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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.
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Today was warm, and windy...in a warm way.

The mess in progress at Rogers has not affected me too much, but for having to use my credit card when I'd rather use my debit card.

Extended family is mostly okay enough, so far as I can tell.

Found another job to file an actual application for. I'll know in four days if I can get into the candidate pool for it.
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Passing this link along, obtained via the Canadian Conrunners Central server on Discord. Advice on things to do or to avoid doing in future. As a past member of a convention organizing committee, and possibly to rejoin such in future, I want to make a note to keep such things in mind.

As to the writer of said blog entry:

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient, has won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards; and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. His next book My Heart Is a Chainsaw will be available wherever books are sold in August 2021.

https://www.tor.com/2021/05/19/open-letter-to-cons-from-the-indians-no-longer-in-the-background-of-a-john-wayne-movie/
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I think that this particular change as proposed will be a good thing. Read for yourselves and let me know what you think, hm?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rename-langevin-avenue-motion-1.5885779

The old name signage is in my files, of course:

avenue Langevin Avenue
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I hope we're "interfering" in this mess. Sounds like tbe bigots in Russia have the upper hand at the moment, and some "interference" might indeed be holier than the bigots want believed.

Also, there's a certain amount of getting even for the nightmares some of their intelligence officers and other figures of influence have inflicted upon the rest of the human race these last few years. Their LGBTQ community deserves a bit more freedom from fear.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-gay-marriage-referendum-canada-1.5631879

Back to the job search, and I'll probably be posting opinions on a few other things as the day goes on.
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I'm adding Ricochet Media to my "Canadian News/Opinions" bookmark list. Seems like a good choice alongside rabble.ca, iPolitics, and so on.

Books I'm working on reading: 100 Days of Cree by Neal McLeod with Arok Wolvengrey, for indigenous language studies. The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron, Ph. D for psychological self-awareness and ability to get along with others.

Elizabeth May on an "Age of Consequences":

dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)

For Black Panther?

Wakanda's languages being built up, like we've seen with tlhIngan Hol in the Star Trek worlds.

Yes, I expect Wakanda has more than one locally-evolved language. Certainly, they've picked up words from other African languages over the centuries. And being a coalition of cultures that take pride in knowledge, many of even their most traditionalist tribes make certain to be fluent in multiple tongues. Yet it's been long-established that there is at least one language the Wakandans truly call their own. And reality in linguistics being what it is, history and logic suggest there should be more than the one.

For Agents of SHIELD and its collection of related titles?

A guide to the organization itself. Current writer Marc Guggenheim has Coulson recently claiming that he works for Washington, mere months after Mark Waid portrays him as insisting that the "H for Homeland" more accurately means "Homeworld". In Civil War II # 0, Brian Michael Bendis reminds us of the organization's United Nations connections.

Outside of their own series, we have at least one of their agents, Mockingbird headlining her own book. (About damn time!) Both Captains America titles, Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers, have ongoing relationships with the organization. Howling Commandos of SHIELD recently wrapped up some of the adventures of their supernatural interventions via the STAKE division. Black Widow has an on-again-off-again work relationship with SHIELD (currently "off", but don't expect that to last forever). The organization shares the Triskelion complex in New York Harbor with the current incarnation of the Ultimates...and on it goes.

(Don't get me started again on their Helicarriers and "Battlecarriers". Not right now. If you've seen my Pericles Project folder on Flickr, you know how much enthusiasm I can pour into that topic.)

We need a handbook to the organization itself. An "Agent Orientation Manual" if you will. No need to get into the minutiae of clauses of international treaties and internal regulations that should govern SHIELD, but something that nails down the current "broad strokes" of its history, current prominent personnel-characters, technology, operations, adversaries and methods.

For Alpha Flight, now pent up in the pages of Captain Marvel?

A better understanding of how what began as a government-run superhero team tied to my home country became an international planetary defence force. That seems to be slowly unfolding. I await developments with interest.

More as I mull it over.

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This relationship does not seem to be what it once was.

A reminder of that fact was driven home tonight when I went to Silver City Gloucester to see Avengers again. Based on the newspaper listings, I expected to be able to see a 6:50 PM showing.

Didn't happen. The only showing available tonight will be at 9:50 PM. Those of you who already know my transportation specifics can figure out the problem with that.

The temptation to go into rant mode is there...but, no. There are bigger issues to rant about than this. I'll wait for it to get to Rainbow or Mayfair Orléans.
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Something needs saying. So:

Some of you I've done wrong by and you know it.
Some of you I've done wrong by and you don't know it.
Some of you I've done wrong by and neither of us realizes it.

I apologize. Here and now. Whatever the circumstances were.

To those of you I haven't wronged: I hope I never do. I'll do what I can to avert it. No promise that I'll succeed, but I'll put the work in. I don't know if I'll always remember to ask for help if I need it, just so you know.
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Something I spotted at the blog of someone I know only as the self-described "Fine Young Journalist" that caught my eye, a mini-essay entitled "How to Lose Friends and Influence People".

It makes a bit more sense than I really want it to right now. There's an occasionally natural adversarial relationship between governments and news services, and to some extent, it does serve us all reasonably well at times. But I can't help but think that there are times and places and ways in which it can go too far for anyone's good.

I may be wrong, in which case I'd be interested in the counter-argument.

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