How many Spiderman movies are there? Three? Six?
How many octagons are there? More or less than Spiderman movies?
If I tied my shoes tightly enough, I am certain that they would be sufficiently tight.
That's about it.
Nothing more patriotic than a flag.
Nothing better than a nemesis to bring people together, though, with an exception of right-wing separatists out west.
That the felon Cheeto Buffoon should threaten us with a levity version of an extra state; American population meanwhile have his Big Beautiful Bill which will wreck Medicare and food stamps while giving tax cuts to the top income quintile.
In other news Israeli army keep shooting Palestinians who are simply queueing up, perhaps not orderly, but nonetheless, simply queueing up for delivery of desperately needed food and aid.
Oh well, we'll see what happens at next year's Canada Day.
Well, the days are getting shorter now. Not in terms of their actual length, but in terms of the number of daylight hours and minutes. Having passed the solstice just a few days ago we're already on our way to the shortest day; and, winter.
It isn't common to talk about winter near the end of June (in the northern hemisphere), but then, since no one is reading this, does it matter?
Hopefully June 26th will be at least as exciting as June 25th will have been.
Yesterday I went with my dad to visit with my mom who has end stage frontotemporal dementia, we arrived with her in the meal room, her lunch soon arrived, and we helped feed her as her coordination allowed for her to have the fork or spoon with food loaded arrive correctly at her mouth perhaps only one out of every five attempts.
The room had many elderly in various stages of inability, some who could feed themselves correctly, some who couldn't, with both staff and volunteers there to help those in need.
I could not help but get the feeling that this was just a place where people get fed, get cleaned up after they pee or poo, get wheeled in and out of their rooms and do various activities that people like my mom at end stage dementia can hardly be fully aware of what is going on, all with the ultimate purpose of doing what can be done before death.
I will need to eventually discuss this with my children, but as I am divorced and have no significant other, I am leaning towards, for myself, using Quebec's advance notification for MAID. I will just need to determine what is the specific condition where the trigger is pulled at the time that I am first diagnosed with dementia, presuming this happens at the end.
This isn't particularly Catholic or Christian of me to consider this, but as hurtful as it may sound, I see no value in continuing my existence if whoever I am now disappears leaving only my body to operate.
I do not know how much longer blogger.com will continue, but my plan is to write a bunch of future posts that I pre-post such that they come out piecemeal over the coming years. I will continue doing this right up to the end so that my blog will persist for who knows how long after I have passed.
There isn't much to be said about lozenges on a day like this.
So, Russia and Ukraine are at war due to Russia, Israel is committing a genocide against Palestine, Israel and Iran are at war, Haiti, Syria and Sudan are failed states with every day violence.
The G7 are in the midst of meeting here in Canada, and while the felon Cheeto Buffoon did arrive for the start of the conference, he left at the end of the first day to react to the escalating fight between Israel and Iran. His departure leaves a big hole in their conference, as he, when present, occupies way more space than he physically occupies.
I haven't made use of any kind of lozenge in many months.
The Quebec Liberal Party elected their leader this past weekend, his name is Pablo Rodriguez. Previously he had been a minister in Justin Trudeau's federal liberal party. He will have many different priorities as he tries to grow the membership, but what is top of mind to me at the moment is that the provincial government needs to provide new structural funding to public transit agencies across the province, but especially in Montreal for the operations bucket.
a label maker, a pistol squat and trustworthiness walk into a bar.
an anchor hitch knot, a hypnotist and an Instagram post walk into a bar.
The trustworthy hypnotist used the label maker to create a label that describes what a pistol squat is and then posted this to Insta from the bar.
I have been watching youtube channels that talk about male loneliness, and especially in younger men (of which I am not one). From it, one of the many things I have learned was about dating apps, how women on many dating apps get a match about one out of two positive swipes, while men get a match about one out of 40 positive swipes.
I created a free Bumble account to see how this would play out. I did get a match at about the rate of one out of 40 and met the woman this past Saturday. I did not find her particularly attractive, but we had chatted for many days and I wanted to meet her in person so as to practice the social interaction.
Subsequently we both agreed we would not pursue a relationship. I then deleted my Bumble account. I found that most of the women I had been attracted to were 6-10 years younger than me and very or moderately pretty. Of the men they would see, I think it would take 1000 swipes for me before any of such women to select me, if even any would do so. I am not too bothered by this; I already managed to have had a marriage, have children, and have seen them more or less flourish. Being divorced and single now isn't great, but it isn't terrible either.
So the meeting yesterday defined some criteria for projects, rather than specifying projects themselves. Each premier yesterday had to come with five projects that would be 'nation building'. At the end they all agreed on these criteria:
Terrible forest fires across the northern half of the prairie provinces. Makes me wonder how a methane pipeline to Churchill from Fort Mac would work - it would pass through exactly where all of these forest fires are.
There is a first ministers meeting happening in Saskatoon presently; each provincial and territorial leader is to present up to five nation building projects to propose. Then, PM Carney and all of the leaders will come to a decision as to which 2-5 of these will get selected to begin ASAP.
For me the important ones are to electricity intertie Quebec and Ontario, and, to accelerate the high speed rail project. Well, for Canadian Unity I would also propose the pipeline from northern Alberta to Hudson Bay so that we can ship LNG from there to Europe. As a Climate Change supporting person I am against any progress of fossil fuels, but at this time in Canada, I feel that Canadian unity trumps the need for addressing climate change in such a way that prevents a pipeline from being built.
I had ChatGPT help me with this next part - Hudson Bay ices over every winter to a 1 to 2m thickness which is difficult for ice breakers. So, if we use an ice breaker only during the shoulder seasons to allow for an expanded shipping period, during the four winter months tanks built at the Churchill LNG port can store a reduced flow of methane from Alberta, and then those tanks can be emptied into the LNG ships for shipment to Europe when the shipping season starts.
I also read about building a pipeline at around 58.75N latitude, not an easy project at all to make it both fireproof, and, to have it cross thousands of lakes, both small and big.
King Charles is here in Canada on invitation from PM Mark Carney so as to deliver the Speech from the Throne, a document spelling out the priorities of the government written by the PMO that Charles will simply read. The King will likely also introduce his own remarks that many of us are curious to know what he will say given the current geopolitical situation.
Some vociferous Quebecois are upset about the King being here, and about having a King at all in 2025. I don't feel strongly about having a monarchy; having a King changes nothing in my day to day existence. Even in our government having the King has no impact, he, or the governor general in his place, serve simply as a procedural placeholder.
So the bee's knees, the brought cot and the slimy fondu.
The death knell, the kite flung and the beer tossed.
The profile file, the filler donut, doughnut, knut.
Camping, skiing, dancing.
