i'm glad i checked out what tricky's been up to over the last 20 years before blindly going.
i don't expect that i'd enjoy this concert.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
...and, i actually slept all day.
i clearly needed it; i was exhausted for some reason.
i don't know why.
i still don't smell drugs in here, and i'm happy about the temperature.
i guess it's possible that my cycle just got out of sync. the fact is that i usually sleep in the afternoon.
but, it doesn't explain the red eyes when i got up to urinate this morning.
i should be awake all night, tonight. we'll see what it smells like.
i clearly needed it; i was exhausted for some reason.
i don't know why.
i still don't smell drugs in here, and i'm happy about the temperature.
i guess it's possible that my cycle just got out of sync. the fact is that i usually sleep in the afternoon.
but, it doesn't explain the red eyes when i got up to urinate this morning.
i should be awake all night, tonight. we'll see what it smells like.
it's weird.
i feel hungover.
i haven't had a drink, a toke or a cigarette since april 13th, at the last concert i went to. it's been second-hand smoke since.
i think i slept through a session, but i can't remember it, so how can i react?
but i'm just dead fucking tired.
i think i should have gotten most of the way through january yesterday, so i'm ok with carrying forward.
i'm going to eat, and then focus on cleaning in the other room, regardless of the situation. hopefully that wakes me up.
we're getting rain tonight and i'm excited about it. this might be my song this summer...
i feel hungover.
i haven't had a drink, a toke or a cigarette since april 13th, at the last concert i went to. it's been second-hand smoke since.
i think i slept through a session, but i can't remember it, so how can i react?
but i'm just dead fucking tired.
i think i should have gotten most of the way through january yesterday, so i'm ok with carrying forward.
i'm going to eat, and then focus on cleaning in the other room, regardless of the situation. hopefully that wakes me up.
we're getting rain tonight and i'm excited about it. this might be my song this summer...
tonight is weird, and not useful.
the smell is faint; it could be coming from anywhere, very much unlike the nights where it's pluming in from one direction.
i feel stoned. but, i'm also dehydrated and tired, and i'm having difficulty smelling anything at all.
i should be a little tired, but not like this.
so, i can feel the effects of the drug, but i can barely smell it, i can barely smell anything, and i'm not sure where it's coming from.
i might just be tired and dehydrated. which is kind of the same thing as being stoned, right?
i passed out a few hours ago. i'm just going to drink water and get some rest.
the smell is faint; it could be coming from anywhere, very much unlike the nights where it's pluming in from one direction.
i feel stoned. but, i'm also dehydrated and tired, and i'm having difficulty smelling anything at all.
i should be a little tired, but not like this.
so, i can feel the effects of the drug, but i can barely smell it, i can barely smell anything, and i'm not sure where it's coming from.
i might just be tired and dehydrated. which is kind of the same thing as being stoned, right?
i passed out a few hours ago. i'm just going to drink water and get some rest.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
so, the next period is from jan 10th to june 19th, when the music
blog reappears, and it's about 500 pages, mostly from the primary phase
of the election.
i found the primaries more interesting than the general; i didn't tune out entirely after bernie lost, but i never really saw trump as substantively different than clinton, or clinton as worth supporting for any other reason than to beat trump, so i more or less gave up on the election having an acceptable outcome when the candidates were announced.
i suspect a lot of americans had that feeling, too - and it's probably why trump won.
we'll see in the end if i want to carry through with this or not, but i should at least get a skeleton up.
remember that the main focus is the master list for the aleph discs.
i found the primaries more interesting than the general; i didn't tune out entirely after bernie lost, but i never really saw trump as substantively different than clinton, or clinton as worth supporting for any other reason than to beat trump, so i more or less gave up on the election having an acceptable outcome when the candidates were announced.
i suspect a lot of americans had that feeling, too - and it's probably why trump won.
we'll see in the end if i want to carry through with this or not, but i should at least get a skeleton up.
remember that the main focus is the master list for the aleph discs.
well...
there's currently not any smoke coming up from downstairs.
the woman next door is, however, chain smoking outside my window.
she appears to have been drunk before noon - cigarettes and vodka, the breakfast of champions.
this place is full of real winners.
so, i'm going to have to wait a few hours to clean up the bedroom. i've cleaned up the kitchen.
i want to start looking for something, but i'm going to give the situation one more chance. i could still cancel the application, remember.
and, i think i need to know how they're going to be admitting new tenants. are they going to make new tenants sign a no smoking clause? i didn't know this was coming, and it might be what she was talking about; while there is not a new law banning smokers, she may have been referring to the company's new lease policy when she was talking about a "law banning smoking inside" and how "existing tenants are grandfathered". i mean, she sounded like she was just full of shit. but, i can at least put together a broken thought, now. if so, i like my chances on this space becoming more habitable. because this is also a screen - smokers are bad tenants, all around. they're bad people, broadly speaking. a no smoking policy is going to mean a safer building, all around.
