there's about 20-25% tariffs in transiting goods through the provinces, and interprovincial trade is around $170 billion. slashing that would be throwing around 35-45 billion dollars away in lost revenue.
for reference, the massive job losses coming to the civil service are expected to "save" the government $60 billion, and probably cost the economy twice that in multiplier effects, and this was being projected as a way to "save the country from fiscal ruin", when it is in truth simply going to ravage large swaths of the local economy in the pm's own riding, which he just won and could now very well lose asap.
the next day, they cut another $40 billion in revenue with no economically coherent way to regenerate it, besides nonsense about tax cuts being stimulus (no empirical study anywhere at any time has ever upheld the ideologically driven market religion belief that cutting taxes stimulates the economy. this is thoroughly debunked as completely faith-driven nonsense with not the slightest shred of evidence to support.)? why?
could it be because they want more spending cuts?
this is an idea they campaigned on, so it's no surprise, but i don't think it's a good idea.
it might be less of a not good idea if they cut the food and booze out, but how less not good is not clear. i will admit that my biggest criticisms were related to food and booze. lumber also sounds like an item that provinces should have tariffs on.
swapping cars for canola tax free might seem like a good enough idea for consumers on it's face, but most canadians would certainly benefit more from the taxation at the tariff level than they would from eliminating those taxes, which all evidence suggests is going to be followed by a cut in services. canadians are better off being taxed for services than they are getting tax cuts and then being told to be pay for the services getting cut. the reason for this is that only a small fraction of canadians (~10% in previous years, but certainly less now due to all the cuts in revenue recently) actually pay enough taxes to cover the cost of healthcare, education, childcare, roads, etc. the vast majority of canadians pay less in that they get back and rely on heavy contributions by the wealthy and by the corporate elite to balance the difference. however, they don't realize that and don't understand their taxes very well. the amount of anger that your average canadian wage slave demonstrates for their payroll deductions would appear to be inversely proportional to the level that they understand where their taxes go, which i'm going to call dumbass workers' law.
for example, i've had people go after me pretty viciously for the money taken off their check to pay my odsp, but that money is paid with property taxes, not payroll deductions, and i was able to point out that one of these guys actually rents. i don't get a cent taken off your check. the money taken off your check currently goes to healthcare and education, but the government increasingly wants to reduce your income to pay for planes and tanks to kill russians with, instead.
this was a silent source of revenue, and my understanding is that it was substantive, as well. cutting this source of revenue immediately after passing the last budget should worry people, as it's going to lead to huge decreases in revenue that a right-wing government can use as an excuse to cut services with. it suggests there might be some kind of cunning plan being implemented.
this is a picture of the cast of mary poppins in 2005ish.
the one in the middle is mary poppins.
she's about 20 years older than the rest of them.
did ryan wedding ever clear a drug test at the olympics?
my understanding is that the drug use at the olympics is rampant, and the olympic villages tend to look something like woodstock by the end of the event.
well, this is frightening.
i don't think it's very close. the video doesn't accurately reflect hitchens' trostkyist perspectives on the russia file. at all.
when there have been wars in ukraine in the last several decades, there's always been an alternative to the europeans and russians on the ground. ukraine has a peculiarly central position in the development of anarchism, which is probably due to the fact that it was a wasteland, free of direct control. ukrainians always had the idiosyncratic need to balance between the freedom of the steppe, and it's inherent tyranny, and the slave-reality of working people in settled eastern europe, with the security that slavery brings. anarchism could likely not have arisen anywhere else. ukrainian wars have always been multisided, with a dozen different flags pushing a dozen different ideologies.
what is weird about the current mess is that there is no alternative, as there always has been, you have to pick between one broken system and the other. it's an alternativeless thatcherian nightmare in a real sense; you can hear her banshee wails and tortured cries, screaming from the night sky no alternative!. i would expect hitchens to take a much more subtle position than this when faced with that truth.
the situation in sudan is extremely complex, but the basic point is that the area has resources and the colonial arab monarchies to their northeast (which are at about the same level of social development as 15th or 16th century europe, before any of the revolutions, even the glorious revolution that ended britain's single brief streak with totalitarian religionism) seek to exploit the region for minerals and for slaves and are making a bloody mess of it while they do so, as has been the status quo there through centuries of arab imperialism and colonialism in the region.
you could send us forces in to protect them, but they'd be more likely to get caught up in it.
if, however, there were merchants on the ground that controlled access to their own resources, and could protect those assets from theft by arabs and turks and chinese alike, the next question is how to prevent them from conquering somalia. that might be challenging to build but it's the right approach.
the true believer is always the greater threat to freedom than the self-interested cynic is.
i'm going to guess that nicki minaj has probably had a lot of bad experiences with arab men, who tend not to be very well behaved or to have very much respect for people's rights. she's not the most educated voice, but she is probably speaking more from experience than imagination.
for some reason, the american media wants to pretend as though christians aren't getting killed by islamic terrorists in africa. it's classic right-wing denialism and it's becoming standard in the fake left to just pretend hamas and al qaeda and al shabaab and boko horom and the rsf and the taliban and etc just don't exist.
islam is about peace. riiiiiiiiiight.
how fucking stupid do they think we are? i mean, we fell for christianity once and spent a thousand years fighting it off, so you'd think we'd easily learn not to fall for islam, but we have to come to a simple, stark truth, which is that fake left men like the hierarchical components in religionism. they like the idea of telling their bitch what to do. they don't care about the gays. men have to have beards? they can deal with that. etc. if a couple of people get killed or raped, what's the big deal? it's not so bad. just get used to it.
it's these fake leftists that pose us a deeper threat, as a society, than any right wing extremists, and we're seeing it on full display in the media's willful ignorance of the spread of arabic colonialism and islamic imperialism in africa, in central asia, in india and also in southeast asia.
african civil conflicts tend to be multisided and complex, but the basic premise that islamic terrorists in nigeria are slaughtering christian men and raping the women, which is how society works at the barely-not-monkey level, is entirely correct. that is real. you can try explain it or foolishly attempt to put it in "context", but claims that the accusation lacks factual support or empirical basis is just pathetically repeating jihadist propaganda, and reduces the american media landscape to a level of useful idiocy that is something out of saudi arabia, which is increasingly also true, due to the increasing importance of arab blood money in funding and directing american media.
what?
sometimes you need to lift that mirror up. it's how you do it.
trump was recently criticized for calling a journalist named catherine a pig, but what you don't realize is that he was actually referring to karoline leavitt, and he got his prompters backwards.
you know the donald is a closeted gay.
exhibit a: eating pizza with a fork. it's a dead giveaway.
but, just listen to him talk for five minutes.
i think the most exciting thing you're going to find in that email dump is evidence of trump having sex with epstein, himself.
i got evicted in april of this year, signed a lease in may and moved again on oct 1st. my new landlord is weird and distant, but the place doesn't smell like drugs (i haven't finished cleaning it yet) and i'm probably ok here for a while. the local property manager might be a problem as he seems to be a right-wing loser, and i'm more focused on him than the landlord. the landlord seems to be reasonable but he also doesn't seem to care much and so i'm trying to find a balance, and i'm going to have to do the research. i'm going to need to call the ltb today about upstairs, for example.
the middle property is dealt with and i walked away ok if this new place works out, which is looking more tentative by the day.
my dtc got approved, and i applied for the cdb and learned about the perks of registered disability savings; i could get a free $15,000, i just need to apply for it.
so the fact that the issue with the property owners that bought my house in 2023 and aggressively evicted me is going to the supreme court, after a consolidation stint in the court of appeal, is scaring me less. i could use the disability money, if i have to. but i'm extremely confident that the supreme court will come down on the right side of this.
the ontario superior court is corrupt. i was able to figure out that one of the women that bought the place is in doug ford's inner orbit, and is one of his daughter's best friends. she used be a talking head on ctv in toronto. i don't know why any of this happened, but that is the best explanation i can come up with as to the nature of the blatant and open corruption i'm experiencing. the ford family is no stranger to corruption.
while this is only an issue on appeal in a cursory way - i did appeal to the judicial council and did bring up concerning events but have not brought the relationship with the ford family into focus, and don't know what came first, the corruption or the purchase of the small house in windsor through the upper crust elite sotheby's auction house, which normally deals with multimillion dollar mansions on the waterfront in this area - it won't follow the case to ottawa, even if it does follow it to toronto. i need to get out of this court to get a correct ruling.
speaking of epstein.
it seems like it was something like that, that they tried to traffic me, and i shook them off, but i haven't been able to get rid of these right-wing muslim losers that were overseeing it, and they're continuing to follow me around and drug me.
canada's court system suffers from a longstanding issue with a poorly educated judiciary that lacks the breadth of knowledge to deal with a lot of the issues dropped on it and has recently, due to decisions made by justin trudeau, taken a sharp turn to the right. however, it's not normally known for open corruption. this is unusual and it should get stamped out through escalation.
i am going to post a link to a several thousand page document here soon that is intending to prep the case for the supreme court. it doesn't have the details because i can't prove them but this would be easier if they'd just write me a check and fuck off
Monday, November 17, 2025
the ndp are retards.
i'm never going to vote for this party ever again.
they're utterly doomed.
if you oppose this, you'll need to vote against it.
that would be the general trend - people voting against palestine, in canada. but the fake left political establishment is taking advantage of the fact that most canadians don't give a fuck, and the fact that the palestinian lobby is well organized and flush in blood money. mainstream fake left groups can get away with this because it isn't a ballot issue.
frankly, for me, it is increasingly becoming a ballot issue, and there is increasingly no possibility i would vote for a party that recognizes palestine, as such a position is deeply immoral and in deep contradiction to the rights of the indigenous jewish people to self-govern themselves, in addition to providing material support for fundamentalist semitic religion.
these kids appear to have been trafficked, probably by the parents.
it's anybody's guess as to whether they're still alive, but the idea that there was no criminal act is not upheld by the evidence, as far as i can see.
the police in canada are more corrupt than they are useless. if somebody bought the kids, they probably bought the cops, too. that's increasingly real life in canada.
somehow, the liberals have managed to snatch imminent demographic irrelevancy away from the clutches of the right, and watched the conservatives build a natural governing coalition in the process.
what's left of the liberal voting coalition is going to be dead in five years - it's all fat, old, white men.
