Pinnacle Apartments I love the luxury of living at these Pinnacle Apts. I often talk or think to myself, "All my years I have never lived in such a NEW apt, with not one but TWO sparkling free pools, a 24 hour small gym i *could* use if I wanted to and green grass on grounds the roam and roll and meander around!" It is with sadness that I say this. Soon we will be (hopefully) moving into our first (but small) house. I felt this: that since my mom had owned a house, some wood place on Damien Avenue in Chicago, and had a hard time with it and selling it, that I was not going to own a house. Not for my generation. I have lived in apts or back houses or rental houses for all my life, and only fell in love with home ownership and ...parenthood in the recent decades. While being a Daddy Dyke or Meema is outrageously AWESOME, being responsible for a H. O. U. S. E. is already consumming my weekends and stressing me out, not to forget adding bills and stress to my whole family! Swamp cooler, detailed painter who painted and painted so I had to be UP there to stupervise...with the kid....and no A/C and really nothing to do. My point is, it is not until I find my Princesses who say once they turn 40, I MUST HAVE A HOUSE that I direct my focus towards that goal. And my real point is, walking my kid's dog our dear Weasel, around this property more than any other, more than Glen Oaks New York City, has endeared me to the COMMUNITY here at Pinnacle. Here are a few stars I have met: The guy with Penny. He has been avoiding me and Weasel for 3 or more months. Finally FINALLY I met him and guess what? He was taught by Allen Ginsberg and he knows about Beatniks and Naropa, a wild university in Boulder Colorado. It is weird when within say, 10 minutes we both revealed to ourselves stuff about dogs, and families and life. That rocks! I cannot pocket how cool it was to FINALLY meet someone who likes the books n poetry I like! in person. His face was worried and wrinkled as we met at the mail box area. So much reminds me of Azusa Pacific University were we had PO boxes and gathered there to chat. His coper coloured dog, Penny is a girl, was rescued, and he almost was able to rescue her brother but he had been put down 4 days before. Sad. Part of his story, however, He did live in NY, but up in Buffalo; he also lived in Boulder CO for about 10 years, and only moved here to Pinnacle about 2 years ago. He holds custody to his kid, and I am 90% sure his daughter was the one who hugs, sits on the lap and giggles with her best friend, a girl, at the pool. Hmmm? He is always walking around, similar times to me, so I would assume he doesn't work. Like me. And he is an artist....writes some, creates music more. Just fantastic. What connects people to move FROM NY to here, not the South, but not Arizona and not even Colorado? He says he doesn't like it here, but he does like CO and he intends on retiring at a beach house. Which means....no middle of the USA stuff for him. He also added that he is almost 50, which ... which....means he is like, my age!> There are more characters I have met. Which is not to say me, often bra-less, is also not a character when I walk my kid's dog. Six times a day. Cuz he is a terrier and really needs to get out like this. And so that is how I meet people. AND FIND A COMMUNITY that I may miss when I move. AGAIN. D