Mending the Deck Chairs on the Titanic – Reflections at Summer’s End
07:03 Okay, so, where are we in the scheme of things? It’s Sunday, September 3; This Year of Grace 2023. The 84th Anniversary of the start of World War II, my how time flies when you’re having fun and “Margaret’s” (my mom/the atrocious nickname my departed brother Paul bestowed on her) 104th Birthday were she still with us. Already wide awake about an hour earlier than I’d like (06:05), awake to “Morning Wood” instead of “Norwegian Wood”(1); at 64 this might be construed as a good thing – if only 😥 – and reflecting on the blog post I was going to make on Dominion Day, I refuse to refer to it as “Canada Day”; now 2 months ago. Meanwhile June came and went, and July 1st came and went, and the rest of July came and went, and August came and went, and how do I manage to get so little done, in so much time?
07:08 At least, that’s how it feels…
Well… I’ve managed to largely complete a workshop in our shoebox apartment, comprising a total of about 64 square feet of floor space. Added about another $500+ to my overburdened MasterCard bill in the process; got a couple of new pairs of glasses ordered, one for distance, one for close up, this “getting old” business is a tedious exercise; progressive lenses drive me nuts, the one time I tried them couldn’t keep them on my face for 30 seconds. The shop thus far, is starting to look like this:
Here was my starting point around June 18, paid a couple of much younger guys $150 to schlep my wide bench from storage, a distance of 4 klics – and up two flights of stairs:
Developing by degrees, by around July 18 (a month later obviously) thus:
Living in an apartment, there was no way I could secure pegboard and shelves to the wall, thus I mounted same to the benches beneath them… but care for the place however we try, we’ll likely inevitably forfeit our damage deposit anyway… it’s how the rental game works…
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June 9th I guess or maybe a bit earlier, my Lorée #0 d’amore bocal (on the right) arrived from Hannah’s Oboes, as an alternative to the #2 I already had, which seemed to be playing flat. I was looking for a Lorée #1, but the only #1’s she had were Hinnikers which I probably should have ordered, I’ve gathered the Hinniker is a Stradivarius amongst oboes… but they were also a lot more expensive; the Lorée was $298 with the exchange and before shipping and taxes, but alas when I tried it soon discovered my chops are so rusty didn’t seem to make any difference. 😥 And that was as far as my reviving my oboe playing has got at the moment; I became and continue to be distracted by setting up the “Postage Stamp Shop” and imposing some sort of order to our chaotic overstuffed tiny apartment. There’s the other issue of finding other players / accompanists who haven’t taken The Lethal Injection, can’t have them dropping dead of myocarditis or a stroke or a myocardial in the middle of rehearsal or performance after all(2) 🤔 …
July marked the departure of “Mother Fran” whom almost no-one has ever heard of; and the talented but very damaged Sinéad O’Connor whom a great many have. The former sang in Saint Luke’s choir which I attended once upon a time: It was my parents’ church and when I came to Victoria, my church as well; I intended to attend Fran’s memorial service, a bad night’s sleep precluded that; but as a result of Cynthia emailing me about it, I spent some time digging through emails from about 2 years ago, forcibly reminding me of events from September 2021 on, including the bogus “anti-Covid” measures implemented by our criminal crypto-Nazi/Bolshevik government (depending on how you want to look at them) of British Columbia, including their appalling, despicable, — and utterly useless — “Vaccine Passports” – and the Bishop of the Diocese of British Columbia Anna Greenfield Lee issuing a “Pastoral Letter”(3) in full support of those abominations…
Like Pontius Pilate with Jesus, my church washed their hands of me, and delivered me into the hands of my enemies. I wrote Fr. Daniel an email protesting same which he never answered… and I haven’t attended St. Luke’s since. I was debating in July sending a belated letter to our Lady Bishop about what happened 2 years back… Trouble is, the driest, most reserved recounting of the last 3 years from a Pureblood’s perspective would read to one of The Terminally Blue-Pilled like the ravings of a crazy man and I suspect she’d dismiss my missive with “Covid is over” … assuming she’d even answer it … 🤔
No, it’s not Your Grace. It’s just getting started… 😳💣
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“This great evil. Where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us? Robbing us of light and life? Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known? Does our ruin benefit the Earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you too? Have you passed through this night?”
— Private Edward P. Train; The Thin Red Line
10 “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
11 Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the Devil’s schemes.