i would expect that rents in non-smoking buildings will be higher than rents in smoking buildings.
and, that smoking buildings are going to be horrifically disgusting carcinogenic tinder boxes....
there's currently not any smoke coming up from downstairs.
the woman next door is, however, chain smoking outside my window.
she appears to have been drunk before noon - cigarettes and vodka, the breakfast of champions.
this place is full of real winners.
so, i'm going to have to wait a few hours to clean up the bedroom. i've cleaned up the kitchen.
i want to start looking for something, but i'm going to give the situation one more chance. i could still cancel the application, remember.
and, i think i need to know how they're going to be admitting new tenants. are they going to make new tenants sign a no smoking clause? i didn't know this was coming, and it might be what she was talking about; while there is not a new law banning smokers, she may have been referring to the company's new lease policy when she was talking about a "law banning smoking inside" and how "existing tenants are grandfathered". i mean, she sounded like she was just full of shit. but, i can at least put together a broken thought, now. if so, i like my chances on this space becoming more habitable. because this is also a screen - smokers are bad tenants, all around. they're bad people, broadly speaking. a no smoking policy is going to mean a safer building, all around.
i would expect that rents in non-smoking buildings will be higher than rents in smoking buildings.
and, that smoking buildings are going to be horrifically disgusting carcinogenic tinder boxes....
we'll have to see how the courts interpret this, but the intent seems to be to make it easier for the landlord to evict smokers.
the residential tenancies act says nothing about smoke, and this observation is actually explicitly stated in the new lease. but, by including a smoking section in the lease, the landlord can conceivably remove a tenant for breaching the lease.
further, the smoking section is explicitly treated differently than the pets section; prohibition against pets is explicitly stated as void.
so, the government appears to be telling the courts that landlords have the right to discriminate on these grounds - and that is the appropriate legal language. we'll see what the courts say.
but, i don't expect that this new lease process will withhold a legal challenge - i expect that the court will strike down the smoking provision as overly broad.
unfortunately.
www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/047-2229E~2/$File/2229E(Static).pdf
the residential tenancies act says nothing about smoke, and this observation is actually explicitly stated in the new lease. but, by including a smoking section in the lease, the landlord can conceivably remove a tenant for breaching the lease.
further, the smoking section is explicitly treated differently than the pets section; prohibition against pets is explicitly stated as void.
so, the government appears to be telling the courts that landlords have the right to discriminate on these grounds - and that is the appropriate legal language. we'll see what the courts say.
but, i don't expect that this new lease process will withhold a legal challenge - i expect that the court will strike down the smoking provision as overly broad.
unfortunately.
www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/047-2229E~2/$File/2229E(Static).pdf
i needed to catch up on some sleep. i'm awake now....
it actually seems pleasant in here, right now.
you don't learn a lot from a physical. my blood pressure is 110/70, after a brisk walk on a nice day, so that's in a healthy range. i'll get my blood work done at the end of the week and go back mid-month.
he's never heard of estradiol hemihydrate and can't comment on the chemical differences. he'd refer me to the specialist in town, but the specialist in town won't talk to me, because he doesn't think i'm effeminate enough. *shrug*.
i'm not going to switch meds without a good talk with somebody. i might call the specialist myself.
i got my puffer refilled...
the rest of the day was spent grocery shopping, and i got a lot of the month's purchasing done, as lots of things were on sale. but, i can't find any chocolate soy.
i crashed in the evening and again overnight. i wanted to clean in here this morning but will do it today, instead.
i also woke up to a familiar annoyance: an air conditioner.
:(.
i don't understand why people don't enjoy the heat. we're tropical animals. we're supposed to like it when it's 30 degrees out.
right now, i'm in the frustrating scenario of having to deal with smokers outside and an a/c downstairs, and i don't know what is going to be worse. am i going to want to keep the windows closed because of the smokers, or open them because of the a/c?
this is such a disgusting, saddening scenario. and, again: i like the space, but the problem is the people around me.
it would be nice if i could just open the window - a/c or not - to let the fresh air in. you'd think that's a pretty basic human request. alas...
at least i have the bay windows. i'm hoping the temperature comes up nicely due to the sunlight through the glass fairly soon.
it actually seems pleasant in here, right now.
you don't learn a lot from a physical. my blood pressure is 110/70, after a brisk walk on a nice day, so that's in a healthy range. i'll get my blood work done at the end of the week and go back mid-month.
he's never heard of estradiol hemihydrate and can't comment on the chemical differences. he'd refer me to the specialist in town, but the specialist in town won't talk to me, because he doesn't think i'm effeminate enough. *shrug*.
i'm not going to switch meds without a good talk with somebody. i might call the specialist myself.
i got my puffer refilled...
the rest of the day was spent grocery shopping, and i got a lot of the month's purchasing done, as lots of things were on sale. but, i can't find any chocolate soy.
i crashed in the evening and again overnight. i wanted to clean in here this morning but will do it today, instead.
i also woke up to a familiar annoyance: an air conditioner.
