Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Swept at the Courthouse again. I try to do a good job.
I promised myself out loud but quietly that I'd go to the Old Spaghetti Factory today. Didn't make it. Got groceries instead inckusing a bottle of no caffeine diet Coke. Would it be like coca leaf tea? Sadly, no.
OSF is pricey. I'm thinking of getting the Lucy Liu pirate app instead. Actually I sorta planned to go there with Karen. I think she's stalking me and I acquiesced to her stalking.
I've thought women who wound up to being my girlfriend were stalking me before and they turned out to be great girlfriends.
I think that Karen might be hooking. I'll ask her. But she doesn't seem to be that sexual. Hookers are very sexual and they have a certain skill set. I'll tell her this also telling her that I'm the ssme guy who if my girlfriend told me that she's pregnant, I'd immediately start wondering if it was mine.
That's Murphy's Law. I want to be single for life so naturally life sends me a female stalker. This is proof that God has a sense of humour at my expense.
If she's a hooker, I don't care. It's a strange and challenging economy. But at the same time I would then neither need nor want her friendship, as Sherlock Holmes said, "That would neither be convenient nor necessary."
However maybe me and her could work out some kind of deal. How much would it take? Like Hugh Grant said in the movie Bridget Jones and the Edge of Reason, "I'm up for it if you are."
Today is Meta Quest plus day. New VR apps for free.
I got one, for free, called Puzzling Plastic Places. Incredible. Mind blowing. The beauty is beyond measure. The nostalgia lighting is just right. The jigsaw puzzles are incredibly beautiful. The app is as addictive as, well, anything that's addictive.
I got the snowy places addition for $6.50 with tax. The snowy places really touch my heart because they are Christmas. All the other ones are all right. Too pricey to get them all. But one can subscribe for $4.99 before tax a month to get access to all puzzles which expires once the pass expires. I might do that. I also got the England one for $6.50.
Even if I unsubscribe I keep the snowy plsfes addition because I purchased it.
There are a few free ones. There is a bow and arrow app called In Death: Unchained. Bow and arrow isn't bad. My favorite now and arrow games are for free on the meta browser which is the futuristic crossbow app and then there's the Orc Dungeon app. Bow and arrow. I haven't tried this app yet. The puzzling places app is too good to ignore.
IDU. Tried the app. It's all right. Not really my thing.
The Middle East is in a war. The Canadian Minister of Defense said so in so many words.
I'm glad that Muslims in this town are safe. Muslims in Malaysia, Singapore etc are safe. They are safer in the West Bank than they are in Gaza. Right now, the West Bank is safer than Northern Israel which borders Lebanon, which is where Hezbollah operates.
The best answer, let it run its course. But what would that look like? War of attrition.
Puzzling Places deserves another paragraph. The blue temple in Thailand. Breathtaking. So well done. This app deserves many multiple awards.
Even the breathtaking spectacular interior of the temple is included.
I can't say enough about this app.
The blue temple in Thailand makes me wish this app had a 3D VR jigsaw puzzle of the Parthenon or the Acropolis in its heyday when in the interior was a large statue, humungous made of gold and it was a hippopotamus God that looked mind blowingly freaky.
Puzzling Places has a jigsaw that I bought as part of the Winter collection. A museum display. The house itself reminds me of a dream I had where I was fling above an old Native village on a seashore. There were so many of those old Native wooden houses that it looked like a small city, the houses were crowded together. No organized streets but there were streets. The museum display and the artwork. So incredibly stunning.
A few years ago I didn't see a reason to go on. I counted off that day, whatever it was, there were several. "Say I died today. Going forward, will I see anything that will make me regret doing this and be instead be glad that I held on and stayed alive." Puzzling Places is one of those things.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Swept Fort St today.
The News didn't say it but this morning McDonald's and Shoppers was blocked off, all of Douglas Street between View and Yates was Police taped. A young lady who lived on the street died. A blue taxi ran over her. She was just crossing the street. Very tragic.
My mind painted a picture. I thought someone who was living on the streets got done in. Someone said if it had been a murder, there would have been a lot more Police. Tru dat. On the Native reserve of Dididaht, an entire swarm of Police cars descended on that sleepy small town because someone got done in. Suspect charged with first degree murder which is a lot more major than second degree murder. What happened? Probably killed over something stupid like a $500 drug debt.
Update: In hospital with serious injuries but otherwise not dead. I thought dead. Tells you how my brain works. Pessimism and imagination based on not having enough information.
In this case no information is enough information because it's none of my business to begin with. More local gossip.
It shouldn't surprise you that I paid $2.50 each for three individual puzzles on Puzzle Places
Summer Dive - a plane wreck on the bottom of the ocean. I intensely hesitated getting this. Feng shui teaches to never have pictures of wrecks or disasters hanging on the. Wall such as the Titanic sinking etc. However it was rated amazing and has animation namely the swimming tropical fishes. A marine salt water aquarium is at least ten tkmes more difficult than a freshwater aquarium. Marine aquarium has the most beautiful and colorful tropical fishes from the Indian ocean.
The Wave - Its a canyon in the United States. Rivulets of striations that line the smooth naturally carved smooth curved walls of the canyon look like a huge unified undulating wave. It's from Brink and I already have Brink. Brink gives owners a free virtual environment. Blue Planet VR does not. Otherwise not architecturally spectacular which I what I prefer.
Monastery of Batalha in Portugal - architecturally spectacular or what? It is. Just look at it. Well worth the $2.50.
I can afford that. However that $7.50 could have gone towards the Lucy Liu Pirate Queen VR app. A $7.50 opportunity cost offset against the $26.50 including tax of the Lucy Liu app would have meant I would have only had $19 remaining to pay for the app. In this app, the avatar that you are as default is a female. That's the only somewhat offsetting aspect. If you gloss over that then it promises to be a richly detailed with puzzles not too difficult adventure. Everyone in comments aid the puzzles were way too easy which is what I prefer anyways.
I also got Monthly pack #7 Greece because of Archangel Michael Monastery.
I also got Japan bundle with bento box xushi, restaurant, vendor and Zen temple.
I purchased the Lucy Liu app. The Cantonese language is sentimental to me and this language is spoken. Gorgeous nostalgia inducing graphics. A lifelong purchase, not an ephemeral purchase. I had to our has this. This app is nostalgic and very Chinatown.
"Chinatown calculation, That's cool with no regrets." Doug and the Slugs
According to my Chinatown calculation, this purchase wouldn't have completely obliterated my budget but saving money so one doesn't go broke and starve would be a good way to go through life. If I was broke, I'd starve and die but I've been broke for years in end in the past and I somehow survived.
The Chinese female pirate Zheng Yi Sao was born around 1771. Emily Carr was born in 1871. She got her start as a sex worker. She rose up through the ranks to become not a madam but a pirate. She married an infamous pirate. And took on an apprentice Cheung Po Tsai as an adoptive son. Her husband the pirate died in 1809. After some time, she marries her adoptive son who was 20 at the time. There is actually a porn video titled, I Married My Stepmother. That would be ghastly and wretched. I wonder if that's even legal. Anyways she rose through the ranks again and headed a pirate crew with various punishments for various infractions.
Her adoptive son himself dies in 1822.
She became the most powerful pirate in history even making deals and treaties with the government at the time. She commanded a fleet of about 70,000. That's seven Sidney BCs.
Anyways her actions either directly or indirectly contributed to the start of the Opium Wars in the 1840s.
She lived to the age of 69 dying in 1844 which is a miracle in an age before the discovery of antibiotics and novocaine for draining of tooth abscesses, an age when tuberculosis was rampant and incurable.
The YouTube video said that she died at 69 years old. What's even more of a miracle is how you get 69 years between 1771 and 1844. Wouldn't that be 73 years rather than 69 years? Anyways.
Like as was said of Pacific Rim, if you're Chinese and own a VR headset and you don't get Lucy Liu's The Pirate Queen, you're f*king up.
The formerly temporary Chinese Museum in Fan Tan Alley in Victoria BC is now a permanent museum. Fan Tan Alley has long been a center of celestial activities in Victoria. That alley was once the bad and sleazy part of town and depending on how far you go back, Fan Tan Alley has had houses of ill repute and also drug smoking dens.
It's the diametrically opposite of that now as the alley is a venue of middle class bourgeois shops with all kinds of crafts like knitting, incense, rose and sandalwood scented soaps, and there is a record shop which sells LPs and of course, a Chinese Museum.
Chinese history in Canada in a nutshell was the building of the railway, lots of prejudice and exclusion either that or stay in China which was in the midst of a civil war and didn't have a centralized government as such to provide things like pensions, social welfare etc. But neither did Canada in what, the 1800s, the 1920s and 30s.
In time and especially because of the internet nowadays all kinds of people of all different Nationalities work in all kinds of jobs in Canada, you name it.
The BC Aviation Museum in Sidney does have a push propeller plane. But it's not a world war one push propeller. It's a more modern one.
Recently I acquired in the World War one airplanes app, a Sopwith Camel. That's the model that Snoopy always talked about. He pretended to be flying a Sopwith Camel fighting the Red Baron. That's cost 1600 coins. However a Sopwith Triplane cost 2200 coins. Since I had 2300 coins at the time, I opted for the Camel. Should I have opted for the Triplane? The Triplane would be like a solid built Mercedes to the Porsche convertible that is the Sopwith Camel. The Sopwith Camel does indeed have a very sporty feel. It had a sunroof over the grey canvas covered wings. Very sporty.
World War One Airplane models are actually quite pricey. I might be able to afford one. That's it. That would be my plane.
At BC Hobbies, the local model shop, all WW1 airplane models are sold out. Typical small town selection. Not much.
Vancouver has a bigger and better selection plus tons of store in the neighbouring suburbs, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond, North Van, etc lots of model and hobby shops. The selection is there and available.
Small towns have a slower pace of life. The smaller the town, the more intense the Sunday vibes. However small towns don't always have the selection for anything.
Getting apps downloaded online rather than depending on a store to have the cartridge or the disc pretty much guarantees the selection and inventory. If one had to depend on getting VR apps to play on a machine that connects to the VR goggles via an adapter wire, in a small town you might or might not be able to get the game.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Today, more sweeping the streets and at the Courthouse.
On Game of Thrones Legends. I got a gold character, Brienne of Tarth. Amazing or what.
Friday, October 4, 2024
A teenage girl was swarmed and beaten in Langley. 5 suspects were arrested and given conditional releases.
In the video, I heard someone say the word, "Dyke."
She could have been coming on to too many ladies and even being aggressive at times.
Teenagers can be very cantankerous.
In the movie Brokeback Mountain, there was a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal offered to buy someone a beer and he looked at him with these crazy queer eyes, "Get your queer eyes off of me!" Paul, so much that even an autistic who normally has trouble deciphering facial expressions would have got that expression. He probably did that to too many guys and afterwards he was beaten to death.
A security guard told me that gay people are even more cautious than heterosexuals when it comes to making advances and innuendos.
"You're the only one who has a real sense of occasion." Kiss of the Spider Woman
A person who, if sent to prison for sexual assault should write a memoir. It would be like Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol except it would be a heterosexual version of that. He should do it as soon as George Lucas releases Star Wars - The Heterosexual Version.
In the last few days, I got a few more Puzzling Places VR puzzles
Japan - Zen temple and bento box
Sakelarios Mansion, Greece - As beautiful and mind blowing as the Alaskan Musuem in Japan puzzle.
Greece - Archangel Michael Monastery
And Tamerlane - The tomb and the prayer room are intensely ornate Muslim buildings. So beautiful. This one cost a little more, $1 more but worth it. Usual price, $5.79 before tax. Tamerlane cost $7.99 before tax.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Truth is stranger than fiction so I could tell this story.
I got two tickets to the Malahat Skywalk in June at the Royal BC Museum as a complimentary gift when I renewed my $65 annual pass.
My neighbour was one day talking about the Malahat Skywalk. I told him that I had two tickets. He said he would really want to go and to go on a trip together would be an idea. Why not, I thought.
He never went and every day was either too hot or too cold in temperature. He was so gung ho about going. It turns out that I went in early September when I could have gone in July or August waiting for my neighbour.
He's a strange one. He's the same guy who I sold about three or four televisions to. When I would upgrade to a new television, I'd sell him the old one. He broke the screen on every one of them. But he also broke the screens on a few of his tablets. Weird energy.
He's the same guy who would have a tooth abscess or any kind of noticeable medical problem and wait months before seeing a dentist.
So with the other ticket. I could have gone a second time but he really believes he's going to go. A couple of weekends ago, he even said the words, "To ease your mind, I'm going to go this weekend." Guess what. He didn't go. His word means sh*t.
If you call him out for anything, he doesn't just nod and accept it and say, "You're right." Instead he always gets angry and throws some kind of hissy fit. "What?! F*ck! Why didn't you? I don't know. Forget it. F*ck!!!" He gets mad
My mother died when I was very young. Whereas his mother is still alive and he gets all kinds of handouts from her but with the same anger presumably whenever his mother presents him with any kind of challenge. My mother died and I am calm whereas his mother gives him handouts and he's still such an angry entity. Some do such much with so little while others do so little with so much.
The free shuttle ends this weekend but the ticket is good until March 2025. He still thinks he might go this weekend but he wants to hold on to the ticket because he thinks he can get a friend to give him a ride and they'd visit the Malahat Skywalk together.
I was thinking, typical cheese eating island person. That's projection. I'm the one who visited a cheese shop somewhere and walked out with $30 worth of cheese. And people whose words means nothing can also be found on the mainland as well as the island. But there are lots of mostly trustworthy people on the island. Let's face it, there were times before when I didn't stick to my word and it might have upset someone more than I know, this will come up in my life review after I die.
I am good with my word. When I say that I'll do something for someone, I'll actually do it. So naturally the forces of life throw this entity my way and as a neighbour too. Generate a certain kind of energy and then get a different and worse kind of energy in return. That's the essence of life. Or is it?
Often I see movies and experience VR apps made from people with vastly superior intellects I mean one has to be smart to put together a Cirque du Soleil VR app for instance.
But if one looks closely, there are good things. This neighbour has given very good advice from time to time over the years. Sterling silver quality advice. Good advice. So there's that. Advice such as, "If you get sent to the prison down the road, Wilkinson, you'd survive. The place is like a summer camp. I spent three months there. People do drugs there often."
Not that it would be applicable in my case, but that's still pretty good advice.
The Malahat Skywalk. Forget the other ticket. Me asking for the ticket so I could go a second time for free on the last weekend of the free shuttle service until next season is like Frodo fighting Gollum for the ring.
I was going to go today and pay $40 plus tax for the entrance fee but I'm the one who has to mull over and get some kind of anxiety attack over getting an additional $8 VR puzzle bundle.
I just went there four weeks ago. I'll go next year and pay $100 for the annual pass.
It makes more sense. 5 visits.
One example. Visit once today, pay $40 and go four times next year pay $100 = $140.
Another example. Visits 5 times next year, pay $100.
Prorated to minimum wage, $40 is less than three hours of work so that's nothing to stress about.
I'm going to get another puzzle bundle from Puzzling Places.
Yesterday, I plopped down $9 for the Egypt bundle. Worth the money or what. The tomb of Ramses VI is like every Egyptian feeling and motifs and vibe every experienced. It brought me back to the first time I even seen Egyptian hieroglyphs as compulsory education in elementary school. The colours, the details. This is a must for any fan of Egypt. The colours. Just incredible.
I'm thinking of and probably am going to get another puzzle bundle. It has 6 European Castles and fine villa estates for $8. These are really nice. I don't remember the names of any of them just offhand.
I got it just now. 7:47 am. One of the features is Chambord Castle, France. Fancy and high class or what?
DJ Frane - Straight To The Head was released in 2020. However, that song sounds even more early 80s than the actual songs of the early 80s. The whole song is an instrumental but there is an instrumental segment that sounds very Egyptian. Doing the Egyptian.
