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Only 3 week delay, haha.
Still in the 'north' place of my last post. The first week felt very busy, like I couldn't believe it was only a week. The last two weeks have been faster. Not sure why, I did a bunch of walks but nothing that seems all that novel in my diary. Maybe just local shopping, checking Chinese markets, trying a Vietnamese restaurant, I dunno. Walking enough to find the big Japanese market... huh, didn't realize that was so far back.
Job hunt continues.
BC has gone back to Normal. Masking no longer required even on public transit, though "recommended". At least one big pharmacy, London Drugs, has also collapsed, with a "masks strongly recommended" sign. I am wondering if returning to the US would make sense for covid safety reasons.
Airbnb one week out was looking rather horrible, but I found a cheap 2-week place in Richmond BC, a suburb to the south of Vancouver, which holds the airport and a lot of Chinese people. Then looking for 30 day places after that has good options again, though I wonder if I want to keep staying here. OTOH I don't want to juggle disruption and job hunt that much, and have some medical concerns that might call for staying still -- or for going somewhere where I have more friends to help out if I need it.
Yeah, not a lot of exciting 'Vancouver' things recently, been more internal stuff. Reading the new Liaden book, reading Niven Warlock stories, 'being there' for a friend trying to escape Russia (they made it), reading a book on *early* Roman history, immune system stuff I've already posted about, couple new-to-me filk groups (thefaithfulsidekicks.com, viabellaband.com). And some computer stuff, that can be its own post.
Still in the 'north' place of my last post. The first week felt very busy, like I couldn't believe it was only a week. The last two weeks have been faster. Not sure why, I did a bunch of walks but nothing that seems all that novel in my diary. Maybe just local shopping, checking Chinese markets, trying a Vietnamese restaurant, I dunno. Walking enough to find the big Japanese market... huh, didn't realize that was so far back.
Job hunt continues.
BC has gone back to Normal. Masking no longer required even on public transit, though "recommended". At least one big pharmacy, London Drugs, has also collapsed, with a "masks strongly recommended" sign. I am wondering if returning to the US would make sense for covid safety reasons.
Airbnb one week out was looking rather horrible, but I found a cheap 2-week place in Richmond BC, a suburb to the south of Vancouver, which holds the airport and a lot of Chinese people. Then looking for 30 day places after that has good options again, though I wonder if I want to keep staying here. OTOH I don't want to juggle disruption and job hunt that much, and have some medical concerns that might call for staying still -- or for going somewhere where I have more friends to help out if I need it.
Yeah, not a lot of exciting 'Vancouver' things recently, been more internal stuff. Reading the new Liaden book, reading Niven Warlock stories, 'being there' for a friend trying to escape Russia (they made it), reading a book on *early* Roman history, immune system stuff I've already posted about, couple new-to-me filk groups (thefaithfulsidekicks.com, viabellaband.com). And some computer stuff, that can be its own post.