oh also ordered curtains from west elm + blackout panels for my bedroom because those outrageous jerks from BGE said i had to let them take down the tree behind me because it was growing into the power lines and now the flood lights from the masonry business make my room not so dark!!!!

Pilot holes are essential for wood drilling imo. I’m outraged about that tree!

good idea, harbl! they are taking down seventy trees in my neighborhood because because of the crazy “microburst” last summer. A big and beautiful tree used to block the dumpster behind my building but now it is in full view :(

i did do pilot holes! i think i just hold the drill wrong maybe. idk.

Rub bar soap on the screw threads maybe? If the bit is slipping off the screw head, it might be at an angle instead of aligned straight into it but it could be that the threads are seizing up.

trying to balance uncontrollably blasting radiator heat by opening one’s windows to temperatures in the teens (F) requires srs calculation

u don’t have temp staff for that

two days for that, what a world

why what class stamp did you pay for

the birds in my kitchen exhaust vent are back :(

we have a rat infestation :(

they shit everywhere (BIG shits!) and oh god the smell of their pee

You win :(

showed up to new place yesterday to find that girl moving out was not even close to being done packing/cleaning/moving out. latest move in estimate is tomorrow? arghhh subleasing!!!

!

Me too!

but its ok our old landlord doesnt need place tonight so its kinda chill

BUT STILL gtfo ur old house I want it pls

like who moves out of a place at 6pm rly

t why are you going to MN? new jobz?

my jobz is making my house be seriously bad. i need some relax/gym/reading time bc i’m going to work tomorrow so i’m not even really gonna clean it up. except a little of the kitchen.

yes, new job! I start tuesday and I wld really like a place to live now pls :(

this girl is in serious denial and doesn’t seem to care about my need for a place to live...yet wants me to care about all her 390 reasons she didn’t get her shit out in time. lady, I had oral surgery on tuesday and still managed to make sure my place was empty and clean Tuesday afternoon (pro tip: hire help), then drove 1000+ miles. I don’t rly care about your sob stories.

that is so rude and annoying for you, good luck with your new job and house and good luck to you too deems. the same thing happened to us once, we were renting off the owner and when we turned up with our truck she claimed we were a day early which luckily we had in writing we were not, and then the house never felt sorted because the handover was such a shambles.

i just addressed a rotten carnations in water situation and now there is a shocking stench in the laundry.

we are in and well ty but we appear to have a catpissy cupboard any ideas obv I’m outraged

take the cupboard outside and blow it up on the lawn

or

buy some carnations and put them in water and leave them in the cupboard for a week (maybe six weeks in your climate which a quick check of the weather channel has just told me is currently 25 degrees C cooler than ours) anyway you will soon forget all about the catpiss or at least think back on it with fond nostalgia.

it is at least that much colder

experience tells me that things go away much less quickly when you buy them flowers pray deliver an explanation as to why catpiss may be the exception

or at least give me a line to feed stace when a pissy cupboard ive only just met gets the lovey dovey treatment that she may herself (despite all outward projection tbf) have been craving this ten odd years

gut feeling sez you’d get yr outrage followed v quickly by a domestic

i am on team stace in this debacle so you will have to cook up your own lines.

yeah it suits you tbph sniff

I hope your pissy cupboard is resolved soon! We are in the process of scrubbing kitchen cabinets and applying new shelf lining too! I’m pretty sure this chick used a rug doctor without actually vacuuming anything first! three of four blades on the second bedroom ceiling fan are sitting on a shelf with a bag of screws. Why are they not attached to the fan? my father is a saint.

previous tenant also appears to have spread bird seed (not salt) on the driveway so now we track bird seed into the house!

all of this seems strange to me but gl in the new place

i like how around the time of the bird seed discovery tza stopped calling that daft nuisance a girl and started calling her a chick instead.

She is German...I expected more precision in her moving out.

you’re ignoring the history of unwarranted occupation there imo

ok bird seed is hilarious

it’s EVERYWHERE 😭

maybe the ceiling fan blades became loose when she tried to sharpen her beak on them.

chirp chirp!

landlord came tonight and was not pleased with how she left things so i got him to knock $50 off the deposit :)

The Georgetown Ants are back and not interested in the bait that nailed them last time.

those rotten little fashion forward fusspots.

put a wool suit jacket in the wash

I stuck my head into our attic to see about storage space and instead of a dank leaky roof Netherland I instead found a carpeted sklyit den wired with beanbags and reading nests already wired for tv and cable and with the wall bracket for tv already installed.

an Xbox and all assorted gear appears to have been left also.

the ladder to this haven of delight pulls back up after you if you so wish.

herself is, need I say, outraged.

congrats on yr mancave! Just yesterday I came across this clock in the home improvement store. I think it would add to the ambiance quite well.

its an equal opportunities cave anyone can come in and watch sports and play sports games or talk about sports

your use of the plural makes me feel very welcome

you are just that

I’m going to attempt venetian blind restringing. Feeling wary and mentally rehearsing an excellent sequence of profanity.

when will you do it? i could happen by in hopes of overhearing.

I’m debating—would have been Saturday morning. BUT! that is the Pi day of the century, and do I want to remember it as That Venetian Debacle? so, possibly not til Sunday, timed for full meltdown when the JWs come knocking (generally 10ish).

thou art so brave

OMG, it’s done and not a single cuss word flew.

Tried to take b out to play in our new backyard but neighbor’s yippy dogs wouldn’t stop yipping at her so she couldn’t even focus on having fun 😠

my domicile is a fucking disaster

So is mine :( still not fully unpacked.. suspect I should donate 100s of cds and bus tapes I’ve been moving for the past ten years... The only thing I’m too sentimental to get rid of even though i know better :(

bus tapes?

