So if you have ever been to our house you have heard stories of Bad Neighbor Kitty. We aren’t quite sure where he lives. He torments our cats by hanging out outside the windows. He torments us by peeing in our yard and knocking stuff over. He torments the neighborhood by sitting in the road and yowling for no reason. It’s a hoot. In that really annoying way. Anyhoo, the other day he caught a bird. One of the birds that lived in our backyard all spring. He saw me pull up and darted into the bushes. The bird just seemed to have bent feathers. I figured he’d be okay, not realizing that it couldn’t fly well, since it managed to fly into our backyard. Well apparently he has been grounded since. Because Richard was out with our cat Coco, who found the bird in the bushes and tried to bring it in the house. Yes, I said he tried to bring it into the house. Ew. So it turns out that Bad Neighbor Kitty has been toying with the mangled bird for the last 2 days because I have heard him yowling in the backyard in the night, and the little bird was clearly much worse off and bleeding.

What do we do? Clearly it’s nature (kinda) taking course. The little bird is at this point in the neighbor’s yard (Richard tried to move him and he managed to fly that far). I don’t think he’s long for this world, and I can hear Bad Neighbor Kitty close by… Yowling. 

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daniel · early evening · say it · ping it

My alarm went off at three. I am up, having coffee, and generally getting ready for work. I went to bed at 9 so it’s not so bad.

Across the street they had a party that is still going on. I can see them across the way…

I hate that. Not that I’d be partying if I were off today. I’d still be asleep. Heh. 

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daniel · terribly early · 3 comments · ping it

So you all know how I bitch endlessly about the little neighbor girls across the way? Well they’ve actually been really super quiet and well behaved lately. Surprisingly so, in fact. Their landlord must have really let them have it after the last incident with the barfing girl at 4 AM.

Anyhoo. This morning afternoon I was getting ready for work when I heard some loud machinery. I looked out to see a woman loading their car onto a tow truck. Looked to be a flat tire. But as I watched the tow woman load it, I saw there was little tire left. It was only torn edges and rim. They had driven the tire right off. You could tell. How did I not hear that pulling in last night? 

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daniel · early afternoon · 1 comment · ping it

Remember those loud sorority girls across the street? Yeah, the loud ones with the poor parking skills… The ones that stayed out all night at bars and/or clubs only to come home really wasted and loud waking the whole block? Well apparently the dress like a skank ass ho and hang out at the sidewalk sale out side the club till 4 AM thing totally worked for them. They have a whole new gig now! The plus side is that they don’t come home at 4 in the morning totally drunk and loud. I mean, it is good to look at the bright side, right?

Some damn bright side… It’s because now they never leave the house. It seems in the many weeks of late night clubbing 2 out of the three have landed themselves some mens! Ooh er! So now they stay in and drink all night and get loud with their boyfriends. This morning, after a sleepless night due to their noise Richard got up at 5 for work. While he was getting ready he noticed that the last light across the way was finally shut off as our very popular neighbor gals ‘called it a night’. Woo! They are busy!

Anyhoo, I think tonight there may be some kind of gathering. It sounds like a party, but mostly guys. Did the new BF’s have their BFFs over to meet the gals? I think there is still one without a man of her own. Maybe they are trying to pimp her out introduce her around. On a Wednesday too. Wow, it sounds like a lot of people! (Where did they all park? /parking police)

Dude, it sounds like I totally have been spying! Dirt! I haven’t, I SWEAR! It’s just that it IS summer, windows are open, and they are THAT LOUD. It’s not like I am sitting at the window with binoculars… Besides, they shut the blinds. I didn’t think they knew how. Maybe there is some drug use happening too. How glam of them! 

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daniel · late at night · 1 comment · ping it

So I go outside to look at the sky. It was 2 AM after all. Just the right time, right? So I am looking blankly at the sky when the neighbors in the next house over drive up. As they are unloading themselves I can tell they are really drunk. Like really drunk, even though no english is spoken. The two guys are all dressed up, and there was a girl that I had not seen before. She was dressed in a very tight black mini-dress. When I say mini I mean mini. Now I ain’t one for spying, so as loud as they were I tried to focus on my night sky. I got my own issues yo.

After a few minutes they got louder and I just couldn’t ignore them. The gal had apparently gone out back. One of the guys had followed. They were arguing in some english and some other language combo. I got the impression that he thought she was gonna be fun, and she wasn’t feeling so fun. Anyhoo. It got quiet after that. Since I wasn’t seeing so much as a spark in the sky, let alone a meteor, I went into the house. I went back up to the den and sat at the computer. It was a few minutes later that I heard the screams through the open window behind me. At least I thought they were screams. They were coming from the same house. The next one over. But I wasn’t sure what I was actually hearing. All of a sudden the music started. It was so loud as to be all distorted by the speakers. I went upstairs to look out a window with a better view of that house. The blinds were drawn, but there were camera flashes. Weird.

It has quieted down now, but there is still a lot of banging and loud voices. Are they just kinky or is someone being injured? I just can’t tell. It’s not even loud enough to make a noise complaint at this point. Maybe it is my imagination. It has been a really bad night for me. Not to mention my sore foot…

Haha, now the sorority gals are home. This ought to be a fun night!