On impulse I got the China bundle for $8. Now altogether, I'm in the hole a further $25.
Rather than to spend $40 plus tax going to the Malahat Skywalk, Instead I plopped down $25 including tax for the puzzles.
I've heard it said of a person when they died that a bundle of energy left the Earth. The thing is, it didn't exit the Earth. It became further embedded into the quantum coding which everything of the Earth is under anyways. Except those who graduated to the major phase of life get into the coding behind the coding and are more alive than ever before so in some ways they are even more infused into the essence of what makes up the Earth than ever before.
This coding involves non linear aspects such as teleportation is space travel experienced on an objective level, time travel is time experienced on an objective level etc etc etc. I've said all this before.
Speaking of the algorithm of time, this year is the last year of daylight savings time. Next year, it will be Pacific Standard time permanently.
I'm thinking about getting a $5.79 including taxes monthly pass to Puzzling Places. This gives access to all puzzles which is revoked once the pass is cancelled. Only puzzles paid for will be retained if the pass is ever cancelled.
Should I get it? I have 30 days to pay it in my credit card so I can pay it on welfare cheque day.
The Green Party which doesn't stand a chance of governing promised a doubling of welfare rates. If this gets them more votes than usual, the other Partys will probably hijack this for their platform.
Green Party Platform - Green environment. Green economy. Keep the carbon tax. Double welfare rates. No fracking.
NDP Platform - axe the carbon tax. Affordable housing. Tax cut to middle class. Involuntary mental health treatment. A family doctor for all.
Conservative Platform - recriminalize hard drug use in certain settings. Shut down safe injection sites. Tough on repeat violent offenders. Cut carbon tax. Tax cuts to the upper class. Incentives, increased subsidies to the Aryan, I mean the agrarian community.
I got the Puzzling Places monthly pass. It gives access to all puzzles. A lot I want to try but not pay money to keep. This would be a televisual feast, to quote Fawlty Towers.
The Egypt puzzle, $9, The Chinese puzzle $8, The Castles $7, that's about $25. Plus $6 for the only pass, that's $31 I paid today. I paid for the other puzzles too.
I visited Emily Carr's gravesite today. Someone left her a stuffed monkey in a large Ziploc bag. How sweet. Emily Carr used to have a monkey. A psychic on the show Talking To the Dead, Nicola Furlong said that she saw Emily Carr's spirit with her monkey so the two are reunited in spirit. I wish I met Emily Carr. I think about her every day. She used to laugh a lot. What a sweet lady.
October 7 will be on Tuesday this year. Since this year is a leap year, October 7 was on Saturday last year. If it wasn't a leap yesr, October 7 would've been on Monday.
It also happens to be Rosh Hoshanah which is Jewish New Year. Being under some kind of lunar calendar presumably, the Jewish New Year, it seems, falls on the harvest moon.
The horrific senseless terrorist attack that happened last year has an eerie parallel with the Tet Offensive. Tet was kind of like a New Year's Festival, if not New Year at any rate a major festival when people were generally somewhat more off their guard than usual.
I hope that commemorations of that event are peaceful. A Jewish person told me that the word Jewish is preferred over the words Jews. It's more respectful. Jewish people are very smart and kind and spiritual. For the most part, Jewish people and Muslims get along well together. On the News it showed an old Jewish man whose window was shelled during an Iranian missile attack and the neighbours who helped him repair the window were young Muslims.
That's the kind of thing that people would want to see during the commemorations which should be used to bring about a new level of friendship between the two beliefs rather than bringing the fighting and the other BS to another level. The Judicial Branch of the Government, ie the Police will be observing these events very closely, as always.
Be peaceful. Don't do any stupid stuff to get yourself busted.
I myself won't be going to any commemorations. I have a self appointed volunteer job sweeping the streets and the Courthouse as well. I love the Court.
Anyone who is a fan of Court will love the new Joker movie. Much of the movie takes place in Court where the Joker is in the docks.
The lawyer might say, "Even if I were to plead down the charges which include sedition, anarchy, public disorder, terrorist activity, first and multiple counts of second degree murder, first degree in the case of the game show host and second degree in the case of the subway riders, bank robbery, racketeeeing, and grand larceny, you would still be looking at 20 years in Arkham Asylum for all those quite serious charges."
Actually, the bank robbery was in the movie Batman The Dark Knight which is a different Heath Ledger as the Joker based Batman Universe than that of the Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker based Batman God d*mn City, I mean Gotham City Universe.
As for different personages as Joker inhabiting different Universes, during a person's life review instant download, a person gets to see how things would have been different in their life had they done this or done that or had they not hooked up with certain people.
They see it as a vision that seems so incredibly real.
Similar with the movie Its A Wonderful Life.
I suspect that they would see that the person that they thought was so unpleasant that they wish they never hooked up with turned out to be a blessing in disguise and in subtle ways along the edges, taught lessons or imparted insights that turned out to be really useful later on.
Finally, they see that things just could not and would not have happened another way because there are so many other ingredients going on other than just their life alone. That they were part of a whole and all things happened not according to what you want and think would be best for you but all things happen according to a divine schedule according to what God wants and what God knows would be the best overall outcome.
God's algorithm, not the algorithm of collective human will. There is another and much higher intelligent energy force than the sum of all of Earth's energy. That would be God.
I tried Down the Rabbit Hole. Alice I Wonderland in VR. Then I got to the box where one is supposed to guess four numbers to open a box. Clues are around but what clues? Forget it, uninstalled fifteen minutes into the game.
Every woman is a rabbit hole. Of issues. That's why I'm going to stay single for life.
That also works on the distaff side. Men are trouble to women.
Today I found a large Cadbury tin from the days when cookies and chocolates were always sold in tins rather than cardboard boxes. In it was a make up kit. It was all next to a dumpster near the beach. I decided to take it.
I had a highly disturbing intrusive and unwanted thought. What if I tried the make up. With my artistic skills could I do make up even better than most women? One would need sfmato and feathering skills with some slight and subtle cross hatching. Chinese opera style make up. I don't know if I'll actually try the make up. Used makeup has bacteria on it. Or does it?
The large tin at any rate can be used to store whatever items various and sundry.
On the YouTube video Inside The Chambord Castle from uploader Nicole Phim Cooking and Travel, there is an artistic statue of a large green pea pod split open with 4 peas within it. That reminds me of what I wrote, that me and Beebs were like two retarded peas in a retarded pod.
If you are a good business man, if you are able to constantly purchase things and then sell it for a profit later on and get money for your work, that attracts women. If on the other hand you are always selling things at a loss and working for free, that repels women. But that works for me since I'm planning to be single for life. I don't look at the prospect of finding a girlfriend like I used to. Before it was all idealized. The reality is that any relationship ship is a rabbit hole of issues and love comes at a price. The word Mahal means love and it also means great price. No love, no price.
There are the Houthis of Yemen.
The in Blue Planet VR, there are the hoodoos of Bryce Valley, Arizona. Hoodoos look loke very large and fat pieces of straw made of rock with a large round brown rock balanced on top.
They look somewhat humanoid. These geological features have been around for 100 million years and dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. That means these hoodoos were something that dinosaurs would have seen. These hoodoos were then omens of a very intelligent humanoid species that would one day appear. Intelligent enough to send people to the moon and Mars and also the moon of Europa.
The cartoon the Flintstones features hoodoos.
There are hoodoos in Canada in Drumheller, Alberta at the Alberta badlands aka dinosaur park.
Watched 44 minutes into the new Joker movie. It's better than the first. Just about everyone else on the internet doesn't like it
First of all, it would be incomplete to not mention YouTube comments, someone said, "Jared Leto's Joker was a normal man trumying to be crazy. Joaquin Phoenix's Joker is a crazy man trying to be normal."
That was Joker part 1. In part 2, Joker is a crzzy man who clutches up and knows that's he's crazy and he doesn't care.
We get to see the processing of wards of the judicial branch of government as Joker goes through the trial and imprisonment experience.
Joker thought he'd be single indefinitely as Zazie Beats was just his fantasy girlfriend. But he finds love in this movie and the lady has a lot in common with him, not a lady who has very little in common, actually.
The movie is a musical. This can either flop or work spectacularly bringing the franchise to a new level. It's a musical but it doesn't feel like a gay show tunes musical. All the songs are hetero normative. In this case it works spectacularly. A song in the movie that I like goes, "I got the world on a string, sitting on a rainbow, Got a string wrapped around my finger. " That song sounds heavenly. Since I'm only about 45 minutes into it, the trial part hasn't happened yet.
Spoilers. So far what I've seen is his female lawyer telling him that his insanity defense won't work. He is told via the communal prison television that he can expect the death penalty for all his heavy charges. However Joker and his new girlfriend Harley Quinn escape the prison altogether so he is loose on the streets.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Thinking of getting Zero Glide VR. Just look at it. It's the perfect motorcycle racing game.
I don't know the names of toes. Anyways the inside of my right pinkie toe is jutting against the outside of my right ring finger toe. It's the outside of the ring finger toe that feels the spin. Calluses, clipped. Inflammation, took two aspirin. I even wrapped some tape to apply as a toe rag. Anyways maybe my shoes are too tight. Hopefully this goes away. Perhaps the Universe will provide me with a clue about this.
Inside, facing towards center of body. Outside, facing away from center of body.
If it's facing towards the center of the foot, where is the inside of the middle toe? That system wouldn't work.
Distal, buccal, varial, that system works in dentistry too.
On my VR travel apps, I'm able to visit ancient Egypt, India and Mexico.
The ancient Egyptians called Egypt Khemet.
Indians call India Bharat.
Mexico was known as Olmec. From which the word Mexico is derived.
Lots of countries are like that.
China - Chung Kwo
Japan - Nihon
Thailand - Meungthai, Prathet Thai
I got Zero Glide VR. $16.79 with tax. I hope it's good. Please don't think awfully of me for getting so many VR apps.
However I've often had $80 days in Sidney. Movie, popcorn and drink, restaurant, pastries, grocery store. It adds up.
A psychic, I Talk To Ghosts on YouTube said don't worry about what people think. Innovate and try new things.
The rationale for me getting Zero Glide VR is that it resembles the apps Traffic Racer and Traffic Rider on the tablet which at one time I spent endless hours on. Reviews say that it resembles Road Rash. That's an app where a motorcycle hits people besides them with a club making mike mike mike mike sounds. That's what it actually sounds like. Onamatopeia.
I'll try it and let you know what I think. Reviews say it's a lemon. Meaning not good. Unsafe at any speed. There were other apps like that, reviews say bad, I try and say it's good and vice versa happens too. Top rated, top selling, reviews say major and I try it and it's just meh.
Zero Glide VR. Tried it. Pretty good. The curving tracks and the night scene race is kinda motion sticky. But the straightaway roads during the day are really fun. Leisurely with just a slight challenge. Like riding a motorcycle down the road. Gorgeous graphics.
Worth the money. That's about it.
Let's face it. Although Zero Glide is an essential part of the collection just like the immersive art gallery with Venus, I don't know how often I'll actually be playing it.
I don't know why I get VR apps. I spend a lot of time on the tablet. Just as much if not more time on the tablet.
Today Elon Musk and Donald Trump were on the same stage and podium as the assassination attempt.
I visited the Elon Musk station on Mars in puzzling Places. There is also the Repair And Maintenance Module known as RAM.
That station looks like a 70s style research Station that would be in Antarctica. Really. I built the 3D VR jigsaw puzzle. I was severely underwhelmed. 1970s Wildlife Moments National Film Board of Canada television advertisements or what?
I thought it would be a swanky mid 21st Century luxurious five star condo like in the animated cartoon series Blade Runner Black Lotus.
You gotta start somewhere I guess.
There is an Elon Musk observatory in Utah. It looks really nice, the wood interior makes it look like a cozy 1700s style observatory.
I feel existential anxiety at the moment. Life is too overwhelming despite the underwhelming Mars station.
I feel scared that I got another VR app. I just have to remember that I spend a lot of time on the tablet or on the same few VR apps over and over again.
Tea helps.
Usually Restful Sleep tea with valerian root aka valium or else coca leaf tea with mint or else cats claw which is good for digestion problems.
I think that I might be crazy. I am trying to be 100% normal or as near to it as possible.
I plan to be single for life. I think that there's a lady who's stalking me. I have to avoid her.
Intrusive and unwanted thoughts of just crazy stuff. This is the brain I have to work with for the next 20 years. Sometimes the brain is a genius, other times, uh, not so much.
Puzzling Places is a great app.
There are a few great ladies in town but they're out of my league. That's why I'm probably going to be single for life.
Alien Romulus. I thought it was going to be a boring movie of walking from point A to point B trying to simultaneously dodge and shoot spider like alien babies. That's projection. Some of my animated cartoons are like that.
I saw a few minutes into it. Great movie. All unknown actors but the second Aliens movie had mostly unknown actors. The story is a bet or a contest either of who can survive the longest or else who can bag the most spider like alien babies. The Blu Ray won't be released until December 3.
Sometimes people do good things for a long time and others do bad things for a long time. In either case nothing seems to happen to them. The person doing good things gets no tangible reward and the person doing bad things gets away Scott free.
In the show Game of Thrones, Sandor Clegane said to Arya Stark, "That person is a jerk. But she'll get what's coming to her one day. They always do."
The good you do stays with you
The bad you do follows you through and through.
I haven't gotten around to watching the rest of Joker part 2. The Courtroom scene. I glimpsed it on my 50" HDTV but I have to see it in big screen on VR goggles. That's like seeing it in a theatre. It makes a difference.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Today, I got Arya Stark, gold character on Game of Thrones Legends.
Sansa Stark would be just as much if not more major.
More sweeping the grounds of the Courthouse.
Chip Wilson of Lulu Lemon put up some signs. Political Party Leaders of BC wrote tweets about him distancing themselves from him.
Lulu Lemom, I mean Lemon. Only women wear that.
A guy who sells female clothing only? Usually a guy would open a harberdashery for men rather than a boutique for women.
Lots of male fashion designers make clothes for mean and women. Just about all of them.
I never heard of a male fashion designer who only sells clothes made for women.
The BC Leader's Debate was on. I watched it.
Let's face it. Debates are either for undecided voters or first time voters new to voting and politics, I think 19 is the minimum legal age to vote.
David Eby laughed a few times. That's a sign of a bright spirit.
John Rustad has a good radio voice. He was very stoic in his delivery but when he said his parents did, the way he said it, I had a highly intrusive and unwanted thought, "Yeah, of AIDS." I couldn't stop laughing.
When John Rustad told stories about tragedies he's seen in the Province, he sounds like a comedian and a good one at that. For some reason I couldn't help laughing.
John Rustad said, "Under Ebys government, there should be an ad, A picture of a plastic straw and a small pole of cocaine with the caption, 'Guess which is legal and which is illegal?'
Sonia Fusrstenau is probably the successor to Elizabeth May. She is choosing this neighbourhood to run in to show that she left the Provincial stage fighting and fighting for a good riding. Nothing else would explain it. Before, she was representing the Cowichan Valley. I don't know where that is and don't plan to visit. I could say that about a million other places, don't know where it is, don't plan to visit. She has an energetic delivery. She is a good politician.
The MLA in my neighbourhood is Grace Lore. I've decided that a Minister of a governing Party which has a chance to govern, again, is more major than the Leader of a fringe Party which has no chance of governing.
Grace Lore will probably get an upgrade in Ministerial Portfolio, probably Health or Finance. As Minister for Children and Families only less than ten children died under the Ministry's watch which is commensurate with the average under any other administration. It isn't as if more than ten children died. Keeping in mind the ideal that even one death is one too many. The reality indicates different. The Minister can't go to every foster home and make choices for them. They make their own choices. Not all foster homes are the square smarmy bourgeois middle class set up. Some foster homes are more hard scrabble, most picaresque, "After dinner I'm going to my room and shoot up." The foster parent says, "It's legal. I guess you're gonna do what you gotta do as always."
