Tell no one & it won't get fixed

For some reason, I've got Madonna's Don't Tell Me stuck in my head. Until I got to somewhat "sample" it with the Amazon Music player, it's now unstuck. 

Since Amazon decided to take the thirty second sample away to allow everyone access to the music player, it makes things hard to link individual music on here. I like to share certain audio clips, but don't like that my readers (or even me, for that matter) need to go diving into the entire album to hear a partial song. 

I get it; it's another way to generate income for Amazon. Considering any Amazon link I post on my blog is an affiliate link, I get something in return for purchase(s). It's the same with Ko-Fi - Donations are widely appreciated because it's a helpful piece of change that will get me towards proper editing machines to continue posting (like I keep saying, I don't use a spyder or anything on my old laptop, so none of my photos are properly calibrated to their high quality best).

But overall, I'd rather not have people buy an entire album for one song suggestion. Sure, you can make the individual track purchase, but having to scroll through 7 titles to get it to the track in question, and then push play to get the music to start at track one, is such a pain in the ass. It was so simple when you could link to the specific song and share it among friends. 

Way to ruin technology?

-shrugs-

Much like the point of the post I wanted to make today. 

If no one vocalizes about something, it can't get changed. So, if no one tells the community board members that there's a broken sprinkler head, it won't get replaced. 

Back when Ian came swimming through my complex, the wind knocked down the bougainvillea plant (you try spelling that when you don't know all the letters involved! Shit on whole wheat...) that was between my garage and the upstairs lady's garage. All the units here share a small path of plants that separate the driveways and units. So at the end of the path, attached to the building is a bougainvillea that tries its best to flourish in the Florida sun. 

Well, when it went crashing down, we needed to get it out of the way of Arlene's garage because it can't stay blocking her in. 

So when it was safe for the outside landscapers to come clean up piles of debris, we got a pair of technicians to cut the plant down at its root. The problem is, the guy doing the hacking, inadvertently severed the sprinkler that was at the base of the plant. 

No one reported it broken then... and no one has reported it broken now... four months later. 

Don't mind the pictures looking a bit arid and dry. It was about 55 degrees this morning when I took them and doing auto tune on them, makes it look like I've been playing rock city in the desert.

I know the ones looking at the broken pipe hidden in the rocks may be blurry, but I was trying to not face the sun so much when getting the pictures. It was hard to focus myself, to be able to focus the camera. 

I used my Canon EOS Rebel T7i to talk the photos. Saving the fruit phone for another day.

With everyone out walking when I was taking the pictures, I'm sure they thought it funny that I was randomly shooting the area. 

But at least there's some new landscape shots I've not posted yet.... ?

It's weird how the irrigation trucks are always around but don't realize there's a broken pipe. I guess they're not looking for problems closer to the houses and only on the street level? Who knows, but if this pipe stays broken for an entire year (or more), whatever bushes are (re)planted won't get water. And then what?

Stuck like Chuck trying to get it all sorted. 

For the sake of crazy train, I edited two of the fog pictures from the other day. The zoomed in ones where I said they'd look funny as auto correct. 

They still do. 

Definitely something different. Kind of makes it old school grainy in a way. 

Until something else changes... happy weekend!

Cheers