Well the plus side it that it kept me extremely stress free, working at a super slow pace. But why bother getting a week ahead in work? You only need to be a day or two ahead to go out and party. Well, I wanted to go home, and since I never really get any work done at home, and books are heavy, and I actually had stuff I needed to do at home, so.. yeah, came home completely homework burden free.
First major thing I had to help take care of: our tenant is moving to NY, and the rest of the people aren't staying either. So we had to clean the house and start scouting out damages and areas of repair. Letting a bunch of recent college graduates live in a house for 7 years without ever maintaining does a lot to a house.
Basically, the house was filthy, with everything breaking, needing replacement, or repair.
Well, apparently these guys had a habit of using the garage as a warehouse (doesn't everyone?). Then they tended to move out without taking all their stuff with them. So there's a good several years of junk in there, and the last tenant needed to get rid of all of it. He tried the garage sale method last weekend, selling everything for 25 cents. Didn't work. So today when we came, he just told us if we saw anything we wanted in there we could keep it.
So me and my sister decided to go through everything. Most of it was just empty cardboard boxes and packaging styrofoam. But then there were also boxes filled with stuff. Found some very interesting stuff in there.. like..
-A Honda Civic tire, just one.
-..and his spare tire, I think
-Checkbooks. Yeah, these people left checkbooks behind.
-A wallet with ID and some money.
-Barbie Dolls. Honestly, WTF? It was always a bunch of guys living here.
-6 inch heels, for like, size 4 feet.
-Clocks. various weird clocks that all had dead batteries or didn't work or something.
So while we were looking through all this stuff, we thought, hey some of this stuff isn't that bad, it's a waste just throwing this away. So we kept some stuff..
-A TI-83+. When we found it, it turned on, so we were like, cool. When we got back home, it didn't work. So after a few battery changes, turns out the little flat disk battery was dead. Well I still had a spare one somewhere (from my first TI-83+ from like 6th grade that I dropped and broke). So after that it worked fine. Cool, now I have 3 graphing calculators (my sister's using one). Original owner probably thought it broke.
-A gamecube controller. Yeah. They probably dropped it in coffee or something, cause it had brown stick stuff all over it and all the buttons were like, stuck. So I rinsed (yes, like, drenched with the sink) it in water and had some fun with compressed air and its perfectly fine. It should work fine when it dries (hope so, if not, eh. oh well). If it does, I finally have a full set of controllers.
-A PS2 controller. Mine broke (Spike slept on it). It works great. Looks better than my old controller too.
-Cologne. Yeah, I'm so cheap I don't buy my own cologne. It was pretty much a full bottle of Nautica Latitude | Longitude. Smells pretty nice. Then I found out it retails for like $80.
-A clip-on wideview rear view mirror. I thought about getting one cause my mirror doens't even display my whole rear windshield. Now with this I can see the entire rear windshield from many many more angles. So my mirror doesn't have to be perfectly adjusted each time.
-Three 1/2" black binders. You never know when they're gonna come in handy, plus, they were practically new.
-Some picture frames. Not sure what my sister is going to do with them. They're probably from IKEA.
-A power extension cord. These things don't really go bad and it's nice to have around.
-A box of paper clips. I just happened to need paper clips.
-A package of tabs. I'm sure these come in handy too.
-A Hawaiian surfer necklace thingy. I always wanted one, but never wanted to buy one. Well.. happy ending.
Well, these guys also left behind some clothes. So we dug through the clothes pile (like 5 big trash bags full of clothes) that was about to get donated. Dug out an Express dress shirt and an AE thermal that fit. Heh.
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Then there's some other stuff I need to get around to..
The story is, my sister tied my dog to one of the veranda support beams. Doggy runs. Bye bye support beam.
So we just kinda stuck it in there to keep the veranda from falling down completely.
Cause without the beam there, it looks pretty scary..
On closer inspection, it's clearly obvious that it got forcefully ripped out, and it wasn't a loose screw or something.
Yup. Fat doggy breaks stuff (like PS2 controllers and scales).Now I'm supposed to find a solution to holding it in place that's more permanent than sticking two 60lb concrete blocks around the pillar.
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I finally brought my wallet pictures home from college, and filled up my last picture frame.
If you're in here you're cool! Camwhore awards go to: Steph, Clarice, and Jono, and Sandra* for bring in 3 of the pictures. :P
Yeah, long update, but... no homework =)
