Just Some Scattered Thoughts

Another day, another dollar...

Kind of looked for apartments in the city today, but I didn't have the passion or care, I guess, to do any looking. I know, "Pick up the Philadelphia Weekly and look at the ads and just get one". I don't know, don't want to be pressured into getting some shanty shack that infested, so I'll wait until my ideal place comes. Probably the worst thing that could have ever happened to me has been apartmentratings.com - even though I know 90% of the opinions listed are from jilted tenets or slimy management posing as happy tenets, I take the site to heart. So whenever I see "mice" or "roach" listed, I just cross off the place entirely... which doesn't help when you want to get a place in a high rise...

Anyway, on to those scattered thoughts:
- People, please don't smack your lips when you eat in a public place. I was sitting in a food court, quietly eating my lunch while reading the paper when this... I'll call him ill-mannered person sits to the table behind me. Now, it's just a couple minutes before 11AM [I like to eat lunch then when it's not rush hour - I've got a mini-phobia of eating with others], so the floor's rather quiet. Next thing I know, I hear the incessant and vile sound of this piece of... "work" smacking his lips as he slobbers his way through his Chinese food. It was disgusting to listen to and ruined my lunch time [boo whoo, I know, but still]. So please, don't smack your lips when eating - it's vile.

- On the train back, I looked on to North Philly, at all the abandoned buildings and wondered why the city hasn't just leveled these relics? I know there's a cost, but someone has to own these pieces of land - old factories, empty houses, etc. Now, I always held the opinion that the city should just lay pavement over all of North Philly and rebuild it, but I know there's an issue with the people living there, of course [pay them just above market-value and move on]. Speed up the gentrification of these areas by taking away the blight - and not just the wrecked cars on the corners as our "fair" mayor set out to do [and even that he failed]. It may piss off a minority of the population, but it would benefit the majority of the city. Sadly, all that is based on a city with a person at the helm who knows a thing or two of finances and management... Maybe Nutter can do it, but until they clean house of the dead weight in City Council as well, I highly doubt it.