and, also, about that stench.
there's a set of french doors across from my bed, behind which is a water closet with the the hot water heater, gas lines and piping going directly into the floor. that area definitely smelled bad, but it came and went, so i decided it probably wasn't a gas leak. last week, i decided to try and seal the doors a bit better to see if i could block the smell a bit to better understand what it actually was.
i ended up with two conclusions from this. the first is that there's actually two smells, and they were getting mixed up into one. the first is a garlic-y or onion-y smell that appears to be coming directly from upstairs, and is either food or meth. i learned enough about meth in the last house (and was never convinced she wasn't smoking it) to understand that, and he does appear to have a drug addiction, but i can't rule out food, and in context think it's rather more likely. the other smell seems to be of something rotting and is likely bacteria in the piping coming directly underneath me. and, i am convinced that there are in fact pipes from the shower to the water closet that go underneath the floor.
it always seemed like the smell was coming from below me rather than above me, and, so, i think i've got my primary problem: there's very stinky bacteria in the pipes. and, this is sort of consistent with the stinky sinks, which i think i've mostly fixed via bleach.
so, i ran some liquid bleach through the bathtub and we'll see if it works or not.
as for the onion-y smell, now that i can separate it better, i'm going to try and figure out when it's coming. if i notice that it frequently smells like onions around five or six at night, i guess that's just a diet choice and something i'll need to get used to. but, if it starts coming down at odd hours, i might have solved more than one problem....
i'm going to say this again: it always seemed like the smell was below me, even when it was clearly smoke. so, was i smelling the gaseous byproduct from the bacteria and deciding it was smoke? i'll have to keep at this with the bleach for a while and see how effective it is in the long run, but, for now, it seems to have cleared it up.
and, i actually think i'm going to take a nap.
Friday, August 16, 2019
there are things happening in detroit this weekend. i bet there's a 60 year old tatted grandfather in the 'burbs that's just totally psyched about neurosis on friday, followed by wu-tang on saturday, and may stay up all night drinking coke to do it. *satan symbol*. but, i'm not into either of those acts...
just for context, it actually wasn't that warm out last weekend. last weekend, i actually went for the shows, because it happened to fluke out into such a long fest. it warmed up nicely on saturday afternoon, but both the mornings dipped down to around 15 degrees, which is sub-60 farenheit. so, my comment about the 3rd/4th of august being the last hot saturday night this year lasted through last weekend, anyways.
as mentioned many times now, the one way out of the solar magnets this summer is if the ocean patterns overcome, and that's only going to happen due to cyclones. it is nice this weekend - excluding some potential issues with rain - and it's because there's a gigantic system in the pacific.
but, you can see in the long range that this weekend is an unusually nice blip.we're looking at a cold saturday morning, next week.
again: i know we're getting record global average temperatures right now, which means it's very hot in some places, but that's an average. i'm kind of making the flip argument that a lot of climate deniers make: i'm acknowledging the existence of record global average temperatures (which is what we call climate change actually is), while pointing out that the local weather in this particular region has been below seasonal for most of the year, and then blaming that on the sun. again: i don't argue in terms of false dichotomies. i'm not a conservative. i'm a socialist; i want dialectics. so, the fact is that you don't have to choose between the cooling effects of the current solar cycle (which is ending) and the greenhouse effect (which is continuing to run out of control). the dialectic, for this summer, is that both things are true: it is globally very hot (on average) while being cooler than normal, here, in this specific place, although the effects of all of these hurricanes might manage to balance it out better than i'm suggesting. that is, the averages here may end up being pretty "normal", as a consequence of these long cold stretches being overrun by these brief blasts of tropical air.
so, i do want to get out one more time. maybe. it's just, for tonight, the only real choice is crystal method--->goth club, and that's going to require something like two hours on the bus in the middle of the night. further, both shows are in air conditioned clubs. so, if the point is to go outside, it kind of fails.
