My day yesterday ended up being incredibly busy with little work on the matches as I still have 19 to do. Perhaps today will lead to more matches being accomplished.
Some time was spent working on a health project that I am involved with which is quite interesting. It involved recall of what I had eaten and all the exercise of which I had partaken the day earlier. The FitBit makes this task quite straightforward actually as it records absolutely everything that I do during a day and a night. I think it is an excellent study and I am happy to be part of it.
The huge numbers of Baby Boomers (I am actually part of the Quiet Generation born between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Baby Boomer generation) have an enormous amount of health information which will benefit the world hugely in the years to come. As a baseline they were born during a period when plastic just wasn't there really in any degree but gradually introduced during their young childhood. Huge changes occurred in how schooling was done as well during this period of the Baby Boomers as the push to go to university dominated over the trades which is an enormous problem now. Health care for all Canadians was introduced during the time period that Baby Boomers existed with no free health care at the beginning and towards the end of the Baby Boomer period free health care was introduced so one gets an interesting picture of the effects of all these happenings examining the health of Baby Boomers in particular because they are such a huge group of people.
Since I skipped grade four I moved ahead into the group of children born during the war and so the Baby Boomers were two grades behind me mostly and one observed the effects of this huge group on the schools, on the housing market and on the types of items that were produced and sold due to the effect of this huge child market on the system.
Canada was a very aggressive country in the 1950s but merging itself into a North American market with trade deals took the edge off of that aggressiveness but the current Prime Minister has brought it back especially with references to our Founding Fathers of Confederation and the earlier heroes of Canada prior to Confederation.
Whining about affordability (which is a huge problem I realize that) doesn't put food on the table - we need to get the youth working and then affordability problems disappear. Looking forward to the pipeline although I do realize there is a lot of consulting to do on all of that but the playing field has been leveled to make it possible. All of the projects brought forward are great news for Canada. The Sovereign Wealth Fund is such a good idea and looking forward to more information. Go Canada Go.
I think if all the members of parliament get out into their constituencies and work with the youth to help them to move on from their stagnated positions in terms of jobs and career goals that would be a good use of their time this summer. Whining doesn't help; it simply doesn't give them a leg up to move forward into well paying jobs that will exist particularly in the trades.
Today work on the matches for sure although plans are afoot to do some closet cleaning. I used to take my entire house apart and clean it when I was home (even when I was proofreading it made a good break from sitting hours on end to clean a closet). But at 80 the incentive to do that has to be driven somewhat by others.
Time for breakfast, tea all drank and calisthenics completed more than an hour ago and I must do my solitaire puzzles.
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