that's the second day in a row that i passed out waiting for a call.

so, what got accomplished yesterday?

1) i got the moving estimate to odsp, who in turn got it to the city. so, that's in process.
2) i got the oesp consent mailed. so, hydro is set up.
3) i got the internet transferred.

i don't have phone or cable services. & the building will cover heat & water. so, my only utilities are hydro & internet. that's done.

4) i got the issue with the direct deposit worked out - i should get a full check on november 30th, and i'll have to make sure everything is good after that. the worker is still being weird about it, but i'll have to wait until i move to push back on it.
5) i talked to the city about covering the moving costs and last month's rent, and got to the point where the city just needed to call the landlord and call me back.

the ciy never called me back.

so, i'll be on the phone, haranguing them, first thing in the morning.

they never asked me for my landlord's phone number, leaving me to conclude that they'd need to find the information on their own. unless they already have it in some database, they're not going to find it. and, that might be a big problem.

again: i wish they would have left me a message last night so i at least knew what was going on. but, i'm not going to be shy about calling them repeatedly until i at least get an answer.

my takeaway from this situation is that the city is taking far too great an initiative in micro-managing this, and it might in the end work against both myself and my existing landlord, who may have to deal with an appeal that i thought i had avoided. there's no reason to do any of the things that they're doing. i brought them a lease, with a request for last month's rent and an estimate for moving costs. there is no evidence that i have substance abuse issues, gambling problems or any other concerns that would lead to me having difficulty getting the funds from a to b; if such evidence did exist, they may be justified in micro-managing, but the benefit of the doubt should be with the applicant, and these steps that they're taking should be extraneous rather than automatic. they should have just taken the lease and the receipts and written me a check for the difference.

but, i'll be as annoying as i have to be for as long as i have to be. once again: there was an easy answer, but this ubiquity of human stupidity is necessitating this byzantine nonsense.