so, what's going on?
i was up around 13:00, got something to eat, did some cleaning and put together some loose ends regarding some planning.
i got an email from a lawyer that will be representing the city of windsor regarding the judicial review, meaning i won't need to snail mail it, and that should save me a few bucks. great.
the cheapest way for me to print is probably going to be at the university of windsor library, which i haven't been to, yet. $0.08/pg. it's $0.25/pg at the public library. the application is going to be about 130 pages, so cutting printing costs by two thirds sounds like a good idea to me. 130*3 = 390. the factum has to be short, by law, but if i end up printing around 450 pages at $0.25/page, that's going to cost me over $100. at $0.08/page, i can hopefully keep it to around $30.
the appspot site is still up, for now. i'll have to get my g1 next week, once i get the printing dealt with.
i'm supposed to be getting back to the recording tomorrow. *shrug*. the sooner i get this dealt with, the sooner i can get back to work. but, i'm going to be off by a few days now, regardless.
so, i'm back to working on this for the night, and i hope it's not too much longer before i can put this aside for a bit.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
where'd i go?
i made some eggs this morning and took what i wanted to be a nap around 6:00, but i wasn't up again until after noon. so, i checked my account, to make sure i didn't get paid, before getting back...
nope. got paid.
it's true that i had to get some food, but what i really had to get was a prepaid mastercard, before i missed my chance on cheap tickets to toronto. they don't take paypal. and, my debit doesn't have a credit card. sound familiar? but, unlike google, they'll take the gift cards.
i really wasn't supposed to get paid until tomorrow, but, as mentioned, those holidays in the states can make the banks act funny, sometimes. that would suggest that the canadian bankers in charge of my account took american thanksgiving off, or that odsp is otherwise routing through yankee financial channels. this is all being secretly run by charles koch....
so, i wasn't planning on leaving the house today.
but, on the news of early payment, i rushed out of the house in a dirty mess (well. i bought plaid tickets, first.) and down to the closest store where...they wouldn't scan it. they had them, in the store. i brought one to the cash, even. no scan. it was a clerical error, on their behalf.
what next? well, i got some fruit (kiwis & blueberries were on sale) and some peppers and some pens and went home. it's, like, 14:30. i can try the far store, i'm thinking.
so, i got some salami at the wholesale shop down the street, finished my extra large timmy's, bummed a few more smokes and made it to the far store, where i got some cherry ice cream, some creamy ceasar salad dressing, four cartons of vanilla soy, five "forever raspberry" air fresheners (i guess the raspberry fields were gone) and one $100 prepaid mastercard.
i wasn't home until nearly 17:00, which meant it was too late to get to the library to print, but i did indeed get a greyhound ticket to go back to toronto to drop off the application record & factum, which is something that i didn't know enough to do when i was there. hey, i'm figuring this out, still. i'll add the costs to the application record.
i wasn't done with my black friday shopping, though. the fresh mart closest to me doesn't stock the cherry ice cream i like, and the far store only had one (i needed at least two.), and i couldn't find any strawberries anywhere, so i decided to take a walk to the previous "store#2", which is now the really far store. i'll still go to store #1 when i'm downtown, but i'm very rarely at the ol' store #2 nowadays. but, a girl needs her cherry ice cream, so what can i say? task accomplished, even if i still had no strawberries.
and, i had to go back to the closest food basics to get the strawberries in the end. they were mildly overpriced, but they look ok. if it works out, it's fine.
i took a last run out to get some vodka, which i likely won't open until plaid and will likely last me the rest of the winter. i picked up a sub, as well. i took the sub home and i ate it. it was good.
i spent the night doing things like cleaning fruit.
a shower also happened...
....and, there's my day, and the reason i didn't spend it ranting here about nothing.
this inevitably happens around this time of the month, and i have to spend the day doing it. i've ruled out dancing tonight. it's the rain. so, let's get some sleep and get this finished in the morning...
i made some eggs this morning and took what i wanted to be a nap around 6:00, but i wasn't up again until after noon. so, i checked my account, to make sure i didn't get paid, before getting back...
nope. got paid.
it's true that i had to get some food, but what i really had to get was a prepaid mastercard, before i missed my chance on cheap tickets to toronto. they don't take paypal. and, my debit doesn't have a credit card. sound familiar? but, unlike google, they'll take the gift cards.
i really wasn't supposed to get paid until tomorrow, but, as mentioned, those holidays in the states can make the banks act funny, sometimes. that would suggest that the canadian bankers in charge of my account took american thanksgiving off, or that odsp is otherwise routing through yankee financial channels. this is all being secretly run by charles koch....
so, i wasn't planning on leaving the house today.
but, on the news of early payment, i rushed out of the house in a dirty mess (well. i bought plaid tickets, first.) and down to the closest store where...they wouldn't scan it. they had them, in the store. i brought one to the cash, even. no scan. it was a clerical error, on their behalf.
what next? well, i got some fruit (kiwis & blueberries were on sale) and some peppers and some pens and went home. it's, like, 14:30. i can try the far store, i'm thinking.
so, i got some salami at the wholesale shop down the street, finished my extra large timmy's, bummed a few more smokes and made it to the far store, where i got some cherry ice cream, some creamy ceasar salad dressing, four cartons of vanilla soy, five "forever raspberry" air fresheners (i guess the raspberry fields were gone) and one $100 prepaid mastercard.
i wasn't home until nearly 17:00, which meant it was too late to get to the library to print, but i did indeed get a greyhound ticket to go back to toronto to drop off the application record & factum, which is something that i didn't know enough to do when i was there. hey, i'm figuring this out, still. i'll add the costs to the application record.
i wasn't done with my black friday shopping, though. the fresh mart closest to me doesn't stock the cherry ice cream i like, and the far store only had one (i needed at least two.), and i couldn't find any strawberries anywhere, so i decided to take a walk to the previous "store#2", which is now the really far store. i'll still go to store #1 when i'm downtown, but i'm very rarely at the ol' store #2 nowadays. but, a girl needs her cherry ice cream, so what can i say? task accomplished, even if i still had no strawberries.
and, i had to go back to the closest food basics to get the strawberries in the end. they were mildly overpriced, but they look ok. if it works out, it's fine.
i took a last run out to get some vodka, which i likely won't open until plaid and will likely last me the rest of the winter. i picked up a sub, as well. i took the sub home and i ate it. it was good.
i spent the night doing things like cleaning fruit.
a shower also happened...
....and, there's my day, and the reason i didn't spend it ranting here about nothing.
this inevitably happens around this time of the month, and i have to spend the day doing it. i've ruled out dancing tonight. it's the rain. so, let's get some sleep and get this finished in the morning...
Thursday, November 28, 2019
so, i'm back up in my primary typing environment, and where were we?
i did not get paid last night, so i didn't blow the opportunity to get tickets and stuff. and, i am trying to save on the electrical...
i just lost 24 hours, though. what happened?
well, i stopped around 17:00 to take a nap due to a migraine. it was getting to the point that i couldn't see; i didn't have the choice, i had to stop. this is rare, but it's become a known issue for me since moving to windsor (and i'm sure it's the pollution). this was after having really been up all night the day before, so, whatever the primary cause was, i'm sure the lack of sleep wasn't helping.
i got up a little after 19:00 and the power in half the building was out, but i was able to connect to the internet by plugging the power bar for the modem & router into the stove (despite the stove not working). i also plugged the fridge into the stove. it's the end of the month, but the eggs and bread and cheese and salami i've got left in there seem to be ok.
i tried to focus, but the headache was too much, and i took a shower instead. then, i spent some time thinking about the electrical.
this was good until about 23:30, when the power went out entirely, taking everything - including the fridge - with it. so, i napped until it came back on around 1:00.
i noticed that the battery wasn't charging. so, i took it out and rebooted and the thing wouldn't get a video out through the port. i did some testing with the pc, and concluded the drive was fine. did the surge fry the battery? i spent the next several hours fighting with this.
what fixed it?
i don't know, but i think it was power related.
by close to 7:00, which was bed time, i'd decided that i was probably dealing with some combo ram/power issue. i had managed to get the thing to boot, but it was by mashing buttons on an imaginary pause screen that i didn't understand - and could never experience, because the backlight is burnt out. so, it was kind of like operating on faith, and i don't like doing that.
before i went to sleep, i took everything out of the back panel of the machine - hard drive, battery, ram, cmos, wireless - and just let it sit until i woke up. i think it was about 15:00 when i got up, indicating i slept well, but there wasn't a reprogrammed clock in the apartment to check the time for until i could get the machine back up. well, i could have launched the chromebook. i didn't.
but, i started slowly putting the machine back together and a problem didn't present itself - it just worked.
if all of the hardware is actually fine, could i have fucked something up in the registry? if i did, i didn't actually undo it.
i think the thing just got zapped and needed some time to balance out into equilibrium - to lose it's charge, to drain it's capacitors, to become one with the environment around it. electricity is inherently holistic, actually. and, large amounts of physics and chemistry are intrinsically about trying to find that balance....
this is what i thought the problem with the chromebook was, and what i did to try to fix it, but it didn't work - if there was some excess charge in the electrical components then that charge needed to be pushed out or otherwise just dissipate before the components would work properly again. and, while i wish there was a better answer, there doesn't appear to be one.
the battery is back to charging again, too.
so, what am i doing now? well, as before, i have to clean up last night's mess. then, i need to finish the last part of the application, which is piecing together emails between myself and the various police organizations. that's what i was doing last night before i stopped...
i haven't updated the vlog in a while either, and that's what the next part is for:
- slept all night wednesday
- was up early thursday morning. smoked. got info on po box from money mart. went home. ate. vegged. smoked a second time. slept very quickly.
- was up (very) early friday morning. smoked the last of it. came home. slept all day.
- tried to wake myself up with large amounts of fruit on saturday, but still slept.
- finished the form 10 on sunday. got some more fruit.
- had trouble getting started on monday, but got my head around the process, and did the concert look ahead over the evening.
- i got started more seriously on tuesday.
- i got mostly done on wednesday.
