First and foremost my bins look fine at a glance from the window so perhaps they are made to toss no idea on that. I just hadn't seen anyone do that before. There is a lot to do on the street for sure so I quess time is money and one has to keep moving along quickly to get it all done. Generally one never sees me out of the house for the most part (gardening has definitely taken a back step this year; I simply am not keeping it up so I know it is time to move in the near future). I need to be closer to family so I can help them if they need any and the reverse is true. It is too far to go, 60 km, readily and quickly. I just have a little more downsizing to do and that is planned over this next winter into spring likely and perhaps a fall or early winter move. We will see how this downsizing goes. I still have too much stuff - my husband loved to shop and buy things that he liked. I do not think we ever came home from a shopping trip without something.
The budget is moving along and the third vote is coming up. I do want to see it pass; I think it is a reasonable plan for Canada. I want to see Canada grow industrially with good footing in Canada so that we are never in danger again of going into recession. It just took the fall of the Stock Market in New York in 2008 to send us into recession. We must not be so dependent on one country for trade back and forth. We must keep our trade barriers to a minimum inside of Canada so that we are mostly buying Canadian but it is nice to have the treats from other countries. Especially we need a pipeline to the east to help offset the loss of revenue in Ontario. For the provinces needing more health care money consider a Health Tax in the province as Ontario has moved to. It does make a big difference and the amount paid is geared to income with the lowest paying virtually nothing or actually nothing (I haven't checked on that) and graded upwards so the larger earners pay more. I also think the Federal Government should consider rolling back the increase given to OAS to those 75 years and up when I was 75 rather than add to the present lower OAS group who are 65 to 75 years olds and are a much larger number (it would be a huge amount across Canada and the rollback can be worked into the other areas where money is needed). Since both men and women work in most cases I think eliminating OAS is a consideration and simply increase CPP and have just the one pension plan. Less costly to administer. A great many of us have it clawed back proportionally anyway at Income Tax time. I can see where that would have to be graded in slowly for sure and perhaps just allowed to disappear as the group reaching retirement age of 65 in the particular year that it is merged with CPP. It does mean maintaining it for a longer period but it will slowly dwindle out. Saving money on the government part is the most important thing over the next couple of years but industry and commerce will grow to offset it and that is at it should be. The government should never be either the largest or the best paying (there is a certain amount of prestige in working for the government that just has to work for them). If not they probably belong in the private sector, I think personally.
Two breakfasts already today as I gain back my couple of pounds that I lost. Much better today but must retrain my sleeping times as the flu definitely threw that out the window. Most of my life here in Ottawa my nerves have been a problem not anything else; I have very bad nerves easily set off unfortunately. I just follow what the psychiatrist said to me which was "eat when you are hungry and sleep when you are tired and look after that beautiful baby." Well the babies are both adults so that one is gone but keeping a clear route and following his idea has kept me all these years. I think he never thought I would be strong enough to go back to work but I defied that odds by mostly working first at home for about 12 to 14 years, a bit hazy on that could check the income tax, and then returning to the workforce full time outside the home in 1994 and continued to 2007 so not too bad given my illness apparently. I guess a nervous disorder is considered mental illness - not sure but I am beginning to think that as I contemplate my state of health in my 30s. I was actually anxious to take up the proofreading after it was mentioned to me at Edward's interview but they didn't have a need right at that time but a few years later they did so that worked very well at the beginning. I did do a lot of volunteer work as it turned out; I think I just never mentioned it when asked as I find that to be a rather private question so tend to just ignore it and move on. But helping at my girl's schools was high on my agenda and my skills in computers from the mid 60s did come in very handy at that time. We also bought a computer in the early 1980s when they were very expensive actually but I will always remember my youngest at 2 and a half years popping in a floppy disk and starting up her programs. My older daughter as well was very into computers and did graduate in Computer Science before going on to do her Masters in Library and Information Science and then her PhD which got her the job she wanted and she has in turn produced all sorts of graduates - masters and PhDs at her university (and she is now also teaching undergraduates as there is a Bachelors program in her Faculty). She does want to come back home when she retires and still work here but time will tell on that; she is into AI these days and one of her former PhD students now a tenure track professor and herself have a contract for AI research which is great (and another one of her students also in a tenure track position received one as well she mentioned). I am hearing that more of our Canadian students are being hired in Canada (one of my nephews (has his PhD) has a job out west) and that is good news; we should employ our students first and foremost. However I will try not to carry on too much with that. I love the United States and where she works there but it will be nice to have her home once again. They offered the job when she couldn't get one here having applied everywhere that there is a library school and all of those jobs were given to Americans as it turned out and she just decided she should go south and get one there since it was offered. It was a good idea; she has made a huge difference and especially I think helping to setup a campus wide Data Science Program having established her own Data Science elective in her Faculty. But then as I remind her; her father's people were probably 95% American colonials back to early colonial days in New England/New York (New Amsterdam)/New Jersey with just a few Canadian immigrants (3 actually) in the 1800s 2 from Germany and 1 from England. The American colonials were there early and we found their graves tucked away back in the woods; amazing trips that we took and people were so very helpful at telling us the directions when it became confusing although some of the graves had GPS co-ordinates which was so very helpful although sometimes the paths got so narrow we wondered where we were going. But each one was a thrill for Edward for sure. He and George Anderson spent about ten plus years taking bus trips down into New York State when they retired. Edward's family coming to Ontario between 1800 and 1830 tended to be Patriots and that was his father's side; his mother's side was from the Maritimes and they were planters in Nova Scotia in the 1730s and 1740s and Loyalists to New Brunswick 1780s sometime on one side and Loyalist on his maternal grandfather's side coming up to Sorel, Quebec in the middle of the winter (not sure of the year could look it up; it was a bit scary as I recall and one ancestor eight months pregnant at the time (amazing woman who survived as did the baby) the late 1770s I think). So a Patriot descendant married a Planter/Loyalist descendant and they were Edward's parents.
Must get to work on the 27 matches that are left to do on Chromosome 6. All of the crossover points are proven with a few slight changes here and there. I am discovering some interesting details actually on the various testing companies but I will not share that as they do a great job each of them individually and they do not use the exact same set of testing points so there is bound to be slight differences. This chromosome is especially interesting because I have so many known 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins testing that a great deal of it was totally known to me already before I even looked at one match. That isn't always the case even with 5 siblings tested. Having just one parent tested would have been a great asset but my mother passed away before that was done. My uncle expressed an interest but then SARS struck and it simply didn't happen as he lived in Toronto and ended up in one of the hospitals where I could not visit him readily. He passed away so quickly I would scarcely have gotten there anyway sad to say. The need for me to do that testing was still slowly percolating through my brain. I must say the passing of my mother and uncle so quickly did provide some of that inspiration to move forward with what she had talked about that last day we spent together. George DeKay of course put it into full speed ahead with his asking that I write the Pincombe profile for the book he was publishing.
So onto the matches, must do the solitaire puzzles sometime. The days escape me.
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