Change, damnit!

[DabberDog]

After 10 years, HUD finally got involved and will be forcing the property owners to replace my carpet, install appropriate weather stripping around my inappropriate door, do something about the flooring and inappropriate concrete in front of my door, and possibly something about all the inappropriate concrete in my apartment.
First picture was taken five years ago but relative for this topic. Second picture is the nakedness I will be forced to endure until all this shit gets taken care of. Third picture are the flooring and concrete in front of my door. People don't understand or believe me when I tell them I can literally scrape a hole in the concrete with a fingernail. When it gets wet after a rain I can scrape a hole with my fingertip.
The nakedness, man. It's killing me, dude. That tent has been there since my first Covid relief check, bro. It was a great block for the sunlight that comes through my inappropriate front door. I'm a plant wielding, organically palleted minimalist, but that big, off-white space is loud.
So, to wind it down to now, the big tent got disassembled and shoved into the smaller tent I have in my closet. The plants that got move out of the big tent a couple weeks ago for lack of exuberance have been on my patio. With the upcoming unsettlement, one plant that barely had a trichome and wispy buds got Fiskars'd and I now have two. The Fiskars'd one was so trichome light that I didn't even have to alcohol my hand to get the sticky off. Should be I can hide the remaining two when the time comes. Could be I can put them in a neighbor's place. He'll get a kick out of growing weed.

[Rwise]

Sounds like they left the cement out of your concrete, to much sand whatever.
Glad to own my place and not have to deal with management!

[DabberDog]

They left competence out of the building. The HDPLLF (Home Depot Parking Lot Labor Force) had loads of work when this building went up.
It seems like concrete on the same floors was poured at different times with different mixes. The exterior concrete of the top two floors was replaced a few years ago for a plethora of reasons. Big lawsuit where forensic architects went around and took pictures. Took pictures of my floor, too. The only thing that was ever done was our incompetent, incapable maintenance guy put some caulking down. Folks, there is no adhesive that adheres to dried, sandy mud. The same condition exists in the two apartments I've been in with the same environmental exposure. Because of... geez... how do I be sensitive in our current political situation??? People don't say anything when something goes wrong because they are afraid of jeopardizing their residency or, like me, don't want to deal with the hassle. I especially don't want to talk to my c-word landlady because every word out of her mouth is a lie, a whine, or blame on another why she couldn't get her work done.
The upsides are I'm not paying for it, and I won't be here forever.

[ductwizard]

you should check for mold spores if everything is always wet. not good for you or your plants

[DabberDog]

Thanks, ductwizard I'm in San Diego. Mold from rain is rarely an issue unless there is flooding and poor aftercare. Plus, I am fortunate to be able to leave my door open if it isn't raining from the west, or too cold. Things dry out pretty fast.
I am on the third floor; the Pacific Ocean is 1.5 miles to the west. West is where the wind and rain usually come from, but not always. When it does, water comes in under the door where the weather sweep is gone, and under the threshold. The current maintenance person is the c-word manager's daughter, and I don't think she has any training because she didn't know what a door sweep or threshold were. Daughter and I get along just dandy, but she knows her mom and I have issues.

[ductwizard]

def. not a maint. person. i hope she doesn't do any work that requires a liscence like elec. or furnaces, she might kill you. good luck, hope you don't fall through the floor

[DabberDog]

Maintenance guy before daughter was worse because the work he did was incompetent. That's the dude who caulked on mud. The dude who said he put in a special sort of energy saving flush handle on my toilet and I had to hold it for 5 seconds to get it to flush. I went in behind him and fixed it. He put the weatherstripping on in pieces and layers, and so it hung past the door jamb. He tried layers of caulking before weatherstripping. To put in the current door sweep, he said he had to cut off 1/8" from the bottom of the door. He was proud and showed me the strip he cut. I didn't have the heart to tell him he also removed the width of the saw blade and made the issue worse. Uses the leaf blower starting at the bottom floor. Poisons grass so he doesn't have to cut it.
Daughter took three trips to Home Depot to replace a leaking kitchen sink. She brought another maintenance dude on the final trip. She doesn't prep apartments when someone leaves. A neighbor picks up trash because she doesn't. Dog poop container hasn't been emptied for a while. Her c-word mom has her on a nepotistic leash.

Daggum. I'm ranting and it has nothing to do with weed. Sorry. Forget I said anything. Carry on.

[dirtymike]

Lived in some pretty sketchy places at times. The worst was in PSAB. Damn pesky scuds kept flying over. Now that will mess up some concrete.

[DabberDog]

The place isn't so sketchy by first appearances, DM.
I was the second occupant of the complex, first occupant of my apartment. The place is only 12 years old. There has been bad plumbing from the get-go. As in missing green board, no Teflon tape, the water heater is so far away it takes 5 gallons of water to get hot. Nails have popped out of the stucco. Someone stole a tree when the landscaping was first done. The hole never even got filled in until a couple weeks ago when they replaced the tree. That tree will die because they have not watered it. The outdoor elevator that keeps breaking is an indoor elevator and the call buttons on my floor have been weather sealed with red duct tape that is falling off.
Three buildings. Two buildings are four floors, one building is three floors. The elevator has buttons for six floors, addresses up to 400's so the only buttons that match the floors are first and second. To get to my third-floor apartment, press 5. Three sets of stairs. None serve the same floors. First responders and delivery people are not fans.
Well, that's my morning bitch. The rest of the day will be roses and happy shit. And dope. Dope is gonna happen.

[dirtymike]

Dope has happened,. Where is the closest railroad yard in San Diego DabberDog imperial ??

[DabberDog]

Cargo trains unloading from cargo ships, trolley HQ, and Amtrak terminus are downtown, north. Border crossing stuff goes through San Ysidro, east.
Then there are the tracks under the border. They move cargo and people. You shouldn't ask me where those are.

[Rwise]

But the great pumpkin wants to know!

[DabberDog]

Mmmm... great pumpkin pie...

[dirtymike]

BNSF Units should run through, inter-model.. A branch line runs south through TJ and back up to Campo. hell of a ride.