if someone is shoveling the fucking packed down (because it's been driven over so many times) fucking pile of fucking snow left by the fucking plow at the end of the fucking driveway, please do NOT fucking attempt to drive over it again so you can park in your parking spot. just fucking park in the fucking street. fuck. the pile at the end of the ( Read more... )

so, what the plumber eventually determined (with the great scientific method of taking a bucket with some water on it and pouring it on the floor upstairs) is that there is an actual hole in the floor beside their toilet through which all water happily flows down because their floor is tilted. when they take their soaking wet babies out of the tub ( Read more... )

Yesterday we got up, farted around, took the dogs out, went to the supermarket, gathered ourselves together and headed out to Blue Hills. I think the thing I'll miss most about New England when we move is hiking in the autumn in deciduous woods. So gorgeous. There was lots of horse sign (fresh hoofprints, fresh poop) so the dogs didn't get to run ( Read more... )

my upstairs neighbor
forgot
AGAIN
the trash duty roster
how hard is it to count to 3?!

the neighbor little barky terrier and the woman with the aggressive spaniel just had an interesting interaction. what's up with people who allow their dogs to just freak the heck out at the end of the leash? this woman did NOTHING to stop her dog from freaking - and of course LBT was happy to reciprocate. my dogs were frenzied ( Read more... )

The lock on the front door was acting funny yesterday - sticky, maybe from the humidiy, but it was hard to get a key in the hole. Jef went and put some WD-40 in it (which seems to have fixed the problem) and he ran into our upstairs neighbor as he was doing it. Evidently, Jef totally blew the guy's mind with WD-40 application to the moving parts of ( Read more... )

goes to my upstairs neighbor who raked ... the street?! Who does that??

I swear...Maggie is actually listening to me. It's almost magical. Last night, she picked up her chicken leg and went to go into the spare bedroom with it ... I 'ah ah'ed her and she turned around and I pointed to the living room (where she normally goes to eat) and she went right in there! 3 dogs this morning - the akita (Maggie took a glance and ( Read more... )

Since about 7:45, I've been able to hear a loudspeaker voice. It accompanied me on the dog walk, making it super surreal. I don't understand why something has to be so loud that you can hear it literally a mile away. At about 8:20, there was a bout of screaming in Chinese in our stairwell. I enjoyed that too (not ( Read more... )

So, we got a literal dusting of snow last night - really like an eighth of an inch, not a shovelable amount and the guy who lives upstairs sent a self-righteous email out that he'd 'shoveled' (Jef left me a voice mail in which he said, "Dude, get a broom." which really would've been the appropriate tool for the snow) and that it was our downstairs ( Read more... )