The States has Departments. Canada has Ministrys not Ministries.
My friend said he was part Scottish. He used to eat a very sparse diet of boiled potatoes and hot dogs and French bread. Fruits and vegetables, forget it.
So one time I said to him," That's Spartan fare for a Tartan queer."
I don't know if he's queer. I don't care. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and think that he is, I mean that he isn't.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tbis morning I woke up with the most awful stomach ache. Just wretched.
For a minute there, I thought I was dying.
"You're not dying, Cameron. Cameron always thinks he's dying." Ferris Buellers Day Off
I got some no name pepto. Then later in the morning, I went to a Vietnamese restaurant and ordered carrot and beef soup with rice. The lid came loose on the soup and quite a bit spilled. Happens every time. Never order soup in one of those bowls with those lids. Any movement at all can cause the lid to come loose.
Only order the soup to be drank within the restaurant.
Ordering rice dishes that don't involve soup is much better. To have a container with the lid that actually stays on well would cost quite a bit extra. Cheap and not that good or good and expensive. You can only pick one.
Soup to go is top heavy as the bowl tapers inward towards the bottom. That doesn't help.
The structural engineering of that bowl and that lid for holding soup is like wearing flip flops to go mountain climbing.
I was angry. I thought the restaurant did that to me on purpose. Delusions are a wonderful thing. No, it was the physics of this dimension that did that. Terrible flimsy plastic structure plus hot soup which as a liquid would weigh heavier than rice of the same volume plus the constant undulating pundulumn movement of walking and carrying all that in a bag equals spillage. Leakage.
I'll never order soup to go ever again. Restaurants put soup to go in a bag. There is a lot of pundulum movement when carrying a bag. With some kind of food that works with others it just doesn't work at all.
Other than that the soup was fantastic. As ever. Michelin star quality, I wouldn't doubt it.
After putting off going to a restaurant for a few days, working and feeling exhausted and eating whatever I found in my fridge, this meal cured me and I had a massive nap afterwards. It's standard exhaustion. I have to take a few days off. Over the last 30 days, I worked 25 days.
The carrot and beef soup is an easy recipe.
Fry some garlic oil oil along with a generous sprinkling of Chinese five spice powder.Add a dash of soy sauce and sesame oil. Sprinkle a bit of sugar too just a tiny bit. Then fry the beef and carrots in that. Then add cold water and bring to a boil and then simmer. For some weird reason soup cooked at night and then heated up the next morning is magic. I don't know how that works.
Food tastes better when cooled down a little rather than steaming hot. That's what they say. Don't know why either.
There was a spectacular movie I wanted to watch on big screen on my VR goggles. I forgot the movie. It is an ornate movie. A movie to smoke hashish to. A middle eastern themed movie otherwise why the hashish?
I remember. Orient Express. That movie is as if not more spectacular than Death on The Nile. Orient Express is a journey through Eurasia such as Turkiye etc.
Hashish is pricey. Legal hash is about $28 for two grams. Vortex brand Afghan hash.
VR apps have used up any extra I would have had for hash so I don't smoke much these days. Hash is good with tobacco.
I got Bonfire VR. 20 min animated film. $6.50 with tax.
Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch.
The Legislative Branch drafts up bills that go through questionnperiod and then first, second and third reading and on the Provincial level to the Lieutenant Governor for Royal Assent, and on the Federal Level to the Senate for Royal Assent.
Only the governing Party can draft legislation. The opposition Parties can not.
Executive. The Premier or else Prime Minister has to defend bills up for legislation against the Opposition during Question period.
Judicial Branch is when Legislation, laws, applies to the individual. The Police, the Court, the probation office, the jail. This can include citations, fines, arrest, the Court, probation and incarceration.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
The News said there is gender identity education in schools. A teacher said, "Because everyone as a gender identity."
These days, my gender is referred to as AMAB. Assigned Male At Birth and cisgendered.
Really? This is the terminology, nomenclature, lexicon? I sure didn't see AMAB in the 70s. Society has gone pear shaped.
Game of Thrones Legends.
Good news. I got a gold character. Lord Varys.
Not so good news. Lord Varys is a eunuch. His weapon is a coin purse. Well, after someone's sword is removed all that person has left is a coin purse. Wretched.
Lord Varys is AMAB. Cisgendefed? I'm not sure. At least not cisgendered to the level where he got his junk removed.
Watching the Orient Express movie, I felt that I needed to have some popcorn and some Turkish delight. Last time I got rose and lemon flavor rose probably being strawberry.
This time I got fruit flavors. The fruit flavors has more variety of flavors. It sounds fun.
The loukum or Turkish delight was $7.99 plus tax.
Bonfire VR is quite immersive. It's only two scenes and the cartoon is about ten minutes although the first time you watch it, it feels like half an hour.
The story is you crash land on a planet with a robot that guides and narrates.
Use a scanner that is provided to point to and scan four natural items on that planet, plants, animals, etc. Two species of aliens emerge.
The target audience is obviously five years old to nine years old. It's not an animation for teenagers and older. Puerile. Was it worth the $6.50? All I can say is I don't know.
It would be if you are five years old.
I already voted in the Provincial election.
Often in elections, a voter likes the Leader but is indifferent to the representative or vice versa.
In this case, I like the Leader David Eby and the representative Grace Lore. They are great politicians.
It was somewhat with a broken heart that I didn't vote for Sonia Furstenau. She's a great politician as well and I wish her all the best.
Who knows who will win the election. It's a nail biter just like the US election and the upcoming Canada election. Just about all elections in history have worked out to be nail biters with no real clear designated winner.
Meta Quest 3S will release. It's a newer and cheaper VR goggles.
Meta Quest 3 uses pancake lenses. Quest 3S uses fresnel lenses. Pancake lenses are way better.
Meta Quest 3 has 4.5 million pixels per screen. Quest 3S uses 3.5 million pixels per screen.
Quest 3 $650 cdn plus tax
Quest 3S $400 cdn plus tax Releases on October 22 at Walmart.
Quest 3 discontinued its $600 128 Gb model.
The only model available for Quest 3 is 528 Gb, an $800 unit.
Coca leaf tea. Add sugar and evaporated milk. To add a touch of over the top gourmet and this works, adds just a tiny sprinkle of truffle salt. Michelin star or what?
I drink the coca leaf tea either with mint or cats claw. It's better than the plain coca leaf tea.
"How do you f*ck that up?" A History of Violence
How did the Canucks got from a 4 - 1 win to a 6 - 5 loss? Regulation time or overtime? 5 - 5 at game end and then Calgary wins it in overtime or what?
Friday, October 11, 2024
At the Courthouse sweeping the grounds.
Went to Old Spaghetti Factory. Finally. I was waiting. Quite a few songs went on my mp3 player and the order hadn't arrived. People who arrived after me were already eating but they were in a group, a family. This happened to me before at Old Spaghetti. I asked one waitress, "Is my order going to show up or not?"
When my order had arrived, since it took quite awhile, I asked, "The order took awhile. I hope it wasn't because of me or something I did." "Oh no!" the waitress said reassuringly.
Before I went in to Old Spaghetti, I swept the grounds and removed some weeds that were unsightly. They didn't know that.
Waiting for a long time is sometimes a compliment. Giving you the food fast means they want you out of there fast.
Waiting awhile is a chance to relax. They haven't forgotten. How orders are expedited on the line for a line cook is to do the bigger multiple orders first. Then do the smaller orders after. The orders come up in a ticker tape system. Orders are triaged. The chits that show large orders are handled first. That's normal for a restaurant.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Yesterday, I swept Fort Street.
I feel regret for being irritated that the order was taking so long at the Old Spaghetti. I had a scowling face. If I were to do it over again, I'd go outside and take a walk and then return after awhile.
A YouTube video said that among the top mind blowing movies are Coherence, Jacobs Ladder, Identity and Primer. I plan to watch those movies.
This morning, I saw most of Coherence but fell asleep three quarters of the way in.
There is a comet passing overhead in Finland. It supposedly has otherworldly effects on the World it passes over.
A group of Americans vacationing at a cabin did over that at another cabin is another group that is themselves! There are doubles of all of them which is the result of the comet. They are staying at houses two blocks away from each other and these houses look exactly the same!
Shroedingers Cat which the movie specifically mention says that in that theory, there is a poison gas bomb that has a 50% of going off so the cat could be alive or dead. Shroedingers Cat says that in quantum physics both exists simultaneously in two parallel Universes and this Universe is defined as offset to the parallel Universe which would have the other outcome.
In other words if there is a situation that requires you to turn left or right, both those Universes exist until you make a choice.
I don't know about that. If there are two parallel Universes or perhaps an infinite amount of them.
So there is a point in the movie where they write notes to one another which turn out to be identical notes and different sets of themselves, you're not sure which sneak in and out of the house to steal vital items.
The story behind these vital items is eventually explained. The ending could be a twist ending but since I haven't seen all of it.
A comet flew over the Okanagan last night! It's a comet that passes over the Earth once every 80,000 years!
Canadian comedian Mike Bullard died at age 67. He was an ex Police Officer who made it to Prime Time with a comedy show.
On one episode, Bryan Adams was on. Bryan Adams had a coffee table book that he published with pictures wlof women in bathing suits that he took.
Mike Bullard said, "That sure is sexy." or words to that effect.
Bryan Adams said, "Sure, if you're into that kind of thing."
Mike Bullard asked what he meant. Bryan Adams thought that Mike Bullard was referring to him!
Mike Bullard said, "I'm referring to the ladies in your book!"
Bryan Adams grinned an unflappable grin.
On another episode, Mike Bullard said, "So it's confirmed that you find homosexuals funny."
I sometimes see people on the street that I think about for a day, seen at this place or that place.
I often see men who are tall with women who are quite a lot shorter than them. That's a sublimated form of whatever.
My friend who is now dead, he was short. He said that his father was tall and his mother was short. He talked about the animal thing of a tall man going for a short woman.
The tall man would enhance the woman's chances of having a tall child while the short woman would absolutely ruin the tall man's chances of having a tall child if he wants one. Xx Xx, Xx Xy, Xx Xy, Xy Xy. Chromosomal chart denoting dominant genes and recessive genes.
I would only go for a lady who is my height that's if I didn't otherwise plan to be single for life.
Any would be girlfriend is a rabbit hole of additional issues in addition to my own rabbit hole of issues that I have to deal with. Relationships come at a price. Hanging on words. Boring conversations.
One set of worries VS another.
Just about everyone else in my hotel is single.
Shakespeare said that all the world is a stage and we all play many parts. One day it's walking down the street with a lady. Another day it's as a patient in the hospital. Always feel compassion for people. You never know where they've been in the past and where they'll be in the future.
I hesitate in writing this. It's infamous and notorious.
There are videos on YouTube a channel called Courtroom Consequences shows the most outrageous court cases ever. All of these cases are Stateside, not in Canada.
The videos depict court cases where defendants swore at threatened, spit on and even threatened the lives of judges!
Tony Robin's said in Worst Jobs in History, Christmas episode, "You can take comfort in the fact there were people in history who have had far worse Christmases than you'll ever have."
There are people who have had worse court cases than most of us will ever have.
One person named Alan McCarty is the worst story.
He called up a person on the emergency line and asked the dispatcher to send the judge out in handcuffs so he could shoot the judge he mistakenly claimed was responsible for the removal of his children from his custody. No, that's not asking a lot.*
*sarcasm
He said he had a gun trained in the federal building where the judge works. He called the dispatcher the N word not knowing or caring if she was actually Black.
That was enough to get him busted for threatening a judge. In court
Judge, "Do you want to be here or not?"
McCarty, "Do you want to s*ck my d**k?"
Judge, "I prefer not to, sir."
McCarty, "Well you got the mouth for it."
In another trial date, he simply yelled "S*ck my d**k!"
For that he was dragged out. As bailiffs pulled him out of the courtroom, he threatened the prosecutor's unborn child. "I hope that you fall and your child dies!"
A female in the court audience covered her face trying to hide her laughter.
In another case, a man named Bass Webb spit on a female judge. A year later he shows up in court after causing a prison riot where he flung a detached telephone with the wire dangling from the telephone at a prison guard.
He went into court with a new look. On the side of his newly bald head were tattoed the words,
"All Those That Must Die: All Judges, All Prosecutors, All Cops, 3 Rats, And Many More. And on the other side of his bald head was tattooed the F word in large letters.
Not the best look for a court appearance. It's very different from the guy who would wear the expected shirt and tie to court.
Again, worse court days than most of us will ever have.
Forget the bookstore, the Courthouse is where the best stories in town are told.
The local prison, Wilkinson Road is actually a maximum security prison. But that prison isn't for the most part, a deadly prison. There hasn't been a killing there in 45 years, someone told me.
I found out on a YouTube video the story behind that.
In 1977 which is actually 47 years ago, a prisoner escaped and killed a police officer during the escape. Whether he was there for another murder or not, that would have greatly increased his troubles. When a Police Officer is killed, that will be investigated more than the death of a civilian.
So much for the idea that most prisoners get airholed three times a week.
In the end scene of the Joker part 2 movie, Joker gets airholed. That's the fear of everyone.
The architect who designed that also designed the Bay Street Armoury.
I bought Pet Doctor VR for $2.23 including tax. It's a VR version of other similar veterinarian or hospital based android apps. Good for someone who is ten years old. That's about it. Not an adult escape room app.
I got Gallery Smasherz VR for $3.70 including tax. Worth it. Don't smash the art. Just look at it.
Monday, October 14, 2024
I'm on an island of takers.
So many hundreds if not thousands of times I've given and gotten absolutely nothing in return.
The island takes from the mainland. Being the capital city region, there is of course a pipeline of taxes, revenue etc flowing to the island.
While the mainland of BC imports 66% of food, the island imports 90% of its food.
You have an island full of people who feel that they are entitled.
My friend who owned a business didn't like the business taxes and reflected that a lot of politicians never owned a business yet they draft legislation for businesses aka the private sector. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have said, "BC is the only Province that's governed by one of its satellites. In a country that's governed by an island. It's a weird fractal, I know. That would create a disconnect. A pipeline to an island of takers that lacks any empathy to mainlanders because a lot of politicians are narcissists and gas lighters. The symbiotic relationship that would best describe that between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland is not one of mutualism or even commensurism but that of parasitism. The mainland gives the island money, resources and physical labour in a London Funnel type situation and in return the island gives the mainland more rules and regulations pertaining to it."
This is what someone could say if they're desperate and grasping st straws for at hand simplistic answers. This answer doesn't reflect the reality.
I'd move to the mainland but there is only one good city on the mainland, Vancouver. All the rest of them are back waters that are just not worth living in. The Thais would say 'Mie nah yue' meaning not worth living in.
I have a weird history in Vancouver. Weird energy jangle. Weird personalities. Weird scenes. Not a history that I'd want to extend. It would be a regression to some former whatever. No thanks. Don't look back.
Vancouver brings back too many memories of my parents VS this town which brings back absolutely no memories at all whatsoever. Not all towns are created equal.
There is a weird expectation of people and groups that once you know someone or go to some group for a few months, a few years, there's some expectation that you now have to be going there for life or be their friend for life especially as time goes on and if the dynamic shifts in the friendship. Some people I wouldn't mind being their friend for life. Some people I would mind.
I never believed in that.
I don't want to move from this town unless I figure out that there is actually a better town in every way. Not all towns are created equal. That's the ideal. The reality is that it's not that this is a great town and every other town is worse. It's that every other town on this planet is just as bad as this one if not worse than this one.
So it's life on an island of takers, moochers, malingerers, the shiftless, the entitled and delinquents.
