some work talk, some Thanksgiving talk
Nov. 26th, 2020 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingWork got interesting this week! I can't give details because privacy is a thing, but in summary, there was An Issue between two tenants that escalated dramatically over 48 hours and ate a lot of our time and attention. We got the immediate problem resolved, but the underlying problem (related to one of the tenants, not the other) is still lurking in wait.
Covid-19 has made the rental business really weird this year, in all kinds of ways. One of them is the move toward a moratorium on evictions, and delays in the court system more generally. As a rental tenant myself, I am completely in favor of not chucking people out because they've lost jobs and are a couple months behind on rent! (I was lucky and that didn't become an issue for me, but my income went wobbly for a bit this spring and if that had lasted another month, I would have had to start draining the savings I have been very slowly building back up after my unemployment woes from 2014-2016ish.)
The problem is that it has become very hard to evict tenants for any other reason as well, such as threatening behavior toward other tenants. That can lead to a bad living environment for all the other tenants, which is extra stressful in this time of generalized stress, so. Not good. :(
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Anyway, enough of that. Today is Thanksgiving in the USA, and I am grateful for many and various things!
My family decided against an in-person gathering, so we had a Zoom call at 2pm EST and then had our own private dining experiences. I ordered delivery from a local restaurant, which I supplemented with my own green bean casserole (the provided veggies were glazed carrots; A) I am not a glazed carrot person in general and B) it is not a Culmer family holiday meal without green bean casserole) and a bottle of local wine (a Riesling-Gewürztraminer blend) that I bought on Sunday. My casserole came out well, the purchased salad and turkey-mashed potatoes-stuffing were delicious, and the purchased apple cobbler was also tasty though I think tomorrow I will go buy a small container of vanilla ice cream to use as a topping.
(I have saved the glazed carrots in the freezer and will probably chuck them into a soup at some point. Waste not, want not, and carrots are delicious in soups.)
Now I have a three day weekend and wow, that is a lot of free time in a row. I'm sure I'll think of something to fill the hours, but for the moment I feel at loose ends, but in a weirdly relaxed way. I don't think I've had this much free time all at once since... uh... New Year's last year, maybe? I didn't get a vacation this summer for obvious reasons, and I don't think I'd realized how much that constant go-go-go was stressing me out.
And on that note, I shall go fall into bed. :)
Covid-19 has made the rental business really weird this year, in all kinds of ways. One of them is the move toward a moratorium on evictions, and delays in the court system more generally. As a rental tenant myself, I am completely in favor of not chucking people out because they've lost jobs and are a couple months behind on rent! (I was lucky and that didn't become an issue for me, but my income went wobbly for a bit this spring and if that had lasted another month, I would have had to start draining the savings I have been very slowly building back up after my unemployment woes from 2014-2016ish.)
The problem is that it has become very hard to evict tenants for any other reason as well, such as threatening behavior toward other tenants. That can lead to a bad living environment for all the other tenants, which is extra stressful in this time of generalized stress, so. Not good. :(
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Anyway, enough of that. Today is Thanksgiving in the USA, and I am grateful for many and various things!
My family decided against an in-person gathering, so we had a Zoom call at 2pm EST and then had our own private dining experiences. I ordered delivery from a local restaurant, which I supplemented with my own green bean casserole (the provided veggies were glazed carrots; A) I am not a glazed carrot person in general and B) it is not a Culmer family holiday meal without green bean casserole) and a bottle of local wine (a Riesling-Gewürztraminer blend) that I bought on Sunday. My casserole came out well, the purchased salad and turkey-mashed potatoes-stuffing were delicious, and the purchased apple cobbler was also tasty though I think tomorrow I will go buy a small container of vanilla ice cream to use as a topping.
(I have saved the glazed carrots in the freezer and will probably chuck them into a soup at some point. Waste not, want not, and carrots are delicious in soups.)
Now I have a three day weekend and wow, that is a lot of free time in a row. I'm sure I'll think of something to fill the hours, but for the moment I feel at loose ends, but in a weirdly relaxed way. I don't think I've had this much free time all at once since... uh... New Year's last year, maybe? I didn't get a vacation this summer for obvious reasons, and I don't think I'd realized how much that constant go-go-go was stressing me out.
And on that note, I shall go fall into bed. :)
