Checking In - 8 August 2025

Aug. 8th, 2025 11:05 pm
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No visitation today. Got some shopping done, and the map projects have slowed down a bit. One job application filed this afternoon with the feds.

I suppose that's enough for today, right?

What To Do Next

Aug. 6th, 2025 01:03 pm
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Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...



I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.

SNW: A Space Adventure Hour

Jul. 31st, 2025 10:27 pm
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Not every episode is meant for me.

This one wasn't, and that's alright.

A Near Miss and a Death

Jul. 29th, 2025 08:19 pm
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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.)
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I know there's complaints - with cause - about the management of Substack. I still follow several accounts there, and one of them belongs to former MP and continuing punk rock musician Charlie Angus.

This was today's upload:

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-riot-of-christie-pits

He uploaded a history lesson on Canadian anti-fascist resistance and how it went at a baseball game in Toronto in August 1933...
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Do the Epsilon stations have to be located in actual star systems? Or can they be "freestanding"?
(Also wondering if "Epsilon" stations imply the existence of series of stations designated "Alpha" through "Delta".)

Yeah, this is tied to the Edge of Midnight map projects.

Uranium City

Jul. 27th, 2025 12:54 pm
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I remember watching news about Uranium City from my childhood and teen years. That town's spiral started while I was in high school, and I remember my father visiting there once in his job with Employment + Immigration Canada (as it was back)...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/uranium-city-nuclear-mine-1.7576768

Last Weekend of July 2025

Jul. 26th, 2025 10:51 pm
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No lottery winnings to speak of.

No Bingo day.

Just a good enough day.

More to talk about tomorrow, maybe?
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