jrtom | you want me to _what

From the management of my (campus) apartment complex:

Housing in conjunction with the campus is retrofitting all of the buildings in the original Palo Verde community (1100 to 6300 buildings) to have them conform to the current code for earthquake safety. This is a notice that as part of the seismic upgrade project, we will need to gain access to your apartment during the hours of 8:00am to 5:00pm starting on Tuesday 5-31-05 through Tuesday 6-7-05. We request that you make arrangements to be out of your apartment during the work hours. The impact on you will be the need for you to be out of the apartment during construction times.

This is not simply my home--which would be reason enough to suggest that they find a way, without booting me out, to do what they should have done when they built the apartment, about a decade ago--but my place of work. On top of that, it's where my three-month-old son lives. I can just imagine me packing up my computer* and research materials every day and taking them down, with Corwin in tow, to a local coffee shop, and parking myself there for 9 hours. For over a week. With two major deadlines during that time, for icing on the cake.

Yeah, right.

I've already sent a more diplomatically phrased version of the above to the folks in charge; we'll see what they say. I'm tempted to wonder what happens if I just tell them that I'm not leaving. (After all, they did phrase it as a "request" . . . )

*Yes, I have a laptop. It's even a pretty good laptop. But it hasn't sufficient horsepower and memory to run the models I need to run for my research; that's why I bought the desktop machine...which is not small.

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One wonders how exactly one "retrofits" a structure for earthquake compliance without doing massive damage to the facade in the process.

On reflection, the request that the tenant be absent during the work may be for the protection of the tenant's sanity.

i have a condo you can move your computer to and hang out for w/ corwin for a week....

t.

(not like i'll be there....)

It may be that it is unhealthy for you to be there during their work time. But then, one wonders why you would be allowed to go home to sleep there. Perhaps they will work with you. Either way, good luck.

I still remember the four days at St. John's without electricity or running water. The toilets were vile.

Inconvienience come in many forms. Ugh. landlords.

find out what the actua deal is, why they need you where. and don't talk tothe guy in charge, just talk to a grunt or two. i bet they'll need you to be out of your place like one day, they just blanket the whole thing.

That's a good idea. Unfortunately, my understanding is that they're bringing in contractors to do the work, and I don't have direct access to them as I would the local maintenance folks. (I didn't post the entire message I received, but the work involves knocking a hole in our kitchen wall pursuant to doing some anti-earthquake reinforcement.)

Megan points out that we also have three cats that, presumably, they'd like to be elsewhere as well. (And if they're not, they're likely to freak out.) *sigh*

I like the icon, by the way. Is that your work?

i actually meant the contractors when they start the work. the whole hole in the kitchen thing sounds like good news, cause realistically they aren't going to do that everyday, so talk to the guys after they show up and find out when *they* need you out, vs the bureaucrats from the college.

the icon is a picture i took at the chinese tea garden in portland.

you want me to _what_?

One wonders...

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you know, talk to the actual workers

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