the liberals have suddenly become a party of gross, smelly, contemptible, revolting old men with disgusting religionist policies and that i would rather pepper spray than have a beer with.
it's a noticeable shift.
every time the liberals send somebody out to meet the cameras nowadays, it's the grossest loser i've ever seen.
they've become a party of middle-aged, balding, ugly, fat and mostly white men.
no.
the ruling is that the indigenous group always owned the land, and europeans just walked in and stole it. an analogy might be helpful.
suppose somebody steals your car, and sells it for a profit. the person that bought the stolen car has somewhat of a problem, in that they purchased stolen goods; they may not have known the goods were stolen, but they are now in unlawful possession of something that was stolen and have to return it if they learn the facts. now, there are two owners of the car - the rightful owner, who had the car stolen, and the person who bought the stolen car. in canadian law, the property must be seized and returned to the rightful owner that had their property stolen and it doesn't matter that you purchased the stolen property, you still have to return it, and can even go to jail if you know the property was stolen and choose to keep it, or evade enforcement around returning it.
i want to reiterate it that: in context, holding to fee simple on stolen property and choosing to evade enforcement is actually a crime that could lead to jail time.
the government never owned the land, so the purchase of it from the crown was invalid. the land was stolen and needs to be returned. the people that purchased the land in fee simple bought land that was stolen, and it's just like buying a stolen car. some maybe didn't know, but most did and, frankly, they ought to be prosecuted for it.
once the property is returned to the party it was stolen from, the question as to compensation for the illegal sale becomes a civil issue, but the buyer really isn't guaranteed to recover those funds. that's what happens when you buy stolen goods from shady sources.
my understanding is that what they call "obamacare coverage" is what the health insurance industry elsewhere else calls "free consultation".
it's not a health care policy.
it's not even close.
did the democrats shut down congress for a month because insurance companies lobbied them to?
i can't prove that.
but, yes. probably.
almost certainly.
i didn't write this article. i'm just posting it.
if i had made this obvious argument three weeks ago, you would have called me a conspiracy theorist, despite the obvious truth of it. it's there, though. you need to read between the lines a little.
that doesn't mean that trump or the republicans are the better choice, it means the democrats really aren't very much better, in truth, and that a lot of people allow themselves to delude themselves otherwise.
if the congress is going to waste it's time on gossip and tabloid-level discourse, maybe it's better if it stays shut down.
this is correct. the liberal party has, in line with increasing muslim immigration, taken increasingly pro-muslim foreign policy positions, and isn't interested in addressing the severe human rights consequence of islamic imperialism and arab colonialism in central and eastern africa or in the south-east asian region. we've become a bad global actor, and a borderline rogue state, and can be genuinely and honestly accused of increasingly providing material support for islamic terrorism. if canadians don't care about sudan, they should stop to wonder for a minute if these policies might eventually be used as a pretext for american military action, because the reality is that they would be justified in taking action to stop us from funding these terrorist networks.
the rsf is described as a "paramilitary group". it's a state-funded terrorist group and the uae is a state-sponsor of terrorism.
a hydro dam in iqaluit is a project of national importance?
the purpose of these projects is to increase stock prices, and that will probably work. almost none of this will get built.
the most important projects we could build that would benefit a majority of canadians would have to do with:
- planting trees
- increasing building efficiencies
- increasing inner city air quality using projects like green roofing
- healthcare investments
- education investments
- housing investments
- electric transportation infrastructure
there's not a trace of any of that in the government's priorities. it's all mining and fossil fuels.
instead of building projects to increase the quality of life for canadians, carney is concerned solely in building export economies designed to generate profit at the expense of quality of life and, more importantly, to benefit foreign investors, and that should have been obvious to voters, but wasn't.
we need an immediate election. the conservatives might win, but that would send the liberals the memo from canadians and be a better outcome than letting the liberals govern like conservatives.
to be clear: we need more hydro power development, and i would support more money for more hydro more generally, but the population of baffin island, which is more than twice the size of britain, is less than 15,000. that's the population of a city block in toronto. even if climate change accelerates off the rails, that area will still have six month long polar nights with weeks of -50 weather, and these rivers being considered to be dammed will freeze over solid for months of the year for decades or centuries to come. it's nonsense.
my father, however, would have argued that gretzky was overrated, and that mario lemiuex was a better hockey player, but it's probably because he was french canadian.
i know a fair amount about wayne gretzky, and it's not exactly because i'm canadian. my father has a hockey nut. i didn't share his interest, as a kid, and he found that hard to understand, but he knew i liked to read. he bought me a fair number of sports related books, including books by ken dryden and an autobiography of gretzky, up to the mid 90s, as written by a ghost writer.
so, i read gretzky's autobiography when i was a kid. i was about ten. that's how i know he didn't go to high school.
he didn't go to high school because he was a child hockey prodigy and he didn't make the time to finish grade school while playing professional hockey, as a child. nowadays, he wouldn't be allowed to do that. further, he states in his book, via his ghost writer, that he regrets not finishing grade school, as it left him unable to do basic tasks for himself, like count how much money he has. his agent ripped him off pretty badly.
gretzky commands a lot of respect on the canadian political right, but the truth is that what is known about his public life experiences suggest he wouldn't be very good at tabling a budget.
it's not even clear if he can count to 92.
i was initially considering buying a makeup table for the bathroom, and i still might, but i first need to look at getting a mirror over the sink, with some lights. i'm going to have to screw it over a window, so it's a little awkward. i was going to buy a $40 light fixture with four 100 watt replaceable bulbs, then turn it into a plug-in lamp by connecting it to a lamp cord i can plug into the wall, which would cost an extra $25. then, i'd need to buy a $50ish mirror.
it turns out that there's currently a lot of mirrors on the market that essentially do this for you in one step, but they're in an extremely disappointing state, at the moment. first, if i'm going to buy a mirror with built in lights, i need to be able to screw the bulbs in and out and that is instantly going to tripe or quadruple the price. it makes essentially no sense to spend $100 on a disposable mirror with lights, but the alternative is spending $300 on the same thing in order to get screw in lights. second, while essentially all of these mirrors have an operating system installed in them that allows for touch functions in the mirror, the only thing these programmable mirrors can do is turn the lights up and down, which is trivial and useless. a programmable smart mirror should allow the user to zoom in and out like they can on their phone, and to alter the brightness of the reflected image in real time, like you would in a basic photo editing software. i have yet to find anything like that; what i've found are $1000 mirrors that show you the weather in the form of a windows vista gadget and are probably connected directly to cia data centres as intelligence gathering tools (what a perfect surveillance tool, eh?), or that let you stream netflix in the background, like we needed another kind of fucking tv. instead, you have to buy smaller mirrors with built in magnifying levels (2x, 3x, 10x, 20x) on different screens, and no zoom functionality. if you want to zoom in to 5.5x and then out to 3x and then into 10x, on the fly in real time, you're at best needing to find an app for your phone or ipad instead of a smart mirror, but the truth is that such a thing doesn't seem to exist at all.
a smart mirror should be a smart mirror! the future ought to be in smart mirrors with stub versions of android installed in the mirror that allow it to act as a smarter mirror with usable smart mirror functionality, but we're not there yet.
so, i don't know what i'm going to do, yet.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
wayne gretzky didn't just drop out of high school, he didn't even go to high school at all. he has about a functional grade 9 education.
he's not somebody you should look to for intellect or wisdom or guidance, unless you're open and he has the puck, and in the latter scenario, you don't need to think about it much; you don't need to call him, he'll find you.
in fact, if you're open and he has the puck, then you'd better keep an eye out, as he has a tendency to bounce pucks in off people's asses and you might just get knocked out if you're not paying attention. but, i mean, that'll still count, right?
it turns out that the weather today sucks anyways. the sun never came out so the ground never dried up and there's a constant 40 km/hr win moving in from the south. it might be an ok day for a walk, but that wasn't the plan.
some groceries came in this morning and my saw came in this afternoon. the temperature is unusually mild for mid november - almost 20 degrees - but this has become a normal occurrence in windsor/detroit over the last 10 years. we expect a handful of 16+ days in late november and early december, nowadays, and winter, if it happens at all, is usually over by mid january, or early february. a cold day in windsor nowadays is plus 3 or 4 degrees celsius.
i wouldn't have gone anywhere in the damp windy weather anyways. the wind is not really going to clear out until mid week, so this might be better rain jacket weather this week than it is summer weather this weekend.
my wood will be here next weekend and the temperature will recover again by then. it might feel nicer next weekend, despite not being as warm.
i need to plan the rest of the groceries out, finish writing the document i was typing up for the apartment setup and then finish the last bit of legal writing (hopefully), before i can get those shelves into the kitchen and get to work converting the laundry into a walk-in closet.
the purpose of tariffs is not supposed to be raise revenue. as a tax, this is highly regressive.
the purpose of tariffs, like other pigovian taxes, is suppose to be to change consumer behaviour.
if trump hands out rebates for inflation, it just makes the tariffs a pigovian tax designed to reward those who buy more american products and less foreign products. like a carbon tax.
that's not why he's doing it, he's reacting to public concerns about inflation, but it would make the tariffs more effective as policy (in theory) and something he should have done in the first place if he wanted this to actually work.
our own government might want to consider tariff rebates, as well, that would go out to everybody and reward those that buy canadian items without tariffs, while penalizing those that don't.
i am really tired of the economic nationalism i'm seeing in stores lately and am beginning to go out of my way to find items not made in canada.
i fucking hate this stupid country.
there was a foolish attempt in the last part of the previous century to try to prove that homosexuality was genetic, despite the science being abundantly clear that behaviour in mammals is never genetic. simple organisms, like reptiles and insects, have little ability to undo their instinctual reactivity, but the development of mammal intelligence rendered instinct largely irrelevant. all mammals, from lions to mice, are born helpless and empty and without any residual genetic instincts and need to be taught everything by their parents or community. an earlier era of biology would have argued that predators like tigers and lions are, like crocodiles, born with an instinct to hunt, but we have known for decades now that that is completely wrong and that lions need to be taught to hunt and will starve if they are not taught to hunt by their parents. the tabula rasa model is the correct model in all mammals and a small subset of birds.
for that reason, citing the gay penguin as biological proof of homosexuality was stupid. birds are still largely instinctual, whereas mammals have essentially no instinctual basis in their behaviour at all. if somebody drops a kid in the forest, they might figure it out, but it will be by self-learning and not by instinct. humans don't have a caveman instinct underneath their civilized exterior. that idea is a debunked myth.
