On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Trying to shop for a 4XL winter jacket for myself without travelling too far out of my neighbourhood. My current jacket is about 10 years old, and the design works for my brain. Trouble is that retailers have their own ideas about what I should be able to buy these days.
No buttons in front, zippered pockets...these are features to my brain, not design errors.

Looking for recommendations, not financial support.

Group therapy night, followed by some map-making.

Helpful.

Easter weekend coming up, and lots to do, I suspect.

Well, it wasn't a deputation. That's apparently not until next month, which is going to...not complicate at least one other appointment at the end of November. I am going to have to deal with lost income for however long I have to be ready to deliver it on that day, I think.

What did happen was further training, as well as face time directly with three city councillors. Leiper, Troster and Devine. Also, contact with some of the staffers of other members of city council.

Focus is still on mental health, poverty reduction and housing, because the city budget-building for 2024 is underway, and the staff's under direction to keep the rate increase to 2.5 %.

What I could have felt better about? More than a half-dozen of the 50 attendees masking up, for one. Seeing working air purifiers in the room for another. Neither of those things happened, though, so...

Listening to this as I type right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/living-deliberately-university-pennsylvania-tapestry-1.6988112

There's about twenty different people that it feels like I should be sending e-mails to this morning before work starts, and I can't decide who to write to first.

My brain is not great right now.

I'm going out for a job-search-related appointment this morning, to visit a part of the city I haven't been to in about half a year. By public transit. Which many if not most people now use while unmasked.

At least a half-hour to get there once I'm on the bus, another coming back. I expect to do shopping on the way. Not sure how long the appointment itself will be. I've dealt with this non-profit agency before. It's going to be someone new to me this time, as the two people I've regularly dealt with for years pre-Pandemic have moved on to other things within the organization or retired from it.

I am going to need to seriously cocoon for a few hours when I get back from this.

I used to follow the Connecting Comic Book Writers and Artists group on Facebook.

Tonight, I pulled the plug on that. I don't need that self-inflicted pain anymore. It was just one more thing.

There's going to be more "just one more thing" stuff.

I'm still looking at job leads, even as I've tentatively accepted a new data entry contract. I can't afford to ignore bad luck, not yet.

The weather today is not doing my brain health any favours right now: lots of rain, dark grey clouds lower to the ground. People I know who live with fibromyalgia are certainly being affected in their own ways right now.

More as it occurs to me.

Design Twitter put me onto this article about some of the perils of UX design while I wait for something else tonight to start. Seeing as it's something I'm recreationally dabbling in alongside mapmaking, comic book art, and so much else...with a vague, ill-formed hope of turning one or more of these hobbies into (part of) a viable income fit to live on...I need to pay attention.

https://uxdesign.cc/feel-like-quitting-ux-youre-not-alone-2986af25a622

- Checking indeed.ca for job leads
- Watching a webinar hosted by Monotype on choosing typefaces for your design projects
- Checking GC Jobs