Get along, little doggie

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Blew off a birthday thing w. coworkers on friday due to a combination of senility and disinterest.  I was nagged about it this morning, but enough happened over the weekend that I don't feel particularly bad.  Walking in to discover that a coworker hasn't been doing at least one part of their job was the least of my problems.  At least I get to do some work offsite tomorrow and meet the folks at one of our branch locations.

From the time we woke up until the end of the Sabres' 3-2 victory over Carolina, Saturday kicked ass.  Then a stray dog showed up as we were getting ready to head to Moon Base Bravo, which proceeded to completely fucking nuke our weekend.

It's not the dog's fault that her owner either lost her or, worse, abandoned her.  However, I'm going to come right out and own up to resenting it for ruining my weekend, causing a near-fight between me and K, costing us money we frankly don't have to waste on frivolous shit, costing us both sleep, and wasting our time trying to find its fucking owner when we would have much preferred doing something enjoyable, or at least making headway on getting the house ready for guests.  If anyone wants the dog, take it.  We're calling animal control tomorrow.  [those fucks aren't even open on weekends, and if the dog has no ID, they're fucking useless.]

Also, a big fat FUCK YOU to the City of Tampa's solid waste collection department, whose slacktastick motherfucker tuckbitches can't be bothered to do their goddamned jobs and pick up anything that isn't in the automated blue collection receptacles.  I've sent a complaint to their department, because those heretofore-referenced neo-monbacks drove right the fuck off after picking up 1 of 4 cans, and 0 of 20 trash bags this morning, even while I flashed my porch light at them in the near-dark of 6:15am.

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[deansavatar.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. . . Monbacks. . .

Ho-di-dohs and Mo-teas?

Ah, the dirty, dirty south~

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

I guess that is one of the issues of the warm south that we nawthuhnehs don't have to suffer as greatly.

Strays are not as prevalent, I believe, due to the fact that it isn't summer all year here. I shudder to think of the underlying reasons the weather difference really means such a drastic decrease in the stray population, but there it is. I don't envy you guys your porch cats and yard dogs, regardless.

Sounds very much to me like Tampa needs to have some... hmmm... effective government, perhaps??

And the fecking Bush family wants Jeb to run for president? I swear, I am moving out of country if one...more...idiot from that family makes it to the highest post of this country.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

the cats are fine; heck, they keep the cockroaches and lizards under control (and we ain't seen no rodents yet). but a fifty pound dog, especially one that is clearly cat-aggressive (but sweet with humans for the time being) is something else altogether.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

the department responds well when notified (though it shouldn't come to that), but this is what they got an earful of from me:

For two consecutive collections (Thursday, May 19, and today,
May 22), the trash collection crew who serves my residence has failed to
pick up anything except the large, blue trash can provided by your
department.

They have completely ignored three conventional trash cans, and a dozen
plastic bags. I have pored over your department's guidelines for
acceptable methods of putting trash to the curb for collection, and it
certainly seems as if I'm in compliance.

This morning, I went so far as to flash my porch light repeatedly at
your collection crew, but they merely drove off after upending the blue
trash can with the automated device on the truck, and have (again) left
a large amount of trash un-collected.

This is ridiculous.

Their next opportunity to provide adequate service to this customer is
this Thursday. I'll be very disappointed if my out-of-state guests for
the long weekend have to negotiate around -three- collections' worth of
excess solid waste that hasn't been removed, simply because it couldn't
be automated for the collector's convenience.

Ever since the expedient of using the mechanized collection trucks,
collectors themselves have shown a stunning unwillingness to pick up
anything that isn't in one.

At last check, that was still their job.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

The solution, I guess. is to demand more blue buckets. Sounds like you should have about six of them.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I heard back from the city - apparently, this -is- the answer, and it will take about three weeks to get another one. they're ~75gal; they're way more than enough for a twice-weekly collection regimen unless, you know, we rake the lawn or something, in which case, it's woefully inadequate.

The bag situation has been "given to a supervisor," but their currently-undocumented policy is that the only cans they will pick up are their mecha-godzilla-truck friendly blue ones. my generic rubbermaid buckets are so much useless crap, it would seem.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Yeah, out here in Phoenix, they won't touch it if it's not in the large containers for auto-pickup. I guess the rationale is that is:
a) cheaper (there's only one guy driving the truck and no second helper)
b) more efficient (see "a")
c) safer (the guy never leaves the cab of the truck and presumably won't have any accidents or pulled muscles, etc)
d) more hygenic (no one comes in contact with whatever crap has been thrown in the trash).

I had a lot of stuff the first couple of weeks I was out here from all the unpacking (esp. after baal was here). I generally left it on the side of the house and got rid of it over a couple of weeks with the smelly stuff going first (obviously). I also had to keep it out of sight as the local community group will cite you for even leaving your garbage can at the curb more than 24 hours prior to pickup or later than 1pm following pickup day.

It's crazy. Have you tried throwing your stuff in your neighbor's can? Or really piss people off by throwing your garbage in the recycle can?

[wrldtravlr2.livejournal.com]

you unfriended me!

Fair enough I suppose.
Good luck Rafe.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i felt bad, never contributing. :-(

[wrldtravlr2.livejournal.com]

All good. It wasn't meant as a guit trip.

I meant it when I wished you well.

[eve2007.livejournal.com]

Nick and I ran into K at Petco (we had our Pit there too). She was definitely frazzled to say the least. I felt bad that the dog was lost or abandoned and if only I had the room, I would have taken her in, seriously. She is absolutely gorgeous. She gave me a small idea of what our dog will look like in the future.

I hope someone finds this dog. Just by the way she was DRAGGING K around the store definitely let me know that she has to be a handful.

Ah the sweet smell of trash

[yokes1971.livejournal.com]

Nice thing about the new town which is the old town technically.

If its anywhere near the curb on garbage day its gone.......we try to not park in the street just in case.

When we moved in we had trash large and small for about the length of my front curb stacked 4 ft high. Came home it was all gone :-)

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Strays suck. I had one ruin my somewhat shakey state of Zen for a weeks last year. My wife had me buy puppy chow for it, and at first sight I could tell you the dog was at least a decade old. Ugh. Women and strays.

I guess I shouldn't bitch - it's how I used to get dates....