Monday – December 4th, 2023 –

– Monday – December 4th, 2023 —> -2˚C / +28˚F & Snowing Lightly @ 1:43 pm in Atlantic Canada –

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– Lightly Snowing @ 1:45 pm December 4th, 2023 –

— I’ve been dreaming up a storm and a half lately – cinematic dreams even – dreams with intermissions during which I wake up and fall back asleep and resume dreams.

— This morning – I dreamed there was some kind of wedding going on and a lot of my sister Nancy’s friends were sleeping at our house – the house was not one I recognized, but when I was trying to change my clothes I went into a room I knew was mine and one of Nancy’s friends was sleeping in my double bed { After other girls who’d been sleeping there had gotten up and were in other rooms – either getting dressed or eating breakfast? } I got some underwear { Green underpants and I think an orange/beige tee shirt that I didn’t know if I’d actually wear as I had a dress shirt that colour to wear over the tee shirt } – { I think I may have been planning to wear a green suit jacket? } and when the girl in my bed stirred I beat a hasty retreat to another room – that reminded my of my Wellington grandparents’ ‘little room near their kitchen on Ward Street – and was surprised to find Nancy and another one of her friends waking up in a bed in there – … Then I woke up here in the ‘real world’.

— { I kept myself awake long enough to make sure I could get the garbage and recycling out this morning – I’d been worried that since I had recently changed my sleeping times and I’d been getting more sleep than usual lately – and before moving to the living room while Cathi slept and needed her sleep in our bedroom – I kept my mind busy imagining and re-writing in my head —> scenes and dialog for the NaNo Novel I worked on this last November – {{ I added a cement ‘Liberation Boat’ that had been modified by an A.I.Program linked to an Ymmp’s mind {{{ “Copied and Pasted from a boat in the parallel world the story takes place in }}} – the original ship was almost finished near the very end of the last world war {{{{ versus the Nazis/Fascists }}}} and was not fitted out to the specs of its original purpose – as a troop transport and supply ship – but was given to the French who had suffered hugely during the war – and hit a mine while carrying supplies to the Nederlands in that world – and sunk – but the copied and pasted version had been extensively modified by the A.I. program as directed by Muddagus the Ymmp { an entirely positive good guy Ymmp } – the deck of this ship – which should have a very long life expectancy – had been fitted out with extensive food and flower gardens – as well as a lot of solar collectors which convert sunshine too DC electric current that runs most lights, small appliances such as radios, computers, and other electronics – with AC electricity generated by hydro electric equipment that catches water from the waterfalls in Ithaka’s gorges – and the computer network { ‘Christened “Nerbit Network” and hard wired with fibre optic cables all over Ithaka – the AC cables and fibre optic cables run along the dock into Lake Cayuga where the cement ‘Liberation Ship’ {{ ‘TIC#959 – SS Freedom’ – “SS” standing for ‘Service Ship’ or ‘Supply Ship’ }} } & with the above the main deck’s interior including the bedroom Derrick Johnson grew up in – in Ithaka, New Amsterdam State, Turtle Island Confederation – And he and Elise move into that bedroom with it’s adjoining living room and the nearby re-purposed ‘Bridge’/computer room. & when they wake up they hear a radio broadcast in their far distant safe world – “Good Morning – it’s six am and radio station WCLU – 86.9 FM on your radio dial begins its broadcast day from our new studios overlooking Cleeson University’s Campus. WCLU is independently owned and operated by the Shantivarta Foundation with our new studios and offices in the Scott Baldwyn building on Freedom Hill Lane – overlooking the Cleeson University campus in Ithaka, New Amsterdam, in the wonderful Turtle Island Confederation – with our broadcasting tower about five hundred yards up Freedom Hill Lane atop the highest hill in Ithaka – where we broadcast at 50 mega watts to the Ithaka, New Amsterday area. Today is Monday, May 16th, 7997 – with glorious sunshine ahead and the temperature now is nineteen degrees Celcius / seventy degrees Fahrenheit with fair skies and light winds forecast for the whole day and into tomorrow and Wednesday – and as we’re in the process of unpacking and moving our vast library into our new studio – the first album I found while I was getting ready for my first gig here in our new studio had this very appropriate cut staring me in the face – so here is George Harrison and The Beatles plying “Here Comes the Sun” – Which should set us up for a very enjoyable week here and wherever you may be -” —> & When Elise hears that – she turns to Derrick and smiles, “Hey wow – today’s my eighteenth birthday!” and they dance in their ‘Captain’s Cabin’ to the song while it plays. }

