Today, they 'fixed' the problem

...with spackle, which is just as good as concrete, right?

More from Mar-a-Lago North

Car has been in our parking lot for the last 4 years, at least. This is Ocean Oaks, folks. Right-wing commune.

Half-staffed

The Typical Liberal College Professor is wondering why, when US flags were ordered to half staff on Thursday, for 5 days, to honor the million COVID dead, Ocean Oaks's flag has remained at the top of its very expensive flagpole. Especially as we have had at least one COVID death among our condo residents.

(The flagpole was very expensizve because flagpoles can skewer people during hurricanes, so the City of Cape Canaveral has a pretty stringent ordinance.)

It was all performative patriotism when we erected it last fall. Now our right-wing board has apparently lost interest.

. Taking care of the flag is too important a job for easily-distracted RWNJs, some of whom would think Betsy Ross was a Marxist, if they read it on QAnon.

So I hereby volunteer. They don't read my emails, so someone let them know.

'Typical liberal college professor'

This was Underwoods's response, when I finally got him to talk.

I want the ignorant bigot off the Condo Board, now.

Jim Underwood

Just confronted Jim Underwood about whether the Board might inform owners whose units are literally 10 feet above where they're doing constuction, if they might provide some sort of notice.

Underwood literally refused to acknowledge I was even talking to him.

Smash the Condo!

2:30 pm Friday, and someone is taking a Collins axe to the refuse room door frame, right below our condo. Another guy turns up with a crowbar. No one from the Condo Board in sight.

Noisy? Yeah, it's uninhabitably noisy. No warning.

Your Ocean Oaks Condo is not your home.

Pest control guy rings bell, but condo board guy already has his key in the door. He walks in before we even have a chance to answer the door. My wife, walking to the door, is confronted by people already in our condo.


Your condo is not your home, folks. The Condo Board owns it.

Oh yeah, they read this blog

The police tape disappeared this morning.

Are we going to sue the company that destroyed our concrete? I wish we had a non-zombie Condo Board that could make a decision like this.

Interior damage

This is what the damage to the interior concrete around the B building exterior door looks like after the bungled door replacement.

Of course, they don't want you to see it.

Ineffective communication

Our Board President

New Doors Are Being Installed New doors are being installed and it is noisy but necessary. The corroded door frames need to be removed and it is no easy task. We are working to get all the doors installed before painting begins this Fall.

(1) As the saying goes, what was your first clue? Mine was when I was trying to take a nap yesterday afternoon, and was woken after 5 minutes by the sound of concrete being drilled. Effective communication is warning people in advance, not telling them what you just did and is already obvious.

(2) "It is no easy task" is code for "we had no idea what we were taking on". I used to have a sign hung my laboratory. It read

No one cares how hard it was or how long it took.

The door frames are apparently being removed by smashing the concrete housing them. See the picture above. Is this necessary? Is this the best way to do it? Watching the guys work yesterday (I live nearly above them) was not reassuring.

Ocean Oaks has been a very noisy place the last few years. The concrete restoration was necessary, but it was two years of constant noise. Are we in for this again this summer? Some consideration has to be given to keeping Ocean Oaks habitable during construction.

One might, for example, remind the workers that people live here, and having the radio blaring during the job is not acceptable. These days we have such things as headphones. In fact, on jobs like this, OSHA mandates them.

Lots of activity with big trucks and cranes.

As the kids say these days, NSS. Don't tell me what I know. Tell me what I don't know.

Break on through to the other side.

It took 5 guys all day until 5:30 pm to replace one exterior door on the B building. There's still no lock; that red cone is sure going to discourage intruders.

Looks like some real high quality work there on the hinge side.