a little like this here. He was holding it up with his hand, and I couldn’t see any straps, kind of strange I thought. So I went back to my business, then heard some more footsteps behind me. I turned to see a woman walking by doing the very same thing! For a moment, I felt like I was in some crazy science fiction end of the world movie and I hadn’t been clued in to the imminent disaster.
The two mask people were apparently in cahoots, as I saw them talk to each other. I tried to make out what they were saying, but, believe it or not, their words were plenty muffled by these crazy masks. I heard the lady say something half-panicked sounding that sounded like “Let’s get out of here, I can’t [muffled word, but I imagine it was breath]. The two looked paranoid to the point where if approached by a sales person, they would turn and run for the exit, knocking down anything in their paths. I later wished I had started violently coughing up a lung when I was within their same area. That would’ve been a fun little game.
So my best guess is that they both have bad allergies, and this mask solution is the best they could do. My first thought was that they are both hypochondriacs and must have met in the emergency room when both of them had a sneeze attack or something. Whatever the case may be, seeing things like that does a couple things to me: 1) Gives me a good reason to smile and chuckle a bit, and 2) makes me glad that I haven’t hit that level of weirdness…yet…well, at least not in public.
I suppose most readers of this here blog have used T9 predictive text messaging on their phones. One thing that happens from time to time is we all send a message with something like That sounds book, when we really meant to say That sounds cool. Well, some of my friends and I decided it’s more fun to just leave it on that first word that T9 picks and send the message anyway. A couple examples we discovered: Move it or lose it becomes Note it or lord it. Dont (no apostrophe for this one) be scared becomes Foot be sacred. The possibilities are endless! And if you type woohoo, it becomes zonino. Oh, one more that baffles me. Sometimes I reply to questions with a simple yep. When I’m cycling through the possible choices, wdp shows up just before yep, weird.
Here’s a site I found where this phenomena is discussed: Saussure, Predictive Text, Cycling Awake and the word ‘Book’
Here’s a quick tip to make life more enjoyable. I learned the trick from my friend Craig. When you’re about to eat, put your glasses (the drinking kind, not the seeing kind) in the freezer while you’re getting the food ready. By the time you’re ready to eat, you can pour the drink into a nice chilled glass. It just makes it a little more enjoyable. I’m totally hooked on it now, good stuff.
Today has been great! The NBA Playoffs started, they’ve been great so far. There was an Indy race earlier. Even though it is the lesser of the 2 post-CART era leagues, it was enjoyable. And tonight, UFC 70 is on Spike TV free of charge because it’s outside of the US! The weather outside has been perfect all day but I’ve been inside watching TV. Just thought I’d throw a post up here for all that, not too sure why. Maybe because I’ve been stuck inside most of the day (I did buy some milk and stuff) and felt like reaching out to the world.