- and, now i've slept all day thursday - but am confident i'll be done in the morning.
i did not get paid last night, so i didn't blow the opportunity to get tickets and stuff. and, i am trying to save on the electrical...
i just lost 24 hours, though. what happened?
well, i stopped around 17:00 to take a nap due to a migraine. it was getting to the point that i couldn't see; i didn't have the choice, i had to stop. this is rare, but it's become a known issue for me since moving to windsor (and i'm sure it's the pollution). this was after having really been up all night the day before, so, whatever the primary cause was, i'm sure the lack of sleep wasn't helping.
i got up a little after 19:00 and the power in half the building was out, but i was able to connect to the internet by plugging the power bar for the modem & router into the stove (despite the stove not working). i also plugged the fridge into the stove. it's the end of the month, but the eggs and bread and cheese and salami i've got left in there seem to be ok.
i tried to focus, but the headache was too much, and i took a shower instead. then, i spent some time thinking about the electrical.
this was good until about 23:30, when the power went out entirely, taking everything - including the fridge - with it. so, i napped until it came back on around 1:00.
i noticed that the battery wasn't charging. so, i took it out and rebooted and the thing wouldn't get a video out through the port. i did some testing with the pc, and concluded the drive was fine. did the surge fry the battery? i spent the next several hours fighting with this.
what fixed it?
i don't know, but i think it was power related.
by close to 7:00, which was bed time, i'd decided that i was probably dealing with some combo ram/power issue. i had managed to get the thing to boot, but it was by mashing buttons on an imaginary pause screen that i didn't understand - and could never experience, because the backlight is burnt out. so, it was kind of like operating on faith, and i don't like doing that.
before i went to sleep, i took everything out of the back panel of the machine - hard drive, battery, ram, cmos, wireless - and just let it sit until i woke up. i think it was about 15:00 when i got up, indicating i slept well, but there wasn't a reprogrammed clock in the apartment to check the time for until i could get the machine back up. well, i could have launched the chromebook. i didn't.
but, i started slowly putting the machine back together and a problem didn't present itself - it just worked.
if all of the hardware is actually fine, could i have fucked something up in the registry? if i did, i didn't actually undo it.
i think the thing just got zapped and needed some time to balance out into equilibrium - to lose it's charge, to drain it's capacitors, to become one with the environment around it. electricity is inherently holistic, actually. and, large amounts of physics and chemistry are intrinsically about trying to find that balance....
this is what i thought the problem with the chromebook was, and what i did to try to fix it, but it didn't work - if there was some excess charge in the electrical components then that charge needed to be pushed out or otherwise just dissipate before the components would work properly again. and, while i wish there was a better answer, there doesn't appear to be one.
the battery is back to charging again, too.
so, what am i doing now? well, as before, i have to clean up last night's mess. then, i need to finish the last part of the application, which is piecing together emails between myself and the various police organizations. that's what i was doing last night before i stopped...
i haven't updated the vlog in a while either, and that's what the next part is for:
- slept all night wednesday
- was up early thursday morning. smoked. got info on po box from money mart. went home. ate. vegged. smoked a second time. slept very quickly.
- was up (very) early friday morning. smoked the last of it. came home. slept all day.
- tried to wake myself up with large amounts of fruit on saturday, but still slept.
- finished the form 10 on sunday. got some more fruit.
- had trouble getting started on monday, but got my head around the process, and did the concert look ahead over the evening.
- i got started more seriously on tuesday.
- i got mostly done on wednesday.
- and, now i've slept all day thursday - but am confident i'll be done in the morning.
but, i mean...
i don't want to use my brain at work at all. if i have to go to work, i just want to go in and do something stupid and go home and read and think by myself.
i'd rather be a dishwasher than a lawyer or a computer scientist or a mathematician.
it's not booting. ugh. i'm going to see if i can figure out how to change the cmos in a laptop, because i've never done that before.
broadly speaking, i have very little interest in computer science as a topic.
i did it because i was a kid, and when you're a kid, you do what you're told.
but, my disinterest is why i avoided it for ten years, and dropped out a half credit before finishing it, in the end.
my degree is in mathematics, not computer science.
i would be miserable working in the field - that's why i switched into law, because i knew i'd be happier in that field.
well....
i don't completely understand how i got the thing to boot, but i did.
albeit dated to jan 1, 2001.
i suspect i reset something, but i don't know where or how. i've been kind of smashing buttons, looking at lights, until it worked.
i disconnected the wireless and took out some of the ram, but i don't think that's it.
i may need to swap the bios chip. or, it may be that virus, again.
but, i've pretty much concluded that i don't have time to concern myself with this for right now.
and, i went to try and reboot and it didn't work again, indicating that whatever the magic keys were were important...
what if that machine is down for a while? i have no intention of moving to the chromebook - i just don't want to, i want to use windows as the gateway. and, the pcs are not allowed on the internet, because it's not safe. clearly.
so, i dunno.
so, i dunno.
i don't have the cash to buy a new windows laptop, right now.
i wanted to replace the board in the newer laptop and use it for editing. i don't know if i can even get it to work.
and, i've mused about it, but i'm not going to pretend i can get the 90s laptop to work for this task.
i may have to use the windows machines at the library, i guess.
i just have no interest in doing this in anything but word.
i don't know what i did this time, but i think it's stuck on a screen.
the power went out completely around 11:30 and came back a bit before 1:00. i noticed that the battery wasn't charging, so i thought maybe something got stuck and i could drain the capacitor....
the machine rebooted a few times just fine, but wouldn't come back after a few tries.
the drive is fine - i can load it in the pc. but, the laptop just won't boot. like, at all. and i don't actually really know where to begin, because i can't get a screen on the device. i have to wait for windows to load to get the video drivers out through the projector out, and i'm not getting that far.
i tried a boot log, and it's not loading, indicating it's not getting there. but, it isn't beeping. it's not shutting down. i don't get it.
it kind of seems like a bios, but i'd need a bios emulator to try to do it blind.
so, i don't know. is it possible that the boot database is fine for the pc but corrupted for the laptop? if so, i don't have time to work that out.
like i say: i don't actually know what happened, but i'm a little worried that the power outage may have fried the board. i just don't understand why it's not beeping, if that's the case.
so, i'm going to run a startup repair and otherwise see if i can get some kind of way to get the bios to read the projector out so i can see what it's actually doing.
with the american holiday this week (it's not a holiday in canada.), it's not clear when i'll get paid, but i'm going to need to get this stuff mailed or faxed by monday at the latest. i wanted this done by (last) monday. i'm not spending days and days fucking around. the chromebook is useless for this; i bought it for blogging. i'll have to install word 2003 on the 90s laptop, if it comes down to it...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
well, let's hope they're right.
did i actually do laundry on sunday?
i don't remember.
i did it on saturday.
i know i did dishes. i know i went to the store.
the only other thing i can think of is that i got dinged on the scanner on sunday, but it's not adding up, either. was it coffee, then? the microwave? it was an only an hour, but it was a lot.
this is what can't happen. i need to know what i'm using. i'm going to need to take extra note of the electrical usage.
right now, i'm on track for 100-120 kwh this billing cycle, which is substantially less. so long as i stay low for the rest of the month, i should be ok (although i'm going to need to do one more load). i have to keep an eye on this, because i'm not paying this bill.
i'm slowly feeling better, but i'm going to need the fan on overnight, regardless, i'm sure.
did i actually do laundry on sunday?
i don't remember.
i did it on saturday.
i know i did dishes. i know i went to the store.
the only other thing i can think of is that i got dinged on the scanner on sunday, but it's not adding up, either. was it coffee, then? the microwave? it was an only an hour, but it was a lot.
this is what can't happen. i need to know what i'm using. i'm going to need to take extra note of the electrical usage.
right now, i'm on track for 100-120 kwh this billing cycle, which is substantially less. so long as i stay low for the rest of the month, i should be ok (although i'm going to need to do one more load). i have to keep an eye on this, because i'm not paying this bill.
i'm slowly feeling better, but i'm going to need the fan on overnight, regardless, i'm sure.
the hot water works, at least.
the headache was better when in the shower, but came back as soon as i got out. and, the smell is back, too.
i understand that these things are probably all related, but these migraines are debilitating, and i can't just tough it out. i don't want to complain about the smell until the power turns back on, although that just confirms it's probably the heat. but, i might have to sleep it off....
i can't turn the fan off with the migraine like this. i know it's the dominant factor, even if it got triggered by something to do with the electrical.
the fridge is plugged in. that's the most important thing.
the stove doesn't work, but the fridge does, when it's plugged into the stove. figure that out. the stove is just blinking.
there's enough power to the microwave to run the clock, but not enough to turn it on.
some of the lights are on at about half power, some of them are on full power and some of them are blinking.
the enwin site claims the power is out for an unknown reason and, as mentioned, i'm not expecting anybody on it until after 9:00. the hours are 9:00-5:00, but you have to wait for the workers to shake off the beer from the night before and smoke a joint before they get to work on the power lines. i'll be lucky if it's on before noon.
it almost seems like something blew up....
i tried to sleep off the headache this afternoon, and it didn't work, so i'm going to try to nap it off for a bit more tonight. i've got some aspirin in me and some fruit in me and some soy in me. let's hope i'm better in a bit - let's hope i don't have to waste the whole night.
the headache was better when in the shower, but came back as soon as i got out. and, the smell is back, too.
i understand that these things are probably all related, but these migraines are debilitating, and i can't just tough it out. i don't want to complain about the smell until the power turns back on, although that just confirms it's probably the heat. but, i might have to sleep it off....
i can't turn the fan off with the migraine like this. i know it's the dominant factor, even if it got triggered by something to do with the electrical.
the fridge is plugged in. that's the most important thing.
the stove doesn't work, but the fridge does, when it's plugged into the stove. figure that out. the stove is just blinking.
there's enough power to the microwave to run the clock, but not enough to turn it on.
some of the lights are on at about half power, some of them are on full power and some of them are blinking.
the enwin site claims the power is out for an unknown reason and, as mentioned, i'm not expecting anybody on it until after 9:00. the hours are 9:00-5:00, but you have to wait for the workers to shake off the beer from the night before and smoke a joint before they get to work on the power lines. i'll be lucky if it's on before noon.
it almost seems like something blew up....
i tried to sleep off the headache this afternoon, and it didn't work, so i'm going to try to nap it off for a bit more tonight. i've got some aspirin in me and some fruit in me and some soy in me. let's hope i'm better in a bit - let's hope i don't have to waste the whole night.
yeah, the electrical doesn't seem to be particularly out of the ordinary for the last week.
i think the power is out on the other side of the house for the night, unfortunately. the electrical company only seems to work 9:00-5:00. yeah.
my head is throbbing, so i'm going to see if the hot water works and take a shower if it does.
i think the power is out on the other side of the house for the night, unfortunately. the electrical company only seems to work 9:00-5:00. yeah.
my head is throbbing, so i'm going to see if the hot water works and take a shower if it does.
there's a very weird power outage, here. i can confirm that it's listed at the enwin site, but what i'm experiencing doesn't seem like a power outage.
it's more like i'm not getting enough amperage on half of the house - like the power has been cut. the lights flicker or come at half power. and, the weirdest thing is that one of the ports on the stove works, and the other doesn't.
so, i've strung up a bunch of power cords into the stove to get online and leave the fridge on. and, i'll need to call them in the morning if it doesn't turn back on.
i'm also dealing with a migraine for the first time in a while, and, yes, i'm wondering if it has to do with the fans turning off. i'm going to wait it out for a bit, but i can't suffer through migraines like this. if the migraine is still going on midnight, i'll have to run the fan overnight.
i've decided to be thorough, so the application record is taking longer than i wanted and is going to be a lot longer than i intended. but, i don't want to rely on the cops to provide the information. i think i'm almost done...
it's more like i'm not getting enough amperage on half of the house - like the power has been cut. the lights flicker or come at half power. and, the weirdest thing is that one of the ports on the stove works, and the other doesn't.
so, i've strung up a bunch of power cords into the stove to get online and leave the fridge on. and, i'll need to call them in the morning if it doesn't turn back on.
i'm also dealing with a migraine for the first time in a while, and, yes, i'm wondering if it has to do with the fans turning off. i'm going to wait it out for a bit, but i can't suffer through migraines like this. if the migraine is still going on midnight, i'll have to run the fan overnight.
