Our Neighbor Listens to Terrible Music

But at least it's loud!

We have a crazy neighbor on our floor. He's not immediately next door, we've got another neighbor between us. Even though we share no walls, we hear his terrible music at least every other day. If he's home, and we're in the hallway, we hear it, whether one of us is taking out the trash or we're just waiting for the elevator. We hear it in our apartment somewhat often, too, when the TV isn't too loud or I don't have music playing.

This doesn't bother me at all. We all have our things, you know, and I'm an adult who is pretty easy going in this respect. When in the bedroom, you can't hear the music, and if you're not trying to sleep, what's the big deal? That would be my attitude, anyway, if our neighbor hadn't complained about us (not recently) to the building manager because Monte barks when we're not home. So we've worked to deal with the problem of controlling a dog's behavior when we're nowhere around to do anything about it, but in the meantime our neighbor keeps blasting his music at all hours.

Here's a video I took the night before last where you can hear just how loud the music is from our front door at midnight. I'm whispering in order to be heard, but my mouth is right next to the camera. You can barely hear me next to what he's playing. Ah, city life.

Well This is Horrifying

We got this notice in our mail slot today. What in the world is happening in our apartment complex?!

In other domestic news, we didn't have hot water in our apartment for three days because the building's boiler broke. Boiling water to wash dishes and bathe is challenging but not impossible, and now that the water's back on, I'm really grateful for the luxury of water that's neither frigid nor scalding. Yaaaaaaaaay water!

I'm hoping tonight Chris and I can go out and do something. I know the Art Gallery of Ontario is free on Wednesday nights, but we've been there before. There's also the Textile Museum of Canada, which is "pay what you can" on Wednesday nights, but I don't know how crazy we're going to go over rugs. We'll see.

One last note, this one pertaining to the blog, is that I'm now tracking my media consumption on this page, which you can access by the link right here on this post or on the right side of the blog, where there will be a permanent link that says "Mini-Reviews" or something like that. It's mostly so I can remember books I've read/movies I've seen/whatever because I'm so very forgetful, but maybe someone else is interested in these things. I'm working on summarizing the things I've seen/heard/read in January and February so I can be up to date, but apparently I've seen and heard a lot of stuff, so it's taking a while. Oh well. I'll catch up soonish, I'm sure.