WTF-Beta

It's not legal in Hawaii. The story is the liberal state government considered it a tax on the working class. The truth might be more complicated. I have a feeling it was something of a non-competition agreement with Nevada. Hawaii has its own gangs make no mistake. They're from other parts of Oceania and mostly from Asia. I also have a feeling the Hawaii tourism industry didn't want to be associated with it.

New Hampshire looks beautiful. I haven't been there.

The summer I lived in NY I remember thinking the noise was unreal. I lived in a double loft room hole in the wall with my best friend from college. There were I don't know how many such rooms with the central space once being a society matron's ballroom. Bands played there in the weekend. Can you imagine how loud that place was?

It had one makeshift bathroom and a small kitchen full of dirty dishes.

This was in the East Village on Ave B before it became as I'm sure it has by now become more gentrified.

There was a man sitting in front of the building every day selling Persian rugs and a huge garage like door across the street with a large satanic symbol spray painted on it. It was all a little too much for me.

Finally one night I escaped to a hotel for the night and then took the train to Poughkeepsie to visit my family before moving back to Florida.

57 F now and 55 F high tomorrow after reaching 45 F low 1/2 hour after sunrise. Nice wind at a steady 15 mph.

RM told me he didn't want to fight with me and promised me he wouldn't have overnight guests.

Yesterday he met his friend and bought meth, came home a few hours later, and at sunset I heard him on his phone saying, "The back door is open." I had less than 60 seconds notice (and it wasn't notice) before his friend walked in the house. They haven't stopped talking and making noise for the last 30 hours going on 42.

His friend is 26, a drug addict of course, and owns nothing.

I was calm until I finally lost my temper tonight, yelled at him for about five minutes, told him off up one side and down the other. They left right after that to charge their phone chargers. They were both kind of rattled.

Moreover, I had put a big glass canning jar on the front step to prop the door open for some fresh air. The wind hit the door and the glass jar exploded. I locked the back door as they were leaving and locked the porch door too. The only keyed lock that works from the outside is the front door. They'll have to walk through glass to get in the house or push it the glass aside. They will track glass in the house but I don't care. I will leave that glass there until hell freezes over.

RM and his sister moved a bunch of his mother's furniture in here and I spent hours sweeping and mopping the floor to get rid of shards of glass.

RM thew a glass meth bong from the living room down the hallway so it would explode on the floor at my feet in the hall in front of my bedroom where I was standing a couple weeks ago.

I cleaned that up too. I called the police. They said it wasn't a crime to throw glass in your own house. They said if a piece of glass had hit me it would have been a crime.

They never do anything. They did a welfare check on him and determined he was fine. He was high as a kite and violent. They should have Baker Acted him. That's not why I called them. I called them to warn him that he was not going to assault me without consequences. I told him if he puts a hand on me he's going to jail and then to Florida prison. I told him in no uncertain terms I will not withdrawal charges again if he harms my person. I meant it.

He sucker punched me many years ago on the right side of my head and spent a night in jail. I dropped the charges. I would be more than happy to see him put in prison if he does anything like that again.

I don't know why I believed his promise. It was probably because I wanted to believe it. I'll never believe another word that comes out of his mouth.

He'll be homeless at this rate because not only does he refuse to contribute financially to the household, he refuses to save a dime. He's had over a year to prepare for the fact I'm leaving. He's done nothing.

Even his own mother said he's going to be living in a homeless shelter until I had to tell her that every shelter in the County is full and had a waiting list. Some people on the waiting list sleep on the ground on the homeless shelters' properties and then only when they are allowed.

If and when he shows up homeless on my doorstep after I move (assuming he finds out where I live) I will not let him in under any circumstances. I will call the police and get a restraining order.

His sister and her husband have moved in with his mother. He is already locked out of the house after having the keys to the previous locks for seven years.

His mother has already transferred the deed to his sister (it's a deeded mobile home park). His mother, his sister, and her husband don't want him there.

Even if they wanted to let him stay there they couldn't because the property is deed restricted.

He is so viscous that he spent a year telling anybody who would listen that he had a place he could go to and I did not have one. I kid you not.

The tables have turned completely in what must be a cruel twist of fate for him.

I don't want him to be homeless but on the other hand I don't care. I have no control over or responsibility for the choices he has made and no control over whatever consequences come his way.

I will never allow him in my car and he will never enter my home.

He's had countless chances to stop treating me as a piece of garbage, to take care of his own home, and to make a reasonable plan for his future.

My forbearance of his behavior has reached its end.

Please forgive me this tangent.

He's put me through two days of hell. The stress of this living situation is something I can not put adequately put in words.

I hope none of you have had this kind of experience even though I know some of you have had similar experiences if I'm being honest. I did nothing to deserve this. Those few of you who have had similar experiences have extricated yourselves from them. I have the internal fortitude and the resourses to extricate myself from this situation and sooner rather than later.

The park manager is fully aware of what is happening here and is working with me, because she knows everything I've done to hold down this place by myself and because she knows I have resources. She's the one who notorized my documents. If not, we'd have an eviction notice on our front door on Wednesday morning the next day she has office hours.

It's a terrible feeling to be taken advantage of this way and I resent it thoroughly. Thanks to my father and to the Universe for providing me with a life raft or I can't imagine how I could transcend this complicated situation of 30 consecutive years of sublime highs and abysmal lows.