i've decided to be thorough, so the application record is taking longer than i wanted and is going to be a lot longer than i intended. but, i don't want to rely on the cops to provide the information. i think i'm almost done...
guess i needed some more sleep....
it was less, this time. more of a nap, really, even, but i had to crash.
my landlord stopped to talk to me on the way home from getting soy milk yesterday, and he claims he's not going to file. he said he had a talk with his daughters, and they won't move in, after all. of course, the reality is that he was just angry about my tactics in getting him to do something about the sewers, and seems to have reflected that i had to do something because he wasn't paying attention. but, i also suspect that the underlying issue is persistent - i basically had to get on his ass because he's clinically lazy (or depressed.), and i think he's refusing to file for more or less the same reason. if anything, i seem to have pissed him off enough to become uncharacteristically assertive, and that initial reaction seems to have faded quickly.
of course, he also got my own suit, which i launched immediately. that appears to have also caught him off guard - but i warned him i was going to do it.
i can't immediately drop. he has several weeks to file still, and i need to ensure that he doesn't file the day i drop. in fact, i won't drop until the week of. but, if he doesn't file, and the issue remains largely resolved, i will cancel at the last minute, because i do not want to plan to move at this time.
he would like to revisit the issue in july. i hope that works out.
so, i came in, got something to eat, took a shower, and then it was 23:00. i decided to take a nap before i got to work, and it didn't really take - it took a while to doze off, and then i sat in suspended-awakeness for a while after stirring awake again after 3:00. i'm going to try to wake up because i'm feeling alert...but that was arguably not even really a sleep....
it was less, this time. more of a nap, really, even, but i had to crash.
my landlord stopped to talk to me on the way home from getting soy milk yesterday, and he claims he's not going to file. he said he had a talk with his daughters, and they won't move in, after all. of course, the reality is that he was just angry about my tactics in getting him to do something about the sewers, and seems to have reflected that i had to do something because he wasn't paying attention. but, i also suspect that the underlying issue is persistent - i basically had to get on his ass because he's clinically lazy (or depressed.), and i think he's refusing to file for more or less the same reason. if anything, i seem to have pissed him off enough to become uncharacteristically assertive, and that initial reaction seems to have faded quickly.
of course, he also got my own suit, which i launched immediately. that appears to have also caught him off guard - but i warned him i was going to do it.
i can't immediately drop. he has several weeks to file still, and i need to ensure that he doesn't file the day i drop. in fact, i won't drop until the week of. but, if he doesn't file, and the issue remains largely resolved, i will cancel at the last minute, because i do not want to plan to move at this time.
he would like to revisit the issue in july. i hope that works out.
so, i came in, got something to eat, took a shower, and then it was 23:00. i decided to take a nap before i got to work, and it didn't really take - it took a while to doze off, and then i sat in suspended-awakeness for a while after stirring awake again after 3:00. i'm going to try to wake up because i'm feeling alert...but that was arguably not even really a sleep....
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
yeah. i can fit four scanned pages on one page, thereby cutting costs down to 25%. well, if i end up paying $0.25/sheet, and i have to print 60 pages three times, it's not a small sum. that's $45. i think i can find it somewhere for $0.15/sheet, but that's still $27. sure, i'd like to avoid paying for that.
if i can get it down to 20 pages or so, that's $15 at $0.25/sheet - or $9 at $0.15/sheet. i think it's $0.15 at the great law library in the building, and also at the public library across the street.
i'm going to do this in full size to start, and see how much it actually costs. if i can get it under $30, total, i'll just eat it. but, i am going to mail a copy to the windsor police by snail mail, in addition to sending them a copy by email, and i will have to print that from windsor, so maybe i can cut the page length down when i get to that point.
if i can get it down to 20 pages or so, that's $15 at $0.25/sheet - or $9 at $0.15/sheet. i think it's $0.15 at the great law library in the building, and also at the public library across the street.
i'm going to do this in full size to start, and see how much it actually costs. if i can get it under $30, total, i'll just eat it. but, i am going to mail a copy to the windsor police by snail mail, in addition to sending them a copy by email, and i will have to print that from windsor, so maybe i can cut the page length down when i get to that point.
so, the application record is really more frustrating due to the need to convert all of these pdf documents to word 2003 format, which is just being done by inserting dozens of images.
like, i'm spending time typesetting. really. that's the work required for this.
and, it's kind of dumb in terms of requirements because the only reason i'm doing this is to create a table of contents, and number the pages.
i'm really just taking the file i gave them last week, along with the initial report, the review and some scattered emails. i could have just sent it in separate documents. but i have to number everything, which is rather daft.
*shrug*.
so, i'm almost done the first part....
i don't really have to do the third part and the fourth part is just filing, so, as expected, it's just a few hours. i'm sure i'll be done by the morning.
but, i'm out of soy milk so i need to talk a walk while it's nice.
it's currently looking like it'll be about 60 pages, but can i shrink that? i'll try.
like, i'm spending time typesetting. really. that's the work required for this.
and, it's kind of dumb in terms of requirements because the only reason i'm doing this is to create a table of contents, and number the pages.
i'm really just taking the file i gave them last week, along with the initial report, the review and some scattered emails. i could have just sent it in separate documents. but i have to number everything, which is rather daft.
*shrug*.
so, i'm almost done the first part....
i don't really have to do the third part and the fourth part is just filing, so, as expected, it's just a few hours. i'm sure i'll be done by the morning.
but, i'm out of soy milk so i need to talk a walk while it's nice.
it's currently looking like it'll be about 60 pages, but can i shrink that? i'll try.
so, that was another sleepy morning, and what can i do besides shrug it off and drink more coffee and try to stay awake longer?
i spent the evening clearing out shows for the first half of the month, which is relevant as i determine whether to go back to toronto mid-month or not.
i wanted to get most of the writing done overnight. i guess i'll have to spend the day doing it, instead.
i spent the evening clearing out shows for the first half of the month, which is relevant as i determine whether to go back to toronto mid-month or not.
i wanted to get most of the writing done overnight. i guess i'll have to spend the day doing it, instead.
Monday, November 25, 2019
i think it's $16 for the g1.
that's just the written test, which i think is mostly common sense. but, it gets me the card, and that's what i need.
again: i have never passed a driving test, or even ever really driven a car before. i have never driven a car by myself. and i have no interest in learning...
so, i'll call about that in the next few days, too.
i did have a g1 at one point, but the cops stole it, probably illegally, for driving my bicycle on the sidewalk. it took me years to pay off the fine, but i did do it, eventually. i never got the license back, though.
i think they thought they were sticking it to me, but the reality is that i had no use for the thing.
that's just the written test, which i think is mostly common sense. but, it gets me the card, and that's what i need.
again: i have never passed a driving test, or even ever really driven a car before. i have never driven a car by myself. and i have no interest in learning...
so, i'll call about that in the next few days, too.
i did have a g1 at one point, but the cops stole it, probably illegally, for driving my bicycle on the sidewalk. it took me years to pay off the fine, but i did do it, eventually. i never got the license back, though.
i think they thought they were sticking it to me, but the reality is that i had no use for the thing.
so, i made some calls.
- the hrto got my email. good
- there's still no evidence that the landlord has filed anything at the board.
- that td card did actually get cancelled years ago due to an rts.
- i talked to a few people in detroit about accounts, but they seemed to want a passport and a driver's license. what i have is a sin card, a health card, a birth certificate and a nexus card. i have no interest in driving, but how much does it cost to get a g1 nowadays? is that enough? i'll try again in a day or two.
*shrug*.
i'm going to get to building these documents up - as mentioned, i should be done in a few hours, if i can stay awake.
- the hrto got my email. good
- there's still no evidence that the landlord has filed anything at the board.
- that td card did actually get cancelled years ago due to an rts.
- i talked to a few people in detroit about accounts, but they seemed to want a passport and a driver's license. what i have is a sin card, a health card, a birth certificate and a nexus card. i have no interest in driving, but how much does it cost to get a g1 nowadays? is that enough? i'll try again in a day or two.
*shrug*.
i'm going to get to building these documents up - as mentioned, i should be done in a few hours, if i can stay awake.
ok.
so, i would have until christmas, by my count, to serve and file four things. but, why wait?
could i have done this when i was there? if i wanted to spend $100 on printing, maybe. and, this is going to be an issue, regardless.
sorting through it, i don't think it's going to take long to get finished. a night. maybe two. so, i'm going to put it aside until tonight and make some calls, instead.
do i need to go to toronto?
do i want to go to toronto?
what else is happening this month? i've got plaid, and snow, so far. let's see if i like the new joy formidable or not...
obviously, that's the safest option.
so, i would have until christmas, by my count, to serve and file four things. but, why wait?
could i have done this when i was there? if i wanted to spend $100 on printing, maybe. and, this is going to be an issue, regardless.
sorting through it, i don't think it's going to take long to get finished. a night. maybe two. so, i'm going to put it aside until tonight and make some calls, instead.
do i need to go to toronto?
do i want to go to toronto?
what else is happening this month? i've got plaid, and snow, so far. let's see if i like the new joy formidable or not...
obviously, that's the safest option.
i always tell people that i don't have symptoms of depression. i've never been diagnosed with depression, either. i've never gone to a specialist with the concerns that i'm depressed. i've never complained to people around me about it.
i legitimately have absolutely no clinical history of depression at all, whatsoever.
it tends to throw people off - i'm in many ways the classic depression sufferer. it is true that the only way i can handle being in public is to get shitfaced, but it's also true that i cherish my sobriety when i'm by myself. so, they're only getting a skewed interpretation of me. if they spent time with me in a more intimate setting, they'd get an entirely different perspective of me. but, the caveat is that i'd never allow for it - i keep people at a large emotional distance, and with a clear intent to do so.
so, if i'm talking with a doctor, it always comes with a caveat - that i don't think i'm depressed but, if i was, how would i actually know? i don't think i suffer from depression, and i'll defend the point. but, if i do suffer from depression, it's so profound that i don't realize it, because it's so deep-rooted that i don't have anything to contrast it against it. a person that's never experienced happiness wouldn't be able to identify their depression. maybe that's the actual truth of it.
but, i don't tend to take the idea seriously, because, to the extent that it might be true, what does articulating it actually accomplish? my life has not been so horrible as to deny me any experiences of pleasure. if i'm actually suffering from an inability to experience happiness, the root cause of it would be something in the realm of a personality disorder - clinical psychopathy, or, perhaps, something in the asperger's spectrum. i'm more likely to lean towards the idea that i'm a sociopath than the idea that i'm clinically depressed.
but, i'm not diagnosed with anything substantive. at all.
what i can state with some certainty is that i don't think that drugs that act as depressants or sedatives are going to do anything but make the situation worse. i don't complain that i can't focus, or that i have too much energy that i can't control - i complain that i'm tired and lethargic and unable to get going. if i need to take anything on a daily basis, it would be some kind of stimulant to give me more energy.
but, like i say, i'm generally happy with coffee, so long as it's not being counteracted, as it so often is.
i legitimately have absolutely no clinical history of depression at all, whatsoever.
