Animal House?

Don't know if it is a generational thing or a lack of security in my apartment house but over a period of time it seems more like party central than an apartment house and now the moving party has moved to the unit next door to me.  Unlike people in my generation who would visit friends around 8 PM for a few hours, these kids do not even get started until about 10:30 PM.  Then last night, as in some other nights, people were coming and going at all hours.  I was still awake at 3 AM today due to all the activity just outside my door.  In my day, people respected their neighbors and did not talk so loudly.  Then too, this building has paper thin walls, not the good old lathe and plaster of my father's house.  Then there is the matter of who exactly rents the apartment next door.  I think it is a slightly older woman but the people coming and going late at night, from what I can see, are all or mostly in their twenties.  Looks like frat house during spring break at times.

I am most concerned, and this may be my paranoia showing here, that the occupant of that apartment doesn't even know who is coming and going, that she might have loaned her key to someone one day and that person made copies for all of their friends.   Or maybe it was stolen.  So, in effect, the door is always open.

So I am wondering how I should handle this?  There has been no resident manager since Don passed away and the property management company is in San Mateo, not San Francisco.  Oh what to do, what to do, wtd, wtd?

Where am I?  What has transpired since early April?  Good question.  Strange that while I have a lot of time to post here it is very easy to become distracted by my problems or events around me and I lose focus and find myself unable to write anything.  I wonder how many other people have this problem?

As for local events I need to collect my thoughts so they will come later.

Hope y'all are  doing well.

BFN

OMG

This has not been a good day.  First Margaret Thatcher dies and now.......Annette Funicello.

M-I-C  K-E-Y  M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse

What's this world coming to and who gives a rat's ass?  Ha!

BFN

Easy come...easy go

Seems like I have been spending money lately like is going out of style and that includes money for new shoes that I don't really need.  Oh, well, can always use them including next week in Lost Wages.

California joined the Power Ball Lottery network today so I purchased my first quick pick for that game.  These ticket are $2 each whereas the California lottery tickets are just $1 each.  What the heck...can't win if I don't play as they say.

Error

I have discovered that my posting of January 26th may be in error.  The blurb on the Cafe Royale website about being offered for sale has been removed either because there was a change of plans or because it should not have been there in the first place.  I suspect the latter as it could have been a case of the website being hacked something that seems to happen with alarming regularity in that part of the world.  Tom and David run a very nice hotel which has been in operation for ten years and I just cannot  imagine them selling it.  Actually, there are too many Russians in Pattaya these days and there is tension between the locals, tourists, and some foreigners who do not seem to know how to comport themselves in public.  Hope things go better in the future for the city.

Well, I am off to Vegas next week for a quickie.  That is two nights at the Luxor plus Ka', a spectacular Cirque du Soleil show at the MGM Grand.  As for gambling, well, I don't do much of that these days but I do like the change of atmosphere from here in San Francisco.

Return from Thailand

Just returned from what has become my annual visit to Thailand.  Hated to come home from the nice warm (some would say hot) weather there to the cool to cold weather here however one segment of the tourist population there about drove me start WWIII.  Well, not quite but there is has been a growing number of Russians visiting there, especially in Pattaya, where I spend some time, and they are a noisy boorish lot who need to learn how to act in public.  Even when trying to get through passport control at Suvarnabhumi airport on the way home, they were noisy,  running all over the place like they owned it, and one even poked me in the back with a finger ( think) with a sharp fingernail instead of politely asking me to move so they could get by.   God!  I felt like screaming:  RUSSIANS GO HOME.  Well, they were but so was I.  Jeesh....

After returning home I discovered that my hotel of many years, Le Cafe Royale in Pattaya, is now up for sale.  This disturbs me greatly as I fear the wrong type of people will buy it.

Oh well, limited finances will probably make it next to impossible to continue these annual trips though I would like to visit Chiang Mai one more time.  I have not been there in several years and want to see Ben one more time.  He and that city are on my bucket list.

Now it is time to renew my season tickets to the San Francisco Opera and it will soon be time to do so with the symphony.  At least I have those two things to look forward to.  Would like to return to Paris one more time but Europe is damn near too expensive for me now.

Oh well, c'est la vie.