I did pay the company to clear my driveway this year but again I am going to do my porch and patio and looking forward to going out and doing that in a couple of hours. I need the fresh air but I think I might hire this company in the summer to do my lawns; have been contemplating that idea. I also decided to order in my groceries and I had thought to go and get them myself (with my mask on) yesterday when I got my flu shot but the weather was very bad so I decided to just go home and make up an order for delivery as I haven't tried that and it is a good opportunity to try it out. I want to do my chicken stew tomorrow night but I do not want to go out for a couple of days after my flu shot. It looks straightforward and you can ask for a recycled box so they can just be left at the door after the bell is rung. I will be watching though for them to be delivered and will bring them in after they leave them as I am still wearing a mask since I had flu mid week last week. Arm is a little sore but otherwise all is well although I still haven't got my sleep length back yet as I do not yet do enough exercise. Today is cleaning day and it is the basement since I did not do that last week as that was the day that the flu struck. Discovered my daughter was called in to work in the ER last night when I sent a message to her thinking she was home with her family. That is the way for doctors having to go out in all kinds of weather to take care of the patients; there are many who rely on the ER as their family doctor although hopefully declining.
The basement is fairly quick and I will soon start the Robot doing the rugs and then just the dusting and then the floor to wash and all done. It takes me about 1/4 th the time that it used to take when it was loaded full. Now it is much emptier and I hope to whittle that down this summer again.
Along with the snow clearing of my patio and porch and the cleaning I will begin to work on Chromosome 5 as it is ready to go and there are 101 matches to go through and fourteen crossover points to verify. On this chromosome there are several large sets of interesting matches (unknown to me) that I want to investigate a little, some of them are on ancestry with trees which makes it very interesting and also in the other databases (FT DNA and My Heritage use the My Heritage trees which is very handy). It would be neat to find a recent common ancestor in their trees for sure. I actually made a breakthrough with a Buller set in the last chromosome because of a pretty far back ancestral line John Welch and Margaret Brockhouse married 16 Feb 1782 at Rugeley, Staffordshire (4x great grandparents) and their parents were: Thomas Welch and Mary Linn married 2 Sep 1745 at Rugeley and Charles Brockhouse and Ann Lea married 23 Jan 1748 at Rugeley. Charles Brockhouse was the son of John Brockhouse (no marriage located yet) and John was the son of John Brockhouse and Margaret Wood married 27 Apr 1692 at Rugeley. Another son of John and Margaret namely James and his wife Lucy Robinson were the ancestral line for one of the matches (a 5th cousin 1x removed and 27.8 cM over three chromosomes for the best match with one sibling (which wasn't anything really spectacular) but I checked the tree years ago now when matches were not so many; the other three siblings that match are at 25.6 cM over three, 19.3 over two chromosomes and 12.8 over one chromosome which is me) giving me a clear path for that and helping to determine another cluster of matches that were all Rawlings after all when they couldn't readily be separate from the Buller group. So interesting how valuable this intensive work can be. Could AI do it? It is the leaps that one makes from line to line because you just know the families that pretty much allows one to make such leaps. My Heritage does do Clusters which are handy as they bring like matches together and I contemplate that they are using AI. It does make errors so one has to be on their toes to catch the mis-steps as one must lead AI not follow it. It is easier as I work on this massive task to do it myself but I am shaping the files so that I could use AI for particular queries. But I think the human input will always be important. Our ingenuity allows us to quickly switch between thoughts without anybody telling us because we know the details and can bridge the gaps.
Time to make my tea and have a break. Then Solitaire puzzles and perhaps set the Robot going. Such a handy tool.
The strength of this Budget shouldn't get lost in controversy as Canada being more economically sound is good for everyone who does business here. I mean I love the Dodge product and as I said we have driven Dodges in my family all my life and my father's business always had Dodge trucks. But for a business the bottom line is profit and there is a benefit from them being so oriented to stay stable and resistant. These days though with so much information available one does risk being misunderstood and I rather think that we should give them the opportunity to follow through on their comment about continuing with their plant here in Ontario. I mean this is a brutal financial world in many ways and they contemplate producing a competitive brand against these cheaper brands. I have to be honest and say that I am certainly routing for them. Somehow my appointment to change to my winter tires got mixed up by me as I thought it was Friday but they have Wednesday and I doubt that I can manage that so must call and let them know. Maybe I will get them changed later when they are not so busy. I almost never drive now.
I also think that apologizing is not a weakness; I do see it as a sign of strength actually. It should not detract from this concentration on having a budget which will help us to become economically sound. There is a lot to do and a pipeline to the east absolutely essential (after all we have a port on Hudson Bay being refurbished and the St Lawrence is quite adequate to carry oil to the ocean although not as practical as a pipeline). But I did see some people in Quebec are considering this pipeline (overall I think it is a negative but one never knows). Certainly it would be a good business move to get our oil to both Asia and Europe/Africa and the Trans Mountain Pipeline is still not yet fully utilized so not so much of a rush as the pipeline to the east. We will see how this all flows for sure. I think this is growing pains so to speak; we have the ability to become a really efficient great country and we need to follow the signposts that lead us to be an independent efficient and self-sustaining country welcoming investors for sure because there is money to be made in Canada (it is a very endowed country with riches that just need to be organized and the First Nations is on a path with that as well so we need to really merge our plans as we are all one country). But all provinces have huge assets and there is no sense to concentrating on one province but rather bring all ten provinces and three territories to the same level of efficiency and ability and we can do it. We owe it to the future; to the children to the grandchildren - lots of hard work; lots of belt tightening and on our way. There is business to do and lots to come from it to help everybody in Canada, everybody will have to work hard though and especially those who invest in us; this is the time. Our dollar rides low and now is the time to hitch a ride.
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