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Well, me and Mary had gone down to the City about the deck situation and we hadn't heard anything yet. So, Mary and her husband went down to City Hall today to check and see if they had followed up - the guy admitted that they hadn't. After Mary's husband gave them some lip, they said they would come out immediately and so they did. A guy came out and Mary's husband showed him around.......he said we have a major problem. He said he was going to have an engineer get in touch with management tomorrow. He said it will probably be over $100,000. I told Mary this guy wasn't even an engineer - once the engineer sees, it will probably cost a lot more. He even said they are going to check the steps in front of each building that are wood - I never even thought about those.

Get this - the guy said that my deck is not the worst and ready to fall down. I bet they were just going to fix my deck to shut me up. The guy did find one deck almost ready to collapse. So me and Mary may not even get new decks out of this, but I did it for safety reasons. I knew we needed an assessment. The City guy said he didn't even think they could get all of the decks that needed to be fixed done within the time limit that they would be given.

I knew we needed an assessment. Me and Mary are afraid once they all know this, someone is going to come after us or our cars. Several people won't be able to afford the assessment amount. So far, if the guy is right (which he probably is), everyone would have to pay $1,000 right away. It's probably going to be more. These people got pissed off when we increased dues $30 a month - I mean they were angry and came down yelling at all the Board members for months. I'm really scared about this even though it was the right and necessary thing to do. It's probably a blessing that me and Mary aren't on the Board because I wouldn't want to deal with this. Lord help us.

The monthly HOA meeting is tonight. Mary and her husband are going. A couple of the new Board members saw Mary's husband going around the property with that guy looking at the decks. Sh!t is really going to hit the fan. Mary said if they ask what was going on, they will tell them.

I'm wondering what will be done for those people who choose not to pay - they can get a lein on their property, but still be able to live here. I'm not paying for other people. Ma said to get a lein on my place then. What?! I kept telling the Board that we had to discuss an assessment so we would know what needs to be done in case we had to have one, but they didn't even want to open the topic. I had even said that we should start an assessment so people could make small payments for a couple years, but they didn't want to hear about it. Now the ball is going to drop and everyone will have to pay a huge amount all at one time. One thing is that I'm not going to let this go - I don't want the City to just come in this one time, we have an assessment and some of the decks get replaced and some just get fixed. They all need to eventually be replaced. I have to keep remembering that there was no other way to go about this. No one would listen to me. This had to be done before something bad happened like in Ohio.

Just trying to remain human

Well, it looks like nan has another set of noisy neighbours, these ones seem particularly active at night. That’s the thing, living in a semi-detached house/bungalow or whatever...doesn’t matter. You’re still going to hear the noise from the next door neighbours, whether you’re in the next room or three rooms along. The noise travels through the roof. My uncle was absolutely right, a semi-detached place does certainly not mean that it will be noise-free. It’s attached, it’s how sound exactly travels through to the next house.

Lately on Ebay I've been looking at quack doctor medicine, mostly from around the Victorian era, just for the fun of it. Seems in those days they thought laxatives would cure anything. By purifying the blood, I think. They even had laxative cold medicine. I don't think I'd want to be taking laxatives when I'm coughing or sneezing a lot, if you know what I mean. And of course they also had stuff with morphine or cocaine or heroine in it. Or strychnine! Of course they didn't recommend taking the pills or medicine inside the bottles since they're ancient and expired, they're just for people who collect antique stuff like that. As if I would take it if it *wasn't* ancient and expired!

Thinking about eating things for breakfast that I'm not actually going to eat for breakfast.

I am thinking about food too. What shall I have for lunch?
Something easy but healthy?

Trying to deal with Decepticons in parliament and other realms of human life

My parents seem to have forgotten that when you assume, you make an a** out of u and me. They keep assuming that I'm being lazy or not doing anything at all that I don't want to do, and saying things that imply they think they know for sure that I've done some thing or another to prove it, when I actually didn't do the thing in question (or didn't not do the thing I should've done that they assume I didn't because I'm too lazy or don't care). If I didn't do anything I didn't want to do, I wouldn't be living - I haven't actually wanted to live for years. The fact that I am proves that I don't just give up or try to get out of it every time I don't want to do something. It would be so much easier for me to just kill myself than to keep on living and trying to get to a point where I can support myself and live on my own. But when I want to die, it's not because I want to get out of anything to do with living, it's because I think the world would be better off without me. And it's things like my parents acting like they think I'm nothing but a lazy, self-centered layabout that make me think they'd be happier without me.

You have lots to give, Ms. Dragon.

I wish you could use your biology knowledge more....

Power is out, hoping it wont get too cold overnight.

I guess that depends on where in Canada you are.

I wish I was in Canada right now getting ready for bed with the family I love

Dark thoughts

Finishing some assignments in tomorrow's class.

Annoyed. Just annoyed.

Heh, it took me a WEEK to get annoyed!!

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