I have been watching these guys working with those mysterious sheet metal and iron tubes that have appeared along the streetcar line on St. Charles. Finally asked them what those things were, they are the bases for new poles that will be part of the concrete encasement. They are replacing all the wood poles on the line.

Also, our Sav-A-Center uptown is now open until midnight ! This began Easter weekend. So you can go on those beer runs again.

And god, I wish it would rain. Tomorrow we have a substantial chance for precip. So go wash your car and make it stick. There is someone on Louisiana Ave. that has run their own hose/sprinkler over the roadway, suspended on the tree limbs, to the neutral ground and is taking care of it.

And did you know that New Orleans was one of the top five cities for fires, according to the Red Cross? This stat was pre-K and I am sure we are holding strong.

I was down at the concert in Lafayette Park (I still call it Rat Park) last night and it was really busy. I felt like I was being circled by sharks because there were so many political candidates there. When will they get rid of the ticket thing?

There was this really nice contractor guy in our building, from GA, I think. He said he was going to leave because the city is making it harder for them to operate since they lifted some special emergency status. He said he was required to have a certain number of local workers which he tried to comply with but they would work a few days and then not show up. He had to bring his own people back in to finish some jobs. Anyway, there’s one less team of people helping us rebuild. I wonder how widespread this is, sure sounds like N.O. at it’s best again.

There were a band of young college guys running past the side of my building at 2 am last night yelling, “They’re gonna see that we turned down here!” They sounded pretty drunk. I found one of them passed out in the courtyard this morning. Poor yuppie college bum was full of dirt, and out cold. I woke him up to see if he was, not dead and all, and I was sort of annoyed. I said, “Do you know someone here? Can you call them and get in? You can’t be passed out here.” He got up, made a call and was let in. I met his friend, the host. He apologized, explaining that he just got back from China and they were out partying and he still had jetlag and totally passed out, leaving his buddy outside. I told him it was cool but warned him that the people in this building can get hysterical about nothin’.

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