I've probably been slacking off this week but it feels like my time is being eaten away. There was an early deadline for Tuesday's cartoons so the middle of the week saw me being fixated on coming up with ideas (mediocre as they were) and then drawing them out for submission.
The earlier the deadline, the more clairvoyant I have to be in predicting what will make the news. The obvious answer is "the hospital". Miramichi has been dominating provincial headline because of the impending cuts, the demonstrations, and also because they fired the CEO who had honourably warned his staff they were coming. The province's spin on this is that he retired, which met with calls of "Liar!" from Elizabeth Weir before she was summarily ejected from the legislature. Latest news is that the planned methadone clinic is being canned. Since that's a health board project and has little to do with the province, it's a wonder why the health minister is also throwing his weight into this one. Essentially, our area is being targeted for dismantling, service by service.
... And that $25 Million over five years that was lauded a few weeks ago, will do nothing to counter the estimated $28 Million per year of financial impact the closure of the hospital is going to have on the community.
Another time management defeat is that I tend to get a lot of visitors at the office. Since I work evenings and into to the night, my friends have usually knocked off work around the time I am just getting settled into something. As much as I find it counter to my nature, I guess I'm going to try to switch to daytime this week. I justify my hours by noting that my future clients are mostly in Korea for the projects I am doing now. That's a 12-hour difference. However, I have a more local project that may benefit from some old-fashioned 9 to 5 work anyway.
Another plus is that I might finally be able to catch the remaining episodes of that PBS series I've been waiting for since they started advertising it in March.
Colonial House escaped me last week. I missed it's regular hours... and even missed its rebroadcasting overnight. To keep me satiated, I was lucky that I was still getting home in time to catch the series they added afterwards, 1900 House. Being the history buff and misguided romanticizer of the old days that I am, I totally eat this stuff up.
As of today, my disappointment is gone. It turns out that PBS rebroadcast again all of the episodes of Colonial House to date. I managed to catch the whole works in a few hours this evening. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
All in all, it's a fun show but a few of the participants seem a bit soft albeit this is a lot more realistic and exacting than a show like "Survivor". The 'governor' of the colony appropriately labeled some of them as being like 'children' when it came to responsibility. In contrast, the real children seem to handle it better-- and 1900 House is a great example. The kids in the Victorian house, although suffering their own problems, they are bright, inventive, and reasonably rock solid (while their parents emotionally crumble around them.)
Okay. Now I really feel like white trash. I'm spending the bulk of my waking hours today watching T.V. In about 30 minutes, the "Trailer Park Boys" are coming on. I have to fix up my Dad's computer beforehand, so I had better stop blogging now and get it done.
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