Sam's Year of Service Adventure

I started my day down at Bentley.  We had to clean up a bunch of trash that the trash truck spilled everywhere, then we had to go measure all the blinds in a unit because they were all broken.  Around 11, I headed out to Chick-fil-A to pick up food for the people in resources who were having a meeting at the Penrose House, which is part of the Broadmore.  I had to order food for everyone and then deliver it to them.  After I had delivered the food, I went to Natural Grocers and did the pickup.  Then I headed over to the pantry and unloaded everything.  When I was done unloading, I went back to Bentley, and then we took lunch.  Doug was nice enough to buy me lunch while I was picking up food for everyone else.  After we finished lunch, we had to go work on some locks that were slightly damaged.  They worked right some of the time, but they did not always work right.  We spent a while trying to figure it out, and even with new parts, they ...

 Today we started with our morning meeting, and then Jenni and I went to Sprouts.  We thankfully got a bunch of meat, so that was good since we were almost out.  At the pantry, we got everything put away, and then I had to clean again since our cleaners still had not started, even though they were supposed to.  When we were done at the pantry, we went to Westside and dropped off the bread.  When we got back to the office, we took an early lunch so that we could get started on libraries.  We visited most of the nearby libraries.  These were all the libraries at our not-so-nice properties, and at one of the properties, we found drugs hidden in some of the books.  We found this out after we had driven across town, so it's good we did not get pulled over.  When we were done with libraries, we went back to the office, and then I went with Junie, one of the leasing agents, to do a re-inspection at Ceders.  After we had done the inspection, we ...

 Today we had church.  After church, I did not have much to do since Christian and Leigha were still away on their weekend off.  I made myself busy by making some brookie bars and making a whole bunch of chicken patties for chicken sandwiches later in the week.  My evening was spent doing all the dishes from all my cooking in the afternoon, and then I went to bed.

 Today is half day friday.  We started by going to Home Depot to buy a shelf for the maintenance room, and when we got to Bentley, we put the shelf together, and it is pretty awesome.  After we had the shelf together, we went and let the junk guys into the make-ready.  While we were letting them in, we saw that the concrete plant across the road from Bentley was on fire. We all stood on the balcony for a while and watched the fire.  When we were done with that, we went and did some more work on the maintenance room door so that it could at least lock over the weekend.  Then we had to go pass out some notices to a few different properties for reinspections.  We had to go to Ceders, Woodbine, and East Hills.  After we left East Hills, we had to go to UP and see the flood that Josh was dealing with.  Since Alden was on call, he was going to have to stay with the vendor, so Josh was showing us around.  When we went into one lady's apartment,...

 Today I was down at Bentley.  I started by cleaning some vestibules.  When Doug arrived at Bentley, we moved a bed and a couch for a lady who had mold in her house.  They had to tear apart a lot of her apartment, and she would have been in the way to stay.  When we were done moving Alden, I did a bunch of stuff.  We had to go to the locksmith to pick up a part for fixing the door to the maintenance room, and then we took lunch.  After lunch, we spent most of the afternoon working on our door and then trying to fix the gate for the playground.  We also had to go take a look at a make-ready that was completely trashed because some homeless people had broken in.  After we took our before pictures, we called the junk and cleaning people to clean out the unit.  At the end of the day, Alden took me back to the office, and I biked home.  When I got home, Christian had made some enchiladas for supper that were really good.  After supp...

 Today was panty day.  We started by going over to the pantry and getting some stuff in order since we were not there on Monday.  When the volunteers showed up, I went and did the Trader Joe's pickup.  When we got back, we put everything away and then ate lunch.  After lunch, we opened the pantry, and it ran smoothly for a while.  Eventually, a lady showed up who was not all there and told me some interesting things that I will not be writing down.  After she was gone, the rest of the day went smoothly.  At the end of the day, we packed up and headed back to the office.  At the office, we put some stuff in the fridge, and then I unloaded the dishwasher before heading home.  When I got home, I had time to relax before we had some curry for supper.  After supper, I got to hold Josiah for a while, and then he was happy to sit on the couch and watch us while we did learning component.  Christian built the computer that we have in t...