On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

...in Ottawa-Gatineau and tonight we're expecting 5-10 centimetres' worth of snowy reminders of the fact. This is despite the fact that current conditions include "mist" at the airport according to Environment Canada.

Workshop went okay last night. On my way from the Rideau Library to Rideau Station to get home afterwards, though, I got a clue from Bytowne Cinema about a movie I've been hoping to see: Dark Waters, that docu-drama about lawyer Rob Bilott's fight over "forever" chemical pollution by Dupont in West Virginia. Mark Ruffalo is playing Bilott in this movie, which is another of Participant Media's co-productions. They've got one more showing in Ottawa at the Bytowne scheduled, and that's for 345 PM today. So I've got that in addition to job-search stuff today.

Managed to find this, because I suspected that Elgin Street was off-limits to the parade route this year due to the ongoing reno work:

https://twitter.com/Ottawalabour/status/1166729037378666497

Anyone else planning to attend along the route at any point? I figure on doing my semi-usual photography walk alongside the parade again. Weather permitting. And looking at the forecast on Environment Canada, that might be iffy this time around.

...and about to head out the door. 90 minutes by bus to get from A to B, where "A" is eastern Ottawa and "B" is the corner of Woodroffe and Tallwood. So I'd best be getting ready.

So I'm going to this shindig put together by the Ottawa Browncoats today downtown. Not sure of my arrival time or how long I'll be staying.

More later...

Did some job-hunting this morning along with house-chores.

Tonight, it's Corner Gas: the Movie in my travel plans. If there's any seats left.

Also, noticing that Citizenfour is back at the Silver City Gloucester as well. So, if I can't get in to see the one, the evening may not be a complete loss.

Following up on this comment...

I did say that I have a long list of places across Ottawa-Gatineau that I want to personally visit and explore on foot. Partly that's due to plain old curiosity, and partly it's due to this project I've taken on to document street names' histories via my irregular series of essays in Spacing Ottawa. (Thanks to anyone reading this who's been following that project over the years thus far, by the by!)

In the last couple of months, in between my other chores and quests for things like full-time steady employment, I've managed to knock off large chunks of a few neighhbourhoods on that list:

Manor Park
Southern Rockcliffe Park
Lindenlea
Tunney's Pasture
Westboro Beach
Riverside Park/Elmvale/Alta Vista
Lowertown East
Southern Glebe

It's not complete, and there's a long way to go. And a long way already travelled.

Hoping to learn much more along the way.

As a means of self-protection by public disclosure:

I'm going to be taking pictures of street-name signs along Hemlock Road later this afternoon. Specifically, side-streets branching northward from Hemlock Road.

In other words: me and my camera will be roving from east to west along the border between Beechwood Cemetery and Rockcliffe Park.

Weather permitting, of course.

If the weather does not permit, I'll probably postpone the expedition a week or two.

...and I've been checking job boards, listening to the Sunday Edition on Radio One, vacuuming the residence, getting milk and doing some other stuff like trying to polish off a practice pencil sketch of Daredevil.

I miss drawing regularly. I used to be able to say that I spent at least an hour of every day working with pencil or pen and putting something that made visual sense to paper. Now I go anywhere from a day to two weeks without that. There is something Wrong in this.

However, there's other things to do in the meantime. Today, it's the ByMUG meeting at Patty's in the Market.

Just so you know.

Going to Comic Jam at the Shanghai Restaurant tonight.

More on other stuff later.

Field trip for movie-watchers!

http://www.meetup.com/ottawasfs-ca/events/93745192/