what genes actually do is code for proteins; hormones are proteins. genes make mistakes, and those mistakes have consequences that are usually negative, but they don't directly control or affect choices. the result is that mammals have free will, and that that free will is genetic, in the tabula rasa we're born with, up to the caveat that we don't decide how to manufacture proteins, that is autonomous and determined by our genetics.
it follows that the idea that being gay is genetic is actually incredibly stupid. this is obviously wrong, as the mechanism of using genes to explain sexual behaviour is incoherent. that makes absolutely no sense.
the result of looking for a gay gene - and they looked. hard. - is that they couldn't find one. all of the effort put into finding a gay gene resulted in the demonstrably clear outcome that there is no gay gene and homosexual behaviour is neither biological nor genetic but, rather, a clear individual choice that some people do or don't make. people can choose to be gay, they can choose to be straight, they can choose to be bi, or they can choose to be celibate, which is the actual choice that i've actually made for myself, in my own life.
however, what researchers did find in their attempt to find a biological basis for homosexuality, which they proved wrong, was that there are certain genes that code for testosterone and estrogen development and that errors in transcription in these genes can lead to individuals unable to produce normal amounts of sex hormones. it follows that while homosexuality has no biological basis, it is true that some biological men are born with low testosterone or high estrogen, and that this result can affect their behaviour, in leading to identify with women, or become attracted to men. this generates a biological basis for gender identity that does not exist for homosexuality.
there has recently been a movement amongst conservatives to deny all of this, and flip the evidence over to align with the outcome they want, which conservatives often do, and which is that both gender and sexuality are fixed by god, via the mechanism of genes. the way that these conservatives accept homosexuals is by deciding it's genetic, and therefore determined by god. this might allow them to handle homosexuals as non-deviants (despite their religious rules very explicitly declaring otherwise), but it has no basis in biology or in sociology or even in the mainstream of the pseudo-science we call psychology. it is, in fact, a classic example of conservative anti-intellectualism and right-wing idiocy. but, it follows that if gender and orientation are both fixed, then transgendered people are just confused; the problem is that that's wrong in it's core assumption, and every branch of science states it's wrong.
rather, the sociologists and psychologists are very clear that orientation is not fixed but fluid, and people can and do experience multiple sexual orientations in their lifetime, and are not born with a sexual orientation but rather make choices in what behaviour to engage in throughout their lives, and are free to change their mind as they see fit.
conversely, the biologists are increasingly clear that genetics is at the core of hormonal expression, and that people don't have any real choice in how their hormones are expressed in their genes, or how much of what hormone their body makes endogenously, which has a clear biological effect on their gender identity, although they do have a choice in how they want to react to that.
personally, i discovered i had low testosterone in my late teens when i began feeling experiences of gender dysphoria, and realize this biological fact is almost certainly a consequence of a genetic mutation. this low testosterone resulted in low amounts of body hair and minimal muscle mass, amongst other things. i might have decided to take testosterone injections to address that, but i didn't, and i have the free will to decide how i want to react to my own biology, because i own my own body. that is my choice, not the choice of society, and the law must uphold my right to make choices about my body, whether the society likes it or not.
i've been focusing on some things inside this week. the legal writing is almost done. there's been a few more purchases - 2 tables for the in-unit garage for $50, two more chromebooks for kids that expire in 2029 (i now have three expired chromebooks (one in 2018 and two in 2021) and two that don't expire until 2029) for $75 each, 16 more oversized wall pegs for shelving for $11, a circular saw for $70, two large containers of dill for $45, some more groceries this morning for $200 (that will max me out on virtually everything except produce until the end of december), some replacement usb to ethernet cables for these chromebooks (that no longer have rj-45s) for about $20 and $120 worth of wood, including two large shelves for books and one for under the sink that i can cut in half. next up is materials to build a bright light for in the bathroom.
i wanted to go out to buy some produce this morning, but it seems as though the despicably disgusting perverted gay retard that's been stalking me, and won't accept that i'm not a homosexual and not remotely attracted to or interested in gay men and have never had a gay friend or spent more than five minutes in total aggregate ever talking to all gay men i've ever met in my life, is upstairs. as such, i'm going to have to lock myself inside until i'm sure he's gone, and past experiences suggest to me that this might take several months or even longer.
right now, i'm looking at maybe going outside again some time in the spring. the drug addicts upstairs haven't been evicted yet and i'm starting to draw uncomfortable conclusions about it. the world is a sick place full of dishonest, worthless losers. i'll know they're gone when the heat turns on, as they always turn the heat off when they come in, but i'm concluding they're again getting in with the aid of management, and it won't mean anything if they leave for a few days. i'm going to have to order that produce.
as mentioned, i don't know what this worthless, disgusting, faggot piece of shit wants, but they insist on following me around, drugging my food and talking to me when i'm sleeping in an utterly idiotic attempt to brainwash me into being gay, which i'm not interested in and is not going to work (i would never make the free choice to engage in any kind of homosexual behaviour, which is what being gay is, a harmless personal choice that affects nobody except the gays themselves, and how the law should interpret homosexual decision-making) and apparently expects to move into the apartment and become my boyfriend, despite the fact that i've yelled at him over and over again to go kill himself and explained to him repeatedly that i'm not gay and am in fact not very socially liberal and barely tolerant of faggotry at all. i basically don't care about the fags so long as i don't have to have anything to do with them. the moment that the gays try to interfere with my life, or bother me at all, i essentially believe i'm entitled to stab them in the face and feed them to the rats, because i don't really accept the idea of gay rights in any meaningful sense. if this despicable queer ever identifies himself and tries to talk to me, as i expect he intends to do, i am going to immediately murder him, and i'm telling the world that because i want the outcome to be predictable and expected. i am a transgendered female and consider myself to be heterosexual woman. i don't respect men that choose to be gay, against all biological evidence that insists that homosexuality does not exist, and i don't want to tolerate them. i certainly don't want to be their friends, to have sex with them or to enter into any kind of relationship with them, and the only outcome of this process is consequently necessarily tragic. in what might be a stupid attempt by abject retards to try to prove that trans people don't exist, these faggot idiots are trying to brainwash me into being gay using freudian pseudoscience, because they can't accept what the actual truth is, which is that the science is clear that trans people do exist as a complex result of social conditioning and hormonal genetics, and that gay people don't exist at all, but that engaging in homosexual behaviour is a personal choice and a lifestyle decision that some heterosexual men decide to make. i've done everything i can to prevent the inevitable outcome that i'm going to have no choice but to kill this person, i want it to be described as a hate crime when it happens (as that is the correct analysis), despite also being self-defence, and i am essentially waiting for the moment in which i have the opportunity to kill them. there's no other possible outcome at this point.
right now, my focus is on securing the entry points, making sure they can't get in and locking the place down to keep them out.
Friday, November 14, 2025
the crown prince of saudi arabia should be arrested upon setting food in the united states for his role in the murder of jamal kashoggi, amongst other things.
the place i moved into on may 10th, which has been a disaster, just provided me with a functional $4000-$4500 settlement, with a possibility for an extra $2000-2400 coming. i will need to sign a lease to get the extra $2400.
i have another $1200+ coming from the cdb. i'm asking for $10000+ on my hearing on nov 4th.
the price of small houses in windsor is viciously crashing to well under $200K, and they aren't selling. if i wait a few more months, property values could conceivably start collapsing to under $150K, as the canadian economy burns and disintegrates, as we rapidly devolve to a third world economy under mark carney's pro-market / market fundamentalist mismanagement. as chomsky said, free markets are great...for developing economies. it's a third world economic system that generates poverty and inequality, and we're embracing it head-on in canada, even as we escaped the carnage of it in the last decades, and even as the rest of the world is retreating from it. leave it to canada to evade the mistake the rest of the world made in the 80s and 90s, only to make that exact same mistake 30 years later, while everybody else is learning from it and trying to move on.
due to these settlements allowing me to generate some savings, and prices crashing, i'm seriously considering buying a small house in windsor.
15:19 @windsor, on
for now, the 45% increase in my odsp income since 2022 combined with the 45% decrease in rent over that same period has actually opened up some startlingly appealing rental units at the top of my price range. i'm going to see an 800 square foot 2-bedroom condo tomorrow night that is actually bigger than the basement apartment i had when i first moved here, with the difference being that this place looks almost brand new and full of people that bought the condos and that other place was 100 years old and full of smokers on welfare.
on saturday morning, i'm going to see a basement that's almost as big, but doesn't have a stove and might not have a cable running into it for internet.
i'm also going to see dirty, rotting basements in the same price range as i was previously paying, which would allow me to put close to $800/month in a savings account on a monthly basis. the idea in signing that sort of lease would be to save up to buy as fast as i can, and the unintentional result would be that i might find myself accidentally getting close to the $40,000 odsp asset limit, at $10,000/yr in savings, plus what i'm able to win via tort law for negligence from recent landlords.
this is a reflection of the present absurdity of the housing market. you still couldn't afford the rotting basement on literal welfare or osap, but the convergence around odsp is working as intended, if you can get landlords to listen. it'd be nice to find a 600-700 square foot apartment in a normal apartment building for somewhere in between, but that doesn't exist.
if you can use the irrationality of capitalism to your benefit, you have to do it, and i set my life up so i could. on some level, i'm morally opposed to this, but i have to maximize my self-interest, regardless.
you can be exploited by the system, or you can exploit the system. there's no middle point. it's eat or be eaten, and you can get it or not get it; you can be enslaved by society via the market, or you can enslave the society in return. i'm not naive about this. i don't watch tv, so they can't brainwash me, nyah nyah.
i wouldn't imagine i'd want to move out of an 800 square foot two bedroom condo in a nice part of town any time soon, so i could realistically find myself with a substantive down payment in a few years that i could utilize for a functionally useful endpoint, after the court cases are done.
23:36
odsp is working the way it's supposed to; don't get angry with me about that.
however, the market is completely psychotic and what we're dealing with is a deep market failure in front of us at the most fundamental economic level possible. the fact that odsp is the one thing that is working in the face of a complete and total market failure is a reflection of it being shielded from the market, which has become completely irrational.
