On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This is not a good decision to take.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/rapid-tests-federal-government-stop-supply-provinces-territories-epidemiologist-furness-1.7191833

Turns out that CTV Sci-Fi is running two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery back-to-back tonight.
I am NOT staying up until 1130 PM to watch the whole 2.5 hours' worth. That can wait for tomorrow or Saturday night, I think. I need to have *some* kind of regular sleep, after all.

I've decided, for my birthday, to launch a fundraiser for the Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County via Facebook.

How slow a pace of donations should I expect?

My knees feel mostly fine now.

No pain.

Now, the "t", "o" and "i" keys on my A1243 Apple keyboard seem to be wearing out under continuing heavy usage...

So...the federal dental care programme continues to be brought into effect.

It's decades late. It's still needed. And I'm glad it's finally on its way.

The out-of-pocket costs have been dogging me ever since I aged out of my parents' work-derived medical coverage, I've never been able to hold a job long enough to get similar benefits of my own, and by this time next year, that financial-medical pain is going to finally end.

Good.

...to advocate for extra municipal funding for mental health support programmes this morning. I've printed out three drafts of my "deputation" - city hall slang for a speech expected to last no more than five minutes - and am not sure that I'm properly set up for this.

I am, of course, terrified of being reinfected by COVID-19 by way of public transit. Not that I have any realistic alternatives to that to resort to right now for various reasons and excuses.

I haven't visited the downtown core of Ottawa-Gatineau in over a year. There have surely been additional changes to the neighbourhood that I don't know to expect.

1. Trump on testing in general?

https://alexandraerin.substack.com/p/testing-trump

2. Criminalisation of climate activism:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world

3. The trial of Barber and Lich re: the Ottawa Siege continues.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/freedom-convoy-made-it-near-impossible-to-live-zexi-li-tells-trial-1.6997367

4. Conservatives targeting the CBC again, more of that "War on Expertise" that David Brin warns us about...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-cbc-terrorist-language-guide-policy-1.6997926

Has anyone on my friendlist here tried this company?

https://www.ppe-supply.com/

A stranger I encountered at a Shoppers location over the weekend was wearing an orange KN95 that she attributed to them, and I finally tracked down the website. Looking for opinions on their product...

Of course, I haven't really rested today. The following things got done today:

- vacuumed two floors of the house
- picked out stars to host a half-dozen or so planets on that Edge of Midnight map project
- did two walking/shopping trips mainly for exercise
- practiced a bit more for Clip Studio Paint via the Cintiq tablet/monitor
- uploaded a scan of a sketch I drew for my Amateur Press Alliance back in 2006 to various social media outlets for the sake of self-promotion and because of Batman Day
- cleaned up some of my kitchen mess
- applied for another job
- cleaned my CPAP gear, as I need to do each weekend
- wrote a note of comment to the Ottawa Board of Health about protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 and other contagions of note and worry

I'd like to get a new "office/studio" chair, but barring some surprise via trashnothing.com, that's probably not going to happen soon. The one I use currently leans a bit to my right because of years of my leaning to that side when I sit down in it. Also, it deflates an inch after a certain amount of time sitting down.

I set up an appointment for Thursday with my dentist to get the left side of my jaw checked to see if I've got a busted tooth, a dislocated jaw from last week's cleaning, or if something else is going on.

I am also still trying to be a person who's attentive to the wider worlds in which my friends and acquaintances live. Not sure that I'm doing well at that anymore than with the job search.