Half of a week cleaning and half of a week working but it seems to flow well. Awake in the night first time for a while actually. Sorting through the idea of moving and when it will be feasible. Highly desirable but the timing still not quite right. I would have one less day of work if I sold and moved into a one floor house and it is tempting to do that sooner rather than later. No ideas on that though as the logical time to move is in four years so we will see how that flows.
Today is the top floor and then the cleaning is done for another week. Olympics moving along and soon it will be playoffs in a number of items. It is nice to see so many of our young people involved in the Olympics although I have barely watched it this year. Life has been busy amazingly for an 80 year old.
I also want to finish off the last fifteen matches and then that task is completed although the work just begins where the great grandparents are concerned. But I still need to look at the databases for the various companies and see if there is any new useful information. That will take the rest of the week probably along with working on the 4300 line Excel file. All backed up and I will create a new file to actually work with the data leaving the original on the file where I created it which includes all of the chromosomes one by one beside the large chart including the chart that was used to determine the crossover points looking at the Living DNA data but not necessarily relying on it for the final decision - I used 23 and Me, FT DNA, Gedmatch (primarily Ancestry data), and My Heritage along with the Living DNA data.
Falling asleep once again so will complete my blog in a couple of hours.
And so I return and exercises all completed and this hour on arising works very well it appears with a cardio load of 40, 55 minutes in length, 3000 steps and 292 calories. I have had my snack and will soon make my breakfast.
Cleaning the top floor so I shall soon pick everything up and eat my breakfast and then begin after a short rest. It takes about 45 minutes to vacuum everything and then perhaps the same for dusting and then I need to scrub the bathroom and I will be finished and it is usually about three hours as I tend to underestimate the amount of time that I will spend.
I will try to complete the remaining matches as it is not that many and than set up my file system for the work to come on this created excel file which is less than 5000 lines. There are a number of sorting routines that I will do and then examine the results with regard to the known people and the matches to all those known people. It should be interesting and the gain will be a breakdown of the great grandparents into their two lines (as everyone has two lines).
I do not think in Canada that we are anti-American but definitely we are pro-Canadian and struggling to bring our economy into a state where there is no dependency except the usual that one attains by trade. We certainly enjoy being part of the North American Trade Agreement for all these years - I do not really think anyone would disagree with that fact (although in retrospect having our native industries decimated by competition/buying out and closing was a bad decision) but circumstance has made it necessary (we must do our best to make ourselves economically independent). That is the aim so one is seeing pro-Canadian and to a great extent we are all looking towards making Canada tariff proof.
There are a few people in Canada who have ventured into another country looking for aid to form a country and I probably wouldn't use strong words but definitely mis-advised. Canada bought and paid for Rupert's Land and that is how the huge mass of land came to be part of Canada. We even ceded a number of areas to the United States since they lay on their side of the border but we did pay for that land and it was ceded freely with all the treaty obligations (and it is worth a lot of money now for sure).
Alberta itself would be worth a huge amount of money and Canada would need to be recompensed.The rights of the First Nations come first that is the deal in the purchase of Rupert's Land. I believe the First Nations in Northern Quebec preferred to be part of Nunavut in such a situation when a referendum was discussed there and I doubt that has changed. That is a huge amount of Quebec. You live with what you came in with and Alberta did not exist until Canada created Alberta. Anyway that is my understanding.
Why anyone would want to leave this prosperous country is quite beyond me to be honest (the opportunities for youth and they are coming and there will be far more in this near future for all of her people). The cost would be enormous unless you leave only with what you brought to Confederation (this concerns only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia as they all existed but in many cases their land area was much smaller (that applies to Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba not sure about British Columbia would need to look that up) prior to Confederation (some joining later than 1867). In this case Alberta and Saskatchewan did not exist at all until they were created in 1905 with the Treaty Rights enshrined in their forming. But then I see the ownership of land as immemorial back into time unless you purchase it with all the rights of ownership (and for the most part that is not possible in huge areas of Canada as it belongs to the First Nations who kindly share it with us and are unlikely to sell it outright).
The International Courts did decide in favour of the First Nations and I agree with them. I also think that there is a limit to this sort of logic but it is deep into the past as our knowledge of countries did develop later than say 8000 years ago although some countries did exist and have the paperwork to prove it whether it was etched on stone or written on some sort of material. Interesting this logic really but allowing any other logic leads to what we see in Eastern Europe right now and thank you to NATO for standing up to it. During the Ice Age no one was in Russia likely and Ukraina was the name of the Ice Refuge in that part of the country so a much older name for sure.
However we have entered into this time of war ushered in by Putin and his supporters in Russia who have led the ugly illegal cruel despicable attack on Ukraine and it continues to this day (it amazes me that the people of Russia continue to allow Putin to constantly force their children into a war that is killing so many of them). Where are the Russians who said no to the Tsar (history records he was murdered for that very crime) and refused to continue a war that was killing their people? One wonders; there is no benefit to the Russians in this at all and one prays that there never will be.
Work to be done and breakfast is next after the Solitaire Puzzles.
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