On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Trying to shop for a 4XL winter jacket for myself without travelling too far out of my neighbourhood. My current jacket is about 10 years old, and the design works for my brain. Trouble is that retailers have their own ideas about what I should be able to buy these days.
No buttons in front, zippered pockets...these are features to my brain, not design errors.

Looking for recommendations, not financial support.

Brrr.

We have snow squall and extreme cold warnings in effect tonight and tomorrow in Ottawa-Gatineau.

Yes, I'm hunkering down in the basement, and my household-partners have lit up the fireplace for tonight.

More on other things later.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/westjet-cancellations-storms-1.6696238

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/winter-storm-toronto-1.6695629

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/weather-event-storm-1.6336295

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/winter-storm-information-holidays-1.6695679

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/winter-storm-schools-closed-1.6695326

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-intense-snow-storm-1.6696318

https://www.hydroone.com/power-outages-and-safety

https://www.hydroottawa.com/en/outages-safety/outage-centre

Hydro One Outage Map

https://d8bkcndcv6jca.cloudfront.net/

We might get more snow during the day today, we'll certainly get more overnight tonight and into early tomorrow. But it's not going to be the same degree as we got yesterday.

Getting slowly caught up on my comics reading.

More later.

I finally rediscovered an intact pair of winter gloves today.

...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.

I was at St. Laurent Mall today, having lunch in the food court on the second floor, and the almost-still-kids down at ground level working their way through a list of what they see as Christmas/Winter Holiday-themed songs started into a number I wouldn't have expected to make the cut:

"Halellujah", as written by Leonard Cohen.

There you go.

More than I see in a night, Tom!

... and there was a fair bit of that to do. But, it's done. Glad of the snowblower, even if I'm still having troubles getting it started properly.

So now it's off to one of the local malls for shopping errands. More later. 

1. It guzzles gasoline and spits out climate-deranger gas vapours.
2. I'm forever terrified of messing up the machine via mixing up the steps of the ignition sequence.
3. There's too much to keep track of while it's running. (I know: welcome to the world of technophobes trying to cope with having to be computer-users.)
4. I've grown to actually like the exercise of using old-style shovels.

Take that for however little it's worth.