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Feb. 1st, 2008 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The reason I didn't update last night was that the internet was down. This was not because I am a stupid user. After I got the DSL set up and running, every time I have called Frontier (my telco, from whom I buy DSL at a hideously expensive price), they have been down and not me. I am not a stupid user. I have a stupid internet provider.
It's sleeting outside today. A lot.
I have to drop off the younger cat at the vet to be spayed and get a round of shots. Yes. My cat is eight months old and is (a) not yet spayed and (b) doesn't have any shots. I am a bad cat owner. However, until last week, cat didn't go outside at all. Where, I ask you, was she going to get (a) pregnant or (b) rabies? I wasn't feeling terribly pressed about the situation until she escaped and spent the night under the house with the feral tomcat who lives there. (I let the feral tom keep living under the house because he keeps the skunks away. Note that there has not been any bitching about skunks under my house since the feral tom moved in? Right. That's why he's allowed to live there. I do not feed him -- "allowing" means not taking potshots at him with the .22.) I should get her back tomorrow, assuming all goes well.
I am also picking up the proto-bacon from the meat place this afternoon. The meat place rents from S&S's mother and apparently they're not paying any rent as S&S had M. do a notice-to-quit (no lease, o'course. WTF are people doing renting shit WITHOUT A LEASE? Are they stupid?) for them at work yesterday. I do not think that I will disclose my knowledge of that when I appear to pick up my proto-bacon, though. I wonder if I should disclose to S&S that the meat people informed me that they would be moving locations directly when I went in to order my proto-bacon?
Everything is rented, at the moment. Had a hearing yesterday for 633, who is claiming that she's going to pay up when her income tax refund comes in. I told her that she had twenty days from the hearing date to get us the money and explained how landlord/tenant worked in Pennsylvania, as tenant is from New York and laboring under the impression that it's illegal in this state to evict pregnant mommies in the dead of winter. She'd be wrong on that front.
The guy at 347 is still there even though I did an order for possession and changed the locks and stuff. I waited on him to come home b/c the apartment was all still full of stuff like he thought he still lived there. He came home from work with his three small children in tow (wife was a druggie or something, ran off and left him with the kids a couple of years ago) and said I had to let him in the house because "he lived there". Er. No, dude, not anymore you don't. That's what the fuck an order of possession is all about. Guy's got no car and three kids under the age of six. It's less than twenty degrees outside. Hell. I'm like, "Do you have any money at all?" He's like, "I have five hundred and eighty-seven dollars." "Go get it, in cash, and I'll receipt you and let you back in. I'll stay here and watch your kids while you run to the bank." So he gave me that, which caught him up almost through the end of December and I gave him some numbers for social services and assistance, threw ten gallons of fuel in the oil tank (empty), bled the furnace, and let him back in with the caveat that I would be by every week to see how things were going and get some money every other week (when he gets paid), else we'd do another round of this foolishness at his expense. He's another one that I'm kind of stringing along until tax-return time.
At 629, trailers, there has been absolutely no freaking progress. I'm wondering -- once we decline to renew the leases and stuff and everyone has gotten this in writing several times (we're sending out a reminder letter in February and another one in March just to keep everybody aware), are we allowed to just shut off the fucking services? We've not-renewed-the-lease, so they're like squatters. We don't have to keep providing them services after that point, right? Must check with brother-the-younger.
It's sleeting outside today. A lot.
I have to drop off the younger cat at the vet to be spayed and get a round of shots. Yes. My cat is eight months old and is (a) not yet spayed and (b) doesn't have any shots. I am a bad cat owner. However, until last week, cat didn't go outside at all. Where, I ask you, was she going to get (a) pregnant or (b) rabies? I wasn't feeling terribly pressed about the situation until she escaped and spent the night under the house with the feral tomcat who lives there. (I let the feral tom keep living under the house because he keeps the skunks away. Note that there has not been any bitching about skunks under my house since the feral tom moved in? Right. That's why he's allowed to live there. I do not feed him -- "allowing" means not taking potshots at him with the .22.) I should get her back tomorrow, assuming all goes well.
I am also picking up the proto-bacon from the meat place this afternoon. The meat place rents from S&S's mother and apparently they're not paying any rent as S&S had M. do a notice-to-quit (no lease, o'course. WTF are people doing renting shit WITHOUT A LEASE? Are they stupid?) for them at work yesterday. I do not think that I will disclose my knowledge of that when I appear to pick up my proto-bacon, though. I wonder if I should disclose to S&S that the meat people informed me that they would be moving locations directly when I went in to order my proto-bacon?
Everything is rented, at the moment. Had a hearing yesterday for 633, who is claiming that she's going to pay up when her income tax refund comes in. I told her that she had twenty days from the hearing date to get us the money and explained how landlord/tenant worked in Pennsylvania, as tenant is from New York and laboring under the impression that it's illegal in this state to evict pregnant mommies in the dead of winter. She'd be wrong on that front.
The guy at 347 is still there even though I did an order for possession and changed the locks and stuff. I waited on him to come home b/c the apartment was all still full of stuff like he thought he still lived there. He came home from work with his three small children in tow (wife was a druggie or something, ran off and left him with the kids a couple of years ago) and said I had to let him in the house because "he lived there". Er. No, dude, not anymore you don't. That's what the fuck an order of possession is all about. Guy's got no car and three kids under the age of six. It's less than twenty degrees outside. Hell. I'm like, "Do you have any money at all?" He's like, "I have five hundred and eighty-seven dollars." "Go get it, in cash, and I'll receipt you and let you back in. I'll stay here and watch your kids while you run to the bank." So he gave me that, which caught him up almost through the end of December and I gave him some numbers for social services and assistance, threw ten gallons of fuel in the oil tank (empty), bled the furnace, and let him back in with the caveat that I would be by every week to see how things were going and get some money every other week (when he gets paid), else we'd do another round of this foolishness at his expense. He's another one that I'm kind of stringing along until tax-return time.
At 629, trailers, there has been absolutely no freaking progress. I'm wondering -- once we decline to renew the leases and stuff and everyone has gotten this in writing several times (we're sending out a reminder letter in February and another one in March just to keep everybody aware), are we allowed to just shut off the fucking services? We've not-renewed-the-lease, so they're like squatters. We don't have to keep providing them services after that point, right? Must check with brother-the-younger.