Home again, after the Sleep Clinic

I don't think I got much sleep at the sleep clinic last night. The EEG and ECG scans, I'm told, disagree to some extent with that. Between the electrodes and the design of the bed...well.

Anyway, I'm home again, more or less safe and sound enough for now.

Got through the interview in the morning with my dignity intact. No further news on that front yet.

OTTAWA: 100,000 + Catchbasins

And City Hall has been trying to get as many of these cleared as they can before the next snowstorm. Which is slowly passing through our neighbourhood.

https://twitter.com/ottawacity/status/1232425141763743744

CBC: Female-centric theatre festival's ads blocked by Facebook

james_davis_nicoll just alerted me to this thing going on in Kitchener-Waterloo that Facebook management doesn't seem to want the word getting out about.

Quoth the report by CBC News Kitchener-Waterloo's Jackie Sharkey:

"Organizers of a fledgling theatre festival with more than 40 events in March across Kitchener and Waterloo say they're having a hard time getting the word out after Facebook blocked the festival's ads on its platforms.

The social network, which also owns Instagram, said Pat the Dog Theatre Creation wasn't authorized to run its ad for the Femme Folks Fest.

The automated message goes on to say Facebook "requires people to complete an ID confirmation to run ads about social issues, elections or politics.""

Meanwhile, I'm listening to a report on Spark dealing with censorship and walling-off as it's being done to the larger global internet by national governments, corporate bosses, etc. right now.

In Brasil, we see another sort of madness: protests against democracy.

MEDNEWS: COVID-19 vs. Saudi Arabia

I think the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be wanting a solution to COVID-19 before the end of July of this year.

What say you?

OTTAWA: Mrs. Tiggy Winkles Closes Down

This toy store has been an Ottawa-the-city institution for decades. Yes, I've bought the odd gift for relatives and friends there since moving to Ottawa. It's going to hurt to lose them for a lot of people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mrs-tiggy-winkles-closes-1.5477333