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the_siobhan) wrote2025-03-11 10:18 pm
the_siobhan) wrote2025-03-11 10:18 pm
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slouching back home from Bethlehem
Last night's movie was The Substance. Everybody who has talked about the film either loved it or hated it so I was curious.
I can now say that I fall firmly into the hate it category. I didn't get the body-horror aspect of it at all - it was all just closeup shots of how nasty meat is and how much aging sucks. And I thought the ending was terrible and overly stretched out. What's annoying about it is that I think there was a solid concept at the root of it and some a-list actors. It just seemed like they just ran out of ideas about half-way through.
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Finally heard back from my contractor - he's going back for more surgery on Friday. So I think it's safe to say he's not going to be around to finish any of the work. It took two weeks of calling him every day to finally get the receipts I needed for energy audit, but that's finally in.
I've booked some time off work at the end of this month so I can clear out the crap his workers left behind and figure out what's left to be done. I'm waiting for a callback from a plumber and I will probably have to bring somebody in to finish up the HVAC. There's some residual drywall to deal with and I've never done that before but I can probably tap a friend to help me out and there's always youtube.
The trash I can deal with, but I'm really torqued that they fucking plugged up the bathtub. It looks like they were throwing silty water in it, so now it's plugged and full of dirty water. I've been asking him if he's sending somebody to snake it and not getting a response, so I guess I'll just pay for it and hand him the bill. I don't know what the fuck they were thinking honestly.
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It was lovely and warm and sunny today and ended up going for a long walk just because it felt so nice to get out of the house. The longer days always make me restless. Probably just as well I feel like I'm hitting a period of having too much energy when I'm facing up to a week of hauling trash and painting.
I went out back to check on a few things and wow. Field of mud. I might just grab some clover seed to throw on it and see how it does - it's mostly clay so I'll have to rehab it a section at a time if I want to grow vegetables out there.
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Did my vote thing last week. My province elected an absolute fucking clown shoe once again. He is doing back-and-forth waffles about electricity exports to the US and making announcements about going down for trade talks even though trade is not a provincial responsibility. I hope the feds fucking sit on his head. I already reached out to my federal MP about his proposed deal with Starlink and suggested that they might want to get involved in that from a security perspective and she was receptive to the feedback so we'll see if anything comes of it.
Meanwhile, we have a new Prime Minister as of a couple of days ago. Ish. I think he has to be confirmed or sworn in or anointed or whateverthefuck they do when somebody gets picked to sit in the Big Chair. The party overwhelmingly voted for an economist over a politician and I suspect the brand new Trade War has a lot to do with that choice.
Now whether or not that party gets to remain in charge will depend on the next election, but given everything that's been going on lately it looks like they have a pretty good chance. Lots of people on social media have been posting photos of grocery stores with shelves bare of Canadian products while the American stuff is untouched. That's certainly been the case in every store I've gone into in my neighbourhood.
Gonna be a fucking weird couple of years, y'all.
I can now say that I fall firmly into the hate it category. I didn't get the body-horror aspect of it at all - it was all just closeup shots of how nasty meat is and how much aging sucks. And I thought the ending was terrible and overly stretched out. What's annoying about it is that I think there was a solid concept at the root of it and some a-list actors. It just seemed like they just ran out of ideas about half-way through.
--
Finally heard back from my contractor - he's going back for more surgery on Friday. So I think it's safe to say he's not going to be around to finish any of the work. It took two weeks of calling him every day to finally get the receipts I needed for energy audit, but that's finally in.
I've booked some time off work at the end of this month so I can clear out the crap his workers left behind and figure out what's left to be done. I'm waiting for a callback from a plumber and I will probably have to bring somebody in to finish up the HVAC. There's some residual drywall to deal with and I've never done that before but I can probably tap a friend to help me out and there's always youtube.
The trash I can deal with, but I'm really torqued that they fucking plugged up the bathtub. It looks like they were throwing silty water in it, so now it's plugged and full of dirty water. I've been asking him if he's sending somebody to snake it and not getting a response, so I guess I'll just pay for it and hand him the bill. I don't know what the fuck they were thinking honestly.
