For the second weekend in a row, I've helped friends move ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after coming home and finding virtually no work done on the ceiling--and absolutely no worthwhile repairs--I called the Fireside Park management office and left a message ( 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... )

First, the good ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning as I have for most of this vacation--in the afternoon. It's nice to be able to just lay there, enjoying that natural wake-up ebb and flow of consciousness ( Read more... )

Well, the hole in the ceiling is patched. The water stained section is primed and painted over. Things at least look OK now.

They said what caused the original problem was fixed.

Anyone want to place bets on how long before this light falls down? :)

(And... woo! paint fumes! yay...)

Nice, albeit short, night out at Alchemy's Tronic night last night (some pics here and here). Strikes me as kind of silly to even bother going unless I've arranged for a ride home. Cutting out before midnight is just kind of lame--people were just starting to really show up. No big deal, though, it was nice to be out and about ( Read more... )

As luck would have it, I got a call today just as I was getting off the Metro (and getting ready to walk home). It was one of the people from my apartment office, calling to schedule a time for maintenance to come in and (finally) fix the ceiling in my kitchen. All that took was many months and me bringing them a picture of how it was "fixed" the ( Read more... )