October 13:
Power Builder:
- taking a break to heal minor injuries
1000 Calf Raises: Day 13
yoga:
meditation:
running:
hiking: 12.5 km
wellness workouts:
writing: short story
new fiction words: 2104
fiction YTD: 133,757
story-a-week challenge: 39 of 52 completed
54 stories in my 54th year challenge: 39 of 54 completed
new consumable words: ?
consumable YTD: ?
target YTD for 2024 words a day in 2024: 580,888
deficit: ?
French: Fluenz, CBC Gem
GOBOT
SOOT
GBOT
Streaks:
Consecutive days of working out: 35
Consecutive days of French study: 1427
Consecutive days of no solo video games: 23
Consecutive days of SOOT: 0
Consecutive days of GBOT: 0
Move-in progress: Did some moving things into the right general areas, filling up storage spaces without organizing them properly. Which I don't like to do. It will result in the apartment looking put together sooner, but mean it takes me a lot longer to actually organize things the way I want. It was necessary this day though, as my landlord's property manager had messaged me to say the maintenance guy was coming around to do some repairs. She at least told me the day before in this case, but wrote, "I'm not sure exactly at what time."
Landlords here aren't required to tell a tenant "exactly at what time" they or their agents will be visiting the unit. But they are required to make a reasonable effort to inform the tenant in advance of the time of entry. (Because of the "reasonable effort" clause, there is no hard and fast rule on the length of time window the landlord must specify. Most professional contractors will give a window of 4 hours, so it is generally considered "reasonable" for the landlord to inform their tenants of this same 4 hour window. On the other hand, it is not acceptable for the landlord to just say "sometime during the day".) I wrote back to the property manager asking her, "Do you have a ballpark time for when [the maintenance guy] is going to be here?" Her reply: "Unfortunately I don't."
In other words, the whole "I'm not sure exactly at what time" line was total bullshit. These people are not making any effort whatsoever to respect my legal right to notice of entry. I want the work to get done though. So I told her I would allow the guy entry after noon. This effectively gave him an 8 hour window in which he could show up. (Landlords and their agents are not allowed inside a tenant's private unit after 8PM or before 8AM.) It also meant I had to spend a good chunk of my morning:
- clearing everything out of my hallway--since the maintenance guy was supposedly coming to fix the washing machine, which lives in what should be a closet in the hallway
- clearing everything out of the refrigerator door shelves on one side and cramming these items onto the already crowded main shelves in my refrigerator (which has precious little useful space since the landlord installed a refrigerator with a chilled water dispenser and automatic ice-maker in a location where these features cannot possibly function because there is no water supply to the unit)--since the maintenance guy was supposedly coming to fix the refrigerator door which isn't hung properly and therefore isn't closing properly
- hauling my big cooler out of storage (which required me to largely unpack and then repack a rather large closet) in case I needed to empty my freezer--because it should be a frost-free model but is building up ice at an alarming rate, and the maintenance guy is supposed to be fixing that too
- ensuring that all of my radiators are accessible--since the shut off valve on every single one of them is stuck, and the maintenance guy is supposed to be fixing that
It also meant:
- I could not do laundry all day
- food prep was limited and a pain in the arse due to the situation with the refrigerator and also not being able to get into any particularly involved projects because the kitchen is tiny and there wouldn't have been room for me to work in their while the maintenance guy was working on the fridge
- I could not have a nap (and I really needed one. I was brain dead tired after waking up too early that morning and not being able to get back to sleep again afterward)
Such are the inconveniences of living in rental housing. But they are meant to at least result in repairs actually being done in a timely fashion.
In this case, however, the maintenance guy failed to show up.
After asking me to "please be flexible" and allow this guy entry whenever he happened to pop around, he frakking failed to show at all.
Colour me enormously unimpressed.
Also: ask me how "flexible" I'll be the next time this crew attempts to get me to waive my rights under the law.
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