Jesus and Buddha said that to give without expecting anything in return is a spiritually good thing. Other people might not know but God sees all that you do.
Isaiah 41:10 God will watch over you.
Of course not everyone on the island are takers. The Vancouver Island and the BC mainland are two different geopolitical vantage points that could help and enhance one another. Most of the MLAs in the Legislature represent ridings located in the mainland.
Therefore mainland issues and interests are always front and center and make their presence felt in the Provincial political landscape. It's all good.
People on the mainland are more intellectual than people on the island. Faster pace of life, more intellectual. The most intellectual people I ever met were all on the mainland.
UBC, first rate University. UVIC, not bad but not nearly on the level of UBC.
Of the 93 electoral districts or of the 93 MLAs in the Legislature, only 16 represent the island, so while the vast majority of MLAs are from the mainland, the Legislature is on the island so a balance of power is achieved.
These are the much esteemed ridings on Vancouver Island.
- Courtney Comox
- Cowichan Valley
- Esquimalt Colwood
- Juan de Fuca Malahat
- Ladysmith Oceanside
- Langford Highlands
- Mid Island Pacific Rim
- Nanaimo Gabriola Island
- Nanaimo Lantzville
- North Island
- Oak Bay Gordon Head
- Parksville Qualicum
- Saanich North and the Islands
- Saanich South
- Victoria Beacon Hill
- Victoria Swan Lake
The brain plays tricks on you.
The News is makkng references to me every day.
Emmanuel from the author Pat Rodegast wrote, something along the lines of, not a direct quote,
'Fear shows up like a magician that tricks you
Demand to see under the sleeves.'
Ask other questions as it's better to question an answer than to answer a question.
If the News was talking about me as much as I think, why wouldn't they want to meet me, sending some kind of invitation?
Dino Lab is near Fisherman's Wharf in Victoria BC. The admission is $40. People commission and place orders from them for dinosaur fossils years in advance and they have a museum of the most choice prepared fossils. They have an international reputation.
What should strike is the similarity between dinosaur fossils and the human skeletal structure. Dinosaurs also had ribcage, spine, femur, patella, fibula, tibia, radius and ulna. Respectively, leg big bone, knee cap, leg two smaller bones, two smaller arm bones.
With that kind of skeleton, did one particular species of dinosaur evolve into humans?
"You got a head so big
You know you could have been a smart car"
The Way You Do The Things You Do
If I had an extra $100, I'd get Gun Club VR and Pistol Whip.
Gun Club is $30 plus 3 DLCs at $10 each, SWAT, Western and Heavy. Gun Club has 2D cut outs instead of walking moving opponents. 2D cut outs of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper Uniforms, no. Instead they are 2D cut outs of opponents and zombies.
I don't know about heavy. I would get Western and SWAT.
Heavy is about fighting Germans during World War 2 in a Battle of the Bulge type war scenario. With 2D cut outs advancing towards you.
The 2D cut outs have a strange 1960s arcade shooting gallery at the local Fair kind of nostalgia.
Pistol Whip is a mesmerizingly highly stylized rail shooter. One isn't stationary but it isn't your usual smooth motion move around. The player moves forward never stopping along a track while shooting and using the body to dodge bullets. A person can pistol whip or hit an opponent with a gun to get extra points. This is a $34 purchase.
Space Pirate Trainer VR. This game is all about shooting drones and shooting drones is my least favorite part of Dead Second VR. Shooting drones is boring. Not as good as shooting moving characters. As if Gun Club with its 2D cut outs wasn't bad enough.
I won't get Space Pirate Trainer.
Within a year all these apps will probably be available for free on meta quest plus as newer apps appear. These apps are starting to age.
Arizona Sunshine Remake releasing on October 17 at 10 am priced at $40 including tax would be the one to get. I already have part one which would be having 84% of that game already. The structure, the basic map is the same. Some things are different. Extended movements of the zombies, much sharper graphics, much better moulage effects.
Pistol Whip is just like the Fear The Walking Dead app on Android. It is a sides roller where the player non stop runs while shooting at opponents around them. Pistol Whip would be the VR version of that. Flat2VR.
Gun Club is a stationary shooter exactly like Drop Dead VR. The only drawback is the 2D cut outs rather than naturally moving opponents. But the 2D cut outs would register as a highly nostalgic gut punch hearkening back to 60s and early 70s shooting galleries at fairs during the era of such movies as Easy Rider and Woody Allen's Take The Money And Run.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spare $60 kicking around for scratching the bottom of the barrel apps. I honestly can't say that I like these apps as much as let alone better than Crisis Brigade 2, Drop Dead and Dead Second. If these apps were as good as if not better than, I'd get get them immediately on my credit card. I'd pay it sometime. But these apps aren't at the level to spur such a decision. I got other apps like Pet Doctor but that app only cost $2.23 including tax. Even I could afford that.
And then getting Gun Club, you pretty much want to get all the DLCs as well.
"A man can't be friends with a woman without sex getting in the way."
"Even the ugly ones?"
"You pretty much want to nail them too."
When Harry Met Sally
Gun Club $30 + 3 DLCs at $10 each would be $60 including taxes.
Pistol Whip $30 rounded off, about $28.73 including taxes.
Arizona Sunshine Remake $40.
Total would be $128.73
Pricey.
I'd get all this if I won the lottery. I can't afford it now. Or wait a year. They will all eventually, guaranteed, given time and age, be available on meta quest plus for more or less free with the $13 a month paid subscription.
And let's face it, these games do not, that is, do not look better than Crisis Brigade 2, Dead Second, Drop Dead, Zombieland, Guns & Stories, which I already have.
Again, for the answers I've come up with, I feel that I deserve an early reprieve. Others haven't come up with the answers that I have yet they got an early reprieve. I don't see any real incentive to go on living. I wake up just a tad disappointed the I woke up and didn't die of a quick and acute heart attack in my sleep.
For the answers I've come up with I feel that I am owed an early reprieve because I more or less want one.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
I pulled my lower back muscles bending over to pull some weeds from the sidewalks surrounding the Courthouse. I won't be at work for four days. This is a classic case. These things take four days to heal. Four days to a week. The pain is acute. It's there.
The pain registers at about a three out of ten. Moving around is painful.
I often sweep the grounds of the Courthouse. I don't know if the Court knows or cares. I do it anyways.
They could know. Every bit of it. Some of the smartest people in any town are at the University, airport, Courthouse, Police station, etc.
I also sweep the grounds of the probation office. There are lots of leaves there.
The area makes me feel nostalgic. After working and reflecting on that area of town, I feel that things will turn out all right.
The Court is right next to the Church. Two years ago, I watched Phantom of the Opera at the Church.
I wonder if the Courthouse will miss me. I'm thinking probably not.
There is a muscle in the lower back between the stomach and the spine called the psoas. That's probably what was pulled.
Michelangelo carved a statue called Moses. On that statue a small muscle on the arm is shown flexed called the extensor difiti minimi that only flexes when the pinkie finger is raised. Pinkie swear.
Michelangelo had such a profound understanding of anatomy that he would know that.
In it's time. Phantom of the Opera was cutting edge. Imagine it's 1927 and it's sunset, a few noctilucent clouds dark purple in color framed against a milky yellow sunset. The rest of the sky is night with stars otherwise except for the horizon, not a cloud in the sky. Then imagine being on Granville Street and seeing Phantom of the Opera at the movie theatre on a big screen. The movie is underwhelming today. There are a lot better movies for film school such as Ad Astra and Interstellar.
Alien Romulus is available on HD. With subtitles. Overwhelming.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The back pain is still there. Along with the pain grimace.
I took two aspirin which is an anti inflammatory.
I should have took the aspirin yesterday.
A fictional story.
A man with a case pending before the Courts sweeps the Courthouse in spite of knowing that there's no win for him. If he doesn't get convicted, he really didn't have to do it at all. And if he gets convicted, that's a possibility that he knows of and can accept.
However one day, the manager of operations at the Courthouse approaches the amateur street sweeper and says,
"How would you like to work for the Courthouse year round? Well give you an honorarium, a stipend. You do a shining job. Clean as a whistle. You even scratch out the dirt and moss from the cracks of the sidewalk and you removed all weeds from where the sidewalk meets the road. Not a lot of people on probation would do that. Sadly, more people leave litter at the Courthouse grounds than pick up litter. We've been spoiled the last few weeks from your work. While other places can pay you under the table, we're the only place that can pay you out of Court."
"That sounds great. I'm on welfare and can only have a maximum allowable extra income. Besides I have a case pending and I might get a criminal record which would affect my chances of getting hired."
"To anyone else, that would be a problem. But it's us, the Court you're talking to. Remember? That would be no problem to us because we're the ones who decide who gets a criminal record or not." The the manager gives me a thumbs up which is a sign of doing well in Court.
Forget about law school. The Courts are on another level. They operate outside the box of law school. They have a thousand and one means and methods to withdraw a criminal record from someone they would want to hire.
For some reason, the City doesn't clean the Courthouse grounds that often.
The other day I removed a wooden pallet, a carpet that smelled like a hundred years of accumulated basement mold and a very large holly branch that had fallen from a tree above. The druids thought holly was a sacred and magical plant.
Not a lot of citizens step up to clean the Courthouse grounds.
I also sweep the steps of the probation office.
I love the Courthouse and the probation office. The people who work there are among the best people in the city. They have a high class aristocratic quality about them.
I don't know if I'm a good enough person to work at the Courthouse grounds even as a volunteer. People who work at the Courthouse seem to be 100% sane and normal. Whereas I myself have issues. I look at porn that's off the beaten track. Granny porn. People working at the Courthouse might say about that kind of thing in general, "That's not a matter for the Court. That's something for a psychiatrist."
Hopefully not a forensic psychiatrist!
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Courthouse to do more sweeping.
I noticed two large dog droppings in front of the Courthouse. There is a janitor who works there and since I was going to sweep other areas of the Courthouse grounds I didn't want to bring the smell of that so I left it there.
About half an hour later I saw a white van that had the words painted in black lettering, FANTASTIC CLEANERS. I thought they would have picked that up.
Coincidentally, I saw the janitor who works at the Courthouse on the street this morning. The janitor said that someone smeared droppings all over a glass door of the Courthouse.
He was tasked with the cleanup of that.
I hope it wasn't the same droppings. It could have been different droppings.
I fault myself for not sweeping up the droppings. This could have been prevented.
Peter Parker didn't stop the robber and later the robber shot his Uncle Ben. I feel kind of like that in this instance of the dog droppings.
It's not the fault of mine that I didn't pick up the dog droppings. It's the fault of the person who did that.
Some people want to get on a disability pension for mental illness. That would be the only thing to explain it.
When one works at the Courthouse even on a self appointed volunteer basis, one is working for the Judicial Branch of government. As such, they can produce all kinds of people coming out of the woodwork.
This morning as I left the food line at the Catholic Church, someone said to me, "Thank you for cleaning the streets." This could be connected to my work st the Courthouse.
There's a good possibility that whoever did that will have the long arm of the law catch up to them. I hope so. We are all under the Law.
The Courthouse deserves the utmost dignity. A person should only clean the Courthouse grounds and never to litter let alone commit vandalism.
I wonder if I could still go skateboarding with pulled lower back muscles.
My back muscles are healing.
"It is my belief Watson, founded upon my experience that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Sherlock Holmes, Silver Blaze
There is a story I don't know if I should write about. I'll have to tread extremely carefully.
All the information below was on Cbc The Fifth Estate with reporter Mark Kelley.
No names will be used. Not even the town. I'm too scared to write that.
Mark Kelley went to a small town somewhere in Canada.
11 people died. They were disappeared. Most of their bodies were found.
A guy with epic neck tats rolls into a small town. He had a argument with his girlfriend which she now regrets. That was the catalyst that made him leave his town to go to this other town.
When he got to the town, he eventually made it to a bar which he sat with two Native ladies who both eventually were killed.
Reddit said that three East Indian men entered the bar and called the guy a p*ssy. A waitress served them drinks offering to add salt to the drinks. One lady didn't drink any drinks with salt but the neck tat guy and the other lady did. They both got very sick. End of Reddit commentary.
Mark Kelley goes into a town asking questions about people who got done in. Typically, anyone who does that gets done in themselves, as a rule.
The two Native ladies were eventually killed. Shot in the face and dumped in shallow bodies of water to be found most later in a semi skeletal state. Ghastly. Apparently the ladies saw something they shouldn't have which was the gsngland execution of a couple at a trailer park.
Mark Kelly interviewed some Natives including the father of one of the murdered ladies and a person of interest at his makeshift home in the woods near that town. As Mark Kelley was leaving that area when his interview had concluded, four RCMP Officers were there on the spot. The RCMP Officers had been observing.
More disturbing. Mark Kelley went to a shop and the person who worked there said the Police had requisitioned the surveillance camera footage. What the footage showed would lead one to conclude that the neck tat guy is dead. The footage showed the neck tat guy running down an alley with a large black truck chasing him.
Since then in the months that followed, such crime in that town tended downward.
Mark Kelley went to the RCMP Office in a larger town. The RCMP Officer was one with brass. He is a high ranking East Indian RCMP Officer.
What does this tell us?
The News often tells just half the story.
"When it's over and done with,
They haven't said a thing"
Don Henly, Dirty Laundry
Neck tat guy was part of something. Probably organized crime. Those were serious tats. The East Indians are cartel along with the HA in Canada. Drug lab, producer. Cartel, wholesale. Street gang, retail.
Cartel members recognized neck tat guy. Cartel, local operating undercover cops from the Judicial Branch, what's the difference? Police can infiltrate and can be infiltrated. Infernal affairs.
Neck tat guy was probably sitting on some drugs, stolen or not.
Or neck tat guy was a detective. He sat with the two Native ladies who saw something. Killers of the Flower Moon. Small to mid level detective rolls into town asking questions and he gets done in. It was when a small army of Federal agents showed up that things were finally straightened out.
Shooting in the face. Aka the Dick Cheney method. Thats an MO. Method of operation. There are one or possibly two doing this. Either a lone gun man or a gangland mentor and student situation.
The bodies of the two Native women were eventually found. Neck tat guy has not been found.
That the crime rate tended downward means the authorities, Police, Secret Police, dealt with this on an extra judicial level. In Canada things get handled.
I wouldn't doubt of CBC makes a movie or television mini series about this.
Eleven people disappeared. However many thousands of people in that town are still alive. Someone said in Reddit, "I lived here for years in safety. But I didn't hang around with the wrong 50 people."
I'm worried if it's safe for tourists to visit that town again. That town would have beautiful scenery, good restaurants and museums and a good calm Sunday vibes kind of vibe.
The Police work to keep the streets safe. However they hold their cards very close to the vest. They don't share their operational details with the public.
The Attorney General and the Solicitor general straddles the line between the legislative branch and the judicial branch of government for they operate in either sphere. They would be aware of this case, undoubtedly. In some cases even the executive branch as a Premier can also be a former Attorney General or Solicitor General. Once a member of the Judicial Branch of government, always a member of the Judicial Branch of government. Once Citizen Kane, always Citizen Kane.
Puzzling Places VR app. Trucks of Pakistan. Yellow truck, blue truck, red truck, orange truck. Why can't trucks in Canada look like trucks in Pakistan. A great local annual auto show could feature trucks from Pakistan and it would be the greatest auto show.
Search Google images for Puzzling Places VR trucks Pakistan.
One time when I was watching Borat, when he sang, "Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world." I sang along absent mindedly but I said the word Pakistan rather than Kazakhstan. "Pakistan is the greatest country in the World."
Pakistan is a Muslim country.
It shares a border with Afghanistan. Interestingly the Taliban issued currency has gone up in value a lot.
Puzzling Places is great. I only hope they issue World War One airplanes as puzzles.
The News is talking about India. Expulsion of ambassadors. A real diplomatic crisis.
