Work, the past few days, long days, and they scheduled me Saturday despite my having other plans. Work should not interfere with them but - well, I'd rather work wasn't on the table.
Talking with the owner, he's got a plan. A light at the end of the tunnel for me that might see me off and about the mountains this summer. Something to look forward to - I have nothing to complain about, only that this has become untenable and I need change.
Then there's the curiosity over the next few days - the US midterms - voting "as usual" except I'm certain (as are a number of better informed countries and individuals than myself) that something's up. There's no way he's relinquishing power without a fight - too much at stake for both him and the rest of the .01%. So - expect something - whether it be an "AI Escaped the box and tampered with the elections" or a full on attack on Iran and the imposition of martial law. The air-defence missile batteries installed outside Mar-A-Lago - unprecedented - are a fair warning, as are the instructions now being provided troops on how to dig mass graves. Really. Look it up.
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Workmen in to clean my filters on Tuesday, meaning today I was up, light clean in the bathroom, kitchen, the island, sweep, laundry, more to do when I get home ... I need it to be rudimentarily tidy when the workmen arrive.
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The neighbour invites me over for some Chicken soup. It's about time, really, it's good and saves me cooking for which I'm grateful - my own food can grow a bit boring. After that I go to take out my garbage when I run into the neighbour downstairs who - get ready - invites me over for some Chicken soup.
The plus side of community housing.
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And "Burger Month" has arrived. Work will pick up, scrolling FaceBook and all the offerings - some look amazing. A shame I don't love burgers so much that I can try them all - typically I eat a burger - max 2 - per month. And so I have to choose carefully, but some of the cafe's are going all out. This is no-doubt a result of the CBC documentary on Burger Month that's airing - I met one of the producers - he came in to the restaurant to complain that our kitchen was making too much noise, that his production had paid $1000 to use the space downstairs and we were ruining it for him...
He was one of those pretentious artist types. I mean - we're a business, we also pay to be there, and - while we will do our best, come-on and respect that we've all got jobs to do and his should have been to figure out that he's filming beneath/beside a busy restaurant. And why he's paying $1000 for an otherwise empty place to film for an hour? Well, his problem...
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We close early on Halloween - we were dead, no point. And from work I headed off to a showing of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Capitol Theatre - complete with a shadow cast of 22 people. The theatre is packed. It was interesting - well done, after it's fashion, certainly a lot of work - and - sublime as only the Kootenays can be - but - give me the film or give me the play, but this shadow-casting - it does nothing for me. Although I was greatly impressed by the introduction of "Dolly" - the Angel of Dolly Parton - who appears to remove Brad/Janet/etc to heaven at the end. Completely absurd and irrelevant. Which was the point, probably, I'm hoping...
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Coming back from the show - 12:30 AM, and the neighbour 3 doors down is being yelled at by a Police officer. He had a crisis, called the police - for what? The cop is asking, getting increasingly annoyed, and he has no ready explanation. He's been to rehab twice the past 6 months, once for a full 6 weeks, and every time he gets back he cuts his hair (it was a shoulder length mess before) and immediately begins hanging out in front of the Hume and with the midnight-on-Baker crowd. Not a recipe for sobriety I gotta say.
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And this catches me up to the present. More to be done at the library, then back to cleaning the flat and with luck maybe a bit of painting when I get home.