So I got Covid again. No big deal I guess. My gf's dad got it when she visited down south, and she naturally carried it back up, went through it herself, and now it's my turn.

That being said, having covid is not the worst thing going on right now.

The worst thing is that I took a day off, only tot find that, after a solid year of construction drilling in an apartment above me, they're STILL DOING IT.

A year. Of drilling.

How??

We've complained so often in the past, and eventually they got shut down because their contract expired and they were doing it illegally. Apparently it's legit now because it's 'not construction, but furnishing'.

I can tell those fuckers aren't doing furnishing from here. It's exactly the same as before. Drilling.

Drill on; Drill off. On, off, on, off. Over and over and over and over and over. Hour after hour. Day after day.

MONTH AFTER FUCKING MONTH.

There are no other tools being used. No hammers, no saws, just a a drill for half a second, then off for half a second, and repeat.

It's so much worse than Covid because it's so paralyzing. It's not a constant noise I can learn to filter out. The on-off nature of it means it's constantly stabbing me in the ears, and the vibrations constantly keeping me on edge.

Sometimes, they'll leave a ten second gap, where I become hopeful maybe they're having a lunch break or something... but no. 10 seconds later it's on-off all over again.

I'm sick so I can't go out, but I can't watch anything, I can't sleep, I can't listen to anything, I can't read. I just have to wait until 8,9pm when they decide to stop.

You've no idea how difficult it was just to write this rant out.

I know they're not doing anything. I've seen the videos of them just sweeping sand back and forth, or just hammering the floor behind construction barriers while watching tiktok. I know they're doing this to fill up a schedule to artificially inflate a contract's price, and on a larger scale, GDP.

But is it really worth being murdered by a white guy with Covid?

Ugh. Or maybe just drill into my brain and be done with it.