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May. 3rd, 2015 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzI'm not feeling guilty about not writing. My eljay / rzn mafia subscription is about to auto-pay, and I'm going to pay even while I question the value of this venue for me. I like writing. I like keeping track of my life and thoughts. I also collect my fingernails into little rows of labeled jars...
House:
I'll be visiting today, but as of my last visit (with Veronica) more walls are up, the attic stairs are installed, and the flooring is started in the upstairs. Jordan put down subflooring (plywood?) over the floorboards, then a layer of foamy plastic (I forget the name, something like quietfloor) to make it even quieter (I also put insulation in the floor/ceiling for that purpose - remember this whole design is about rental income, so reducing sources of potential conflict seems key). The slab is started in the basement but not done yet - still just the back. I'm not sure when the utilities will be done, putting windows and doors in (and that's a big deal, to me), re-making a door - utility room - and new-egress window in the basement (plus some bricks down there look awful) PLUS doing bars for security...oh and regrading the back yard...it seems a lot of work.
As exciting as that is, it's also kind of all that is going on. A lot of it is a holding pattern. I'm happy Jordan sends me pictures at key points.
Other house:
Another 2 br in our area, fully renovated, just went on the market for $338k...we'll see how that goes. The price is fair but sales lately are not good - if this goes for that or higher it would be a nice bump (and an overdue one).
My labia (hey I haven't said that in a while): I'm confused. I'm definitely getting strong, recovering my strength, but something is wrong on the other side. I was ok doing deadlifts for 345 the other day, but the next day my left (other) hip was sore to the point it was painful to bend over to tie my shoe. This is essentially the problem I had on the surgery side (rt) or feels like it, but not as bad. So I'm not sure if I'm symmetrically fucked up and will need surgery AGAIN, if I should just take it easy, or if I should run to the doc to find out (M's advice, not wrong but I'm not sure I'm there yet). I'm keeping an eye on it and should be free to skip at least the DL. I noticed my squat did NOT seem impacted, so it is different.
Today I'm going to freak day at the zoo, after doing squats (after having stayed in last night for a date-night with beer, tv, and me) so I will have to take it easy anyway so I can waddle around for hours.
I don't write about real life much; real thoughts, as fb take the flash communication urges, and I do have a private life (or the parts that involve others are private). Wait, why apologize?
A position has opened up to be an EEOC Administrative Judge in the DC area. Sadly it's only GS-14, so it means if I were to get the position it would...actually hamper my career a little bit. I mean on the one side it's "up" as I'd be a Judge-like-creature, but on the other hand it's a dead-end which narrows my litigation experience to 1 of the 3 fields in which I now work, and I'd be so new the moving up would be very, very slow. On the major plus side I'd be able to do some good - making fair decisions based on the law in a world where so many incompetent racist boobs are ruling against Agencies "just because" with regularity (at taxpayer tremendous expense). I may apply anyway but I'm not necessarily interested - I do have a former coworker I'll tell about the position (though she's very info-adept so she probably knows) because she wants to be a judge (a real one, not this low-level joke) and it could help with that, while she's also smart and fair.
Oh my job is busy but going very well. The girlfriend's career makes me a little self-conscious about my lack of goal-direction, but the more I see her efforts the happier I am with my decisions for me. I'm a hard-working lazy person who cares about his career but not much! I think I'd be proud of my work if I was a line cook.
Oh Baltimore...went to b'more with Janna yesterday, starting in Canton with free-comic book day (more and more black comic fans, more and more black skaters, I like this merging of cultures!), trolling for weird things and furniture (oh hipster prices, ouch), then going to b'more proper (well gay-mecca b'more) having lunch in Trinacria behind boarded up windows (there were only a few broken windows, but they boarded up after the first round of problems) where I noticed an employee looked like what most people would expect from a looter. Also, they had a LOT of $5 bottles of wine. That's a cheap and efficient way to get a buzz on.
(Trinacria is a new sandwich place by an Italian group that has run a grocery store in a not-good area for ages and ages, they say over 100 years and I believe it)
From there we also walked up Mt. Vernon and I caught up with a lot of changes in the area since I had been there last. We passed city cafe, past the still-not-open eden's lounge, to hit a new furniture store with expensive but highly fashionable (waygay) items throughout. In that place
Fox version: a large black male with unkempt afro-hair approached us in military styled boots
an adorbs mica-grad poet-looking guy talked to us when he liked my d-20 shirt, exchanged gaming focus areas, and swapped contact info as he does both gaming and art for games. He liked my shirt, I liked his boots, his hair was big while his voice was warm. Oh Mt. Vernon.
(not a big deal, but I felt like I had to share with the Fox version as I narrated our encounter to Janna as we walked away). We then hit brewer's art for a bit...curious as a couple cute guys ordered food next to us and then disappeared for a LONG time before returning (we wondered if they had walked out for some reason)...I'm convinced they had bathroom sex (ew but they were cute...but still ew). We then checked out the old fire station by Iggy's pizza and confirmed it is being brew-pub'd up, as there were brew-tanks in the now-clear space inside.
Part of me is thinking the "riots" will lead to temporarily even cheaper property, and Mt. Vernon is still pretty. The commute though, egads.
Today will be a different zoo trip than with Veronica later...I am on a mission to trek the side of the zoo closest to her house as we hear them bellowing in the morning and night. She tells me they're zebras - they sound like mules. My theory is when they see us together, and hear us talking, they'll gather in groups, point, and say "omg that's totally them!" before they ask us to keep it down.
