And the week begins

[susandennis]

There's a special condo owners meeting tonight - go? no go? I hate them with a passion. But, this is one where they will tell us why they need yet more money out of us. Our homeowners dues have doubled in the past 10 years. I paid as part of a roof assessment several years ago. I paid $6,000 as my part of the earthquake damage deductible. And now, they want more. For a convoluted list of repairs.

My take on the deal is that I can either help manage the place or I can shut up about how it's done. No way am I going to help manage the place - I cannot even stand to hear the bickering and idiocy that goes on at the 1-2 special meetings I attend every year. Board members get to do that at least once a month and sometime more often. I would have to hurt people.

So I'm not going tonight to change anything but in hopes that they might present a credible reason for needing the money and I might feel better about it. They are holding it early - 6p.m. - and on a baseball off night. I really don't have much excuse for not going. I have all day to noodle on this.

The folks at Buzznet are beginning to really bug me. Buzznet is where I keep my phone pictures. They knocked me down from 20 to 10 pictures a day several weeks ago and said it was because they are getting ready to announce premium service. I'm happy to pay for more pictures per day and I've told them this since last November. I just wish they would get their offering together. I could switch services - I have a TextAmerica account already. But, I like Buzznet. I just want more of them.

People are disappearing on me. First it was Jason. I get all hooked on his daily updates - American in Paris - and then nothing.

On my bus in the morning there are several semi regulars and then Black Guy with Cooler and Russian Lady. They are there every morning. Black Guy with Cooler stays up to the final out of every Mariners game and still manages to be on the bus at 6 a.m. He says on the bus after I get off. Russian Lady needs a haircut badly. Those ends are a mess. She gets on with me and off with me. But, when we land at Microsoft, she runs. I think she probably is supposed to get to work at 6:30 and the bus most often gets there at 6:35.

Anyway, neither Black Guy with Cooler or Russian Lady were at the bus this morning. Neither one of them!

We haven't even started Summer vacations yet. I can't believe I can create these relationships on my own by myself and then feel so abandoned when the other (oblivious) parties aren't where they usually are.

My mom reports that my nephew has been rejected by the AirForce. My view of the AirForce has been raised a notch or two. My nephew is a 22 year old ne'er to well. He has been that way since his jammies had feet and he will be that way when he's gumming his Cream of Wheat. The thought of his being involved with airplanes that hold ammunition just made me cringe.

Time for me to get to work...