— That should be enough for now – 🙂

~~~~~ Jim

Friday – August 19th, 2022

– Friday, August 19th, 2022 —> +23˚C / +72˚F — cloudy & damp with rain forecast for this afternoon in New Brunswick on – I think it’s my old next door neighbour – Bill Clinton’s – Birthday. { @ 2:15 pm in Atlantic Canada } –

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– “Smoke Tree’ – Photo taken August 19, 2022 –

— I had a weird dream just before I woke up – I drove my friend from my old US Post Office days somewhere – I thought it was in Milford, Connecticut, USA { Where – among other things I once lived on the beach at 791 East Broadway with a growing number of roommates and my next door neighbour at 793 East Broadway was then future US President, Bill Clinton – {{ Both houses were expensive summer rentals whose price went down when the season ended and were often rented to University students – Bill was a graduate student at Yale Law School and he took time off from his studies to work on Joseph Lieberman’s campaign to become the Attorney General for the State of Connecticut – the campaign was successful – & Joe later became a US Senator from Connecticut. One of his successors for the position of Attorney General of the state of Connecticut – Richard Blumenthal – coincidentally – is now a US Senator from the state of Connecticut – and I was the recording engineer at WPKN FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut when Green Party Activist, Dr. John Battista – interviewed then Attorney General Blumenthal for Dr. John’s program, “Progressive Voices” – the interview took place over three telephones with me the only person in the WPKN recording studio during a blizzard – um, circa 1995/1996 {{{?}}} – But that has nothing to do with my dream – }} – }

— I gave Pamm a ride somewhere and parked in a field where a big, official looking sign { that looked like something posted by the state Motor Vehicle Department } said “Free Parking” and gave the hours. Pamm had to go somewhere and I went off in search of a cheeseburger or something like that and when we returned for my car – the field had only about 10% of the cars that had been parked there not much earlier that afternoon. The “Free Parking” sign had been replaced by “Paid Parking Only / All others will be towed away at owners’ expense / Police Take Notice” And a bunch of irate car owners were arguing with a cigar smoking guy who looked and sounded like a Mafia guy from the TeeVee program – ‘The Sopranos’ – the guy with the cigar was laughing and had about half a dozen mean looking henchmen between himself and the owners.  The guy with the cigar held his cigar in his hand and grinned and pointed to the sign that said “Paid Parking Only” and cackled, “You can see – it’s plainly posted-” and laughed at the men who said, “There was a sign there that said ‘Free Parking’ and gave the hours – every day of the week and weekend.” The guy with the cigar turned to one of his henchmen and cackled – “I don’t see a sign like that – do you see a sign like that?” And the henchman – who had a tire iron in one hand and  slapped it menacingly into the palm of his other hand several times, shook his head and said in a definitive voice, “Nope.” – I told somebody standing next to me – “You can bet there are several corrupt policemen on this character’s payroll,” and walked away feeling frustrated, wondering how I was going to pay the probable $200.00 plus extortion fee to get my car back.

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— & this email message was in my inbox this morning:

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– { Green Party New Brunswick / parti vert du Nouveau Brunswick email letterhead } –

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Hello Jim,

We need to talk about the upcoming Electoral Boundaries Commission consultation.

OK, I get that it’s not the most exciting topic, but bear with me. 

Every 10 years, a commission is set up to review and redraw the boundaries of electoral ridings and it happens to be this year. At the end of August, the Commission will begin a series of public meetings in 12 communities across NB, as well as 2 virtual meetings.

This process has a direct impact on the integrity and quality of our democracy in New Brunswick. 

The Commission is led by Conservative and Liberal co-chairs, but there is no Green voice at the table. Kevin Arseneau raised concerns earlier this year about the optics of excluding a party from the process.

This consultation is our chance to have our voice heard on important electoral issues in NB.

Earlier this year, David, Kevin and Megan proposed having this commission recommend a proportional representation system for NB. Every single Liberal and Conservative MLA voted against the motion.

This is your chance to speak up and let them know that a strong democracy is important to you, fair electoral boundaries are crucial, and that proportional representation is worth a try in New Brunswick.

Here is the list of upcoming public meetings:

  • Inkerman: Tuesday, Aug. 23 – Centre Communautaire d’Inkerman
  • Campbellton: Wednesday, Aug. 24 – Quality Hotel and Conference Centre
  • Bathurst: Thursday, Aug. 25 – K.C. Irving Regional Centre
  • Miramichi: Tuesday, Aug. 30 – Travelodge Miramichi
  • Bouctouche: Wednesday, Aug. 31 – J.K. Irving Centre
  • Moncton: Thursday, Sept. 1 – Delta Beauséjour
  • Edmundston: Tuesday, Sept. 6 – Edmundston Hotel and Conference Centre
  • Grand Falls: Wednesday, Sept. 7 – Rodeway Inn
  • Woodstock: Thursday, Sept. 8 – NBCC Woodstock
  • Saint Andrews: Tuesday, Sept. 13 – NBCC Saint Andrews
  • Saint John: Wednesday, Sept. 14 – Delta Saint John
  • Fredericton: Thursday, Sept. 15 – Delta Fredericton

As well as 2 virtual meetings:

  • Thursday September 1, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m.
  • Monday September 12, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.

For more information, check out the Electoral Boundaries and Representation Commission website.

If you plan on attending and would like some guidance on the issues, you can email me at president@greenpartynb.ca

Nicolas Jelic

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"Evergreens & Friends"

– “Evergreens & Friends” – Photo taken at 1:39 pm Atlantic Time. –

— And – in an attempt to end on a positive note – above is a photo of two young evergreens struggling to gain a foothold on the side of our friendly neighbourhood ‘Deer Hill’.

— “Have a great life -“

