Well, let's go straight to the heart of the problem: NOISE.
I ain't talking yelling and screaming, they do plenty of that, but that's not my issue.
Have you ever heard a Harley Davidson, sitting idle, with it's owner revving up the engine?
Sure, lots of people love that sound.
I'm not saying I hate it.
But when 3 of them are sitting across the street, revving them up and making a LOT of noise for 20 or 30 minutes?
Doors and windows closed, they might as well have them sitting where my kitchen table is, the noise is that loud.
Oh, and the car that is driven over there whose owner visits - 40 or 50 year old something or another, beautiufl car, glass packs. Oh, there they are!! Right NOW, that guy just showed up over there as I was writing this. There are a dozen vehicles over there for whatever reason, no clue, don't care. They only socialize with their kind, I tried to introduce myself to them when they moved in.
Yup, there are the glasspacks. Look'em up on a Google search if you don't know.
But, the Harleys are much louder. Just that you get all of this noise making going on at the same time, for sometimes hours on end. No respect for neighbors. They don't even care what neighbors think. My campaign against them will start sooner or later. When I've had enough, they will be getting visits from the Phoenix police department. I'll send them a letter first. It will be nice, it will be as unconfrontational as possible, but it will be to the point. That letter will go out tomorrow, actually, as after tonight? I'm done with this.
Take action, slow at first. No need to start a war if they might, just might, realize that that kind of noise is unreasonable.
I do not live in a "normal" neighborhood. Besides child molesters, meth-heads, illegals, people that don't work and haven't worked since LONG before the recession even thought about popping it's ugly head out, total assholes and a few other types? This is the biggest reason I want out of this neighborhood. I'm stuck here - I don't know for how long. My property is surrounded, literally, by trailer trash. There is not a normal property on any side. 4 properties against my one, all of them filled with trash, junk vehicles, old appliances and this that and the other thing.
I can't change people. I can try to make friends, and in some cases I have. I dunno. I just want to live in a normal neighborhood. I can call the city, they will do their job, they always do. But then I feel funny. Like a narc, a tattle-tale. It takes a while for me to get to the point that I actually call them or, nowadays, just fill out the form online and send it in.
Umm, different subject? Sure, but I started this entry in extreme irritation at neighbors who don't give a DAMN about their neighbors peace.
I bought most of the stuff for my offering in the company Christmas party today. I figure to wait until Saturday morning to actually put all of that together. It won't take that long, I just don't want cheese to be exposed to the elements too long, even if it's securely wrapped in plastic.
Got a nice haircut today. Number 2 on the sides and hand cut short on the top.
The old Buick? Sitting out there. Fires right up, drives on down the road. I am not driving it and took my car back from my son - I am not going to be fighting with a car that decides to quit on a whim. The thing is crazy. Going to cost $50 to $100 to find out what's wrong, allegedly anyway. Don't have that to spare right now, bills take precedence. If my son wants to fork up the money, then fine, I'll get it into the shop. Otherwise, 2 Mondays from now, I can take it in, have it diagnosed and hopefully fixed.
A rant type of entry, I guess.
ben
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Friday
Just a few minutes left in my pre-work rituals here. I got started in looking at the news and then realized I had placed a bid on Microsoft Office last night on Ebay.
Went to see if I had won - not. I am NOT going to buy a brand new version of that junk for my new computer. It isn't worth anything near what they want to me. I use that stuff in a limited fashion, I have no need for expensive bells and whistles. I found an old one on ebay this morning for $2. The bidding is over in about an hour. They want more for shipping on it than the product itself, lol.
I am going to put a bid on it before I leave in the truck this morning - I have pickups to do today for a delivery on Monday morning.
As for this weekend, well, there's the company Christmas party tomorrow - which will probably go on for at least 4 or 5 hours. I am going to stay until the Cornhole competition is over with. Usually, that goes on for quite a while. After that's over? I'm outta there.
My muscles are sorer today than they were yesterday from a workout 3 days ago. I knew this would happen, but it usually doesn't go into a third day!!!
Ummm, well that's it. Time's up, workday is here and to you..
I bid a g'day.
ben
I had flowmasters on my old mustang. Sitting at idle just to make noise is senseless.
Did I read that you are working out? Just stay consistent and in the next few months you will be thrilled with the results.
Lol, I remember flowmasters!! You know what can really make a lot of noise? Take a semi, put 6 inch straight pipes on it, no muffler of any kind, get going 50mph and then hit the engine brakes. It will literally raised the dead from their graves, lol.
Yes, I started working out again. Just slowly getting back into it - I don't like the route my body is going without the iron pumping, getting flabby and that, at least to me, is ugly. Trying to attract a member of the opposite sex with a flabby chest isn't my idea of the greatest approach. I will work in tricep curls and flies after I get the bench presses going a little better and am doing pushups. Sunday I am going to do bicep workout.
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