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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-10-13 11:13 pm

There's no ramen in the afterlife

The really cool thing about tonight was discovering a literal garage band. I could hear them from the parking lot of the Walgreens where [personal profile] spatch was running an errand, although I couldn't see them on account of their being inside a garage; they seemed to be jamming their way through covers, of which we were able to identify Eddie Money's "Baby Hold On" and Queen and Bowie's "Under Pressure." We walked around the block afterward in order to verify their location and stood in the neighboring basketball court a moment to listen, at which I think we were seen because one of the musicians yelled, "Hey! People!" so we waved in an approving fashion and went home with our snacks and medical supplies.

The really uncool thing about tonight was our sink breaking in two places at once. Metal fatigue is real. We have wrapped the faucet with duct tape and placed a bucket under the sink in the cabinet we immediately cleaned out and disinfected, but it does not look like a problem we can fix ourselves—I am not convinced it is a problem that can be fixed so much as replaced—and the absolute last thing either of us wants even now is a total stranger in our space and it's just horrific timing, really. Assuming we receive an immediate plumber, of course. We have gone months in this apartment without a functional oven before. Whatever the timeline, I figure the law of inconvenience will hold sway.

Oh, and for the first time in more than a year and a half a stranger tried to chat me up while I was just existing on a sidewalk, which was not at all charming because he was not wearing a mask and I would have thought that my extremely noncommittal body language and short answers and constant reference to my husband who was just inside the door of the restaurant where we were picking up our dinner would have caused him to get the picture and wander off, but Oscar Shapeley is apparently as unaffected by a global pandemic as he ever was by the Depression. Please enjoy this only emotionally related picture of the demolition where our local auto body shop used to be.

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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2021-10-14 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, I'm sorry - I hope something can be fixed or replaced with less fuss than anticipated! ♥
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-10-14 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no! I hope the sink situation resolves soon.

Men who chat random people up in public have some kind of .... hopefulness? confidence? insanity? It would be useful channeled ANYWHERE ELSE. Last month a man chatted me up and I was so shocked I didn't realize what he was doing till he asked my name. I am a decrepit blob! WTF!
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-10-14 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
We... don't bite people? Because... plague?
*sad teethface*

May your household gods smite your property manager with nauseous gases and the lingering stink of wet lead pipe gack until it is fixed!
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-10-14 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*mutter mutter eat vectors in this house*

Soldering, yes, THANK YOU.
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2021-10-14 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope the sink can be fixed soon. I too am disappointed that we do not eat vectors in this house (㇏(;ᵥᵥ;)ノ)
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[personal profile] vass 2021-10-15 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh bloody hell. Is there something in the air? All over the planet?