The Daily Chase
Daily Photo Posted by kitt at 07:20 on 13 January 2016
So, I've been walking Chase a number of times in the last few weeks. He manages to get into these odd contorted positions when he pees. His poopin' pose is pretty standard, though.
Superman vs Batman
Daily Photo Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 01:11 on 11 January 2016
Some People You Can't Reach
Blog Instead of being asleep at 21:15 on 10 January 2016, kitt created this:
[7:43]
May I rant for a moment? Pretty please?
[7:44]
Tenant signs a lease that says no dogs. They move in. 6 months later, “Can we get a dog?” I answer, “No.” Six month later, “Can we get a dog?” I answer, “No.” 8 months later, they get a dog, but don’t tell me or the property manager WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TO THEM.
[7:45]
They had been taking the dog out the opposite side of the house from the property manager. Because, right, SHE WOULD NEVER FIND OUT, RIGHT?
[7:45]
So, a month in, my parents, WHO LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TENANT, notice the dog, mention to the property manager, who goes over and confronts her. Tenant asks if she can keep the dog, it's only temporarily, it’s her dad’s dog. Her dad's sister committed suicide.
[7:46]
I wait until after Christmas, because I’m a nice person, then give her a 10 days notice to cure (get rid of the dog) or vacate. I also send over a lease addendum where they can pay increased rent and increased deposit and keep the dog.
[7:46]
She freaks.
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Due date is today. She hasn’t told anyone (me or the property manager) what they chose.
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So, I text, “You need to tell us what you decide. No choice is a continuation of the lease, and you are financially responsible for the remaining months."
[7:47]
BOOM.
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“This is your fault. You made us move."
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“You forced this on us! You made a family move in the middle of winter!"
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To which I respond, “Oh, you’re moving out. Thank you for letting us know your choice."
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“This wasn’t our choice. You told us to move out."
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“I gave you 3 choices. 1. Get rid of the dog. 2. Move out. 3. Pay increased rent. You are saying you are choosing to move out. Thank you for letting us know your choice."
[7:49]
“We didn’t choose this. You forced us."
Which is to say, there are some people you can't reach. For some people, they are never at fault, it is always someone else's fault. They are incapable of taking personal responsibility for their own actions. The tenant CHOSE to violate the lease, chose to move out rather than fix the violation, then claims it is the landlord's fault because the landlord asked her to fix the situation or pay for the change in the situation.
This kind of people I will never fully understand.
I feel sorry for her kids.
I feel sorry for the society around her.
I feel sorry for the people she calls friends.
I feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with this woman.
Deleted: 114953 messages
Blog Instead of being asleep at 13:53 on 10 January 2016, kitt created this:Apparently, this is what happens when spammers use your domain for sending out spam, and receiving domains don't, at a minimum, check the SPF records (looking at you, aol.com).
root@mail:/var/mail# postsuper -d ALL deferred postsuper: Deleted: 114953 messages root@mail:/var/mail#
Of course, what I have learned with this, and the 7G of mail log files, is that I need better monitoring of my mail servers. That these 114953 emails had 4 days of delivery attempts and I didn't notice is, well, really not a good thing.
Sigh.
# qshape
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TOTAL 20000 0 0 0 171 75 60 413 771 1423 17087
nonf.at 19998 0 0 0 171 75 60 413 771 1423 17085
free.fr 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
uwclub.net 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Of note, http://mxtoolbox.com/ seems good at starting the SPF diagnosis.
No, I Don't Have New Year's Resolutions.
Blog Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 11:19 on 10 January 2016JLF asked me late last year (just now cleaning out my personal inbox), "Do you have any new year's resolutions?"
In a word, "No."
In a long-winded, likely disorganized post, no, I don't have new year's resolutions.
I used to make new year's resolutions. "This year is going to be different!" I'd say, "This year I am going to be exactly the person I want to be!" I'd say. "This year, I'm doing to do these 20 things differently!" I'd say.
I was delusional. My resolutions lasted as long as other people's resolutions, which is to say, maybe a week? Two weeks? Three if I REALLY wanted to do a particular thing I had resolved to do.
I'd do this year after year. Same behaviour. Same failure.
About 8 years ago or so, I came across my stash of previous years' new year's resolutions, along with the Ben-Lisa-Kris-Kitt lists of yearly predictions, and realized my list was the same every year. What is the point of having the same resolutions year after year, starting on some arbitrary date? What is the point of saying, I SHALL CHANGE, then never do it?
So, I stopped making new year's resolutions.
And resolutions in general.
Over the subsequent few years, I've shifted away from resolutions to goals. Things I want to accomplish. Things I want to do, to experience, to change.
I've shifted away from GIANT CHANGES to incremental changes. I don't need to (and, in reality, usually can't) make huge changes to improve my life. Small ones, however, made consistently, can be HUGE over time.
I've shifted away from starting at some date in the future to starting now. Harry's "... when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible" doesn't work just for epic declarations of love, it works for every change you want to make.
I've shifted away from relying on will-power to developing habits. Will power goes only so far, habits will carry you forever on inertia alone.
So, I no, I have no new year's resolutions. Instead, I have a lifetime of change.