Cleaning accomplished and I did the four mile walk today - one of my DVDs for exercise. I quite enjoyed it and have not done it for awhile. Usually I have been running but this time of year with the change in weather my osteoarthritis in my knees generally kicks up a little fuss and it is better just to go with it and do exercise that doesn't antagonize the bone spurs in my knees when they are susceptible due to weather change. Then of course I have been out gardening and on my knees on the cold ground which is why I only work for one hour these days. The DVD is great and keeps me in shape to run once again when true winter comes and I am in a warm house most of the time. I do love to run; there is something about that relaxation that comes with just running whether it just be around a small track in the house. It still feels quite wonderful.
The matches and gradually I have resolved the difficulty I was having with Chromosome 9 - a few of the problem matches are simply two of my lines marrying and breaking the matches apart amongst the siblings who match differently is now a good solution and quite amazing really how DNA passes from one person to another. Then there were all those Blake matches; so many with 53 grandchildren belonging to my 2x great grandparents John Blake and Ann Farmer who married in 1823. How they ever remembered all of their names? it amazes me. Edward, my great grandfather, was the second youngest child and the fifth son. He was 22 years younger than his oldest brother who was born five days after the marriage of John and Ann. I found that very interesting especially as it was four years later that the second child and son John was born. The Buller matches though have been terrific on this chromosome. As it turned out I was the only one with Buller in the middle of this chromosome and the matches are a good length (25 cM or greater). Good Pincombe matches as well and Rawlings.
Today cleaning the main floor and will begin that in a couple of hours. Yesterday went very smoothly cleaning but the basement is now pretty straight forward and the Robot does the rugs down there.
Chatting with my daughter and the sadness of all this trade war actually. The 36 states that trade with Canada as their largest customer (and for some it is practically everything they export) are suffering and one can feel their pain. If you do not count the oil that we ship south then the amount that we sell to the United States is far less than the exports that come up here. Plus we used to spend all of that vacation money in the United States yearly (in the billions) especially during the winter. One can also feel their pain for sure. Once we have balanced off the jobs lost with the jobs gained as we again manufacture our own stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, dish washers and all the other small electric appliances that we buy from the United States then our pain will lessen here very quickly. Plus we have all these new projects under way and more to be announced. I do hope that the road widening of the Trans Canada Highway is amongst them. Once that is in place we will really be on the way. It kept me awake thinking about all of these wondrous projects and the employment of our unemployed youth at the moment. One has to go where the jobs are for sure.
Soon the Prime Minister will meet with the President of China to discuss trade and I look forward to that. It was the United States that originally met with China on trade way back in the 60s I think and it was President Nixon. The object was to bring China into trade with them and it went very well. China is a powerhouse of production and they need a lot of raw materials and we produce them so looking forward to good discussions there. I still think that we should agree to remove the tariff if they build their cars here with Canadian materials and Canadian employees. That would restore some of the car jobs lost as the three American companies withdraw from some of their plants. It is sad as the Auto Pact goes back to 1965 but we are being blamed for building too many cars (although I do think that the companies themselves decide how many cars they will build and we have no idea in that regard (we do not count them as they go back and forth across the border) and so we must look elsewhere (perhaps someone here wants to start up a car company - we did have them but they were bought out years ago by American companies). But certainly having China build and sell their EVs here would be an interesting idea I think. As a country we buy an enormous number of cars simply because we have so much land and the public transportation is limited mostly to the large cities near the border with the United States. You need a car and it is a right of passage here - you can count the number of teenagers/young adults with cars (they still live with their parents here right up to their 30s very often) in the laneways (plus two for the parents!). My Dodge Caravan barely has 31,000 kilometres (six years old now) on it so will likely be running for a while yet but that is dependent on servicing for sure. My family has always driven Dodge now Stellantis and when my father and brothers had their businesses there were all those Dodge trucks as well.
Premier Ford gets very upset about the people of his province suffering and tries to help them every way that he can. That is the role of politicians although I prefer to see 75 million dollars go to startups personally. It is the thing that bugs me about the Liberals; throwing money at things. Careful spending is important to me and always, where the government is particularly concerned, spent here in Canada given the present situation.
Twelve matches to go and Chromosome 9 will be complete (this chromosome has a lot of crossovers compared to the others). I just have three crossover points that are not verified by the new data (verified by the old and mostly they remain pretty much the same). Three, 104 and 84 belonging to two siblings only. The three doesn't really trouble me as it will just be one match suddenly appearing with that tiny length from 0 to three. The 104 is interesting as it looks to be a shared crossover point but unused until the last match as I just happened to look at it so solved at the end. The 84 is a challenge but will just remain as 84 unless there is a change in the next 11 matches!
Banana Bread all eaten, tea drank and solitaire puzzles to do.
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