Hope yet, and a note on titles

Good news first! It looks like I might be able to get ‘onboarded’ to the CPP-D (disability) vocational rehabilitation program sooner than I expected. This means I will have a process that will include supports to ensure I am able to be successful at obtaining and maintaining employment. I’m prepared to put the effort in, and it sounds like this program is serious about doing this right. I probably won’t be doing what I was doing before my mental health crisis (not too much call for my most of my tech skills sufficiently locally¹).

And for the second topic of this post, I thought I would mention that while I wrote a letter to the editor of MidlandToday.ca, and while the contents are mine (trimmed for length and clarity) the title is (like any letter to the editor) chosen by the editor. I think the title makes a point I initially wrote about, then decided against, and wrote a ‘kinder, gentler’ letter which was focused on how I think the newcomers to council (many of whom are promising to ‘do better than the previous council’, if elected, not the least at listening) are in for a bit of shock, given many are unable to keep up with the volume of emails and calls resulting from their candidacy.

That’s not meant as a knock on the newcomers; nor is it a particularly new thing, I just happen to be watching it this election, having paid attention to municipal politics for the past term and a bit. It does mean trying to assess which candidates will learn and make good decisions and which ones won’t.