On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.)

Entertaining accident: Decades ago, when Masao Okazaki was putting his Starfleet Museum site together, he assigned the name "Axolotl" to a planet orbiting Gliese 767A.

In 2019, the IAU and Mexico named the star HD 224693 "Axólotl" as part of that year's Name ExoWorlds event.

We have precedent in Star Trek for this sort of thing, thankfully, so I'm not worrying over it.

Just announced by his wife and writing partner, dianeduane:

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

Diane, I am so sorry.

Crayola is pushing today as National Crayon Day.

Today is also the annual Day of Transgender Visibility, and has long been so.

I am thinking that the connection here can be both useful and entertaining.

I can't remember when Ontario Lotteries and Gaming ever allowed the Lotto Max jackpot to get *past* C$70 million.

As of this morning, they did that.

I just got a note from Bruyère LTC about this. Apparently, this is the first such occasion in Canadian history.

An unusual thing by modern lights just happened to me. Someone called the family landline. I answered the phone, and the person on the other end responded for apologizing for calling the wrong number.

So that still happens.

I had a quiet day off from caregiving. Got some other stuff done. Maybe I climb a little further out of the hole this week, huh?

Oh, tomorrow I may need to shop for CPAP mask parts again...?

(I can get the magnetic clips as standalone items?!?)

I saw flowers still in bloom outside this afternoon.

Also, a groundhog from less than two metres away. We noted each other's existence for a second and moved onward with our respective days.