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Last Monday, I saw a man, who I did not know, with his pants and underwear off. I was at work and was looking to use the washroom. At that time, I was at the washrooms near the cafeteria, where it’s just a bunch of personal stalls with doors that go from floor to ceiling. The lock on the outside of each stall door shows white for unlocked and red for locked. I saw the closest “white” and unlocked door and opened it.

I expected to see the shiny white porcelain of a toilet bowl that I was about to put some of my human waste into. Instead, I saw a man who I did not recognize, sitting on the toilet, pants around his ankles, and who was very surprised to see the door open on him. He kinda freaked out and started saying “sorry” over and over again. He also pushed the door closed. I was like, “whoops” and just went to the stall next to his, which was also unlocked and thankfully actually empty.

I don’t feel bad at all that I walked in on this half-naked man, doing his business on the toilet. Who the hell doesn’t lock the door behind them upon entering a public washroom stall? Geez, it’s pretty much the first thing everyone does. It’s not like I caught him right after he walked into the stall. If I had, he’d still have his pants on. Instead, he was well into his waste disposal procedure.

Luckily, I don’t know who the hell this guy was as I didn’t recognize him. I hope I taught him a good lesson.

It’s Canada Day tomorrow and a long weekend. I walked over 20 km today along the Central Valley Greenway. I’m exhausted. It’s time for bed, I’ll be back with a new post tomorrow.

When I stepped off the train this evening after work I noticed the station was darker than usual and that the stores and restaurants were all closed. I then realized the power was off. After a long day of work, I had come home to an inconvenience.

I wondered how the restaurants coped. The people who were in the middle of their meals, did they get to finish them? How did they pay? How did anyone pay without power? The Safeway was all dark and locked up. Did everyone just abandon their groceries and leave? As I walked by the movie theatre, I could still seeing people coming out of there with popcorn. That would have sucked, being in the middle of movie and then the whole auditorium goes darker. You don’t even get the satisfaction of knowing how your movie ends. I bet the theatre had given out free tickets to another showing.

When I got inside my building, the back-up generator was only running one elevator. Of course, it was packed to the gills when it arrived to take everyone upstairs. I managed to get on but I believe the carrying capacity is much less when it’s on generator. It refused to go anywhere with that many people in it. I took one for the team and used the stairs instead.

After a long walk up nearly 30 flights of stairs, I got to my darkened apartment. I lit some candles and sat in the near darkness for more than an hour before the power returned.

For as long as I can remember, we have a library at work where employees can sign out movies and games to play at home. The library probably has almost two decades worth of movies and games on all the various forms of media that we have gone through as a civilization.

The library usually purchases new media about every two weeks. I made it a habit to look up what new items were in the library using the intranet site. For nearly two months, however, no new items have been added to the collection. Not a single game nor movie has been to the library. There has been no official communication as to why this has happened.

It’s fun to speculate, so I’ll do that now. I believe this was done because of cost-cutting measures. I bet we won’t get new items in the library until the new fiscal year arrives, which means many more months of barren shelves at the library.

I’ll ask the people working the library desk tomorrow.

I bought a new pair of jeans recently and like many pairs before it, the garment contained 1% spandex to give it a nice stretchy feeling. Perhaps a man of my age shouldn’t be wearing skinny jeans but I can’t imagine how people wearing skinny jeans without the stretchiness. It must be torture.

That 1% spandex makes it so much more comfortable. We used to wear jeans that were 100% cotton denim, no stretch whatsoever! We were barbarians! This made me think that males aren’t that much removed from wearing jeggings like women do. On the top of male jeggings, take a look the stuff on sale on this web site. I don’t think I could pull it off.

It’s my favourite topic on this blog of late but this summer has been very mild. It was cloudy for most of the weekend and it even rained a bit this Sunday. It’s almost the end of June now and we’ve had no real long stretches of sunny and warm temperatures.

I wouldn’t even mind mild temperatures if it was just sunny instead but this summer has been bleh overall. We’ve received the odd day where it’s sunny but then the cloud cover will just return. To top it all off, this weekend was the summer solstice. That means, at least in the northern hemisphere, the days have stopped getting longer, and will get successively shorter until winter arrives again. So far, all we’ve experienced are longer and cloudy days. What we have to look forward to now are shorter and cloudy days.

I’m too tired to think about something to write about, so why don’t you and I just watch Matt Stonie try to eat 120 bagel bites? Is it the weekend yet?

In a previous post, I detailed this new diet where I don’t really restrict what I eat, I just stop eating many hours before I go to bed. So far, I tend to stop eating around 8pm and I don’t get to bed before 1am. Today, I had a bowl of ramen at around 7pm and I had some gummy candies at 8pm. It’s past 1am now and I’m starving. If someone gave me a cheeseburger right now, it’d be gone in ten seconds.

On most nights, I go to bed hungry because my body just needs food on a more regular basis than this. I can’t, however, argue with the results. I weighed myself tonight and I’m at 162 lbs. That may seem heavy but three weeks ago, I was almost 168 lbs. I haven’t been at 162 in a long, long time.

I think I need to eat more before I stop eating for the evening. It would just make things a bit more comfortable before I go to bed.

At one of our satellite offices at work, someone posted a message to Slack, with a picture, stating that someone had blocked one of the toilets and just left it there.

The accompanying picture showed a toilet with water that was varying shades of brown, getting darker in colour in the deeper parts of the bowl. There was also toilet paper in the bowl. It looked like someone had blended a giant poop. It was disgusting.

As you can imagine, the message elicited quite a response from the other people working in that location. One person chimed in that they encountered a similar sight in the women’s washroom on the same day. What’s going in that location?

A facilities ticket was created for the blockage to be cleared. I wonder what the person who caused the blockage thought or felt once their poo was shown to hundreds of people. We’ve all had washroom blunders and emergencies but rarely have they been broadcast onto the Internet after the fact.