i don't have a late show tomorrow, yet. i'm still looking. but, i think i have yet another path through hamtramck on sunday. they should just dig that city up out of detroit and airlift it to south of the 401....perfect...
in the medium term, while i can't predict when it's going to happen, we can expect that the winter jet stream is going to take over suddenly again, like it did last year. it's just a question of when. october? november? let's hope it isn't september, but highs in the low 20s for the last week of august is pretty ominous. if we don't get another hurricane, it won't swing back to the high 20s. i know it said it two weeks ago, and the hurricane fluked us out, but there's an even higher chance that this weekend is the end of serious summer.
that brutal jet stream pattern will lift when the magnetic field from the sun shifts, and while we don't have predictive solar science (we just don't understand it. nobody does. the science doesn't exist.), it's a coin flip whether we can get back to global warming here or not next year. and, when that happens, it could be pretty dramatic pretty fast. if that jet stream pulls back early in the spring, we could have a glorious summer....
or not.
we'll find out next year, right?
as mentioned many times now, the one way out of the solar magnets this summer is if the ocean patterns overcome, and that's only going to happen due to cyclones. it is nice this weekend - excluding some potential issues with rain - and it's because there's a gigantic system in the pacific.
but, you can see in the long range that this weekend is an unusually nice blip.we're looking at a cold saturday morning, next week.
again: i know we're getting record global average temperatures right now, which means it's very hot in some places, but that's an average. i'm kind of making the flip argument that a lot of climate deniers make: i'm acknowledging the existence of record global average temperatures (which is what we call climate change actually is), while pointing out that the local weather in this particular region has been below seasonal for most of the year, and then blaming that on the sun. again: i don't argue in terms of false dichotomies. i'm not a conservative. i'm a socialist; i want dialectics. so, the fact is that you don't have to choose between the cooling effects of the current solar cycle (which is ending) and the greenhouse effect (which is continuing to run out of control). the dialectic, for this summer, is that both things are true: it is globally very hot (on average) while being cooler than normal, here, in this specific place, although the effects of all of these hurricanes might manage to balance it out better than i'm suggesting. that is, the averages here may end up being pretty "normal", as a consequence of these long cold stretches being overrun by these brief blasts of tropical air.
so, i do want to get out one more time. maybe. it's just, for tonight, the only real choice is crystal method--->goth club, and that's going to require something like two hours on the bus in the middle of the night. further, both shows are in air conditioned clubs. so, if the point is to go outside, it kind of fails.
i don't have a late show tomorrow, yet. i'm still looking. but, i think i have yet another path through hamtramck on sunday. they should just dig that city up out of detroit and airlift it to south of the 401....perfect...
in the medium term, while i can't predict when it's going to happen, we can expect that the winter jet stream is going to take over suddenly again, like it did last year. it's just a question of when. october? november? let's hope it isn't september, but highs in the low 20s for the last week of august is pretty ominous. if we don't get another hurricane, it won't swing back to the high 20s. i know it said it two weeks ago, and the hurricane fluked us out, but there's an even higher chance that this weekend is the end of serious summer.
that brutal jet stream pattern will lift when the magnetic field from the sun shifts, and while we don't have predictive solar science (we just don't understand it. nobody does. the science doesn't exist.), it's a coin flip whether we can get back to global warming here or not next year. and, when that happens, it could be pretty dramatic pretty fast. if that jet stream pulls back early in the spring, we could have a glorious summer....
or not.
we'll find out next year, right?
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 september archive for this blog is now available as a standalone in the music journal package at bandcamp:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/09-2013-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
stop.
one of these things is not like the other. one of these things doesn't belong. so, can you guess which thing is not like the other by the time i finish this song?
1. new hampshire
2. iowa
3. nevada
4. south carolina
scroll.....
those are the first four states. and, the answer is that three of them are swing states and one of them isn't.
one of these things is not like the other. one of these things doesn't belong. so, can you guess which thing is not like the other by the time i finish this song?
