This Old Bull

In the interest of helping the Old Bull residents maintain communication amongst one another I’ve started the [Old Bullies](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oldbullies) group on [Yahoo Groups](http://groups.yahoo.com/). I’m inviting all residents to join, as well as frequent guests of theirs and potential future residents. It can be tough getting a community off the ground — I know because I’ve started several — but I hope that this could become a valuable resource.

Hit the page, [join the list](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oldbullies/join), and let’s start a conversation.

Well, actually, I haven’t yet. But Kevin over at [Bull City Rising](http://www.bullcityrising.com/) has: he talks about the [illuminated sign on the corner of the building](http://www.bullcityrising.com/2008/08/atcs-old-bull-s.html). I still haven’t seen it, since I spend more time paying attention to the inside of my apartment than the outside, but I might meander out tonight or tomorrow night to take a gander.

I got my mailbox key yesterday, which means that the Post Office finally put their locks on the mailboxes. The mailboxes themselves are behind a locked door with a keypad so that we can dial ourselves in, but it also has an intercom for guests arriving at the building to get buzzed in. Unfortunately that doesn’t really help me as it only lets people on to the main hall and my exterior door is off Pettigrew Street, but it will still give me a place to tell people to go, and then I can instruct them to walk around to the other side of the building and I’ll come down and let them in. Hopefully mail will start arriving soon, too!

There were also a couple of small things broken or wrong with the place when I moved in, most notably that there was a part missing from the microwave that made the turntable not turn. That got fixed yesterday only a day or so after I’d reported the problem, which leads me to believe that the maintenance people are going to be on top of things. It wasn’t any big deal, and was the sort of thing that I expect when I’m the first occupant of an apartment, but it was nice to have it fixed in a timely fashion. They also gave me a couple of quotes from an Allstate agent for renter’s insurance, and a nice silver keychain with the “Apartments at American Tobacco” logo on it. Snazzy.