Something I've learned since living in New Orleans - if you have a professional dealer, it's in his or her best interest to keep the business area crime free. This can be useful. (of course, there's a lot there that could go wrong, but a friend of mine swears that petty theft has gone up since the drug dealers got forced out due to gentrification.)

flea, yay for good antidepressants!

Our across the street neighbor saw a drug deal in front of our house on Friday. Car to car deals are all over the *lace in this neighborhood right now. It's quiet, and, exce*t for the visiting drug dealers and clients, safe - they're using the back residential streets.

That sounds like us, too. Lots of car to car deals on the side streets.

Something I've learned since living in New Orleans - if you have a professional dealer, it's in his or her best interest to keep the business area crime free. This can be useful.

I don't think our dealers are that smart.

I don't think our dealers are that smart.

Dealers that use their product generally aren't.

The background of this last call I took was like an episode of Deadwood. I don't think he called his buddy a cocksucker, but the rest of the vocabulary was similar.

I'm so sorry, Steph.

Something I've learned since living in New Orleans - if you have a professional dealer, it's in his or her best interest to keep the business area crime free. This can be useful.

I banked on that when I lived in DC -- I was pretty sure I was safe on this one dark street when the regular dealer was also there.

Well, the dealers up the street don't have a damned impact on the nuisance crime around here (I just found out about them. Explains some things I've seen. And they don't deal here on weekends-that's when the grandmother is home....)

Fuck, looks like I need to do my weekend shopping...tomorrow, because the odds of getting whomped this Friday/Saturday are increasing. Better to go in the middle of the day. And stock up on greens, since my spinach people won't come to market if it gets bad. Uhg. Might as well stock up on baking supplies (I have enough chocolate chips) and cheese and hummus for neighborly commoiserating.

I'm sorry about your cousin, Steph.

Still in purgatory with car insurance and getting paid for my totalled car. I'm using the company truck currently, but I don't like putting wear in it (it's old) and the gas is $10 a day just getting to and from work. And parking the beast is a chore. And when the ED comes back he may declare I can't use it for personal reasons anymore, which would be totally valid, even though I have the blessing of bossman. Cheapest rental would be $150 a week (don't know what the discount from my insurance would be yet). Both those two options get me door to door service and grocery runs and other errands. Other option is I get a weekly train pass at $30 unlimited trips, cheapest option, but no door to door service, no grocery trips or errands, and three miles to walk in 20 to 30 degree weather, which also means leave an hour early in the morning and an hour later in the evening, which means less time to take care of home life and and definitely means I can't go out and check out potential new cars after hours.

Math and logistics of living life and searching for a new car says I need to keep abusing the company truck.