Thursday, June 18, 2026

we didn't get much rain here last night but the weather system knocked me out regardless. i got most of the way through my caesar and stopped to sleep and woke up to realize the power had gone out earlier in the night. i only have two chromebooks running right now and one of them has a battery, so it was a minimal annoyance, but i slept a lot longer than intended, regardless. it's reminded me to add a couple of upses to the list of studio and other computer station items.

i woke up and sorted through some purchases first and will get to finishing the caesar now.

- i have ten more containers of caulk and a container of quick drying cement coming from canadian tire
- i think i can use the quick drying cement as mortar without adding sand because it doesn't shrink (it seems to already have sand). it is probably technically a mortar, already. i hope i have enough.
- i bought a trowel with it on amazon because i don't have one
- i also bought some kitchen items: a glass replacement for my brita jug (which i leave out at room temperature, without a filter), some brushes for some of the glasses i bought that are designed for dishwashers and that i can't get my hands into because they're too skinny, a 150 watt herb grinder for extremely infrequent marijuana use (i like to keep it a substantive distance from the house and don't want to smell it where i live. i don't shit in my own food supply.), a handful of paper sized white board magnets for the fridge and these $25 usb c electric scrubbing devices for the floors, which i think need a good scrub. if they work once and break, that's fine, but i suspect i'll hang on to them.

there's going to be a charging table in the front entrance, which is going to be used less when i get the other door installed. i already have a 10 port usb A charging hub that has slowly filled up with devices. it's also going to need a usb c hub, because they aren't compatible. that wasn't supposed to happen. usb was supposed to be backwards compatible. but the money-grubbing shitheads at apple pushed that through and we're stuck with it.

as i'm trying to get the plastic out of here, and that's a major reason i'm considering buying a pop maker, i don't want to buy a pop maker with a plastic bottle. that limits my options to one model by sodastream, or a more expensive high end competitor that's out of my price range. my choices are the new duo sodastream or a used aquafizz. so i'll have to wait a bit.

it's not going to be clear where i can put a dishwasher in here until it's properly cleaned up, but i might actually want to put it in the laundry. there's more space in there, a table i can put it on and a water hook up near the laundry. that will likely have to wait a fair bit, as i'm probably going to have to pay n the $400+ range, and it's not likely to be a priority.

i've been sleeping mornings this week but i'm awake now. so, i'm going to finish that salad and then clean myself up a little and then get back to what i was doing, as i wait for things to come in. i could conceivably get some shelving installed by the end of the day.
google...

can you stop sending me to amazon.com and walmart.com and ebay.com instead of the .ca sites?

google.ca apparently no longer exists, forcing me to use google.com. i'm never going to buy anything from a us site instead of the .ca site, and they wouldn't ship here, anyways. this is stupid.

why did you get rid of google.ca? it makes shopping via google from canada almost impossible.