there's still no end to the forecasted late summer / early fall temperatures here and we might even break a record on thursday. this october, we had one day where the high was 12 and two days where the high was 15. every other day here has been 16 degrees celsius or higher, including 9 days higher than 20 degrees, four (maybe five) of which were over 25. 15-20 degrees is considered late summer or early fall in canada. 25+ is considered peak summer.

we're waiting for the yearly crash, but it doesn't look like it's scheduled any time soon. if these 15+ degree days linger too far into november, winter will not be able to happen. there will be too much heat in the ground. it'll just rain, instead.

i should be able to get back to a normal lifestyle in the next few months, i hope. it does depend on these stalkers getting bored and going away and/or giving up and fucking off and/or catching them and sending them to jail. there has to be an end to this soon.

the cameras should be up in the next few weeks. that's something i can do while i'm saving money for the rdsp. i have the components ready to go and a new (old) system to install it on. it's a dell optiplex that i can put linux on. 

while i will need to get out in the front to redo some waterproofing, the installation of the side door will eliminate potential access because i can go in and out through that door instead, which is right beside where i'm working. that change alone will make a huge difference.

i'll know they're gone when i know they're gone. i mean, i can hear them.

right now, i'm focusing on symptoms subsiding and experiences returning to normal.

i continued to spent the last two days finalizing the cleaning in here so i can get in the shower. the main focus has been cleaning the floors, getting things up off the floors and onto tables or shelves, getting things out of boxes and onto tables or shelves, getting things off the couch, laundry, odds and ends in the kitchen, odds and ends in the studio area, cleaning the floor in the garage, putting the bike rack in, getting the bikes out of the inside and into the garage, moving other items out of the inside and into the garage and setting up the remaining shelving. this cleared out the last cluttered area in the main apartment (except the side door), so i have one more region to scrub and steam mop, and then the last thing to do is tidy up in the bedroom and get in the shower. i'm finally basically done.

i slept in the late morning and early afternoon on sunday and split my sleeping on monday between the early morning and early evening. i've been cleaning pretty nonstop since saturday morning, otherwise.

as mentioned, furniture and other purchases for september--->december will be stalled until the new year because i need to max out my rdsp, which is more important. i did not do monthly transfers because i thought i'd be done in here by the summer at the latest, and i could push finishing in here first and catch up, and then had to deal with a host of unexpected issues and expenses which i might get a refund on before the end of the year, which would be helpful. so, i need to catchup, and i need to get that list done and sent. if the refund comes in early, i could back to it early, otherwise i'll need to wait.

i am going to have a minmeal first and then get back to it. i hope to be in the shower by the end of the morning.

it's starting to look like we got rid of dilbert. great.

i don't want to jump to conclusions about why, but his decision to overpower an otherwise (i believe) unanimous vote on city council to fund what many people here consider to be an essential service might have been the reason. i would consider that act an unacceptable abuse of power and reason for removal. he argued it was losing money, but he funded all kinds of other things, including religious festivals, that lost more money, and provided no services. it's a question of where your priorities are - do you want to be taxed to pay for services or do you want to be taxed to pay for things that are not services, like memorials to rail cars and skating rinks on city hall?

if you listened to his reasoning at the time, he seemed to actually cancel the bus as an intentional attack on the unions, which is pretty dumb and out of touch and arrogant, in windsor.

hopefully, this outcome sends a warning to future mayors: don't overpower council just because you can. voters won't tolerate it and will throw you out of office for it. if this is what people are thinking, it's a clear victory for democracy and citizen oversight.

anybody that watched the debate would also struggle to describe dilbert without using descriptions like "pompous asshole". his treatment of the female candidate, who is a kind of small-business conservative that seemed to have traditional values perspectives, was abysmal. he was impossible to admire as a potential four-term mayor, let alone want to have a beer with.

if francis does win, it might be an overall rightward shift, if only a small one. the major candidates are both conservatives, but francis is saying he'll bring the tunnel bus back. great.

i want to make a summary request about this. with the bridge opening, which lets people cross on foot or bicycle for free, the primary value of the bus needs to be to service around the bridge's very restricted hours. the bridge is going to close at 3:00 pm for the winter months. the bus needs to service people from 3:00 pm to 7:00 am (that is overnight) as a priority, and deprioritize daytime hours. i am very disappointed in the bridge authority's decision to accept such restrictive hours for the walkway, and it does maintain a purpose for the bus, which i would like to see run over night, every night. it could even not run at all in the middle of the day.

https://windsorite.ca/2026/10/live-windsor-municipal-election-results-2026/

when you buy a stolen car, and the authorities track it down, what happens?

you have to give the car back to it's rightful owner. you are not compensated. you take the loss.

you don't have a "property right" to keep the stolen car. rather, the rightful owner has a right to recover their property. the ownership papers were transferred illegitimately, and you didn't due your due diligence in making sure the sale was legitimate. it's actually your fault.

you can try to sue the person that sold you the stolen car but it's ultimately the buyer's responsibility under canadian law to do their due diligence.

likewise, it may be the case that a lot of people in bc bought stolen land, but that doesn't change the fact that it's stolen, and that the sellers had no right to sell it. under canadian law, those purchase are illegitimate, and it's up to the buyer to take the loss, due to not doing their due diligence.

in this case, the people that bought stolen land may have a good legal case to sue the government to recover losses, but it doesn't alter the basic fact that the state had no right to sell land it doesn't own and that it's the rightful owners that have the legal rights, not the people that stole it.

if the conservative party of british columbia had any actual support for property rights, it would seek to compensate the indigenous groups for the massive amount of land that was stolen from them outright, not purchased or signed away in any sort of treaty process. 

i do not support property rights and do not want to confuse you. i am drawing attention to their hypocrisy. i do not support the idea of enforcing property rights, which are not consistent with indigenous culture, on the indigenous peoples of bc.

however, the conservative party position is not in support of property rights but in support of colonial land theft. it's the exact opposite of a support for property rights. they think they have some sort of right to steal land from the indigenous groups without compensation or consent, and they call that "property rights". but, as proudhon stated, property is indeed theft (or is impossible, as a more accurate application to indigenous land rights would assert. that is, the indigenous groups actually understood that property is impossible and actually lived that way.).

the conservative party and the ndp have the same political position on this issue, which reflects the reality that bc is outright stolen land. it's the courts that have stepped in and said "there's no legal basis of the fiefdoms here. there's no valid deed. there's no treaty. there's no sale. you just outright showed up and flat out stole it. that's not legal under canadian law, going back to the days of the roman empire. you have to come to some agreement with the descendants of the groups you stole the land from. you can't just carry on as though the outright theft of land is in any way legitimate; it's not. until you work out some agreement, the rightful owner is the family that the land was stolen from, not the government that stole it and took control of it without paying for it.".

it consequently doesn't really matter which party is in power because this is a legal issue about the absence of any valid ownership documents and not a political issue. the bc legislature has little power to fight the court rulings. it's not even really in their jurisdiction.

it does however expose a serious problem in the settler-colonial culture in bc. it's 2026, and bc seems to think it's 1763. a substantive number of british columbians don't see anything wrong with stealing land from indigenous groups, and even insist they have a right to do that, and call it property rights.

never forget that we live in the era of orwell.