At the kaur I mean core of it is the Punjab Province in India is a Western protectorate as since the days of the Sepoy rebellion, Sikhs are loyal to Western forces. Whereas Modi is most likely loyal to the Russians. The tension would be at that level.
Modi isn't a Communist. It isn't about political ideology. It's about geopolitical zones of influence and power and military alliances.
Sikhs are allegedly targeted, extorted, killed etc from gangland members who have ties to the Hindu majority government in India.
Sikhs who aren't connected to or funnel money etc to the Punjab Province and Khalistan etc would be much less likely to be targeted.
Don't think East Indian Hindoo hitmen. Think more East Indian members of the KGB.
Not KGB. Spezza. Like the old school KGB, on steroids. Next level.
Perhaps it is the Trudeau Administration's way of handling this. Not that other administrations would handle it better because this is like a real East Indian finger trap. Any way its handled would present some difficulties and controversy.
"I'm talking to the wrong person."
"Who would be the right person?"
The Falcon and the Snowman
This administration has the wrong approach. What would be the right approach?
India is a country that is quite a few thousand years old. They have weathered many crises in the past and will do so again. They believe in cycles, yugas, troubles come and go. Yugas would be more of a Hindu thing but Sikhs probably believe that too.
India will do well. And Canada too. I hope so.
Sean Diddy Coombs. Diddy, short for diddler. Not the best name.
His court registry would be a mini encyclopedia of felonious events. He was shown on camera kicking a woman who was down on the ground crawling with her hands and knees.
His takedown was epic.
Ironically he did a cover version of the Police, Every Breath You Take.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Today I upgraded to Arizona Sunshine Remake for $11.19 including tax. Not a bad price. Regular price $40 with tax.
Incredibly generous of them. Often reboots are sold at the same price as the original.
I played it. Incredibly smooth graphics. Maps are smoother with more shortcuts so levels are played fast. Better in every way. Much better. Well worth the ten bucks.
No names.
The News said a lady had disappeared for years. A person of interest, her now ex boyfriend, the Police said, was unfortunately found dead last year in his trailer.
The person of interest was shown at a gas station putting a very large suitcase in an open trunk of a car. In that trunk was a large plastic box with lid. Her body hasn't been found.
Basically visually inferring that her dismembered body was in either the suitcase and the large plastic box.
Case basically explains itself. The person of interest most likely did it. Someone, either gangsters, nonconnected vigilantes or undercover Police assassins killed him.
Police are seeking information, possible witnesses.
Anyone who calls and said they witnessed something would most likely be killed themselves.
Friday, October 18, 2024
Police Chiefs who once supported the idea of drug decriminalization say it is a failed experiment.
It could have worked but a few bad apples spoil it for the whole bunch. Priveleges were given and priveleges were abused.
Its a very small and very conspicuous minority of drug users who are causing crime and vandalism and just leaving a trail of garbage where ever they go. I pick up the garbage they left behind at the Courthouse all the time.
The case of the dog droppings. I recognize those droppings. I saw the before on Broad Street and I picked it up and threw it in the garbage that time. Someone in town seems to think it's appropriate to have their dog shit these massive boulder sized turds and then not clean it up. Even on the grounds of the Courthouse.
They litter because in their minds they equate that with sophistication.
And these prolific vandals and litterers call themselves Canadian.
Often it's not a case that their parents abused them. It's a case where they abused their parents with their delinquent BS and their parents just couldn't stand them.
These people think the society owes them a living.
They don't give back in any way. They are just takers.
They are in just about all cities.
Some souls are old and advanced while others are young and delinquent or in their last life they were a animal which would explain a lot.
I'm rewatching and watching Your Honor. It's a show that deserves to be experienced. Every little scene is a treat.
Your Honor is about a judge whose son accidentally runs over the son of a big time gangster. The judge finds out and tries to shield this knowledge to protect his son. There are all kinds of other peripheral side plots too.
There is a Season 2 which I haven't seen yet. I think I saw all of season 1 but that was a few years ago.
Just like Tulsa King. I've seen season 1 but am still waiting to see if there is a season 2. I watched all of season 1.
The father gangster also portrayed the father of Timothy Chalomet in the movie Call Me By Your Name. I watched it because it's a Timothy Chalomet movie but that movie was as queer as a three dollar bill. The whole movie, all of it, queer. Whatever. Timothy Chalomet is a talented actor. He didn't let something like a starring in a queer movie otherwise spoil and taint the rest of his life.
He was in The French Dispatch and Dune.
In life, there is the possibility of people to go through all kinds of weird experiences. Circus sideshow freak tent type of experiences. For a heterosexual, spending a brief amount of time with the gay community if that person chooses to do so could be thought of as a weird freak show experience. It's all relative because to a gay person, the heterosexual world would be their freak show experience.
The weirder the experience, the more experienced and knowledgeable you become provided that the weird experience isn't criminal in nature nor harms self or others.
I've had weird experiences in my life. I think it makes me a more interesting and knowledgeable person. I've used the intensity of the energy that I learned from those experiences in all I do, my animated cartons, my writing etc.
The Police and the Courts would say, "You think your experiences were weird? We have stories that you couldn't possibly imagine, stories that you would have no reference points to. Stories so crazy they'd make your hair stand on end."
My back pain is getting better but still not completely healed. There is still a searing pain when I move around. I can't even do yoga without feeling a searing pain. When I get better, I'll sweep the streets with a broom again.
I have to specify with a broom because the Police also sweep the streets. But when they do it, a lot of street level drug dealers get busted.
What the heck.
Yesterday, on the News, they first said that a famous former Canadian snowboarder is wanted for drug trafficking, cocaine, and either racketeering which is indirect homicide or else direct homicide. The News didn't specify as such. Probably a mixture of either.
I thought, could it be Ross Rebegliati?
No, it's James Wedding. He's hiding out in Mexico. Mexico does have an extradition treaty with the States being part of Canada US Mexico Trade Acoord called CUSMA.
He is like a Canadian version of Howard Marks and Pablo Escobar.
The Police even commissioned a graphic designer to design a round circular badge denoting Operation Slalom which is a picture of a skier doing a downhill run. At the bottom of the hill were the awaiting Police, kind of like Eddie the Eagle meets the Falcon and the Snowman, the scene at the customs office toll booth where Police cars occupied the incoming and outgoing lanes shoulder to shoulder awaiting the culprits.
I wouldn't call it putting Canada on the map, but this suspect is on the FBI ten most wanted list because James Weddings drug trafficking purview included the United States as well as Canada.
Mark Emory got five years in a Stateside prison for exporting $2 million worth of marijuana seeds.
James Wedding's cocaine haul involves more millions of dollars than that.
Will he get caught? Probably. Even if he lawyers up, the television showed a massive haul occupying not one but a few tables full of evidence. Drugs, guns, money etc.
This story will probably be the plot of a New York Times top ten bestsellers one day. Or a Hollywood movie starring either Jonny Depp, Blow, or Tom Cruise, American Pilot.
Probably a younger actor.
Not since Billy Barker has there been a Canadian outlaw so notorious.
Today I got Alicent Hightower, Gold character on Game of Thrones Legends. She stopped Ser Criston Cole from committing suicide.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Today is election day.
I question my wisdom of heaving voted for the NDP. They probably won't cut welfare. But the NDP campaign was full of the typical acrimonious vitriolic Leftist woke ad hominem attacks against members of the Conservative Party.
The Conservatives are mainly focused on issues during their campaign.
The NDP pounced on Brent Chapman who said that Muslims are inbred.
That's projection. He's probably partly from England where thanks to living on an island, they have had centuries of inbreeding. But Leader John Rustad stood beside him and didn't fire him.
Whereas NDP Selina Robinson made that scrappy piece of land comment and she got fired. She was thrown to the wolves.
"Stand by your man." Tammy Wynette
John Rustad stands by his men and women.
I don't know if David Eby stands by his men and women. They think they're progressive but will wind up sling you down the river.
Back pain still there, a smidge. Just a tiny pain. It's 93% gone, however a hard 7% of pain still remains.
I've been watching Korean movies. They're really good.
I saw The Prison. A cop gets sent to a prison and joins a gang.
Then I saw The Cop The Gangster and The Devil where a cop and a gangster join forces to hunt down a killer.
Revenger is the next movie I plan to see. A cop infiltrated an island prison to hunt down a killer.
The King is a rags to riches story about a young boy who grows up to a powerful prosecutor but learns that power comes at a price.
The production values and the stories are really good. It's a pleasant sounding language. Watching movies in another language, the left brain goes on a bit of a nice vacation.
In Victoria BC something really awful happened.
Police tried to stop a speeding truck. The truck eventually struck an unoccupied transit bus and a green taxi killing the driver on the scene. Awful.
It happened early this morning. The story was on the News.
Especially when he had the chance and the imperative to stop earlier.
Dreadful.
A few hours later. Pain is still there, about 3% now. It's decreasing, but just when I think the pain is almost gone, there are more mini stages of pain before the pain goes away that I wasn't aware of.
I've had this before.
Then one day the pain is completely gone. That's when I go from weird feels normal to normal feels weird.
Gun Club is a no. I don't like the 2D targets. Reviews say there are only a about four levels over and over again.
Pistol Whip. I never liked the moving shooters like Guzzlers. Roller Coasters is a moving shooter. Pistol Whip is a one time purchase.
Gun Club has 3 DLCs.
Early on in the BC election, it looks like the Conservatives might win.
That would mean that the junkies party is over as John Rustad will recriminalize hard drugs. I don't know what welfare will look like under a Conservative government.
Grace Lore won't be given a more powerful portfolio.
Would David Eby lead in the next election if he loses? Or will the NDP find another Leader?
Sonia Furstenau lost in this neighborhood. She could have won if she stayed in her original riding of Cowichan Valley. I am crestfallen because Sonia Furstenau is an excellent politician.
Grace Lore is a great politician. She won in this neighborhood.
NDP 46 Con 45 Grn 2 Others 0
A disappointment.
Prospective results, not final. What a second rate election. What a lousy election. What a boondoggle. There will be a vote of confidence immediately. Not likely the Cons would form a coalition with the Green's due to polarization to put it mildly. Even if the NDP were to form a coalition with the Green's, one person being the speaker, that's 47 to 45. What a skimpy chickensh*t lead. A one seat lead registers as a pyrrhic victory. This is the worst election I've ever seen.
Not one independent won despite some of them having major political reputations. It's not rocket science. An MLA with Party backing can ask for more things for their riding, new swimming pools, new movie theatres, new pool halls etc.
A new election will happen within a year.
It doesn't look like a Cabinet shuffle is even possible due to the shaky political ground of a standoff Legislative arrangement resulting in a lame duck Legislature.
I would have thought that the NDP would have won at least 65 seats. That would have been a good election. One that I wanted which is subjective. Objectively, an election where any Party that wins at least 65 seats in a 93 seat Legislature during an election would be a satisfying kick ass election.
A hockey game where the score is 7 - 1 is a lousy hockey game. A hockey game with a score of 6 - 5 is a better hockey game.
It's the opposite for elections, a result of 46, 45, 2 in a 93 seat Legislature is an atrocious election result. A result where its 70, 20, 3 is a much more satisfying election result. Then you have a government running on all 12 cylinders rather than a government that's running on 3 out of 4 cylinders. The voting populace would ideally want an effective government, non an ineffective government. Just terrible. I'm rather non plussed.
Hockey only has two sets of scores. Politics is more like golf in this case there are 4 sets of scores. NDP, Con, Gr and Others. Still, 46, 46, 2, 0 is a lousy score in this golf game of politics. Politics isn't referred to as a golf game as much as it is 'the blood sport of politics'.
The 5 independents might have added to the Conservative vote but 45 seats without the 5 independent seats is still a way better result than Kevin Falcon and the BC United Party might have gotten, or is it? That's speculation.
What a lacklustre milquetoast wretched terrible election result.
What a raw deal for the voting populace.
Not really. Whether or not there's another election, it's the government's decision. I have no problem with voting again in less than one year. I don't really care that much, actually.
I have other things to worry about.
Not all the polls are counted yet.
Every riding and polling station in BC uses the new electronic voting system except for just one place. Gabriola Island. They use the old hand counting system.
I'm thinking there's less than a hundred people living on that island. One runs the convenience store, two run the Police detachment, one is a doctor, one owns a small fire truck etc.
After the results are counted and recounted two more times just to make sure, the results are handwritten on a piece of paper with a black crayon and a screenshot of that is sent to the Chief elections Office.
So is this one of the polls not counted yet? How long could it take to hand count less than a hundred votes three times, write the results with a crayon and then screenshot it and email it to the election office? Ten minutes?
Famous last words: "I demand a recount!"
The election results are so retarded because that's what you get when an airhead backwater island city governs a rock star rock show mainland. You would think it would be the other way around.
The results show that the Province is polarized at best, bipolar and schizophrenic at worst. These must the election results before a civil war.
This shows that there is no cultural cohesion let alone cultural discipline. In other countries, the election results would be an 85% win rather than the politically deletory and deprecatory 50% because those people are united. They are close knit.
This Province in terms of the political demographic landscape is a train wreck going to hell in a handbasket.
Hansard Rules are that the incumbent Premier is the Premier until the election results are tallied and the result of the election is called. There is no provisional Premier and there is certainly no Regent!
The election is a reminder to trust in the wisdom and guidance of political leaders whether they be elected or appointed or stole an election.
All problems wither under the glare of good government.
At this point its anyone's to steal.
Good election results, undecided hanging chad election results, six of one is half a dozen of the other as life goes on either way.
Have 100% trust that those that be in power and authority will iron this out. No worries. Just sit back and enjoy yourself today. They got this!
The News said, "A lot of people decided who they'd vote for before the writ was dropped."
The term is 'draw up writs' in the plural and that somehow becomes 'writ was dropped', writ in the singular.
And the anchors on the News boast about their University days.
"Winter is coming." Game of Thrones
Don't worry. After a fall election, the Legislature goes on a Winter break until February so the next Premier might not be announced until then. That's democracy.
Meanwhile at Conservative and NDP headquarters, members are already addressing their respective leaders as "Premier" the way members of the la cosa nostra were already addressing Michael Corleone as "Godfather" at the previous Godfather's funeral at the end of the movie.
Don Lee is a Korean actor. He's a genius.
I have a feeling that he simply wouldn't do a movie unless he likes the script because every movie he was ever in had good story lines.
I tried watching Revenger. I like Korean Police movies that are set in a big city like Seoul Korea. Revenger is like a Police movie meets Lord of the Flies.
A Police Officer washes up on an island. Even in restraints, he is able to fight off some islanders about to kill a mother and child. He then encounters a Lord of the Flies type scenario of ragged and insane prisoners living free on an island. They aren't in an actual prison. Not my kind of movie.
Everyone dreams of living in a rich house. The only time I'll ever live in a rich house for sure is in the afterlife. I think I'll be on welfare and in rooming houses for life unless a miracle happens. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Matt Fraser did a reading for someone who was left out of a will. His stepmother or father's wife and her children got all the money.
I am in that situation. I am left intestate in a morganatic family situation.
My father and stepmother worked all their lives and earned their money. It's up to them how they distribute their will and estate.
They don't owe me a thing.
Unike the guy in the movie Cloud Atlas, I wouldn't ask my parents for a thing.
In the 1920s incarnation in Cloud Atlas, Jim Broadbent ripped off a composer's music and that composer killed himself.
"I've heard of people getting shut out of their own creations."
Coherence
Then in a future incarnation, Jim Broadbent was a publisher and he got his money stolen from him from gangsters. Karma from a past life?
In the movie, Jim Broadbent asked his brother for money.
That's totally different than me. I wouldn't ask any of my family for a cent. I have before but on a loan basis and I paid them back.
I haven't seen or contacted my family for over 20 years.