--
It was lovely and warm and sunny today and ended up going for a long walk just because it felt so nice to get out of the house. The longer days always make me restless. Probably just as well I feel like I'm hitting a period of having too much energy when I'm facing up to a week of hauling trash and painting.
I went out back to check on a few things and wow. Field of mud. I might just grab some clover seed to throw on it and see how it does - it's mostly clay so I'll have to rehab it a section at a time if I want to grow vegetables out there.
--
Did my vote thing last week. My province elected an absolute fucking clown shoe once again. He is doing back-and-forth waffles about electricity exports to the US and making announcements about going down for trade talks even though trade is not a provincial responsibility. I hope the feds fucking sit on his head. I already reached out to my federal MP about his proposed deal with Starlink and suggested that they might want to get involved in that from a security perspective and she was receptive to the feedback so we'll see if anything comes of it.
Meanwhile, we have a new Prime Minister as of a couple of days ago. Ish. I think he has to be confirmed or sworn in or anointed or whateverthefuck they do when somebody gets picked to sit in the Big Chair. The party overwhelmingly voted for an economist over a politician and I suspect the brand new Trade War has a lot to do with that choice.
Now whether or not that party gets to remain in charge will depend on the next election, but given everything that's been going on lately it looks like they have a pretty good chance. Lots of people on social media have been posting photos of grocery stores with shelves bare of Canadian products while the American stuff is untouched. That's certainly been the case in every store I've gone into in my neighbourhood.
Gonna be a fucking weird couple of years, y'all.
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I don't know what the fuck they were thinking honestly.
They weren't. And I don't even know what level your tub is on. I assume you tried a DIY snake tho?
I went out back to check on a few things and wow. Field of mud.
Can you get a horse and a new goats?
<i>I don't know what the fuck they were thinking honestly. </i>
They weren't. And I don't even know what level your tub is on. I assume you tried a DIY snake tho?
<i>I went out back to check on a few things and wow. Field of mud.</i>
Can you get a horse and a new goats?
<i><The party overwhelmingly voted for an economist over a politician</i>
I mean... is there a difference? :P
IDK how an unelected technocrat can even be PM without royal approval (via a governor?) and I doubt it will end well. But we are where we are.
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Carney is currently Prime Minister-designate. He won't become PM until Trudeau formally resigns, following which Carney will be appointed PM by the Governor General -- they're hoping that will occur this Friday. There must always be a PM, so Trudeau will tender his resignation maybe an hour before Carney is scheduled to be sworn in. Being PM does not require one to also be an MP as it is a Crown appointment. That explains why ministers remain ministers during the writ period, even though they are no longer MPs. Of course he will be expected to seek a seat in the House ASAP, which is why he likely will call an election rather than open a new session of Parliament later this month (Parliament being currently prorogued until March 24).
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Ah. I heard JT has resigned already, But this might be were we differ.
I believed our PM must be in the parliament. By tradition it's always an MP and not a senator (it was once).
That said, a PM isn't mentioned in the constitution, so I guess maybe we don't.
I can imagine that being tested. It would be a hard argument.
That explains why ministers remain ministers during the writ period, even though they are no longer MPs
I'll have to get into the weeds on that one here. I am not sure that distinction has ever come up because of the caretaker period.
Ah, the Westminster system.
Still better than *that mob* to your south.
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The party with the most seats forms the government and they decide internally who the PM is.
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But as I explained to Jo, I was pretty sure a PM had to be an MP, but if Canada has these conventions I expect we do to.
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Also, your bathtub situation reminds me of years ago when we had a contractor work on something in our kitchen. He had to patch our plaster wall and dumped all the water down our kitchen sink when he was done. It all dried in there and it was basically like putting cement in our garbage disposal. I was so mad.
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I don't blame you for being mad! Who the fuck does that!
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I'm good at drywall. LMK.
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