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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

LeafOfFaith said:
Best to keep him winless in the playoffs to make him even hungrier to join the Leafs as soon as he can.
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Also the day Zeke that will spew out numbers that show McJesus is better than Lemieux and Gretzky combined. He and Jer will finally be BFFs.
 
CH1 said:
Also the day Zeke that will spew out numbers that show McJesus is better than Lemieux and Gretzky combined. He and Jer will finally be BFFs.
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Also surprisingly and discreetly the most defensively responsible forward in the league who was brought down by bad systems and teammates.
 
Habsy said:
Pretty good defenseman there though
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What were those noise canceling earbuds you said were good again? Was it Bose Quiet Comfort II, and did you use them for sleeping because it seems they protrude too far out if a side sleeper? Seems they make alternative sleep buds more specifically for users looking to just use it for sleep and not music.

Anyone else use a noise canceling sleep product they like?
 
LeafOfFaith said:
What were those noise canceling earbuds you said were good again? Was it Bose Quiet Comfort II, and did you use them for sleeping because it seems they protrude too far out if a side sleeper? Seems they make alternative sleep buds more specifically for users looking to just use it for sleep and not music.

Anyone else use a noise canceling sleep product they like?
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is this related to the ongoing noise in your condo? any update there?
 
Wayward DP said:
is this related to the ongoing noise in your condo? any update there?
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Fucking nightmare. I just can’t seem to be able to resolve it. I finally wrestled the damn HOA board to approve the repair when their final demand was to have a call with the contractor to ask “very important” questions - they had the quote and all the info since November but demanded the call in March, and it took them a full month to coordinate it because three retired fucks couldn’t get their schedules to work. Then we have the call - which lasted 7 minutes - during which their one question was “how is the repair going to be performed?” And so the contractor just read them the info on the quote they had in their hands for 5 months and they were satisfied.

So I get the contractor to come out a few weeks ago. Day one, they mostly reinstalled a couple of the condensers. When we test at the end of the day, no difference. Their boss tells me to just be patient, let them finish the job fully, there’s still some work to be done to the connecting pipes. Day two, they get 95% done, we test, and voila, it’s probably 80% improved. Only the area where the pipes come down the wall still buzzes, but it doesn’t reach the bedroom. Day three, they come to finish up and make final adjustments - and something they did undoes the improvement and we’re back to square one, as bad as ever.

The boss comes out to see what’s wrong a few days later and he says he has some ideas for why things went wrong and sends out the workers the next day to adjust again. It’s only been a few days now, but it seems maybe they got it to like 70% better again. Still not perfect, and I believe there’s something wrong structurally in the building that may make it impossible to fully fix. But these are the condensers right above my stack.

Latest development is that in the past two years that I’ve basically not been here, the condensers for the stack down the hall - not directly above me, but just a bit further over, on the same side of the building - have deteriorated to the point where they’re as bad as the ones above me. I slept like 3 hours last night because of two of them that were on basically all night. I don’t know how anyone else is sleeping through the noise they make - sort of this in the background whirring, humming that pulses - so I think it must be some defect in the walls or ceiling of my unit.

The only answer is full replacement of these shit condensers that have prematurely worn down. But there’s no chance in hell I could win that battle, and no energy left to fight it anyway. So I have two options. Find some noise canceling earbuds to temporarily tide me over. Or pay a contractor to fuck with the offending condensers to have them burn out and require replacement. Although I say “or”, I actually mean “and”, so I’ll need to get on that.

The permanent fix is to sell and move but there’s been no worse time for that than the past year and a half, where interest rates have skyrocketed and inventory has plummeted. Until an opportunity arises, the only other choice would be to leave and rent somewhere- and pay 3x my monthly mortgage in rent, and have to rent out the place and risk that the tenant isn’t equally tortured by the sound and have a problem there. Or sell it for whatever the market gives me and go rent a place for 3x more and say fuck it, the injustice of which is so far too painful to absorb.
 
leafman101 said:
Don’t you just sue or shoot someone to fix the problem? I thought this was Murica?
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Believe me, there are times the thought of murder crosses your mind. Like when the workers were here on the third day and the old lady who is the central figure on the out of term Board, who has stood in the way of the repair, bursts onto the roof to yell about why there’s so much noise for the past hour up there. For the past hour, one day, at 11 am. Meanwhile, she basically evicted me from my home for two years because of a 24 hour a day noise problem that they’re there trying to fix.