It's better for a parent to deny a child an inheritance if it leads to a chain of events where the parent winds up altruistically donating the money to charities. But if that child got the inheritance money, they might have died of a drug overdose. Or spent the money on purely selfish pursuits.
One day, I'll be in a dimension where a person doesn't need money to survive. That's the afterlife. In the afterlife, a person never gets shut out of their creations. That's why I often feel tempted to just give up and to wish for an early reprieve.
One day, I'll lose more of my teeth.
The News talks about lots of people who celebrated their 100th birthday. I'm sure that way more than 50% of the have lost way more than 50% of their teeth yet they're still alive. Single and semi edentulous. Quasi edentulous.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
A psychic said that everyone who commits suicide immediately regrets it. I don't believe that. It's all points in a curve. Some would regret it less than others however slightly and that however slightly would make all the difference in the World.
So many millions of people in history committed suicide, what's one more?
Better a good death than a bad life.
Better a wanted death than an unwanted life.
Unconditional love or conditional love?
Unending forgiveness or forgiveness to a point?
Even if one doesn't repay evil for evil certainly don't repay good for evil.
I always give out a certain kind of energy only to get another and worse in return. I clean the Courthouse and the forces of life like to throw all these delinquents my way.
I try to be Zen and considerate to my neighbours and so naturally the forces of life neighbors me with a lady who talks loud for hours and some guy who likes to scream once in awhile, and other neighbours who likes to slam doors often. God damned forces of life.
I try to be considerate and thoughtful to my neighbours so of course, naturally the God damned forces of life throes the most thoughtless and inconsiderate neighbours my way. Why? Because the forces of life.
That's why I wish God could give me an early reprieve. Fuck the forces of life. Fuck life altogether.
I had a muscle pain for four days and it went fast. A seven minute heart attack would go really fast and it would be over with.
It would be at the two hour mark suffering some ailment when the mind cottons on and asks if this is going to be for life before total and complete health anxiety panic attack sets in. At the seven minute mark which is about the total length of a heart attack, my mind would still be in the mildly surprised phase.
My neighbors make my skin crawl. Life just has to throw me in one shut situation after another. Every single one of the living arrangements I've ever had in my life were all shit. Living with shit people people time after time.
People on this island have no problem with taking. One time, I gave something to someone on the island. It's usually a barter but that time he had nothing to barter with. "Nothing in return?" I ask.
"Nothing in return." He says in an airhead voice.
I should have said, "Well that comes naturally to you, mooching and giving nothing in return because after all, you're a Vancouver Islander. All Vancouver Island ever does is leech and parasite off the mainland on a macrocosmic level and then they are moochers and takers off individuals on a macrocosmic level. This doesn't surprise me."
This guy named Paul was a major mooch. Anyone who said anything like," Come over whenever if you need a toke." A common enough gesture of kindness. If a person does say no and even if they do, Paul will literally be there just about every day of not everyday mooching tokes. One guy named Albert had cancer but was a kind person. Paul used to visit him literally a few times a day mooching tokes. It's a different dynamic because for that guy, the weed was his cancer medicine. Paul would even relentlessly mooch off someone's cancer medicine. That's low. That person moved out last December. Paul is thoughtless. Usually it's good manners to stand away from the elevator in case someone is getting off the elevator so as to give them some room. You guessed it. Paul always stands right up close to the elevator. A very thoughtless man. A Vancouver Islander, mooch.
Paul is Italian and the word mooch is also Italian.
People on this island love to take advantage of people's kindness more than in Vancouver. Vancouver is merely* hyper and violent. *sarcasm
They take from the mainland. The island parasites off the mainland.
The Province of BC is a crooked table tipped towards the island.
What's bizarre is that in this Province, a backwater island town governs a rock star town, ie Victoria governs Vancouver. When a comparatively backwater town is the capital city and the rock show town is not. It should be the other way around.
Certainly people in Vancouver are more intellectual than people in Victoria. I met a lot of intellectuals in Vancouver. Intellectuals such as Terry Edwards, Mark Roy, Norm Mitchell, Richard Leavis and Harold Wallace. I never met intellectuals quite on that level in Victoria. All I met in Victoria were narcissists, takers, moochers and gas lighters. This town is just awful. However, every other town in Canada is worse than this one.
Another island story.
I said to one lady on the island, "I love you like the flowers and the grass loves the sun and the rain."
I told another lady on the island, "I love you like the fish and the clans loves the sea and the waves."
What do I get back? Nothing. Except the words, "I like it when you say that." Ugh. Boring. Gormless. Insufferable. Wretched. Bad energy jangle. Waste of time. Waste of energy. It's the shits. It's the cans. Cat's ass.
Nothing in return. Not even, "I love you like a pig loves shit." I'm dealing with mindless airhead Vancouver island takers. Girls on the mainland would be quicker on the uptake and chances are, I'd get a poem in return.
Coming to this island was a mistake but let's face it, that my mother didn't abort me was a mistake. My whole life has been me thrown in with one awful set of personalities after another.
My life is a machine that doesn't work. So many ends that don't meet.
I'm in a country where I am racialized, a visible minority. I was brought here as an infant without my consultation from a land where I was one of the majority not a visible minority. I would have been with my race of people.
But then that's a country where I don't agree with the language. Some weird pictographic language.
My father never showed me my birth certificate but even if he had, it would have been one written in that damned pictographic language.
My life is untenable as it is and is unworkable. It was always like that.
I wish that my life could end as soon as possible. I don't want to go on living at all.
If I were to return to China, I still wouldn't be part of the mainstream overall cultural fabric because I speak Cantonese only. The official dialect of China is Mandarin.
Cantonese is a tribal dialect. And a secondary language at best.
It would be like living in Canada and being only able to speak French and not English. How useful that would be, I don't know.
Again, so many ends that don't meet. So many irreconcilable differences.
Betwixt the two extremes, neither the twain shall meet.
That's why I wish I could just quit life altogether. Anything else in life an be quit. A job, a town, a country and thanks to Elon Musk, soon, even a planet can be quit. Just not life itself.
I wish that my mother had aborted me. She left me to a life where I would do a lot of work only to get little or no reward. I would rather not live at all than to live a life like that. I hope that my mother, wherever she is, knows that.
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers has a few ghost stories.
In one ghost story, a ghost says to someone,
"Others are smiling and happy to be with one another whereas you scowl and imagine yourself to be better than everyone else and you judge and look down on people. You think this is the way to heaven?" not in those words exactly but that's the essence of it.
That message was created in A Christmas Carol.
Things that you think are important, the spirits don't think are important.
And things that you think are not important, the spirits think are important.
Getting money and awards and huge accolades isn't important to spirit.
Even the smallest kind things done without a thought of reward are important to spirit.
If I were to die and God said, "You could live for another few years or die tonight. If you were to get a chance to go on living for a other few years, is there anyone you'd want to stay alive and live for?"
In all honesty, right now, my answer would be 'no'. A hard 'no'.
Seriously, no one means that much to me.
I would rather be in the afterlife with Heather right now. Me and Heather would visit a duck pond in the afterlife. That duck pond would have about a million ducks. Some species of ducks seen haven't been seen on this Earth for a million years and others won't be seen on this Earth for a million years from now and others would be modern duck species of right now. The ducks would all be full size, full health, feathers young and shiny perfect condition. I'd much rather be there than to be in an awful dimension where I work and get little or nothing in return. Uh, no thanks.
I need God to give me a heart attack as soon as possible.
Are the answers that I come up with not good enough for God to give me an early reprieve?
How much more do I need to do to make my case before God to grant me an early reprieve from living and from life altogether?
Time travel is time experienced on an objective level etc etc etc who comes up with answers like that?
Others wanted and got an early reprieve and they never came up with the answers that I have. You think in history with the billions of people that there were some who wanted an early reprieve and got it. Why couldn't I get that?
Monday, October 21, 2024
Swept the Courthouse grounds. Lots of autumn leaves.
Today I got Otto Hightower, the Hand, gold character on Game of Thrones Legends. Major.
"Pick me a winner!"
Little Nicky
Rhys Fans, Otto Hightower was also in the movie Little Nicky as Cassius.
Rhys Fans was also in the movie Notting Hill as Hugh Grant's crazy room mate.
I'm going to be single for life.
I'd bet against myself ever finding a girlfriend ever again. Heavily.
I'm watching the movie Unstoppable. O watched about half of it so far.
Don Lee works at a major fish market similar to Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
A seller approaches with King Crab. $50,000 a container.
Don Lee pays for the King crab.
The the seller says the ship got held up in Chinese waters. Ha! Typical.
Then Don Lee's wife goes missing.
I'm guessing the King crab fisherman had something to do with it.
It's haunting for me to listen to music of the 70s. It was my first decade of life and the next decade coming up will be my last. I'll be in my 60s next decade. I heard of less than 5 people on welfare who lived to 80. Most people on welfare die at around 70 give or take a few years.
The News talks about people who lived to 101. It never talks about people who lived to 105.
Anyways all house pets have a dream ideal record life span. Guinea pigs can live up to 8 years in captivity but the vast majority die between age 4 and age 5 unless you're really talented at owning them.
The record life span for a dog is 33 years. However the vast majority of dogs die at age 12.
Having a very large enclosure that is well ventilated helps.
I think I'll go at around the age 70 mark. Probably no more than age 74. Max.
A huge sturgeon was caught in the Fraser River the other day. That thing is about 175 years old.
The Greenland shark can live up to 500 years! "500? You don't look a day over 420. 440 tops. What's your secret?"
How time might be expressed is first of all time travel is time experienced on an objective level so it is the ever present now. Teleportation is space experienced on an objective level so it is the ever present here. That time and space is all about codes.
Coincidences are code from the past. Omens are code from the future.
These codes or else pixel arrangements as each pixel size is a Planck unit scramble and reconstitute themself either incrementally in linear time and space travel or instantaneously in time travel and teleportation, as on a television or in the dream dimension and afterlife dimension.
What the Planck second implies is that during the Planck second, everything is on and then for a Planck second, everything is off and then turns on again. That's the basis of the binary system. On and off, 1 and 0.
We don't notice the off Planck second in between the on Planck seconds even thought they are the same length of time but then a person blinks about a few times a minute but that's usually not noticed. Modern movies run at 60 frames per second but they eye sees at 16 frames a second, that's called persistence of vision which is what makes the still frames spliced together that make up a movie appear to move.
So back to a mathematical expression of time.
The code of the objective algorithm of time can be expressed with the digits, say 351 this would be needed to proceed what the follows which is the code of the subjective or linear algorithm of time, say, year, month, day, hour, minute and then second.
So 10:00 October 21 would be expressed as
351 - 2024-10 - 21 - 20.00 - 00.
Those would be the kind of coordinates needed for a working time machine.
The 351 represents eternity which incidentally can be expressed as a sideways 8 as that is also a number or integer used in calculus. The code for the objective algorithm aspect of time would be like a greatest common fsctor or lowest common denominator, it would represent a commonality that ties it all together. The code for the subjective aspect of the time algorithm would represent individual specific differences of each moment in time as time is either encrypted or de-encryoted codes.
The objective time travel aspect is the de-encryoted code aspect.
The linear experience of time is the encrypted code aspect.
As with all code systems, you need either because one doesn't work without the other as a complete unit.
One would not, could not work without the other. 351 doesn't work without the numbers following. And the numbers following would not work without the 351.
The two algorithms of time, objective and subjective depend on each other and thus cancel each other out. For eg a time travel trip to the future done yesterday is a past event. A time travel trip to the past done tomorrow is a future event.
So there is no going forward or going backwards in time. It is simply going to another point in time.
The 351, just forget the 351, it would be the number 8 sideways is used to note the time traveling coordinates of a time travel journey instead of arrows going backwards or forwards to link one time destination coordinate to another it would be the number 8 sideways.
But the objective and subjective expressions of time unify as they are ultimately one algorithm.
"The you'll know the truth peaches,
That one and one ain't two
One and one is one and love is"
Michael Franks, Monkey See Monkey Do
The Police Independent Investigations Office IIO in binary would be 6. Police are sometimes referred to as six or six-up.
In binary, the first digit is either zero or one, the second digit is 2 or zero and the third digit is four or zero.
In base ten, the first digit is zero to 9. The second digit is tens and the third digit is 100s.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
I was going to sweep the leaves off the curb. But a machine already did it.
I swept a small area.
On the street, I saw some people who scared me.
One, a lady who was high on meth probably was yelling repeatedly, "F*ggot! R*pist!" Over and over again. Unsettling.
Then I went to Shoppers. When I returned, there was a drag queen sitting outside my hotel. Long blonde hair, stubble, a dress and high heeled shoes. And the person was visibly crying. The Crying Game. Offsetting. Disturbing. More pernicious offerings from the pernicious forces of life, as usual.
I saw two panhandlers a couple, a man and a woman, the woman was pointing to the drag queen, as she was telling the guy she was with something or other.
I walked past that person and went into the hotel lobby. I looked out the glass doors and that person walked away. That's how I noticed the high heeled shoes. It was just after I walked away so I wonder if that person had been waiting for me.
This bothered me so much that I am delaying getting Gun Club VR until I get over the worry.
Just about every day, I see some delinquent person on the street. Life is like that. Try to generate a certain kind of sane energy and then get some weird delinquent energy in return. Life is a raw deal, in that way.
Here are a couple of very disturbing gay stories.
On Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, years ago, a guest said that even though he isn't gay, or claims not to be, he said he's had sex with over 400 men! Ru Paul was another one of the guest and he said that even he never had sex with 400 men and what's his phone number?
The next story is the story of a Japanese man who went to night clubs and invited men to his apartment where he gave them drugs, gammahydroxybutric acid aka GHB and while they were unconscious, he had his way with them and videotaped all of it. One man was able to escape and the strsnge Japanese man was arrested. The tapes were shown in Court. That would have been an interesting day in Court.
Host and guest. In this case the host does the r*ping. Predator.
In France, today, a woman named Gisele Pelicot testified at her trial. Her husband drugged her and filmed 51 men basically r*ping her.
Joler: Folie a Cinquante-Un.
Sadly, a female cockroach has on average about 51 babies in her egg sack.
That's the worst case of cruelty in France that I've heard of since the story of the young woman who was locked in a room with no sunlight for 25 years because her mother didn't want her to get married. The mother supposedly died of a heart attack shortly afterwards. Sure. She was killed.
The trial must have been a train wreck. I can imagine one of the men testifying,
"I only entered from the rear. That shouldn't count as r*pe."
Prosector: "That's not a defense!"
That's terrible. Talk about someone who clearly isn't cut out to have a girlfriend let alone a wife.
I don't know how else to put this. I wouldn't be surprised if that guy was killed.
In one case, the female victim had any male attention completely withheld from her. In the other case, the female victim had nothing but male attention involuntarily forced upon her.
Man's inhumanity to man.
Host and guest. In this case the guest does the r*ping. Parasite.
This morning, I was pulling some weeds on the grounds at the Catholic Church. My brown paper bag from the morning soup line was next to me. Someone looked in it. "Oh, that's mine." I said.
When I went home, I thought the person took the piece of strawberry and white frosting glazed cake in a small paper cup that I had on top of the bag. I thought it was stolen. Since it happened at the Catholic Church, for a second I thought that the person who I thought stole the piece of cake was from the mafia.
A couple of minutes later, I found the strawberry cake in a paper cup after all.
So again, the brain paints a false picture. In some cases, this explains itself. In other cases, a person is trapped in their delusion without a clue that it's a delusion.
Yesterday, someone gave me a small container of Dugo brand pig blood.
It's the thought that counts I guess. I've known this person for years. Good person. Computer repairman. He got the pig blood from his friend who got it at the food bank. That item is from the Philippines and he thought he'd pass that on to me probably because he thinks I look Philippino.
Pig blood is an item used with khao mun gie which is Thai rice and chicken. The pig blood is boiled and forms a gelatinous cake.
