JUNE 2025

June 11th, 2025
Alberta Incoming...

A few weeks ago, I got a message from my phone provider that they were discontinuing their 3G service in like 2 months. From this, I went to my phone settings and made it so my phone only used LTE which is pretty much 4G. When I tried to call anyone though, my phone would instantly hang up. I then spent a while messing around with settings and realized that my phone was not using this function called Volte to make calls, meaning that I couldn't make called when using LTE. I found out that Pixel phone have this problem when they are shipped to certain countries.

The reddit threads I found about this issue made it seem like a hopeless and unsolvable problem but I eventually found a solution after a few days that didn't involve rooting my phone. You download this app called Shizuki and you use wireless debugging to allow you to use another app to simply turn on Volte for your phone and blam, it worked. It was late at night when I did this and I was so surprised when it actually worked. I hope to write an in depth article about my phone and what apps and OS I think is the best for privacy (graphene os because i have a pixel).

Then, in that same night, I also found a way to block YouTube on my phone in the browser, but not through YouTube music downloaded apps which was surprisingly simple. Using this app called NextDNS, I put m.youtube.com on the denylist but put the youtube music link on the allow list. This makes it so I can't watch YouTube in my browser, but my music app which is called SimpMusic is allowed to use the YouTube music links to access content.

Speaking of YouTube, I never realized how horribly quickly one can fill their YouTube recommendations with such lustful and innapropriate content. I saw this video just recommended to me when I was signed out that should have not been allowed on youtube and then interacting with this in any way fills your recommendations with all this type of stuff. It would be insanely easy for a young child to click on this once and that's all it would take to slowly strip away his innocense and get him addicted to pornography. I had an ad blocker on as well, imagine if I didn't. If you go to any website on the internet and the ad providers want to show you that kind of stuff, the advertising that is allowed. is insane. Again, all it takes is one click. Keep kids off the internet.

Found out something silly at my work yesterday. My company is going to move half of my current crew to a city that is an hour and a half drive away from where I am. I am already a 40 minute drive and I start at 7am and finish at 5:30pm, wake up at 5:30am and go to bed at 10pm. If I was moved to another city, I would either have to move (which I don't want to do) or have to wake up at like 4:30 everyday and get home at like 7, earliest. Not happening, I might have to find a new job soon.

This week we are continuing with testing, same old stuff. Spraying all the DWV PVC with soap and water while the systems are pressurized at 5psi. It has to hold for 15 minutes to pass an inspection, which is quite silly as the inspector usually comes in, glances at the gauge, will maybe chat and stay in the room for a few minutes and that's it. We spray all the piping and if we begin to see bubbles forming at the joints of the fitting, that means it was improperly solvent welded. What we do then is purge the system, then smear solvent cement, let it dry and test again with bubbles to see if its holding. It is so much waiting around for nothing. The days go by super slow.

I only had a three day week this week, as on Thursday morning at like 6, my flight is off to Edmonton to see my brother. It has been such a buildup through the past week. I'm trying not to hate going to work the day before, idolizing leisure and wanting to reject responsibilities. It also feels even more irresponsible that I'm going on this trip while in an unstable job, where I could be moved to London any week now.

I'm going to enjoy it though, not because it is an escape but because it is complementary.

I guess I did so good in school barely studying that they gave me free tools, I got a free Milwaukee impact and drill set for doing so good in plumbing class. I gotta find a new job and will definitely put this mega win on my resume...

June 4th, 2025
The Walmart cages and the vent terminal gun...

Last week we went to several peoples houses from my church in one night. Its an event they do where you go to different houses and have different themed foods throughout the night with different other guests at each house. At the last place (desert), there was someone there whose job was to design the layout of the installation of those Walmart security gates that make it tricky to easily enter and leave a store. I guess these gates save each Walmart location millions of dollars every year as theft is such a normal occurrence for these large stores that they include it as part of their budget. I heard stories about people walking out carrying a full TV, or other things, very obviously stealing and the security there that could stop them simply letting them go on like nothing wrong is happening. The reason they don't do anything is because of how easy it is to sue someone for silly reasons involving what you would think a security guard should be allowed to do, put their hands on people, physically confront them. People will do whatever it takes to turn eyes away from their crime and put it on the one actually trying to stop it.

