- Eye-melting homework schedule. Just spent about 3 hours working on Spanish. Fortunately, ¡me gusto la clase de español! #
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- Just adopted two classrooms via http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/, one in Englewood and one at my mom’s high school. Kinda neat. #
- Awesome time-waster in just six words: Flickr. “Cat in a box.” Slideshow. http://is.gd/17t6N #
- Really want to try this http://is.gd/17lTh sock yarn! Is dirt dirt dirt cheap & has good reviews! But I am still not buying yarn … SIGH. #
- Also, woke up this morning and they were stil there — it wasn’t a dream! I have balcony railings again!!! #
- MY BALCONY HAS RAILINGS AGAIN!!!!!! (Okay, they’re still foam-wrapped, and the balcony is still blocked off, but … RAILINGS! HOPE!!!!!) #
- Hm. The weather radar could be less…forboding. #
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so a while ago, they disabled my apartment’s balcony to do some repairs — the original railings were installed wrong, so they had to remove them, demolish part of the concrete (which could have been damaged by the improperly installed railings), replace the concrete, and reinstall the railings. they did this by grouping us into sets, going column-by-column (rather than floor-by-floor). it is, we were told, about a six-month process. except for the part where they started ours in the fall, and we were therefore going to lose access for the entire winter.
last i heard, we were not projected to get access back until mid-july…after the balconies were barricaded last OCTOBER. (nine months != six months! argh!! but i digress.) so, imagine my SQUEEEEE when i came home late last night and realized I HAD BALCONY RAILINGS AGAIN!
then i looked a little bit more closely at the bubble wrap and noticed something else.
yes. those are bolt holes. with no bolts through them. on a balcony thirty stories up.
i guess we should hope it doesn’t get windy out, yeah?
oh, no, hey, wait! it’s all good!
no, i’m wrong, i’m totally wrong… there is a bolt.
singular.
…
AWESOME.
and then there’s this. (bad photo because the angle is terrible, but…)
yes. the mounts closest to the building are actually up off the concrete. so it’s, like, front-heavy, which is probably predictable… BUT IS NOT REASSURING AT ALL, GUYS, SERIOUSLY.
i mean, i never studied physics or engineering or, you know, even watched Bob the Builder or anything, but it does seem to me that if you’re going to haul a railing up thirty stories to put it on a balcony you could probably fit more than one bolt in your pocket… and if you’re only going to install one or two bolts, maybe you should put it in the back, so that if it leans anywhere it leans away from toppling off the edge? you know? because the whole reason we’re repairing the balconies in the first place is because there were things falling off that weren’t supposed to fall off?
meep.
but at least i guess this means i actually am going to get my balcony back someday, so that’s good!
- SUPER AWESOME http://ow.ly/eSDz <3 (Via @redeyechicago) #
- Sometimes I tire of trying to play on a AA ballclub. #
- Dear My Arm: I would be quite gratified if you could find it in yourself to quit this tetanus shot aching in the very near future. love, me. #
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- make, shiny new 2.6.30 kernel, make! #
- Now on OS # … uh… 4? #
- And on to OS #2. #
- Starting 1st of up to 4 different OS installs on one test host today. I know it’s not going to find the answer, but I have to try anyway. #
- Just received pkg that, according to delivery confirmation, took 13 days to go from LA to Chicago. Was it shipped by pack mule, USPS? #
- Also, Dear The Entire World: Enough with the “Sammy, say it ain’t Sosa” puns. Once it was the @SunTimes front page it ceased being novel. #
- Really, ABC? “The Impact”? “There won’t…dum dum dum…be a planet earth”? Yet you canceled #savetheunusuals? Oh, /brother./ #
- Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, describes acceptable and unacceptable marriages. http://is.gd/14QML #
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