Bird poop

Last week, the building management had the professional window cleaning guys out slamming around on rappelling gear for the twice-annual window cleaning:

A couple days ago, I realized that the interior and exterior balcony windows were filthy, especially in contrast to the professionally cleaned ones, so I spent about a half hour cleaning them. They looked MUCH better.

Then this morning, I saw an immense amount of bird poop on the outside of one of the pro-cleaned windows. It seriously looked like the bird had a grudge against us, and had flown at a perfect angle to run a long smear down the glass as extensively as possible: there were smears and solids spanning a full five feet, and probably would've been more if not for a small ledge that sticks out.

Fortunately, the bird chose a window I can just lean and get by standing on the balcony, so I wrapped a junky handtowel around the broom and duct taped it, watered it, and leaned over to scrub. I then wrapped a clean towel and taped it, and dried/polished. You can still tell in a couple small areas that some bird is a hater, but it looks MUCH better.