From that, another guy told a story about how he was buying medicine in a pharmacy and some guy next to him took 6 of the same bottles and just walked out. He told the cashier about what happened and she shrugged it off as if it was nothing, making those situations completely hopeless. The guy then questioned her about why he should even have to pay for his expensive medicine morally while others can just steal these things with no repercussions. There is no justice. To that I say, there is great rejoicing in the kingdom when we suffer for righteousness sake. That's it, that's all.

These gates make it so hard to not look suspicious if you aren't buying anything and are trying to leave. Grocery stores used to be so much more open. I wonder about the potential hazards this could cause in a fire situation, everyone cramming through the self checkouts, in a populated enough location.

This week at work I am helping to test a whole sanitary system made of PVC pipe across 5 floors. A lot of trial and error and messing around. At what point is it time to get serious and give full effort? It feels like such a joke sometimes. I found this funny Aussie video that helps to describe how I feel at work sometimes. whether I like it or even want that or not.

First their was a cracked TY on the end of a trap arm so the apprentice had to cut it out and turn the individual vent into a back vent. Then there was another TY that was welded horribly, we were literally able to pull the trap arm out. The third one was crazy, I went to the roof to check if the long test ball was still doing its job and when I touched the vent terminal pipe, I saw the whole pipe jump up as well as the stink mat and the rocks that surrounded the base. The whole system lost pressure from that. We loosened the mat and it turns out that it was not even welded to the fitting, some roofer just put that pipe on and no one noticed anything. We were able to pull it out and actually weld it but if nobody was up there to witness that, then that would have never been found as the tarp, roof rocks and stink mat were covering up the joint that wasn't even welded. Still trying to find leaks even now, lol.

June 2nd, 2025
Coming soon to Alberta yet again...

Things have been alright. Going on vacation to Alberta soon, its going to be very fun but I am not looking forward to that feeling of returning and having to go back to work. I need to learn to properly enjoy breaks here and there without a complete idolization of it. Things will get easier.

I am going to Edmonton and doing a bunch of stuff in that city with family and probably seeing Banff and maybe even stop by Calgary as well. I am so excited to see Banff, it'll envoke some of that meglophobia feelings that people talk about online. Its a good and humbling thing to be confronted with how microscopic we are in the big picture.

I need to embrace the labor of my toil, when you do this, you see the righteousness in God permitting the sweat on our brow.

MAY 2025

May 26th, 2025
SPORTS

I should start playing sports again. On the sabbath I was able to play soccer with some people from my church which was surprising very fun. I had not properly played soccer in probably about 10 years. I realized that I missed out so much by not playing sports when growing up. It is a great exercise of being able to make quick decisions, run around, teamwork, strategy and much more. It would have been a very great thing for me.

I spent the vast majority of my adolecense inside on a computer. Sometimes in the summer I would go on bike rides or ride scooters with my friends. One time I was making new friends, people a year older, I was going on bike rides with them frequently one beautiful summer long ago. Then I started to want computer time more than that, so when they would come to my door, I would begin to decline. They came a few more times after that but I would say no and retreat to my little cove with my comfortable wallpaper engine gaming PC, and play video games and browse YouTube from the moment I woke up with quick little breaks throughout the day. They eventually stopped coming and that was a grand opportunity missed. Sometimes in my life, in the moments where I wished I teleported to a bed and I could just lay for as long as I wanted, I think of the thousands of hours I spent over the years in a virtual paradise, with nothing in life to work about. It felt like it never happened when contrasted with the present.

People who live in the ignorance that the afterlife is ideal to exactly what they want are in the exact same boat as those as those who believe in no afterlife at all. They both life under the same presupposition, that their choices in life all ultimately lead to the same place. You live however you want and in your mind, it doesn't matter how hedonistically you live. I watched a movie a few weeks ago called Dont Look Up, a movie about a meteor hitting the earth. Near the end, moments before the world is ending, there is a birds eye scene from a rooftop where you can faintly see a bunch of naked people in the distance all having one big orgy. That was such a disturbing and shocking thing to picture, in the essense of human nature, in the moments before judgement, grasping for pleasure, being reduced to a piece of meat. Very scary. Your actions have objective consequences and none of us are able to not do that on our own, we need God.

