the world has turned and left me here

i'd like to file a noise complaint against the neighbor's wrecking ball

One of the not-so-obvious downsides to living in a "hip, up-and-coming neighborhood" is that you can't sleep in on a week day.

Take this morning for instance. I am awakened prematurely by the sound of a concrete smasher across the street going off every few seconds and taking all the nearby car alarms with it. After that subsides, someone starts a floor buffer up in the hallway right outside my door (they just installed wood floors). This is followed by the sound of a circular saw. In my hallway.

I was sleeping like a log, until I got sawed in half.