:(.
i don't understand why people don't enjoy the heat. we're tropical animals. we're supposed to like it when it's 30 degrees out.
right now, i'm in the frustrating scenario of having to deal with smokers outside and an a/c downstairs, and i don't know what is going to be worse. am i going to want to keep the windows closed because of the smokers, or open them because of the a/c?
this is such a disgusting, saddening scenario. and, again: i like the space, but the problem is the people around me.
it would be nice if i could just open the window - a/c or not - to let the fresh air in. you'd think that's a pretty basic human request. alas...
at least i have the bay windows. i'm hoping the temperature comes up nicely due to the sunlight through the glass fairly soon.
Monday, April 30, 2018
ok.
i'm at the exit point i wanted, which is when i finished my first record and then quit smoking.
i don't get back to the music again until june. there will no doubt be some posts made - to the alter-reality, reviews, show nights - but the music vlog is actually pretty much done. like, it's filled in the way i wanted it to be, from 2013--->2016.
that leaves me with roughly 1000 word doc pages left to rebuild the rest of 2016 with, most of it for the politics site, and i'm questioning whether i want to do this now or not. i have to at least sort through it. but i may be a little but picky about what i'm posting to the politics site, leaving the full rebuild for later.
i don't know what to expect this morning. i'm going to hand this woman a check and a letter, and tell her that the tenant below me is completely ignoring the new non-smoking policy, and continuing to chain smoke marijuana inside - as expected. i shouldn't expect her to do anything about this. but, then, why did she go around and hand out these notices?
the reason she did this was that the tenant below me was complaining that it wasn't fair that everybody else was allowed to smoke and she wasn't - again, just total grade school reasoning. but, they wanted to appear fair. so, they put this rule in place. and, now she's the only one not following it.
if i was the owner, that would really piss me off - you put a policy in place to accommodate her, and she just spits in your face. that would tell me that she has no interest in working with management.
but, it's not clear what they can substantively do about it, due to the absurd laws in this province that make it nearly impossible to throw her out.
it's a really surreal situation. this nihilistic drug addict has got us all held hostage, and the law is designed to facilitate it.
but, i'm starting to recognize that my time here may not include any actual recording. and, if that is the case, i may just go ahead and rebuild.
if i can get through the next section quickly, the next thing to do is to start writing for the alter-reality: 2017 & the first half, now, of 2018. this will permanently close my first 15 releases, or so.
i'm at the exit point i wanted, which is when i finished my first record and then quit smoking.
i don't get back to the music again until june. there will no doubt be some posts made - to the alter-reality, reviews, show nights - but the music vlog is actually pretty much done. like, it's filled in the way i wanted it to be, from 2013--->2016.
that leaves me with roughly 1000 word doc pages left to rebuild the rest of 2016 with, most of it for the politics site, and i'm questioning whether i want to do this now or not. i have to at least sort through it. but i may be a little but picky about what i'm posting to the politics site, leaving the full rebuild for later.
i don't know what to expect this morning. i'm going to hand this woman a check and a letter, and tell her that the tenant below me is completely ignoring the new non-smoking policy, and continuing to chain smoke marijuana inside - as expected. i shouldn't expect her to do anything about this. but, then, why did she go around and hand out these notices?
the reason she did this was that the tenant below me was complaining that it wasn't fair that everybody else was allowed to smoke and she wasn't - again, just total grade school reasoning. but, they wanted to appear fair. so, they put this rule in place. and, now she's the only one not following it.
if i was the owner, that would really piss me off - you put a policy in place to accommodate her, and she just spits in your face. that would tell me that she has no interest in working with management.
but, it's not clear what they can substantively do about it, due to the absurd laws in this province that make it nearly impossible to throw her out.
it's a really surreal situation. this nihilistic drug addict has got us all held hostage, and the law is designed to facilitate it.
but, i'm starting to recognize that my time here may not include any actual recording. and, if that is the case, i may just go ahead and rebuild.
if i can get through the next section quickly, the next thing to do is to start writing for the alter-reality: 2017 & the first half, now, of 2018. this will permanently close my first 15 releases, or so.
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