June 7, 2012
Dear Everyone:
Welcome to “Adventures in Parking!”
Last week we started receiving notices, slipped
under doors or into the edge of a doorway, informing us that Eastridge
Drive, the street I happen to live on, would be
repaved soon.
They even managed to print a
“map” of the area, showing three “phases” and indicating on which date
each “phase” would occur.
The fact that they got the dates all wrong should
not be held against them.
They are trying.
Tuesday evening, when I got home from work, there
were numerous signs around indicating “don’t park here!” for the next
day (Wednesday), for “Phase 1”.
That included my carport and surrounding areas.
Since the signs indicated “from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM”, I figured it
wouldn’t be a problem.
I’m at work by 7:30 in the morning.
I’m starting to get used to the idea of getting up and going to
work every day again.
Certain parts of the brain go, “Oh, yeah!
I remember this!” as “old habits” begin to kick in.
As I drove off Wednesday morning, I noticed a
great many cars parked on the side of the road in the “big circle” that
travels around the hill and connects the four “communities” that make up
the “greater
homeowners association”.
When I got home last night, most of those spaces were empty, but
probably filled up later in the evening.
When I did get home, and parked in one of the
“open spaces” near the Clubhouse, my carport was definitely “off
limits”. Lots of equipment
doing lots of work, well past the “5:00 PM” deadline.
By this morning, you could see where they had torn up areas and
repaved over them.
And there was a big sign pointing to where my car
was parked warning, “No parking 6:00 PM (yesterday) to 6:00 PM
(today)!!!” By this evening,
hopefully, “Phase 1” will be completed and I can park in my usual place.
Many of my neighbors have more than one car.
In fact, most of them do.
If there is a couple, they each have a car, one
in the carport and one in an “open space”.
(“Open spaces” are uncovered parking; in other words, not in
carports, which are specifically assigned to, and part of, each Unit.
It’s even listed in the Title Deed.)
Back when the developers were busily selling all
these condominiums, there was parking near the Clubhouse, which was the
Sales Office at the time. By
a happy coincidence, this parking is right in front of my building.
Very convenient when I have a trunk-load of groceries to take
into the house.
And most of my immediate neighbors have become
accustomed to parking in front instead of using their assigned carports.
In some cases, I suspect they choose to park in the open because
the great, big truck might be too big for the carport and they don’t
want to risk scratching it.
In any case, that area will be off limits
tonight. It will be
interesting to see what happens next.
In the meantime…
The work I’m (supposedly) doing at the office
consists of taking the software through its paces to see if “fixed”
bugs
(called “defects” in this case) are really fixed.
Unfortunately, I’m typically hunting in the coal bin at midnight
for a black cat that’s not there.
In other words, floundering in the dark with little idea how to
do what.
“Ludmilla”, the “official
tester” that I’m
“helping” piped, “Just go through Test #5!
It will teach you how to…”
Test #5 is 120 pages long.
And it is intended to test, not to teach.
Instead, I’ve been using Test #6 (only 24 pages
long.) Got as far as Page 3
when I hit a “snag”. Turns
out, I’d inadvertently discovered a “new” bug.
You see, when Programmers “fix” one bug, they
frequently (but unintentionally) create new bugs.
That’s what keeps us “Testers” busy.
And, as we all know, a Busy Tester is a Happy Tester.
Love, as always,
Pete
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