Cottage Report - Sept 17, 2026

 We have a perfect stagnant air day.  Nice and warm, the water is still.  Cold air is coming in, and it might get to 3C at night, but the lake water usually keeps it up a bit.

Today's big news is that the ice extent is taking a sharp turn to the cold side.  It was following 2025, but now is leaving it.  Amazing.  Monster El Nino is having a laugh.

I'm not going to lecture anyone on what this means.  Get your snowblowers tuned up.  Our winters are going to get progressively worse, and they are already dusting off the Polar Vortex as an excuse.

Carney goes with my tax idea

 I love it.  California tax regime for wealth creation.  We can pay for social equality issues with the secondary wealth.  And we can clamp 30% more than the US, later.  No Canadian in California wants to rake in billions and become a pervert.  

Now, on to my other ideas like greenhouses for everything.  And forget Churchill Falls, we are going into an ice age.  Of course, all the Canadian monopoly criminals are going to zoom into this.  I really hope it works.

We are going to have to put Vancouver all underground, and keep the waterfront for beach volleyball, in the summer.  

We can make the next big invention of 'Poop Jets' for runners.

Toto Toilets stumble with cheap packaging

 This was a saga.  Having replaced all the insides of the upstairs toilet, I thought I still heard ghost flushing.  Oh, cracked bowl.  Then I thought I would get the cremedelacreme toilet on Costco online - The Toto Drake 2 toilet.  I didn't want the hassle of installing a monster auto toilet.  You need a lot of plumbing and electrical work.

There is was #1 toilet.  I called for them to take it back.  

#2 toilet.  Toto says they only ship in bulk, and the toilets are perfect.  The local distributor packs them.  

Anyway, I think they are garbage, and have given up on toileting for a while.  The upstairs toilet quieted down because it knew I was suffering.  Is this a comment on Canadian stupidity?  or a comment on Japanese Toyota engine engineering.  Who knows?  Buy a new toilet.

I demanded a bribe or I would write this for my 3 readers.  Nope.