Damn. Didn't make the Porn Battle deadline

[campylobacter]

• Sat, 18:47: YAY! Finally checked into B&B. #Ottawa
• Sat, 18:50: Tell @BarackObama: Don't say 'game over' for the #climate. Stop the Keystone XL #tarsands pipeline: http://t.co/2tL5uDn @CREDOMobile
• Sat, 21:12: This is why I don't join landcomms. http://j.mp/q2YaUa
• Sun, 06:35: RT @jonathansfrakes: The longest war in U.S. history...the lowest credit rating in U.S. history...hmmmm
• Sun, 06:53: LJ's F-List is pretty frustrating when you're on temperamental WiFi or dialup (which comprises 30% of my connectivity), … http://j.mp/qSVAhY
• Sun, 07:05: Le geek chic! Rock that plaid shirt & checked tweed jacket, Daniel. http://j.mp/n9kSSu
• Sun, 07:21: Displaying entries on LJ's F-List & receiving email notifs are not related. LJ makes you opt-in for emailed notifs for … http://j.mp/n2ZVpm
• Sun, 07:32: I'll get around to reading/feedbacking fic eventually. I'm supposed to be on vacation, sightseeing instead of … http://j.mp/n0Tiua
• Sun, 08:19: Damn. Didn't make the Porn Battle deadline. Bad timing, vacation.

Comments

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

And you are missing them? That panhandler this morning I said good morning to and smiled and he was like "Hey, how's you doing?" I LOL'd because even he was being polite and I didn't give him a dime.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

ZOMGLOL Do we have panhandler stories!

On the way to the Metropolitain Brasserie tonight, a junkie asked for some change while scratching at hypodermic tracks on his arm. Real smooth, dude.

Back in San Diego, a panhandler asked us for money as we entered and later exited the grocery store, so Mr. Campy told him to get a job. Dude flipped a bird, Mr. C mocked him, then the guy started cussing up a loud blue streak in front of a mom & her toddler, so security asked him to leave. Which he did -- reluctantly, while still cursing.

Then there was the bum in a drug store one night (buying tiny bottles of booze) who made a pass at me & didn't know Mr. C had heard him. There were words exchanged. The dude, um, didn't get any booze that night because he got kicked out of the store.

[shakespherical.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that most homeless in Canada are mentally ill and self medicating. We have a free needle program here to help keep HIV rates from rising and there are places for them to sleep at night but so many of them are schizophrenics who are undiagnosed or unemployable. :( It makes me sad. One of my friend's husband ended up on the streets until one day he was found dead in an alley downtown. :( He was schizaophrenic and nothing she could have done would have changed that ending. And she tried everything.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Ottawa has shelters open in the summer? I was wondering why we didn't see any street people wrapped in sleeping bags on our way back from the restaurant tonight.

San Diego's street people population skyrocketed when the Mental Health Center closed due to budget cuts -- a lot of local businesses suddenly had problems with oddly-behaving folk in their stores. SDPD lets vagrants sleep in unofficial designated places downtown.