23:47
sept 13
i've been in and out of the apartment and have seen a number of places over the last couple of days. after getting some groceries on friday night, i came in at around 21:00 and noticed that there's a key to my apartment door in my mailbox, which worked. this is unsettling, to say the least. at 6:30 this morning, somebody started aggressively buzzing me to get in, which i strictly ignored.
i have filed some police reports and my landlords allowed me to change my locks, but that doesn't really resolve the issue.
i don't know how to process this. as far as i can tell, nothing has been removed from the apartment and there isn't anything missing from it. were they even trying to contact me to give me the key back? i don't know. i know that there's now exactly two keys to get in here, and i have both of them.
i have not had any symptoms of being drugged since august but i'm worried that might change soon.
16:49
sept 14
if you really do the math around what it actually takes to buy a house and the amount of money people are making, even on minimum wage, it's worth asking if the real problem canadians are facing in relation to housing isn't their addictions to drugs, tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, debt, fast food and gasoline.
if i had $3000/month, and i were to rent a reasonably priced $1300-$1500 apartment here in windsor, i'd be able to put $1000/month into a savings account and have enough of a downpayment to buy a $250-$300K house in less than two years. that's barely minimum wage.
it's not clear to me why young people aren't able to do this, other than that they waste their money on poor lifestyle decisions, in part perhaps inherited from their parents, and then complain that they can't afford housing as a result of these poor lifestyle choices, that includes their addictions to debt and gas.
the canadian government may consequently want to research a cost-benefit analysis around the question of if it may be worth trying to get smoking rates, marijuana use, alcohol use, indebtedness, fast food consumption and gasoline use down as a part of it's housing strategy. people might find they can afford to buy a house after all, if they'd just make more intelligent choices with their money and, particularly, if they'd stop wasting so much of it on generating unnecessary carbon emissions.
0:46
sept 16
now, somebody has left a bagel in my box, which i'm interpreting as anti-semitic, and which is weird because i'm neither a genetic hebrew nor a practicing jew. i have less than 3% jewish dna, according to the ancestry.com report, and it's from way back in the 19th century.
the arabs that have been stalking me, and who appear to have initially thought i was an arab, have repeatedly called me a jew and repeatedly expressed frustration that i'm not reacting as expected because i'm a jew, rather than the arab they thought i was.
in fact, my ancestry is overwhelming viking in origin, both directly (swedish/finnish) and indirectly (scottish, irish, norman, russian, gothic). the 3% jewish dna was from philadelphia, which i have deduced is sephardic, and traveled from philly to n'awleans to frisco to vancouver, and then to ottawa, where i was born. my father's side had some north italian that was gothic/germanic in origin. the test did pick up 1% sicilian, which was probably mostly greek in deep origin. the 1% sicilian is the closest thing to any sort of arab ancestry, but it's probably not really there.
the semitic dna is unambiguously on my mom's side, and the ancestor was certainly jewish, as he got in trouble in jewish court for being mean to his wife. it's not up for interpretation or debate; it's jewish, not arab, and it's on my mom's side, not my dad's side. i don't know what the point of a court intervening in a domestic dispute is when your wife is jewish, but the documents exist, and it demonstrates the point pretty clearly, as do the noses on my mother and aunts, which are all quite substantive.
14:07
i don't have a wonky jew nose. it's a bumpy italian nose.
my dad's nose was a mess, but it's because he used to be a boxer in his youth, and it was broken something like ten times. you couldn't figure out anything about his nose by looking at it, other than that it was busted and smashed.
14:11
to the person that left the bagel in my box: come back and leave some humus.
it was very inconsiderate of you to leave the bagel without the humus.
15:42
what am i supposed to put on this bagel?
my electricity bill?
15:43
if i was managing a property and seeking to rent a place for $1300, and somebody filled out an application for it with an income of $3000, i would tell them their income is too high to rent the apartment and that i'm looking for somebody that makes under $2000/month for $1300/rent.
the reason is that the only conceivable reason that somebody with an income over $2000 would be looking for such a cheap apartment is if they spend $1000/month on drugs, and i don't want drug addicts on my property.
by screening in tenants that make more than they need for a low income apartment, which today is under $1500, landlords are just screening in drug addicts.
a good manager should realize that, and refuse to rent to somebody at less than 50% of their income. the way that landlords currently do this is backwards - instead of saying rent should be less than 50% of income, landlords should be screening out people that want to pay lessthan 50% and only renting to people that want to pay more than 50% of their income in rent, in order to ensure they aren't renting to drunks, potheads and addicts.
a sober, responsible person will want to spend at least 50% of their income on rent, because what else would they spend it on, besides drugs?
16:41
ideal tenants should seek to spend 50-80% of their income on rent.
anybody that would want to move in somewhere that is less than half of their income is a loser and should be avoided.
16:44
if you're only paying 30% of your income on rent, why haven't you bought a house yet?
because you spend 50% of your income on drugs.
there's no other conceivable explanation. anybody with 70% leftover after rent should have enough to buy a house in six months, unless they waste it on drugs.
that's why the rentals are full of addicts, because the landlords screen them in by asking for people with disposable income. disposable income is just another term for "drug money".
16:54
landlords offering cheap rentals should tell the people making $3000-$4000/month to apply for something more expensive, and to follow the fucking rules in the more affluent buildings, when they move in there. they'll throw you out for doing drugs in the house; don't move into low income housing so you can smoke drugs inside.
that higher income isn't an asset, it's evidence that the applicant is a piece of shit.
17:01
it should be a red flag.
the guy that makes $4000/month and applies for a $1000/month apartment is a drug addict loser and they are looking for cheap housing so they can do drugs inside without getting evicted.
if this person wasn't a drug addict, they wouldn't be interested in $1000/month housing, they'd be looking for something in the $2000+/month range.
17:04
sept 17
i have the best apartment in my price range in town, but it's uninhabitable due to the drug users on the premises. our government's failure to enforce basic drug laws, and put addicts in jail where they belong, is making it virtually impossible for normal, healthy people to find acceptable, affordable housing. it's a complete failure of law enforcement, and a complete failure of canada, as a society.
if you want to move to canada, there's almost no escape from the now ubiquitous drug culture.
it's not the greatest country in the world. it's an uninhabitable hell hole.
19:22
canada needs to have a very serious discussion about recriminalizing marijuana, and about enforcing it.
legalization has failed.
19:26
i have never seen the legalization of drugs as some kind of justice issue, and the idea that it is is an insult to the concept of justice. it's not particularly hard; if you don't want to go to jail, don't do drugs. the best argument in favour of legalization is that it would reduce wasted police resources, and the idea is that it would cost less money on enforcement, but i doubt that's actually the case, and it's probably demonstrable with the right statistics.
i'm really not interested in helping drug addicts. society has no reason to give a fuck about addicts. what i'm concerned about is strengthening laws that ensure that normal people aren't subject to the habits of addicts, who have no right to enforce their poor decisions on the people around them.
what we need is better case law strengthening the rights of non-smokers. municipalities should be able to directly fine tenants for smoking anything inside, anywhere, and the fines should be substantive - $1000/occurrence. that would shut it down. there should be zero tolerance in case law for any sort of inside smoking for any reason, and complaints by tenants should overpower decisions by landlords. the right to fresh air should be enforced as fundamental law.
we have an ongoing public health emergency in our multi-residential housing complexes. there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco or marijuana. tenants should not be expected to tolerate even the slightest whiff of smoke from anywhere.
smokers should be expected to smoke in their cars with the windows closed.
19:50
sept 20
it's relatively clear that somebody was in here last week or the week before to drug some of my food, i think my soy milk. it wasn't enough to generate effects that would bother me when i'm sleeping or when i wake up - i am waking up limp or at worse not even 10% erect or 10 second erections but needing intensely to urinate - but it had some effect on my body, which has taken roughly two weeks to max out. i think it reached it's peak the last few days.
i had to cancel appointments last night and this morning because i have scabs all over my face and look utterly disgusting, but it is washing off, and i don't think it's getting worse.
it's just a process of actually cleaning it off. it's just dirt, it's just filth, and it washes off like any other filth and dirt. the problem is that that process is extremely time consuming and can require repeated applications of various types of soap over and over again.
i spent all night last night scraping, slept briefly, spent all day scraping, slept again, and started back on it tonight. i'm going to guess i might be presentable by tomorrow or monday.
i have changed my locks. only i have the keys. so i'm prioritizing cleaning myself up first, under the assumption that this won't happen again.
the most annoying thing is that the inside smoking has largely stopped, as soon as i signed the consent agreement. i need to leave by oct 31st. i think the worst smokers are leaving by sept 30th. there was a pothead smoking joints outside my window that has left.
i'm not sure i can get anybody to agree, but if i can chase the potheads out of here, could i resign here for nov 1st?
it's the biggest, cheapest place i'm going to find. it's just that i can't live in the filth of my neighbours' fucking smoke.
23:35
my thermostat says 29. the outside temperature is 18 and seems extremely cold. i'm shivering inside, and have a chill.
it's a good sign. it suggests my testosterone is back where it should be, at trace levels, and i just need to wash off the remaining dirt.
these extremely sick people need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. they have to this point evaded charges, but i'm hoping my landlord can trace the origin of the key, and that it provides a suspect for police to follow up on.
23:41
sept 25
all of the old people are smoking drugs nowadays, which is going to lead to severely reduced life expectancy. they're all going to die of cancer.
this is only bad news if you're a banker. for the rest of the country, the fact that decreased population growth will open up job opportunities, reduce housing costs, ease up social services and potentially even result in deflation is the best thing we've heard since 2006.
marijuana use amongst retired seniors has skyrocketed in canada over the last ten years. well, i mean, what else do you have to do? you'd might as well just get baked and watch cartoons.
- strokes
- heart attacks
- lung disease
- cancer
- reduced cognitive functions
that's real life, and it's going to be an epidemic here, which is fine if you want them to just fucking die and go away already.
13:10
i've been going around all over the place looking for housing in windsor, and the entire city is just saturated.
then you look over and realize it's an old granny smoking on her porch.
13:11
sept 26
i've noticed a new line show up on rental applications over the last few weeks.
VISA: student or temporary
i have to scratch it out and write in "born in canada".