Nice weather we're having. Lol.

I'm sure the next week of cold weather will be calming for me.

Seriously, thank you for letting me vent. It helps me to express myself. I've always been like that.

I've hijacked my own thread?

No!

Carry on.

Oh, yes! I think they would sell.

@steve-miller

Yes, I'm taking your advice. There's no reason for me to be defeatist. I want in-home laundry hook-ups. I have buying a new washer and dryer in my budget. No problem. My budget for furniture and furnishings can be very flexible and there are no other large appliances I'll need to buy. This "amenity" is very important to me both practically and in terms of what I've always wanted.

This is my first home buying experience and I wouldn't mind if were the last.

I had a good talk with my attorney, my sister-in-law, and my cousin. I think I understand the mechanics of the process now to the extent of my ability to understand them. I'm kind of proud of myself for hammering on them again and again, and getting all of us on the same page.

My cousin gave me good news today. She said there's one more paper for my brother and me to sign and the settlement hearing date shouldn't be long after this is done.

This paper could be sent to me FedEx practically any day now because I know it's to sign off on the account's work, the work is done, and the probate attorney's office has it.

It wasn't me!

There are now three AI videos. Good grief.

Here's another bizarre AI video from Netanyahu's official X account.

If he's alive and well, why all the bullshit?

Link to video

DL queen.

Apparently, it's part of the MAGA typology.

Fucking hypocrites.

Yes, Bernard, I agree.

He lacks a viable plan to exit, can't control the fact the war is escalating, and has no viable plan to win, winning being something for which he lacks a definition.

Yes, Ron, I agree.

The machinations that led to him to start this illegal war cannot be undone.

We have heard about the desire to wage an illegal war on Iran from both Netanyahu and American Neocons for the last forty years. It was always going to be a disaster.

I think you're right. They do exist. One of the two on my short list is still for sale.

I thought he was missing an arm or leg. It's hard to keep up. The word used during Vietnam was, "quagmire." This seems similar to me but ironically seems both to have a "stuck" quality to it and to be escalating quickly.

Raging wind (by our standards) up to 21 mph with a high of 78 F. Then tonight the cold days begin going down to 45 F.

Heavy showers 4:45- 7:30 p.m. It won't put a dint in our draught.

Disgusting on so many levels.

If it's Netanyahu waiving a hand with six fingers it's fake.

Thanks!

@steve-miller

I concede you might be right. This company makes quality products but I looked at the pictures of the backs of all of the washers and dryers. The top loading machines have to hook up to and drain into the same sink. I mentioned that. But by the time I looked at at the ventless washer/dryer combination for instance I think what I saw is a kind of electrical plug you would only be able to plug into your wall if you had washer and dryer hook ups in the first place.

My criteria already narrow my choices a lot-- '70's cement block constructed building, ground floor if two stories, elevator if two or more stories and located on the second floor or higher, low price point, low HOA fees, reasonable taxes, solid financials with an adequately funded escrow account, and hopefully in the area of the city where I live.

So we'll see.

A lot of these condo complexes have laundry rooms as an "amenity."
I think that's unpractical and kind of dumb, but it probably had to do with how these complexes were originally and still today marketed to local residents but also to people wanting to have a second home "in Florida" and the second home aspect of it made the builders think and probably rightly that having a vacation home in Florida would be enough to sell people on these buildings.

It's an interesting time in the market. It's crashing and properties are being listed sometimes for almost a year. The timing is very lucky for cash buyers. That's not me saying this. Every economist and real estate expert is saying the same thing. I'm sure I'll find something.

Those of us who love music and are sensitive to sound might sometimes be sensitive to noise and want to block it out. This makes sense to me anyway and is true in my case.

I bought a few different kinds of ear plugs and through trial and error found ones that work for me and that I'd like to recommend.

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I don't shop at Temu. I think their aggressive spinning wheel/ win a free $100 shopping spree pop ups are annoying. YMMV.

But this is the brand and the product. The jar of foam pieces were too big for my ears and had to be thrown away. It's the rubber ones in their own little plastic that I recommend. I don't know if there's a way to buy this type of ear plugs without having to pay for the "one size fits most" jar of foam pieces but my guess would be yes.

As you can see, these are soft plastic. They have a "handle" on each one, so you can only wear one in your ear that's not on a pillow if you're sleeping on your side or you can wear both at any time.

They are easy to adjust to fit, easy to remove, work to knock the sound level down 30+ decibels iirc, and are washable and can be used almost forever as far as I can tell.

It's take me at least six months to find these and I like having them. I keep them in their little plastic box.

They come in handy when you don't want to hear urban noise, or hypothetically, it you have a lout of a roommate who does street drugs, invites overnight guests for sleep overs, and doesn't sleep. Just sayin.

5 stars even if you have to pay a premium for a jar of disposable foam ear plugs that might or not work for you.

I like it when inexpensive items end up being this useful.

The brand is LYSIAN. You can buy them anywhere.

Task complete. I made myself sit down and do it. I sent it around 10 p.m. I didn't screenshot the attorney's email. I linked to it. I rewrote my notes (on paper) on paper. Then I copied what I had written. Then I locked all my notes in my office cabinet. Yay!