Archive for June, 2008

Our new(ish) hod rod(s) (err… bikes…)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Yes, Jen and I got some hot rods.. two wheeled hot rods with pedals…

We are now the proud owners of two Specialized bikes.   Jen has a Cross Roads and I got a Hard Rock.  It’s by far the nicest bike I’ve ever ridden, though both are used and a couple years old and not top of the line by hardcore biker standards.

Anyways, we’ve been riding all over our new neighborhood and I have to say it is really fun.  We’ve set a goal of riding (most of) the Munger Trail by the end of the summer.  Sweet.  Maybe we’ll even buy some of those spandex jump suits to bike around in. :)

Jen’s got the purple-ish one and I have the white one.

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Seattle Day One

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

It has been a very long, but very fun day. We’re both pretty jet lagged and turning in for the day but some tthings we’ve noticed about the fine citizens of Seattle:

  • They do not jaywalk.
  • Pretty good and nice drivers
  • They park very close to each other. Like an inch.
     

Heres some pictures from the day.  Tomorrow I think we are going to go and see Mt. Rainier… more updates to follow.

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    rentalrundown.com and Seattle trip

    Monday, June 9th, 2008

    Two things…

    First - Jen and I are taking a trip to Seattle for 7 days starting this Saturday.  We’re super pumped.  

    Second – Over Christmas last year I started on this lil Rails app I was calling duluthrentalreview.com.  Pretty obvious what it was.  I get so pissed at landlords in this town, and even more pissed at my fellow renters for putting up with the crap quality of said rentals.  The problem is this:  Landlords in this town do not keep up their rentals because renters do not demand that they are nice and decent and that the landlords keep them up.  You get the idea. 

    Ok, so yeah I started writing this rental review site over christmas, got like halfway though it and just didn’t have time to finish it.. till now.  I re-wrote almost all of it, convertging it to REST.   I’m gonna try to continue updating it over the next couple days till our trip.  Oh, ad the url changed from duluthrentalreview.com to rentalrundown.com… liked the sound of rentalrundown better.

     

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    Moving Day

    Sunday, June 1st, 2008

    Yesterday we moved into our new apartment.  The day was ‘interesting’.

    • Got up at 6:30am to get the UHaul at 7:30.
    • There was a line of people at UHaul and only 1 guy working.
    • Got the UHaul at around 8:15 and had to return it at 2pm.
    • Loaded box after box into the UHal and by 10:30 had most of the big stuff in and the UHaul was full.
    • Dumped it all off at the new place, met the neighbors (and I was super sweaty had crazy hair from moving)
    • Jen’s friend Anita came over to help unload right when the last box got unloaded, but helped go get the new couch.
    • by this time it was almost 1pm and we had to get the UHaul back. 
    • Dropped it off, ate at good old McDonalds and talked about how sore we all were from lifting all that stuff.
    • I went back to the old apt to clean and get any last stuff out. Realized there were 2 closets we never boxed up.  Crap.
    • Took 2 car loads of stuff to the new apartment.
    • Took a break from 5 – 7 to eat dinner and not die of exhaustion.
    • Got back to the old apartment at 7:15 to find some girl sitting on the stairs along with tons of furniture.. my bullshit alarms started to go off.  I asked if she needed help, she said ‘no’.  As I walked up the stairs at to our apartment, she asked if it was our stuff in there.  I said ‘yep’ we are finishing up cleaning.  ”Well, (our landlords) said you would be out and I could move in today…”, to which I replied, “I haven’t told them that and I paid through the end of the month”.
    • Whipped out the phone called the land lords.
    • They said they told her she could move in early if we called them and said we were out.  
    • Ok the reasons this whole thins is BS are:
      • I’ve never seen this girl, Jen’s never seen this girl. They must have showed out apartment when we were not home and without or authorization. Under law they have to give 24 hours notice to enter the apartment.
      • The management never did a walk through.  They said they would do one after the new tenents moved in.  Umm.. no.  They would have no grounds to determine what, if any, damage was our fault.
      • There were  multiple maintenance requests that were never addressed.  I’m not understanding how they can let a new tenant move in with a drawer that has the front broken off cause the wood is starting to rot.
    • The girl said that she would do the cleaning if we’d quick move what was left out and let her dump her stuff off.  What the hell I said.
    • We did. We went to our new home.  We went to sleep.

    What a day.  This morning I can barley move I’m so sore. 

    Pics of the new apartment full of boxes….

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