I am fairly content with the completion of Chromosome 9; it took quite a while really but I am getting into the longer chromosomes as I approach number one. Chromosome 8 has a number of known cousins but rather a lot of crossovers unusually - a very put together set of chromosomes for all of us with some having really solid known areas and others like myself very little. I just have one known cousin matching me - that is usual as I am the most different from all of them. I generally inherited where they did not and the reverse is also true. It does mean that we have good coverage of the grandparents DNA that was handed to their children. Certainly in the Blake-Knight great grandparent cross both lines show up quite strongly in us and that is the case with all of the inherited DNA.
I have now set up Chromosome 8 and there are 68 matches with ten of them being known matches. I will work away at them as I clean the top floor. Yesterday my vacuum of fourty plus years shorted out but I have a shop vacuum in the basement which did the job and actually a marvelous job on the rug on the stairs - the long hose made it easy to do most of the stairs all the way up and then put the vacuum at the top behind a wall so that I didn't have it come down on me and complete the task. However I shall look for a new vacuum although I was hoping to buy maybe the first off the line of a new Canadian company to be honest. We will see - no rush the shop vac does a good job not quite as user friendly but efficient. It was such a good vacuum actually that 40 plus year old one (my husband was incredibly good at repairing any equipment that we owned). Quiet running; the shop vac sounds like a jet engine taking off. Powerful though for sure.
Looking ahead to the budget coming down next week and very curious on its contents - Liberal budgets have not in general been very much to my liking these past ten years and before but then I didn't like what the Conservatives did after 2010 either so I just wait and see. I do remember back in the early 90s when Free Trade somewhat decimated southwestern Ontario. I wanted to see more independence on their part creating new industry since we had this much larger purchasing group with the Free Trade. This time the opportunity presents itself again and I do hope that new ideas come forward instead of clinging to the past. The future is progress; moving forward to new ideas and new ways and that is the Conservative way where industrial growth is concerned. So our wealthy citizens who benefit from this wonderful friendly and sharing climate in Canada really do need to consider how they are investing their money - Canada needs help from her citizens to move forward and encourage foreign investment to go along with their own. The Canadian who bought Toys R Us Canada just because he wanted Canada's children to have a Toys R Us should be applauded and that is our way forward more than anything else. No more thinking about that though as at 80 I can do nothing about any of that except think but I need my sleep and do not want to continue contemplating our place on the world stage economically. Definitely I want to see a pipeline coming east and soon. If it has a two pronged approach - oil to the south and oil to the east even better (more investors!). But we need to refine our oil here in Ontario that is sold here because the loss of jobs needs to be offset in whatever way works. I noted one article where some people in Quebec are interested in an eastern pipeline (when you consider the area that is affected it is tiny compared to the size of these two provinces (Ontario and Quebec and since it would have to pass through Saskatchewan and Manitoba there is a lot to do where that is concerned but a lot has already been done for the Keystone XL pipeline now being reconsidered). We need to find paths that will work for the First Nations (and that is also true of the passage through the United States to the Gulf) and they are right there at the table ready to work on what is best for Canada.
Tea drank and banana bread eaten and must do my solitaire puzzles. A trifle late today but the day is open; no bus to catch to get to work. Just work at home like when my children were small and the proofreading/copyediting just fitted right in with what my employers wanted. As that changed so did I returning to work in house initially but again the last run on the printer was at 2 so that saw me at home in time for the school return until it didn't. Then I just went back to work outside the home (I did consider once again doing my Masters but decided not to; I get so into such things and I did not want to miss that time with my children and my husband who was so into so many things) and my elder daughter rushed home from school to be with her younger sibling for which I paid her that is how the world works. I did consider at that time refreshing my COBOL skills as the main frames were starting to need to be connected to the smart terminals - there was a need and opportunity and I did think about it. But research has always been my interest and so I went into the world of medicine and there I stayed for 12 plus years in various jobs but always there was that bit of research which involved me and I was content as I also wanted time with my children with my mind uncluttered to work on their projects when they asked me - it was a privilege for my children to include me in their projects and I wasn't going to pass up on that.
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