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daniel · the wee hours · 2 comments · ping it

...was amazing. Well, maybe not amazing. It was outstandingly good as well as unique. You see, our neighbors (not the well endowed drug dealer or the asian sorority girls, but the ones behind us that are quite a normal couple) had invited us over for dinner last week. Of course after that we didn’t see them at all. When Tuesday finally rolled around I was convinced that they weren’t home. Top it off with the fact that they hadn’t been out with their dog ALL DAY. I was positive that we were stood up. I didn’t even want to go knock on the door! How embarrassing, to be standing on the stoop with a bottle of wine and get no answer… But I was wrong. Not only were they home, they were dressed all cute and stuff. We were in shorts. Mine were cutoffs. AND they had invited their other gay neighbor. He was dressed well too. I could vex about my poor outfit all night. I thought they weren’t home!! Anyway, so there we were: 3 gays and a straight couple. Believe it or not the conversation flowed easily! It turns out that only Richard and I were ‘new additions’. They had been neighbors with the other guy for a while and had socialized pretty regularly. The dinner was a Raclette style. It’s almost like a fondue, but a grill. You cook your meats, veggies, and cheese on it at the table. Too fun.

And they poured a bit of wine too. No glass was ever dry. My neighbors totally got us drunk. LOL! Actually I think everyone was a bit toasty… But no one was driving and the company was great. Good times!

It did leave me and my boo a bit of a wreck today. We were too tired and moody to do the group SYTYCD viewing. I feel bad about that. But yo. I think I had a hangover. I never get hung over. Heh. The funny part is that my message to Fred was that the neighbors had us up late. True, but not the neighbors I am sure he is thinking of…

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daniel · late at night · 3 comments · ping it

You should hear these new bitches across the street try to take their trash to the curb for pick up. OMG. 

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daniel · the wee hours · 2 comments · ping it

I saw it coming for an hour. The neighbor right next door (not the sorority girls, the ex-football player) had some guests over. Two of the cars were parked in front of our house, one of which was actually in front of the driveway. You just have to imagine where we live. It’s not really a street, but a common driveway that all the houses share. Any miss-parked car is in the way… Anyway, when Richard finally got home he could not get into the garage without driving through the landscaping. Of course he was bitter. I expected that. I did not expect him to lay on his horn and start shouting. The ‘girlfriend’ of the week came out and apologized. She was going to move her car, but Richard sorta laid into her about respect and rules and police and stuff. (Well, we think it was her drunk ass coming over that woke us up at two in the morning!) She went in and got the ex-football player. My heart stopped as I stood at the window listening. I know. I am a wimp. So the man doesn’t actually come out (phew!) but he stood on his balcony and shouted down at my Richard. He started arguing with Richard about the security guards and how they told him it was us reporting him. That really bugs me. Those idiots should NOT share that information. That puts people at risk. As in WE people. The shouting outside continued. They got into respect, rules, contradictions, oil stains, property values, music at noon (?), and other crap until Richard finally came inside.

What a mess. I hate neighbor drama. Nobody wins. Now I am all nervous and stressed out about what the repercussions will be. I mean the man is huge, for one. Also I have found that angry neighbors just get louder and more obnoxious. What ever happened to the good old days. Remember? The days your grandparents would speak of? Back when you used to be able to run next-door and borrow a cup of sugar, use the phone, or get your ball out of their backyard? Nowadays it’s every man for himself. None of our neighbors speak to us or each other, other than to bicker about parking, just like it was when I was growing up. I have been more stressed and irritated by neighbors in my life than any other group of people. That just seems wrong. What if there was an earthquake and one of us was without water? Would we just continue to ignore each other or fight?

What a sad existence. I think I finally understand people that live on enormous farms with no neighbors for miles. 

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daniel · early evening · 6 comments · ping it

The ones across the street. They are going to be a problem. I can already tell. All four of them.

Richard told me that after being unable to back out of our garage due to their parking in the street he went over and introduced himself. Then apparently he told them about the parking challenges and towing and such. Hmm. Welcome to the neighborhood right? So tonight as I am FTPing a recent backup of my blog just in case and all, I could hear those girls outside. Good lawd they are loud! Was I that loud at that age? Anyway, one of them said in an obviously sarcastic and deep voice to her friend ‘If you are going to park here you need to pull in as far as possible.’ Then they all giggled.

I mean yeah, Richard should probably have not played Parking Police so early in the game. And yeah, I admit I am being paranoid. How the hell do I know what they were really talking about? Maybe it’s an inside joke about the friends inability to park correctly. But still.

My gut says that those girls are an issue. Sorority girls, condos, football players, and potential drug dealing mixed in with a few moody queens and noisy Bollywood parties?? This doesn’t bode well. 

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daniel · late at night · 3 comments · ping it

Okay, so remember when I told you that the neighbors across the street moved out? Well yeah, the back story is that the prior resident’s (the college kids, well one of them) mother retained ownership. The last folk were renters. Well the house has been empty the past few days. The carpets were cleaned, but the maid service hadn’t come yet. We figured it’d be empty for a bit, ‘For Rent’ signs posted and all that. Right?

Well, we come home tonight after work and there are candles lit in there. In the dim light we can make out people and furniture. At the very least there is a couch. I figured that the college kids were having a party. Makes sense, they probably still have keys and stuff, to keep watch since mom lives across country or something… Except for the part that from what we can tell these folks look different. The age seems close though.... Hmm. New people. Do we have new neighbors already? If so, why don’t they have power? Why were they up so late? Why were they so loud? Why did that car come by and park in the middle of the street?

These are questions that need answers. Maybe this weekend we will know more. I am still hoping for a nice lesbian couple. Seriously. I fear I may not be getting my wish. I hope that whoever they are, they are at least hawt. 

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daniel · the wee hours · say it · ping it