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slynne
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response 625 of 1000:
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May 19 13:28 UTC 2002 |
IHB a friend I havent seen much of since she had kids has asked me to
go away with her for a weekend to "someplace we can go to the theater"
Yay. I guess I have missed her.
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tpryan
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response 626 of 1000:
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May 19 18:35 UTC 2002 |
Glad to get an invite to visit a freind in Lansing yesterday.
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michaela
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response 627 of 1000:
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May 19 19:18 UTC 2002 |
Going to a local SCA meeting today and Star Wars tomorrow.
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eskarina
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response 628 of 1000:
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May 19 21:16 UTC 2002 |
re Sindi: How did you carry a case of mangoes on your bike?
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clees
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response 629 of 1000:
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May 19 22:12 UTC 2002 |
IHB because I have managed to stay nicotine free for six months!
Mentally an addict, but physically quite over it.
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keesan
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response 630 of 1000:
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May 19 23:24 UTC 2002 |
Congrats, clees! Maybe you can find a less harmful mental addiction to
substitute for the tobacco, such as grexing;)
IHB any hour now I will have both phone lines at both places and people will
be able to phone us when I am reading email and I can use the fast computer
as a radio and listen to the news in Bulgarian or Czech or Estonian or even
the music from WQRS revived.
And my Akebia quinata (the cute little vine on the chainlink fence) has for
the first time sprouted some exotic-looking pink-purple flower clusters, which
may turn into exotic purple banana-custard fruits.
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orinoco
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response 631 of 1000:
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May 20 05:04 UTC 2002 |
It's hard to carry a little packet of Grex in your shirt pocket for those
times when you need a sudden fix.
IHB, after a good three hours spent wrangling over food, we've got things
pretty well straightened out. About half of Debs House is boarding at Lester
House (where I live and am food steward). The other half doesn't want to
board here, but still wants us to buy them basic staples and snack food to
have around the house. Everyone thinks they're getting a bum deal. But it
looks like we've come up with a plan that everyone likes. Now I've just gotta
mail in the mother of all bulk food orders, and we'll be on top of things.
Also, IHB I may get to spend a month this summer living and working in the
zen temple. I won't be surprised if I'm the only one who thinks this is
exciting, but it is.
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michaela
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response 632 of 1000:
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May 20 07:19 UTC 2002 |
*I* think that sounds cool. Where is it?
IHB I spent the evening with Kae and Kenn and got to see the X-Files series
finale.
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jaklumen
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response 633 of 1000:
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May 20 09:54 UTC 2002 |
resp:631 What about PDAs with Internet capabilities, Dan?
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orinoco
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response 634 of 1000:
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May 20 20:52 UTC 2002 |
It's at the Zen temple in Ann Arbor, on Packard near the bike shop and Bev's
Carribean Kitchen. Apparently they do this every summer. I don't know if
I'm gonna be able to go -- I'd need to get released from my contract at the
co-op a month early, and I imagine they want me to stick around and keep being
food steward.
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keesan
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response 635 of 1000:
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May 20 23:28 UTC 2002 |
There are three large loud dogs in adjacent properties that bark whenever we
or two other sets of neighbors go into our yards (or walk by on the street),
for 20 minutes at a time. We were out near the back fence yesterday getting
barked at, and the neighbor attached his hose and we sprayed it up and over
the 6' wooden fence and the barking went away and did not come back. Maybe
the dogs will associate that corner with sudden storms? Anyway, the good news
is that the owner is moving away any day now (but the bad news it will
probably be rented out and is in bad shape and may attract more people who
only like it for the huge fenced yard suitable for dogs). The pit bull on
the leash in the other yard is staying, but may bark less on its own.
Jim thinks the land might be worth more without that house as it will be
difficult or impossible to get the floors level.
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clees
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response 636 of 1000:
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May 21 06:01 UTC 2002 |
IHB went on a 65 ml. cycling trip yesterday.
The weather was perfect.
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slynne
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response 637 of 1000:
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May 21 13:31 UTC 2002 |
There arent enough barking dogs in the world, imho. I have decided that
as a landlord, I am going to *require* any tenents/roommates to have a
least one dog.
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keesan
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response 638 of 1000:
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May 21 13:38 UTC 2002 |
Maybe that would work better than my landlord's written no-pets policy, which
allowed a crazy person with two barking dogs to move into one apartment, and
someone else with a dog that barked all night into another one, and someone
else to tie up two Chihuahas on the porch all day. He is getting better now
at spotting dog owners BEFORE they move in. The barking dogs in back of my
place have nearly succeeded in knocking down one sectionof wooden fence but
luckily that is the one installed against my 8' chainlink fence so I am safe.
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happyboy
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response 639 of 1000:
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May 21 14:07 UTC 2002 |
you should live in a nunnery.
