STOP - THIEF

Oh great...now someone has stolen the key to the building from the USPS lock box out front. Now they will have to re-key the entire building. I wonder how long that will take? Know what? This neighborhood sucks!

Things that go bump in the night...

Well, in this case it was more like "tap tap tap tap". I could not not tell where this sound originated but it sounded like upstairs or next to me, either of which would have been good guesses for unexplained noises. Apparently this was not the case and I need to talk with the resident building manager now as I saw her standing in the courtyard about six o'clock this morning (I could not get back to sleep.) and I heard several male voices and other sounds. When I looked out the second time I saw what appeared to be fireman taking something (or someone???) out. All I could see was the bottom of black pants with some florescent green markings near the bottom. I never heard any sirens or two way radios so this is a mystery at the moment

This building is such that unidentified sounds are liable to originate anywhere at any time of the day or night. The ghost of Sally Stanford??? Well, her SF bordello did occupy this site until it was torn down in the fifties. Was that an unhappy event for her and how did the current owner's late husband come to acquire the property?

More San Francisco follies

Recently there has been discussions about cell phone towers in the city vis-a-vis health concerns. Well, I for one, am sick and tired of these NIMBYs especially when nothing has been proved one way or the other.

I especially liked some of the comments made on the SF Gate website regarding this matter.

Comments such as:

"You gotta love Bugaboo Nation. They won't get their kids vaccinated but they're worried about cell phone towers."

"Glad I don't live in SF with all the nutcases. They complain when they can't get cell service but then become NIMBY's when the cell phone companies try to install new antennas. And let's not forget there have been no studies showing any harmful links between cell phone radiation and personal health."

"Do you really need another reason to convince visitors and conventioneers to go elsewhere?"

I am really ready to go somewhere else to get away from some of these people.

Oh no...

This is ridiculous! How many more enemies are we going to create by acts such as this in an unwindable war to begin with? Won't the USA ever learn?

Dumb Ass Smart Meters

I don't want any electric meter so connected to P.G. & E. or any other utility that it can tell the company when to turn power on or off in my residence. That is something like Big Brother telling me what I can or cannot do. To hell with P.G. & E. and their freakin Smart Meters.

Quiet 4th

Although some of the rowdies apparently returned in the wee hours of this morning I did not hear them but I did hear some familiar voices around 8:30 AM.

Today was a rather quiet day all around. Went to the 11 AM Eucharistic Service at Grace Cathedral again. The Rodgers electronic organ in the gallery sounds great, probably a lot better than the gallery division of the pipe organ. The organ restoration project is supposed to be completed by late this fall.

It was quiet at home today which was a blessing after the very noisy Friday and Saturday which almost had me calling my shrink for help. LOL

Now I am hearing the noise of the fireworks from the Bay. All week the weathermen and women have been predicting a fog free 4th. Ha! At 6 PM a cold wind was blowing and bringing in the fog as usual. As for those weather people - they are all herby FIRED.

What should I do tomorrow? The kitchen and bathroom floors need mopping. Yuck...
I have been putting that off too long so if it is a chilly windy day perhaps I can get myself moving and do that.

Noisy Neighbors

How does one deal with young neighbors who are very noisy and act like the whole building is theirs? Their playpen so to speak. From the sounds of things they either must be crazy or drunk or both. Certainly no normal person could make this much noise and sound the way they do. This has gotten to be a ghetto on Nob Hill as the only thing the owners care about it getting their money. The owners don't seem to give a damn about anything else so it seems that these immature adults can make all the noise they want as long as they don't destroy things or hurt somebody. Their screaming and loud talking however leads me to believe there could be trouble ahead. I am not even sure that the culprits live here. It almost seems like they might be friends of people who do. One big question in my mind is this. With all the changes in tenants recently why do the noisy ones end up on my side of the building and next door to me. I sure do not hear such noise coming from units in the front of the building.

Is there some sinister plot by S.C. Properties Management to either drive me crazy or drive me out of the building, or both. I have been here 17 years and because of rent control I am not paying "market rent". Perhaps the very rich person who owns the building has decided that she doesn't have enough money and would like to get me out so that she can have even more.

Well, frankly I would like to move, oh gawd, how I would like to but I cannot afford it. If I could I would be gone so fast that all you would see would be a blur.
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Footnote to the above: As I write this at 11:00 PM, the perps just left. I wonder if they will return when the bars close and be just as noisy???????