1. new hampshire
2. iowa
3. nevada
4. south carolina
scroll.....
those are the first four states. and, the answer is that three of them are swing states and one of them isn't.
and, maybe it's time to ask ilhan omar to go away so as to no longer be such a distraction.
maybe it's time to put some pressure on her to resign, or at least to resign from the party. i mean, this is the party that pushed out al franken for far less.
they should have distanced themselves from her from when they could. now, they have to ask her to step down. as it is, she's a gift that just keeps on giving, and the longer she's around, the more seats she's going to cost them.
maybe it's time to put some pressure on her to resign, or at least to resign from the party. i mean, this is the party that pushed out al franken for far less.
they should have distanced themselves from her from when they could. now, they have to ask her to step down. as it is, she's a gift that just keeps on giving, and the longer she's around, the more seats she's going to cost them.
do you know what you call it when a president alters his foreign policy based on how a foreign leader treats his friends?
that's called nepotism.
that's called corruption.
i would hope that, in the future, he's a little more cognizant of the fact that people are currently rating and judging him on his reasoning skills and on his temperament, as he's running for an important executive position.
that was a stupid comment that was no doubt suggested to him by the stupid people he has around him right now, and he should walk it back.
that's called nepotism.
that's called corruption.
i would hope that, in the future, he's a little more cognizant of the fact that people are currently rating and judging him on his reasoning skills and on his temperament, as he's running for an important executive position.
that was a stupid comment that was no doubt suggested to him by the stupid people he has around him right now, and he should walk it back.
israel is a sovereign country with absolute authority over who is and is not allowed to cross it's borders. they're fully in their rights. that said, i would hope that the openly racist representatives in question are afforded the opportunity to appeal the decision via the israeli judiciary, and are otherwise given proper due process in law. i would also hope that this kind of rash and poorly thought through kneejerk punitive reactionary policy is not reflective of how sanders would behave as commander in chief.
that said, i would take the opposite position: if israel insists on interfering in american politics, perhaps there should be a serious discussion about statehood. i don't want to be the 51st state. israel is a better choice.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/16/sanders-says-if-israel-wants-ban-members-congress-it-should-not-receive-billions-us
that said, i would take the opposite position: if israel insists on interfering in american politics, perhaps there should be a serious discussion about statehood. i don't want to be the 51st state. israel is a better choice.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/16/sanders-says-if-israel-wants-ban-members-congress-it-should-not-receive-billions-us
so, this is what i've got done so far on the two main blogs.
the politics blog is being built up from scratch, whereas the music blog is being edited in place. so, the politics blog is just jul 16th-sept 30th, 2013 and the music blog is from 1996-2018. both are typeset on 5"x8 paper, meaning they're intended for roughly novel sized publication. it also means there's a maximum page limit of around 1000 pages, so i'm looking at these four-month 'semester' subsets as the most realistic maximum publishing option.
i'm currently charging $1/100 pages on the pdf downloads at noise trade (or $3/journal, flat, at bandcamp, which is a more comprehensive package, including scripts and documents). and, i'm rounding. so, the first one would be $7 and the second would be $45. yeah.
in the long run, it might be comical to print the final product as a hardcover textbook, which would not be typeset to 5"x8" but may still be on the order of 5000 pages, anyways. if we can get a next-level optical disc that can take multiple terrabytes of data, maybe you put it in the sleeve, like they used to do in the 90s.
as posted previously, i want to get to the end of 2017 on the rebuild before i put this aside, and i hope this picks up soon. as for right now, i crashed hard after i ate last night, haven't really fully woken up yet and am not entirely sure why. i didn't smell any drugs. i think it might have more to do with not really sleeping off last weekend. i mean, i slept for a few hours on sunday afternoon, but i didn't get the kind of sleep i usually get after a two-day party. i might just be behind on my sleep, but if that's the case, i should be caught up soon, too, after having slept the better part of the last 15 hours.
