Wacky apartment life

Correction to earlier entry: loud-car-guy's new parking space is actually more like 20 feet from my bedroom window, not 10; his old spaces were more like 35 and 50 feet away, not 20 and 30. Exaggeration for effect, based on foreshortening of distances when looking at 'em end-on. Or something.

He's apparently only parking there every other night now. I'm not sure where he parks the other nights.

Nonetheless, I've temporarily moved to the living room. I can't do this long-term; the front door opens into the living room, and the bedroom is not a good space for entertaining guests. But I'm hoping to do it just long enough to get back to being able to sleep through the night. (Kinda like an infant.) Past couple nights I've gotten about 5 hours sleep, then managed to fall back asleep again after a while. Key, I think, is not fretting; if I fret when I wake up, it keeps me awake.

However, there's one bit of good news in all this. I arrived home this evening to find a note from my apartment managers letting me know that as of next month, they're lowering the rent again. For those following along at home, yes, this is the second time in two months, and the fourth time in the past twenty months. My rent is now about two-thirds what it was a year and a half ago, and is now lower than it was when I first moved in six years ago.

I am as mystified by this development as I'm guessing you are (but I'm certainly not complaining). It's conceivable that it might have something to do with the loud-car situation (and my finally making clear the other day that I briefly seriously considered moving out to get away from said situation); but much more likely, it has something to do with the fact that all the apartment complexes on my street have vacancies now. I suspect they're still losing tenants.

It would be kinda funny if I moved half a block to one of those other complexes. . . . But I'm not quite ready to undergo quite that much of a disruption of my life just for a noise problem. Not yet, anyway.

Okay, to bed go I.

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