I can't even tell you what a dramatic day this was for me and (e:twisted) on the site. Everything is good now. My title is intentially cryptic as a little joke between us. We spent the day hunting down all the "illegal" characters that had to be "stripped". Sounds exotic and really naughty, but trust me it wasn't as funa s it sounds.

For a while we had to delete the entire site. You may have noticed an hour or so when you couldn't update between 2 and 3am. Those were the most fun times when I realized I had changed the date of about 3000 journal entries to 12/15/04 at 21:38. Thankfully we had a backup.

Without (e:twisted) 's help and (e:terry) 's tasty enchiladas I would have died. I owe you guys.

The saga of having James Leong as our landlord continues. Just when I thought having heat again was becomming a reality, we lose that priviledge as they redo the floors downstairs with more toxic varnish. I am so sick of the sweetly toxic smell. My toothbush tastes like it, our bottled water tastes like it, the apples that were on the table taste like it.

Still no exhaust fan. Today the workers actually did the floor just before they left at 5 with the windows mostly shut. I opened the windows downstairs a little.

My mother, the director of Channel 4 Call for Action, just gave him a call requesting we get to stay in a hotel tonight. He is sending the foreman down to check out the situation.

I wish the rapture would just happen now and Jim Leong, the landlord, could get judged for his treament of others.

For those of you people that I hate, who live in a warmer climate, this is what it is like being trapped in a fropzen hell. I guess cold does reduce anxiety at least.



The snow was so light and fluffy today that it resembled cotton.

Well, it's finally exam day for my 3D class. I hope they enjoy the exam, I tried to make it fun if that is possible. I will post a link to it after the exam is done. I have been so busy grading papers, homework assignments, and creating exams. I am so excited to have it be over so I can do some more site work and begin packing for the move. Which reminds me I might not even have internet service when I move! I remember when we move to Lexington it took us over a month to even get phone service. I really couldn't deal with that right now.





(e:soyeon) , what do you mean by blog site - one like the one I made with the API?

(e:twisted) made one too, I hope she does break up with me for posting this but it is good to see another examaple of how it can be used

Why would anyone ever want to look like this?

I decided I will try too. Nonna is teaching us knitting. I remember learning this as a kid, but have completely forgot how it goes.





This is my final product.

So probably everyone that reads the site remembers the years of careful gardening that went into (e:matthew) and (e:terrry) really expensive beautiful garden. Well, if the problems we have been living with so far weren't enough Jim Leong had his workers empty the basement today and instead of putting the debris into a dumpster or truck (if it was salvagable), and which would be normal for such major construction, they dumped it all into (e:matthew)'s garden. They snapped the hydrangea bush and killed a bunch of other plants.



So then Jim Leong came over and tried to say that he didn't know it was a garden. Jim Leong clearly knew it was a garden. He had complimented us on it over the years. Why would they thow the debris on just the garden instead of the concrete area all around it. The fact that he tried to pretend it was not a garden or that he had no idea about it. That is totally impossible.



I can't wait to be rid of him forever.

[size=m]Ventilation Continued[/size]
When he was here this afternoon, he told us that heater was still accidentally connected. After he assurred me the other day they wern't and continued to do work with volatile substances downstairs. So his idea the last couple nights, to just turn the heat up really was making it very toxic up here after all.

Is an exhaust fan too much to ask for to protect your worker's health? I can't believe you are too poor as to not be able to afford better ventilation than this..



Or is this little office fan in a window what you consider proper ventilation? When your worker left last night he said, "I can't even see straight"

In an effort to rid the house of the extremely toxic varnish smell, our landlord Jim Leong finally decided to use a fan. Last night his solution was for us to open all the windows while it was snowing and about 30 degress. Why would he ever have work done in a non-ventilated area where people are living? The worker left saying he was dizzy and couldn''t see right.

