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various minor annoyances
Apr. 14th, 2021 10:14 pmI had my last Not the IRS shift on Tuesday -- it wound up being 4-7:30pm instead of 12-5pm, because scheduling is weird, but I had a walk-in client I totally was not expecting, so that's nice. Then I packed up my supplies (business cards, nametag, some other office crud) and went home.
Before heading in to work, I took the Camry in to Goodyear to investigate the weird scraping noise it started making sporadically, starting about three weeks ago. They couldn't find anything wrong with the exhaust pipes and other undercarriage stuff, but I am still getting the noise occasionally.
It seems to happen most often when I'm turning the car on an incline, which, if anyone has an ideas of what could make a noise that sounds a lot like something scraping along the pavement under the car, but apparently is NOT something scraping along the pavement under the car, I am all ears.
Anyway, they didn't charge me for lifting the car up and poking around, which was nice, as was the same-day service.
Today I had three apartment showings, only one of which was pre-planned and that one abruptly rescheduled a half hour earlier on me first thing in the morning. Ah well, so it goes. We're trundling along fairly well, but I've hit a point where I think I need to shove like 50% of my current workload onto Mr. Geniality so I can create about five different spreadsheets and then use a bunch of those to do mail merge projects in Word, because move-out season waits for no woman and I need to have notices and key envelopes ready ahead of time.
Also Mr. Geniality will be in court with Lawyer Man tomorrow, in regard to an issue over apartment damages from a prior year. I do not personally care greatly about the outcome (aside from noting that it would not be an issue if the tenants had bothered to turn in their move-in inspection forms, because then we'd have solid evidence of the state of the apartment at the times in question -- seriously, INSPECT YOUR NEW APARTMENTS WHEN YOU MOVE IN! TAKE PHOTOS! KEEP WRITTEN RECORDS! THIS WILL SAVE YOU SO MANY HEADACHES AND ARGUMENTS OVER LIABILITY!), but I hope he's back in the office by 1pm because otherwise I'll have to take over one of his scheduled apartment showings and that will make me late for some of my own work, to say nothing of my lunch. *wry*
This evening was the second Board of Trustees meeting in two weeks, ugh. We also spent a lot of time talking in circles around an issue that I think was about 1/4 as complicated as everyone kept trying to make it. I am halfway to volunteering to organize the issue myself (I do not have any relevant experience, but I'm pretty sure I can wrangle the people who do have that know-how) just to cut through the endless "Something should be done!" waffling. Ugh.
There are parts of meetings where I write down a lot of detailed information in the minutes. There are other parts where twenty minutes goes by in one line, which is generally something to the effect of, "Discussion of [issue]. No conclusion reached," or sometimes, if I'm lucky, "Discussion of [issue]. In conclusion, we will do [thing]."
I have written up a summary and emailed it to the rest of the Board for revisions. They had damn well better get back to me by tomorrow morning, because I need to get it to our admin assistant by noon in order to make the May newsletter deadline.
Before heading in to work, I took the Camry in to Goodyear to investigate the weird scraping noise it started making sporadically, starting about three weeks ago. They couldn't find anything wrong with the exhaust pipes and other undercarriage stuff, but I am still getting the noise occasionally.
It seems to happen most often when I'm turning the car on an incline, which, if anyone has an ideas of what could make a noise that sounds a lot like something scraping along the pavement under the car, but apparently is NOT something scraping along the pavement under the car, I am all ears.
Anyway, they didn't charge me for lifting the car up and poking around, which was nice, as was the same-day service.
Today I had three apartment showings, only one of which was pre-planned and that one abruptly rescheduled a half hour earlier on me first thing in the morning. Ah well, so it goes. We're trundling along fairly well, but I've hit a point where I think I need to shove like 50% of my current workload onto Mr. Geniality so I can create about five different spreadsheets and then use a bunch of those to do mail merge projects in Word, because move-out season waits for no woman and I need to have notices and key envelopes ready ahead of time.
Also Mr. Geniality will be in court with Lawyer Man tomorrow, in regard to an issue over apartment damages from a prior year. I do not personally care greatly about the outcome (aside from noting that it would not be an issue if the tenants had bothered to turn in their move-in inspection forms, because then we'd have solid evidence of the state of the apartment at the times in question -- seriously, INSPECT YOUR NEW APARTMENTS WHEN YOU MOVE IN! TAKE PHOTOS! KEEP WRITTEN RECORDS! THIS WILL SAVE YOU SO MANY HEADACHES AND ARGUMENTS OVER LIABILITY!), but I hope he's back in the office by 1pm because otherwise I'll have to take over one of his scheduled apartment showings and that will make me late for some of my own work, to say nothing of my lunch. *wry*
This evening was the second Board of Trustees meeting in two weeks, ugh. We also spent a lot of time talking in circles around an issue that I think was about 1/4 as complicated as everyone kept trying to make it. I am halfway to volunteering to organize the issue myself (I do not have any relevant experience, but I'm pretty sure I can wrangle the people who do have that know-how) just to cut through the endless "Something should be done!" waffling. Ugh.
There are parts of meetings where I write down a lot of detailed information in the minutes. There are other parts where twenty minutes goes by in one line, which is generally something to the effect of, "Discussion of [issue]. No conclusion reached," or sometimes, if I'm lucky, "Discussion of [issue]. In conclusion, we will do [thing]."
I have written up a summary and emailed it to the rest of the Board for revisions. They had damn well better get back to me by tomorrow morning, because I need to get it to our admin assistant by noon in order to make the May newsletter deadline.
