last night in the shire

we're moving tomorrow to our phat new place in the inman park village.

will not miss the vermin-infested hellhole that katie and jen have had for the last year.

their landlord is a dick. to protect his privacy, i'll just say that his initials are jim elasmar. he is the worst landlord ever. i expect this house to be condemned pretty soon. some examples of why he sucks:

• rats are found. he refuse to call an exterminator. instead, he lays some home made traps.
• cockroaches are constantly crawling around. same story. refuses to call an exterminator.
  
• rat dies inside the walls. the smell is atrocious. he suggests "waiting for it to decompose. then the smell will go away." (this happens several times, including once in the dead heat of august).
• different small animal is found crawling in the woodworks and the kitchen. will not call exterminator or pest control. instead, drops off article about how said animal is known to be "friendly."
  
• water leaks through the roof into the family room ever time it rains. he nails some more shingles to the room and applies spackle and paint to the ceiling. surprisingly, this approach fails to actually fix the leak.
• decides to "spruce up" the place by painting the railing in the driveway. ignores the fact that the wood is rotting. does not apply primer to the wood. just paints directly on it. halfway through, decides, for whatever reason, to quit. now we have a half-painted, rotted railing in the front yard. it looks sweet.