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Sunday, February 9th, 2025 07:10 pmEither my Good Neighbour or a bobcat shovelled the 4 in/ 10 cm of snow from my sidewalk last night. Or maybe both, because bobcats don't clear steps and someone did mine. Or maybe a Very Good Neighbour because I could see in the distance, down the block, the occasional area of white which a bobcat should have taken care of. Whatever, I didn't go out today except briefly to clear my slightly snowed over front path and to remove the snow mounds from the garbage bins against Thursday's pickup. Forecast says flurries all week, which may mean occasional flakes tumbling from the sky like today, or may mean another 4 cm.
Didn't go out yesterday either because I was listening to Der Fliegende Hollander, oddly enough since I have little use for Wagner. But wiki tells me this is an early work and hence not as discordant as the Ring. Still a bit, umm, oompapapa for my tastes, but then I have no taste. And then it was 4 o'clock and thinking about snow, so I made devilled eggs instead of going out. Note that devilled eggs made with Kewpie mayonnaise are the bomb and also extremely indigestible.
Have also been micro-cleaning, given the intransigent spasming of my hip flexors that nothing will unkink. So yesterday I vacuumed the living room and hallway, and today I mopped the accessible portion of the front hall and lick and promised the stairs. But also finally got the screws put into the dirt devil to fasten the canister holder to the stem. And if you want bad design, this was it. The socket for the screws is right beside the long stem, meaning no room for your hand to turn the screw. Thus you turn from the outside a quarter turn, then move back for another quarter turn, then move back etc etc. And it's extremely tight and not at all doable by anyone lacking the upper body strength of a young male. But it's done, only now I need some young male to loosen the filter holder for me because that one's frankly impossible.
Shall note that there's a bloody big Conservative election sign four doors up at the house that sat on the market for months and months because no one is buying. I believe someone finally did but this is the first evidence of life I've seen, from someone who has no idea what kind of neighbourhood they've moved into. The polls all say DoFo is leading. Which would be disheartening except for my belief that feds are always the opposite of Ontario so Polievre the Trump toady will stay out of power. But these are the end times and maybe that bit of common wisdom won't hold anymore.
Didn't go out yesterday either because I was listening to Der Fliegende Hollander, oddly enough since I have little use for Wagner. But wiki tells me this is an early work and hence not as discordant as the Ring. Still a bit, umm, oompapapa for my tastes, but then I have no taste. And then it was 4 o'clock and thinking about snow, so I made devilled eggs instead of going out. Note that devilled eggs made with Kewpie mayonnaise are the bomb and also extremely indigestible.
Have also been micro-cleaning, given the intransigent spasming of my hip flexors that nothing will unkink. So yesterday I vacuumed the living room and hallway, and today I mopped the accessible portion of the front hall and lick and promised the stairs. But also finally got the screws put into the dirt devil to fasten the canister holder to the stem. And if you want bad design, this was it. The socket for the screws is right beside the long stem, meaning no room for your hand to turn the screw. Thus you turn from the outside a quarter turn, then move back for another quarter turn, then move back etc etc. And it's extremely tight and not at all doable by anyone lacking the upper body strength of a young male. But it's done, only now I need some young male to loosen the filter holder for me because that one's frankly impossible.
Shall note that there's a bloody big Conservative election sign four doors up at the house that sat on the market for months and months because no one is buying. I believe someone finally did but this is the first evidence of life I've seen, from someone who has no idea what kind of neighbourhood they've moved into. The polls all say DoFo is leading. Which would be disheartening except for my belief that feds are always the opposite of Ontario so Polievre the Trump toady will stay out of power. But these are the end times and maybe that bit of common wisdom won't hold anymore.
