A Few Hiccups Out of the Gate - And I Need Coffee!

Well - Here I am in my new place.  It's pretty empty, but that's bound to change in due time.  I've had a few little mishaps along the way, and still dealing with a few of them.

Upon my first visit to my new joint, I saw that one of my neighbors had a missing board in their fence that separates our two patios.  Eh, no biggie - until their little Chihuahua comes out and decides to hop through the fence hole into my patio.  No way, little Jose!  Not gonna happen!  

Look, I'm all about dogs, but not strange ones that just decide to encroach on other people's "property", especially when I have a little girl who doesn't abide by the "strange dog" principle.  We don't need a dog bite, yanno?  So, I told the office about it that day and it was fixed the very next day.  Problem. Solved.

I felt like a complete idiot this morning, too.  I went to make my first meal in here last night and discovered that the oven/stove wasn't working.  Great.  Good thing I bought a microwave yesterday, huh?

So, I call the office again this morning to tell them about this.  The very patient girl on the phone asked me to go to the breaker box to be sure that the guys who worked on my place before moving in had put the switch back to on first.  Well DUH!  They didn't and I didn't even think to look there first!  Stupid me.  So, my oven and stove are operational now.

I blame that lovely brain fart on the fact that my coffee pot took a crap on me.  No, I have NOT had any coffee in TWO DAYS!  I'm about to just start chewing on the grounds at this point.  It was working a couple of days ago before I put in some uber fine ground flavored coffee that clogged up the machine, causing it to leak all over my counter.  Ever since then, it won't turn on to brew.  I have the clock that comes on when I plug it in, but it won't let me change the time, program it and the itty-bitty "on" button just mocks me.  

I NEED COFFEE!  *ahem*

Oh, and I met many of my neighbors.  They all seem nice enough, and the part I like best is that they are all quiet (so far, anyway).  Score!  No yapping dogs around, either.  Double score!

So, that's it for now.  Time to get and keep busy - like that's ever a problem these days.  Pfft!  Later!