Pork needs to prepared with utmost care. I only eat cooked pork prepared at restaurants. I wouldn't cook pork myself because trichinosis or tape worms is a very high possibility. Profoundly high.
I think a person can get tapeworm from pig blood too. I threw it away. It's not a priority of any kind.
A few hours later, I still haven't got the app, Gun Club VR. 1:25 pm now.
The delinquents that I saw on the streets this morning still traumatized me. Every day I have to see a few upsetting delinquents.
I'll get the app when I recover from the trauma.
Life is traumatic. I wish I could quit it altogether.
Alien Romulus. I didn't feel like seeing it. I don't want to see people in their twenties being injured or killed from alien attacks. Lots of blood and gore.
People in their twenties go to University otherwise they are working at hard core next level jobs like first responder, politician, military, airplane pilot etc. I don't want to see them harmed in any slasher movie.
The alien movie is moulage and special effects. A person who has worked in special effects would see the movie differently. That person, man or woman, would see the movie on a vocational level rather then on an emotional level. Lots of women do special effects, moulage etc.
Around Halloween, most schools being it elementary, middle, high school and even University put on a Halloween display with lots of fake blood and gore etc. It's stagecraft.
That's all the movie is. An exposition of a branch of stagecraft. Other branches include set design, lighting, costumes and actual acting.
The actors in this movie, if you can remember their faces, for sure, you will see them again in future movies. That's means they didn't really die in this Alien movie. No need to fear.
Even though they were depicted getting killed in the movie, the actors would really want you to see the movie. They worked on it. Five points if you see the movie for free on a free movie streaming site or if you borrow it at a library, ten points if you pay money to see it in a theatre but zero points if you don't see it at all.
Reviews have said the third act is amazing and left some viewers shaken even minutes after the movie was over. I don't need to see a spectacular Alien movie to feel shaken. All I have to do is go on a walk and see the mentally ill downtown.
A mixture of a devastating housing crisis pricing tier and drugs that have only gotten more potent and more psychoactive than the old school cocaine and heroin have precipitated this social crisis. Politicians have said that a lot of people don't feel safe shopping downtown.
Truth is, things havent gotten better nor much worse. Ever since way back when, there have always been rubbies, winos, junkies although a lot more discreet because penalties for heroin possession were more strict have been around downtown. Junkies were more discreet because it was still a fringe thing. Movies and televisions shows like Trainspotting and Breaking Bad have suburbanized and somewhat desensitized society to the archetype of intravenous drug usage.
Man With The Golden Arm 1955
The French Connection 1971
Junkies have been a presence downtown for quite awhile.
Even in the late 60s in Vancouver when house prices were even cheaper than they were at the end of World War One*, there was still a core floating population that chose to be homeless.
Because of some homophobia, I never watched the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show. To be a 100% perfect Christian is not not watch such movies although in some Churches people have put on plays and sometimes the guy would dress up as a lady, for the Church play.
During the last Pride Parade, I wore a wig. But that was as far as I was willing to take it. No make up and I made damn sure to have at least three days of stubble growth.
Cosplay is something I do very rarely and occasionally. I dressed up as a medieval plague doctor before.
The Pride Parade is something that heterosexuals can attend. Thus I was there at the parade in cosplay.
The Rocky Horror movie is about cosplay and probably not everyone in the movie was gay just as not all the band members of any famous gay singer's band are gay.
When I wore the wig to only somewhat kinda dress up as a woman, I really value the spirit of the female. Meditating one time when I was young, I visualized myself being strong and I had a weird thought, if I had a female spirit that spirit would be graceful and strong and flowing.
Shakti is the female spirit that's used in martial arts. Shakti is speed, reflexes and accuracy. The male energy is about torque and thrust.
In Star Wars, the female Jedi Knight named Shakti was killed. Men who are evil want to kill any Shakti energy they might have. The good man tries to work with Shakti energy but still being normal, I mean not to the point of being a fairy.
So when I wore the wig during the parade, I did a few martial arts moves, the jump scissor kick over railings, the back flip with the legs straight up in the air, and the Wu Shu butterfly kick over railings and obstacles.
If I had a daughter, I would train her to be strong and to know how to do gymnastics. That's what a woman ought to be, for herself.
Wearing that wig, I otherwise walked around with my usual walk. I wasn't coquettish or effeminate because I don't know how to do that. It's a choreography, a type of psychodrama that has to be rehearsed first and I wouldn't know how to do that, exactly.
I see myself being single for life. Looking back, I've made too many mistakes and said too many things I regret. Little things but they add up. The only way for me to never make mistakes with women ever again is to be single for life.
Just as it takes a certain person to be a Police Officer, it takes a certain person to have a girlfriend. It requires a person who is or can be intimidating to be a cop. Good cop, bad cop, a good cop can turn that on and off.
To have a girlfriend, a person has to be a provider and a protector. I believe that I am neither.
In a very scary court case on YouTube, a murderer said to his victims wife in Court, "I killed him because he was a coward. He died like a baby."
I'm thinking that I'm a coward. Years ago, a really mean guy was knocking on Heather's door. I went back in my room and did nothing. But that was a result of some actions that Heather was doing and I kept telling her about that and to try to stop. But that's no excuse.
In the novel Burmese Days, George Orwell, the main character John Flory self described himself as a coward.
The physics of this dimension requires certain attributes of personality that are irrelevant in the heavenly afterlife. That's why I want to quit life.
I want to pass my life review in the afterlife that will occur after my death. One way to do that is to do kind things without expecting anything in return and to try to be kind to all people knowing that I will experience my words and actions towards them one day, knowing their thoughts and emotions in reaction to my words and actions towards them. That's why I try to be thoughtful as much as I can. I'm sure I slip up and make mistakes.
I'm not sure if most delinquents I see around downtown are thinking of their life review or know that one exists or even cares.
There are the slightly crazy which in all likelihood includes myself, the moderately crazy and then there's the absolute bonkers, screaming obscenities at the top of their lungs, vandalism that results in property damage, the bonkers is who I mean when I mention delinquents and there are a few downtown. Delinquency.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing someone, remember that not everyone has had the same advantages that you had." F Scott Fitzgerald
Those so called delinquents have some story that's for sure.
I'm not sure that they are pretending to be crazy to get on welfare. The WEF said you will own nothing and be happy. It's in their interest that as many people get on welfare as possible. So a person doesn't really have to try to pretend to be crazy to get on welfare.
Not all of them have had a Zen master Marky Roy in their life as a mentor when they were young.
I've often been in situations where there were many couples all around and I was the only single guy there. In those times I try to remember the demographic and community of single people and imagine that I'm on the same boat with them. Just because you don't see yoir community it doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Matt Fraser said if you are single and see lots of couples it's spirits sending you a sign that you will find someone, not trying to piss you off or to make you jealous.
A 1943 movie called A Guy Named Joe remade as Always is a story of a pilot who dies. He had a girlfriend. The spirit of the pilot tries to guide his girlfriend to his friend even though the girlfriend simply can't let go of his memory.
I don't think I'll find another girlfriend because I want to be single for Heather. Then me and her could go and visit a duck pond in the afterlife with varieties of species of ducks that span several millions of years.
The new Batman VR app costs $70 not including taxes. With taxes, $80. Holy gag a maggot, Batman, that's hella expensive. You'd have to be as rich as Bruce Wayne to afford it. I certainly couldn't.
I watched a video. For the first 15 minutes, there's no fighting at all. It's mainly a walk around VR adventure. Sharp as heck graphics though but it should be at $80.
It seems to have the pacing of The Walking Dead: Michonne and apps like it from that series from Telltale Games on Android tablet.
I got Gun Club VR today at around 3:30 pm. I haven't tried it yet.
Next month, I'll get Pistol Whip. It has modes including invincibility, bottomless no reload threatless enemies don't fire bullets and no obstacles.
Usually obstacles including shucking and jiving and side to side head weaves. There is ducking required and that can sprain the muscles in the lower back o's I hesitated in getting this. I'll get it next month.
I want to try Spsce Pirates the month after. Once a month, meta Quest plus subscribers get 30% off any app. That's the time to purchase.
Gun Club VR. I didnt like it. I loved it!
10 out of 10. I got all DLCs. At first I'd dint get the Heavy DLC because I only like to use handguns but the weapons on Heavy DLC are mind-blowing. These weapons are models of actual weapons that exist.
Beautiful graphics. Better than expected. One has to play through a minimum of ten short easy missions first to unlock any of the DLCs.
I don't want to watch the Alien movie because of fear. I am afraid of seeing the characters get killed in gory ways involving aliens in scary abandoned space bases with the electricity gone.
A few space travelers planing a trip to a paradise planet decide to sneak aboard an abandoned space station to steal a few extra cryo sleep pods. They disable the temperature control system releasing the aliens. All are killed except the girl and an android. The second to last one killed gives birth to a human alien hybrid that looks really different which is why the third act is amazing.
The darkness and claustrophobia of the scenes as the android is crawling in a thin tunnel at one point, something I did in VR in a VR horror game called Tunnels.
I am watching a movie called Brothers which is about two twin brothers who plan a bank robbery for old times sake. Why not? Their parents were bank robbers too. That's a strange family like The Addams Family. I've heard of "runs in the family" but this is ridiculous.
This movie is less scary than Alien Romulus. It should be, anyways.
So many good movies to see in VR big screen. There Will Be Blood. Legends of the Fall. In The Heart of the Sea. Napoleon. Spectacular movies. These movies must be experienced in big screen. Amsterdam. 1917. Great movies.
Stanley Kubrick Kille's Kiss is amazing in big screen. The movie leaves a person walking away with intense 50s vibes. That's called anemia which is nostalgia for a time one never lived in. Fernweh is nostalgia for a place one never lived in. I feel that for London and Paris too. Something familiar. Cozy.
Earl Grey tea without milk or sugar is amazing. I decided to give that a try. It tastes like jasmine tea. It's a slightly coarser jasmine tea. Actual jasmine tea is sweeter.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Swept at the Courthouse grounds again.
Pistol Whip VR. I'm thinking of getting it but since I got something yesterday. Getting something two days in a row is excessive. I should wait a few days. Cost: $33.
Sometimes I get two offers of 30% off a month. I should wait.
Friday, October 25, 2024
The back pain returned last night. I must have wrenched my back. Again. Twice in two weeks. I rested and slept on my stomach. That greatly helped and I'm just about recovered. The pain last night was very intense. About a 2.5 out of 10.
The story behind my most recent back spasm.
I had an open can of White Claw lime seltzer with vodka which I found unopened. I opened it, took one sip and left in the the fridge for.... weeks.
I drink the rest of it yesterday. One of the symptoms of food poisoning is muscle cramps and spasms. My back muscles still not fully healed from last week's major back spasm was the vector of opportunity for the bacteria.
I feel just about fully healed now. If this was a muscle spasm again, it would take five days to heal meanwhile in all those five days is 24 hours of back pain which two T3 does nothing for. Maybe take more T3s. But don't take so much before bedtime that it leads to forgetting to breathe while sleeping. Opiates are dangerous.
Imagine the irony of someone who works on the Courthouse grounds drinking White Claw. Take away the C and you got White Law.
I got Pistol Whip this morning. Good app. Really good.
Let's face it. Pistol Whip and Gun Club are early VR apps. Pistol Whip lacks texture. And Gun Club was released before programmers got all their ducks in a row when it comes to animated opponents.
Pistol Whip is amazing. There is a perpetual forward motion but it's slow and smooth and no motion sickness at all. It has a warm hopeful optimistic blissful heavenly nostalgic vibe like visiting a modern museum in Vancouver. The museum would have old artifacts but the museum building itself is very modern. The Museum of Anthropology at UBC and the Vancouver Museum in Vanier Park are examples of this. The Royal BC Museum in Victoria also counts.
I ate fresh food today. I went to a restaurant called Serena's and ordered a hoagie sandwich or something very much like it called The Godfather. Freshly made. The food at some restaurants that I have been to is shockingly freshness. The freshness is perceivable especially for someone like me who often eats two day old leftovers from the fridge.
I was thinking of seeing the movie on VR big screen. I've only ever seen the movie on a small glass television. The movie is epic. However the subject is sleazy and scary. Sweeping the grounds at the Courthouse I reflect that the Court isn't afraid of organized crime members. It's the other way around. The Court frys people in organized crime. The Court sends the away to prison.
I am opting to watch something else. I'm a latecomer to the squid game. The show is as addictive as spicy nachos. A man down on his luck after trying different uses gets approached in a subway. An agent for the Squid Game asks him if he's interested in making money to pay off his debts.
Could squid game exist in real life? Would the Police tolerate something like a squid game for real where people get wasted? I don't think so.
The show is fictional.
I got a hot water bottle today for my cold feeling muscle cramps aka Charlie Horse.
Lying down with my spine on the hot water bottle, it has the feeling of hot stones massage. That's good for the body. I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday. I wonder why. Maybe drinking White Claw had something to do with it.
Space Pirate Trainer DX. Was always intrigued. Got it today at a nearly $10 discount. On sale.
It was all right. Shooting at drones. One screen. One scene. Extremely repetitive. Shooting drones was my least favorite part of Dead Second.
Still this is an essential classic VR game and to own VR and not own this is like owning an Atari 2600 and not getting Asteroids.
Regular price: $25.51
Sale price: $14.99
That's more than a ten dollar savings. This is an early VR game that was once available for free. When it was new it must have seemed cutting edge in its time.
There's one scene but it's award winning and its a doozy. Worth the money.
$15 is about all its worth. It certainly isn't worth $25 which was what Gun Club was worth.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
There are people and places that it would seem the I ghosted or boycotted. That's not the case.
I am not running away from something. I am running towards something better. Life hates a vacuum.
I got VR goggles and electric skateboards. I didn't have this a few months ago.
VR goggles and electric skateboards is better than so called square friends I met at some Church of some denomination or other with whom I have nothing in common with and with whom I self censor myself when talking with them and with whom conversations don't usually last for more than two minutes.
The more intense the signs the more meaningless the future meetings.
I would used to go to a place and have conversations on average that lasted five minutes with people there. Then I would not go for a few months. Then I would see signs reminding me of the place and I would actually see some people from there on the streets. "Why don't you go back?" they may or may not want me to go back. When you don't see someone for a long time, there is a social awkwardness. What would be a common topic of conversation? Oh yeah, that place. And they know that you know that they know that neither party really cares if I show up there or not. What the heck. I acquiesce and regress and go to that place again and then I find that the conversations are on average now only about two minutes.
Then I don't go there again for months, more signs reminding me of the place, more seeing them on the streets, go back and now the conversations are never as long as a minute.
And then another thing is everytime I go to some place, don't go for awhile and then go back, I see that a core group of people who used to go there aren't there anymore as these places typically have a high turnover. And then not go for a few months and then regression, go back there and see that yet another core group in addition also isn't there anymore. It seems that more than one person got the idea to avoid the place!
Go to some place, meet some people and then they expect you to go to the place or to be that person's friend. For life. Uh, I don't think so. Uh, no thanks. What the f*ck!
Space Pirate DX is the worst of the premium shooter games on VR. Shooting drones. Boring. Very short waves. Repetitive. Only one scene. No wonder it was on sale for $10 off of the original $25.51 sticker price. But least it's a stationary shooter. I hate smooth motion and free roaming teleportation shooters stationary shooters, rail shooters or station to station stationary teleportation shooters are the best. Dead Second, Drop Dead, Crisis Brigade Shooters, Guns & Stories, Pistol Whip, Gun Club, Epic Roller Coaster and Coaster Combat are the number one best premium optimum champagne grade shooter games. All the rest are sh*t in comparison. All the other ones, bought, tried for awhile and then uninstalled.