14:50
sept 28
it's near the end of the month, and i'm rather annoyed. i've seen a handful of places i could have moved to by now, but nobody wants to sign.
i'm going to send out mass emails that are just blunt - you want a good tenant? want to stop looking? well, you have a few more days before oct 1st. i have the money. i can sign and move now. like, what's the problem?
i know that the problem in some cases is that the owner is muslim, and in other cases that my income source is odsp. it's widespread discrimination on one of two considerations - gender identity or source of income. but, launching hrto applications is going to take years, and i need to be able to prove the case. i might be able to make the case against one very big company, but it's not clear that it's worth my time.
further, regarding the issues of muslims not wanting to rent to me because i'm trans (and i have several examples of this), i'd actually rather we get the issues out before hand, so i don't get trapped in it. the last thing i want to do is move into a situation where i have to deal with conservative muslims, and then fight with them for months or years. i'm doing the opposite; i'm sussing this out and going beyond it, by actually actively asking them if women dressing immodestly, or eating pork or drinking alcohol is going to upset them, because i don't want to live there if it does.
i really should have moved by now. i've seen enough places. there have been more than enough places i would move to. but i have not yet succeeded in finding a landlord that would rent to me, and it's about 85% discrimination underlying it. i can really not see good reasons not to rent to me in any of these applications, but they want to tell me my income is too low (despite me doing the math for them, showing it isn't, once you take out debt and cars, mostly, which i'm not paying for) or they just don't respond further once they realize i'm trans.
the discrimination against trans and disabled people are both rampant, especially amongst muslim landlords, which represent a substantive number of the low income rentals in this region. they'd be wise to be careful about what they say to me, but i'd largely rather avoid them, anyways.
the thing is that i don't want to make assumptions about people. i'm trying to get a showing in a basement owned by an arab guy, and he even told me to reschedule because he was busy praying, but he doesn't want to enforce his views on me, and is even trying to help the current tenant out, who is apparently a destructive alcoholic. i know discrimination when i see it, but i can't reverse it by making assumptions; i need to ask. it's mostly been a waste of time, but i can't make that assumption ahead of time. nine out of ten arabs might be viciously transphobic, but that one that isn't, even if they're religious, might be the best landlord in the city.
22:38
moving in
sept 30
i'm officially moving again over the next few days.
it's not very far. i feel like my fucking parents, who used to move across the street every six months.
the place is smaller, but it's laid out better. i haven't had the opportunity to maximize the space here, but it has two 150 square foot rooms (bedroom, living room), two 50 square foot hallways, an awkwardly 100 square foot kitchen with lots of counter space and fridge & stove on the side walls, and a bathroom. this place is around 600 square feet, but i'm wasting a lot of it, and i can't find a way to save it. the living room is 50 square feet too small and the bedroom is 50 square feet too big, and the 100-150 square feet of hall space isn't helpful. i needed to move. if i had more time to look, i would have skipped this space; it's 600 square feet, but i'm only using 350-400 of it.
the place i'm moving to is around 450-500 square feet, but it's laid out in a way that's more useful to me. the hallway is at the bottom of the stairs, so i have a natural place for my bicycles, away from the main living area. the bedroom is smaller, so i'm not wasting the space in it. there's a separate laundry room, where i can put the sewing table. the kitchen is smaller but more usable. there's a second entrance that i can use for studio space, which opens up a large living room. it's just a way better layout, for me. most people would find it awkward, but it's going to be arranged to look like it's twice as big, whereas this place feels half as big.
it's a little rough. that's fine. i don't care. i'll fix it.
so, i will be moving the rest of the week and hope to be done with this by monday.
1:28
the new place is about $200 cheaper, and i'll soon be about $200 better off, per month. i've also gained a few thousand dollars in my account. i don't foresee any fights with the landlord, and the space should be a lot less smoky.
i think that i should be stable there for a while, enough to let me get back to work very quickly, as soon as i'm able to set the space back up.
9:25
what's next after this?
i have a hearing with my previous landlords on nov 4th, about me suing them. i need to update the new evidence, serve it and file it. i'm asking for upwards of $20,000 in damages for smoking and illegal entry. the new evidence includes drug tests and also the key i found in my mailbox, here. i don't know if they'll let me file it or not, but it demonstrates the point - somebody has been getting in my apartment, and somebody has been drugging me.
my appeals of their eviction order are now scheduled to go forward in the spring. i'm asking for a reversal of the costs orders and damages relating to the wrongful eviction, including the costs of staying in a hotel. that's going to be another $5,000-$10,000.
they got their house. fine. but the court should order them to pay me for it.
what am i going to do with all of this money? i have an asset limit of $40,000 on odsp, and need to be careful i'm not shooting myself in the foot, but a $20,000 downpayment would be enough to buy a $150,000-200,000 house, which exist in windsor, and which will reduce my rent/mortgage payments to well under $1000, which is the cost of the new lease. these are small bungalows or two story houses, mostly downtown. i don't need a big fancy house; i'm concerned about minimizing labour, not about maximizing wealth. this is a minimization problem for me, not a maximization problem. i have to live in capitalism, but i don't want to participate in it. further, i'll get that back when i turn 65, and no longer have an asset limit.
the reality is that nobody wants these houses, at this point. they're too expensive to rent. the bourgeois don't want them, and the students and poor can't afford them. that's the underside of capitalism i moved here to take advantage of, and which trudeau's immigration policies had taken away from me, by opening up a market for things nobody else wants.
that could work itself out by the summer, if all goes according to plan.
if this works out for me and i move in the summer, it will be my last move. i'm not interested in climbing ladders. i don't care about the neighbours. this will ensure that nobody can take the house away from me again, and ensure nobody can move disgusting losers that do drugs into it. it's the end of this process.
i'll have to determine in the end if it is more logical to stay there or to sell the house and move into a seniors apartment, which have reduced rents.
11:02
i am again moving into a basement. this will be my third basement in windsor. my basement stays have been lengthy - 08-2013-12-2017, 10-2018-04-2025 - while my two apartment stays have both been less than a year.
this basement is about $200 more than the previous basement (when i left). it's smaller than the first one, but bigger than the second one.
however, i didn't have my rent increased for five+ years in the previous space. how much would i be paying if i paid the rent increases?
750*1.025^7 = ~$900. it would be a little less than that, probably around $850.
however, i'm getting an extra $200/month from the cdb, which balances that out.
in the previous basement, i had around $400-600 left for groceries and disposable income together, after paying bills. it fluctuated, but generally went up. now, i'm going to have $700/month to start, and that's going to go up.
so, this has taken a while to sort itself out, but in comparison to the previous basement i was in from 2018-2025, i'm going to end up with a bigger space and with more money in my pocket per month, and also with more in the bank to start with. my material conditions have consequently evened out.
this is due to the reality that i'm even steven. things always work out for me
now, i just need compensation for the wrongful eviction, and i'm working on it.
i don't want to mislead you or mischaracterize this. this has sucked. i've had years of my life stolen. however, i ended up better off, in the end.
11:48
so, don't waste your time fucking with me. it all evens out for me.
i don't actually believe in karma, but i believe in paul mccartney.
and, in the end [bloop. bada bloop.]
the love you take
is equal to the love
you make
11:59
somebody's going to tell me that was carol kaye.
they won't tell us until mccartney is dead, and they shouldn't.
12:00
for the young and the profoundly ignorant.
12:01
well, ok.
12:02
oct 4
i signed my lease on tuesday, got my new keys on wednesday, moved the furniture in on thursday and moved a lot of the smaller items in last night. i seek to be out by monday morning, and i'm going to do it the slow and safe way, which is by bicycle. i could cart stuff over, and i will need to cart some things, but i want to cart as little as possible. i want to get through the distance from a to b as quickly as possible, and allowing observers the least amount of detail in observing what i'm doing. this is the 5th location i've lived in since i moved to windsor in 2013, and 4 of the 5 have been downtown, but this is the first time i have to move through the creepy part of the city.
i'm actually going to be further from the creepy area than i am now. it's not a or b that i'm worried about, it's the transit in between. i can go in the back way, but it doesn't really help.
i also learned when i got the keys that the space includes a 150 square foot private storage and work space, which makes it bigger than the first basement in total square footage and the biggest place of the 5. it's very rough, though, so i don't want to think of it like that. however, it's going to let me not just store my bicycles there but also split the work bench out of my studio, which has become a large part of it. this work space will be where i fix bicycles, work on guitars, solder and do other types of physical work. it has a two level storage space built in for shelving, as well. it's really quite a large area.
if i buy a house in the next year or two, i'll move this into the basement.
so, that opens up space in the unit, as well. i can take my work bench right out of the studio and i can put shelves instead of bicycles in the hall.
i was a little queasy when i started moving things in, and was having second thoughts, but i'm feeling better about it now. the place needs some work, but it'll get done.
6:59
oct 6
it is utterly fucking beautiful out.
i had a shitty summer; stuck living with disgusting male pothead losers (again) and fighting off some religious idiot's decision to put drugs in my food, while needing to save money to move again. i'm moving, which sucks, but at least it was a nice weekend.
i've been walking around outside and, in every direction, the vegetation has taken advantage of it. it's october 6th, and there's not a bit of red or yellow or orange anywhere, in any direction. every tree everywhere is as full as possible and deep, luscious green. it's starting to look and feel more like a rainforest here in that respect, although we've had very little rain since june.
the new house doesn't seem to have potheads. there are what appears to be some heroin addicts upstairs, but they don't seem to smoke it. fine. whatever. i'd rather live with heroin addicts that don't smoke anything than with potheads that are constantly emitting dangerous air pollution. the heroin addicts aren't bothering anybody; the potheads are bothering people around them that don't want to get lung cancer.
if you live in windsor, plant some trees or plants around. it'll help to clean the air of some of this horrible marijuana pollution.
18:48
oct 11
i made a food bank run on wednesday and friday which might be the last run, finished moving on friday, gave back my keys, got my check, and then did some grocery shopping for the next week or two. i will need to eat through specific food bank items first before i get back into my food schedule, which should be in a few more weeks. i will have a lot of fruit and salad to eat through first.
i am utterly exhausted and need to catch up on sleep. i bought a chicken for thanksgiving, which i think is a stupid holiday, because i did this the last time i moved into a new basement, in 2018.
the drug dealer upstairs gets a lot of business. he's constantly leaving the door open to let his clients in. my observation is that his business model is that he has scouts working to bring in new clients. it's a sick business in a sick world. they are apparently getting evicted. i guess i'll need to wait it out.
for now, my focus is on eating, sleeping and cleaning both in here and myself. my hair is a mess.
