I am wondering if that is the case. They usually just shout and things rarely get thumped around. He has never attacked anyone it is just very dramatic and very loud. The fights usually only last about 2-3 hours tops. We don't have anyone we can call that isn't an authority figure outside of the apartment security and if they think it is bad enough they may call the cops themselves.
I am between a rock and a hard place here. I don't want them to wind up the dog so bad it decides it needs to bite someone, I don't want him to lose it so bad he actually attacks someone, or for her to feel she needs to use force to protect herself, or something more serious to happen. While Omaha PD has an ok record with the mental health issues they aren't perfect. My neighbor is a pretty big guy too so big guy going ballistic tends to mean more force. I was right on the edge of my decision bubble to call the cops or not before he decided to leave the first time.
Who watches the watchmen?The way tonight was supposed to go:
- Friend whose birthday was yesterday gets home from her shift at the library
- We sync up a tv show to watch together online
- Somewhere between the middle and the end, she gets a knock or a call, I coyly say "you should get that, it could be something rapidly approaching thermal equilibrium"
- She gets surprise birthday cookies!
How it actually went:
- Friend does not show up online after the library
- About five minutes after the delivery was supposed to happen, she responds and says she just got out of the shower, she completely forgot about the plans we made.
- I call the cookie delivery shop and find out it's still at the store waiting for an available driver.
- Since she had a shower, I let her know she should anticipate answering the door, and I end up having to tell her cookies are coming.
- About ten minutes after the 20 minutes after I called to ask what was going on with the order, she gets a phone call, but her phone drops it. Attempting to call back gets a busy signal.
- I call customer service again, and I'm told "oh, when contact fails, the order goes back to the store for redelivery, we'll get that back out to her in 20-40."
- We complain together about how stupid a policy that is if a single dropped call triggers it.
- Five minutes later, she has her cookies.
Dorkus: You sure there isn't some hazard laying you low or is it always something new?
The wife and I are thinking the neighbors are likely to abandon the apartment. Between the incident, apparent damage to the apartment, and the fact they were keeping an un-muzzled pit-bull not registered with the office and got caught they are likely to bounce. We saw the you missed rent note on their door yet again and am frankly surprised they haven't been bounced yet.
That apartment has a history of neighbors of varying degrees of unusual behavior. The first few neighbors were fairly normal people, the space being empty for a little while was nice but so is having neighbors. The next neighbor was apparently some gal using it for her prostitution efforts. Propping open the security doors and strange men coming and going at all times of the day and night. The police took notice of that one. Then a few more random short timers including a Sushi Chef looking for a new place and work in the city. My wife says our really strange but very quiet neighbor apparently had drawn FBI attention and they had asked my wife questions about her. Then there was the white trash meth heads who abandoned and now my current neighbors who seemed so nice for so long then went ballistic.
Maybe we will get someone crazy but not scary and more interesting than ill tempered.
Who watches the watchmen?I'm having a bit of decision crisis right. While I want to go to college and get a degree in microbiology degree, eventually studying and curing viruses. But, with all the slashing to medical science I dunno if that would be a good option. Maybe I should use my GI Bill to go to a trade school, like electrician.
Especially since electricians will (most likely) never be obsolete
And as the (trainee) microbiologist here: I can't say whether or not you'd be a good fit, but in the absence of additional info, maybe you should try for it - but have a backup plan in case it doesn't work out. The medical / science line isn't for everyone.
(On hindsight, I'm not even sure if it was right for me.)
Just don't hit the bottle at the first sign of difficulty, because there'll be plenty.
edited 6th May '17 10:39:22 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.My lease is ending this June, and both of my roommates have decided to move. I told my landlord several weeks ago that I would be staying. She said fine and emailed me the new lease but didn't give me a particular deadline so I assumed I'd give her the signed contracts and things around two weeks into this month. I've been interviewing possible roommates and I'm positive I've got both rooms locked down. I just haven't been able to talk to my landlord because I've been working nights.
Two days ago, my landlord was talking to my roommate right before I was going to work and said something like "She needs to talk to me about whether she's going to stay or not, she can't take it for granted that she's going to keep living here and I'm going out of town this Sunday." Despite the fact that I'd told her I was going to stay, and both roommates have told her I'm going to stay. I said I'd call her and I had other roommates lined up.