it tends to throw people off - i'm in many ways the classic depression sufferer. it is true that the only way i can handle being in public is to get shitfaced, but it's also true that i cherish my sobriety when i'm by myself. so, they're only getting a skewed interpretation of me. if they spent time with me in a more intimate setting, they'd get an entirely different perspective of me. but, the caveat is that i'd never allow for it - i keep people at a large emotional distance, and with a clear intent to do so.
so, if i'm talking with a doctor, it always comes with a caveat - that i don't think i'm depressed but, if i was, how would i actually know? i don't think i suffer from depression, and i'll defend the point. but, if i do suffer from depression, it's so profound that i don't realize it, because it's so deep-rooted that i don't have anything to contrast it against it. a person that's never experienced happiness wouldn't be able to identify their depression. maybe that's the actual truth of it.
but, i don't tend to take the idea seriously, because, to the extent that it might be true, what does articulating it actually accomplish? my life has not been so horrible as to deny me any experiences of pleasure. if i'm actually suffering from an inability to experience happiness, the root cause of it would be something in the realm of a personality disorder - clinical psychopathy, or, perhaps, something in the asperger's spectrum. i'm more likely to lean towards the idea that i'm a sociopath than the idea that i'm clinically depressed.
but, i'm not diagnosed with anything substantive. at all.
what i can state with some certainty is that i don't think that drugs that act as depressants or sedatives are going to do anything but make the situation worse. i don't complain that i can't focus, or that i have too much energy that i can't control - i complain that i'm tired and lethargic and unable to get going. if i need to take anything on a daily basis, it would be some kind of stimulant to give me more energy.
but, like i say, i'm generally happy with coffee, so long as it's not being counteracted, as it so often is.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
actually, i guess i can call somebody tomorrow.
i should probably have some way to get paid in us dollars, if it ever comes up. as of now, the only way i've ever actually received any cash is by selling things over bandcamp, which is through paypal in canadian dollars.
i've never sold anything at noise trade. youtube has never sent me a check. nobody's ever sent me anything over patreon. and i very specifically don't want ads on the writing, or on any of the music. there's ads on the vlogs, and i hate it, but it's what they're there for.
i think all that stuff is setup over paypal. i'm not even sure.
http://livingoffcloud.com/us-bank-account-for-canadian/#How-To-Open-a-US-Bank-Account-From-Canada
i should probably have some way to get paid in us dollars, if it ever comes up. as of now, the only way i've ever actually received any cash is by selling things over bandcamp, which is through paypal in canadian dollars.
i've never sold anything at noise trade. youtube has never sent me a check. nobody's ever sent me anything over patreon. and i very specifically don't want ads on the writing, or on any of the music. there's ads on the vlogs, and i hate it, but it's what they're there for.
i think all that stuff is setup over paypal. i'm not even sure.
http://livingoffcloud.com/us-bank-account-for-canadian/#How-To-Open-a-US-Bank-Account-From-Canada
i tried filling out a bunch of applications, and they all stalled at the ssn.
i should have known somebody's tried this before...
i guess that i'll need to actually get to detroit to do this.
it's a plan, at least.
https://btr.michaelkwan.com/2007/10/06/how-to-open-a-us-bank-account-as-a-canadian-citizen/
i should have known somebody's tried this before...
i guess that i'll need to actually get to detroit to do this.
it's a plan, at least.
https://btr.michaelkwan.com/2007/10/06/how-to-open-a-us-bank-account-as-a-canadian-citizen/
when i went to get the billing information for one of the prepaid cards to add to my form 10 (to request costs) i realized there was $11.10 on it.
that shouldn't be. the fan was $10.99. there should be $0.11. but, it was persistent...every time i checked...
i came back from toronto with $0.05 in my pocket and $0.20 in my account, so an extra $11 would be useful, if it means i can buy some fruit, which was the extent of what i needed for the month. what's the worst thing that can happen by trying?
so, i took a walk to the store and was, indeed, able to buy some fruit. score. that means my diet won't get interrupted this week, after all (and that we'll be having eggs on tuesday and thursday - i can get groceries on saturday).
i made a fruit bowl when i came in, took a shower and sat down to get a handle on what i need to serve over the next few days. so, i started off by checking my email and came up against this annoyance at apppengine, again.
how do i get around this?
so, i started poking around and...
if i can't get a credit card in canada, maybe i can open a bank account in the states. i don't have a social security number, though.
maybe something like this can help...
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/undocumented-immigrants-bank-accounts/
that shouldn't be. the fan was $10.99. there should be $0.11. but, it was persistent...every time i checked...
i came back from toronto with $0.05 in my pocket and $0.20 in my account, so an extra $11 would be useful, if it means i can buy some fruit, which was the extent of what i needed for the month. what's the worst thing that can happen by trying?
so, i took a walk to the store and was, indeed, able to buy some fruit. score. that means my diet won't get interrupted this week, after all (and that we'll be having eggs on tuesday and thursday - i can get groceries on saturday).
i made a fruit bowl when i came in, took a shower and sat down to get a handle on what i need to serve over the next few days. so, i started off by checking my email and came up against this annoyance at apppengine, again.
how do i get around this?
so, i started poking around and...
if i can't get a credit card in canada, maybe i can open a bank account in the states. i don't have a social security number, though.
maybe something like this can help...
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/undocumented-immigrants-bank-accounts/
this is easy to understand if you stop imagining that marijuana is some kind of medicine and recognize that it's a recreational drug, like alcohol.
if you're having a shitty week, will getting drunk with your friends make you feel better? for a while, probably. likewise, smoking a joint on a friday night might be stress-relieving, sure.
but, if you get shitfaced every day for a month, what are you going to feel like at the end of it? and, that's the proper way to understand these "medicinal" users - they're essentially just dirty, shit-faced drunks. from a data-driven perspective, they're having all of the same cognitive problems you'd associate with alcoholism.
the conclusion is that smoking drugs at the bar or with your friends may be fun on the weekend, but it's not something you should do on a daily basis, and especially not by yourself.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2019/10/29/marijuana-may-not-be-so-effective-for-mental-health-issues-including-depression-and-anxiety/#53e3ea3a56f0
if you're having a shitty week, will getting drunk with your friends make you feel better? for a while, probably. likewise, smoking a joint on a friday night might be stress-relieving, sure.
but, if you get shitfaced every day for a month, what are you going to feel like at the end of it? and, that's the proper way to understand these "medicinal" users - they're essentially just dirty, shit-faced drunks. from a data-driven perspective, they're having all of the same cognitive problems you'd associate with alcoholism.
the conclusion is that smoking drugs at the bar or with your friends may be fun on the weekend, but it's not something you should do on a daily basis, and especially not by yourself.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2019/10/29/marijuana-may-not-be-so-effective-for-mental-health-issues-including-depression-and-anxiety/#53e3ea3a56f0
habitual pot use was in fact already known to increase cortisol levels.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cannabis-stress-anxiety-study-young-adults-camh-1.5287192
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cannabis-stress-anxiety-study-young-adults-camh-1.5287192
nor am i a likely candidate to become a marijuana addict.
the one thing i'm seriously addicted to is caffeine, because i like to feel alert and perky and awake - not tired and slow and lethargic. so, marijuana is just not the drug i'd want to find myself addicted to, if i were to find myself addicted to anything. i'd be more likely to become a cocaine addict. but, i'm actually happy with the coffee - or, at least, i am so long as i'm not fighting off somebody else's pot addiction.
the one thing i'm seriously addicted to is caffeine, because i like to feel alert and perky and awake - not tired and slow and lethargic. so, marijuana is just not the drug i'd want to find myself addicted to, if i were to find myself addicted to anything. i'd be more likely to become a cocaine addict. but, i'm actually happy with the coffee - or, at least, i am so long as i'm not fighting off somebody else's pot addiction.
if you're waiting for me to "relapse" or "go back to normal habits" or something, then you're simply operating on bad information.
i used to smoke cigarettes habitually. i quit in january, 2016 - almost four years ago. since then, i've only smoked when i'm out drinking.
i did not used to smoke marijuana habitually. ever. not when i was a kid - which is when people smoke habitually - and not when i was an adult. i have not self-medicated. i find it creates anxiety rather than relieves it.
i have only ever been a social smoker.
so, i did not need to quit, because i never had a habit.
and, there's nothing to relapse to.
i used to smoke cigarettes habitually. i quit in january, 2016 - almost four years ago. since then, i've only smoked when i'm out drinking.
i did not used to smoke marijuana habitually. ever. not when i was a kid - which is when people smoke habitually - and not when i was an adult. i have not self-medicated. i find it creates anxiety rather than relieves it.
i have only ever been a social smoker.
so, i did not need to quit, because i never had a habit.
and, there's nothing to relapse to.
i fell asleep around midnight, and i just woke up, and it smells like drugs in here again for the first time in a good while...
again: i don't smoke in the house. i *never* smoked in the house. i'm never going to smoke in the house. what i said changed nothing, but i'll repeat myself and clarify the point.
what i said was:
1) i brought a half a gram of pot back from toronto.
2) i smoked it in three small joints
3) i did not like the effects of what it did to me.
to begin with, when i say "i didn't like the effects of the drug", that's a strong indication that i don't want to smell it in the house. i didn't say "i smoked three pinners and i loved it and i'm a pothead now", i said "i smoked three pinners and it made me so tired that i slept for three days and i want that time i lost back.".
second, i did not smoke any of these pinners in or near the house. i took a walk and smoked them down the street as i indicated i did previously. as i have signed a non-smoking lease, i would expect the same respect from the upstairs tenant - i expect him to take a walk if he's going to smoke a pinner. but, he's not smoking pinners.
third, that was the first time i had pot in the house since april, and might be the last time i have pot in the house for another seven to eight months if i'm here that long. on average, one might expect me to buy a few grams a year, spaced out by distances of months, and to never, ever smoke in or near the house, ever.
i don't know why this issue continues to raise itself: i have never smoked anything in the house, and have consequently upheld my lease obligation. if i choose to smoke a pinner down the street every seven-eight months, that doesn't mean i should be condemned to live in an ashtray or a bong 24/7. this is why i signed the fucking lease: i don't want this. it's gross. and, i don't like being tired all of the time.
as it is, i am feeling a little tired and don't want to be. i wanted to be working, right now. so, i'm going to take another shower and hope it helps with the smell, which is just fucking gross.
again: i have not signaled any change of behaviour. there has been absolutely no combustion of marijuana or tobacco in the unit at all, whatsoever, and there never will be. i have and will continue to take all smokeables a good distance from the house before combusting them. further, i have no plans to bring combustibles back into the house any time soon. the december 1st date will have no meaningful effect on my habits, other than perhaps to move me to edibles, slowly. i want my living space to be free of drug and alcohol use. i always have, and i always will.
let's try a shower. ugh.
again: i don't smoke in the house. i *never* smoked in the house. i'm never going to smoke in the house. what i said changed nothing, but i'll repeat myself and clarify the point.
what i said was:
1) i brought a half a gram of pot back from toronto.
