Lebensraum

It was not easy to stay for the first three hours of tonight's Commission meeting.  I assume there was another hour.

It was once again the Tracy Truppman Show, Starring Tra-cy Trupp--man.  This time, there was a bit more of a twist.  I think Tracy is perfecting a system for herself.

Tracy couldn't even allow Daphne Campbell to spin out the Daphne Campbell Show without frequently interrupting and trying to have a private conversation with Daphne.  Frankly, I suspect this was due to Daphne's too frequent references to her past collaborations with Roxy Ross to make the accomplishments Daphne tells herself she's made.  I think Roxy is to Tracy what Barack Obama is to Donald Trump: any traces must be eradicated.

We got through several Resolutions without much extraneous meandering.  Then, it was onto the "old business" of driveway and landscaping considerations.  Specifically, it was Tracy's considerations.  Last month, Roxy introduced a driveway plan.  Tracy immediately and unceremoniously ignored it in favor of her own proposal.  Tonight, the proposal came back for continued discussion.  What initially came back was a combination of Roxy's proposal and the proposal from the Code Review Committee.  But Tracy again immediately superimposed her own version.  She simply ignored what was on the table.  Tracy made clear to her colleagues what she expected of them.  But her three stooges were somehow getting excessive minds of their own, as if they were entitled to their own views of things.  So Tracy announced that they were moving on to something else, and that they would return to the driveway proposal later.  The kids had lost sight of who their daddy is, and Tracy allowed them an opportunity to think about it.

Then, there was the matter of a landscape proposal.  On the Agenda, there were two such listings.  The first was proposed by Roxy, and the second was proposed by Tracy.  Roxy introduced her proposal, and Tracy immediately-- again-- ignored it and simply went on to discuss her own proposal.  Just like last month, and again this month, Tracy treated Roxy as if she wasn't there.  This was when I remembered I had to go home to, um, I forget why I had to leave to go home.  Oh, yeah, to walk my dog.

One of the remaining issues-- a leftover from last month-- was Tracy's alleged concern about how to communicate more fully with BP residents.  She gave us yet another demonstration as to what that would look like.  The room tonight was unusually empty.  At one point in the driveway discussion, Bob Anderson raised his hand.  He wanted to say something.  Tracy shook her head no.

Tracy did say one funny thing tonight.  The Commission was discussing driveway surfaces, and Roxy-- oh, yeah, the beast-- took issue with Tracy's insistence on making asphalt an unacceptable surface.  Roxy asked or suggested that it seemed that what Tracy was trying to do was avoid impervious surfaces, to which Tracy agreed, and Roxy pointed out that there is pervious asphalt.  So maybe we should ban impervious surfaces, not asphalt.  But Tracy again brushed Roxy off, telling her "we're not engineers."  Usually, the rank Tracy likes to try to pull is to suggest to everyone that she is, in some sense, an engineer.  But I guess when you have to fight the beast, you have to get a bit creative.  Or inconsistent.  Or you just make stuff up.