{"id":1447,"date":"2005-10-20T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/friendly_neighb\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:24:50","slug":"friendly_neighb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/friendly_neighb\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Neighborhood Wall-Crawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I really like<\/strong> about the Cracker Factory<\/a> is the privacy. It\u2019s got thick concrete floors and brick walls (mostly), so I don\u2019t hear my neighbors (much \u2014 although the guy upstairs using the power saw at midnight recently is a notable exception). I have big windows, but they don\u2019t face anything except some abandoned buildings across the street (one under renovation, in case anyone wants to be my neighbor eventually), so no one can really see inside and play Peeping Tom.<\/p>\n

Except for the guys who showed up on scaffolding outside my big, curtainless windows this morning. I guess they\u2019re sealing the exterior brick, judging by the fumes and the paint rollers. That\u2019s awfully nice to see (the Swanktuary had many charms, but the landlord\u2019s attention to the health of the building itself was not one of them), but it\u2019s very, very<\/i> unnerving to turn around and see two guys suddenly appear outside my second-story windows. My desk faces away from the window, so it\u2019s a creepy feeling to have them watching my back while they putter around. Granted, it makes me focus on my work, like having the boss stand behind you urging you to be productive, but still…<\/p>\n

Of course, those guys are my new best friends, and not just because they saw me in my underwear this morning. (Are you jealous?) No, just as I started thinking about this entry they tapped on the window to offer to fix my heater, with which they noticed me struggling this morning. So now I have heat, waterproof exterior walls, and two new friends who speak Russian and look like the Super Mario Brothers. Awesomeness! (No sarcasm there, by the way \u2014 it\u2019s awesomeness!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I really like about the Cracker Factory is the privacy. It\u2019s got thick concrete floors and brick walls (mostly), so I don\u2019t hear my neighbors (much \u2014 although the guy upstairs using the power saw at midnight recently is a notable exception). I have big windows, but they don\u2019t face anything … Continue reading “Friendly Neighborhood Wall-Crawlers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76988,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/76988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}