Baby Finances

My dishwasher takes, no shit, like 2.5 hours to complete the whole cycle. That's a freaking long time when you turn it on at 6:30pm and it's not done till 9pm. And this is without heat drying. (I personally am a fan of saving the energy and just letting them drip dry -- which also mean that any food bits that did not come off during washing are not plastered on to the dish FOREVER!) Was planning on doing my laundry today -- but never really got movated enough to go out and do it. Hopefully sometime later this week I will get to it. Tommorrow is the first day of my German class. I'm excited about ti. I hope that it is a lot of fun and that I hvae a good teacher (thought I kind of doubt the quality of teacher at a community college... but we'll see...) The big bosses are away this week -- some hopefully it will be a pretty chill week. Low stress, getting out relatively early -- and being able to not stress about things. I always like weeks like this. THought the ...

So ... come home today relatively early -- around 520pm or so. The plumber's "short-bus" (IE he bought an old tart cart and is now using it for his plumbing business) is parked outside the front of my appartment building. Okay -- so maybe he's just finishing up a bit. So I go into my appartment and look at the huge hole in my bedroom wall ripped from ceiling to floor (about 30-40cm wide or so) and a PVC pipe haphazardly lying inside the wall. Okay -- so I guess he's not done. About 20 minutes later I meet the plumber and he tells me a harrowing tale. They started ripping out the wall and they smelled gas coming from the heating vent (clearly nothing should be coming from the vent when it's 80 degrees F outside. So the landlord and the plumber search around and find that the gas fireplace in the appartment behind me -- (like a 100 year old gas fireplace) -- the gas line has corroded and is now leaking gas. So they turn off all the gas in the building and...

Let me prefece this conversation with I went into work two hours late b/c I had to update some stuff in a database after everyone else was done using it. Then after being at work for an hour and a half -- I had to leave for my dentist appointment. Then after everyone else left work (litterally I was the last one there today) I had to spend an hour longer than I had planned updating the damn thing. Then I was mad hungry -- so I picked up dinner and went home. Then the ineveitable happened -- really Murphy's law style: (22:10:44) Me: my landlord accidentally locked me out of my appartment tonight -- my neighboors had to help me break in through a window (22:10:53) Joshy: no way (22:10:55) Joshy: how the hell did he do that (22:12:01) Me: i have two locks on my appartment door -- and he's never been able to find the keys for both. So when I moved in I only got one of the two keys. Apparently one of the keys he had and wasn't labeled -- was the key to my other lock (22:12:2...

There is a tragic storry that I must tell (well... I don't really have to -- but I'm going to vent about it anyways.) Thursday of last week I ask my boss for Tuesday off (because I'm lazy and don't want to have to deal with the holiday traffic on Monday.) He says "I don't see a problem with that has long as your counterpart is planning on working." Sweet -- he is -- I get Tuesday off WOOHOO. Then Friday morning rolls around. The CEO heard about it and told my boss that I couldn't have the day off because it wasn't sufficent notice and it wasn't an emergency. Ok... so I can see that ... if there was no direct back up... or you didn't just say two weeks ago about how you needed to raise company morale.... I'm just waiting for the phone call from him about somethign completely assinine on Tuesday morning at about 10 after 8 -- just to check to see if I'm in. What a fucking asshole. To me -- I would think that you'd want to...