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
13 Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
— Saul of Tarsus’ Letter to the Ephesians; Chapter 6, verses 10 – 13
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I’m 64 years old… Been mulling over the Covid-19 Scamdemic and The Lethal Injections, ever since this phantasmagoric, monstrous fraud got seriously underway… But it occurred to me a few weeks back? That about every 5 years for as long as I can remember, Big Pharma, The Medical Racket and their co-opted if not wholly-owned Lying Whore Media(4) would piously trot out some malarky about the latest Influenza Pandemic – it was going to be a killer this time! Oh Boy, was humanity ever going to get it!! – “Asian flu”… “Spanish flu”… “Swine flu”… “Bird flu”… “Venezuelan Beaver Cheese flu”… “Norwegian Blue Parrot flu”… (beautiful plumage tho’ 🤔) – but Hey!! Just in the nick of time! There was this brand-new miraculous life-saving vaccine available, only thing that would save humanity, that they’d just cooked up in their back-alley flu-vaccine-cum-crystal-meth lab; our governments were going to distribute it “for free” – never mind the billions of dollars borrowed from commercial banks stemming from pre-signed contracts with Big Pharma’s Drug Lords to do it, that our grand-children or more likely great grand-children will still be paying for at exorbitant interest along with everything else…
… And every 5 years, we’d all swallow the patent bullshit whole, and off we’d troop to take the proffered vaccine, and every 5 years a couple dozen people would die of it, and several dozen more would be severely and permanently injured… You’d have to dig long and deep to learn about those injuries and deaths mind you… Occasionally that information would surface, there would be a great big brou-ha-ha about “corporate responsibility” and vaccine production and injection would be shut down in a great big show of virtue-signalling (5) … 🙄💩
… I was one of them come to think of it, back in 2017, took that year’s flu vaccine as a condition of employment, and you know? My left arm has never been quite the same since.. a little weaker than my right arm, coordination is off just a little, it’s often noticeably colder than my right arm – no huge deal and nothing you could pin on the flu vaccine of course, and I usually don’t even notice it, and in any event I digress …
Where was I? Oh yes …
But now? “Covid-19” was upon us! – just like the SARS scam back in 2003 and thanks to the Chinese then as well except that time it was a flu they’d caught from civets, and this time it was a variety of cold virus peculiar to bats. Never mind that! It was a cold virus with a 5% – 10% mortality for human beings!! … that had somehow jumped species from a bowl of bat soup in Wuhan China, to infect humanity with catastrophic consequences!
Funny how no-one mentioned the Chinese have been eating things like civets and bats for centuries if not millennia and nothing like this ever happened before… that only now, an endemic disease to another species had suddenly, so to speak, “jumped ship”? 😳
They also never mentioned the “experimental” bit, about the vaccines, for some reason.. 🤔
“Never mind all that my lad!” Once again most of us swallowed the patent bullshit whole, and off we mostly went (some of us were finally beginning to get wise) to take their experimental bioweapon injections as the government vendettas against the Purebloods grew ever more vindictive, atrocious and crazy…
This was the nonsensical, patently ridiculous story we were sold. We now have a situation where 30% of humanity could be dead in 2 – 3 years because we trusted. Probably much more.
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11:39 Okay so.. 11:00 – 11:20 A visit from Jesse, could I fix a sticky valve on his poor old euphonium? First sale since May… soon as I tightened the bottom cap on the valve case the sticky valve cured itself.. but just to be on the safe side cleaned the pistons with Goof-Off, put in a new felt under the valve button because it was going “clank” like it shouldn’t have, had him give it a toot and he pronounced himself satisfied, charged him $20 and sent him on his merry way, telling him if that didn’t work I’d lap the valve which I don’t want to do (truly I don’t) because that’s the only other thing I can think of to fix the problem.
Mending my broken deck chairs on the Titanic. While our civilization disintegrates for our plutocrats’ and kakistocrats’ pleasure…
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(1) Norwegian Wood / This Bird Has Flown
(2) Dr. William Makis, MD: Musicians And Singers Dying Suddenly In May And June 2023 – The Trend Is Accelerating
(3) Covid 19 Update: Pastoral Letter From Bishop Anna
(4) I really shouldn’t cast such aspersions on prostitutes: These good women after all provide an essential service under often degrading and frequently very dangerous circumstances…🤔
(5) 60 Minutes: “Mike Wallace Exposes the 1976 Swine Flu Pandemic Vaccine Injuries”
Excellent
I finally settled in after a long day of chores, and other mundane but necessary tasks, and began to catch up on Substacks that came in.
Just finished reading yours, and very much appreciated it. I am new to your stack, and not so familiar with your writing style. Simply, I like it.
Very accurate descriptions of people and events from the recent past, and what we are dealing with now. And it seemed like a note from a friend. A friend who shares the same reactions to this.....life stuff.
You have done a great job building your workshop. So neat and well appointed. And I can't get to cleaning out the piles of miscellaneous items and mail in various corners of my small house. The workshop is for instrument repair? Did you play professionally?
I played clarinet in the high school band and orchestra decades ago. Not the best choice for me, I would have done better with the flute or percussion. My sister just sent me a video of my grand-niece who finished high school, and played flute and piccolo with the orchestra. She did the piccolo solo on Stars and Stripes Forever with their final performance.
Glasses, one pair for driving and one for reading. Never had to wear them until I was 55.
I visited Vancouver BC once a long time ago. Strange story.