On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

No word on the skills tests from Sunday yet. I'm expecting that tomorrow.

My visit with Mom was shorter than I'd planned, because of chores and a newish job lead I needed to look into.

One of my map projects' requirements was something different than what I expected, and the news has come as both a relief and an entertaining challenge.

I've been quiet here - though not elsewhere online - of late. The job search, caregiving errands, and map project have been taking up a lot of the time. Not sure what else to add at the moment. I might upload screencaps of the map project progress to Flickr in the coming days.

More later, okay?

So John Scalzi posted a picture from Halifax today.

That clock tower? It's the kind of thing my Dad would never let us get a look at during our cross-country travels in the early 1980's. "You see that over there? That's (Québec City/Halifax/Boston/Hamilton). That's as close as we're getting."

I hated that.

And this was the same guy who trooped our family past Diefenbaker's corpse in Ottawa; Into the Olympic Stadium in Montréal mid-Expos game where the cheers over a batter hitting the ball damn near drove me to run away I don't know where in a panic; a few other sights, too.

I started fiddling with that memory book project in Affinity Publisher today. More and more, I'm wishing that this machine I'm building it with had more RAM installed. I've been advised that I should have pulled out the hard drive, replaced it with an SSD, and put whatever files would not be actual programs onto an external hard drive instead. Well, if I had a steadier income, I'd have considered that.

On an unrelated note, where my left earlobe attaches to my skull...occasionally feels blocked or itchy, or whatever form of irritation seems guaranteed to keep me from thinking clearly about whatever else should be occupying my brain.

Yellowstone was the destination of my family's first cross-border trip, after I and my siblings were all out of kindergarten.

This...hurts to read and know.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yellowstone-flooding-evacuation-1.6488893

...and I've started seeing not my face, but my father's.

One job lead is taking longer than I was expecting to see either pay off or not. So it looks like my flu vaccination appointment Monday morning can happen safely. I can take care of some follow-up stuff with my CPAP machine dealer on the way home.

Another job lead is set for an over-the-Net interview for Wednesday morning. We'll see how that goes.

Family's mostly okay today.

I'm listening to Ideas on CBC Radio One at the moment.

1. My parents took my siblings and I to visit Louisberg as part of our family road trip to Charlottetown and back in 1979. That was part of my introduction to the Mik'ma'ki provinces. I don't remember much about the fortress now, and that leaves me with a guiltier feeling than I might otherwise have upon reading this news.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/rising-sea-levels-threatening-300-year-old-french-fortress-in-nova-scotia

2. Yes, that was the same road trip that included my first visit to Parliament Hill, at my father's behest, to view the remains of John Diefenbaker in the Rotunda of the Centre Block. It's disturbing how I've only ever been inside the Centre Block to pay my respects to dead politicians: Diefenbaker, Trudeau the Elder and Jack Layton, thus far. It's a habit I'd like to break, preferably for far more joyous reasons.

3. Yes, I just referred to the provinces east of Québec as "the Mi'kma'ki provinces". It describes their relationship to each other geographically and politically regarding Indigenous presence there, and that label also correctly includes Newfoundland Island. (Newfoundland and Labrador are intersectional as different regions of that province fall into Mi'kmaq, Innu and Inuit traditional lands.)

More thoughts on other matters later.

I'm putting some finishing touches on a genealogy project for some relatives of mine as I listen to the Sunday Magazine, and using that project to give myself practice time with Affinity Publisher. Seems like a good thing to do at the moment, combining family projects with job skills development, right?

I'm going to save it to Google Drive for now, keeping it private except for the people I want to see it (if I can set that up).

Updating a personal walking route map as well as well as my job search activity diary...

puppetmaker tells us that today is Grandparents Day. Currently, it is not officially recognized in Canada. That may change.

I have no living grandparents. The last of them died over twenty years ago in Saskatchewan, if memory serves. My mother was able to go to her funeral, but she was alone in that. The rest of us couldn't.

I miss them all, but for the maternal grandfathers - one by birth, the rest by marriage to that grandmother - that I never got to know. Work was too nasty, brutish and lethal back in those days of my mother's childhood.