Wearing a Brandon Wheat Kings t-shirt in China

 I left that shirt in China. Damn!

Saturday 6:52 AM View

If I wanted it to always be one time of the day, I would want it to be around the dawn.

Here's what I was doing a year ago.

Tattoos

 Did I spell that world right?

I have noticed a lot of things since I have returned to live in Canada.  One is the tattoo wearing I see.  When I was last in Canada in 2004, the popularity of tattoos had just exploded.  I remember seeing girls with tattoos on their backs about their bum.  Now, I see tattoosp on the front of people's upper thighs and on their shins.  I see seemingly ordinary people, otherwise, with arms comletely covered in them so that it looks like their arms are completely bruised.

I hesitate to comment here about what it says about the culture.

Trying to keep my spirits up

I can't afford to go out this weekend.  Last evening (Friday evening), I retired early, and reckon I was asleep by 10:00.  I arose early, hoping to do a livestream, for which I get paid, but it was cancelled on account of bureaucracy.  I do have one online class to do this morning.

It's all rather dispiriting, but I tell myself that I have to rise above it.  I have my mother and my son to worry about.  I have to be in my best mood for them.

This evening, I'll attend mass. 

Saturday 5:00 AM View

I’m a very early riser.  I had the habit in Jiangyin.

Seeing how I can’t get much  work in Canada, I talk to China,

I am missing a Jiangyin People’s  Friendship  event.

This Morning’s Video Upload

 A Simone Weil quote.

Is morbid or liberating?

Friday 4:15 PM View

Interesting cloud formation.

Tony tells me that his school did a minute of silence for reconciliation day,

Support Canadian Farmers!

 At Sobey's, I saw a display set up for cans of Carnation Milk.  They were stacked up high in what I call a product pyramid.  Accompanying the display was a sign saying "Support Canadian Farmers."  After seeing this, I saw the price was 3.99 for a 349 ml can.  Outrageous! I thought. That is a high price to support the Canadian milk cartel.

Friday 12:18 PM View

My son just experienced getting bad news.  Something which I have been getting a lot of since returning to Canada.  He is going to have to take grade 11 math this semester.  This means he will have to do some catching up this weekend..  His math class will be after lunch which means he has a shorter lunch break now.  He won’t like that.

He does have a long weekend on account of Reconciliation Day.

Translation Blues 3

 As I said in Translation Blues 2, I sent my Chinese license and translation documents to the Winnipeg Immigrant Centre for re-signing and updating so I could submit them to MPI in order to get my proper Manitoba License. I mailed the documents last week and assumed that I would get them this week.  Yesterday ( Thursday), they hadn’t arrived. My mother then told me that the postal workers had gone on strike.  Just farging wonderful, I thought.

I phoned the  Immigration Centre this morning and they told me they mailed the documents out on Monday. You would think they would have arrived at my home in Brandon the next day.  But it being Canada Post, assume an extra day, so they should have arrived Wednesday. But three days? And I am wondering if the strike started yesterday afternoon just as my documents were set to arrive.

What to do? Wait and see what happens with the strike? I am looking at translation services I found using Grok.