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a comedy of errors

Went up to my old apartment, new key in hand, and discovered that the locks had been changed again. At this point I ain’t even mad. It’s just a comedy of errors. I went to ask the office lady to let me into my apartment and she was very apologetic. She said that some second-floor apartments had been...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 14, 2021

power play

Today was a holiday (a fake holiday, as Dante would put it), but I didn’t realize until after lunch. My fault for not checking my work email sooner. HQ sends out a daily news bulletin at 9 am, which I do not read, but lack of a bulletin means it’s a day off. At around 2 pm, the power went out. Unfor...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 11, 2021

homeownerz

WE DID IT WE CLOSED THE DEAL WE HAVE A HOME At 10 am, Dell met us at the condo for the final walkthrough. It was uneventful. That’s a good thing. The seller left us a couple of floor lamps, her toaster oven, and her microwave, which was nice of her. Shortly after we left, I got a suspicious text fr...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 6, 2021

october gratitude

hard to believe all of this is the same month. it feels like it's been several months packed into one. but hey, here we are, we made it to the end our offer on a condo was accepted!!! took a walk in the cool after a rain. heard the geese honking as they fly south. they make quite a racket, but it’s...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 2, 2021

hicksville, usa

One of the irritating features of being at my parents’ house is that they’re way out in hicksville with no public transport, so I have to rely on them for anything I want. The nearest pokestop is a 20-minute round trip away. That’s not a problem, it’s a nice daily walk, but it’s symptomatic of how r...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 29, 2021

caught in a roguelike

Conversations with Dad are like a roguelike. They’re procedurally generated, so you get a different map every time, but set pieces are programmed to show up—the life insurance policy, the credit cards, the Fidelity fund managers, the fact that he was working so hard on 9/11 he didn’t know what had h...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 22, 2021

inspection: done

This condo sat on the market for 60+ days before we made an offer, so I was lowkey worried the inspection would reveal major issues that had scared off previous buyers. Thankfully, nothing too bad popped up. The garbage disposal needs fixing, and a smoke detector needs to be replaced. The seal on a ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 5, 2021

inspection: scheduled

Tomorrow’s the day of the home inspection. The conversation about the home inspection was rather weird. Initially, Dell explained that we didn’t need to be present during the home inspection, because the inspector would send us a detailed report of his findings. Okay, I thought, we won’t go. But whe...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 4, 2021

condo concerto

A big day: We set out at 8 am to meet Dell for a tour of six condos. (We had requested to see seven, but one of them got bought. The housing market is hot.)Razorback Ridge #1-3: Our first stop was a series of three condos in the same apartment complex. All were third-floor condos with skylights and ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 3, 2021

what time is it when an elephant sits on your house

Today, another update: It could be "weeks or months" before the apartment building is cleared for habitation. Also, the city has discontinued occupancy inspections for the other buildings in the apartment complex, meaning we can't transfer to any of them either. Great, just great. To get more of the...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 12, 2021

heroic mario syndrome

It’s interesting how memory changes the way I view works of fiction. For instance, Baldr Sky certainly had its high points, but when I think back on it, I mostly remember the bad stuff—the repetitive routes, the endless school flashbacks that got repeated in reminiscence mode. Conversely, there was ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 9, 2021

where is peacetime

September 1 was our latest move-in ETA. By 5 pm on August 31, we had received no update. In fact, we had nothing but radio silence from management for a full 10 days. Dad was of the opinion that this was a good sign (if it was delayed, they would’ve told us by then), while I was of the opinion that ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 1, 2021

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