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lynne
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response 640 of 1000:
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May 21 16:14 UTC 2002 |
Yay! I wanna live with Lynne!
IHB my damn final is over. And I'm going drinking with all the second year
bio students because they all had their orals today. And the Meg is coming
to visit me this weekend! :)
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mooncat
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response 641 of 1000:
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May 21 16:32 UTC 2002 |
re #638- Sindi- I really really hope that you don't think all dog
owners are that irresponsible.
Yeah, there are a lot of irresponsible pet owners out there who don't
take proper care of their pets- but all this does is make it a lot
harder for those people who do have pets (like my roommate and myself)
to find places to live.
Dogs will bark from time to time- they're rather territorial creatures-
however a responsible owner won't let it go on and on and on.
Sounds pretty much like you've just had really bad luck with dog
owners. It's too bad.
re #637- so uh... when you renting next? ;) <would like to get a dog,
but since she and roomie have between them a dog and cat the apartment
people say they can't have anymore pets>
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tpryan
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response 642 of 1000:
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May 21 16:49 UTC 2002 |
I don't think I could do a 65 mili-liter (ml.) cycling trip.
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slynne
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response 643 of 1000:
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May 21 17:59 UTC 2002 |
If my dogs are in my yard and it is during daytime hours, I will let
them go on and on and I dont consider that irresponsible. But then, I
didnt start that until I bought a house. When I lived in an apartment,
I never let them be outside unsupervised.
If my neighbor wanted to squirt them with the hose, I wouldnt get mad
but would think it was kind of funny because the dogs would learn that
the mean neighbor turns the hose on them which would make them bark
more.
Heh, My current roommate is planning on moving out in December of 2003
but might stay longer (she isnt sure)
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keesan
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response 644 of 1000:
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May 21 19:20 UTC 2002 |
There are city laws against dogs barking for long periods or in the middle
of the night and I do consider it irresponsible to inflict that much noise
on the neighbors even in the daytime. If your dogs keep barking, train them
not to do so, or keep them inside. One of my neighbors used to put a chair
in front of the high window so his dog could watch people go by and bark
whenever it saw anyone, at all hours, for 10 minutes or longer. When we
complained he told us we should take his hidden key any time the dog barked,
go into his apartment, and close the curtain. I did this a few times at 3
am and was glad when he moved. He cared a lot more about the dog's
entertainment than the neighbors' sleep. I put up with it. The only time I
ever reported a barking dog was the crazy neighbor who kept running up parking
fines for all the other neighbors if they happened to park within 4' of the
driveway that she was not using (under 2' of snow).
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jep
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response 645 of 1000:
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May 21 19:27 UTC 2002 |
I'm not sure how much it has to do with being happy, but one night
before I moved at the start of this year, the neighbor's dog was
barking constantly all night. This is in the country more or less, but
I couldn't sleep. I went down the hill and banged on his door at 2:30
a.m. to ask him to shut his dogs up. After that we didn't have too
warm of a relationship, but I had to be able to sleep.
I could have called the police; the previous tenants in that house had
done so. Unfortunately he didn't see the advantage of that, but I did
think I was being nicer than I had to be.
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mooncat
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response 646 of 1000:
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May 21 20:00 UTC 2002 |
Sylvia and I currently live in an apartment, and while her dog does
bark at people who walk by (she's of the opinion that the courtyard is
also part of her territory), but she doesn't bark and bark and bark...
In any case, IHB I live with a great cat and dog (not to mention
roomie) AND all the siblings' wedding plans are coming along
swimmingly. :)
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michaela
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response 647 of 1000:
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May 21 20:24 UTC 2002 |
IHB I have three jobs now. :)
IAHB I solved the Evil Icky Memory Problem by moving into the other bedroom
and putting my computer in the living room. Now I'm not surrounded by Life
with Dave.
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scott
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response 648 of 1000:
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May 21 20:25 UTC 2002 |
Spent 4 hours doing some programming on one of the old DOS systems at my old
company. Put on some music (first King Crimson's "THRAK" and then NIN's "The
Fragile") and got back into that wonderful sort of high-speed concentration.
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bhelliom
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response 649 of 1000:
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May 21 21:04 UTC 2002 |
Re# 638 It is rather unfortunate that you've had bad pet owners as
neighbors. However I do not believe that responsible pet owner should
share in the censure. Fewer apartments complexes and landlords of
single family homes are allowing tenents with pets to rent, often
because of those horrid and irresponsible pet owners out there. At
this point, you pretty much have to own your own home in order to have
a pet. Much of this is hardly necessary if folks would actually
refrain from lumping all pet owners into one group, and take them on a
case by case basis. I can certainly understand the desire to restrict
certain breeds and the desire to live in a quiet place without
irresponsible pet owners and their ill-trained pets, but the current
state of affairs borders on the ridiculous.
Re#646 It's rather interesting that she *has* to have the last word.
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