22:12
oct 13
i'm sorting through what kind of furniture i need to make sense of this new space, which is relatively large but also extremely rough and therefore very cheap, and i'm realizing i can do some unusual things with it, for it's price range.
this is a $1000/month basement in the bottom of a house with a busy drug dealer living on the top floor. i have no reason to call him in at this point, and won't so long as i'm not smelling weed, but he couldn't be more fucking obvious. he's got somebody banging on his door every 20 minutes.
for reference, the apartment i just abandoned was $1200/month, on the third floor and somewhat smaller in total footage, but also more finished and came with three other apartments in the building full of potheads that were polluting my air space. the basement i got evicted from in the spring was less than $800/month and discernibly smaller than either. the basement i got evicted from in 2018 was less than $700 when i left (i signed at $650) and about the same size as this one, overall, but far more finished.
i've thought through how i want to do this and have decided that the new space is going to consist of the following rooms or areas:
1) a small but usable bedroom, partly because much of the storage that you expect in a bedroom exists elsewhere in the apartment, but big enough for a stereo system, a study/writing desk and a bedside computer pc typing system
2) a large enough bathroom for substantive shelving, full wall mirrors and a makeup table
3) a walk-in closet off of the bathroom (not the bedroom) with built-in laundry and a dedicated sewing area
4) an eat-in kitchen with expanded counter and shelving space
5) a side entrance with a space for coat and shoe storage
6) a voip phone and zoom (via voip videophone) area off of the kitchen
7) about 150 square feet of studio space
8) a small couch area with a stereo for listening
9) space for an exercise bike off the front entrance
10) a device charging area behind the front door
11) a 150 square foot work and storage area as a functional in-unit garage or actual basement in parallel to the apartment, with functional 2-level storage built in.
12) sufficient wall space for cd and book storage
it's cheap because of the drug dealer and the various problems a drug dealer creates to property values, but i've been told they're getting evicted. the front door, for example, is pretty brutal. i haven't seen the effects of the drugs yet, but i'm sure i will. i have recently seen somebody passed out beside their shopping cart around the corner, because they couldn't make it over the bridge, and i jumped to probably correct conclusions. he just fell over; he might have been technically dead.
it's going to take a few weeks, maybe a few months, to set the apartment up. right now, i'm not sure the furnace works, and i'm waiting for the owner to do some minimal but necessary cosmetic work.
i hope i don't get evicted to raise the rent, again; i'm unfortunately realizing the necessity of planning around it, and want to focus on buying if i have to move again. some small houses in windsor are starting to list under $180K.
0:42
let me warn everybody: if you buy this house to evict me, i will take everything with me when i go. you will be deeply disappointed with what you end up with, which won't be what you thought you were getting.
it's a huge space for a low-income rental, which is what i wanted and got (~600 square feet in the apartment, up to 700 including the laundry and closer to 900 including the in-unit garage. the upstairs units don't manage space well because they've been converted into apartments, but this is the entire basement of what used to be a moderately sized house). it's been partially recently redone; the hot water and furnace are fairly recent. there's new inside doors, new flooring in the bedroom. somebody tried to give a fuck and gave up, which left me with a lot to work with, and i'm going to finish the job.
0:54
oct 14
how am i feeling?
a lot better, but it's fairly dry down here, and that's had some effect on me. i need a long shower. i don't think they've drugged me in a while and i'm not sure yet if they've followed me.
i bought a few things yesterday to start the process of redesigning this basement off - a plastic drawer system to fit into a hole under the counter, a shoe rack, a fan, a mercury thermometer to replace the one i broke and a digital "weather station" with alarm clock and calendar that i actually suspect i'll find extremely helpful. i still have my radio/alarm clock from about 1991. i remember listening to smells like teen spirit on it when it came out. i haven't used it in 20 years, and it's well in need of an upgrade. i just don't use alarm clocks. i'm very good at waking myself up on time, without one.
i'm looking at putting a mini fridge and a long table in to extend the counter, with a smaller table underneath it to put a stereo system on.
there's somebody coming tomorrow to look at whether he can install a fan in the bathroom or not and that's going to help dramatically, but i need to do the kitchen first, the walk-in closet second and the bathroom third. i don't know if i need a plumber or not yet. the kitchen plumbing appears to be fine.
21:04
table of contents for apartment redesign and set up coffee table book
0) narrative
1) kitchen
2) laundry / walk-in closet
3) bathroom
4) bedroom
5) living room
6) in-unit garage
7) side entry
8) front entry
9) studio
A) appendix A - budgeting
B) appendix b - notes
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
of course i'm too young for get smart.
but i grew up watching inspector gadget and the absurd and surreal humour on the show, along with it's careful moral lessons, and even it's message of gender equality, were formative, and few things, perhaps besides the zany humour in sesame street, have had a bigger influence on me than inspector gadget.
i started watching get smart reruns, which still ran in the after school slot in the 90s, as a teenager. i found it more enjoyable than home improvement or degrassi high, both of which struck me as kind of boring. at some point my dad pointed out that don adams actually voiced inspector gadget, and it was one of those rare moments of cogency and clarity when that pieced itself together, and i understood something deeper about the transcendental multi-dimensional connections keeping the universe in place.
paul mccartney's been ripping off my ideas for years.
but, in fact, this demonstrates my point. i name drop three people from the last 20 years and mccartney's all over two of them. there's not a lot out there.
i saw an article about how there's no rap music in the billboard charts and it made me wonder when the last time there was rock music in the charts. now, i tuned out of mainstream rock music a long time ago; since 2000, i could count the number of popular rock artists i've been interested in one hand and they would include the white stripes, st vincent, son lux and that's about it. my tastes have entirely separated from the mainstream for decades. i was aware that bands like mcr, paramore and fall out boy were popular and were the last wave of rock music to get any kind of mainstream success, but i wasn't very interested in them. i had long assumed that there was some continuing concept of rock music, and it was probably something like that, or close to it.
somebody did the research and i didn't realize how obscure rock music has really become, in terms of the mainstream charts. see, the flip side of this is that there have been some excellent underground art rock bands over the last 15 years, a lot of them extremely punk rock, and they have large underground followings that make them seem pretty successful. i guess you can sell a lot of records nowadays without breaking the billboard 100. if you spent the period after 2010 listening to the more popular upswell of underground punk, you might not have even noticed that the type of music that avril lavigne makes is no longer remotely popular.
i would be far more selective in my description of 'rock' than they are and argue that only fall out boy and paramore meet the definition, since 2010, and that the last rock song to hit the billboard charts was by fall out boy in 2015. in that period, though, there have been outstanding underground rock records released.
it doesn't seem dead, if you're into it.
it's certainly no longer mainstream, though; not even remotely. that's ok. i like jazz and classical music, too.
the purpose of remembrance day is supposed to be to take a moment to remember how the capitalists cynically sent a generation of kids to die to fight for control over foreign colonies and export markets, for the benefit of an elite few. millions of children were slaughtered at the alter of global capital.
we fought back against capital, and we won.
they will never do that to us ever again. we won't let them - we will rise up and pull them out of their towers and drag them on to the street and hang them on poles if they try.
we will never forget what they did. our grandchildren and our grandchildren's grandchildren will remember, and we will be waiting to hold them to grisly account if they ever try anything like this ever again.
remembrance day is not a celebration of "fallen heroes", it is not about macho attitudes and it is not a glorification of war. look those filthy fuckers on the screen speaking like that in their dirty fucking eyes and tell them to go fuck themselves.
eventually, at some point, a health care bill was going to have to pass the senate, pass the house and get signed by the president. them's the facts. you can stamp your feet and yell and scream and refuse to go to work for the next year, but it doesn't change the outcome - the democrats don't have the numbers to pass the legislation, and won't get it until jan 2027 at the earliest, if they're lucky. withholding snap funding and shutting down everything else in the government will not get the democrats the votes they need to pass the bill. only winning more elections can do that.
do democrats still claim to want to cancel the filibuster?
obamacare is a law that orders you to buy health insurance. it's not a health care system. americans would be better off getting rid of it and starting over again.
health care is a populist issue and democrats win when they run on health care. they will need to do that, now; that's what democracy looks like.
there are consequences when you lose in a democracy. adults accept those consequences and fight to win, they don't sit in the middle of the floor and cry and scream like four year olds having a temper tantrum when they don't get what they want.
another month of cut snap benefits would destroy the democrats in key districts for decades. they are better off running on single payer, universal health care.
this mess was stupid and the consequences will likely be felt for some time.
the next step is to get rid of cuck schumer any way necessary, including via carpet-in-the-hudson if it has to be that way.
appendix B - notes/summary
i want to keep track of what i'm spending on this. i don't want it to be too much, in the end.
i'm expecting an extra $2000 from the city. let me keep it under that, max, total.
i'm not close.
oct 12th:
plastic drawers: $30, and i'll use these for something else. this was regular $40. (delivered)
fan: $20, which i needed anyways. (delivered)
shoe rack: $10, which i need anyways. (delivered)
thermometers/alarm clock: $20. i broke my mercury thermometer and had to replace it, and the other weather station and clock is unnecessary, but was $10, and i think i'll use it a lot. (delivered)
- wide bagel toaster: $15 (i needed a new toaster, as my old toaster is broken). this was regular $25. (delivered)
- mini fridge: $100 (i've been meaning to get a second fridge for a long time as my fridge is always packed). this was regular $200. i could have bought a used fridge for $60-70ish, but then i'd need to get it delivered. it made more sense to pay a little bit more to get it delivered for free by walmart, and for it to be brand new. (delivered)
- mini indoor grill & sandwich maker device $30 (well, now i can make the chicken in the freezer, and we'll see if i use it for things like bacon) (delivered)
- extension cord: $5. this is for the laundry area. (delivered)
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$150*1.13 = $170.
