BE. QUIET. UGH.

Beautiful day for a run.

Busy roads like King George are for stores and cars and trucks. Quiet secondary streets are for living, whether SFH or condo. Those who think otherwise are out to lunch.

Once again there is a lack of communication by TransLink to those at SkyTrain stations about the need to change, rail replacement bus, etc. They seem to run on the premise no problems will ever occur, and then are caught short when needing to manage an issue.

Of course the first morning in a while that I try to go to Surrey the SkyTrain is borked and rail replacement buses are packed due to night shift workers trying to get home. Ugh.

Haven't we been having today's conversations for years now?

Anyone know if I can report a road-sidewalk problem to the city of #newwest without the faff of downloading an app? Can I just email engineering?

There were far too many sirens and train whistles last night. Every single one woke me up.

Go read her books.

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I miss picking up the Guardian or Globe and Mail as broadsheets like we did back in the day. Or any other print news, tbh. Coffee, paper, finish with the comics and crossword. News websites today are DIRE.

Rainy day means smokers think any overhang is for them to stand under regardless of who will be choking in their disgusting fumes.

September 28, 1987, #StarTrek - The Next Generation (or short TNG) debuts on TV. Like in the original series, also in TNG minerals, rocks, even fossils play a role, as seen in Captain Picard's ready room 💎🖖 www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/geological-s...

Why do so many people on BSky repost their own posts? I end up hiding so many daily.

On this date in 1962, after having been published serially in three parts the previous summer by The New Yorker, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published as a book by Houghton Mifflin. #Booksky #HistSci www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/09/the-...

I feel so hemmed in now by buildings. Won't be long before I pretty much have no view of sky from my own condo windows.

Fridge purchased. Fingers crossed this one works at its minimal level until the new one is delivered next Saturday!

The only thing I enjoy as much as not doing laundry is having freshly cleaned clothes

Just back from errands. The dollar store has the #$&@*!% Xmas decorations out. NO. JUST NO. This madness has to stop.

My fridge is on its last legs. Freezer no longer freezing and the fridge barely cooling. After my morning tasks I am out of energy to go shop for large appliances. I hope it limps through another week!

Out for a run at Fraser Foreshore and saw a cute little common garter snake.

Monetizing blogs a la Substack is lousy. Getting rid of paying for writing jobs is lousy. I miss reading good writing but cannot realistically afford everyone's individual Substack or Patreon subscriptions.

In construction site news, they decided tonight to stay and are still hammering metal over and over and over. Closed my windows and turned on the fan and am trying to keep from screaming.

I’m actually usually not that stressed out unless I’m on my phone or near my phone or thinking about my phone

R.F. Kuang talk at the Writers Fest was so much fun. She is so smart, funny, nerdy & quirky...one of the few people I would listen to on podcasts. Especially as her current obsessions are French existentialists and quantum mechanics!

Researching getting to Granville Island from New West on transit. It still takes too long and involves annoying bus routes.

Construction workers on site banging metal with hammers, drilling into concrete. Happy relaxing Saturday morning.

Oh no. An awful thing has happened. The milk is sour & I have to go out to shop before I have even had a coffee. This Saturday is all out of order.

Dear Lord. Amps are not required for a patio party. And why does this patio mean hundreds of apartments have to listen to it. It is a school night.

Apparently there is at least one elderly person in my building (no caregiver help) who has been told numerous times not to put their diapers full of faeces into the communal washing machines used by 10 floors of people. My skin is crawling as my laundry is currently in one machine. Yuck.

Got home from my run just as the skies opened up. Downpour!

Costco Production Way & City of Burnaby were so close to getting improved pedestrian access from the SkyTrain to the store entrance. But I assume they didn't ask a single person who actually doesn't drive there - who makes PEOPLE cross a road TWICE when once will do? Those who prioritize cars...

How can so many people afford to be smokers in this economy?

I had hoped we'd dodged it this year. And if course it is stupid hot this week.

Where has the smoke moved in from? Yuck.

Yes, yes, yes. Let's restructure the system. Change the system even. But for sure restructure it to benefit the masses.

I don't care which of them goes as long as 4 day work weeks become the norm.

Back to cooking up the same meal prep after an 8 week break. Ugh.

Garry Oak ecosystems are ENDANGERED ecosystems. Screw this idea. Nanaimo needs to shake its head and build it in one of their oversized parking lots instead. Or not at all.

On a bus that is meant to be air conditioned but the fricking HEAT is on. And this bus driver messed up and ran back to the bus as it was meant to be DEPARTING. So we are also 5min behind for no reason & standing room only from stop 1. I can't with TransLink anymore.

Started setting my alarm this week prior to starting back at work next week. Immediately the quality of my sleep deteriorated & suddenly I am not sleeping solidly through the night until 7am. Instead I am tossing & turning by 4am, in the bathroom, mostly awake & never really falling back to sleep.

All that money for the wee park in front of Massey Theatre and I see today it is all torn out due to the work being done on the theatre itself.

Tried to do a little shopping for some shoes. Stopped short of trying any on & ended up buying a book and a puzzle. Will try again once it feels like autumn & the full season changeover has happened in the stores.

It probably isn't helpful that I have lost all interest in food. I crave nothing. I cannot shop because as I look at things on shelves, my stomach says no. The fridge and cupboards are pretty much empty. What emotional state have I reached?

Oh no. My phone updated how the clock alarms work and it actually is worse than previously. Normally I say that as I dislike change, but this is actually functionally worse. Someone please get coders a new hobby.

On a hot afternoon there is a single spot on New West Quay that is shaded & breezy & cool: underneath the Inn at the Quay staring at the two paddlewheel boats.

I need to go touch grass but I don't want to walk in the heat or take a crowded bus without AC.

Am I losing my mind? I swear that search bar wasn't as large yesterday. It jumped out at me this morning when I accidentally hit it instead of an app icon.