Once I get the problem as resolved as I can possibly get it, I’m going to sue her straight into her coffin.
 
maybe you're hypersensitive to electromagnetic fields?

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LeafOfFaith said:
Believe me, there are times the thought of murder crosses your mind. Like when the workers were here on the third day and the old lady who is the central figure on the out of term Board, who has stood in the way of the repair, bursts onto the roof to yell about why there’s so much noise for the past hour up there. For the past hour, one day, at 11 am. Meanwhile, she basically evicted me from my home for two years because of a 24 hour a day noise problem that they’re there trying to fix.

Once I get the problem as resolved as I can possibly get it, I’m going to sue her straight into her coffin.
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oh man, the irony is so delicious.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Fucking nightmare. I just can’t seem to be able to resolve it. I finally wrestled the damn HOA board to approve the repair when their final demand was to have a call with the contractor to ask “very important” questions - they had the quote and all the info since November but demanded the call in March, and it took them a full month to coordinate it because three retired fucks couldn’t get their schedules to work. Then we have the call - which lasted 7 minutes - during which their one question was “how is the repair going to be performed?” And so the contractor just read them the info on the quote they had in their hands for 5 months and they were satisfied.

So I get the contractor to come out a few weeks ago. Day one, they mostly reinstalled a couple of the condensers. When we test at the end of the day, no difference. Their boss tells me to just be patient, let them finish the job fully, there’s still some work to be done to the connecting pipes. Day two, they get 95% done, we test, and voila, it’s probably 80% improved. Only the area where the pipes come down the wall still buzzes, but it doesn’t reach the bedroom. Day three, they come to finish up and make final adjustments - and something they did undoes the improvement and we’re back to square one, as bad as ever.

The boss comes out to see what’s wrong a few days later and he says he has some ideas for why things went wrong and sends out the workers the next day to adjust again. It’s only been a few days now, but it seems maybe they got it to like 70% better again. Still not perfect, and I believe there’s something wrong structurally in the building that may make it impossible to fully fix. But these are the condensers right above my stack.

Latest development is that in the past two years that I’ve basically not been here, the condensers for the stack down the hall - not directly above me, but just a bit further over, on the same side of the building - have deteriorated to the point where they’re as bad as the ones above me. I slept like 3 hours last night because of two of them that were on basically all night. I don’t know how anyone else is sleeping through the noise they make - sort of this in the background whirring, humming that pulses - so I think it must be some defect in the walls or ceiling of my unit.

The only answer is full replacement of these shit condensers that have prematurely worn down. But there’s no chance in hell I could win that battle, and no energy left to fight it anyway. So I have two options. Find some noise canceling earbuds to temporarily tide me over. Or pay a contractor to fuck with the offending condensers to have them burn out and require replacement. Although I say “or”, I actually mean “and”, so I’ll need to get on that.

The permanent fix is to sell and move but there’s been no worse time for that than the past year and a half, where interest rates have skyrocketed and inventory has plummeted. Until an opportunity arises, the only other choice would be to leave and rent somewhere- and pay 3x my monthly mortgage in rent, and have to rent out the place and risk that the tenant isn’t equally tortured by the sound and have a problem there. Or sell it for whatever the market gives me and go rent a place for 3x more and say fuck it, the injustice of which is so far too painful to absorb.
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sounds frustrating. my grandmother sits on the board of her condo, which just got out of arbitration with a tenant about repairs to the building's parking membrane. fucking condos, dunno that you'll ever convince me to live in one anytime before I'm 60.

did the HOA agree to cover the cost in the end?

anyways, sounds like you need to gtfo your condo. is the LA market that bad? we're trying to buy in Hali and keep getting outbid even when we come in over asking. fucking secret is out, damn Upper Canadians.
 
Feyd said:
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I was there and things got ugly. Refs got pelted with debris, full cans of beer, etc. they had to stay close to the glass and run down the tunnel to keep from getting hit. It was a bullshit call for an overtime penalty but the refs did their job: they kept the team from the big US television market in the game.

Even the radio post game show, which was being done from the beer garden in the arena lobby, got spicy as upset fans started with the shenanigans. Apparently, Rogers Place isn't one of those arenas that cuts off beer sales after the second period. Young drunkards in my section were still bringing in fresh beers and cocktails for the start of the overtime.

And of course, because it's Berta, someone yelled "FUCK TRUDEAU!" during the national anthem.
 

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