2) i smoked it in three small joints
3) i did not like the effects of what it did to me.
to begin with, when i say "i didn't like the effects of the drug", that's a strong indication that i don't want to smell it in the house. i didn't say "i smoked three pinners and i loved it and i'm a pothead now", i said "i smoked three pinners and it made me so tired that i slept for three days and i want that time i lost back.".
second, i did not smoke any of these pinners in or near the house. i took a walk and smoked them down the street as i indicated i did previously. as i have signed a non-smoking lease, i would expect the same respect from the upstairs tenant - i expect him to take a walk if he's going to smoke a pinner. but, he's not smoking pinners.
third, that was the first time i had pot in the house since april, and might be the last time i have pot in the house for another seven to eight months if i'm here that long. on average, one might expect me to buy a few grams a year, spaced out by distances of months, and to never, ever smoke in or near the house, ever.
i don't know why this issue continues to raise itself: i have never smoked anything in the house, and have consequently upheld my lease obligation. if i choose to smoke a pinner down the street every seven-eight months, that doesn't mean i should be condemned to live in an ashtray or a bong 24/7. this is why i signed the fucking lease: i don't want this. it's gross. and, i don't like being tired all of the time.
as it is, i am feeling a little tired and don't want to be. i wanted to be working, right now. so, i'm going to take another shower and hope it helps with the smell, which is just fucking gross.
again: i have not signaled any change of behaviour. there has been absolutely no combustion of marijuana or tobacco in the unit at all, whatsoever, and there never will be. i have and will continue to take all smokeables a good distance from the house before combusting them. further, i have no plans to bring combustibles back into the house any time soon. the december 1st date will have no meaningful effect on my habits, other than perhaps to move me to edibles, slowly. i want my living space to be free of drug and alcohol use. i always have, and i always will.
let's try a shower. ugh.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
so, yeah.
i'm going to take a short nap, and get some pasta when i get up (and do some laundry as i'm eating), but what i'm going to need to do next is redo the order for the human rights complaint.
so, to recap.
i filed this thing some time in july. they got back to me in september and said "we don't have an address". so, i made a request to the cops to provide the address. the cops claimed that i didn't run a corporate search (which seems trivial), but the tribunal ruled that it would only break the mfippa after i've proven i can't find it in the corporate records search, which is what happened - i went to toronto and paid out a total of $95 to get a bum po box. so, the tribunal should now be ready to overturn the mfippa and order the cops to give me the address like i asked for in the first place.
and, i'm going to request $240 from the cops in costs, too - the $95 for costs and $14x10hrs in labour costs.
i'm going to take a short nap, and get some pasta when i get up (and do some laundry as i'm eating), but what i'm going to need to do next is redo the order for the human rights complaint.
so, to recap.
i filed this thing some time in july. they got back to me in september and said "we don't have an address". so, i made a request to the cops to provide the address. the cops claimed that i didn't run a corporate search (which seems trivial), but the tribunal ruled that it would only break the mfippa after i've proven i can't find it in the corporate records search, which is what happened - i went to toronto and paid out a total of $95 to get a bum po box. so, the tribunal should now be ready to overturn the mfippa and order the cops to give me the address like i asked for in the first place.
and, i'm going to request $240 from the cops in costs, too - the $95 for costs and $14x10hrs in labour costs.
do i plan on going back to toronto any time soon?
well, not if i can avoid it.
but, that's the next thing to figure out, and if i have to go back, i'd schedule in the 10th, to see the joy formidable. they seem to be skipping detroit with a full band......
i'll know in a few hours, once i've more carefully worked through the rules of civil procedure on this. i should be able to fax or mail virtually everything, and i know i have 30 days from the 19th, but i want to do it right, and if that means needing to take a second trip to the divisional court then i should take it as a learning experience, and make sure everything gets done all at once, this time.
i want to avoid spending $100 on photocopies.
well, not if i can avoid it.
but, that's the next thing to figure out, and if i have to go back, i'd schedule in the 10th, to see the joy formidable. they seem to be skipping detroit with a full band......
i'll know in a few hours, once i've more carefully worked through the rules of civil procedure on this. i should be able to fax or mail virtually everything, and i know i have 30 days from the 19th, but i want to do it right, and if that means needing to take a second trip to the divisional court then i should take it as a learning experience, and make sure everything gets done all at once, this time.
i want to avoid spending $100 on photocopies.
so, i was up at about 3:30 on monday morning, finished the writing, did some errands in the afternoon, made a large meal to give me energy for the next few days, took a long shower and got ready to get out.
i took the 1:30 am bus on tuesday morning, got to toronto at 6:30 sharp, had to blow a few hours, got the first part of the filing done very early, was done serving by 11:00 and got the certificate of service in before noon. i then bought some drugs and went to hang out in the library for a few hours. i couldn't find a seat when i came back in from a smoke, so i was out to the second part of the night earlier than intended, around 15:30. i decided to just go down to the bar a little early for an early beer...
the initial plan was to catch a local guitarist - sean pinchin - play from about 18:00-21:00, have a few cheap beers while i was there, and then go to the bovine sex club for the rest of the night to watch some psychedelic rock bands (headliner: goon), before getting pho at about 3:00 and catching the bus out at 8:00.
but, beer is expensive in toronto. in windsor, beer runs around $3.50-$4.00, cdn. beer in detroit is $2.00-$4.00 usd, which is still only $2.50-5.50 cdn. in toronto, $7.00 cdn is considered cheap, and people don't seem to like it when you complain about it. so, i wanted to go to what i thought was a dive bar to get some cheap beer early, but came up against a $7.00 beer that i just didn't budget for. i mean, maybe there's places in windsor with $7.00 beer, but they'd be full of middle class bourgeois types that i wouldn't like very much and i'd have so little interest in going to them that i don't even know where they are. even that spot across from phog that i complained about is selling tall boys for $6.00, not pints for $7.00. if i walked into a bar in windsor and they tried to charge me $7.00 for a pint, i'd just laugh at them and go somewhere else.
as it is, upon bitching about the price, i was informed by the bartender that i could get a beer for $3.50 down the street, so i took a walk to save a few dollars, and hopefully turn one beer into two. that's just smart fiscal management. clearly.
listen: it's not like i was just being cheap. really. i had a fixed sum to work with, which was down to $43 at this point. if i spent all of my money on an expensive $7.00 beer, i'd just run out of it in a few drinks. then, i'd be stuck in toronto until 8:00 with no money and no alcohol and nothing to do. that's not a question of being cheap, it's a question of being stupid. when you have a fixed amount of money to work with, you have to be smart about how you're spending it - and spending $7.00 for a single beer would just not be very smart. if i was working for the government, i could just print more; i'm not, so i have limits i have to abide by.
but, this bartender at the spot i thought was a dive bar but wasn't....he didn't like me after that. this was a middle-aged white guy with facial hair (and, you know you're special when you hit 25 and still insist on facial hair. lol.) that probably leaned pretty far to the right of the political spectrum, if you can judge a middle-aged white guy by his facial hair, and you usually can. so, my cheap beer at the early show at the dive bar idea failed in a few different ways....it turned out to be expensive beer amidst what was really a rather undesirable crowd of right-wingers that still believe in upholding class (!).
the cheaper beer (it was sill $3.50) was at a place called 'wide open', which started to pick up quite a bit after 17:00. see, i liked the cheaper beer, but the music in the place was truly awful. i'm just not going to want to sit around and listen to bon jovi. sorry.
so, i went back to the not-actually-a-dive-bar, talked the bartender into a $5.50 beer and caught the guy play the first part of his set.
i wasn't actually sure what to expect - it was advertised as a juno-nominated blues guitarist, and i was just waiting for the show at the bovine to start, anyways, so i wasn't that invested.
but, he actually did a lot of finger-picking, and it was broadly instrumental, in scope. so, i found myself enjoying the music in a more detailed way than initially expected, enough that i decided to close my eyes for a bit to float off into it.
uch-o. that's against the rules, apparently. tough guy bartender with the facial hair didn't like that, and asked me to leave for "sleeping at the bar" - an egregiously false claim that anybody in the room would immediately identify as such. rather, i think it's clear enough that he just didn't think i was wealthy enough to hang out there...
so, i sent the guitarist the following message, over facebook, when i got home:
so, i tried to check out your set on tuesday. and, it was a good set, from what i caught of it.
i was in town to do some filing at the court house; i live in windsor. i'm suing the cops for a warrantless arrest that shouldn't have happened, if you're curious. so, i caught the 1:30 bus from windsor in the morning, and everybody drinks on the greyhound, right? i was halfway through a long day full of lots of alcohol and marijuana, and i wasn't going to get home to shower until the next day...
what i said to the bartender was true i am a guitarist (you can check me out by clicking through the links), and i actually have a little bit of training in renaissance classical music, but i'm mostly a psychedelic blues guitarist. so, i like guitar music, and i was enjoying your set. i often enjoy listening to guitar music with my eyes closed, so i can experience it in three dimensions, in the context of the fret board. it's not exactly synesthesia, it's more of a math thing (i also have a math degree), but it's how i dig it. some people wanna get up and clap and dance; i want to close my eyes and space out. that should be fine, right?
but, i couldn't finish your set because they threw me out for "falling asleep at the bar", which is just an empirically and factually false analysis of the situation. i can be drunk and close my eyes and enjoy your set without falling asleep.
but, so what if i *was* falling asleep? beer in toronto is about twice the price of beer in windsor, and that caught me off guard, so i had to readjust my budgeting. i had $40 to get me through the night, period. but, i had bought a beer and was intending to buy another one. you'd think you're entitled to a complimentary nap after paying for two beers, right?
the impression i got from the bartender was actually that he interpreted me as too lower class for his establishment. and, i mean, that's his opinion, if he wants to be like that...
the point i'm trying to make is this: i came to see you play, and the bar threw me out. no, i don't have a lot of money, and, yes, i was kind of drunk, but i was legitimately interested in your art. the reality is that you're a dirty roots guitarist. correctly or not, i may have come off as a poor drunk, but in the sense that that was true, i'm your audience - those guys in suits aren't.
how many other people are going to show up there to see you and get thrown out because they're too drunk or don't want to pay $7.00 for a beer?
so, i'm writing you as an artist to ask you to question whether you think that's a good place to play at or associate yourself with. it's clearly not a sustainable weekly gig. but, are you hurting yourself more than helping yourself?
if you were playing on the sidewalk for change instead, nobody would have chased me off.
