i had a food processor and a titanium cutting board delivered the other day, and the food processor is absolutely vicious. it's for garlic mostly, as well as dill and broccoli and other things i want cut very closely. it just destroys it. my old plastic cutting board is smelly and impossible to clean. the metal board wipes right down. that's some more plastic out of here.
i have some rechargeable lithium nine volt batteries coming tomorrow because my landlord isn't responding to requests to replace the battery in the fire alarm. it's his responsibility. while this is negligence, and i'm taking note of it if i need to bring it up, it's not worth it to me. if i get a couple of rechargeables, i have them if i need them. i don't mind paying for that, as i can use them for guitar effects or whatever else. it is useful to have extra nine volts and these are rechargeable for thousands of charges so now i'll always have some. he is paying electricity, anyways. problem solved, although he'll need to note that i'm taking it with me in the end. i also have some concrete on order to fix the holes i'm concerned about. if i actually do that, and have to send him the costs for fixing it, the only remaining serious issue is going to be fixing a door. i'm not going to fix that door myself; if i have to do it, i'm going to hire somebody, and if i have to hire somebody i'm going to need to send him the bill. the door must be fixed. the problem is that the manager here is a massive loser that wants to maintain this property as a crack house rather than fix it. i don't have patience for that, but i don't want to fight with him, so i'm doing it myself, but i also want to avoid conflict, so i'm leaving fixing this door to the very end when everything else is done. i am within my rights to fix things myself if he won't fix it, and he'll have to pay for it if i have to hire somebody. as it is, i'm just asking for a refund on materials.
when my cdb comes in tomorrow, i'm going to need to order some caulk so i can clean and seal up the front of the apartment, which is where i'm moving all of the shelving for books and cds. once it's clean in there, i can move the shelving in, which will open up the studio part of the apartment to move my studio furniture and equipment into. further, once the shelving is in place, i can take all of the books and cds off the floor and put them on the shelves, which will open up a lot more space. there's hundreds of books and hundreds of cds in piles of large boxes. in fact, one of the things i like about this place is that i have a lot of shelving options in multiple parts of the apartment, which i'm going to maximize.
so, i'm trying to avoid getting into a fight about fixing the door, and about fixing the holes, and about the batteries and whatnot. i'm looking for less combative approaches. i have not filed any t2s at this location, but i should have by now. the smoking is minimal and often non-existent, i don't need the money, and i've been looking at a general direction of things to judge how to react. are things, broadly, getting better? then, let me be patient. they were broadly getting better, but it's stagnated since the summer. i don't know if this guy is gone for the summer or what. i can do a lot of this shit myself, but there's a few red lines of things i have to get done and that i might have to get pushy about if they don't get done and that i'm going to try to stay away from until i have to.
right now, i need to eat, and then i need to get back to the things i was doing, which include getting the cardboard on the ceiling and cleaning the front so i can get to caulking it for tomorrow.