On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.

To those of you observing those occasions, I hope today is kind to you!

If you've been living in any Ontario municipality long enough, you probably already know that today is the final day of voting for your local mayor/reeve, your local councillor and school board representative. I hope that if you haven't already done so, you'll take what time you can to go vote for your preference for those positions. The next four years' municipal decision-making rides at least in part on the choices we've been making on those matters.

I did a potentially foolish thing this afternoon.

I went to Perfect Books to pick up my copy of Rob Sawyer's Oppenheimer Alternative. Rob had a lot of fun and some eye-opening research moments in putting that book together, and I know he was looking forward to the promotional trail to support it once it hit the bookstores. Alas, Pandemic didn't and still doesn't give a damn about any of our plans. Including Rob's.

So, it's been months since the release, and I finally found financial room for this book a couple of weeks ago. But I put off picking it up until today. The delay was due mainly to the lockdowns' influence. Perfect Books is in the middle of Centretown, and I live out in Orléans. Which meant an Expedition. Bus and O-Train ride, both ways. In "normal" times, I wouldn't give this a second thought.

Anyway, I took that risk today. Perfect Books, then checking in on Randy Pippus and his games shop, Fandom II on Laurier West near the OPL Main Branch. Stop at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to unburden my sense of guilt, as I sometimes do during the winter months when there's no honor guard on duty to overhear me. Then walking up to Chapters Rideau to window-shop, and over to Globe Mags and Cigars for today's newspapers, and dropping in on some friends running another shop in the Market before catching the O-Train and bus back home.

I got some decent walking exercise today. I probably risked more than ten lives of people whose names are definitely known to me in the process. A lot more whose names I don't know, surely.

These trips haven't backfired yet that I know of...and I'm paranoically certain that one of them will.

This is a thing now in the States?

This question prompted by e-mails from Paypal and the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.

...of pizza. Details in this article at poynter.org.

The Poynter Institute is among the news services - and teachers of journalistic skills - that I keep bookmarked on my web browser and visit less often than I really should. Especially in these times. Recommended reading.

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Not sure that I should be on either list anymore. I may still be a child in spirit, but there ought to be limits on how far that can carry me, right?