the caulk and some of the kitchen items came in on thursday. some more of the kitchen items came in on friday. i'm expecting the rest of it this week, and the pohb should be in on friday or saturday, which i will probably spend on groceries. i should get almost all of the remaining kitchen items in with the remaining amount, or the odsp amount on the 30th.
i last ate on wednesday/thursday. it only maxed out at 157 after the meal, which is progress, but it was very stubborn in coming down. i was up all night last night and it just wouldn't come down past 150. then, i woke up this evening and it was at 148.2. i once again lost several pounds sleeping. my schedule flipped over due to an issue in the unit and i functionally lost a day; i'm awake now. so, the first thing i need to do this evening is clean myself up and get something to eat and i should be able to finish things up after that.
i was waiting for the caulk to come in before i could get to work as the first thing to do was rebuilding the wall in the front, which had a lot of holes and cracks. i got the first round of caulking and vacuuming and scrubbing finished on thursday night / friday morning, including swapping some curtains out around the front side window, and went to put the curtains in the laundry when i realized there was a large amount of water running in from upstairs, plausibly from the upstairs toilet. so, i cut the water (i can control the water, the furnace, the hot water, the electrical, etc for the whole house from the basement. i don't want to abuse that. but it means i can cut the water if i have to, i don't have to watch the basement flood.) and it stopped flowing. it seemed to dry up so i tried it again and it started leaking again. while i couldn't get a clear understanding of where the water was coming from because i couldn't see into the area it was coming from, it was clearly coming from the pipes upstairs. it was falling like a waterfall, indicating it was coming from high up in the unit and via a steady stream. i had a few hypotheses that included a rat chewing through something, a burst pipe or a tap left on. so, i cut the water and txted the landlord. after cleaning the water leak up the best i could and letting it sit to dry, i found myself tired, so i went to sleep, to wait for the day's package to arrive in the afternoon.
the local manager (not the landlord, who lives in toronto) showed up after 10:00 and we were not able to recreate the leak, indicating there must have been a tap or something else left running that had since been turned off. he indicated the cause of the leak was a "cultural activity" and tried to yell at me for interrupting it, but i was not having any of that kind of bullshit and yelled at him right back. if some stupid idiots want to engage in some pointless ritual in their unit, that's not my concern and i don't give a fuck, so long as their lunacy doesn't affect me. however, as soon as their behaviour begins to interfere in my enjoyment of the unit, i'm going to respond to protect my space, and their culture becomes utterly irrelevant. i care about the water damage. i don't care about their culture. they can have their culture so long as it doesn't affect anybody else, but as soon as it infringes on the right of others, their culture goes in the dung heap, where it really belongs. i'm not going to accommodate them at the expense of my own enjoyment of the space. if they're going to try to enforce their culture on me, i'm going to respond by enforcing my own culture, which is a very british form of atheistic secular liberalism, on them.
so, we yelled at each other and he left.
i'm not going to be pushed around by religionists and i'm not going to adhere to or participate in their religion. they can go fuck themselves. we'll see what happens, but what i'm concerned about right now is potentially filing a t6, once i get the unit cleaned up. there are several places where the water damage needs to be addressed. i have suggested to the landlord that he should be evicting the tenants above me for the property damage caused by their cultural activities, and that the manager is a right-wing retard and a loser for concerning himself with the sanctity of their culture instead of the damage they are causing to the property. the landlord is more reasonable than the manager, but it's the gross idiot manager i have to deal with on a daily basis.
as this disrupted my sleeping schedule, i slept on friday afternoon once the package came in and woke up in the evening, checked the news and got back to what i was doing, which was cleaning up the front so i could set up the shelving, so i could move the books and cds out of the centre of the unit, so i could clear some furniture out of the kitchen. i have one big working shelving unit, one small working unit, a big broken unit and a small broken unit, in addition to the metal piping unit i just set up the other day. it took all night, but by the time i accidentally fell asleep on saturday afternoon when i stopped to google something, i had
- moved the working small unit in place, under the window
- moved the small broken unit to the area near the window, failed to fix it and put it aside
- moved the big working unit in place and put some cds i had listened to over night on it
- moved the metal piping unit in place and put about 70% of my reference books on it, organized by library of congress call number, which i had to organize by hand.
i have some pictures of the lonely cd shelf in the corner:
and of the library style book shelf, with about two thirds of my reference or non-fiction books (the fiction texts are in my bedroom):
i took that picture on saturday night when i woke up, before i got back to work.
over saturday night and sunday morning, i
- finished placing the non fiction books on the library shelf, organized by loc call number
- moved all of the fiction txts and items intended for my filing cabinet (school work, personal files) to my bedroom, where it's currently unorganized
- decided to take everything out of the middle of the room, clean it and then put it back in a more appropriate place or move it somewhere else
- caulked most of the southeast wall, including the window, and reorganized the objects located on it so that it's closer to it's final placement
- moved the boxes of cds to near where the cd shelf is
- moved the wood i intend to cut to near the front door
- fixed both of the broken shelving units and installed the big one. i'm not sure about the small one. it might go in the garage.
- took everything out of the front part of the unit, including moving several things into the garage area
- caulked and cleaned the front part of the unit
- installed the charging table with a power bar i intended for the garage (but is no longer going to be used in there) that has usb a and usb c ports in the front art of the unit
- listened to several cds and put them on the shelf when i was done
the result is that the front section is just about finished. i will still need to buy some more furniture, including a tall and skinny shelf, and i still need to get my cds on the shelf. i am also making it a priority to refind the books i have lost over the years, especially school text books. i also seem to be missing or have misplaced a box of books that has marx, kant, pynchon, machiavelli, hawthorne, shelley, the rig veda and conrad in it, to name a few things. if i cant find it, i'll order it, i guess. i think that some of the items might have been stolen by old asshole friends, and i know i lost a few things in a flood in my parent's basement a few years (many years) ago. i also want to make a point of getting physical copies of library books i read (ex: gimbutas) or books i have only read in digital format (proudhon, mill, kropotkin). the cube shelving unit turned out to be ideal as a library shelving unit, and i'm going to put a focus on it. i have two further units like that one.
but that's about it.
what i will need to do tonight after i finish eating is
- do a second run on the front caulking
- move remaining items from the middle of the unit to the front (one of my bicycles, some wood, items for the charging table, any more books or cds i find, items that will go in the garage when i'm ready)
- clean the middle of the room (the studio, the listening area)
- move studio items to a place that will approximate their placement
- move furniture and equipment into listening area
- clear out clutter from kitchen
after that, i will get back to putting up the paneling in my bedroom first and then in the laundry, where i have done a little bit of carpet cleaning but haven't really got into updating yet.
this is a hell of a process but i'm getting there.