On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

After fifteen months, my current contract ends tomorrow afternoon. No idea what's next beyond returning a laptop computer to whence it came the following Monday and going back to the house to start the paperwork of the next job search.

I'm better off than many, worse off than others. Somewhere in the middle, I guess.

Good night and good luck.

Once again, I will not be attending Can-Con in person this year. This is due to my continuing efforts to reduce my risk of COVID-19 reinfection and the consequences of it for me and other people.

Even if Can-Con went back from "recommended" to "required" on its masking policy, OC Transpo isn't even being allowed to bother one way or the other. As the public transit system is my main way of getting around Ottawa, and Can-Con is something I want, rather than need, to attend, it's one more thing I will forego.

I'm sorry about this.

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.

No, I'm not going to any cinemas yet.

Wednesday, I've got an exam at the Eye Institute. That's a big enough deal as it is.

More later on other topics.

I managed to last about 20-30 minutes. I wasn't able to cover the animation side of CSP's toolkit because I don't use those parts. (I know that others do, and I'd like to find a Mac user somewhere in Ottawa who does for the next time.)

I know I didn't cover more than a fraction of what that software is capable of in that twenty minutes. There are hundreds - thousands? - of tutorials in static web-page and video formats to take one into more depth. These are being created and updated even now. I need to set aside time to practice with CSP regularly.

The need to pay my bills ASAP is cutting into time I could be spending on learning to be a better artist/designer/illustrator and earning an honest living from those skills.

Okay. The weather is calm and clear and borderline-freezing this morning, with or without wind chill. We're expecting that to last the full day.

There's an information session set for 10 AM EST for a federal agency's online job fair that I signed up for. I'm still going to do other job-search stuff this morning and evening, too.

More as it comes to mind.

Interesting ideas on what to do about the Present Problem:

https://twitter.com/Sandmonkey/status/1594114551456350216

Okay. So I participated in this workshop last week on the art of getting out the vote...in general, for all the candidates. In my previous entry here, I made it clear once again that I still do have Standards as to what sorts of people ought to be winning these elections. I want a city that's safer for everyone living here, save for maybe out-and-out fascist-bigot people. (If they're looking to put such mindsets permanently aside, good. Welcome (back) to the club!)

Anyway. Looking at this item on percentage of those eligible to vote who actually "showed up" last time around in Toronto:

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/09/12/election-mapping-municipal-election-voter-turnout/

I am, of course, more focused on Ottawa here, as this is where I live. So, where do I find the relevant stats for my city?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ottawa_municipal_election

(I would like to nail down the sources for that Wikipedia article, preferably soon.)

According to which, 42.55 % of those then eligible to vote in Ottawa actually did vote. Which was an improvement over 2014's turnout of 39.92 %.

So that was good. We want to get that back up above 2010's turnout of 42 %, though, right?

There were videos I got to look at, some of which I hope to share in the next installment...

Too many of us in Canada are not thinking it through. Not yet, not in sufficient numbers. It's as if we're replaying the worst elements of the 1918 epidemic.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/fourth-dose-covid-vaccine-canada-omicron-ba5-1.6521937

I ended up seeing the current remnants of the Convoy Crowd visiting Rideau Street again this afternoon while going about other business. I just started screaming my head off, damning the lot of them as "homicidal fools".

Here's mine:

Always expect to be dragged off-course from what you expected and trained to do for a living.

Inspired by a contest put together by the Algonquin College Alumni Association.