There's got to be some kind of city ordinance about what time what particular work can be done. For the second morning in a row, I was awoken just shy of 8AM because of really loud noises going on either above my head or outside my window. Yesterday morning, it was someone dropping heavy objects on the floor of the apartment above my room. This morning, it was someone weedwacking the shrubbery surrounding the apartment building next door.

I'm remembering a scene from L.A. Story where Victoria Tennant asks Steve Martin what time loud noises -- in this case, loud sustained booming sounds -- are acceptable. He replies, "Between 9 and 9:15." I always thought that was the general time acceptable for all loud things to begin, despite the fact that my alarm doesn't go off until after that, since that's when normal business hours start. There's too many out of work actors and musicians in this town who stay up until all hours of the morning and then sleep until noon for heavy yardwork to be acceptable before 8AM.

It's going to be one of those days, I can tell already.