I am trying to find a cloud hosting platform for free where I can upload all the images and videos of this website. I want to add a library type of section soon full of a bunch of content, I have so many videos I want to show you all!

May 24th, 2025
Stunning leafs victory, Youtube complaining...

I had a stable week. At my work, I have been a labourer helping an apprentice and a licensed plumber put together a piping system for a large chiller and a cooling tower supplying a 20ish story building. It looks pretty complicated but isn't too bad when you have someone explain it to you. For the indoor piping we are using 6" steel pipe, for the outdoors we are using 6" PVC, for the drains throughout the system, we are using 3/4" Heliopex and for the venting, we are using 3/4" and 2" black iron pipe.


For all the 6" steel piping, we are using groove coupling which are quite fun to work with because of how convenient it is and for the outdoors, we are just solvent welding 6" PVC together which is very messy and very easy to mess up. You have to put primer and then the solvent itself on both points fast enough before the solvent starts to dry and push hard enough that there is proper engagement. Learning a lot, maybe I am setting the bar too high for what I should be doing and knowing as a labourer, it is alright to not know absolutely everything. I just need to work hard and learn over time.

The leafs lost big time this week, it was almost unreal how quickly everything derailed for them. First period was normal, nothing happened, and then in the second, within the span of 5 minutes, florida managed to score like 3 goals. I heard a story from someone who was camping with friends on the weekend of this game 7, his friend who was a big leafs fan was fidgeting with the refresh button for the score of the game at the campsite and then decided to go to a sports bar to watch the game there. In the span of 5 minutes when he was driving to the bar, the 5 minutes he was not checking the score, it was over and done. Apparently they have done this many times in the past. I am very new to watching any sport and being a leafs fan at all, so the rapid cycle of hype and disappointment will take a while to get used to.

They are a good team, they just really wanted to start playing golf and enjoying their summer asap rather than trying. The other team was more of a team and actually wanted to win more. They did not lay it on the line. The final score of that game was such a silly thing to see, fans throwing their jerseys on the ice. With all this uncertainty in mind for the leafs, NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR! GO LEAFS GO!

With working so much, I have found the time and headspace to actually be passionate about this website and I am so glad that I actually want to be adding to this in my free time rather than only wanting to eat junk and watch internet horror videos on youtube. That site is such an abomination, I hate seeing how much time i've wasted on it. There is too much interesting stuff on there, I need to appreciate what I can physically see, not the sludge that is recommended to me constantly, so intriguing that it sucks all my time away.

I did find this cool youtuber though that does this thing that is directly out of my teenage fantasties, stealth camping. He jumps into a bush by a busy intersection and makes a temporary little living space out of nothing, utilizing local businesses for washrooms and making dinner in this bush like its nothing. It would be so cool to do this, to sneak in the forest or in some place like this and camp overnight. I don't know how I would sleep though, I feel like uncertainty of what might happen while you are sleeping would keep me up. This guy made some other cool videos too, like sleeping in a parking garage and in the middle of a roundabout.

If you have some self control (unlike me), then feel free to enjoy some content only momentarily, like a little intermission before going back to actually living life.

May 23th, 2025
Old opinionated writing about gift giving and Christmas from Christmas 2024.
Might make a full article talking about this one day, probably next Christmas.

The materialism of Christmas has turned the holiday into a massive excuse to be ruthless in your spending habits and challenge how you personally give and receive presents and gifts of Christmas.

There is a selfishness that is inherently implanted in the psychology behind gift giving that few people come to realise. Let's imagine that one Christmas, when surrounded by family, you simply decide to not give any presents to anyone. What would follow? Well according to the presumed selflessness found in gift giving, no one would pay any attention to it, but this is not what would happen. What instead happens is jealousy and anger towards that person, they are seen as selfish and ungrateful. Why does this contradiction exist? Well in the very core of human nature is a need to sin, a desire. In our imperfection, we are unable to give gifts in an entirely selfless and pure heart, we can certainly make attempts towards reducing this selfishness in our heart, I would say through Jesus, which is the primary reason for Christmas ironically.

