[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Laz116

Easy now. Everything will be allright.

But as I've always said: Nature is evil, not to mention disgusting and unhygienic.

i couldn't agree more.

Originally Posted by Patricia

Zelda, maybe it's time to annoy your landlord by making him do some repairs. Surely you don't have the only faulty window in your building? Maybe several tenants could jointly request that he organises some maintenance?

actually i may well have the only faulty window in the building but perhaps it is time to mention it to him. really bad timing, as i've recently learned he finally made good on his promise to throw the old tenants out (so he can double the rent on their appartements...) and gave an eviction notice to one of my neighbors who lives across the courtyard, she is (was) the oldest tenant and has been here longer than me. my lease expires next june and i was really hoping to lie low until it passed in hopes he forgot about me because i'm afraid my turn is next, and i really can't afford to move right now. also he is possibly the most odious man i know and every time i have to deal with him i come near having an apoplexy from rage.

Originally Posted by Verencat

Oh My! Zelda I hope it doesn't turn into another watery nightmare! Can't you stick something on the window to block the leak until the rain stops? Duct Tape, anything, really..

the last time this happened i discovered that tape does not stick to wet walls / window frames, alas.

the good news is, the storm was very brief this time, it's over already, so there wasn't too much water to clean up. i just can't understand where the hell it's coming from, it makes no sense. i don't think the mastic is at fault (particularly since i redid it. not very well, but well enough i think). and looking at the way the window is constructed it just doesn't seem physically possible for the water to get under there.

now i think i will blame this guy i was going out with for a while, he is one of those people who never thinks before he acts, means well but always ends up doing more harm than good... he thought my window didn't close properly (it did, at the time, but i had it propped open a few cm with a wire to get some air circulation) so one day when i wasn't there "to surprise me" he "fixed" the window with some isolating... foam tape stuff, i don't know what the hell you call it. then, he forced the window closed with the wire still in it. now that i think about this more i am even more astounded because it occurs to me he must have removed the wire to put on the tape, yet it apparently seemed logical to him to put the wire back before closing the window... and the foam already prevented it from closing properly as well. so he managed to force it shut but only the bottom peg was in, the top peg was completely out of the frame, and the window was quite warped (i was away at the time, i didn't see it until 2 weeks later when i came home, plenty of time for the wood to be deformed). i had to ask for help from someone to push on the top of the window to get the peg back in to unwarp it (over a period of *months*). anyway the frame is no longer warped (i hope) but i bet that stupid foam tape is causing problems, and just now when i tried to remove it i discovered that it is nearly impossible, the adhesive is still sticky after all this time (i got it all over my fingers and had to use acetone to get it off) and the foam just shreds into little crumbs when you try to pull it, or compacts down if you try to scrape it off with a spatula. nasty, infernal stuff. arg ! men !!!

Originally Posted by Patricia

We had the flying ants a couple of weeks ago. Today they'd be drowned ants.

thank heavens for small mercies, is that what you're trying to say ? i suppose you're right...