As of 6:00 tomorrow morning, there is no parking allowed in the surface lot.  Please move your car to one of the city garages before then.  Here’s the official announcement.

Just a heads up: I’m told that the front door phone directory is not working and that management has been notified.  If you’re expecting anyone, it would be good to make sure they have both your apartment number and your phone number. (I’m not clear as to whether it’s just the directory or the whole system that’s iffy)

Also, for those who haven’t seen this notice posted around the building either, the passenger elevator will be out of service on Wednesday for repairs.  Hopefully, this will mean no more “scenic route” elevator rides with stops on every floor!

For those of you who haven’t noticed the signs posted around the building, the basement garage door is being replaced on Tuesday and cars must be out by 8:30 AM or they will be stuck in the garage for the day:

I’m told that the power outage that didn’t happen last night is now scheduled to occur between 11pm Thursday night and 5am Friday morning.  (Many thanks to those who forwarded me info; I don’t seem to be on the National Grid call list for some reason.)

Just a heads up that there may be a planned power outage between 11pm Tuesday night and 5am Wednesday morning to do some underground repairs.  I didn’t receive notification myself but had the info passed along to me by a neighbor who did get a call.  I couldn’t find any further information online; the closest I came was this FAQ page.  If anyone else knows more, please post in the comments.

In the meantime, I need to check the battery backup in my alarm clock!

Here we go again.  Cars need to be out of the surface lot by tomorrow morning as per the building snow storm parking rules or they risk being towed.  There is free parking available to city residents during the snow emergency but, unfortunately, not at the Roy Garage next door.  Click here for a larger view of the Police Department announcement.

A parking ban officially starts at 5:00am tomorrow morning, so unless you’re planning to be up that early in the morning to move your car out of the surface lot tomorrow, you should probably move it tonight.  Here’s the police department statement.  The statement doesn’t give an end time for the ban but the Snow Emergency itself officially ends at 8:00pm tomorrow; the parking ban may, or may not, last somewhat longer.

Please be aware that there is a snow emergency going into effect sometime today (late today?) until Friday.  Unfortunately, I’m not good at registering details from automated phone calls received before 5:00am and I haven’t been able to find any online announcements as of yet.  In any case, I’m pretty sure they said the 8th through the 10th and we are supposed to be getting up to a foot of snow tomorrow, so please think twice before leaving your car in the surface lot tonight.

A resident is looking for recommendations for a carpenter to install built-in book shelves.  Please feel free to share any suggestions in the comments.

We had Leo Forcier at Prime Properties of N. Chelmsford do the built-in bookcases in our loft and along the upstairs hallway.  We were quite satisfied with his work on the bookcases but that was several years ago and I don’t know who he’s using for a crew these days.  Our bookcases are plywood with nice trim pieces covering the edges; very practical but not particularly showy.  There are some photos in this old post.