The other day someone knocks on my door right before I'm headed to bed. It's the assistant manager. He asks if it's my car in his spot (it wasn't), and then says, COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE: "So the landlord said I could move in here, the only problem is I have a big dog, how much do you pay yadayadayada..." and I'm standing there in sweatpants and a shirt wondering why the fuck he's talking to me about this in the middle of the night. I said something like 'I'll think about it.' Though I already have people I'm considering who came at a sane hour that we agreed upon beforehand.
I've sent my landlord an email and also called. No response yet. If she's going to be nitpicky, she could at least have the decency to be accessible instead of going out of town every few weeks and then not picking up her phone.
I'm pretty sure this will resolve itself fine, but fuck if it isn't annoying. Adult stuff.
Ughughgughgughgughghjgughghgj I HATE PAPERWORK AND SHIFTING DEADLINES AND ROOMMATES WHO MOVE OUT ON SHORT NOTICE.
Thanks to my landlord being out of town until June 1 (what a fucking good idea), I have till the end of this week. One of the roommates surprised me with "Can my boyfriend live here too" which would make things way too crowded, not to mention I specifically said on my only listing that I would rather have an all-female space. I have only one other candidate in mind so literally everything has to go smoothly.
This is the cheapest arrangement I can get so I really would rather not pick up and move. If I just had a little more time!
Leradny: Ugh. You have my sympathy.
I only ever lived with people I already knew, and that caused its own problems. As lonely as it may be, I do like having my home to myself.
So my car's AC isn't working. Again. First time it was low on refrigerant, the second time the fan broke. Really wondering what went wrong this time. My brother the mechanic swears Saturns usually have reliable AC. Of course mine would be the exception.
The parents leave today for Hawaii. I'm really excited for them. Mom's never been off the continent, and what with her Parkinson's, they figure they better get a trip like this in while they still can. They're staying at a beautiful little house thanks to AirBnB and have a pretty good idea of what they want to do/see while they're there. I'm wondering just how many pictures of flowers Dad will have by the time they get back. (Dad loves flowers!)
dRoy: Lol. You doing ok man? Enjoying some libbo? Remember to not over do it and have fun. <Insert mocking of safety brief here.>
Lerad: Ug that is a big steaming bag of suck. Hopefully you get some sort of arrangement that works for you. I know living spaces in your neck of the woods are not exactly cheap.
Scion: Coincidentally my wife's car AC compressor just died a day or so go as well. Now we both have cars without AC. My car has two temperature settings nothing and broil.
The missus and I wound up living together when we were still dating because it was too expensive to live separately. I had my bed in the "dining room" portion of the apartment and she had the bedroom. Before that I had an ok little studio apartment and she had a one bed.
Who watches the watchmen?
rollin' on dubs
D Roy: becareful, you get caught and your ROK SGM will send you to the ROK Army ....
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....So my Rocky Horror cast exploded tonight. That's a core pillar of the last four years of my life up in smoke.
Short version: Some time ago, the directors more or less unilaterally declared themselves in charge for life and threw out the cast bylaws. These directors were not popular and would have been voted out had the elections that the bylaws mandated taken place. The cast was not informed of this until several months after the fact. An email petition with signatures from the cast was sent to the directors, who politely and passive aggressively told us to fuck off. So we, as a group, confronted them before the show.
We were ready for them to tell us to leave. We weren't ready for them to not so much as hear us out, and we certainly weren't ready for them to immediately call theater security on us.
20 people left, four (including the directors) stayed. I'm okay, but some of the other cast members are a mess. We took a page out of Mark's book and headed to the bar across the street to mourn and start making plans to build a new cast from the ashes of this one.
All this is to say that I'm drunk as fuck and sad and confused and scared and really don't know what to do and needed to get this out somewhere so sorry I'm spamming your thread watchlist with my crap.

Fuck me, only two days and I remember just WHY I left receiving. Well, it's something until I find another job elsewhere.
Though I think Jeakle, the guy from frozen who's been there for like 35 years, was low key trying to convince me to stay today. Depending on how quick the store unfucks itself, I might.