Week 1 Power Rankings

Ladies and Gentlemen,


I am excited and proud to present the inaugeral installation of what will hopefully be a recurring feature of our YTB named abode, the Weekly Power Rankings.

Without going into too much detail, these will be a place for people to comment on the going ons of our house, and keep each other posted despite our varied work and life schedules.

-Zack


10: Oven
A poor showing this week from one of our major appliances. It doesn't turn off without either manually flipping the circuit breaker, or setting a timer, which can often take a minimum of 6 hours to finish. Hopefully the repairman scheduled to come this afternoon will be able to boost this.

9: Structural Integrity
After speaking with Kourash last night, he said that the balcony is "not supposed to have more than one person on it," and that he just had it "reinforced" last year. If that balcony is up to code, then we have a serious problem with the codes.

8: Kourosh
He tried to sneak out of his house when Mikey and I went over to tell him about the oven, and was fully aware of the oven problem beforehand, but "forgot" to mention it. He was flippant about the blacony, and keeps calling me only during normal working hours. BUT... he bought us a bunch of fly control sprays, and set up the repair guy for the oven very promptly, and was able to come over to chat on 10 minutes of notice. On avaliability he gets an A+, on responsiveness  a B-, on appreciation for human life a fatty F.

7: Mikey
Mikey has been strangely absent from the house, spending two hours walking from the U-District home, and running around town performing odd jobs. Even his hat trick in league play couldn't catapult him higher on these housing rankings. He's been like Arjen Robbin of late, running around with a dodgy flapper, disappearing for huge stretches and only reappearing to score goals.

6: Jeff
Avaliable to explain the oven situation to our repair guy, providing a modem and router, being a presence around the house and fouling people in his basketball game. A very productive week for Jeff, despite not having what a suit would call  a "job."

 5: House Plants
They're fucking everywhere. Some are leaving with Amanda to Friday Harbor. Some are staying. But a shockingly strong showing this week for house plants, given the fact that most pundits didn't have them in the top 200 in their pre-season rankings.

4: Zack
 Breakfast sandwiches on Sunday, bacon corn and onion griddlecakes on Tuesday, crespellas with hazelnut sauce and whipped cream on Wednesday and a double batch of chocolate chip oatmeal almond cookies with raisins. All this while handling kourosh, killing over a hundred flies and being the first in his office to beat Diablo. In addition, he's writing this blog. Killing this shit.

3: Orcas
 Speaking of killing, killer whales are set to go off with the arrival of our very own Amanda Phillips. She's peacing for Friday Harbor Thursday morning, and won't be seen for a month. Boon for orca whales, bust for house plants and my sex life. Add in the mystery of the albino orca and the canadian sonar v/ US naval explosion conspiracy theory, and Orcas are coming in hot.

2: Mason Jars
They just keep showing up in the kitchen, full of all of our baking needs. More and more. An unstopable torent of them. Don't call it a come-back, they've been here for years.

1: Flies
See above. They just keep showing up in the kitchen, full of all of our baking needs. More and more. An unstopable torent of them. Don't call it a come-back, they've been here for years.
With well over a hundred flies and counting, they are the undisputed champions of the week 1 power rankings.

Unranked: JP, Lars, Carly Jepson