A fifteen hour day at work. Including the commute, seventeen. Got the bulk of my work for E3 checked in, and ready to go into the testing pipe, so I’m actually quite happy. Almost energized, but for the anonymous note we got in the mail today.

Anonymous note, you say? Yes, indeed. And you can imagine it’s not good. Someone threatening to call Oakland Blight Control on us because of our front yard. Yeah, it’s overgrown, yeah, the grass is six feet tall. Why? Because I’m so allergic to grass that if I spend about half an hour in it, for the rest of the day, I’m sneezing like crazy. But, it looks disorderly, so I can understand where the letter-writer’s coming from, sort of. They took a really obnoxious, threatening tone, which I thought was inappropriate, particularly given that no one’s ever said anything about our yard, and it’s not the worst on the block by much.

But the weirdest thing of all was that we *are* working on it, and have been for the last couple weeks. We’re making progress, and it’s only NOW that this jackass decides to send us threatening letters. Whee! Did they not see the one section that’s been entirely pulled up, and is ready for planting? Did they not see that about a fifth of the grass in the front yard has been pulled up? Sure, it’s gonna get uglier before it gets better, but the thing is that it’s *OBVIOUS* that progress is being made. So it’s just fucking stupid that someone would write a threatening, anonymous note about our yard, when it’s plain as day that finally, something has actually started happening.

So, they take something that’s provided us with some real sense of satisfaction and progress, and turn it into something negative. At the end of a fifteen hour day at work, that even turned out pretty good, it definitely ruins a day. And a sense of camaraderie with the neighbors, that makes me want to egg the shit out of the houses of the two people I think it probably is. Mind you, one of them would have their house unjustly vandalized, but fuck ’em, they’re both assholes anyway.

Bastards.