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and, i'd just leave the situation at that.
i didn't pay cover to get into this place, and it wasn't my intended destination for the night; i just stopped by for a beer or two, and i was planning on leaving within an hour or two. further, i did catch the first half of the set. so, being asked to leave did not affect my night very much.
i may suggest that the bartender is a bit of an asshole, but there wasn't a lot of point in getting upset about it. rather, my reaction is more along the lines of that i don't particularly want to go back to this place, and would plead with people that are in the neighbourhood to choose to play somewhere else, instead. i would choose to avoid that place by choice, next time i'm around.
so, after buying a $3.50 beer and a $5.50 beer, i'm down to $34, and i'm out of smokes. the cost of cigarettes in toronto? $11. and, i know it's $10 for cover, taking me down to $13 for the night.
it's a good thing i didn't buy that $7.00 beer, right? but, the beer at the bovine wasn't cheap, either - i paid $5.50 for a can, and then had to hang on to the rest of the change in my pocket, in the hopes that i'd be able to get something to eat.
my comments regarding the first three acts are actually the same, namely that they each had moments, in their own ways, that were dragged down by an insistence on returning to a poppier aesthetic. in all three cases, i found myself wondering why they'd go back to the saccharine over and over, when it just wasn't working, but maybe i'm missing a trend, or something, i dunno; i know that that was the commonality here, and i don't actually think there's a lot else worth taking much note of.
the first act were highly impressed by the sound tech's suggestion of turning the amp down during sound check, but i actually think they got quite a bit more grit out of the amp than the monitors would allow for. put another way: the monitors gave them more of a "solid state" type 80s rock sound, which they seemed to prefer over their crappy 90s analog pedals. i liked that creamy, sustained muff tone better than the brittle-digital-distortion-through-fender-jazz tone he fixed you up with, guys. but i kept quiet. *shrug*.
they're just kids. they know not...
sicayda were enjoyable as a gaze act, but, as mentioned, they kept going back to these poppy sections that just left me scratching my head.
and, i'll say the same thing about goon, who were almost an interesting psych act, but just couldn't leave the pop at home, in los angeles.
i will acknowledge that i had what i believe i am correct in calling an anxiety attack near the start of the goon set, which required me to cheat hypothermia in stripping down to my tshirt in order to sweat something out that i had breathed in a few minutes earlier. somebody was looking to kill their joint. i'll always take it if nobody wants it, but it took me up past some thc blood level concentration point and forced me to process it, in the way i know how. then i was fine, as always.
if you were to ask me, i would suggest that goon need to decide if they're a psych act or a pop act, but the kids might give you another story.
the place cleared out almost entirely after goon, but they did have one more act, which was even catchier and didn't really have the moments that the first three did. this was definitely more in a new wave or post-punk tradition, so i'm not surprised to realize that they're a little older. i like this general style, but i need something more abstract than this.
then, it was like 1:00 and they were done.
as mentioned, i had $9.00 on me, and i wanted to save it to get something to eat. i just underestimated the cost of everything. if i had saved an extra $4-5 by paying a little less for pretty much everything, i would have bought another beer; conversely, if i had an extra $20, i would have bought another beer. but, i just misbudgeted, and was kind of stuck.
my options were to go sit in a diner for the next 6-7 hours or hang around at the bar until 3:00, with the hopes that a conversation might open up....and then sit in a diner for 3-4 hours. it seemed like an obvious choice. but, this bar - which i hadn't been in before - was actually kind of a couples bar, after the bands had cleared out; there were lots of people there, but they were pretty much solely in units of two. again, this is abnormal for the kinds of places i go to, which tend to be less about going on dates and more about hanging out. i don't know when i'll be in toronto next, but i'll keep that in mind...
the people were at least friendly. mostly.
so, i was approached by a bassist/singer in a few local bands that seemed intent on telling me bad jokes, and arguing with me over the value of recorded music. and, i won't post her links here, but it demonstrates that the place was friendly enough, even to a stranger from out of town there accidentally on an unofficial couples night.
it wasn't quite 3:00 when i left - i didn't make them throw me out - but it was close. and, off i went for pho...
.....which i knew would be cheap, but how cheap? $9.00 cheap? it turns out, not - it was $11.00 cheap, but not $9.00 cheap. so, i went looking for a sub, instead...
....and, i found one, but i would have had to eat it outside, which i balked at.
instead, i got a sausage from the truck outside for $4.50 and a coffee at the denny's, and hit the internet where i read the news for a bit. but, i didn't want to fall asleep and miss the bus, so i went back to the bus station to type there....
...and learned that they shut down all of the outlets at the greyhound. yeah. well, it didn't click at first - i went from outlet to outlet and finally found one in the basement, before the cops came down and threw me out, for reasons that i couldn't understand.
i had two dollars on me at the end, and went looking for a bag of chips, when it clicked - they've installed charging ports. aha.
it would be one thing for them to install quick charging ports as a convenience for people with fast phones, but it's another thing altogether to actually disassemble the electrical plugs, to stop people from charging. my chromebook is misbehaving, so i can't charge it right now. but, it doesn't have usb charging, anyways. so, they're taking away something without fully replacing it.
and, they didn't have outlets on the bus, either, so i just slept on the way home....
*shrug*.
i was home at about 15:00 on wednesday afternoon, ate, showered and passed out until early in the morning.
next time i go to toronto, i'll need to bring a few extra dollars - or, if i don't have it, reschedule until i do. it was a difference of about $30.
but, i did the filing that i needed to do, which was the point of the trip, and i didn't not enjoy the show, for what it was.
i took the 1:30 am bus on tuesday morning, got to toronto at 6:30 sharp, had to blow a few hours, got the first part of the filing done very early, was done serving by 11:00 and got the certificate of service in before noon. i then bought some drugs and went to hang out in the library for a few hours. i couldn't find a seat when i came back in from a smoke, so i was out to the second part of the night earlier than intended, around 15:30. i decided to just go down to the bar a little early for an early beer...
the initial plan was to catch a local guitarist - sean pinchin - play from about 18:00-21:00, have a few cheap beers while i was there, and then go to the bovine sex club for the rest of the night to watch some psychedelic rock bands (headliner: goon), before getting pho at about 3:00 and catching the bus out at 8:00.
but, beer is expensive in toronto. in windsor, beer runs around $3.50-$4.00, cdn. beer in detroit is $2.00-$4.00 usd, which is still only $2.50-5.50 cdn. in toronto, $7.00 cdn is considered cheap, and people don't seem to like it when you complain about it. so, i wanted to go to what i thought was a dive bar to get some cheap beer early, but came up against a $7.00 beer that i just didn't budget for. i mean, maybe there's places in windsor with $7.00 beer, but they'd be full of middle class bourgeois types that i wouldn't like very much and i'd have so little interest in going to them that i don't even know where they are. even that spot across from phog that i complained about is selling tall boys for $6.00, not pints for $7.00. if i walked into a bar in windsor and they tried to charge me $7.00 for a pint, i'd just laugh at them and go somewhere else.
as it is, upon bitching about the price, i was informed by the bartender that i could get a beer for $3.50 down the street, so i took a walk to save a few dollars, and hopefully turn one beer into two. that's just smart fiscal management. clearly.
listen: it's not like i was just being cheap. really. i had a fixed sum to work with, which was down to $43 at this point. if i spent all of my money on an expensive $7.00 beer, i'd just run out of it in a few drinks. then, i'd be stuck in toronto until 8:00 with no money and no alcohol and nothing to do. that's not a question of being cheap, it's a question of being stupid. when you have a fixed amount of money to work with, you have to be smart about how you're spending it - and spending $7.00 for a single beer would just not be very smart. if i was working for the government, i could just print more; i'm not, so i have limits i have to abide by.
but, this bartender at the spot i thought was a dive bar but wasn't....he didn't like me after that. this was a middle-aged white guy with facial hair (and, you know you're special when you hit 25 and still insist on facial hair. lol.) that probably leaned pretty far to the right of the political spectrum, if you can judge a middle-aged white guy by his facial hair, and you usually can. so, my cheap beer at the early show at the dive bar idea failed in a few different ways....it turned out to be expensive beer amidst what was really a rather undesirable crowd of right-wingers that still believe in upholding class (!).
the cheaper beer (it was sill $3.50) was at a place called 'wide open', which started to pick up quite a bit after 17:00. see, i liked the cheaper beer, but the music in the place was truly awful. i'm just not going to want to sit around and listen to bon jovi. sorry.
so, i went back to the not-actually-a-dive-bar, talked the bartender into a $5.50 beer and caught the guy play the first part of his set.
i wasn't actually sure what to expect - it was advertised as a juno-nominated blues guitarist, and i was just waiting for the show at the bovine to start, anyways, so i wasn't that invested.
but, he actually did a lot of finger-picking, and it was broadly instrumental, in scope. so, i found myself enjoying the music in a more detailed way than initially expected, enough that i decided to close my eyes for a bit to float off into it.
uch-o. that's against the rules, apparently. tough guy bartender with the facial hair didn't like that, and asked me to leave for "sleeping at the bar" - an egregiously false claim that anybody in the room would immediately identify as such. rather, i think it's clear enough that he just didn't think i was wealthy enough to hang out there...
so, i sent the guitarist the following message, over facebook, when i got home:
so, i tried to check out your set on tuesday. and, it was a good set, from what i caught of it.
i was in town to do some filing at the court house; i live in windsor. i'm suing the cops for a warrantless arrest that shouldn't have happened, if you're curious. so, i caught the 1:30 bus from windsor in the morning, and everybody drinks on the greyhound, right? i was halfway through a long day full of lots of alcohol and marijuana, and i wasn't going to get home to shower until the next day...
what i said to the bartender was true i am a guitarist (you can check me out by clicking through the links), and i actually have a little bit of training in renaissance classical music, but i'm mostly a psychedelic blues guitarist. so, i like guitar music, and i was enjoying your set. i often enjoy listening to guitar music with my eyes closed, so i can experience it in three dimensions, in the context of the fret board. it's not exactly synesthesia, it's more of a math thing (i also have a math degree), but it's how i dig it. some people wanna get up and clap and dance; i want to close my eyes and space out. that should be fine, right?
but, i couldn't finish your set because they threw me out for "falling asleep at the bar", which is just an empirically and factually false analysis of the situation. i can be drunk and close my eyes and enjoy your set without falling asleep.
but, so what if i *was* falling asleep? beer in toronto is about twice the price of beer in windsor, and that caught me off guard, so i had to readjust my budgeting. i had $40 to get me through the night, period. but, i had bought a beer and was intending to buy another one. you'd think you're entitled to a complimentary nap after paying for two beers, right?
the impression i got from the bartender was actually that he interpreted me as too lower class for his establishment. and, i mean, that's his opinion, if he wants to be like that...
the point i'm trying to make is this: i came to see you play, and the bar threw me out. no, i don't have a lot of money, and, yes, i was kind of drunk, but i was legitimately interested in your art. the reality is that you're a dirty roots guitarist. correctly or not, i may have come off as a poor drunk, but in the sense that that was true, i'm your audience - those guys in suits aren't.
how many other people are going to show up there to see you and get thrown out because they're too drunk or don't want to pay $7.00 for a beer?
so, i'm writing you as an artist to ask you to question whether you think that's a good place to play at or associate yourself with. it's clearly not a sustainable weekly gig. but, are you hurting yourself more than helping yourself?
if you were playing on the sidewalk for change instead, nobody would have chased me off.
