The Backup

I wanted to have a backup for the computer I'm using now.
It "died" last night and this one is almost 10 years old (I think).
It's so sloooooooooooow, but it works and I can at least blog.

I'm hoping just to finish the mini site version of my site.
Just to have something "together" while I build "the other stuff."

What I would like to do is have a major site.
I'd like to have an auction website. For this city.

I've seen an auction site for Edmonton.
There's an antiques guy who has a YT channel.

I started watching his videos to try to get myself
"out of my head" enough
to focus enough to watch something.

Didn't think I'd be switching back to this computer,
but it works (for now).
I was at the "book bus" last week.

It's a "mobile library" that parks near the tiny 
"community center" we have, here.

I've only been there once or twice.
To the community center thing.

There's a "good food box" program
where you can get a box of fresh produce for $20/box.
There are a couple of smaller boxes, I think.
(It's been a while).

Also, there's a "mobile market" which is
basically a bus that comes like the "book bus"
that sells fruit and veg for less than in the stores.

I was at the soup kitchen when they started a "food truck" thing.
I mean, I was in the kitchen helping out.
I don't write about it to be like "hey look at me! I volunteer!"
First, I've got my own reasons why it's that place.

And I didn't mind the dish pit.
Sometimes would rather be in there
than in the kitchen itself.

Because I wanted to get fast at it.
I wanted the repetitive-ness for it to 
just make me want to pound those trays out.

I meant racks. They have a "machine" thing.
The racks are set up with the plates etc,
then it goes through the machine.
Everything that comes out of the machine
is scalding hot.

But you have to keep it moving. 
Say you have 3 racks come out of the machine
You have to grab everything off those racks
and put it all away, fast

then pass the empty racks back to the person
who's running the racks though the machine.

There's a hose so that people can spray everything
that gets put on the rack.
Before it gets put through the machine.

I never counted how many racks ran through.
I mean, when I was in the dish pit.

But all the pots and pans went last.
All the dishware went through first.

I haven't been to the kitchen since before covid.

Anyway, I only mentioned it because I was there
during the time that they came up with it
and started.

I don't know how many trucks they have.

But it can be hard for some people
to get all the way down town for a meal.

Volunteers are allowed to eat what's left
after the crowd rolls through.

A lot gets cooked and thrown away.
I know because I've seen.

Maybe award volunteers with extra meals
or save those meals for someone?
Instead of throwing good food away.

My Grandmother was a "lunch lady"
who volunteered at a school near where they lived for "lunch time"
She used to be appalled at the kids throwing away their food
that they were supposed to be eating.

And all the while the parents would assume
that their kids ate their lunches.

So people can say "price of food" all they want
WHILE THROWING FOOD AWAY.

Let me put it this way...
IF I HAD THROWN OUT
THIS COMPUTER WHEN I GOT THE ONE
THAT "DIED" YESTERDAY...

I wouldn't be able to blog until
I saved up enough money to get another one.

I guess why I was writing about the "book bus"
is because while I was in there, there was a sign
that said that people can borrow a chrome book thing
for up to 3 months.

There could be loop holes in the system to keep borrowing it.

The library has been stolen from lots of times.
But I just like going to them because they have stuff to look at.

Including books about science, history, knitting, crochet etc.
All kinds of stuff.

And you can borrow them and take out more
when you visit, again, to bring them back.

I used to take my son to the library when he was a kid.
And we'd look at the books together at bed time.

And he had his own collection of books.
The routine was 3 books and 3 songs.

He got to pick the books and songs.

Then it was just time to go to sleep.
Easy routine.

Some parents dread putting their kids to bed
because their kids got used to being brats.

First, if they have a nice time,
like just looking at books together, 
reading together,
then sing a few songs...
THEY GET USED TO THAT.

My bedtime was different as a kid.
I went to bed at the time Unsolved Mysteries
and Rescue 911 came on TV...
TRY FALLING ASLEEP TO THOSE THEME SONGS.

As I got older, I was allowed to stay up late enough
TO ACTUALLY WATCH THOSE SHOWS LOL.

Anyway, the point is that if I have to borrow a device
at least I can do that via the library.
Which is pretty awesome.

The protests have been getting wild.
Outside people's homes so they can't leave.
JT's motorcade was attacked by protesters.
AND THEY DIDN'T ARREST ANYONE.

PEOPLE ARE P*SSED 
THAT THE TRUCKERS GOT AN EMERGENCY ACT
AND BANK ACCOUNTS FROZEN
BY THE GOVERNMENT

AND THERE ARE PROTESTERS
LITERALLY TRYING TO COME FOR PEOPLE.

SHOUTING DEATH UPON PEOPLE...

And then, I think it was in Winnipeg...
(correct me if I'm wrong)...
A bunch of people, were charging down the street
with their 'ceremonious' swords in the air.)

Those swords or daggers, I don't know the name for them.
Those aren't illegal here because those have
something to do with their religion.
Or something like that.

So they called running down the street
with those RAISED a protest.

WHY ARE PROTESTS NOT ALLOWED
IN THE COUNTRIES THEY LIVED IN
BEFORE THEY CAME TO CANADA?

Because protests can turn into riots.

Sure, it can feel 'good' to riot.
BUT IS IT NECESSARY?

Just that the trucker protest wasn't a riot.
It's that there was a public outcry about the protests.

It was handled pretty poorly, yes, but
THIS 'NEW WAVE' ISN'T BEING HANDLED AT ALL.

It's deportation time.

They are trying to excuse themselves
because when the Europeans came to settle
in Canada (before it became Canada),
they acted very poorly and ignorantly.

Just because ONE race acted like that like 200 years ago
DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT
FOR PEOPLE TO JUST COME HERE
JUST TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO.

Do we, as Canadians, run down your streets
DOING ANYTHING IN YOUR COUNTRY?
JUST WHATEVER?

One, we'd probably get thrown in jail
in your country.

There was a guy who went to Korea.
I can't remember if it was North or South Korea.

Anyway, he saw some propaganda that he decided
to pack as he was leaving. He got caught stealing it.
They take stealing very seriously in their country.

They had him in their jail.
I can't remember all the details,
but he died not long after being sent back to his country.

There was a guy who was being held hostage somewhere
(a foreign country) for over 2 years.
He didn't know if he'd see his family again.

He missed the birth of his child.

The kid's mother played a recording of their father's voice
just so the kid can know "that's my father's voice."

Anyway, it was probably longer than 2 years.
The point was being held hostage.
Not knowing when or if you can go home.

His interview was pretty emotional.
Everything they subjected him to.
While he was a hostage.

AND BEING REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY.
ESPECIALLY HIS KID HE HADN'T MET.

AND HOW HAPPY THE KID WAS
JUST TO HAVE THEIR DAD.