You Mean There's Supposed To Be A Point Here?

**NOTE: The pics below have nothing to do with this aimlessly

wandering post: I just wanted to post a few pics because
the blog looks so bare without them, and I
wanted to give you something to look at when
you get bored with the actual post.
Thanks.
Carry on.

Just on the offchance that anybody clicked over here hoping to read something exciting and new, here's a disclaimer: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EXCITING AND NEW HAPPENING IN DIANE'S WORLD AT THE PRESENT TIME. NOTHING ON THE HORIZON FOR THE NEAR FUTURE EITHER. There. All done now.

Remember here and here where I complained about some housework that was forced on me by my landlord? Well for the last week he's whupped it on me again. He has state and federal inspectors coming to inspect these apartments on October 5th and now he's trying to catch up on repairs and upkeep that he's been putting off for months. He wouldn't be doing it now if it wasn't for the inspectors coming. We moved from one apartment in this complex of 24 apartments to this one in August of 1999. I told him then that the tub needed to be regrouted and recaulked. Last Thursday he decided it needed to be done. Immediately. It should have been a one day job. He finally finished up on Monday afternoon. That's 5 days on a 1 day job. Typical of this guy. That's just one thing among many. Of course while he was working on the tub I had to take everything out of the tub, take down the shower curtain and take out my bathroom rugs until he got done. A real pain, folks, to say the least. We had to keep running him down to get him to finish the job or he'd probably still be dragging it out. Grrrrrr........

If you checked out that first link you'll see that I had to move my big deep freeze so he could replace my waterheater. My landlord then insisted that my deep freeze should be put out on my back porch (just a concrete slab with a 5 foot overhang) because he thought it gave off too much heat and was making my air conditioner work too hard, which was making my electric bill too high. Do you have any idea how tiresome and not fun it gets to have to go outside in the heat, cold, dark, rain, etc. every time you need a package of pork chops or purple hull peas out of the freezer? My husband has a friend who's moving and had a smaller 42 inch freezer for sale for $25. He checked it out and brought it home, so I bleached it out and it's airing out before I bring it in the house tomorrow and move my frozen stuff from the big freezer to the smaller one. Of course to move it in the house I'll have to move all those pantry shelves again that I talked about in those 2 links above. And the landlord is perfectly okay with me bringing it in the house, although the motor on the smaller freezer is probably the same size as the one on the bigger freezer.....Go figure! If the smaller freezer works okay I'll donate my bigger one to my church. We've needed one for a while to handle our food pantry needs and for Vacation Bible School among other things. Do you realize how many freezer pops 100 kids can go through in a week? Try getting that many pops in a regular refrigerator freezer.

I also have to have the apartment in inspector-ready condition by October 5th. Soooo......now are you beginning to see why I haven't been posting very often lately? The kicker is that the inspectors may go in every apartment, just 1 or 2 apartments, or any number from 1 to 24. So I have to have the place ship-shape even though they may not even come in here. Aaaarrrgggghhhh!!! I despise uncertainty!!

Add to this that Demon Blogger has reared his ugly head again today, and you have a recipe for less blogging by Diane. Blogger didn't want me to post today, and balked at uploading pictures again all afternoon. I just noticed that there is another planned outage scheduled for 4 pm Pacific time Thursday. I don't know how long it's supposed to last, though. Blogger Beta has a lot of bugs to be worked out yet, too. If they ever get a good handle on them I'll probably switch over to Beta, but not as long as I keep hearing horror stories about it. The old Blogger is bad enough. Better the enemy you know, and all that, I suppose.

I'll be around, commenting and reading my friend's blogs here and there, but I may not be posting much for the next several days. I'll try my best to find time, but this enforced housework has to come first for now. Don't think I don't bitterly resent and begrudge my lost blogging time sacrificed to this devil's work housework and cleaning, 'cause I do.

Take care and be blessed, y'all.