Been a while since I posted. Real busy this weekend moving in and painting. Managed to get 4 bedrooms, a hallway, and two ceilings painted as well as wrip the carpet out of those said rooms and hallway. Got some cool bright colors. Some pics are sure to follow.
This is the scene Tara and I saw on the morning run. I heard the gunshots at about 4 am. Set of about 5-6 then a pause and then 2 more. Was like no, must be fireworks. This house is about 4 houses down and just around the corner from my new pad.
Shit, reminds me of living on the Oakland - Berkeley border. Crazy shit happened there. There was a huge gunfight just down the street from Tara's place. Murders all around us. And I pulled up on my motorcyle minutes before an attempted armed robbery at the hairdressers next door to my flat. Saw the dudes sitting on the brick retaining wall between the properties and my loud pikes actually startled 'em. When I got inside there was an explosion the cops used to distract the dudes and then some gun shots. It was pretty cool watching the fire department unload about 500 gallons of water trying to wash the blood off the street. Maybe a brush would've worked better.
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3 comments:
woah. nothing like hearing those pops in the middle of the night eh? we lived 1.5 blocks from a quintuple homocide in west philly ... when that was going down i was totally expecting a bullet to come through a window.
then there was the time that i took the dog out-back to take a leak and a cop came prowling out into the yard (from between two buildings), gun drawn, mag light sweeping the yard. there was alos a hovering helicopter with a sweeping spotlight. copper pointed that thing at me and said "do you live here" i was like "ummm, yeah" ... "get back in the house". you bet man, no problem.
i get to go on a lot of adventures here in co, but the big city has its own kind i guess.
its always been a dilema for me. city living or country mountain living. meeting and deciding to marry Tara settled the dilema. she couldn't take mountain living, at least not at this time in her life.
fine with me. i love living in cities and they definately have a lot to offer. but you loose some of the security of a small town. pro's and cons.
yeah man, i hear ya. i really really miss some aspects of living in the city and i can appreciate all that a major metro area has to offer - i am an URBAN planner after all ...
yepper, tradeoffs ... ain't that what life is all about?
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