House:
I'll be visiting today, but as of my last visit (with Veronica) more walls are up, the attic stairs are installed, and the flooring is started in the upstairs. Jordan put down subflooring (plywood?) over the floorboards, then a layer of foamy plastic (I forget the name, something like quietfloor) to make it even quieter (I also put insulation in the floor/ceiling for that purpose - remember this whole design is about rental income, so reducing sources of potential conflict seems key). The slab is started in the basement but not done yet - still just the back. I'm not sure when the utilities will be done, putting windows and doors in (and that's a big deal, to me), re-making a door - utility room - and new-egress window in the basement (plus some bricks down there look awful) PLUS doing bars for security...oh and regrading the back yard...it seems a lot of work.
As exciting as that is, it's also kind of all that is going on. A lot of it is a holding pattern. I'm happy Jordan sends me pictures at key points.
Other house:
Another 2 br in our area, fully renovated, just went on the market for $338k...we'll see how that goes. The price is fair but sales lately are not good - if this goes for that or higher it would be a nice bump (and an overdue one).
My labia (hey I haven't said that in a while): I'm confused. I'm definitely getting strong, recovering my strength, but something is wrong on the other side. I was ok doing deadlifts for 345 the other day, but the next day my left (other) hip was sore to the point it was painful to bend over to tie my shoe. This is essentially the problem I had on the surgery side (rt) or feels like it, but not as bad. So I'm not sure if I'm symmetrically fucked up and will need surgery AGAIN, if I should just take it easy, or if I should run to the doc to find out (M's advice, not wrong but I'm not sure I'm there yet). I'm keeping an eye on it and should be free to skip at least the DL. I noticed my squat did NOT seem impacted, so it is different.
Today I'm going to freak day at the zoo, after doing squats (after having stayed in last night for a date-night with beer, tv, and me) so I will have to take it easy anyway so I can waddle around for hours.
I don't write about real life much; real thoughts, as fb take the flash communication urges, and I do have a private life (or the parts that involve others are private). Wait, why apologize?
A position has opened up to be an EEOC Administrative Judge in the DC area. Sadly it's only GS-14, so it means if I were to get the position it would...actually hamper my career a little bit. I mean on the one side it's "up" as I'd be a Judge-like-creature, but on the other hand it's a dead-end which narrows my litigation experience to 1 of the 3 fields in which I now work, and I'd be so new the moving up would be very, very slow. On the major plus side I'd be able to do some good - making fair decisions based on the law in a world where so many incompetent racist boobs are ruling against Agencies "just because" with regularity (at taxpayer tremendous expense). I may apply anyway but I'm not necessarily interested - I do have a former coworker I'll tell about the position (though she's very info-adept so she probably knows) because she wants to be a judge (a real one, not this low-level joke) and it could help with that, while she's also smart and fair.
Oh my job is busy but going very well. The girlfriend's career makes me a little self-conscious about my lack of goal-direction, but the more I see her efforts the happier I am with my decisions for me. I'm a hard-working lazy person who cares about his career but not much! I think I'd be proud of my work if I was a line cook.
Oh Baltimore...went to b'more with Janna yesterday, starting in Canton with free-comic book day (more and more black comic fans, more and more black skaters, I like this merging of cultures!), trolling for weird things and furniture (oh hipster prices, ouch), then going to b'more proper (well gay-mecca b'more) having lunch in Trinacria behind boarded up windows (there were only a few broken windows, but they boarded up after the first round of problems) where I noticed an employee looked like what most people would expect from a looter. Also, they had a LOT of $5 bottles of wine. That's a cheap and efficient way to get a buzz on.
(Trinacria is a new sandwich place by an Italian group that has run a grocery store in a not-good area for ages and ages, they say over 100 years and I believe it)
From there we also walked up Mt. Vernon and I caught up with a lot of changes in the area since I had been there last. We passed city cafe, past the still-not-open eden's lounge, to hit a new furniture store with expensive but highly fashionable (waygay) items throughout. In that place
Fox version: a large black male with unkempt afro-hair approached us in military styled boots
an adorbs mica-grad poet-looking guy talked to us when he liked my d-20 shirt, exchanged gaming focus areas, and swapped contact info as he does both gaming and art for games. He liked my shirt, I liked his boots, his hair was big while his voice was warm. Oh Mt. Vernon.
(not a big deal, but I felt like I had to share with the Fox version as I narrated our encounter to Janna as we walked away). We then hit brewer's art for a bit...curious as a couple cute guys ordered food next to us and then disappeared for a LONG time before returning (we wondered if they had walked out for some reason)...I'm convinced they had bathroom sex (ew but they were cute...but still ew). We then checked out the old fire station by Iggy's pizza and confirmed it is being brew-pub'd up, as there were brew-tanks in the now-clear space inside.
Part of me is thinking the "riots" will lead to temporarily even cheaper property, and Mt. Vernon is still pretty. The commute though, egads.
Today will be a different zoo trip than with Veronica later...I am on a mission to trek the side of the zoo closest to her house as we hear them bellowing in the morning and night. She tells me they're zebras - they sound like mules. My theory is when they see us together, and hear us talking, they'll gather in groups, point, and say "omg that's totally them!" before they ask us to keep it down.