as of oct 16th: 90 + 170 = $260
oct 17th
knife holder: $10 (with shipping), it's cheap and i've been looking to get one for a long time (delivered)
kitchen/computer table: $60. this is regular $160. i need one that is 20"x48" or very close to it and lets me put something under it, and this one will do that. i don't have a table that size. (delivered)
new kitchen scale: $12 + hst is $12*1.13 = $14. this would be regular $30. my old kitchen scale is damaged, and this is something you have to replace every few years. my last one was bought in 2021, i think. (delivered)
new bathroom scale: $16 + + delivery + hst = 24*1.13 = $27. this was also regular $30 + delivery. i've been looking to get one of these for a long time, too. (delivered)
i can use all of this when i eventually leave. i won't need to leave any of it here or find myself unable to do anything with it, in the end. further, i've found a fair bit of furniture on the curb recently, so i guess it balances out. i'd rather have bought the table used, but i couldn't find anything the right size, and this one is kind of perfect. it's a cheap and overpriced table that was marked down, but that's fine. so long as the legs are sturdy, i don't really care that it's made of composite. it's easy to clean, which is a bonus if i'm eating on it. the counters are composite. i won't have anything close to the 265 pound maximum weight on it. i simply didn't need a solid oak or otherwise expensive or fancy table in that space, i needed something cheap and functional.
i was looking at what are called console tables with a built in extension cord, but i couldn't find one that was the right size, and they tended to have metal crossing under the table to keep it sturdy, because they were so thin. i want to put a coffee table with a stereo system under the kitchen table, to save space. the kitchen table just needs to have a computer monitor, speakers and a laptop/chromebook on it, and space to eat. i will likely move the coffee warmer / induction plate to it, and maybe some other random kitchen things. 20"x48" should be fine for that.
the sturdiness issue will reduce to the legs, and i'll have to see about it. i think it looks fine, but it might be challenging to move without breaking it.
still to go:
wood plank: ??. 34" x 12" for under sink shelf & book case pins to hold it up. i need to call rona tomorrow.
wall shelving units: ???
shelf for on mini fridge (20" wide, 30" tall)? or not? i could just leave it open.
that is likely everything for the kitchen.
tonight, i'm going to get everything out of it's temporary spaces and into it's right place and see how much more shelving i think i still need. i think i need another standard wall mount, but i found a third shelving unit the other day, and i may be able to just rest it on a table. i'll have to run that by the owner, who i told i would contact before i screwed anything into the wall. the wood plank is almost 100%, but i have to have a 36" piece cut at the store and i don't know if they'll deliver it. home depot's website is useless.
oct 23
i just set up the kitchen table. it's a little more sturdy than i expected. unfortunately, the table i wanted to put under it is a little too big, so i bought a three tier side table to put under it that is a little smaller, instead. it was cheap, and a three tier "industrial" table sounds like the right thing to put my stereo system on. i can then move this system, with the two tables and the stereo/laptop system, as a unit when i need to.
a package of three items disappeared this afternoon. i think my neighbours stole it, and i think it's because they might not have understood that i bought this stuff. if there's free stuff at the door, it might as well be theirs. right? except that's not how this works. i'm asking fedex to double check. it was about $30 worth of makeup and cleaning supplies on sale. i want the items back, but i may have to ask for a refund, and i'll keep an eye on them about that.
i also just purchased $100 worth of stackable cubes that are intended to function as shelving and that i will use for shelving textbooks, mostly, as well as a portable closet for the walk-in closet area, a monitor stand for the kitchen system and a two-way wired video doorbell system for the complex door way, which prevents people from knocking on my door, which is fine. i got a wired system because the wireless systems don't work very well, and are easy to hack, which is worse because you have to connect them to your home network. if the cable is 10 m, that should be enough, but i may have to buy an extra cable if it isn't. this system comes with it's own lcd monitor and acts as a doorbell, a video peephole and a two way intercom and it has a night vision function as well.
oct 23rd:
power adapter for alarm clock: $5, after rebates. it was supposed to have one but didn't, so i asked for 50% off and got it. (delivered)
three tier 13"x17" side table, for mini chromebook and nad stereo system under the kitchen table: $40 + hst is 40*1.13 = $45. this was regular $50 + hst. (delivered)
thirty modular, stackable 15x12x12 cubes for book shelves: $102 + hst is 102*1.13 = 115. this would have been regular $171 + hst. (delivered)
portable closet: $40 + hst is 40*1.13 = $45. this was regular $53 + hst. (delivered)
monitor stand: $19 + hst is $22. this was regular $25 + hst. (delivered)
wired video intercom system: $45 + hst = $51. this was normally $102 + hst. (delivered)
two motion sensor night lights for entryway: $16 + hst = $19 (delivered)
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$302
as of oct 23rd: 380 + 302 = $682.
still to go:
wood plank: ??. 34" x 12" for under sink shelf & book case pins to hold it up. i need to call rona soon.
small desk for bedroom: ??
shelving for bathroom: ??
tweeters for celestions: ??
this is almost everything i need for the walk-in closet, the bathroom and the bedroom, as well.
i should also note the items i've recently found for free:
tall dresser for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
two tier coffee table: free, left by previous tenant
low storage shelf: free, left by previous tenant
large clothing rack on wheels for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
large ironing table (but i won't use it for that) for walk in closet area: free, left by previous tenant
electric kettle: free, left by previous tenant
coffee warmer: free, left by previous tenant
cutlery and dishes, including sharp fsih knife: free, left by previous tenant
hepa air filter, free left by previous tenant
ghetto hutch used as spice rack (two cabinets stacked on each other): free, found on curb
large craft table for laundry area: free, found on curb
matching set of wood speaker tables: free, found on curb
stove side cabinet: free, found on curb
utensil holder: free, found on curb
i can also add a few items i bought before i left the last place and will add that on at the end:
three level console table for voip (phone & zoom) and some kitchen storage: $30 (delivered)
sewing desk: $20 (delivered)
metal chair with leather cushions: $5 (picked up)
coffee machines: $46 (picked up)
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$101
$682 + $101 = $783
i will struggle to spend much more than this, i think. if i can get in under $1000 to really set this place up, that's pretty good.
oct 25
i need a few extra shelves in the kitchen. i don't need a full cabinet, just a few extra floating shelves. i have l-brackets, a drill and a studfinder, so i was just going to go ahead and drill the l-brackets in, but there seems to be some kind of metal plate behind the wall that's making it hard for me to make sure i'm not drilling into the electrical.
i instead bought a pack of 15 glue on pegs for $9, and a bunch of shelving pegs for another $10. they'll be here tomorrow. the glue on pegs will help me put up more floating shelves, maybe in the bathroom, with this pile of rectangular wood i have.
my big order from yesterday will also be here today, so the only things i'll be waiting for are refunds on the cleaning supplies (which i'll reorder), a package of j-cloths and the video intercom system.
i was looking at a dedicated zoom compatible videophone yesterday but think i should wait. they've come down in price a lot. i'm also there but not quite yet. this place is big enough for two voip phones, that's fine.
oversized adhesive wall pegs: $10 with tax (delivered)
bookshelf pins: $12 with tax (delivered)
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$22
$783 + 22 = $805
the last thing to do in the kitchen before i can pictures up late tomorrow will be to call rona today. that's step one, just about done.
this is crazy stuff for dirt cheap, in some cases. a two way video intercom for $60? so...inflation? what's that? i'm experiencing the effects of technology losing value, and the effects of superproduction coming from china, and it's decreasing prices, while my income has come up. i've probably never been better off.
i think the missed point might be that the inflation is happening in bourgeois goods and lifestyle products, while commodities for budget items are actually coming down. it might be more expensive to be rich than it ever has been, but it's probably never been cheaper to be poor.
(...)
i have now received the five items i bought at amazon yesterday, and i have mostly set up the stereo in the kitchen, and tested to see if it works by grabbing the first cd in the pile. which was cleanse, fold and manipulate. this is appropriate for the industrial strength table.i also finished cleaning the stove and started putting away loose items. there's not much more left to do.
i've been working on designing spaces like this for a while now, and a lot of people will consider this to be a sort of dream kitchen. i'm excited to post the pictures. soon.
(...)
so, i set up my computer stand and realized the keyboard is too big. this keyboard is missing a few keys and is held together with electrical tape. i have newer ones, but keyboards are things you use up and replace, so you tape them together until they're unusable, knowing the next one will break, again.
i just bought a smaller one for $15.
kitchen system mini usb keyboard: $15 + hst = $17 (delivered)
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17
as of oct 25th: $805 + 17 = $822.
the monitor stand in the kitchen is now setup and i've run an ethernet cable to it. i've now set the system up, and am eating some salsa and watching the most recent fall of civilizations.
i'll be going back to the oversight committee project and starting over again imminently, which is here:
the remaining items in my order arrived this afternoon and i was able to put three shelves up, which was the last thing to do, for now. the four packages that came in were the mini keyboard, the adhesive pegs, the bookshelf pins and some j-cloths.
the last things left are the doorbell and the wood shelf for under the cabinet. next, i need to finish some bulk purchases that i'll probably do via uber and then take a run to the bulk barn this week to fill up the spice shelf.
i'm going to take some pictures and start writing a post up.
oct 27th
my kitchen costs ended up being:
total cost for kitchen, including items previously purchased for last apartment, but not including food or cleaning supplies, including hst or shipping per item:
the next space to set up is the laundry / walk-in closet, along with the bathroom. both areas require soe venting work, which i'm waiting on. unfortunately, i'm still working on some legal documents.
this morning, i just bought another $300 worth of cleaning and bathroom supplies, after getting about $40 back on refunds for missing items. i'm buying everything in bulk, and it's actually cheaper, in the long run, but it means spending $130 on makeup and $120 on dish soap, which i also use for air freshener. i won't need any for quite a while. like, two years. i have 4x the amount of everything that i'd normally buy.
i also just bought a $39 five tier metal shelving unit for in the bathroom. these metal furniture items are inexpensive right now, and i wonder if it has something to do with the tariffs. that's fine; it's better than plywood, for the same price, or less. the other option in the bathroom was plastic, but plastic warps in humidity and under weight. this metal table will have no problem holding it's shape under the weight of 20 lbs of shampoo and other items. i also bought another $10 worth of adhesive pegs and a $16 wall mounted 6 outlet extension cord with bonus usb power outs for in the garage area. i'll need to run that from upstairs to downstairs, and it should be enough to power the work area, which i need to get a series of tables for.
i've decided to move the desk i bought as a sewing desk into my bedroom and use it as a writing desk because i found a big, sturdy craft desk outside when i first got here and that makes more sense in the laundry room and walk-in closet space. the walls are not drywalled, but they're old stone. it's not bad. i do need something on the floor, but a number of rugs were actually left here. otherwise, i think i have most of the furniture for in there already, because there was also a tall bookshelf and a low storage shelf left here that i can move into that area for that function.
bathroom shelf: $39 (delivered)
extension cord: $16 (delivered)
adhesive wall pegs: $9 (delivered)
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$64*1.13 = $72
as of oct 30th: $822 + $72 = $894
here's my update in terms of the next two spaces.
laundry items:
tall dresser for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
low storage shelf for laundry detergent: free, left by previous tenant
large clothing rack on wheels for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
large ironing table (but i won't use it for that) for walk in closet area: free, left by previous tenant
large craft table for laundry area (sewing table): free, found on curb
closet organizer: $40 + hst - $45
wall mounted socket extension: $5 + hst
rugs: ??
vacuums: ??
lights: ??
there is a working washing machine and a working dryer with no exhaust that i will borrow, as a tenant
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$45 * 1.13 = $51
bathroom:
scale: $24+ hst = $27
metal shelves: $40 + hst is $45
two mirrors: ??
wood for window, probably: ?
make up table: ??
lights: ??
