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For a while, after I deleted my Twitter account and before I started using my Bluesky account instead, I was keeping my bits and pieces on my Tumblr, which I also no longer use. These are those bits and pieces.
01 - I watch a music stream on Twitch most weekends. There are some songs that make me glad a mute button exists - like REM's Losing My Religion. Lawd-a-mercy that song is a drudge.
01 - One wonders how serious the moonlight actually was. But David's taken that secret with him.
01 - I have never, outside clips from certain videos, seen even a minute of Twin Peaks. I honestly can't remember why I never watched it.
01 - We need a good noir series.
02 - I ordered a set of gansai paints a few weeks ago, and I am unreasonably happy about the set coming with an empty gansai pan. I wish they were easier to acquire. I'd prefer to use them than traditional North American full pans.
02 - Huh. I just found out there's a word for the type of mystery like Father Brown or Miss Marple - cosy mysteries. I'd put Death in Paradise close to that. I really enjoy such things. They're good background/comfort noise.
03 - God damn I'm in good voice today. Not as good as Julie, but still good.
03 - I was given the wrong street number (and by wrong I mean 92 instead of 29) for a package (11" x 14" envelope) that I sent to Nova Scotia so it was returned to me - and those fuckers at Canada Post made me pay for the fucking return shipping (nearly $18).
03 - Yesterday I felt I really had to prove to someone that I really did not need the free coloured pencils they were sending with the colouring book. :D
03 - This morning tens of thousand of Canadians woke up to find that their CERB had not been deposited. Various CRA agents have said it could be anywhere from today till next Friday that people get it. I feel incredibly badly for anyone who's now facing a mountain of NSF fees.
03 - I just went to a place for breakfast that I haven't been to in years because they had a bigot waitress working there who thankfully no longer does. Still tastes just the same as it always did.
03 - When I worked for Target during its brief existence here, I was told that the reason the shelves were so bare was because WalMart told suppliers - of which there were limited ones that dealt with cross-border shipping - if they dealt with Target they would lose WM as a customer.
03 - I was waiting to cross the street at Upper James and Mohawk after coming out of the Purolator, and one of those large grocery transports went by ... sleeved from stem to stern in a graphic anti-abortion ad.
03 - My little shodan doesn't hold a candle. The old guys make it look so easy:
11 - Some days you wake up to your first and only thought being that you want to eat a whole wheel of triple cream brie.
13 - Haul videos are incredibly tiresome.
15 - I almost bought jackfruit yesterday, but I didn't.
15 - I wish my hairdresser would stop telling me how much she likes the colour of my hair. It's annoying.
16 - I wish people would stop using Marilyn Manson songs as background music.
16 - One of my least favourite expressions is "customer service experience". I can't detail enough just how little I need to have one of those, and how utterly uninterested I am in providing one in a retail environment.
18 - If I say I need to "oil my sword" it sounds like a euphemism. It isn't, but it sounds like it is.
18 - Why was two the acceptable number for a cookies snack? I think three is more appropriate.
18 - I wonder who ate my Santa cookies when I was a child - my grandmother, or my grandfather.
19 - I got a referral to a new ophthalmologist today from my optometrist, whose receptionist said to me that I needed to take my glasses when I went to the visit. You mean the ones you sold me that I literally can't operate my life without, the ones I wear from waking to sleeping? Those glasses? Do you imagine I need to be told to do that? So much of that call felt like she thought she was being nice but really made me feel like she thought I just fell off the turnip truck.
19 - It just occurred to me that vegans aren't actually vegan - because vegans are made out of meat.
19 - I'm currently unsupervised.
20 - don't add work people to your socials, and keep your accounts friends-only.
20 - Years ago, someone told me you should never start an advertisement with a question, because, for example, if the answer is "no", then you've lost the person and your ad time was wasted. I feel the same way about job ads. If it starts with "Are you passionate about", and my answer is no, my mind's already moved on and so has my scroll wheel.
20 - I can hardly wait till I can stop hearing the expression "spooky season".
21 - I should look up why they used to put sinks in bedrooms.
21 - Things that will make me insta-scroll past any video: nail tapping. It's fucking obnoxious.
21 - I really enjoy peas.
24 - When in online communications of any kind, my favourite thing to say to people to textually convey rolling my eyes, is an out-of-context quotation from Hamlet: "Angels and ministers of grace defend us."
25 - I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Disability is the least discriminatory condition there is. Disability does not care about your age, gender, skin colour, ethnic background, religion, economic status, health, nor anything else. If it wants you, it'll come for you.
25 - I hate wasting time on clothes I have to iron.
26 - As much as I loathe WalMart, they did provide one useful item in the form of pre-cut Granny Smith apples. They don't have them any longer. I wish they did.
27 - Bread and shirkuses - the bullshit Doug Ford tries to distract you with so you don't see the rest of the bullshit he's pulling.
27 - I just watched a video of a guy touring a home built in very much a brutalist style - and he says he gets treehouse vibes from it. How do you get treehouse vibes from a brutalist home? What kinds of trees are you climbing, bud?
27 - I'm grossed out by cottage cheese.
27 - I just ate a pastry with raisins in it. On purpose. I don't know why I did that. They were free.
28 - How come there isn't a vegan/vegetarian pork product called sham? Or a beef one called feak.
28 - How is it possible for people to move in and out of apartments on the floor that I live on and I hear nothing. I'm home most of the time. I could hear a feather hit a carpet. The hallway echoes like a son of a bitch.
29 - How to solve the healthcare staffing issue: Turn healthcare work into a paid apprenticeship like trades are, and make the education free. You won't improve the system without real investment in it and the people involved.
29 - There's a restaurant on Uber Eats called Perfect Meat Bowl. This does not sound appetising to me.
29 - I don't understand the attraction of characters like Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. Dumb isn't attractive.
30 - I despise people who hover.