man, i'd trade morneau for carney in a minute. but, you'd have to throw in a shit load of draft picks if you expect the universe to give you carney for morneau, especially given that morneau's salary is so much bigger.

yes, morneau is a little out of his league; canada has some high level experts floating around out there, and this is a good time for them to step in, where they can.

if carney wants the job, morneau should graciously stand aside.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-morneau-finance-minister-future-1.5682567

so, we're coming to the end of the tobacco - i've got a few smokes left, and i'm going to need to make a choice in the next few hours about what the best way to proceed is.

so, let's recall how this happened.

in the middle of june, after they announced the border closure for the summer, i decided that i wasn't going to spend the summer inside yelling at the neighbours to stop smoking. while i have engaged in all smoking a good distance from the house, the fact that i've been smoking means i can't smell my neighbours, and i consequently haven't been pissed off about it. so, i bought a quarter with the intent of "headcaving", which is what i call my habit of biyearly marijuana use [celebrated at the summer and winster solstices, at the end of june and the end of december]. this headcave was a little different, in that i attempted to gear it around rolling tobacco rather than cigarettes, so that i'd have an understanding of what proportions we're dealing with in a legalized reality.

i learned that you can get about 3/4s of an ounce from a 50 g pouch of tobacco, which lasted me about a month. once i'd smoked through the first pouch, i decided that i'd buy another quarter along with a second pouch of tobacco and put it aside for sporadic usage.

it was partly due to the weather that i found myself smoking right through it, but in the process i started to realize that i was becoming re-accustomed to smoking tobacco, which i had quit at the start of 2016 on a habitual basis. i am confident that i will not go back to this habit, but i had to catch myself and realize i was slipping.

so, i decided that it was not a good idea to just leave it in the cupboard like i leave alcohol sitting around for months at a time because my previous habits of binge smoking marijuana combined with the extremely powerful addictive properties of nicotine meant it was increasingly unlikely that i would just leave it alone; i have no meaningful urge to randomly get drunk, and was hoping leaving marijuana sitting around would be just as easy, but it became apparent to me that if i leave something smokeble in the house, it's going to get smoked, as an excuse for the tobacco use.

at that point, i still had a lot of rolling tobacco left, so i decided that i'd smoke through it and then try and figure out some way to adjust. i've looked at tobacco replacements (i can probably get raspberry leaves at the bulk barn), but i decided to take a chance on some edibles at the beginning of august, that i have not touched yet. i've got four 2 mgs and two 5 mgs to experiment with.

i primarily went through this process to get rid of the tobacco, which is now gone, and i definitely do not want to buy anymore. but, the weather is giving me one more nice weekend, so i need to weigh whether i want to spend a weekend trying smoking pot with something else or spend it drinking a lot of coffee, instead.

three smokes left, and that's it. edibles are legal. i have alternatives to try to smoke with, and easy access down the street. there's no longer any excuse - this is it.

i've made major advances on this, but the pot was really the last thing.

i'm stoked to move on.

so, i've now done a final final final update for those published posts, which required adding many posts to the travel blog and fixing a number of typos in the other blogs.

i'm confident that i've exhausted the source, now.

so, i'm going to fight with the microsoft servers for a bit in updating these files and post an update when it's done...

i'm following through with a process, and it is time consuming, but it is necessary. i will be back to recording as soon as i'm done with this round of documentation, and it is nearing an end. slowly.

all your kids are gonna die.

(not really)

remember.

there's always a counterforce.

i mean, we'll see what happens.

that's a struggle in nature playing out in the atlantic ocean in our lifetime - the cooling effect of melting glaciers vs. the warming effects of increased oceanic and atmospheric carbon concentrations. when you dump hot and cold into the atlantic at the same time, how is equilibrium eventually reached?

i find that when this topic is discussed it tends to treat the melting glaciers as an infinite input.

if the concern around the shifts in the gulf stream are mostly long-term in scope, it seems reasonable to point out that greenland will eventually run out of ice, allowing the other processes that are increasing the temperature of the ocean to take control. even if the gulfstream collapses entirely, the general effects of sea temperature increases in the long run could lead to broadly warmer oceans in europe.

in theory, yes - this is something to be concerned about. where i am, the weather is often determined by a struggle between warm atlantic ocean temperatures and expanding polar air masses, the latter phenomenon being a mostly solar process. so, we also rely on warm atlantic temperatures for a lot of the heat in canada, especially during the parts of the year when we are tilted away from the sun.

but, from what i can see in front of me, what's actually happening is that the effects of global warming further south in the atlantic are dominating ocean temperatures off of the coast of florida, and it's the latter process that seems likely to be dominant, long to medium term.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/florida-current-is-weaker-than-it-has-been-in-over-100-years-oceans-climate-change