rant and rave

This is where ranting and raving occurs. Venting. Blowing things out of proportion. That kind of thing.

back from then

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I just now came back from the future.  Hard times.  I finally made it!  I came back to tell everyone we’ve got to change our ways.  It’s bad – really bad.

We have to stop driving ICEs, give up GMOs, stop racing up and down the strips at night with loud bikes and four-bys, stop mining the oceans, get rid of all drug dealers, and dump Trump.  Donald Trump damages the entire world so badly that we end up in lawlessness.

ICEs (Internal Combustion Engines) need to be abandoned immediately, in your time, to lean down the greenhouse effect.  Tens of thousands will perish from floods, fires, storms, cyclones, but mostly heat.  Cities burn like forest fires.  All this is caused by carbon.  We knew that back in the 1970s but only began to forcibly do something about it by the 2030s.  By then, it was too late.  So I came back to tell you.

More later when I get back another time.

should Canada absorb the United States

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I can’t help but comment on this buffoon down south, Donald Trump.

He has mentioned several times that he wishes Canada to become the 51st state.  He claims that the majority of Canadians want this, that the border is an artificially drawn line, that the United States carries Canada financially.  He wants to push Canada financially to join the US.

You have got to be kidding me!

So here’s my proposal.  We take over Alaska because, as you can see on maps, it really should be Canada’s.  We take over Detroit because it lies north of Canadian land (and should be absorbed by Windsor, ON).  While we’re at it, just take the entire state of Michigan.  We take over ownership of Cascadia as, culturally, it really does belong to Canada.  Minnesota has talked in the past about joining Canada, too.  Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to think the same thing.

Why isn’t this guy dethroned as the idiot he is?

damn hamburger bun

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I went to Safeway to get some cream for my coffee.  I’ve had milk in my coffee for four days now!  Imagine!  Gross.  It has a sickeningly sticky, hollow taste to it.  (Now enjoying a second cup mixed in with my first cup, with cream.  Much better.)

yesterday’s Lethbridge Herald

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five and a half Ws and their answers

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We all know the five Ws – who, what, when, where, why – and their neglected cousin, how.

But when we use these words to create compound words in reply, this happens:

  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somehow

But that about the other ones?

  • somewho (we have to say someone)
  • somewhen (we have to say sometime)
  • somewhy (we have to say for some reason)

English is weird.

working with (on) a headache

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Headache day.  Not a big one, but one nonetheless.  I’m at Henderson Park catching up on tutoring work.  I have four classes to add and homework to create for all.

I went to Starbucks on 5 Ave. N.  The air conditioning was too strong, the clanking and banging from staff was incessant, flies were landing on me, and the coffee had too much cream.  Did I mention I had a headache?  Was all that discomfort created from my headache or vice versa?

AVG broke my system!

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AVG Antivirus broke my system!  Instead of coming to my OGL and posting something, I’ve spent the past 1.5 hours trying to sort through why my computer is broken – specifically, why Explorer Patcher has been quarantined by AVG Antivirus.  It actually started last night when my computer couldn’t open a simple .txt file.  Then more of it this morning!  They claim it contains a trojan virus.  I really don’t believe it does!  It’s just an add-on program that changes the goofy Microsoft Windows 11 look of a computer back to Windows 10 or 8 or 7 or whatever you like.  It takes the stupid context menus out, gets rid of the silly screen one sees when punching the Windows button, etc.  An hour and a half!  Buggar off, AVG!  Stop trying to rule how I live my life!

activities, Starbucks music

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Been busy the past few days.  I installed some deadbolts in the rear of a rental property, cleaned out part of the garage, completed my taxes, blew out all the leaves from the red shale rock on the East side of the house, and attended a pot-luck supper at the community centre.

Boy, the music at Starbucks sucks.  There was some opera tenor bellowing away like a sick cow in the previous song, and now we have show tunes.  Should a person run the risk of sounding like a complainer, put up with it, or leave?

I left.