the upside about buying things from big companies is that they often make mistakes. so, some dummy delivery driver left $250 worth of groceries on my front porch and drove off without calling. i'm making it a habit to make complaints about this when it happens because it needs to stop. i have legitimately had $1000 worth of items stolen over the last year; it's all been replaced, but why do they do that? why not just call? it takes a second. you're not gaining $100 worth of productivity by having to replace a $100 delivery, in avoiding the 30 seconds it takes to call. you're throwing away $99 to save $1 on labour. and you're expected to tip these people, too. i'm usually home and waiting, i had just fallen asleep in front of the chromebook waiting for the call, and woke up 40 minutes later to the realization that there was no call, the groceries were just left unattended. if he had called like the instructions said, i would have got the groceries in person. now, these groceries seemed ok. but my position is that leaving the items there without calling is not being productive, it's being lazy, and it's a mistake i should clamp down on. so, i told them i threw the groceries in the trash because they were left on the porch.

i should have done that. in fact, i beat the neighbourhood cat to the booty by seconds flat. it meowed out me, expecting me to share. no ma'am.

if they leave something and it actually gets stolen - this has actually happened several times - i expect them to replace it. if they leave goods like books or cleaning supplies and i get them before the thieves, i'll complain but take the item n. if they leave food outside for the crackheads and animals to molest and expect me to eat it, i might, or i might not, but i don't want to pay for it and shouldn't - i'm getting a refund.

so i have an extra $250 this month. which is good because i need a new vaccuum.

i scrubbed the floors down hard last night, just over the part of the apartment i'll actually walk through, to stop myself from tracking this layer of filth around. is some amount of this mildew? it might be. i think i learned scrubbing it down - i used a whole bottle of lysol - that it's likely a complex mix of things. i had recently scrubbed some of these regions, so it's frustrating to have to do it again, but it seems to have taken and the air quality seems to be better, although i did wake up with a sore throat. i also scrubbed most of the dirt off the counters in the kitchen, which is important. there's a small layer of white dust in a few places this morning but it's not like it was. i put a fan in blowing straight into the stairwell to the side entrance, which is under a flight of stairs going up to the top floor, which seems to be where the secondhand smoke is coming from. i think that made a difference, but i'll need to get in there soon to seal holes and clean better. i'll do another dust buster run this morning. this dust buster also needs to be replaced, but it's working well for now. i have two additional broken vacuums to try to fix - my old pet valu which blew a few years ago and some rechargeable thing i found here. i will do this soon, one way or another.

but i'm taking a broad shift in approach. i will get another shop vac - i haven't tested it yet but i'm calling canadian tire now because it's clear the thing shorted and that'a defect that should be replaced - but i will have in unit and in garage vacuums for now on. the laundry has been thoroughly sealed and is totally clean, now. but i'm not moving cleaning devices between the inside space and the garage again, or at least not for a while. i will either fix this device or get something else to use strictly for the garage, and get something to use solely for inside, as well.

if i can get canadian tire to replace this, great. otherwise, i'll likely buy another one of the same model and leave it inside, and try to fix the broken one and leave it in the garage. the pet valu was a very good vacuum, too, with a power head for the couple of carpeted regions in here, and i hope i can fix it as well.

i should then be able to get back to what i was doing, which is

- finish up in the laundry

- do a general clean in the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom

- shower

- cataloging books and cds, and working on the coffee table book, to get in order for the first three rooms, including a video update for the laundry and a re-read of the things posted here since april 1st.

as i finish in each room (laundry, bathroom, kitchen, side entrance, listening, library, garage, studio, bedroom), i'll need to more thoroughly clean in it. i was intending on dong that anyways.

i won't need to go outside again for any length of time for quite a while. the best thing i think i can do is lock myself in for another winter.

so, i've got some work to do. let's do it. this place'll be done soon, and it'll be glorious when it is. i hope to get back to work soon.

i have orders for two further lawsuits coming soon. my cdb, trillium, gst and odsp went up by inflation in july. and i'm locked into the pohb at $400/month for another year, too. great.