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and, i'd just leave the situation at that.
i didn't pay cover to get into this place, and it wasn't my intended destination for the night; i just stopped by for a beer or two, and i was planning on leaving within an hour or two. further, i did catch the first half of the set. so, being asked to leave did not affect my night very much.
i may suggest that the bartender is a bit of an asshole, but there wasn't a lot of point in getting upset about it. rather, my reaction is more along the lines of that i don't particularly want to go back to this place, and would plead with people that are in the neighbourhood to choose to play somewhere else, instead. i would choose to avoid that place by choice, next time i'm around.
so, after buying a $3.50 beer and a $5.50 beer, i'm down to $34, and i'm out of smokes. the cost of cigarettes in toronto? $11. and, i know it's $10 for cover, taking me down to $13 for the night.
it's a good thing i didn't buy that $7.00 beer, right? but, the beer at the bovine wasn't cheap, either - i paid $5.50 for a can, and then had to hang on to the rest of the change in my pocket, in the hopes that i'd be able to get something to eat.
my comments regarding the first three acts are actually the same, namely that they each had moments, in their own ways, that were dragged down by an insistence on returning to a poppier aesthetic. in all three cases, i found myself wondering why they'd go back to the saccharine over and over, when it just wasn't working, but maybe i'm missing a trend, or something, i dunno; i know that that was the commonality here, and i don't actually think there's a lot else worth taking much note of.
the first act were highly impressed by the sound tech's suggestion of turning the amp down during sound check, but i actually think they got quite a bit more grit out of the amp than the monitors would allow for. put another way: the monitors gave them more of a "solid state" type 80s rock sound, which they seemed to prefer over their crappy 90s analog pedals. i liked that creamy, sustained muff tone better than the brittle-digital-distortion-through-fender-jazz tone he fixed you up with, guys. but i kept quiet. *shrug*.
they're just kids. they know not...
sicayda were enjoyable as a gaze act, but, as mentioned, they kept going back to these poppy sections that just left me scratching my head.
and, i'll say the same thing about goon, who were almost an interesting psych act, but just couldn't leave the pop at home, in los angeles.
i will acknowledge that i had what i believe i am correct in calling an anxiety attack near the start of the goon set, which required me to cheat hypothermia in stripping down to my tshirt in order to sweat something out that i had breathed in a few minutes earlier. somebody was looking to kill their joint. i'll always take it if nobody wants it, but it took me up past some thc blood level concentration point and forced me to process it, in the way i know how. then i was fine, as always.
if you were to ask me, i would suggest that goon need to decide if they're a psych act or a pop act, but the kids might give you another story.
the place cleared out almost entirely after goon, but they did have one more act, which was even catchier and didn't really have the moments that the first three did. this was definitely more in a new wave or post-punk tradition, so i'm not surprised to realize that they're a little older. i like this general style, but i need something more abstract than this.
then, it was like 1:00 and they were done.
as mentioned, i had $9.00 on me, and i wanted to save it to get something to eat. i just underestimated the cost of everything. if i had saved an extra $4-5 by paying a little less for pretty much everything, i would have bought another beer; conversely, if i had an extra $20, i would have bought another beer. but, i just misbudgeted, and was kind of stuck.
my options were to go sit in a diner for the next 6-7 hours or hang around at the bar until 3:00, with the hopes that a conversation might open up....and then sit in a diner for 3-4 hours. it seemed like an obvious choice. but, this bar - which i hadn't been in before - was actually kind of a couples bar, after the bands had cleared out; there were lots of people there, but they were pretty much solely in units of two. again, this is abnormal for the kinds of places i go to, which tend to be less about going on dates and more about hanging out. i don't know when i'll be in toronto next, but i'll keep that in mind...
the people were at least friendly. mostly.
so, i was approached by a bassist/singer in a few local bands that seemed intent on telling me bad jokes, and arguing with me over the value of recorded music. and, i won't post her links here, but it demonstrates that the place was friendly enough, even to a stranger from out of town there accidentally on an unofficial couples night.
it wasn't quite 3:00 when i left - i didn't make them throw me out - but it was close. and, off i went for pho...
.....which i knew would be cheap, but how cheap? $9.00 cheap? it turns out, not - it was $11.00 cheap, but not $9.00 cheap. so, i went looking for a sub, instead...
....and, i found one, but i would have had to eat it outside, which i balked at.
instead, i got a sausage from the truck outside for $4.50 and a coffee at the denny's, and hit the internet where i read the news for a bit. but, i didn't want to fall asleep and miss the bus, so i went back to the bus station to type there....
...and learned that they shut down all of the outlets at the greyhound. yeah. well, it didn't click at first - i went from outlet to outlet and finally found one in the basement, before the cops came down and threw me out, for reasons that i couldn't understand.
i had two dollars on me at the end, and went looking for a bag of chips, when it clicked - they've installed charging ports. aha.
it would be one thing for them to install quick charging ports as a convenience for people with fast phones, but it's another thing altogether to actually disassemble the electrical plugs, to stop people from charging. my chromebook is misbehaving, so i can't charge it right now. but, it doesn't have usb charging, anyways. so, they're taking away something without fully replacing it.
and, they didn't have outlets on the bus, either, so i just slept on the way home....
*shrug*.
i was home at about 15:00 on wednesday afternoon, ate, showered and passed out until early in the morning.
next time i go to toronto, i'll need to bring a few extra dollars - or, if i don't have it, reschedule until i do. it was a difference of about $30.
but, i did the filing that i needed to do, which was the point of the trip, and i didn't not enjoy the show, for what it was.
dec 1st in michigan.
it's also dec 1st in windsor, but i know that it's just the same product from the ministry. i might try a few things, but my expectations are very, very low.
the problem in canada is that it's over-regulated, mostly for child safety, so you have to buy something that got pressure sealed weeks or months ago, for the specific purpose of putting it in packaging that children can't get at. it's true that i don't think that kids should smoke pot, but i don't have any kids, and don't see why i should have to deal with such layers of nonsense around an issue that doesn't concern me. i would shrug off things like mandatory packaging in principle, but it really is degrading the quality of the product, and, at the end of the day, it's ultimately not the government's job to keep your kids away from your drugs. that's your responsibility, as an adult, and as a parent....
i can't take the stuff across the border, or at least i can't yet. that might change after 2020. but, in some ways, that's an asset, as i'd rather keep my drugs at the concert.
it's a mild detour in either direction, and this is about as far out of detroit as i ever go. so, if they're open by the first, i should be able to pick something up on the way to plaid. in the long run, i'd expect something to open in hamtramck, and something to open in newtown or midtown.
i'm just hoping that the product is fresh. having them actually package it in real time would be the ideal.
it's also dec 1st in windsor, but i know that it's just the same product from the ministry. i might try a few things, but my expectations are very, very low.
the problem in canada is that it's over-regulated, mostly for child safety, so you have to buy something that got pressure sealed weeks or months ago, for the specific purpose of putting it in packaging that children can't get at. it's true that i don't think that kids should smoke pot, but i don't have any kids, and don't see why i should have to deal with such layers of nonsense around an issue that doesn't concern me. i would shrug off things like mandatory packaging in principle, but it really is degrading the quality of the product, and, at the end of the day, it's ultimately not the government's job to keep your kids away from your drugs. that's your responsibility, as an adult, and as a parent....
i can't take the stuff across the border, or at least i can't yet. that might change after 2020. but, in some ways, that's an asset, as i'd rather keep my drugs at the concert.
it's a mild detour in either direction, and this is about as far out of detroit as i ever go. so, if they're open by the first, i should be able to pick something up on the way to plaid. in the long run, i'd expect something to open in hamtramck, and something to open in newtown or midtown.
i'm just hoping that the product is fresh. having them actually package it in real time would be the ideal.
so, i slept another nine hours or so overnight.
i am awake, now, and ready to get started on the tasks for the weekend.
note that i have no intention of leaving the house until at least the end of the week, and i want to get as much done as i can.
so, task one is to get the blogs in order, including writing the review. that should be done within a few hours, i think.
i am awake, now, and ready to get started on the tasks for the weekend.
note that i have no intention of leaving the house until at least the end of the week, and i want to get as much done as i can.
so, task one is to get the blogs in order, including writing the review. that should be done within a few hours, i think.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
the address that i got from the corporate name search is indeed registered to the name i was given, but belongs to a split commercial space owned by a sushi bar and a money mart. i don't know if there was ever any other business registered there, but it would seem to be an odd location for a property management company. it's a strip mall with a grocery store and some fast food restaurants and a dollar store and...well, a money mart. you'd think a company that rents apartments would want a more professional space.
the other option would be that the person that owns the company also owns one of those businesses, or also owned a business that was located there, and the property management component doesn't have it's own retail space. i would be more inclined towards thinking it's the money mart - or even in....does money mart rent po boxes?
(checks to see if money mart rents po boxes)
i can't find any current ads for money mart selling po boxes, but i can find some references to them doing so in the past. either she has an account that is in deep legacy mode, or the account is very out of date. but, it is on record that she recently filed her taxes, and the account open date is actually fairly recent. maybe they do sell them still, but don't advertise them. i dunno.
but, that seems to be the address on file - a commercial po box at a money mart.
which actually means i still have no idea where it is, but that's fine if the documents get to her.
the other option would be that the person that owns the company also owns one of those businesses, or also owned a business that was located there, and the property management component doesn't have it's own retail space. i would be more inclined towards thinking it's the money mart - or even in....does money mart rent po boxes?
(checks to see if money mart rents po boxes)
i can't find any current ads for money mart selling po boxes, but i can find some references to them doing so in the past. either she has an account that is in deep legacy mode, or the account is very out of date. but, it is on record that she recently filed her taxes, and the account open date is actually fairly recent. maybe they do sell them still, but don't advertise them. i dunno.
but, that seems to be the address on file - a commercial po box at a money mart.
which actually means i still have no idea where it is, but that's fine if the documents get to her.
i am indeed currently in toronto, posting from the fake account.
i had to do two things today, and they are in fact both accomplished. the first was that i had to determine the identity of the person that frivolously charged me with stalking them. it's a surreal reality - needing to go to a different city to learn the identity of the person that accused you of stalking them, and doing so under an implicit court waiver to do so. it's absurd. but, i got a po box, and it's actually fairly close to home - near the mall that i currently do a lot of shopping in. weird. so, not only is it bizarre to be frivolously accused of stalking somebody you've never met, but it's doubly weird to realize they were right in front of you the whole time.
i also needed to file a judicial review on the order by the independent police review director on the legality of arresting me in the first place. it's a clear error in law, and should be open and shut once an actual judge looks at it. it's just a question of getting it there. so, i had to get the thing stamped, then copy it a few times and take it to the oiprd director, and the attorney general. i also mailed it to the windsor cops. then i had to file an oath saying i actually did it.
i expected long lineups at the court house and the service ontario branch, but they were pretty much empty when i went in. so, it took me four hours to do something i thought would take six or seven, minimum. i'm really early, and have a lot of time to blow.
so, i'm in the toronto public library, a little stoned, and just sort of hanging out, i guess.
i'm going to catch a show here tonight before i go back. well, i'm in toronto, why not do something there, right?
i had to do two things today, and they are in fact both accomplished. the first was that i had to determine the identity of the person that frivolously charged me with stalking them. it's a surreal reality - needing to go to a different city to learn the identity of the person that accused you of stalking them, and doing so under an implicit court waiver to do so. it's absurd. but, i got a po box, and it's actually fairly close to home - near the mall that i currently do a lot of shopping in. weird. so, not only is it bizarre to be frivolously accused of stalking somebody you've never met, but it's doubly weird to realize they were right in front of you the whole time.
i also needed to file a judicial review on the order by the independent police review director on the legality of arresting me in the first place. it's a clear error in law, and should be open and shut once an actual judge looks at it. it's just a question of getting it there. so, i had to get the thing stamped, then copy it a few times and take it to the oiprd director, and the attorney general. i also mailed it to the windsor cops. then i had to file an oath saying i actually did it.
i expected long lineups at the court house and the service ontario branch, but they were pretty much empty when i went in. so, it took me four hours to do something i thought would take six or seven, minimum. i'm really early, and have a lot of time to blow.
so, i'm in the toronto public library, a little stoned, and just sort of hanging out, i guess.
i'm going to catch a show here tonight before i go back. well, i'm in toronto, why not do something there, right?
