yeah, my sheets are ok.

that's good. i got it in time...

the liberals are supposed to do better than this. 

i'm going to post another update on the smell before i take a shower, which i'm hoping helps quite a bit. we'll have to see if i want to launder my sheets tonight or not, but i'm leaning towards it. i didn't get to doing this yesterday, as i was getting ready to go out to the show - the review is coming soon.

i got back on sunday close to noon and spent much of the next 36 hours tossing and turning, but i was also trying to pinpoint the exact location of the ammonia smell. i have an old cabinet in front of my bed that is turned sideways, and is useful to put a monitor on (my laptop has a burnt out screen lamp in it). so, when i'm typing, my nose is a foot from the cabinet, because my bed is pushed right up to it. the amp, which is covered in 30-40 year old carpet, was previously keeping the cabinet (which is broken) in place. the stink was landing on the amp, and taking the amp out mostly fixed it, but it was always clear that it wasn't the actual cause of anything.

when the smell came back without the amp, the place the smell was landing wasn't clear. so, i lysoled around the cabinet a few times, over the floor, around the bedframe, etc - which helped me eventually figure out that the smell was coming from a combination of the boxspring, and the underside of the mattress.

so, i dismantled the bed yesterday afternoon and went over the whole area with a lot of lemon-smelling dish soap. i left it dismantled when i went out, and put it back together when i got home this morning at about 4:00. and, that seemed to work before the p-trap dried back out and released some more gas; i might need to do this again.

for now, what i've done in here is make coffee. if i can't blow the hydrogen sulfide around, maybe i can overpower it. we'll see how that works...

so, what happened? why does the boxspring smell now, when it was the amp before?

well, it could be because somebody came in here. i need to keep pointing this possibility out, but the absolute depravity of this is getting beyond baffling.

but, an ammonia smell would be the expected result of hydrogen sulfide exposure. so, there could be sewer gas in the boxspring. i suppose that some moisture, combined with a lack of air circulation, could have brought it back out. or, there could have been some gas leakage when i was gone...

i need to understand what's happening before i can figure out how to fix it, and how to react, otherwise. i have a naturalistic explanation, and if it's correct then there should be a reasonable way to fix it, so long as i can keep the gas from coming out, or get to it as soon as it starts.

for now, the next thing to do is clean a little in the other room and take a shower. i'll get back to the show review in a bit.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this. 

i blew the day, but i've got some writing coming...

the gas leak came back this evening around 18:00, so i had to fill the p-trap back up with water and dish soap before sealing the cleanout back up. i've blocked the leak, but not before it sent a bunch more shit into the air. i'm not going to get the fan back in here for another day or two, so it might get kind of rank.

i guess i'll have to do laundry again.....

there's a temperature gradient around the cleanout that may be contributing to the problem. i don't how normal that is, though - it goes right to the underground sewer, right? you'd kind of expect it to be a little cooler down there.

but, i suspect the bigger culprit is the dehumidifier upstairs.

i'm going to send him an email asking him to make sure that he's running water through the sinks and flushing toilets periodically, that he's not letting anything dry out.

as it is, i was up in the afternoon around 15:00-ish and haven't done much yet besides eat. lots of stuff to do, though.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this. 

nobody cares.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/09/25/green-partys-fully-costed-platform-gets-a-failing-grade-from-former-parliamentary-budget-officer.html

the liberals are supposed to do better than this. 

this comes up periodically. it came up last night.

i have had no plastic surgery. at all. no botox. no implants. no facial work. nothing.

just hormones.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this. 

the homeowner needs to be a reasonable person, it is true, but you also expect the court to be reasonable.

you could imagine a situation where a homeowner exits his house and chases the trespasser down, or doesn't give him a fair chance to leave before he shoots, or any other such aggressive behaviour. i think that most people would see something wrong with this, because our concepts of property are not absolute; the difference between you and i on this point is probably just that i'm willing to admit it, and you're not. a part of this comes in recognizing that trespassing can't be seen as an absolute wrong - he could have been in a car crash and looking for somebody to help his injured wife, or he could have been out hiking and convinced he was being hunted by a cougar, or he could be mentally ill and trying to find the end of the rainbow. you can't just assume that the motives of the trespasser are nefarious, and because you can't assume that, an over-reaction can't be justified by exposing the motives as nefarious, if they are, either. it's the homeowner's responsibility to try and establish the actual facts before acting, and they're consequently responsible for the consequences of failing to do so.

but, the court being reasonable means recognizing the limitations and stress that the homeowner is under.

i'd have to look at the exact facts fairly closely to make an informed analysis, and i'm not going to do that, but the trespasser has a hard case to make here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-landowner-sued-by-injured-trespasser-precedent-lawyer-1.5296804

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

so, the liberals are very clear on how they see emissions reductions: it's your fault, and you have to pay to fix it. you need to pull your carbon footprints down by your own bootstraps.

they are insisting - through their policies - that this is essentially a consumption problem, and it needs to be resolved via changes in consumer behaviour. thoroughly right-wing, to the core.

we need a government that understands that this is a problem that was largely created by government and will need to be largely fixed by government, that incentives to consumers and tweaks to consumption will do very little so long as we maintain the system. the problem is not individual, not atomized, but systemic in nature.

so, this is a perfect example of the kind of policy that will not work, and should not be proposed, and should not be supported.

the greens have a better plan, here. and, this is the hard truth we need to face: if we want to fix this, we need to pay for it through public spending.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-climate-change-plan-home-retrofits-1.5296400 

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.