All of this to show that our gift giving which we all put on such a high pedestal is done in vain when not executed perfectly (it never is). Even if nothing comes out of this, we get little thoughts in our head that we bury that say otherwise. A coworker at work one time was annoyed at having to deal with Christmas as a holiday because of the familial drama that comes with it, her family arguing over whose present cost the most and all the little semantics that comes with that.

Is this worth it? No. Is this our primary focus? Absolutely. Is this bad? Yes. Like all we do, all the time

May 12, 2025
Party, Leafs, AMOT

A Messenger Of Truth is possibly the best Christian content creator that I've found, he has this great ability of giving a proper godly perspective of all things, constantly using scripture for all his points instead of using his own words to make points. All videos are on ongoing events and new things and brings an honest biblical way of thinking of it. He doesnt try to resort to random hypothetical arguments for Gods sake but always resorts to scripture exactly in its context. Its been great help in showing how I should talk about the bible and God to others, not trying to misrepresent things in order to make people more comfortable with how God presents Himself in His word, but trying to show His holiness as the first and top priority. God can't just he this comfortable little spiritual being, He is holy holy holy. I would very highly recommend this youtuber, don't waste too much time though, that doesn't help with anything. His advocation for annihilationalism makes a lot of sense and is convincing but I'm not too sure about the other soul sleep stuff, I really don't know.

Weekend was good, went to a friends friends random house in the next town over with a bunch of people from high school but a grade lower. It was pretty fun but these party settings don't feel the same as they used to before, feels different. It just feels so selfish at times. I like the night atmosphere though, I was supposed to leave around 1 to wake up for my Saturday job at 7 but they didn't leave until like 2-3 so I got very little sleep.

That went alright, I dropped a whole stack of plates right in the morning but other than that, it was usual work. Spent the rest of the day relaxing, wasting time on YouTube and eventually getting around to working on the website. Its very fun, I feel like I never have enough time to do it though, I'm not too picky on aesthetics and stuff, just have preferences and will try to poke at changes when there's time.

Sunday was so wonderfully restful, watched the leafs game with a bunch of people from my church in the evening. There was way too much food at the party meaning I ate way too much. The game wasn't very fun to watch, just dissapointing. I feel bad for leafs fans that have been waiting decades for one win only to be let down once again, we will see what happens. I only really watch the playoffs and have been pretty into it this year, it's nice to have a game on in the backround with a laptop on your lap, having a few hours to do some hobbies.

May 1-6, 2025
General Update Following School

God is great. I have found a plumbing labour job in the midst of economic uncertainty, I can finally work hard towards something that leads somewhere. I am done school and just finishing up my gas course now, I have a final governmental exam next week and start my new job on monday. Please forgive my lack of contributions, allow for a few weeks of adjustment and I will hopefully be adding lots of content to this website. The saddest sight of a personal website is seeing the last post being made several months ago, we have all this free time, so why wasn't anything added?

Started the job. The Lord is good. I am all done school. I over-studied for the governmental exam I had. The people that came in just to watch us write the exam were very strict and strange people. You are only allowed very specific things on your desk and it is such a specific process just to begin writing the test. You can only use the spare paper they provide you in a sealed envelope, and if you don't put it back in the envelope when you are done, it is considered a criminal offense. We get like 3 hours to write the thing and they kept telling us to go to the bathroom before we write the test.

I'm a labourer in the construction of a massive apartment building. It is very easy to get lost, the basement level is like a labyrinth. Its a good job and I'm learning a lot but it is like a 35-40 minute drive from my home which is the biggest downside. I just want to advance to something and now I can hopefully do that with this job.

The hours are pretty long but I'm usually home at around 6 and have the rest of the night to not worry about other schooling or other things, since I am all done with that for now. a big relief.

I get every other Friday off, so on Friday morning I did my own oil change again, its all a pretty fun process. My dad doesn't think its worth the money difference which it might not be but I like knowing that I am doing it myself. After that I made lunch and by made lunch I mean that I mixed a bunch of different leftover pastas together and warmed it up in a pot. Later in the day I met up with another significant webmaster and was taught some CSS stuff, the website is going to see some quality of life appearance changes, I'll repeat this in madecodicil. I am also planning to switch domains from madecay.com to madecay.org as the cost is the same and I like the sound of it better. I was going to do madecay.ca but there was random extra legal stuff with that which I didn't want to deal with.