Tuesday, February 08, 2005

somebody had to do it I finally went over and gave the Russians a piece of my mind.  I can't believe it took me this long.  What's more amazing is that apparently no other neighbors have bothered to complain that they've been cutting tile on their back patio between the hours of 6-11pm for the past week or more. "Why are you doing this at night?" I asked, trying out the same voice I used for the Brian Tangelino threat. "Is not night," the thickly accented Russian lady said.  "We done by eleven." "After dark is night!" I insisted. "WHY DON'T YOU DO  THIS DURING THE DAY TIME?" "He has job in day time," the Russian lady said, pointing to the tile cutter who apparently spoke no English at all. Actually, I had already surmised these things the first Sunday that they started splitting my head with tile cutting noise.  No real contractor works on nights and Sundays.  Only illegal immigrant tile cutters work these awful hours. "Only four or five more days, I think," the Russian lady said.  The Russian lady's husband never said a word.  He just looked blankly back and forth between me and his wife. "No, I don't think you should be doing this anymore," I insisted finally before walking away. I wasn't exactly Tony Soprano, but at least I haven't heard any head-splitting tile-cutting since then.   7:20:39 PM    comment [] ram them! After selling $3,500 in tree work this morning, Bob Bandit took off to try to straighten out another legal problem (that he more or less caused for somebody else.) A couple months back Bob and his girlfriend were riding around in their limousine, doing their usual bar hopping and balling, when a couple of girls zipped by them and "cut them off." Drunk and enraged, Bob ordered his limo driver to "ram them."  Being in the habit of following Bob's orders without question, the limo driver complied, and the next thing you know the two vehicles were all banged up on the side of the road. Unfortunately for the girl driver, she had a suspended licnese.  Unfortunately for the limo driver, he was ticketed with wreckless driving, and now faces losing his livelihood. But Bob was confident this morning that with him as an eye-witness, all charges and tickets against his driver would be dismissed.  In fact, Bob was trying to take bets on whether he could make the whole mess go away with his testimony.  Joe Venuti took five dollars of that action, while I decided to stay out of it altogether. 6:08:31 PM    comment [] $1.6 million Supposedly Bob Bandit has been a approved on a loan which would enable him to buy a $1.6 million pad on Tierre Verde.  (He paid about $575,000 for his current place about 2 1/2 years ago, and hopes to get about $875,000 for it). One stipulation of the new loan is that he has to show his creditor he has about half a million in cash in the bank--which he doesn't.  This would be a pretty big problem if Bob hadn't spent the last several years chumming up to multi-millionaires and billionaires.  His richest friend, Ed, who owns one of the largest trucking companies in the United States, has allegedly promised to wire the relatively paltry sum into Bob's account just long enough so that the deal is approved. Like most things with Bob, there's probably some bullshit to this story.  But if he gets the $1.6 million dollar house I'll be impressed. 8:04:41 AM    comment [] $4.3 million I had a dream last night that my older sister, Laura, was awarded $4.3 million in a product liability law suit involving an aluminum can.  The flip top was defective or something. I think this was actually embarassing to my sister and I had to overhear the figure being whispered between her and my mom.  (This might be embarassing because her husband is a lawyer who defends big corporations against silly lawsuits such as these). But when I broke the news to her husband, Scott, he seemed to take the betrayal okay.  I spent a lot of the remainder of the dream grumbling over the fact that Scott and Laura would do something really dull and stupid with the money like invest it 7:57:46 AM    comment []

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