Katya wrote:I had a medium-sized good thing drop into my lap this week.
Care to share?
Only if you care to ask.
I occasionally do contract-based specialty cataloging work for a library vendor in Utah. I hadn't done any work for them since September (and that was a pretty small job), but I was contacted this week and asked to do a sample for them as part of a bid for a major retrospective conversion project. I'll probably make around $200 for doing the sample and if they win the contract, I could have a lot of part-time work for a while.
Backstage, perchance? Also, awesome and congrats!
Also, I just want to say how wonderful it is to be typing and reading in here on an actual computer again. Tragically, I desperately need bedtime, so I won't get to continue catching up tonight.
Imogen wrote:i need it to be july so i can move out and not come home to my house REEKING of pot. that will be so lovely.
I recently heard about somebody who moved into a pot house. Like, when they moved in, there were still remnants of pot all over the house. Pot on the stove. Pot on the floor. Marijuana leaves strewn about the bedrooms... Sounds totally nasty.
There's a lady in my ward that moved into a pot house. She found some in the vent and in the fence. And they've been sick all winter. But they can't afford to move. We're trying to convince her to do a marijuana test to see if there are still remnants, and I'm sure there are. I'm just so sad for her.
I've also heard that the "pot house problem" is getting worse in the real estate industry. The potheads go and find vacant houses, break in, set up their smoking/growing operation, and pretty much stay there until somebody kicks them out. Lots of times, it creates horrible problems for anyone who buys the house.
So, pardon my naïveté, but I'm not sure I'm following the comments about pot houses. I have a couple of questions:
What is a pot house, exactly? One where the former inhabitants smoked pot? It sounds like more than that. (Potentially a growing operation, but I'm not sure if that's always implied.) What do people usually mean by this phrase?
What lingering problems persist after the potheads move out? DL referred to testing for "remnants," and thebigcheese referred to horrible problems, but what exactly are we talking about here? What can't be cleaned up by a thorough sweeping/vacuuming? Is it any worse than buying a house that's been lived in by a tobacco smoker?
A pot house can be one where pot is grown or cooked. If it's just grown, you can probably get rid of all remnants. (I think?) But if it's a house used to cook it, there is no cleaning it up. It gets into everything. Your only real choice to get rid of it is to tear it down and build again.
One of my friends' mom actually did her dissertation for her masters (or doctorate?) on the effect of pot houses on emergency responders. (Mostly cops, but also paramedics and some firemen.) Turns out, that the rate of cancer in those responders was drastically higher than for the responders that never went to pot houses. Specifically ones that cooked pot.
So… that's about all I know. And I only know that because we've had a conversation about this lady in my ward and how she and her daughters have had respiratory illnesses all summer, and apparently that's a common side-effect of cooking pot.
As long as we're on topic, I might as well share this quick anecdote.
As one of his hobbies, my grandfather would take leaves from some assorted leaf bin somewhere and put gold leaf on them to turn it into jewelry. My aunt ended up with one of them and her daughter wore it as a necklace to school one day. That's when they found out that it was a marijuana leaf. Oops.
"If you don't put enough commas in, you won't know where to breathe and will die of asphyxiation"
Katya wrote:We really are talking about pot and not meth?
Hmmm… good point. I'm… not entirely sure. I swear she said she found marijuana leaves, but … I know my other friend was talking about cooking it, but cooking it from chemicals. So that's probably meth. So… I really have no idea what I'm talking about anymore.
There was a Holmes on Homes episode about this once. (Anyone else love that show? Basically, this lady had rented out a house to what she thought was a nice couple. But they didn't live there - they just grew marijuana. Hundreds of potted plants in every room. In order for it to grow indoors, they were running massive lights - which took so much power that they had to cut into the city's power and steal electricity so as not to draw attention. That's a big problem the city wanted to sue over. They also had to vent the smell out, so the renters cut through whatever was in their path - structure, floor, walls, whatever - to run large vents up through the roof. Lastly, the plants themselves produce so much moisture into the air that every surface was covered in mold. Serious, serious mold. The renters were only there for a few months before they were caught, but this lady's house was basically totaled (if there was such a thing in real estate).
Yeah...42 pretty much covered it. Pot houses are growing operations. It usually causes a horrific mold infestation, which means ripping out ALL the drywall (both walls and ceilings) and recarpeting the whole place.
