u/Critical-Bank5269

I purchased a Condo in North Florida by the beach in March 2026. Building is concrete block with wood frame interiors built in 1975. I had a WDO inspection and it came back clear. After making plans for renovations (it was original for 1975) I showed up to June to meet the contractor... Found wings and frass in the kitchen area. It was not there before, but the ceiling was a tile drop ceiling and one of the tiles had fallen. I chalked it up as old news, cleaned it up and started demo. Found some termite damage in the moldings and on one door frame. It was all coming out anyway, so no big deal.

Well After a two week vacation, I came back and there was more frass on the floor where I knew I cleaned. So I vacuumed it up and put down paper towels over the spot to verify. The next morning there was more frass on the paper towels. So it's an active infestation of drywood termites.

Here's the Issue:

So far I've found damaged floor joists, sub floors and some interior partition walls. And Wings Wings Wings everywhere on the interior walls behind the drywall. As the condo association is responsible for WDO/Pest control, I reported it. They sent a guy who basically said he'll treat the areas with visible damage with Termidor SC and says that will handle it and I can continue renovations. after treatment. But every on line source says tenting and fumigation is the best and proper method for a larger infestation. I told that to this guy and he said, the Association wants to spot treat only.

Should I give the Association pushback here and demand tenting? Or do you think the Termidor will solve the issue with spot treatment? (Tenting the condo requires tenting the building which means displacing the 7 other families living in the building while it's being treated) So there's clearly a cost factor for the condo association.

While I'm no cruise connoisseur, I've taken quite a few on various cruise lines over the years. I booked an Alaska Cruise on the Island Princess and just got back. The ship and facilities were as expected, but I was shocked at the lower quality of the food and the entire dinning experience. This was a family vacation with our adult children. So we booked reserved dining in the main dining room as a family at 7:30 pm for the entire cruise.

Dinner service was just horrifyingly slow. It took nearly 2.5 hours for that dinner meal, start to finish, every night! We didn't see wait staff for 20/30 minute periods the entire time. Sitting with no food or drinks outside of a cup of water. Just horrendously slow service all the way around.

Add to this the abysmal quality of the food being served. This is the main dining room of a respected cruise line and the meals were just a step above high school cafeteria. Look if you can't execute the dish properly, don't put it on the menu. This was hands down the worst quality food I've ever experienced on a cruise (including Carnival)

On top of all of this was the hit or miss nature of the bar tenders. You could have a great one that made a quality cocktail, and re-order 20 minutes later from the same bar and have a bad bar tender that butchers the drink recipe. I stopped trying to get a proper old fashioned after the third failure.

The cruise as a whole would have been great. But that dining service and bar tending issue just ruined the overall experience.

Moved to a new town in the same state last fall. We attended the Town's Memorial Day Parade today and to say I'm Fcking Annoyed is an understatement.

Memorial Day is a day to remember fallen service members from war. As a Marine Corps Vet, I take the day very seriously. But when attending the town Parade, which ended in a wreath laying ceremony at the local war memorial, the MC began by reading off the names of townspeople who died while serving in the Military.... No Problem,

BUT then the MC promptly switched to reading off the names of every town police officer, firefighter and EMT who's ever passed away... Not from Line of Duty incident. Just guys who had been LEO's/FF's that died of old age etc... I'm Like WTF?

Memorial Day is about military members who dies while serving their country. Not Joe Bob police guy who passed away at 89 in bed after being a cop for 10 years decades earlier.... I'm really PO'd about that.

I Can't lie. It's presently 5:40 pm. I'm working from home and I'm two drinks into a family get together. Yet I'm wrapping up an SJ brief on a medical malpractice claim and happened upon a key change in the law that places my client's activity outside of medical practice. (intense pule light therapy). NGL, the drinks helped me make that leap in logic. ... I'm going to win this SJ. All because an two old fashioned before dinner. probably wouldn't have put 2 and 3 together to make 4 without. Strange as I'm not a drinker. Literally a leap in logic I may not have arrived at without a beverage in the system ...