Monday, October 28, 2024
I saw the Alien Romulus movie last night. Standard alien fare. Not all that scary. I guess I've been desensitized after decades of watching the Ridley Scott HR Giger Alien franchise movies.
The results of the election being a virtual 50 - 50 split is the worst result of any election.
There are conspiracies about a Western hegemony yet the West couldn't even establish a hegemony within their own culture what with elections being 50 - 50 splits.
Unless non hegemonized election results is part of what makes up the Western hegemony.
That's part and parcel with political parties stopped fighting for different things in the 70s. If they're fighting for the same things what difference does it make who you vote for resulting in an apathetic voting process. If they were fighting for different things, most people would reach a consensus one way or another so the elections would have more decided results.
Canada is a British Commonwealth. British overlords don't like majority governments because too many strong majority governments and they might vote to opt out of the Commonwealth like the Barbados. But that kind of decision would be on the Federal level not the Provincial level.
The British Commonwealth has 56 countries, makes up a third of the World's population and a quarter of the World's land mass.
Majority governments usually have a mandate. That means blank cheque. White elephants. Boondoggle. The feeding trough. Fun times in glitter town.
It looks like the US election will also be a 50 - 50 split just like the 2024 BC election. Let's face it, the internet makes a person more of what they already are. People don't change, they only become more so. Thanks to the personality amplifier that is the internet, this has resulted in polarization in the nation that hasn't been seen since the Civil War in the US in 1860.
In the States, it isn't a majority or minority government that the US President could expect to acquire, its called Republican lead or Democrat lead Congress. Republican or Democrat lead Senate.
The American election is a toss ip between a convicted felon on 34 counts of White collar crime and a woman let alone a Black woman. Either way they are sailing into uncharted waters. It's more of a social experiment than a traditional Presidential run.
My dream is to stay at a five star hotel in either Vancouver or Victoria and have Alaska King Crab for dinner.
Most VR apps use Unreal Engine 5.5.
New upcoming VR apps will use Unity 6.
With this, a person can design a room in 8K resolution, place lights anywhere, adjust lighting and wherever one places the lights, the shadows of the things in the room that the light is behind will shift depending on where the light is placed. It's that detailed. This would be for app designers.
"Can you say hot chocolate?"
Can you say cauck cauckolate?
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Sweeping at the Courthouse. There is a lady who I think is stalking me. I see her just about every day. Just when I thought I wouldn't see her, I see her again.
Yesterday I saw her and walked past her ignoring her and hoping that she would ignore me. She waves to me and then a few minutes afterwards as I was picking up some broken glass off of the Courthouse grounds she walks back and then she just stops and stands near where I was and talks on her cell phone.
Weird energy.
She has a certain look. It's whatever she looks like.
It's not rocket science. I never had any conversation with her that lasted more than a minute. She doesn't verbally abuse me or attack me or make any specific suggestions let alone demands. If she does, I'll bring it up with someone who works at the Court.
Let's face it. Over the last few years, how many times have I written about women whom I thought were stalkers and then later on, nothing happened. For some inexplicable reason, I always eventually just stopped seeing them around.
Leave them where you find them.
I have some degree of paranoid schizophrenia. Hence my tendency to see stalkers where there are none. I would think that these women had something on me. I even once said, "If you have something on me in specific, now's the time to bring it up. How could you and why would you miss a golden opportunity like this?"
The game is, "I know something about you. Something that tainted your reputation. Remember, I'm your friend since a lot of other people won't be because of your reputation therefore you owe me. And your intellect and narrative threatens me so I otherwise have something on you."
'Tainted Love' - Soft Cell
The Scarlet Letter
My reply to that would be, "Uh, no thanks. Don't put yourself out on my account. Don't do me any favors. I neither need nor want your friendship."
Often for me, the years 1991 and 1992 are brought up. Those were the years where I lived with a much older gay room mate and s*domy was involved.
The other day, a lady I was walking with all of a sudden brought up the years 1991 and 1992.
A couple of years ago, I went to the library and saw two year books 1991 and 1992 on a book rack with wheels. Uh, creepy.
Who hasn't had gay experiences?
Gay men would complain that while just about every issue of Playboy magazine had a lesbian segment somewhere in its layout, Playgirl magazine never had any gay scenes.
In Victorian England, male homosexuality was punished but female lesbianism was not.
Therefore just about every guy suspects that women are probably part time lesbians.
This notion would be false. In the male world lesbian is midly tolerated with a bemused attitude. Two women kissing is a bit of a turn on, but a lot of people wouldn't want their daughter to be a lesbian. In the female world, lesbianism is very heavily stigmatized.
When I was younger, I wanted to marry a Chinese lady. But then that gay reputation prevented that from happening.
However, that is a blessing in disguise. In the intervening years, I have arrived at some insights about that culture particularly the language. Spoken, it's a tonal monosyllabic language. If that wasn't bad enough, every time you want to write a new word, you got to draw a new picture but there's no clue in that picture as to how the word sounds. That's not a line that I ever wanted to tow. To tow some linguistically backwater line, uh, no thanks. So the Chinese marriage would have wound up being some kind of intellectual train wreck.
That I never got married, perhaps being on welfare has more to do with it.
Being married requires money and lots of people with all kinds of reputations still got married.
I am 100% hetero. I'm not even bi.
I've met quite a few women in my life. A lot of them have reputations too involving some run ins with the law, some substance use issues and presumably, also some Sapphic lesbianism experiences somewhere in the shrouded past as well.
Gay men like to use the word hard.
"You're a hard man!" Compliment.
"She's a hard woman." Not a compliment.
I regret not getting Pistol Whip earlier. It's that good. With easily applicable built in mods including
Dual guns
Invincibility
Infinite ammo
Enemies don't shoot
No obstacles
One shot, one kill
the game is sweeeeeeeet.
Auto aiming is a bonus built in feature. This can be disabled as a mod. Without auto aiming, accuracy suffers.
I don't want to go to England because when Emily Carr went to England, she was attacked and injured. Even in a small town, whether walking or on a skateboard, a person can run into road rage incidents with others on whatever means, walking, in a car, etc. let alone going to a town with a fast hyper pace of life such as London. Forget it.
Travel is insidious. Go there once and a few years later, it's, "But you haven't been there for a few years. So much as changed. You should see how it is now."
I doubt that I'd ever go there. The only towns I want to travel to are Vancouver, Victoria and Sidney.
Since I have a personal haunting memory that involves Sidney BC, my mind won't recover from it for at least two years. I wish that the Sidney aviation museum had an online store where one can place orders. I want a model of a World War One airplane.
Someone on YouTube comments said it best. "You got a problem. Most people recover from that kind of trauma in a short time. If it's still affecting you years later, that problem is with you."
My current landlord is an angel. He gave me some really good advice. He said, "No one's stalking you. You're not that important." Which is a relief. Would I be on welfare if I wanted to be important? Anyone who seeks importance would make a beeline to politics.
Speaking of, the NDP won the election and have the barest minimum to form a majority government. Reprieve. Parliament will not be prorogued.
This forces the NDP to form a natural coalition with the Greens resulting in a government that we didn't vote for. Who cares? One of the things on the Greens platform is to double welfare rates.
In the last 35 years while wages went from $6 an hour to nearly $18 an hour which is a 3x increase, and while real estate prices went from $150,000 to $1,500,000, a 10x increase, welfare went from $771 a month, I remember because 771 upside down spells ILL, to $1,100 a month, barely a 50% increase.
I may be on welfare but I try to give back to society with volunteer work.
I sweep and the street is clean. Someone walking past that area half an hour later would see all the leaves, debris, etc gone. That creates in some slight way a better future than they thought. If you create a future for others that is better than they thought, one day life will create a better future for you that is than you thought.
Squid Game is so good. In episode three, an undercover cop attached himself underneath a van to infiltrate the Squid Game compound on Dr No's Island. He would be the Cop of the Year. Would an undercover cop really do that? Because that's awesome!
I don't want any spoilers.
I wonder if the American Squid Game Challenge is any better. Threes Company was a knock of of the British sitcom Man About The House. The plot is virtually a carbon copy but there might be something to the American iteration. I'll give it a shot one day.
Will there be more seasons of the Korean series or does where the plot went in the final episode preclude that? Such as for example, the main character, in fact, all the main characters die or else relocate and the island compound itself is nuked on orders of the government.
Will there be another James Bond movie? It seems that James Bond died in the last movie. Ian Fleming wrote a finite number of books. Just like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The same stories will have to be made into different movies over and over again.
The first novel was set in Jamaica. That would be an exotic setting for a movie. Tropical Island. Why not?
My failure in life. Is it my failure alone or an extension of my mother's failure to abort me?
My mother didn't abort me and I'm paying the price.
It's a tragedy that my mother didn't abort me.
She really screwed up my life when she didn't abort me.
She had a golden window of time and opportunity to abort me and she didn't do it.
She didn't abort me and decades later I'll die of old age which is another kind of abortion. That's a long time to wait between abortions.
Would my mother have been expected to perform her own abortion? It would depend on what hospital she was in and the type of coverage she had.
My mother didn't abort me and my life hasn't been the same ever since.
I think all women hate me because they think I'm a scoundrel. That's simply not true because I'd be dead already. Even in this town alone, women include politicians, judges, prosecutors, police, military, doctors. Yeah, if that were the case I'd be dead already.
Let alone internationally. If that were the case, I would have died yesterday.
That might be a movie, a sequel to The Week The Women Went.
If women were to leave, then life wouldn't be worth living at all. I'd rather be dead.
I respect all women.
However I don't kkow if I trust any of them enough for her to be my girlfriend.
Like SCP-049, the plague doctor, I am doomed to wander the halls of purgatory aka life on Earth alone for an indefinite amount of time. If I do it well then I could still have a chance to hook up again with previous girlfriends who have since passed on and who are in the afterlife.
Remember the make up that I found that I told you about? Well, I threw it all in the garbage. Except two make up brushes which are Hollywood style make up brushes that even men would have used on them. Then I kept a thin flat silver metallic comb shaped like a paintbrush with very short metallic bristles. It looks interesting like something that Frankenstein's laboratory would have.
I wonder if the Korean or the American Squid Game is better or different but equally good. I'll have to watch to find out because such an answer is subjective.
There is a Korean restaurant up the street. A tad pricey but I think I can manage.
They have roast chicken Korean style and Korean beef with rice. It's better in the restaurant because it is served on those flat stone bowls which the take out experience totally lacks.
Pastor Joel Osteen is the best preacher in the World. All other preachers are like dry deserts compared to the living waters of Pastor Joel Osteen's sermons.
Other preachers offer vigilance, guilt, stoic oneisance, Pastor Joel Osteen offers hope. Why go to another other Church when I can hear the best preacher in the World.
This is a subjective statement. My opinion only. Other people will have their own favorite preachers or not and that's entirely fine.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The News said that an RCMP bust resulted in a haul of THC candies which have lots of THC. The legal limit is 10 mg of THC per candy but the illicit THC candies had as much as 1,000 mg of THC!
There is a local cannabis dispensary that was fined millions. The reason why isn't rocket science. They were manufacturing unregulated THC products and selling it. The products had more than the legal limit of THC.
On the street, while sweeping, I found an empty packet of Molly Bears. These candies have a microdose of MDMA. Shocking. First I've heard of it.
Life is overwhelming enough so this isn't something I'd ever want to try.
I wish that the Police could wipe out all illicit hard drugs from the face of the Earth. However, there is supply because there is demand. Different strokes for different folks. Most people know how to use drugs responsibly. It's a few drug users that create problems.
When it comes to drug use, possession is the better part of valor, and discretion is nine tenths of the law.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
I'll be sweeping the streets but I won't be wearing a costume. My only options are the plague doctor mask which obstructs visibility or the blonde Viking opera wig but looking like a girl isn't a priority for me.
Prices are expensive. Food prices are getting more expensive.
Since silicon valley giant corporations like Microsoft have started buying up farms, they have gone from being public sector government subsidized businesses to being private sector corporations operating on a hybrid model just like Universities and just like the military.
A pair of turtle shell sunglasses. $300. The materials cost $20 at most. Someone in a sweatshop gets paid 17 cents per unit. The rest of the money goes to pay CEOs.
People work in a place. They want to get promoted. The place is in business for decades. Result, a top heavy structure with lots of CEOs CFOs ACEs Assistant Chief Executive, and they all want to get paid that CEO salary. Good old fashioned greed.
And that gets passed to the consumer. That's why the prices are so jacked.
John Horgan said that if he were elected Premier, he would introduce a $67 a month private health care option.
At least one gets access to a doctor and doesn't have to deal with the indignity and duress of emergency rooms closed overnights on weekends with public health care.
Thailand had a 30 baht health care plan. A person can visit a doctor for the price of about $1 Canadian. That works well and there doesn't seem to be a geedy avaticious top heavy corporate structure pricing tier like the West. Say what you will about third world countries but they don't have the housing crisis, the medical care issues and the generalized megalomaniacal CEO obsessed structures of the West.
Would $67 a month imply limited visits or would it be an all you can eat visit anytime because a lot of people with health anxiety would visit often. Perhaps even drug seekers hoping that the doctor could write them a script for morphine. Eventually that system would become top heavy with lots of CEOs, etc. Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians.
Speaking of greed, when I said that when I made that weird deal with the tickets with my neighbour that he prevented me from going earlier or going a second time to the Malahat Skywalk, that wasn't exactly right.
I could have gone, but I would have had to pay money which isn't the same thing as preventing me from going altogether.
My neighbour holds on to the ticket like a coal mine gripping a diamond because let's face it, he's too cheap and stingy to pay the $40 entrance fee. Greed. For some reason, he either consciously or unconsciously doesn't think that the visit is quite worth $40.
He wouldn't be wrong. The Sidney BC sea world doesn't cost $40 and that place is more fun and more spectacular. The vancouver Acquarium costs $40 to visit and that place is at least ten times more spectacular. But $40 is pricey to visit anywhere. The annual pass for the Malahat Skywalk is $100 and the annual pass for the Vancouver aquarium is about $80. It's well worth the money to get an annual pass. More bang per buck.
Bang per buck. Bang for buck.
The expensive single visit fee may be just a nudge to get the annual pass. That place obviously gets more money if a person gets an annual pass than if they opt to visit just that one time that year. Places that are crowded attract more business. Crowded with annual pass holders.
So in that way, I was kinda greedy too. I wanted to go using the ticket rather than paying the $40 plus tax. But I did get to go. Who cares if it wasn't in this month or that month? Six of one is half a dozen of the other. With a lot of places I visited, now, years later, I don't remember what year or month I visited that place. I only remember that I visited.
Gestalt therapy - face yourself.
The Green Party said they would like to see welfare rates doubled. If they form a coalition with the NDP, that could be on the table and such a thing would be brought up in the Spring Budget which is the first confidence vote, essentially. Hopefully the NDP survives that otherwise its back to the election booth again.
Of course when welfare rates are raised, landlords are waiting in the wings licking their chops as rents are raised commensurately. It's like a dog chasing its own tail or like an ouroboros which is a snake eating its own tail.
Alarming. The News said a needle was found in Halloween candy. Oh no!
Anyone who does that must want to kill the children. If anyone swallowed that, they'd get peritonitis which is a fancy word for death all 'round. Punctured stomach, stomach acid, massive internal hemorrhaging. Intestines ruptured. Death death death. Unless there is quick surgical intervention.
I'm watching a movie called The Substance. An aging starlet takes an experimental drug that makes her young, like 20s young. But its a one week on, one week off drug so she alternates from old young old young for a week at a time. In weekly increments. The ending is probably a train wreck. I watched part of it, fell asleep. Try it again. Generous portions of female nudity. Come for the plot, stay for the female nudity.
I got The Flip VR for $2.23 including tax. A steal since the regular price is $30 including tax. It's a zombie shooter. I tried it but it's a free range not station to station stationary teleportation. So what? At that price.
