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03/28/2011 22:04 #53937

The worst vacation ever - rant
Category: vacation
So my final two vacation days to burn up. Just before I took them I got a huge project to deal with at work for thursday. I am beyond capacity at this point and it doesn't seem to get any better.

I worked on it a bunch this weekend and then last night:
a. The windows XP machine I needed for testing had some sort of disk failure.
b. I decided to compile gnome-shell from scratch to see the latest version - which ended up taking forever.
c. I got a freakin cold. I can't believe I am sick now.

So today I spent the whole day with full-on cold, mostly napping. I am convinced it has to do with my new tooth crown - which I hate as it tastes like metal. If I realized porcelain meant, porcelain fused to cheap metal like nickel - I would have just gotten a gold tooth. Now its kind of too late. To get it off would probably make me lose my whole tooth and a good chunk of change.
tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:32
Oh man, I feel for you. :( I hope your tooth troubles resolve soon!
flacidness - 03/29/11 16:01
Awe!!!! Have some soup and tea, try and think happy thoughts. Even though shit sucks right now. It's just a moment. Feel better buddy love you long time!!!

03/27/2011 18:21 #53926

Monster Basra Vs Prickly Pear
Category: pets
He really goes nuts for prickly pears. I hate them because they have those prickly splinters all over the outside. I started burning then off over a gas flame but now I invariably burn myself in additional to still getting the splinters.

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tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:32
WHOA. That is one scary grisly picture!!
flacidness - 03/28/11 19:30
Cute!!! That looks really bloody and juicy. But good..... Mm hmm

03/27/2011 12:01 #53923

Salmon Olive Brocoletti
Category: food
This combination of orange and green food tastes so good together. The citrus is uniq fruit and the salmon is smoked ducktrap brand.

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tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:33
I am in love with your flavor bowls! (in spite of the huge omnipresent chunk of meat...)

03/26/2011 16:56 #53914

Times Beach Freezing Day
Category: beach
It was so cold at Times Beach today. The wind was frostly but at least the sun was out. Almost all of the ice gone or paper thin translucent there. We had fun smashing some remaining parts.

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tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:34
Is that a furry dead animal in the 1st pic?
metalpeter - 03/26/11 18:59
Nice pictures you are brave to brave it....

03/26/2011 16:29 #53913

Church Of The Ascension Driveway Drama Cont.
Category: church of the ascension
I can't believe this is still going on. All I want is for them to not drive on my property or to block my in the driveway.

Today I get a letter from their lawyer asking us to forward the letter to our lawyer. He didn't even get Terry's name right.
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I love how it mentions "their driveway." It seems simple to me. Here is the property map. Notice their "driveway" is only 3.5 feet. Not wide enough for a car. Since then they have slowly added more stones to their grass, and just parked on the grass until it became drivewayish, but the skirt remains the same size.

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When the previous owner bought the house in 2001, the church had an agreement with the new owner of the house to allow the church unobstructed access to the driveway to "provide ingress and egress from linwood avenue to the grantors remaining property." This makes it clear that their part of the skirt was not large enough.

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The kicker is that "the reservation of rights shall not be covenant that runs with the land and does not bind all successors, heirs or assigns of grantee."

Well thats me. I bought the house from the guy with 2001 agreement in 2006. At that point there was no agreement, nor do I permit them to use my land or driveway for access. It would have been a different story if the people were not so rude and obnoxious, and did not do things like drive on my lawn, block me in, scream at me telling me they went have been here longer than I have, etc.

Here are the docs in PDF format:
  1. Letter from Mark Peszko ::READ PDF::
  2. Property Map ::READ PDF::
  3. Defunct Agreement ::READ PDF::
tinypliny - 04/01/11 19:34
So when are you going to civil court?