Cool Kids and Nice People

Some girl just knocked persistently on my front door. I opened it. She shoved a white card into my hand and screamed "Have a nice day!!!" while dashing off down the stairs. Scarcely had I closed the door when a different girl started knocking on it. I opened it, and she shoved another white card into my hand, screamed "Have a nice day!!!" and again dashed off down the stairs.

The cards are business cards for a local health care clinic. However, the typed business card sides have been scribbled over with green marker, and the reverse sides have been redecorated as the "business cards" below. Apparently it's very, very important to spread the word that three girls named Christina, Nataliya and Ella are "Cool Kids" and "Nice People." So I'm just passing along this important information.



On the other hand, next time you're in the market for businesses specializing in "Cool Kids" and "Nice People," please do remember that one of the three is apparently not sufficiently dedicated to the success of this business to come and knock on my door for yet a third time. And everybody knows that no proper American business can hope to make it big if they only barge into the privacy of your home to inflict their self-promotional advertising on you twice during a single dinnertime.

Broken Sprinkler Pictures

At random but rather frequent times, random sprinklers throughout my apartment complex abruptly cease sprinkling in their usual manner (small drops, widely spread horizontally, no more than three feet off the ground, very quiet) and turn into huge towers of water more than twice my height (big drops, hardly any horizontal spread, extremely noisy). When this happens, the sprinkler in question tends to continue behaving this way every night for about a month, before someone notices it and fixes it. One time it happened to a sprinkler right above my car's assigned parking space, which was marvelously convenient because it meant my car got free car washes every night for a month - but then the management fixed it, so now the sprinkler by my car doesn't go high enough to wash anything but the front bumper anymore.

Anyway, right now it has happened to a sprinkler I can see from my bedroom window. And lil_e_beth demands pictures, so pictures she shall get!

( broken sprinkler pictures )