Ugh damn autocorrect!!! VHS tapes!

this house had a fly problem when i moved in and it still has one. so gross.

I fixed my leaky roof only to discover it was a leaky window.

omg. i’m kinda worried about that. i have a new roof on my house and a couple years ago i got water spots on my kitchen ceiling during a very rainy couple days. problem never returned. maybe things were just right.

i think my neighbor’s practice of putting his trash in the alley makes the flies go in my house when it gets picked up. i’m going to make a new kind of stinky trap tomorrow. not a jarbl. this is like the nuclear option of fly traps.

that is, putting it out on days other than trash day

There is an alley that lets out across from my house and on windy trash days sometimes a few random items blow into my backyard. Mostly a random page of newspaper but once a donut. I am building a fence in hopes of remedying the issue. An expensive fix but basil will be quite pleased.

i am amused by the thought of a donut blowing into your yard.

we had our back yard fenced recently; it has been a life-changer.

in winter, too...so b dug it out of the snow!

this house had a fly problem when i moved in and it still has one. so gross.

― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:24 (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same! But they are all dozy and quite good about flying out the door with minimum prompting

My domestic outrage this week relates mainly to catsitting but it has not been without amusement

not seeing where in my house these dudes can be breeding so i’m gonna work hard this weekend on identifying any possible dead animals or stray garbage in the vicinity

Awwww

Stray garbage is a kinda sad term

dude building my fence found some buried garbage today. Apparently people used to do this before trash pickup was a thing. Outrageously old trash in my yard but some cool old bottles c. 1920.

i set the trap on my deck. let’s see if this works. i’m betting no :(

so pleased to report the fly population in my kitchen has taken a huge dive. the offending garbage can seems to have left the area, too, so i don’t know what caused it. i didn’t look at the trap to see if i really caught any. i feel superstitious about it.

nm i just looked and there are NO flies in the trap. i can’t believe all that was caused by a single uncovered trash can. like i literally vacuumed up 1000 flies. or it was something in my own walls and they ran out of food. i don’t know. fuck.

maybe they just got born nearby and were sticking close to home till they were better at being flies. and now they’ve moved away from home to start their own families?

there’s one room in one of the residence halls on my campus that every year for decades has been the site of an annual ladybug outbreak. they’re only there for a few days and then they go away. but

1. a lot of them die there

2. too much of anything is freaky, not matter how cute or benign

3. infant ladybugs are very very ugly and gross

so every year the students assigned to that room freak the fuck out but of course no one will do anything because, ladybugs.

ladybugs smell kind of bad, too

flies are not totally gone but slowed. but based on what i know about population models that doesn’t mean the battle is over. my kitchen also has ants. every spring i put out one of those baits that they carry back to the nest, poisoning all the ants. it doesn’t seem to have worked this year. i put out another one. one thing i am enjoying is i watched them totally clean a dead fly off the ground little by little. it was very entertaining.

Are they ladybugs or Asian lady beetles? I learned last fall that the latter are prominent here...my front porch looked like a plague was upon my house. I also went to a cemetery walk that weekend and everyone spent the whole time swatting them away/off their persons which was pretty creepy.

We got flyinfested today. I was home late and ms mac was unimpressed about everything, just the whole generality of things.

Also i left my football boots outside but upsidedown and i reckoned thatd be grand well twas grand indeed for the woodlice that created an enclave in them and only uncharacteristic caution didnt have my foot in them rather than a gentle admonitory shake and a spin in a cool wash.

Nobody outraged except herself and tbh she seems to enjoy it

is a woodlice a potato bug?

or is it a rollypolly?

Wow racist harbl

It is a woodlouse. I could google to see if that was equivalent to either but dont feel tbrrrwu that the onus rested with me there

racist harbl had some major fly problem improvements over the last few days. yesterday i didn’t see any. today i vacuumed up two.

the grass is growing too fast.

Have you established a root cause

I have the seed of an idea.

well, shoot

the mailman kicked my mint plant and broke my terra cotta pot

terracotta?

basil should have bit him on the shin.

when i went to college i bought an ivy plant and hung it through the struts in the drop ceiling of my dorm

two years later when i returned from spring break i figured i’d give it a good watering by leaving it in the sink, in a different dorm, for 10 minutes and letting it soak up what it wanted

came back 10 minutes later and it was gone

still bitter about this 20 years later tbqpf

Ivy drip

Ivy league

Couple others that didnt even reach that standard tbh

ivy good mind to smack you for those

i like this spelled-out units-of-time ago

it is midnight here, 89°F, humidity 70%, dew point 78°F, ‘feels like’ 101°F

i have arranged for my meagre estate to support beta dot ilxor dot com slash sandbox, with the caveat that it be hull city branded

was outside around 10 last night, it was 88 heat index 97, felt so bad and oppressive. moving to canada.

our yard and food waste pick-up has been missed at least 10 times since spring. it is outrageous.

it’s outrageous that we don’t even have that

we are not allowed to put yard waste in regular bins but they don’t provide pickup. you have to drive it to a contracted compost site. outrageous!

it is sad you all don’t have curbside food and yard waste service.

it is mandatory here. however, it wasn’t picked up again this week. outrageous, again.

it’s an outrage. really, who wants to collect and bag the thorny prunings a of a rose bush? this is why my roses are so unkempt (to which lxy can attest!)

but pretty!

the sound in my wall came back so i called an electrician but then it wouldn’t make the sound so now i’m afraid my house is going to burn down