Sep. 17th, 2007

silverthorne: Painting of a cougar sneaking through underbrush (Default)
So, yeah. Last week was the week of pizza, salsa and chips, weird sleep patterns and exercise that was far less intensive than usual (typically 30-40 mins verses the usual 45 to an hour-and-a-half, and slow to boot). I should have either stayed the same weight or (more likely) gained some back, right?

Uh...no, actually.

I'm down to 196. Somehow, I lost three pounds. O.o

I don't get it. Mind you, I'm not going to complain, but I just don't get it...

On OJ...

Sep. 17th, 2007 11:53 am
silverthorne: (Book Bunny)
Honestly? All I can think about with the most current news on him is "Gee, just in time to remind everyone he's out there. You know, in case we'd all forgotten about him."

I got bored of it the first time he was all over the news a mere two weeks in. My tolerance with each 'new exposure' has lessened accordingly. I don't even really care if he's guilty or not, and what charges he's up on.

If he's guilty and you have the proof, just do it all right this time and put him where he belongs for it. If not, likewise get it over with and finish it out. Either way, although I know it's impossible, I'd like to avoid having to see him plastered all over the place again for some stupid goings-on, 'kay?
silverthorne: (Dark Neon Flame)
Where I moved, it is typically quiet, laid back, and so forth. Even the kids are not that loud (or don't seem that way), and you can go for hours with it being pretty much as dead quiet as someplace with twenty or so air conditioning units ringing the outskirts of each building can get.

Night time is, or was, as quiet if not more so. Usually, once the sun goes down, the most noise originates from evening swimmers in the pool area, or folks going into the pool area to get a coke out of the machine located there (IE: I can hear the gate to the area open and shut with clarity). Not much seemed to happen around here--at least not much ugly.

For the past two weeks, though, I've heard several fights start outside. As far as I can tell, so far it's been pretty much verbal, but it's loud, tends to travel all over the complex area, and sometimes gets to the point where, depending on the participants' natures, could degenerate into something violent, and possibly deadly. Most of it seems to be what cops would euphemistically label as 'domestic'. Once or twice, the fight was between two men that were getting into the whole verbal posturing of 'you talking to me?'. Usually, though, it seems to be man/woman, or, tonight, woman/woman with a child in tow.

It seems silly, but when these fights start up, my instinct is to head for the bathroom and put at least a couple of walls between me and the well-windowed south side of my apartment. For those of you who have seen pics, you can probably understand why. I'm on the ground floor, and glass makes a poor shield. And the disadvantage of being right across from the mailboxes is that I'm on the last leg of the exit to the parking lot. I keep an ear out, especially if I hear kids, both to keep track of whether or not it seems like weaponry and/or violence is getting involved (so I can call the cops quickly), or so, god forbid, I can be available to grab someone out of a situation and lock them inside with me if that's the only (extremely slim) succor that can be gotten for them.

It's damn scary, and I'm wondering what got this started up lately.

Ah well...life in the 'burbs, eh? :P

And crap, they're back. And still fighting. :/

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