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- <h1>The non-smoking policy doesn't seem to be enforced.</h1>
- <p>Day 00689: Tuesday, 2017 January 24</p>
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- I took an old frying pan with me that my mother was getting rid of, and headed home with a bag of laundry.
- Unfortunately, along the way, the laundry bag ripped.
- I'm going to have to find the time to repair it by next week.
- Unfortunately, the washing machines and dryers at my apartment cost to use.
- I had skimmed the directions the other day, and I didn't see anything about inserting coins, but sure enough, that's plain as day listed as a step.
- The washing machines were all in use though, so I left my laundry at home and headed to the post office to check on my mail key.
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- On the way out, I met my neighbors that live directly under me.
- Unfortunately, they're smokers.
- I was told that smoking isn't allowed on the premises, but here they were, smoking right outside their door and under mine.
- After I got back from the post office and had finished washing and drying my laundry, I met a couple more of my neighbors.
- They're also smokers.
- Again, they were smoking right outside their door, right where other residents are walking.
- The fine for smoking probably isn't actually enforced, which is disappointing.
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- At the post office, I learned that every morning, the post office faxes the list of mail boxes that need to be rekeyed to a locksmith in Portland.
- Every week, the locksmith comes around to rekey all mailboxes that still need rekeying.
- However, they're not on a set schedule, so the postal workers can't tell me when my key will be ready.
- They simply don't have that information.
- That said, the postal worker that I spoke with said that they haven't seen the locksmith for a week to a week and a half.
- That worried me, as it seemed like they were taking longer than usual, but the postal worker explained that that is a good thing.
- It means that the locksmith is due to arrive any day!
- I'll try again tomorrow, which is my last day off before I have to go back to work.
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- Back at home, I found that one of the three washing machines was free, but the machines are too small to fit full loads in.
- I can only fit half a load.
- After about ten minutes, one of my neighbors came by and emptied another washing machine, so I got the other half of my load going as well.
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- When my laundry was done washing, I then had to wait for the dryers, as all of those were taken as well.
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- They also don't fully dry the clothing, so I had to put my laundry through four drying cycles.
- At $0.25 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> per half-load per cycle, drying the full load cost $2 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr>, bringing my laundry cost for the week to $5 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> for the week, plus soap.
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- Tomorrow, I need to carry my microwave oven that I'm not even sure that I want home, as well as check once again on my mail key.
- I was planning on doing this later in the day, as to give the locksmith more time to perhaps give the key to the post office, but it turns out that I have school tomorrow.
- I'll need to go latish, but also a bit earlier as to make sure that I have time to rest before school.
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- My main goal I suppose is to deal with the microwave oven.
- The key isn't going to be there tomorrow anyway.
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- I dreamed that my work schedule wasn't as expected this week; I had Sunday as one of my days off, but I always work on Sunday lately.
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- I've already had more time than I was expecting.
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