Poor Tigger – back to the vet tomorrow

Tigger is going back to the vet tomorrow. Suddenly she seems to be walking funny and may be in a little pain from arthritis or other issues. The fact she is meowing more is also a little alarming.

All the plumbing issues are solved. The drain which has needed to be unclogged every two to three months over the last eighteen months has been someone constantly stuffing hair down it.

When I confronted the roommate I believe responsible; they got offended. First, they tried to blame me, until they found out I place a garbage bag over the sink to catch all the hair.

Then they justified it as not being a big deal, YOU; as in me, can just clean it out every couple of months. When I pointed out fine, I’ll do that, but I will also charge a $100 maintenance fee on the first, and it will go up by $25 each time. Well, that caused a massive fit about how I can’t do that and how unfair I’m being.

After showing them the legislation as to what I’m responsible for, and how much more I do as is, and I can clean the drain but then I will stop providing everything else for free as I currently I do. That was unacceptable as well.

After all that, I informed the roommate that there is now a catch-all in the sink and it is not to be removed unless to empty it, and it is to be put right back in place. He got mad because I didn’t mention that earlier. That’s when I pointed out, as a 30-year-old engineer, he shouldn’t have interrupted and let me finish my first statement before acting like an entitled snowflake. Moreover, remember you pay rent well under market value, as well as, you and your unrent paying girlfriend; who just moved in one day without even giving me a heads up, get 100’s of dollars in free extras every month. He walked away.

It’s so disappointing, I live in a large metropolitan area outside of Toronto, and there are virtually no prepared food delivery services available. Since I gave up my car, getting some items is a little awkward. While I can get 95% of what I need delivered, it turns out some things are still hard.

It’s the convenience; despite going to chef school, cooking for one is tricky. So I have been thinking about ordering pre-made foods. There are some great companies like City Fresh Farms, but none deliver to my area.

Living in this beautiful modern world, I can get 95% or more of everything I need to be delivered, usually within 48 hours or less. Last year I did 97%; in terms of dollars spent, of my shopping online. The only thing I don’t get delivered is fresh produce, meats and that’s about it.

With a little planning, there is no need to have to make emergency runs during a month because I’ve run out of something. It frees up much time.

There have been virtually no issues with cloths or other items. I have yet to buy shoes online.

I recently wrote a 30-page paper on Ukrainian influence in the 2016 US election. So far 15 people have read it, and all have given nothing but positive feedback. It was even suggested that I turn it into my doctoral thesis.

One of the people commented today that she couldn’t understand it. I find that ironic since she is always telling me “I’m the only one in politics here.” without realizing I spent 30 years working as a political operative. The funniest part is that she knows but fails to acknowledge it.

She’s young; early 20’s and thinks she knows it all because she’s studying social sciences at university. What I wrote is very easy to understand, especially if one uses the 90 plus footnotes.

She’s one of these people where everything is identity politics. With her, everything is racists, sexist, misogynistic and so on. Somehow though, racism and hate crimes cannot be perpetrated on whites.

Like my mom, she generally stays away from political discussions with me because I use facts and logic and they can’t seem to handle it.

It’s even been explained that it has to be read in the context of it being part one, chapter one of a book which I decided not to finish. So, the introduction and end won’t quite make sense; however, the information and story it tells is logical and makes sense.

My guess is she doesn’t like the conclusions drawn which are based on facts, not speculation and half-facts.

For example, I lay out the evidence that Manafort was set up, that doesn’t mean I think he’s a good guy or doesn’t deserve to go to jail.

Despite what people want to believe, people they like can commit crimes, and people they don’t like can have crimes perpetrated against them.

I make it clear that I don’t like Trump. Despite that, I also make it clear that he did not collude with Russia or committed obstruction of justice. My mom and friend mentioned above somehow take that to mean that I like Trump.

When asked why they don’t like him, I get the stock answers with debunked rhetoric about him being whatever the news of the day claims.

When asked why I don’t like him, I talk in-depth about his policies; mostly foreign, and how they are causing conflict and raising tension globally.

I will also give him credit where it’s due. In 2018, the US led the world in carbon reductions despite not being a signatory on the Pairs accord. My point is, like many others, they are stuck on the emotion and identity politics rather than dealing with the realities as they are.

The barrage of fake news doesn’t help. My mom’s husband used to watch Madow pretty much daily. I would argue her points with logic, fact, and was always told “I would rather believe her than what you’re saying,” After two years, I was correct with everything I mentioned.

The best part was I kept sending small emails and messages to my Mom as a reference so when the truth became widely known – I had told them first.

Thankfully, they have very recently decided not to watch the mainstream news anymore as even they see the bias and yet they still wonder how I am months or years ahead of the media with correct information.

There is a couple of huge scandals happing in Canada right now, and my mom’s response when I call her on her partisan rhetoric is “Well a lot of what’s happening is open to interpretation.”

At that point, I reference what the PM or other’s said against previous statements, the laws and statutes and general logic.

You can’t have a feminist Prime Minister who’s defence of allegations of sexual misconduct are “she experienced it differently. Then use the same argument when explaining how the Justice Minister didn’t understand what was being told to her because “She just experienced the conversation differently.” What he’s really saying is that she is too dumb to understand the conversation.

Coming from a political and public relations perspective, one of the main reasons Trudeau won was because of a brilliant PR campaign. He did everything perfect to court the dumbed down, identity politics, uninformed, uncaring electorate.

Now, I’m a woman-hating toxic male because I don’t like our Prime Minister. That’s the latest label I have. Yet, those same people who call me that can’t explain anything about the multiple scandals happening, more than three CDN politicians, or any policy of the current government, or Liberal, Conservative, or NDP election platforms.

Call me old fashioned or an idiot, but I still think that facts outweigh emotions when deciding things such as foreign policy or creating effective firearms legislation.

That isn’t to say that I’m not emotional, look at this rant I’ve been writing. My statements are full of emotion and fact. It is impossible to not have emotions in politics and any politician without them would never get elected.

I just gave Tigger her, and a memory came flooding back. I had a girlfriend who broke up with me because I password my computer. This was back when cybersecurity was a priority or even a thing the average person had any real concern about.

Weekly I would explain that I had information or access to information on my computer which was not for the public eyes. She took that as meaning I was hiding things from her, which I admitted I was and that I wasn’t going to go to prison for letting her see them. She took that to mean I was having an affair and hiding too many secrets, so she broke up with me.

It also held continuously over my head that I locked my phone. To this day she is confident that I was hiding other girls numbers from her. Yes, some belonged to women, but they were private numbers and additional information for government officials, business leaders and others who didn’t want their information public.

With my last girlfriend, I was transitioning into retirement and the same issues where there. It severs me right for dating crazy insecure women. Why I do is a whole entry in itself.

I have a new grey squirrel. It’s relatively tiny, so I’m guessing it’s maybe a year old. I wonder how long it will take to train him to get used to me?

Okay, time to get dressed and head out for lunch. My Holfoods order is going to be late this month, so I’m going out everyday, nothing fancy, just Harvey’s for a hotdog combo with frings and a cherry Dr Pepper.