Sunday, November 10, 2019
hrmmn.
can i push the 2nd law, here, a little?
how much usable energy can i get from my lightbulbs?
answer: i don't have to calculate it to know the answer is not much. but, i wonder if i could string enough cells together....
https://www.ecopowerup.com/knowledge/charge-solar-without-sun/
can i push the 2nd law, here, a little?
how much usable energy can i get from my lightbulbs?
answer: i don't have to calculate it to know the answer is not much. but, i wonder if i could string enough cells together....
https://www.ecopowerup.com/knowledge/charge-solar-without-sun/
and, how feasible is a diy solar option for a few kwh per day?
i know that the batteries suck, but i'm only using 5-6 kwh per day, with the fans running. when i was trying to save energy last winter, i was using closer to 2-3 on the average day.
so, if i can jimmy up the consumer circuit to a solar converter into a battery that only has to save a few kwh at a time and just let the grid take care of the appliances and lights, maybe i can get the number under $45 without worrying about it as much.
i don't know, though. i'll have to look at it.
i know that the batteries suck, but i'm only using 5-6 kwh per day, with the fans running. when i was trying to save energy last winter, i was using closer to 2-3 on the average day.
so, if i can jimmy up the consumer circuit to a solar converter into a battery that only has to save a few kwh at a time and just let the grid take care of the appliances and lights, maybe i can get the number under $45 without worrying about it as much.
i don't know, though. i'll have to look at it.
so, i did my groceries this morning, made some pasta, took a shower and fell asleep.
the sage smell was back when i got out of the shower, and it might not be coming from upstairs at all. this is a constant problem in this place: i can't actually tell where the smells are coming from, or what is causing them. so, last night it seemed like somebody was burning sage to cover the smell; this morning, it seemed more like the smell was coming from the heaters. it seems to be better, now.
but, i have no choice: i'm going to need to turn the fan off between now and 7:00 in the morning, and i'm going to have to leave it off and i'm going to have to hope the smell clears out. if it doesn't, i'm going to have to suffer through it until i can get to the root source of it.
the sage smell was back when i got out of the shower, and it might not be coming from upstairs at all. this is a constant problem in this place: i can't actually tell where the smells are coming from, or what is causing them. so, last night it seemed like somebody was burning sage to cover the smell; this morning, it seemed more like the smell was coming from the heaters. it seems to be better, now.
but, i have no choice: i'm going to need to turn the fan off between now and 7:00 in the morning, and i'm going to have to leave it off and i'm going to have to hope the smell clears out. if it doesn't, i'm going to have to suffer through it until i can get to the root source of it.
so, what happened on thursday?
mindful of the impending yearly catastrophe that canadians call winter, i did a large amount of grocery shopping on hallowe'en (which wasn't so bad weather wise, at least at first.) with the intent to allow for minimal foraging until the end of the month, while hoping for the opportunity to take advantage of a nice day or two, mid to late month. i knew i was going to have to get out to toronto at some point but i had no intention of getting to any concerts in the region until closer to the end of the month.
but, my laptop crashed on the night of the third (corrupt boot sector. lengthy but easy fix.), which gave me several days to sort through the listings for the month, and i pulled out a night i couldn't miss out on. would you skip this night?
detroit component:
early evening show: tchaikovsky's first piano concerto at the orchestra hall
evening show: black midi, which are a noise rock band from the uk that has worked with damo suzuki
windsor component:
late show: lushh, which are an electronic jazz band from kalamazoo
potential late late show: heart attack kids, which are a punk band from london, on
that's a stacked night. i couldn't miss it.
but, i missed it. this is what happened...
i was running a little late as it was, but when i got to the bus station in windsor, the attendant informed me that the tunnel was closing for the night. what that would mean is that i'd have to find a way to get back over the bridge after black midi and, even if i could figure it out, i'd blow the late shows. it just wasn't worth it. alas...
so, i just stayed in windsor, which meant i caught the early show at phog, and then the late show at phog and then the late late show at meteor (and then went back to phog for a beer).
lushh were passively enjoyable, but i actually didn't find them to be mind-bending in any particular way. i didn't want to just go home after coming face to face with the bus situation, so i stayed. but, i wouldn't actually go out of my way for this. it tended to drag a little with superfluous space-filling solos that actually weren't that great, creating a large amount of empty space that was often not taken advantage of as well as it could have been. i tend to pay more attention to guitarists, but it was the drummer that tended to carry them. he didn't seem that interested in the idea of aphex twin remixing queen, though; he treated the proposition like i was proposing some kind of infidelity. or, maybe that was masking a physical attraction that he didn't know how to grapple with. hey, that happens. i'll back off, but offer's open...
it's not like it was a bad show; if you get the chance, you should take the time to give it a few minutes. you'll note that the particular link i'm posting is a bit more guitar-focused (and also very recent), so it actually kind of demonstrates the point: it just didn't quite get off the ground, for me. i need a bit more than that to really get into it.
but, i would choose not to skip them a second time, just in case.
i ran across the street after the set to catch what was left and was kind of baffled by the energy, which i was not expecting. i'm actually not 100% certain what i even saw at all. what i was expecting was a kind of rootsy mid-period whites stripes kind of thing, but they showed up with a bassist and a female drummer (i think she was the drummer for wine lips, as she was using the wine lips kit) and just tore the place down. they introduced themselves as the heart attack kids, but this was not the same band. so, was it also the bassist for wine lips? is there some merging going on here?
it's been a while since i heard something quite like this, which actually had some nirvana-ish undertones in all of the right ways. like i say, it just ripped.
but, this is an emergent phenomenon, so i have no link to share - just the observation that the heart attack kids have evolved, and a recommendation that you check them out.
so, i ended up back at phog for a last beer, listened to some kids talk about philosophy and stuff and stumbled out late into the cold...
...and it was, indeed, cold - cold enough that i stopped a few times to warm up. i was reminded why i don't do this at this time of year. according to the thermostat, it wasn't that bad, but the wind was brutal. it was a difficult walk, at points.
but, i got me some nachos, took me a shower and then slept all day.
so, there's the review. it could be a while before the next one.
mindful of the impending yearly catastrophe that canadians call winter, i did a large amount of grocery shopping on hallowe'en (which wasn't so bad weather wise, at least at first.) with the intent to allow for minimal foraging until the end of the month, while hoping for the opportunity to take advantage of a nice day or two, mid to late month. i knew i was going to have to get out to toronto at some point but i had no intention of getting to any concerts in the region until closer to the end of the month.
but, my laptop crashed on the night of the third (corrupt boot sector. lengthy but easy fix.), which gave me several days to sort through the listings for the month, and i pulled out a night i couldn't miss out on. would you skip this night?
detroit component:
early evening show: tchaikovsky's first piano concerto at the orchestra hall
evening show: black midi, which are a noise rock band from the uk that has worked with damo suzuki
windsor component:
late show: lushh, which are an electronic jazz band from kalamazoo
potential late late show: heart attack kids, which are a punk band from london, on
that's a stacked night. i couldn't miss it.
but, i missed it. this is what happened...
i was running a little late as it was, but when i got to the bus station in windsor, the attendant informed me that the tunnel was closing for the night. what that would mean is that i'd have to find a way to get back over the bridge after black midi and, even if i could figure it out, i'd blow the late shows. it just wasn't worth it. alas...
so, i just stayed in windsor, which meant i caught the early show at phog, and then the late show at phog and then the late late show at meteor (and then went back to phog for a beer).
lushh were passively enjoyable, but i actually didn't find them to be mind-bending in any particular way. i didn't want to just go home after coming face to face with the bus situation, so i stayed. but, i wouldn't actually go out of my way for this. it tended to drag a little with superfluous space-filling solos that actually weren't that great, creating a large amount of empty space that was often not taken advantage of as well as it could have been. i tend to pay more attention to guitarists, but it was the drummer that tended to carry them. he didn't seem that interested in the idea of aphex twin remixing queen, though; he treated the proposition like i was proposing some kind of infidelity. or, maybe that was masking a physical attraction that he didn't know how to grapple with. hey, that happens. i'll back off, but offer's open...
it's not like it was a bad show; if you get the chance, you should take the time to give it a few minutes. you'll note that the particular link i'm posting is a bit more guitar-focused (and also very recent), so it actually kind of demonstrates the point: it just didn't quite get off the ground, for me. i need a bit more than that to really get into it.
but, i would choose not to skip them a second time, just in case.
i ran across the street after the set to catch what was left and was kind of baffled by the energy, which i was not expecting. i'm actually not 100% certain what i even saw at all. what i was expecting was a kind of rootsy mid-period whites stripes kind of thing, but they showed up with a bassist and a female drummer (i think she was the drummer for wine lips, as she was using the wine lips kit) and just tore the place down. they introduced themselves as the heart attack kids, but this was not the same band. so, was it also the bassist for wine lips? is there some merging going on here?
it's been a while since i heard something quite like this, which actually had some nirvana-ish undertones in all of the right ways. like i say, it just ripped.
but, this is an emergent phenomenon, so i have no link to share - just the observation that the heart attack kids have evolved, and a recommendation that you check them out.
so, i ended up back at phog for a last beer, listened to some kids talk about philosophy and stuff and stumbled out late into the cold...
...and it was, indeed, cold - cold enough that i stopped a few times to warm up. i was reminded why i don't do this at this time of year. according to the thermostat, it wasn't that bad, but the wind was brutal. it was a difficult walk, at points.
but, i got me some nachos, took me a shower and then slept all day.
so, there's the review. it could be a while before the next one.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
here is the chronologically ordered version of the 11/13 archive of this blog, which is only 3 pages.
the december version of this blog is not likely to be much more exciting than this, either.
http://books.noisetrade.com/j/112013-travel-blog
unfortunately, noise trade did not work out as a hosting solution, and i never got a clear answer as to why. but, i decided in the end that the site was full of ads and unworkable, anyways.
the readable version of the november archive for this blog is now available as a standalone in the music journal package at bandcamp:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/11-2013-music-journal
...or as a component in the full first reconstruction phase archive, available in the following places:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1026660
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/jessica-murray/full-first-reconstruction-phase-travel-blog/ebook/product-nm4jeq.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13M7Vvz2hLiuGdywPL2oNRgUY3nmn26E6/view
the december version of this blog is not likely to be much more exciting than this, either.
unfortunately, noise trade did not work out as a hosting solution, and i never got a clear answer as to why. but, i decided in the end that the site was full of ads and unworkable, anyways.
the readable version of the november archive for this blog is now available as a standalone in the music journal package at bandcamp:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/11-2013-music-journal
...or as a component in the full first reconstruction phase archive, available in the following places:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1026660
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/jessica-murray/full-first-reconstruction-phase-travel-blog/ebook/product-nm4jeq.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13M7Vvz2hLiuGdywPL2oNRgUY3nmn26E6/view
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