more mail

CHIPS (and a coke)!!

...delivered straight to my door! These were here for 11 days.

these little guys are so cute!

TRASH DAY!

Today, my neighbor hauled 3 giant bags to the dumpster. This removal occurred over the course of nearly a month, resting in staging areas in the upstairs hallway, then at the base of the stairs.

I arrived just in time to see the final steps, 3 bags, followed by a light sprinkle of the hose. I caught these pictures with my crappy phone camera, hence the hazy glow (i.e. not resulting from an emanating cleanliness).

Appreciation

Let's all take a moment to pay tribute to something so easily overlooked due to its hulking presence, its longevity, its crossing over into "furniture" status:

The BIGSCREEN television.

For the last several months, this furniture has served as a surface for the depositing of many other items: cleaners, varnish, meals, recyclables, mails, home improvement. By far, the best growth was the smaller television set which has been perched up top for nearly as long as the base itself.

so close

this stick (see March 23) made it all the way from the hallway, down the stairs, and almost into this trash can.

!!!

Wall E?

here is where this went

a few hangups

i think he is dead now.

a few of the many things surviving a good hosing down

some updates

that was interesting

COCKROACH LIVES ?!?

Did this fall out of...

a mouth? a bottom? a tree?

if pictures could record record smells, this would be quite expressive

window display

Burger King

McDonald's 2 days later

McDonald's

socks so dirty they become trash

early last week, socks do not make it to apartment

These letters have moved from the edge of the sideways table (last week) to the floor behind the sideways table. They made their way to the upstairs hallway from where the mail is delivered. They are addressed to former tenants and will never be claimed by anyone.

boba straw?

pile moves under trashbag

and again

trash inside trash

ice cream man drops himself, trow

For 2 days, from 10:30AM-12:30PM, this man took refuge here at the foot of the stairs leading to my apartment, sleeping soundly despite the noise and vibration generated by the loud compressor he was leaning against.

This could have gone on for days without any cause for concern. However, when I rounded the corner to head up the stairs, we made eye contact while he was peeing on the base of the stairway. It was wierd for both of us. I have not seen him since.

1 more stick appears. and poopy.

safety

week of april 6 - The Season's FIRST COCKROACH

So, the morning of April 6, I woke up to find a 2-3 inch cockroach sitting here at the hallway entrance (Fig. A). He or she was quite despondent, slowly moving its legs and wings. In the background and alongside this are many of the articles found in previous posts, including some very large bags of trash.

Around 8pm, it was still there, and as I was about to document this, my neighbor stepped out of his apartment door (left). I was torn between the interest in the accrual of blog-featured droppings and the disinterest of finding one of these in my soup. I asked him if he'd mind throwing out the large trash bags in the hallway as cockroaches tend to be attracted to garbage. He said, "Cockroaches like the trash?" and seemed genuinely surprised by the connection.

Then, he stepped on it and kicked it over here (Fig B, C), 3 feet out the door into the corner of the stairway and said "here, no more problem," clearly believing this was true.

The next day, the cockroach was still moving around. Also found on this day, ironically, a bottle of cockroach killer (Fig D).

A. B.

C. D.