Domestic Geek

Current mood: infuriated
Got a nice surprise on my door when I got home from work today. Asshole landlord raised lot rent by $15 with less than 30 days notice. Jerkwad. With our dog, rent is now $505. That doesn't even include our house payment. ARGH! He's not going to have to worry about getting everybody to move once they start working on that exit ramp, he's going to run everyone off well before that. MUST MOVE SOON!

Current mood: ambitious
So, the great house cleanup is underway. My neck cooperated long enough yesterday to get half the living room carpet cleaned. I'm taking a break from working on the other half (I'm waiting for some water to boil). Figures I'm going to have to stop to go to work in an hour or so. I hate it when having to go to work interferes with my industrious moods.

Cold Stone Creamery is having the World's Largest Ice Cream Social on Thursday, July 29th from 5 - 8 p.m. They did a segment about in on WB2 News this morning. The cake they're having sounds good. I might go--depends on the size of the crowd. That place is always really busy.

Oops, water's boiling. Gotta go.

Current mood: motivated
I went to the "I-225/Colfax Avenue Interchange Environmental Assessment" open house last night to find out what is going on with all of that. Apparently, once the Fitzsimons Redevelopment is completed, there is supposed to be 110,00 trips in and out of the area daily. They expect it to be as busy as people trying to get in and out of downtown Denver.

Although they claim right now that this development will not impact the part of the mobile home park that I live in (as in I need to relocate), it will definitely impact it. They're putting I-225 access ramps at 17th Pl/18th Ave to get have better access to the Fitzsimons area. This will take out several mobile and regular homes there. They're claiming that they only need to relocate six. I don't see how, unless they're claiming all of the mobile homes as one since technically our landlord is the only one that owns it. It will also increase the noise where I live (I've already noticed it's worse than a year and a half ago that we moved here). They're beginning construction in August on a new street called Fitzsimons Parkway that will go around the east and north borders of Fitzsimmons to connect Potomac to 26th/Peoria. This is eventually supposed to connect up with Martin Luther King Blvd to have access to the Stapleton development area. Because of these two major projects, traffic will definitely increase around here. Not to mention the hassles during construction.

If the RTD Fastracks gets approved this November, they want to put a light rail station at Colfax/Potomac (stupid since they tore down the Park-n-Ride that was there not too long ago).

It's no secret that the city of Auroa is trying to eliminate mobile home parks. Anybody who thinks that the city is pouring all of this money into this area only to leave our park alone is dillusional.

Our park is already becoming a ghost town. I think the owner realizes that the days here are numbered. I'm sure someone, if not the city, will offer him a huge chunk of money for that land once the development is closer to completion.

The good news is that the interchange is in a study phase right now. If everything goes well (but when does it ever?), the construction wouldn't begin until sometime in 2008. That's another reason that it will suck around here. The new Children's Hospital is supposed to open in 2007. That gives me less than 4 years to get my shit together and get out of here. I was extremely worried that our landlord could give us the vacate notice at any time here. I think he only has to give us 30 days notice to get out if he ever sold it.

Anyway, click on the little map if you want to get a visual idea of what they're doing over there.

Current mood: annoyed
I'm so pissed at myself. I forgot to take grout into account when I measured under the window and now my little tile pattern doesn't fit. Of course, I don't figure this out until I'm to the window. Damn it! Not quite sure what to do about this. I guess I'll have to talk to Marcus about it this evening. I really wanted all the tiles up to surprise him when he got home. This really sucks!

Well, I finally managed to get the tiles for my backsplash cut. What a pain that was! Wise move going with the cheaper tiles to cut. I felt a little better about wasting $.12 ones instead of the $.70 ones. I might actually finish this before Christmas. Here's what the tile layout will be:



Here's where I've been cutting tiles:



Well, I guess I better get back to it.