Morning

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Ugh. Yesterday I left a note for the guy who was revving his motorcycle outside my window yesterday morning at 6:30. This morning he did it again. He didn't even have to rev it to wake me up, honestly; it's an incredibly noisy bike. It makes more noise idling than any car in the parking lot driving around; I know because the cars don't wake me up. Also, none of the cars requires five full minutes of idling, occasionally being revved by hand, to warm up.

I left another note, on his apartment door this time instead of in his mailbox. I'll go over this evening and talk to him in person.

So I'm groggy and out of sorts, even though I did eventually get back to sleep for an hour or two. Eventually got up, started clearing space for the cable-modem guy to have access to the cable modem—and he showed up 20 minutes early. With a woman who may have been a co-worker or may have been his girlfriend for all I know. She didn't give any indication of why she was here, just stood silently in the middle of my room for the half-hour that he was working. Every so often they would exchange amused glances, which really annoys me. I'm almost certainly hypersensitive about the messy state of my apt, but still, I found the whole thing disconcerting.

I should note that 20 minutes early is way better than, say, 2 hours late. But still, if they give you a 2-hour window, they really should come during that window. If I had been out of the apt, I would've been out of luck.

Anyway, he replaced the modem, and informed me that I couldn't switch to using the cable that's sticking out of the wall in my room, because it's not connected to anything. (The cable that I use runs all the way across my bedroom, under the door, and down the hall in front of the heater. The place where it enters the apt is in the floor between the heater and a doorway; it's impossible to run the cable anywhere useful from there without running it either directly in front of the heater or across several floors or ceilings.)

So with luck, I won't have so many connection problems now. Though of course the modem has been fine for the past week, ever since the day I made the appointment.

Maybe I'll try and take a nap later today. Or perhaps breakfast would help.

9 Responses to “Morning”

  1. MK Gates

    Are you an ENFP personality?

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  2. MK Gates

    Regarding your sleepless nights…The other day I juiced some fresh raw wheatgrass I had grown and drank it. I must have given me many nutrients which actually got into my body’s cells and fed them because I had the most RESTFUL sleep I’ve had in many years.

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  3. Jed

    I think when I took one version or another of the Myers-Briggs, I came out INT/FJ. Don’t know how much credence I put in that test, but the introvert/extrovert distinction is definitely a useful paradigm for me.

    Thanks for the tip; maybe I’ll give wheatgrass a try sometime. Pretty much all of the things I’ve used to help me sleep work very well for one or two nights and then stop working entirely for a while, so I use ’em sparingly. I doubt I’d have been able to go back to sleep this morning if I hadn’t taken some valerian last night.

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  4. Greg van Eekhout

    Jed, does your apartment lease have a noise clause? Because if it does, bike boy is violating his lease, and it’s apartment management’s job to see that he stops.

    Just wondering.

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  5. Jed

    My apartment rental agreement does have a noise clause, but (a) I’d rather talk with the guy before reporting him, and (b) the noise clause is incredibly strict, stating that (for example, iIrc) you’re not allowed to type after 10 p.m., and I don’t want anyone looking too closely at my own activities wrt that clause. I’m hoping I can get the guy to walk his bike out to the street before starting it from now on, and then all will be copacetic. Alternatively, I could start wearing my earplugs again.

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  6. Will Quale

    you’re not allowed to type after 10 p.m.

    Surely that clause of the lease (if you’re remember it correctly) dates back to when typing meant “clack clack clack DING” on the old Underwood, and just never got taken out of the standard lease (or modified to still cover non-computer typewriters)?

    I don’t think my lease has the typing clause, but it does have the no musical instruments after 10 p.m. clause, which, given the hours I keep, means I haven’t played any music for years 🙁 I’m looking forward to a soundproof building someday.

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  7. Will Quale

    Incidentally, Jed, it’s amusing to note that you typed your last comment at 11:01 p.m. 🙂

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  8. Jed

    Yeah, I haven’t decided what to do about the timestamps on these comments yet; they’re all given in Eastern time, ’cause that’s where the server is. I could adjust them to some other time zone, but which?

    I assume that the typing clause is indeed a leftover from the old days, but I did sign it.

    In other news, it turns out the resident of that other apt hasn’t picked up either of my notes. I’m beginning to suspect they’re on vacation and someone else is using their parking space. (A car managed to slip back into that apt’s parking space, which the motorcycle’s been sharing, sometime in the last hour without my noticing, but the apt’s mail hasn’t been picked up and their front door appears not to have been opened.) The motorcyclist has been gone for 16 hours now; I hope that if he’s coming back, he does so before I go to bed so I can intercept him.

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  9. Jay Lake

    I predict that motorcyle man will threaten to rattle Jed’s teeth…which will make terrific reading. ;-p

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