~~~~~ Jim

 

Our World – And Welcome To It –

Nikki x 48by Nikki —> Saturday – July 11th, 2020 –

— { This is my first attempt to work inside an official Team’s website/ Blog. I copied and pasted this from “Barn Cat Rescue” where I got myself a web site ‘hosted by WordPress – But every time I try to log in they try to trick me into clicking on a link that sends me to “Pay this amount a month or this amount for a full year – give us your credit card details NOW!” And our friends said I could come here, gave me a password, etc. and said, “Go Get ‘Em!” – So This is an experiment – really. The first 3 paragraphs are copied and pasted from where they forced me to use their stupid “Blocks” format. I saved the photo/screen-shot and copied and pasted the caption and then copied and pasted the rest of the article – or post? that I wrote 3 days ago … and now I’ll click “Publish” and close my eyes and hope it works…. {{{ —> Nikki <— }}} …Here goes…. }

— Wednesday, July 8th, 2020- Jericho, Vermont

— We can only visit our Canadian Friends through the wonders of FaceTime or Video Messaging through Skype or even facebook.

— Our friend Doug is pretty good at taking his time and ‘creating’ ‘avatars’ that can move around and experience things inside the 3D gaming world some of our friends have been putting together for several years now. He created the woman character that almost looks like I used to. { We won’t talk about grey hairs, not even in relation to them being signs of ‘Wisdom’ – okay? }

- Nikki & Drae at Landsdrop Falls -

– Our Friend, Jim, in New Brunswick – ‘created’ Drae’s Avatar while Doug in New York State ‘created’ the version of me – or what I might look like in my dreams these days 🙂 –

— Doug in New York and Jim in New Brunswick were able to work on the same area at the same time and Doug was able to use his iPad to show us both a lot of their ‘game’ world and show us what they were able to do with characters that look like Drae and I – well, used to? They’ve still got a lot to do and Drae volunteered to record some music that might be appropriate to add to their game and when I said I didn’t think I had any skills to offer – Jim said that I sounded enthusiastic and maybe I could be something of a publicist- So that’s what I’m doing here – or at least trying – Drae says that WordPress used to be a lot less greedy and a lot more ‘user-friendly’ – I don’t know why anybody would go out of their way to make using their products so hard – but – maybe I’ll get the hang of this – Drae says he might want to strangle the next jerk that tries to tell us, “There’s a learning curve-” when what they really mean is, “You will either pay us more than this is worth or we’ll make it harder and harder for you to use our free stuff and get any enjoyment out of this.”

—And, after Doug emailed me the full sized ‘screen shot’ that he told me how to reduce in size and crop so it fit both the size and the file size requirements of this blog, I thought, at first, that Drae looked shorter than me, and he’s not – and then I realized his character, or ‘Avatar’ looks older than mine, and looks like he has some beard stubble there and I also realized, that whether it’s due to distortion, like what you get with a wide angle ‘Fish Eye’ camera lens – or not – I almost never get to look down at him.

— He grinned when I explained why I was laughing -when I realized that. And told me never to be afraid to laugh at his ‘Avatar’ of him, in person. Domestic tranquility? In this day and age? – “What a concept-“

—> Nikki <—

Staying Positive –

Nikki x 48by Nikki Andrusen —> Friday – July 10th, 2020 – { Copied & Pasted from “Barn Cat Rescue” }

Wednesday – July 8th, 2020 – Jericho,Vermont.