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$72
these are the remaining spaces:
bedroom:
matching speaker tables: found for free on curb
shelving for books: wall shelves
pegs: $9*1.13 = $10
writing desk: $20
alarm clock / weather monitor: $17 ($6 for device + $11 for cord )
heater/humidifer: $45 (added nov 2nd)
tweeters for celestions ??
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$92 (as of nov 2nd)
in-unit garage (as of nov 10th):
motion sensor night lights: $16
extension cord to wall mounted new downstairs outlet: $16
video intercom: $51 (inclusive)
space heater: ?
bicycle rack: ?
big tables: $50
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$32*1.13 = 36 + 50 + 51= $138
side hallway:
console table (same as kitchen): $0 here, added there
shoe rack: $10
lights:
front hallway:
items for charging table:
probably where i'll put stationary for indoor bicycle
probably where i'll put cd and book shelving
couch area:
videophone:
studio:
not clear yet; probably don't need more furniture.
hepa air filter: free, left by previous tenant
the kitchen required the most work, as i didn't have a kitchen table, and i needed to replace, update or buy some new small appliances. i also had that console table, which i'm adding to the cost.
still to go:
kitchen: wood plank: ??. 34" x 12" for under sink shelf & book case pins to hold it up. i need to call rona soon.
garage: space heaters:
garage: big tables for in-unit garage: (still, maybe)
garage: bicycle rack:
bathroom: bathroom mirror:
bedroom: tweeters for celestions: ??
as all i really need to do for the laundry/closet area is clean it, i could potentially get some pictures up by monday. but i need to go back to the court documents for a few days.
nov 2nd
one of the items left behind by the previous tenant is a sfnow sap200c activated carbon hepa air filter, which i now have running in the middle of the room, and is helping clean up the smoke in the house, in general. i have also purchased a combination heater/humidifier, as the heat keeps turning off, and i need to have a solution before it gets actually cold. i don't know if the thermostat is shutting itself off or if the drug dealers are shutting it off over wifi. i've asked the owner if i can password protect it and am waiting for an answer.
(...)
the heater came in early this morning and the humidifier function is more of a novelty. it's not a real humidifier. that's ok; it's still a good deal for $40. you can either set it to just heat (high or low), and place a timer on it, in which case it will keep track of the temperature, or you can set it to a temperature and have it come on and off based on the thermostat. it also oscillates, like a cooling fan.
so, i may need to get a standalone warm mist humidifier, too, which i was looking at before i got this. that's ok. it's not the most important thing right now.
heater/humidier: $40 + tax. amazon has two sellers selling this, the other for $75. somebody is selling it on facebook for $150. (delivered)
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$40*1.13 = $45
as of nov 2nd, $894 + $45 = $939
nov 4
my video intercom came in in the mail today, so the only thing i'm waiting on is a package of nitrile gloves. unfortunately, as expected, the cable is only about 3 m long. i am going to need to run the cable through the garage and through two doors, which should be 5 m max. i'll have to see, but i think i'll need to buy another cable. that's ok. i can use this one to test it.
i'm also deciding that because i'm going to be putting a lot of wall shelving in here (the bedroom is a little small, too small for bookshelves, but it has that big closet/laundry area off the bathroom, which i consider preferable in concept; it means that multiple shelves on the walls are a better idea) and because i have a garage area that i intend to use to work in, it makes more sense to just order the wood i need and order a cheap circular saw to cut it with. i'm going to buy the same amount of wood, whether i cut it here or at the store. i can't bicycle with these wood planks, so i'm going to need to either walk it or cart it or take a bus or get a cab but some of the wood is going to be upwards of ten feet, so that even carting it from the closest store (a home hardware) becomes awkward. home hardware is also known for being overpriced. so i'm probably better off getting it cheaper online and mailed to me, and paying the $60 difference on a new saw. when i was a kid, i had a basement bedroom that had a kind of built in shelf (it was actually that the wall was about a foot from the brick, and the space lower to the ground was filled with insulation covered over by drywall, while the space higher up was not, it was just drywall over the outer layer) that i used to store paperbacks on. i'm going to build something similar to that in here, but it will be with three ten foot shelves held on to the wall with those adhesive pegs. that should be helpful to me as i work through the j's journal section of the multimedia presentation, which is the first thing to do when i get things set up properly.
it would be a shame to leave this space. it's huge. and it's cheap. i'm trying to get the furnace to work correctly and get a fan installed and get a new door on the side and i think i should be good to go after that. the landlord is absent-minded and distant but seems to be better than the last few, it's just that you have to bug him to do stuff. that's fine.
so, there's going to be another bunch of purchases when i next sit down to do it and it could actually be quite a bit, but everything else is in now except the gloves. today, i have the follow-up hearing for my harassment suit against the landlords in the last basement i was in and i will be filing something in the court of appeal tomorrow, regardless of how that goes, although i need to know what happens before i finalize what i'm filing.
nov 10th
i didn't want it to take more than five minutes, but i got stuck doing banking all day, as my bank tried to stop me from buying tables over kijiji. these are pretty big tables, for $20 each, and $10 delivery. it's an easy way to get what i needed for in there. great. i otherwise lost the weekend trying to figure out why this chromebook was broken, rather than doing court documents. i haven't called home hardware yet or done really anything in a couple of days, but hope to get some more stuff done overnight.
big tables for garage: $50. (delivered)
as of nov 10th, 939 + 50 = 989.
total list, as of nov 10th:
(0a) through amazon site:
- power adapter for alarm clock: $5, after rebates. it was supposed to have one but didn't, so i asked for 50% off and got it. (delivered)
- three tier 13"x17" side table, for mini chromebook and nad stereo system under the kitchen table: $40 + hst is 40*1.13 = $45. this was regular $50 + hst. (delivered)
- thirty modular, stackable 15x12x12 cubes for book shelves: $102 + hst is 102*1.13 = 115. this would have been regular $171 + hst. (delivered)
- portable closet: $40 + hst is 40*1.13 = $45. this was regular $53 + hst. (delivered)
- monitor stand: $19 + hst is $22. this was regular $25 + hst. (delivered)
- two motion sensor night lights for entryway: $16 + hst = $19 (delivered)
- oversized adhesive wall pegs: $10 with tax (delivered)
- bookshelf pegs: $12 with tax (delivered)
- kitchen system mini usb keyboard: $15 + hst = $17 (delivered)
- bathroom shelf: $29*1.13 = $44 (delivered)
- extension cord: $18 with tax (delivered)
- more oversized adhesive wall pegs: $11 with tax (delivered)
- heater/humidifier: $45 (delivered)
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$408
(0b) through walmart site:
- plastic drawers: $30, and i'll use these for something else. this was regular $40. (delivered)
- fan: $20, which i needed anyways. (delivered)
- shoe rack: $10, which i need anyways. (delivered)
- thermometers/alarm clock: $20. i broke my mercury thermometer and had to replace it, and the other weather station and clock is unnecessary, but was $10, and i think i'll use it a lot. (delivered)
- wide bagel toaster: $15 (i needed a new toaster, as my old toaster is broken). this was regular $25. (delivered)
- mini fridge: $100 (i've been meaning to get a second fridge for a long time as my fridge is always packed). this was regular $200. i could have bought a used fridge for $60-70ish, but then i'd need to get it delivered. it made more sense to pay a little bit more to get it delivered for free by walmart, and for it to be brand new. (delivered)
- mini indoor grill & sandwich maker device $30 (well, now i can make the chicken in the freezer, and we'll see if i use it for things like bacon) (delivered)
- extension cord: $5. this is for the laundry area. (delivered)
- knife holder: $10 (with shipping), it's cheap and i've been looking to get one for a long time (delivered)
- kitchen/computer table: $60. this is regular $160. i need one that is 20"x48" or very close to it and lets me put something under it, and this one will do that. i don't have a table that size. (delivered)
- new kitchen scale: $12. this would be regular $30. my old kitchen scale is damaged, and this is something you have to replace every few years. my last one was bought in 2021, i think. (delivered)
- new bathroom scale: $24. this was also regular $30. i've been looking to get this for a long time, too. (delivered)
- wired video intercom system: $45 (delivered)
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$381*1.13 = $430.53
(0c) via kijiji in new space:
- two big tables: $50 (delivered)
(0d) items purchased at previous apartment:
three level console table for voip (phone & zoom) and some kitchen storage, now an entrance table (kijiji): $30 (delivered)
sewing desk, now a writing desk (kijiji): $20 (delivered)
metal chair with leather cushions, now a kitchen table chair (kijiji): $5 (picked up)
coffee machines (walmart): $46 (picked up)
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$101
(0e) items left by previous tenant:
tall dresser for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
two tier coffee table: free, left by previous tenant
low storage shelf: free, left by previous tenant
large clothing rack on wheels for walk-in closet: free, left by previous tenant
large ironing table (but i won't use it for that) for walk in closet area: free, left by previous tenant
electric kettle: free, left by previous tenant
coffee warmer: free, left by previous tenant
cutlery and dishes: free, left by previous tenant
hepa air filter: free, left by previous tenant
(0f) items found on curb since may:
ghetto hutch used as spice rack (two cabinets stacked on each other): free, found on curb
large craft table for laundry area: free, found on curb
matching set of wood speaker tables: free, found on curb