as of right now, i legitimately want to stay in this weekend. what i was talking about has finally cycled around: i'm partied out, and keen to stay in and get a move on things. so, sunday's a distinct maybe....and i might start late on saturday, if it is.
for now, i still need to finish the stuff i was doing here locally, then switch into the travel account to update that.
the politics blog is being built up from scratch, whereas the music blog is being edited in place. so, the politics blog is just jul 16th-sept 30th, 2013 and the music blog is from 1996-2018. both are typeset on 5"x8 paper, meaning they're intended for roughly novel sized publication. it also means there's a maximum page limit of around 1000 pages, so i'm looking at these four-month 'semester' subsets as the most realistic maximum publishing option.
i'm currently charging $1/100 pages on the pdf downloads at noise trade (or $3/journal, flat, at bandcamp, which is a more comprehensive package, including scripts and documents). and, i'm rounding. so, the first one would be $7 and the second would be $45. yeah.
in the long run, it might be comical to print the final product as a hardcover textbook, which would not be typeset to 5"x8" but may still be on the order of 5000 pages, anyways. if we can get a next-level optical disc that can take multiple terrabytes of data, maybe you put it in the sleeve, like they used to do in the 90s.
as posted previously, i want to get to the end of 2017 on the rebuild before i put this aside, and i hope this picks up soon. as for right now, i crashed hard after i ate last night, haven't really fully woken up yet and am not entirely sure why. i didn't smell any drugs. i think it might have more to do with not really sleeping off last weekend. i mean, i slept for a few hours on sunday afternoon, but i didn't get the kind of sleep i usually get after a two-day party. i might just be behind on my sleep, but if that's the case, i should be caught up soon, too, after having slept the better part of the last 15 hours.
as of right now, i legitimately want to stay in this weekend. what i was talking about has finally cycled around: i'm partied out, and keen to stay in and get a move on things. so, sunday's a distinct maybe....and i might start late on saturday, if it is.
for now, i still need to finish the stuff i was doing here locally, then switch into the travel account to update that.
see, here's the sneaky thing about that.
what's going to happen over the next several months is that all of the media and all of the campaigns are going to try to create divisions between the candidates around their identity, and if the media pushes it down hard enough then it might become real after all. and, so we're going to see this boys v girls grade school spat, with bernie on the boys' side and one of the female candidates (probably warren.) on the the girls' side.
so, what if you made this gender fight inside the candidates' campaign?
it's not ideal, but it's maybe a way to co-opt the media's tactics.
what's going to happen over the next several months is that all of the media and all of the campaigns are going to try to create divisions between the candidates around their identity, and if the media pushes it down hard enough then it might become real after all. and, so we're going to see this boys v girls grade school spat, with bernie on the boys' side and one of the female candidates (probably warren.) on the the girls' side.
so, what if you made this gender fight inside the candidates' campaign?
it's not ideal, but it's maybe a way to co-opt the media's tactics.
so, is cardi b a bernie bitch? is that the idea?
bernie broad?
it's pandery and kind of cringey and sort of exactly the kind of thing that clinton was doing four years ago that gave people the chills. stay away from the hot sauce, bernie.
at least he tried to focus it on the issues. he's not trying to pretend he's a young black female (which is an empirical question.), he's just (consensually) grabbing hold of one for a few minutes to draw attention to himself.
i dunno. we'll see how people react, i guess.
but, don't be surprised if it's not so well.
bernie broad?
it's pandery and kind of cringey and sort of exactly the kind of thing that clinton was doing four years ago that gave people the chills. stay away from the hot sauce, bernie.
at least he tried to focus it on the issues. he's not trying to pretend he's a young black female (which is an empirical question.), he's just (consensually) grabbing hold of one for a few minutes to draw attention to himself.
i dunno. we'll see how people react, i guess.
but, don't be surprised if it's not so well.
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