Less shit breaking, please.

[angledge]

So my dishwasher died a few days ago. It died in a very tricksy fashion - it would turn on & make lots of dishwashing sounds, but no water would ever enter the machine & obviously no actual washing occurred. It took me a couple of days to convince the landlord that, yes, I looked in the manual, & no, I don't think I've got the settings wrong. Anyway, it's a weird size (read: small) of dishwasher, so the landlord had to special-order it, & I won't have a dishwasher until May 21st at the earliest. Curses.

So over the past couple of days, I've had lots of vegetables spoiling in my fridge. Which is annoying, because I usually buy stuff for a specific recipe. When the collard greens go bad unexpectedly, one cannot prepare a smoke salmon & collard greens scramble. I turned down the thermostat in the fridge incrementally over a couple of days, but the fridge didn't feel cold, & things kept spoiling. The freezer stayed cold though. Another call to the landlord - this time, she didn't argue with me, she just ordered a new fridge. Which will arrive tomorrow. I loaded everything freezable into the freezer & threw out a ton of stuff. CURSES.

My Bobo Bro moved into his new downtown condo over the weekend & his move went incredibly smoothly - until he started looking around for a cable jack to have internet turned on (a big deal, since he works from home & needs internet access). No ... cable jack? Anywhere in the condo? After a lot of calls to the former owner & the condo association, he learned that there is a cable - but it got buried in the wall during a recent insulation project. Why? Because reasons. Anyway, he will not have internet access this week. So his home office has been relocated to my kitchen table, & I'm working from home in the back bedroom while he's working from home out there. It's actually been very nice to have someone to talk to during the day.

hotpantsgalore should arrive home today!

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[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ugh, household appliance double fail. That's rough. Especially fridge, perhaps the most significant of household appliances. Bogus.

And... who buries a cable jack in the wall? What the hell? That doesn't even make sense.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

The condo association hired a contractor to re-apply insulation to all the exterior building walls, which meant this contractor went into every unit, tore out the drywall on all exterior walls, & blew new insulation in between the joists. They then replaced all that drywall & - theoretically - fished all wiring back out, re-installing all outlets. For electricity, phone, cable, security systems - you know, any wires you might've had running through the walls.

But alas, the contractor was lazy, & started skipping some of these reinstalls. So people came back into their condos to find that electric plugs had gone missing, or the phone jack in the bedroom was gone. Or, in Bobo Bro's case, that there was no more cable jack.

The good news: Bobo doesn't have to pay to have this fixed.
The bad news: It won't get fixed until the HA can prevail on this jackwagon contractor to come back & fix their janked-up work.