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05/17/2008 16:11 #44377

Dear Church of the Ascension
Category: church of the ascension
I seriously, cannot believe today's driveway issue. Its so sad because I like the idea of the dance camp and the people that run it, but the parents/grandparents/guardians that don't follow parking rules and laws make me insane.

Today this one woman was double parked completely across our driveway with her car off. When we came home from the grocery store, the following situation occurred as you can read in my letter to the Priest of the church.

This diagram helps with the letter below.
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Father Armand,
The driveway situation is really not any better.

I feel bad about the situation because the dance camp tappyK and the other older lady who works there are so respectful of the driveway and nice and I like the idea of their dance camp. It is not them I have a problem with. It is some of the parents. They seem to try really hard.

I just had an incident in the driveway where we were coming back from grocery shopping and a woman was parked double parked in the street, completely across both sides of the driveway with the car off. Terry beeped like 5 times to try and get in the driveway and she would not move. At that point I got out of the car and asked her to move. She moved up like 2 feet and I assumed she was moving up more.

At that point I had gone in the house to open the backdoor to unload the groceries. When I came out she was still in the middle of the driveway and my temper got the best of me and I yelled, "What the fuck is going on here, get the hell out of my driveway." as I was really mad a the point and terry was blocking traffic all the way up to north.

Then she asked me who I was and what business it was of mine if she parked there. I said it was my driveway and that she was illegally parked and to move. Then she said she doesn't need to move because I cussed at her at that she was going to get out of the car and "slap the shit out of me." I then walked away to go take a picture of her license (attached) plate and matt asked her why she was at the church she refused to tell us.

Clearly your infrastructure cannot handle the traffic flow from this dance camp. You really need to consider building a true parking lot on the North St side of the church. I should not have to deal with this kind of drama every time I want to get back in my driveway. It is really embarrassing when I am bringing guests over, as happened the other day.

No matter what, THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. I don't care what the heck you have to do but if the dance camp parents continue to park in or across my driveway, I am going to continue to escalate the situation with them until one day someone like that large black woman "slaps the shit out of me." and then we will have a much more serious issue.

Paul Visco



hodown - 05/17/08 21:33
I agree with Mike if they are assholes the only way to win is to be a bigger asshole. Use rope, create a problem.
paul - 05/17/08 17:25
A rope wouldn't help now because the main problem is people double parking across the driveway in the street which is simply illegal. You can see what I mean in the diagram.
springfaerie - 05/17/08 16:55
Paul, I should address a second letter to the vestry of the church. In the Episcopal church, the vestry is the governing body and make most of the decision regarding the church. I don't know any of the people at Ascension, but as a former vestry member of St. Paul's Cathedral, I know that it would be a good idea to write to the vestry, too. Just a suggestion. Hope it helps and that it works out!
mike - 05/17/08 16:52
perhaps it is time to rope it off on your side

05/16/2008 13:18 #44364

Outro by Blumchen
Category: music
I really like this song. Okay no really I am just testing uploading this for (e:jenks) and (e:joshua) but I do like it. It was 1.8MB and in MP3 format. I am not sure about music uploads as I don't want to get sued.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::


jenks - 05/16/08 22:46
ooooh, you make me miss techno.

05/15/2008 22:36 #44356

There's A Skinhead In My House
Category: hair
So (e:terry) was cutting his hair and he asked (e:matthew) to trim the back for him. He meant the back by his neck. (e:matthew) misunderstood that he wanted him to touch up the back and didn't check that (e:terry) had already taken the safety off.

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He looks mean when bald and angry.
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jason - 05/16/08 08:57
Oh, man! That first photo looks sort of like the scenes in Jackass where they sneak up on a friend and buzz off a patch of hair for fun.

Wow, (e:terry) looks REALLY pissed.
leetee - 05/16/08 00:01
awe... poor (e:Terry)'s head. Well, he now has a cool new summer do?
vincent - 05/15/08 23:44
Welcome to the Club???
drew - 05/15/08 23:43
w:janelle did that to me once.
fing - 05/15/08 23:24
That happened to me in college. Who would have thought that my suite mate was drunk at 11 AM on a Wednesday. Needless to say the same thing happened when he took off the guard and wanted to "touch" the top up a bit. After that I shaved it with a razor for a year or so.

05/15/2008 13:12 #44347

The flu or death
Category: crohns
I started to feel sick last night a bit before bed. Then when I woke up this morning, I felt nauseous. Now I am sick to my stomach and have a headache and am achey. God, why now - can't I just have one freakin moth malady free. I felt so great since the appendix thing. I actually have not had one sick day since then.

Its the one thing I hate most about this supposed Crohn's thing is that I never know if I just have a cold/flu, which I think I do this time, or if this is going to be the beginning of something terrible.
libertad - 05/15/08 20:09
Sorry. Maybe the new mop will make you feel better? I'll remove the shipping and handling charges. Hope to get it tomorrow.
james - 05/15/08 13:51
feel better soon. Like, in ten minutes soon... or else!

05/14/2008 19:47 #44340

Resco Radio - Mobile Internet Radio
Category: mobile
Okay this might sounds like a cheezy advertisement but it is really written out of the pure enjoyment of using this application.

You may have seen me without my iphone this week. Thats because it now lives simcardless in the bottom of my bag after I discovered a new program called Resco Radio for my windows mobile. Between that and the much higher connection speed of my windows mobile Tilt phone I am in mobile internet radio heaven.
I have been listening to German radio on it non-stop all week and to make it even sweeter, it now records any shoutcast station to the storage card as MP3 so you can listen to it later. So that is a mp3 plays an unlimited amout of free radio from around the world and can even store it for later use.

If you have a windows mobile PDA or smart phone - YOU FREAKIN NEED THIS NOW! Here is the link on Handango for the PDA version
and the smartphone version

Its 19.99 but you get a 30 day trial to start. It is the best mobile internet radio app out there, well besides streamtuner for the nokia n810.
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The ipod part of the iphone might have a slick interface, but its really not cool when you own about 4 songs. I have relied on internet radio for music for so long it was hard to give it up for the iphone. Now the icandy has mostly worn off. At least till the 3g iphone comes out and it has internet radio.

imk2 - 05/14/08 21:45
omg, i'm so getting this
paul - 05/14/08 20:08
It does any streaming radio. NPR included!
imk2 - 05/14/08 19:58
does it get talk radio too? like npr stuff and bbc?