2018-10-22 Voting and Other Things

It's Voting Day across our province for any municipal and regional
elections. I won't spend the electrons on all the controversy around
our provincial government changing the voting boundaries in my city on
the last minute to suit their purposes. While they are allowed to make
changes like these as municipalities are set-up and governed by the
province, the way this government went about it is just stupid. They
could have waited until after the election to give the citizens of the
city a say on what's happening but democratic process is not this
government's strong suite. That's all I'll say on that. I'll be voting
after work today and I'm confident I've done enough research into the
candidates to have decided on the ones that most match up to what I
think can and must be done in our city for the next four years.

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My spouse and I took my dad home on Saturday. As I may have mentioned
previously, home for my dad is about 4 hours north of where I live by
highway. We drove him home in his truck as he's not allowed to drive
with his fractured hand. Ideally, he shouldn't drive at all. I'm
trying to get in touch with his family physician but this is proving
to be rather difficult. They don't appear to answer the phone and they
request that you don't leave a message on their voice mail. I know he
is very pleased to be home so there's that.

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I started mucking about with encrypted XMPP again. I've installed
Pidgin on my Linux desktop and Xabber on my phone. The real issue here
is the lack of anyone I know using it. I literally have two people to
chat to on XMPP. If you'd like to find me in the XMPP universe, I have
an account on two servers:

- [email protected]

=AND=

- [email protected]

I use OTR currently because it works without a whole lot of fiddling
on my end. So, hit me up for a chat if you'd like! :)