New plan and frying pan

[susandennis]

I wrote "Welcome" on a neon pink post it and put it on the front door. This will be my signal that my front door is 'virtually' open without it actually being open. We'll see if that works. I need to tell Ann. She'll spread the word.

I'm taking my cast iron skillet to the gym today. I need to show Nadia what the goal is. I need to be able to lift and hold and tilt that sucker with my left arm/wrist so that's what we need to work on. I don't know how heavy it is so rather than guessing, I'm just going to take it with me.

Might be a gym first... we'll see.

The Front Door TV Network is down down down. It's down beyond a jiggle of the wires fix. Scott knows it. I don't know if he is going to do anything about it or not. My new wireless cam is not due for arrival until Monday.

Isolation is us. For now.

I have a 1 pm work meeting (conf call) which will kick off a new project. I think it's a tiny one but a tiny one is better than none!

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[rsc.livejournal.com]

I'm taking my cast iron skillet to the gym today. I need to show Nadia
...{pause for breath}...
what the goal is.

Had me worried there for a minute.

[susandennis]

Turns out Nadia and Tija were worried when they saw it, too!

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Ha! The above comments crack me up. Only after reading them did I really consider what it must have looked like to see a woman saunter into the gym with a cast iron skillet in her hand.

Your idea about the post-it made me think of another rule in my building: no door decorations unless it's Christmas time -- and there's a specific date in early January when that has to be taken down. If I did that, I bet no one would care much, or perhaps even notice; but if someone actually did complain, the association would be within their rights to force me to take it down.

This is why I hate homeowners associations -- they just strike me as so restrictive of individual freedoms. That said, it's a lot easier for me to deal with it in a condo building than it would be living in a house. At least a condo building has a large amount of shared space. In neighborhoods, the idea that your neighbor can, for example, force you to put your boat where it can't be seen from the street (or prevent you from, say, painting your house in thick vertical rainbow-colored stripes) really rubs me the wrong way.
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[susandennis]

HOA's are a major trade off. I've lived with good ones and bad but I'd never ever live without one in a condo. Their use is far more valuable than their restrictions - in my book.

I've always been amused by people who bitch about them with stand alone homes. If they didn't want the control, why did they buy the house? If you want a boat in the front yard, buy a house where there is no rule against boat in front yard.

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Well, yes, I do see that point, but -- it's also increasingly very difficult to find a decent neighborhood that does not have an HOA. I know some say the HOA is the reason the neighborhood is decent, but I'm not convinced that's always the case. Not that I care that much, mind you; I have no desire to live in an actual house anyway, where I'd be obligated, for instance, to maintain a yard (yuck!). And I do agree that in a condo building it is actually more useful than it is annoying.
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