Category Archives: Apartment Dwelling
The Pools
I’ll admit it, I’ve probably been a bit unfair about the state of apartment living. Despite the Elephants (who per my previous post, have moved out), the thumping bass, the white carpet / white tile, the loud water heater, the … Continue reading
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The Elephants Have Moved Out
Migrating Elephants – Kent Jordan Regular readers will recall our nemesis upstairs, the Elephant Trainers. Good news, Wednesday night I mentioned to Holly that it has been unusually quiet in terms of the crying babies and thrashing circus animals. When … Continue reading
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Topless White Castles and Other Ideas that Come Up After Three Patron Shots
There hasn’t been a whole lot to report on in the past week or so. The house is gone and the forms are poured. I don’t know how many more pictures of a dwindling house my readers can take. Frankly, … Continue reading
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No More White Tile
The rocket scientists that designed our apartment had the amazing foresight to put white tile in the entry way. Unless you are hyper-anal-retentive about having people take off their shoes outside, you are going to be cleaning shoe marks and … Continue reading
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Yuck, Snails!!!
When we started this project, I was really hoping that we would have cracked open the walls and found a bag of cash, gold doubloons or an original copy of the US Constitution. I think that everyone half hopes that … Continue reading
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On Apartment Living
There probably aren’t too many 2nd floor dwelling elephant trainers residing in the San Jose area, but some how, we managed to get stuck underneath one of them. Even more unfortunate, lessons usually don’t begin until 9 or 10 at … Continue reading
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Fish Don’t Fry in the Kitchen…
…Beans don’t burn on the grill. Well, it’s not quite a piece of the pie and it certainly isn’t in the sky, but we are offically residents of the Archstone Willow Glen apartment complex. We were very plesantly surprised. The … Continue reading
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Where Are You Going To Live?
When you tell people that you are going to knock down 90% of your house and move out for 7 months, you’d expect them to say something like ‘Wow, that sounds really exciting!’ or ‘Boy, that is going to suck.’ … Continue reading
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