From my favorite blogger:
…my hope for this world does not depend upon “Conservatives” or “Republicans”; but upon a revival of Christianity and of the Catholic Church; and, for instance, the forced retreat of the tribal “religions” that have been replacing her, with the decay of our intellectual and moral faculties. It is not good to know that we are going to Hell. Instead, let us affirm the truth: that salvation is through Christ.
Buddy Ray and I had coffee at Tim Horton’s near the intersection of Brandon’s 18th street and the Trans Canada Highway.
The place was full of old retirees and Indian staff.
I have extended my Duolingo streak and completed the daily challenges and uploaded this video:
While there, I heard over the intercom that they couldn’t take debit cards because MTS was down and thus the internet was down, which meant that they could only take cash at the tills. Mom had a shopping cart full of stuff as the announcement was made. Putting our cash together, we may not have had enough to pay for the cart’s contents. They then said that some credit cards were working so we could have used mine.
But then they said they were able to take debit cards again. We retuned to filling the cart,
A local, when hearing from us about this, said this failure of the network was a periodic thing in the province of Manitoba, and that it was always best to have cash on hand.
I upload my daily quote video to WeChat, Red Note and Rumble in the evening around 6:00. They are thus available to China in the morning, their time.
I then upload the quote video to YouTube the next morning. Whether this makes any difference, as far as view numbers go, remains to be seen.
From a certain angle, the Golden Arches can be seen to loom over the KFC. But not from where I took the above photo. I’ll work on getting that image.
And there just happens to be a plus size store nearby.
My son’s and My reaction: What!?!?
One of the reasons to come back to Canada was for my son to see lots of snow, but I don’t want to see justyet. After another month or so would be better.
Especially since I raked leaves this afternoon
I had planned to walked to 18th street and back, but a black cat crossed the street ahead of me and I decided to change my route. Peace of mind is something to be devoutly wished for.
I saw this:
An elaborate Halloween display. A lot of homes are doing this.
I also pointed my camera up at this:
Stately elm, I can say?
Any who! The walk was invigorating. I enjoyed the cold sensation.
I have two books of daily GK Chesterton readings from which I gleamed the following quote:
The key part: the permanent human temptation is the temptation to be mean. I’ll admit it is a temptation I succumb to a lot, especially on social media and when contemplating politicians, bureaucrats and progressives.
BTW, I’ve extended my Duolingo streak to 2103 days. It was supposed to be my Lou Gehrig milestone, but then I checked. Lou Gehrig’s streak was actually 2130 games. So, I still have 27 days to go.
He talks to Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute
Nice dissident talk about the stupidity of the Covid response.
Planned classes I did.
I’ll just have to keep plugging away.
Moving to Brandon, nothing is currently commonplace for me.
I try to be on my toes as I live with my mother. As she says, when I see something that needs to be done, I should do it.
Keeping in spirit with that admonition, I took out the garbage and recycling. Exiting the house the slap of cool fresh air on my body was invigorating.
I got to spend more time in the vicinity of the house.
When the final batter of that inning was retired and extra time was certain, I decided not to continue following. It was a good decision.
The first video is my reading of a Simon Weil quote.
The second video is a silly thing I did with A.I. It has had over 1K views.
In China, we’d eat out five or six times a week; in Canada, we eat out once a month.
A 12:00 to 14:00 Preply Class
A 17:00 to 18:00 Preply Class
18:30 RCIA Class.
I wonder if I sound like a local to Brandonites. I detect a Brandon accent when I talk to locals for sure. So I wonder if the locals think I have an accent of someone from somewhere else.
According to Chat Gpt:
According to Grok;
Grok is wrong. Alas!
I drove my son to school and then had to pick him up soon after because there was a power outage.
I was informed of this via robo phone call.
In China, I am sure they would have carried on.
Parents in China would have been informed of any general emergencies via WeChat.
At shopping malls in China, on rainy days, they put out long narrow bags at the entrances for shoppers to put their wet umbrellas in. This is not done in Canada.
Why the difference? I will speculate. Canada having had a longer car culture has not the need for umbrellas that the Chinese of Jiangsu province still do. That’s my guess.
Or the third day of the Octave of the Epipihany. I’ll take view photos when the sun comes out. Today’s video upload: A Simone Weil quote.
