One of these days I'll learn to never take a moment to relax, to think that my point has finally gotten through, to imagine that the work I was promised would actually be done ( Read more... )

When someone says my apartment is going to be worked on Wednesday, I oddly expect it to be worked on Wednesday ( Read more... )

At a little after 9:30 this morning, I got a call from a very concerned person in my apartment management office. That person just happens to be the same useless one that assisted in screwing up my lease renewal last year and took no less than two of the messages I left for the actual manager two months ago when I last tried to get this crap ( Read more... )

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I just made a call to Raymond Logan, the Rockville Landlord Tenant Specialist. (Contact from the Rockville City Police Department Community Enhancement & Code Enforcement page.) Left a message with him. Maybe he'll be able to help a little.

If not, any lawyers out there that'd be able to help if/when this gets real nasty ( Read more... )

...but this time I caught most of it in the bucket ( Read more... )

Yep. The garbage disposal is dead. But thanks to everyone for making suggestions... there is a little button hidden on the bottom that pops in and out. Toggling it didn't help one bit. It seems the blades just kind of seized up on their own at some point ( Read more... )

So, with the demise of the dinner plans I'd been looking forward to for days, I decided to cook up something simple ( Read more... )

Water + Kitchen light fixture = Very Unhappy Kier. :(

Really, is it too much to ask for that not to happen?

not the way i wanted to start the weekend.

at least i have a bucket to catch the water...