Tuesday, April 25, 2006
New TownHouse Renovation - Day 35 (3.31.06)
Rena's Birthday!
On this, the day of Rena's birth, we decide to take some time off.
We meet at the old place after work. Exchange smooches, and hand off the keys to Vic the Dick. We take a tour of the place and we tell him that he needs to get a mold inspection done because we found water damage from the old upstairs tenants all over the place. He didn't really seem to care. We also showed him the damage to our Wok box and told him about Rena's box of CDs that got water damage and molded. He keeps asking if the CD's are "still usable". And we say "no, they smell like ball sack and are full of mold" but he doesn't get it. He keeps insisting that if we can play them, then they are fine. We tell him we expect him to pay for them. A box holds 30 CD's, and only a few were still in wrappers, so that’s quite a bit of music that got destroyed. We plan to use this as leverage if he gets uppity about the wood floors... "can you still use them" I'll say.
He tells us that our place is dirty (we obviously didn't clean the blinds enough)and that his cleaning crew will have to come in and take care of it. Interesting side note: our neighbor Christy (who hats Vic as much as we do) saw his "cleaning crew" working on our place and ran in there and took snapshots of "them". She called Rena laughing and saying his whole cleaning crew was the same old man (Father of Vic the Dick) that had put the cardboard shit in our bathroom. I can't believe this guy forces his 103 year old father to do all this work. What is it about these California cheapskate barely-human being landlords? I just don't get it.
Anyway, so we head off after that and try to hook up with Justin and Hannah for a little dinner action in Burbank. They are busy, and we need to shop so we head over to Lowes to get some things for the weekend while they try to get home to meet us. It eventually starts getting late so we call it off and decide to have dinner ourselves since they aren't ready yet. We get a table, then get a call saying that they can make it. We eat a nice dinner while hanging out with good friends. The best part of the evening is Hannah and I talking shop (Did I mention that she is a Tech/ Marketing writer as well) while Justin and Rena's eyes glaze over. Usually we are the ones having to deal with listening to music industry work talk.
On this, the day of Rena's birth, we decide to take some time off.
We meet at the old place after work. Exchange smooches, and hand off the keys to Vic the Dick. We take a tour of the place and we tell him that he needs to get a mold inspection done because we found water damage from the old upstairs tenants all over the place. He didn't really seem to care. We also showed him the damage to our Wok box and told him about Rena's box of CDs that got water damage and molded. He keeps asking if the CD's are "still usable". And we say "no, they smell like ball sack and are full of mold" but he doesn't get it. He keeps insisting that if we can play them, then they are fine. We tell him we expect him to pay for them. A box holds 30 CD's, and only a few were still in wrappers, so that’s quite a bit of music that got destroyed. We plan to use this as leverage if he gets uppity about the wood floors... "can you still use them" I'll say.
He tells us that our place is dirty (we obviously didn't clean the blinds enough)and that his cleaning crew will have to come in and take care of it. Interesting side note: our neighbor Christy (who hats Vic as much as we do) saw his "cleaning crew" working on our place and ran in there and took snapshots of "them". She called Rena laughing and saying his whole cleaning crew was the same old man (Father of Vic the Dick) that had put the cardboard shit in our bathroom. I can't believe this guy forces his 103 year old father to do all this work. What is it about these California cheapskate barely-human being landlords? I just don't get it.
Anyway, so we head off after that and try to hook up with Justin and Hannah for a little dinner action in Burbank. They are busy, and we need to shop so we head over to Lowes to get some things for the weekend while they try to get home to meet us. It eventually starts getting late so we call it off and decide to have dinner ourselves since they aren't ready yet. We get a table, then get a call saying that they can make it. We eat a nice dinner while hanging out with good friends. The best part of the evening is Hannah and I talking shop (Did I mention that she is a Tech/ Marketing writer as well) while Justin and Rena's eyes glaze over. Usually we are the ones having to deal with listening to music industry work talk.
# posted by Tony Starr @ 10:37 AM 