I suggested opening the windows downstairs where the toxic mess was so it would dry and ventilate and was so we could breathe. He opened one little kitchen window. For a while I was almost thowing up from the smell. It was so sick.

He then told me to open our windows and turn the heat on to air it out. Unfortunately, it turned out the heating vents were connected by accident (bad work on the workers part according to Jim Leong) and the toxic mess came upstairs.

With no notice he has done this for two days. I am sure it will continue. Everthing tastes like paint thinner. Yesterday, they forgot to ventilate at all. Today, after 5 calls he chose a simple 1 foot in diamter office fan.



Can that be up to code. I guess the stuff is only known to be cancerous in the state of california.

We ended up having to shut off all the heat and start the fireplace up. Of course a bunch of plants are dying now and the $2000 saltwater ecosystem has been majorly affected.

A mistake such as connecting the heating vents isn't so unbelievable as they have made so many other mistakes at this point, like when they drilled through the floor upstiars and a piece of the ceiling collapsed on me and my camera [inlink]paul,2450[/inlink].



Now you would think that any reasonable human being would have the foresight to use an exhaust fan or some sort of full size room fan as the house was so intensily toxic. The smell I woke up to was like having a permanent marker shoved up your nose. This all happend of course with no notice.

When I asked him to put us up somewhere till it was over, he told me we complain too much and cost him too much money. I am so sick of suffering for his financial gain. I have surely been exposed to lead paint dust, toxic levels of surface chemicals, spray painting in our hall while it was totally unventilated, etc. Not to mention when the ceiling fell on my head, numerous days with no water or electricity and worst of all the constant hammering and banging of nonstop construction for two months.

The construction workers and Jim Leong also continuously entered our apartment without permission or prior notice which is totally illegal according to "Rent Smart - A Consumer Guide to Residential Leases" page 39 section 14. "Tenant must allow Landlord to come into the apartment but only on reasonable notice and during reasonable hours."

This is all so he can fucking get richer. The real question is, how did he get a permit to change this house into a 5 unit apartment rooming house when all of our neighbors are against it.

Whoever, moves into this apartment is crazy. Jim Leong does not care about the wellbeing of his tenants and is a notorious liar. I can't even count the number of time he has lied directly to my face. He always claims it was a misunderstanding.

Like when I said Jim Leong, how is is it possible that I came home and a worker was in my apartment taking stuff out of my closet. he said that it must have been a misunderstanding. What does that even mean. I said who gave them a key Jim Leong, You must have. He then told me directly that he did not give any of them a key.

Later a worker confirmed that Jim did offer him a key. I can't even believe he tried to pretend it was normal for us to live under such circumstances. I asked him if he thought it would be safe for his family and even invited him to spend the night in the toxic smell with us, if h
e thought it
was so safe.

Jim Leong, you are an evil man. I hope you suffer in hell for the way you treat people for money. You are the pure blackness of satan.

I also heard through the grapevine, that his insurance claim about his previous restaurant on elmwood that burned down didn't go through for so long because he is supected of insurance fraud. It wouldn't surprise me in the least. Although I could even more likely believe that it was a mistake on the behalf of cheap restards that he hired to work for him in order to save on money.

You can't even imagine the painter that painted the entired two floor hall with no ventilation. His poor brain.

Someone else also pointed out that the plastic springler pipes in the hall should be behind fire retardant drywall. Appraently, that is what the "For unexposed use only" stamp on them means. Too bad they are completely exposed. I imagine that in a fire they would simply melt at the bottom and become puddles.

Well, you may wonder where I have been. I have so much work to do, but I have had to flee my apartment for 2 days because the monkeys that are doing construction in our buiilding connected the heated ducks incorrectly and then used varnish in an unventolated apartment. The landlord refused to open the windows and instead of a large ventilating fan, used a little 1 foot diamter office desk fan.

I sick, I can taste it with all the windows open. Right now I am waiting for him to arrive living inside a blanket filter. It's like living in a cigarette.