The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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wow, we were walking back from the mailboxes this evening and noticed all sorts of notices posted on a neighbor's door. seems their unit is now owned by fannie mae, as either they or their landlord have defaulted on the mortgage. i'm thinking they are renters (we don't know them), as all their property seems to be in the home and i saw them walking their dog just last week. i've been home more or less all day for the last few weeks, and there have been no moving trucks in, so i think they're still in there. unless they got out this week during the daytime. if they're still living there i'd assume they haven't got home yet to find all those notices or the notices would be gone. one of the notices says in huge letters that vandalism of any of the property will be prosecuted.

similar thing happened to our downstairs neighbor a year ago - she was renting, and the owner sold the unit. the new owners gave her five days to get out. she went, as the other option was to be evicted - which does take 30 days, but which also damages your chances of renting anywhere else in town, ever.

we've found another of our neighbors' units, just across the sidewalk, on realtor.com - the neighbors are renters, and it looks like the owner is trying for a short sale. it's been on the market for a while, so i'm thinking they'll just walk from it soon if it doesn't sell. i guess i should ask the people living there, next time i bump into them, how the marketing is going on the unit in case they don't know it's for sale. there are no signs in the windows or anything, which one usually sees when a unit is for sale, and we don't get anyone in looking at these anymore in this market, so....

lot of vacant units now, very sad. and a lot of the people who own units are playing "absentee landlord" and renting to anybody they can get in - which means this place is resembling a trashy trailer park. sigh.

oh, well, this too shall pass.

thanks Sleepy!

it was this one which I meant as a happy newyear hug to you dino's

I heart that pic, Lemon.

I wasted... *ahem* devoted some time yesterday to researching polymer-clay sites for inspiration. Found some really cool stuff: Jana Lehmann's pens to decorate and give to people as gifts. Elena Samsonova works in eye-popping vivid colour, and linked on this page is a series of 12 YouTube videos in which she demonstrates (all the while muttering to herself in Russian ) how to make a gigantic fish cane. I'm motivated to try something similar myself, only in different colours, with a design of Valentine hearts.

Today is my third anniversary of WrongPlanet membership.....

Happy 3rd-anniversary-of-Wrong-Planet-membership to you.
Happy 3rd-anniversary-of-Wrong-Planet-membership to you.
Happy 3rd-anniversary-of-Wrong-Planet-membership dear Richie.
Happy 3rd-anniversary-of-Wrong-Planet-membership to you.

hip hip hoora !

Gee thanks!! !! !


I was hoping I would make it to 19000 posts as of today....But that bit of spam will come later I suppose.

19000 Posts!! !!

Alas, my faithful laptop blew up yesterday morning....

It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. I'm just glad it's not me. The first part sounds mostly like hard work. The second part sounds like it should stimulate creativity when it comes to thinking of reasons to find a different occupation:

Source: http://www.physorg.com/news182667176.html

Whoever was assigned to collect those samples had the proverbial dirty end of the stick, for mine.

talk about sh***y jobs!

amazing. we had a tornado warning (happened to find it when i checked the NWS radar online) and nobody on campus bothered to let us know about it. i told my supervisor, and she kind of shrugged it off. i mentioned that if it became apparent we were in the path we needed to go to the bottom floor, interior hallway as there was no other safe place in this building. again, people just kind of ignored me.

wow. what a bunch of... wow.

i'm bringing a weather radio for the rest of the week and when the siren goes off they can come talk to me in the downstairs hallway if they'd like.

"The safest place on this campus is right behind Nan!! !"

(with apologies to the scriptwriters of Under Siege)

i complained to the campus safety office, so they put up a blurb on their "what to do in an emergency" page (the one that has riot, fire, earthquake, etc.) for tornados. they told people to get in their cars and buckle their seatbelts if they couldn't get into a sturdy building and to try to drive away. if they couldn't drive away they were to bend down and try to cover their faces - in the car.

oh good lord.

i've already sent an email with six links to tornado safety websites, with pictures of cars that have been smushed into teensey weensey little blocks by tornados, to the head of safety and asked which idiot they put in charge of writing that blurb. i also suggested they might want to amend their page.

it's california. what else can i say.

Hi Nan. You could say, "I am very unhappy with the lack of response."

Truly.

It turns out the Red Cross has issued new guidelines, based on one study done in 2002 that shows people are generally safer in cars in F0 and F1 tornados than outside the cars, that state people should get in their cars and buckle in if they can't get into a building. The catch here is you don't know the F strength of a tornado until after it's passed. F2 and F3 tornados can toss cars around. F4 tornados can smush them into teeeensey weeeeensy little blobs of metal. F5 tornados... you find the car in the next county. Sort of.

Ok, I did my part. I'm not hopping in a car and buckling in should I see a funnel. What other people do is up to them.....