Tuesday August 23, 2005
I don't think there's any need to test my sitting endurance past Three! hours. I managed this test in the theatre at the Rideau Centre today. I talked them into letting me go in about an hour before the movie was to start. An empty viewing room is a great place to read and think as a matter of fact. Much quieter than a library. Might be the acoustics that do that.
I saw "Four Brothers". A little violent but worth the time and money.
I also dropped in to surprise my second daughter down there near the Rideau Centre. We had a good chat and then she had to get back to work.
When I arrived back at the building I ran into a couple of my neighbours. We've been sharing landlord stories and I got to take a whack of pictures of the slum. Did a bit more educating on the subject of tenants rights as well. Knowledge is power, you know.
On the landlord front there have been a couple of humourous and interesting changes due in no small part to my "interference" (that's what the landlord called it), insistence on my rights and complaints made to Property Standards.
The eldest son of the single mom has been enjoying the fact that the landlord's head handyman is no longer parking behind me in the drive. He went so far as to ask him about that and when the handyman said "Oh, it's just not worth the hassle", the young man burst out laughing. He's young and the handyman had been pretty arrogant about the situation earlier, so he's forgiven.
The more interesting development is that late yesterday afternoon we all received notice that a property management company was taking over the day to day duties - effective immediately. I got a good chuckle out of this. A whole lot of deja vu as my regular readers will know. I made a fuss in Kingston about the landlord's property management folks not doing their jobs and lo and behold didn't that building get a new company to handle things as well.
Proof positive that disturbing the shit works when done properly. If it didn't work, I wouldn't keep doing it, of course.