long day.

the neurologist suggested my jaw is dislocated and told me to see a dentist. that's actually closer to my intuition, but both the gp and ear doctor sent me to the neurologist, so...

i got a universal battery charger on the way back, which is something i needed, anyways. i'm apparently going to be hard-pressed to find the canadian tire brand in rechargeables. the different chargers don't seem to like other brands, so i settled on energizer for the charger and the batteries - although i'll have to see how the eveready batteries react to the energizer charger. i'll probably put my small charger away, as i periodically switch over. i was hoping to get some square batteries, though, and i couldn't find any; i do have some around, but i don't know how well they'll charge. guess we'll find out. it was around $50 for the charger and 4 rechargeable aaas.

i found a ps/2 keyboard on the way home for $20. and, i'd might as well move the usb to ps/2 convertor over to the kvm, now, as it has no other use. the new board only has one ps/2 slot (and an absurd amount of usbs), so it was the keyboard that was most important.

i picked up a $10 usb mouse on my third trip out tonight, as well. i don't really need it, but why not? just in case. that's around 80 dollars (i'll work it out better when i wake up) and closes the build, with the important exception of a square monitor. it must be square...

the case, ram and some laptop ram came in today. i'm close to being able to build. i just need thermal paste.

that really was a long day, full of something like 9 hours worth of biking. you'll excuse me while i pass out.

"but if i cremate my loved one, she'll go to hell!"

how do you want me to react to that?

do you want me to tell you that that's a reasonable concern?

i was intending on blowing most of the weekend, but i maybe went a tad overboard. i'm realizing i forgot to include the money i spent on the 30th in my monthly totals, which i'm trying to mentally separate from my computer money, so i'm little more in debt to myself than i thought. that's ok - i'm still on track to immediately spend $4835 of the $5000 properly, and the rest will balance itself out in the upcoming months. the reality is that i had to pay out $320 in loans this month, so it was going to have to be a quiet month or i was going to have to do this in chunks; going from owing $300 to payday loan places to owing yourself $165 is a step forward, and if i can halve that again next month it should work itself out in the wash. i'm probably not going to get through the $5000 before september 1st, anyways. the rest of the month seems quiet to me, and i don't see much coming up in august that immediately appeals to me, either. there's lots of stuff going on, it's just not for me.

most of the remaining items should get here this week. i feel like ups is holding my case hostage, and expect a call early this morning. if it doesn't happen, i'm going to get angry and start demanding that people get fired.

i have an appointment this morning, as well. i didn't hear back from the computer store about the ps/2 items and may have to look for other options...

i'm mildly concerned that my sound card hasn't shipped yet. the money came out of my account several days ago. but, the e-check hasn't completed yet. i'll give it a few more days.

as today is busy, the property owners will get an extra day to react. they sent me something on thursday night, but have not responded to my reply. i will be printing the remaining documents i need in the afternoon and writing up the report over night, so they will need to react quickly.

so, today is going to be scattered and disjointed. hopefully, i can get back to what i was doing, tomorrow, which is going to be building the remaining pc components, finding cd/dvd cases and then trying to figure out a playback solution.

or, perhaps he's just being honest about the issues we face in front of us, as a society?

he's right: you can't separate these kinds of attacks from the religion. and, you're being disingenuous if you claim you can.

that said, the political analysis presented here is logically incoherent. the governing party does not need to be concerned about gaining votes from the opposition, but about losing votes to the opposition. if you want to be cynical, the reading would be that he's concerned about losing liberal voters to the caq - not that he's trying to gain caq voters. the caq is to the right of the liberals in a spectrum that had previously put the liberals on the right of the pq, who correctly identified as social democrats despite maintaining and even cultivating a dominant nativist streak. in short, the article is wrong: it makes a great deal of sense for couilliard to try and prevent a collapse on the right side of his party, now that the pq seems to be fading in relevance.

i would hope, however, that quebecers realize that this is a terrible spectrum shift and rally behind something like the qs, instead. remember: this is quebec, where parties go from 3 seats to 83 seats overnight.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/philippe-couillards-tone-shift-on-islam-stuns-quebec-muslims/article35460108/