dewline | Entries tagged with accomplishments

- Back to the normal job search practices this morning.

- Successfully postponed the CPAP machine swap-and-payment date to next Tuesday in anticipation of finances falling together properly for that occasion.

- Continuing to watch lectures from Typewknd participants on YouTube. I am nerding out about type design this weekend.

- Tentatively scheduled to attend the monument installation for my late friend from Pen and Paper Workshop, Naomi Wilanski this Sunday morning upcoming.

- Missed today's City Planning Committee meeting being broadcast via YouTube.

- Other stuff to be added.

Current Mood: busy

She's got some thoughts fit for sharing widely here:

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1417860766661693443?s=20

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Ottawa City Hall Meeting on YouTube

- Yard work in flower beds. (Lots of shoveling involved!)
- Shopping.
- Kept up with news near and far.
- Checked in with assorted friends.
- Quiet mourning for two friends gone.
- Avoided dehydration.

That's enough for a day, right?

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Home

- Two jobs applied for.
- Sketchbook time, practicing with hand gestures and colour, light and shadow.
- Walking exercise this morning.
- Made time for mental health check.
- Laundry.

Current Mood: Done for the day

- Financial paperwork mailed off.
- Laundry completed.
- Shopping errands.
- Illustration/design practice with Clip Studio Paint and Adobe Illustrator.
- Contacted assorted friends online.
- Conversed with relatives by phone.
- Yard chores.

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Location: Home

Applied for five jobs.
Attempted to conduct a video interview, and had to settle for a phone call.
Ushered a bumblebee out of the basement and out the front door of the house. And both I and the bee survived that.
Got caught up on news from reliable publishers.

(How are the bee and the two wasps previous getting into the basement?)

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

- Got some new add-ons for a piece of software I want to use more often.
- Kept looking for paying work.
- Got the monthly federal paperwork done.
- Got some stuff done for relatives remotely.
- Received my new travel masks in today's mail.

Current Mood: exhausted

In case anyone was wondering? I got the bedding laundry done yesterday. Adult accomplishment, achieved.

Current Mood: satisfied

Dealt with job search stuff today. At least five of the companies I'm registered with haven't forgotten me, thankfully. We'll see what comes of that.

Clearing out the Dreamwidth Inbox of clutter.

Uploaded some pix to my Flickr account because photography hobby and personal amusement and a fitness goal achieved.

One short, sharp screaming jag this afternoon because of the Diamond/comic book/finances in general thing.

I got some actual sketchbook practice in today.

Current Mood: busy

For me at least. The management here put out the Year's End Sale notice at

dw_news today, and it prompted me to check the state of my account. Renewal time was fast approaching, as it turned out. Nice timing, that.

Current Mood: busy

Saw the dentist, got my checkup and cleaning...and saw such things as made me immediately wish for DentiCare as proposed by the NDP to be in force right bloody now. It's not like I'm going to lose All The Teeth any time soon, mind you, and I'll probably be able to manage the bill once the work's done. Kicking myself again for my lack of flossing technique, my food appetites, and the slow advance of the years.

Also, got more work done on the photo-tagging in iPhoto after supper tonight. Sixteen years of digital photography of things of interest to me...and the ways the city's changed as I've lived in it. It hits like Popeye's "twisker sock" must feel when it hits the likes of Bluto/Brutus.

Current Mood: sleepy

Second day of work. Got my assigned workload done, which was good.

Got headache meds and antacid for the office desk. Just in case.

Had a better lunch today than I did yesterday.

Rode the train between Blair Station and downtown today. Both going to work, and going home again.

Got my lotto numbers replayed today. I doubt that I'll win the jackpot on this one, but I was thinking about the Spider-Man line about power and responsibility earlier today after making the purchase. It wouldn't be as much economic power as the Desmarais family, Kevin O'Leary or Galen Weston...but it would be substantially more than I've had up to now. And there would be responsibility to go with it.

Anyway, it's unlikely to pay off that big...

Current Mood: sore

Managed to update my candidate profile at two prospective employers' website with tomorrow's new job in mind.

Travelled on public transit.

Completed shopping errands, including two newspapers purchased.

Interacted with other humans successfully on multiple occasions.

Managed progress with personal hygiene.

Current Mood: hopeful

Rain. In January. Again.

So I still got stuff done today.

Driveway shovelled.
New external hard drive.
New (used) cleverphone.
Groceries bought.
Library business squared away.

Oh, and I finally got the Hadfield autobiography today. Since I got it at the used bookstore attached to my local public library, that might count as a "cheat"...?

Current Mood: accomplished

Chores accomplished today:

shopping

job-hunting, with applications filed

font design self-schooling in Typetool 3

research on typography, news, graphic design, pop culture

So far, so good.

Current Music: Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio

Despite the phrasing of the opening headline of this particular CBC news article, I notice this particular detail about Radarsat-1: it lasted twelve years longer than planned or expected.

The people who built this satellite did Very Good Work.

Thank you all.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/09/technology-radarsat-1-problem.html

Happy Gagarin Day!
Happy Yuri's Night!