more domestic woes

[adularia]

There's an open AP visible from the edge of my studio! More so from the fire escape, and it's leafy out there. Will not go INSANE in the intervening month-or-so before DSL will get properly hooked up

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[adularia]

Just the idea of dropping off my laundry to be done feels so strange and hotel-like.

[northernflights]

Adding said library to list of places I'd like to visit.

[stolen_tea]

Repeated application and removal of duct tape is good for removing fiberglass splinters, or at least, the type I used to get. Most effective when paying attention to the direction of the tape peel and the splinter insertion, but I forget the finer details.

[adularia]

Huh! Thanks. I'll remember that. I only have blue masking tape at the moment, but anything should work. Not sure why I didn't think of that.

[northernflights]

Dang... it takes an entire month to get an internet connection in NYC? You'd think with the density, it would be more like Japan, just call up and get your fiber connected in a day or two for $20 a month or whatever...

Clearly, America's problems with internet access are the result of corporate jackassery and not low housing density.

[adularia]

I'm not sure if it'll support your point or not, but the matter is more corporate jackassery than density. I asked Speakeasy to move my account since they're available in NYC now, and since I got it installed last August at my old place, they said they'd charge a $300 contract-break fee to move it before the year was up. Possibly this means they don't deserve continued patronage...

Wow.

[northernflights]

When I cancelled my Speakeasy DSL moving from Seattle to Everett, they charged me such a fee (even though I'd paid for the equipment), but they said they would waive it if I agreed to activate service at my new location. Maybe if you had called and asked to cancel instead of asking to move, you would have gotten out of it by agreeing to move instead of canceling...

Re: Wow.

[northernflights]

(I'm suddenly reminded of how, if you want to renew your cell phone contract and get a free phone and a lower monthly rate as part of the deal, you have to call and say that you want to cancel... I guess threatening to leave is the new switching away from AT&T long distance.)

[heinousbitca]

I think wash-n-fold is perhaps $not_cheap but is far thriftier for your sanity than dealing with an NYC laundromat.

Seriously, other than a couple of good ones i can recommend in Harlem, i'd rather gouge my eyes out than deal with it. Even then, wash-n-fold is tempting by comparison.

(In case you're curious, since i know you are, and today seems to be Give Legal Answers Day anyways, i might as well explain why laundry hours in NYC tend to be so bloody inconvenient. Of course, we know how well some NYC laws are enforced, but attended laundromats at night are SRS BZNS. By the power of Greyskull New York City Public Law § 20-296 at (f), All coin-operated and customer-activated laundries shall be required to have on the premises an attendant from 8:00 P.M. until closing or 6 A.M. the following day, whichever is earlier. In other words, it makes being open 24/7 kinda unprofitable, though there are a few 24-hour laundromats in NYC. (There's a great one on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and there used to be one at 143rd and Lenox but

[adularia]

Oh, interesting. I was wondering why laundry times were so heavily enforced at the corp. apartment... they locked the doors at the end of the posted hours. Felt a bit nannyish of them.

The one at 89th and 1st is 24-hour and looks very shiny, but I'm not sure it would actually be much of a savings.

[heinousbitca]

Yeah, the fine's pretty bad. My BFFE's apartment building got the shit fined out of it for letting someone stay in there 30 minutes late...and one of the particularly annoying, uptight tenants ratted out the building.

$2500 and a 5-day license suspension later...