July 1, 2009

well, i did it!!! totally jinxed myself speaking about my neighbor. yesterday while painting my door, dude comes out and lights off a brick of firecrackers...not that firecrackers bother me or anything, its the fact that i know i'm going to be the one cleaning up the mess afterward.

now, let me back up for a second. this guy who is now living there just showed up two or three days ago and things next door have become very busy. prior to that, it's been very peaceful and quiet. so back to yesterday...

while eating our dinner, this guy lights off another round and this time it's between the houses. our houses are separated by maybe a foot and a half, not much.... i call the police and i'm told by the dispatcher that it's legal to light firecrackers up to 11pm. i say to the guy, "i have 2 children and you're telling me that there's nothing on the books to help me out?" so, me and the girls pack up the bat and balls and go over to the "path" and we hit some balls, let the girls play, then head back. well, there's a buzz next door. lots of "yo yo yo" and music and people running in and out, more cars than normal. so it's about 9:30pm and a car load of people pile out and its a full on party. then, i hear a bunch of i'm gonna kick your ass, yo yo yo, blah blah blah going on and all of the sudden, there's 15 people out front carrying on like a bunch of idiots. after about 5 minutes of that, they all finally leave....

so....what to do? do i call the landlords, who will no doubt just brush it off onto the police, who will then brush it off completely and here i am, the guy doing his part to make this part of new albany look good on the short end of the stick...again...

well...thats about it from here. didn't wake up from any jacked up dreams today, thank goodness. the weather is insanely awesome and i hope wherever you're at you are able to take advantage of it.

its another day, i'm alive and that will work for me!!!