Once I got back to the house from this morning's visitation, the job search resumed. No applications filed today. Not sure what impulse brought me back to Facebook tonight. Maybe it was seeing the news from Elayne Riggs on Blogspot about her employer's office building being the site of the shootings in Midtown Manhattan yesterday. (Glad you're okay, Elayne!)

And now that I'm here, I've learned that Pat Augustine has finally passed away.

We knew each other from Mike Norton's Comic Book Crossroads fanzine as contributors. A few years back, as part of his downsizing efforts in the wake of his cancer diagnosis, he sold me his Wacom Cintiq, which I'm still using as of tonight. It's been incredibly useful in my art hobbies. (We were both annoyed at the import duties I had to cough up in addition to what I paid him as I recall.)

A good guy, and I miss him.

(And I note that his Discord account is still logged in as I type this. Not a complaint.)

He was Canada's first astronaut.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/marc-garneau-dead-at-76/

Just announced by his wife and writing partner, dianeduane:

https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood

Diane, I am so sorry.

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

By way of explanation to non-Canadians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(Canadian_observance)

We don't have a holiday as such for this. We do have ceremonies of observance.

I just saw the notice this morning:

https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html

I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.

I was thinking we might have another couple of years left.

https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season

My animation professor at Algonquin, Gerry Paquette confirmed by sending this link to me this afternoon:

https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down

Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.

For those of you learning of this from me first...I'm sorry. I just stumbled onto the news via my Reading List.

https://eftychia.dreamwidth.org/2978096.html?thread=5681456#cmt5681456

Never got to know her well, and she was part of several of the ongoing conversations of this venue, and - if memory serves - LiveJournal before that. I'm grateful nonetheless that she lived and that we got to know her at all.