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– “Modified Suggested Title Page Graphic” –

— By the time I thought I was ready to “Publish” my blog – my very first adventure in blogging – I was so frustrated with WordPress – every time I turned around – they put ads disguised as helpful advice for a rookie blogger – but most of that helpful advice had price tags – “For ONLY $5.00 U$ a Month you can have this, or that…” They wanted to sell me “MY OWN Domain Name” and suggested “BarnCatRescue dot farm” { I put the capitals in there, they don’t allow them – It’s easier for me to read that line with the first letter of each word capitalized – } — Anyway, I was so disgusted I wanted to ‘flip the bird’ to my computer screen. I almost threw my hands up and screamed “Ahh – the hell with this, I don’t need the frustration -” then I laughed and typed into their ‘blocks’ in front of their graphic depiction of mountains. — And it stayed. Draelen came up behind me and laughed with me – When I turned to look at him, he said I looked like I was ready to cry – he smiled and said, “That’s good – I’d publish it.” He said I blushed, I know I closed my eyes and clicked on the right button to ‘take my blog live-”

— I was still embarrassed about venting like that – and thought WordPress would at least shut down my site and maybe even sue me. But No – at least after 4 days the site is still up and no sheriffs have shown up at our door with nasty papers they’d want me to sign…

— And then Doug encouraged me to put a screen shot of that graphic up here – He’s been coaching me on how to do this – Me – here on my aging MacBook – Him – in New York sending me text messages on his iPhone.

— Jim said part of the frustration I was feeling could have been amplified by the fact that Mercury has been retrograde in Cancer —> amplifying both positive and negative emotions at least until Sunday – when things are supposed to start getting better.

— And Doug told to me add what I was texting with what was my first article/post on the blog part of my blog :

- "How do we stay Positve?" -

– “How do we stay positive?” – In a font we can’t use here unless we fork over more money –

How do we stay at least mostly positive when everywhere we look unethical corporate stooges are sucking all the fun out of life?

Get back to nature?

- "Cat Woman Greeting Card" -

– “Accept the unconditional love our pets give us freely? – Get Back To Nature?” –

— The above is a card my husband bought when we were traveling down south { she laughed } All the way down south like Connecticut? No occasion- he just liked the card. And so do I. It’s titled “Cat Woman” – Original painting by Marie Buchfink- And sold/distributed by a company called “Spirit Art” that looked like it specialized in Native American / First Nations / Indigenous arts an culture.

  • Spirit Art
  • P.O.Box 39082
  • Edina, MN 55439 ( U.S.A.)
  • (At least they were there in 1992)

— And I still can’t get used to not having paragraphs begin indented – But this message is a whole lot more pleasant than the ‘Example’ post/article that came with this blog.

— { Doug told me how I could add three dashes that will look like one long dash and then indent one space – so it looks like I have a silly habit of starting every new paragraph with a dash – Which didn’t look so bad when he did it, so – what the heck? Maybe it won’t look completely stupid if I do that? Somebody might just think I’m really creative and that’s my style? }

—> Nikki <—

— { P.S. This was my actual first post – I thought it left too much to be desired, but Draelen, Doug and Jim all said I did fine. Now Draelen says I’m blushing bright red… }

Do We Really Need Police?

Nikki x 48—> edited by Nikki —> Friday, July 10th, 2020 – { Copied and Pasted from Barn Cat Rescue … }

- Rachel - or her avatar - guarding a virtual border in our virtual world. -

– “Rachel – Or at least – her avatar – Guarding a virtual border in our virtual world.” –

{ I had a poll here when I ‘published this article on my experimental blog – I don’t know if it will show up here… }

- Demonstrators - Header -

– “Demonstrators ” Title in a font they won’t let us use here –

— While I don’t know how great an idea it might be to get rid of all Police Forces altogether – I used to hear Draelen play a computer game in which Leonard Nimoy quoted – I believe it was Socrates – who said, “I have gained this from Philosophy – That I do out of choice what others do only out of fear of the law”

— & I remember our friend, Jim, calling himself an ‘Enlightened Anarchist’

— He said, “If you follow the ‘Love and do as thou wilt’ advice – you don’t need some jackass pointing a gun at your head or threatening you with life in prison to know you don’t want to hurt anybody -“

— Sigh – But I guess we’re not going to solve all this world’s problems with a blog – are we?

—> Nikki <—