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Sun, 30 Sep 2007
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Its 5am my time, and I've been awake since 3am. Not from choice though -- its the downstairs neighbours waking us up yet again. They're shift workers you see, and must either sleep with construction hearing protection on, or be deaf. Either way, they seem to think its ok to stand outside our apartment at shout at each other at 2am, or slam doors at all hours, or listen to music so loud it vibrates stuff in our apartment basically all night.
We've asked them nicely to turn it down (we used to get on quite well with them at first). We've asked the complex to please do something. We even rung the complex security folk when its happening, and asked for some peace. Its really done nothing to help -- they perhaps turn the music down for 30 minutes until security leaves, and then turn it right back on again.
So, we've run out of ideas, apart from ending the lease early (which will cost an unknown amount of money), and moving somewhere else. We're so serious about doing that that I have started looking around Craigslist already.
Perhaps the floor between apartments is too thin, because the bathroom fans this neighbour leaves on for literally days at a time also vibrates things in the apartment, but either way I think Central Park has pretty much failed to provide us with a livable apartment. We don't want a lot, just some peace after 10pm like the complex rules say we should get.
Grumpy.
Tags for this post: travel( ) usa( ) california( ) mountainview( )
posted at: 05:08 | path: /travel/usa/california/mountainview | permanent link to this entry
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007
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Mon, 25 Dec 2006
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Sat, 16 Dec 2006
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Thu, 23 Nov 2006
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Thu, 16 Nov 2006
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To celebrate a recent launch the team went out to an "adult arcade" called Dave and Busters today. An adult arcade is pretty much what it sounds like -- imagine a huge collection of arcade games, pool tables, bar, and restaurant. I of course had the most American thing I could find, which was a double cheese burger. It was sufficiently huge that I didn't really have dinner, just a light snack.
Dave and Busters was cool, and I recommend having a look if you ever see one of them. The food is generic, but of a reasonable quality and quite cheap compared to what you would pay in Australia. The games are expensive, but given I have basically never been to an arcade in Australia I don't know if that is run for the course or not.
I had fun, and I suspect that James with his fifty fluid ounces of Guinness did too. Oh, thats 1.47867648 liters by the way.
Tags for this post: travel( ) usa( ) california( ) santaclara( )
posted at: 22:14 | path: /travel/usa/california/santaclara | permanent link to this entry
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Sun, 05 Nov 2006
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Wed, 09 Aug 2006
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Mon, 24 Apr 2006
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One thing I think that Canberra really lacks is a light rail system. My travels over the last few years have made me realize that one of the things that makes a city a great place to live is a good light rail system. The first one of these systems that I saw was in Washington DC / Virginia, and it was great -- clean, fast, on time, cheap, and it went everywhere I wanted to go. San Francisco's BART is similar, except that it's a little too slow because it has to travel a lot further.
London's tube is a contender as well, although I would argue there that it's too expensive (everything in London is too expensive), and is dirty. Oh, and there is something disheartening about dudes with bombs trying to make you enjoy the train ride less.
The Silicon Valley VTA system is great too. My ride to the MySQL User's Conference made me write this post, I hadn't used the train system really until then. I'd caught the Caltrain to SFO once, but the Caltrain isn't really light rail in my mind, and is nowhere near as nice as the VTA light rail. The ride to the conference to my place costs $1.75 (in fact, unlimited rides for two hours is $1.75), my kids travel for free, and the train trip is on a single line and takes 25 minutes for something which would take me about 30 minutes to drive if I included finding parking at both ends.
VTA, don't go changing. You rock.
Tags for this post: travel( ) usa( ) california( )
posted at: 08:26 | path: /travel/usa/california | permanent link to this entry
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Thu, 20 Apr 2006
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Tue, 21 Mar 2006
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Wed, 15 Feb 2006
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Sun, 05 Feb 2006
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Sun, 29 Jan 2006
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Tue, 03 Jan 2006
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Sun, 20 Nov 2005
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Sat, 19 Nov 2005
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So, Andrew and I arrive in Santa Clara from Canberra yesterday. It took about 24 hours of travelling, and a lot of queueing to make that happen, but we're here finally. I must admit I'm really liking things so far, I was a bit worried about the expense of rent until we went and saw am apartment complex this morning, and I'm not worried about that now.
The mall is nice (the local one that is), the temporary apartment is nice (photos soon), and the rental car is crap, but that's ok.
On a musical note I only just recently discovered the Black Eyes Peas, so I picked up Elephunk this morning. Damn that's a good album -- it's rare for me to find a disc that I like every track on, but this is one of them.
Anyways, here. Alive. In Santa Clara for now. Must wander off now...
Tags for this post: travel( ) usa( ) california( ) santaclara( )
posted at: 16:17 | path: /travel/usa/california/santaclara | permanent link to this entry
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