EI...

Every time I have to phone the Employment Insurance people (whom I still, in my mind, think of as UIC, or Unemployment Insurance Canada), I do it with nervousness and dismay. Because it's bureaucracy? Because it's government? Really, these people are giving me money, so I shouldn't fear them. Logically. But feelings are feelings.

And every time I call, like this morning, they are kind and nice and carefully explain whatever it is I needed to call them about without any condescension at all. Even when I deserve it. I'm a moron when it comes to filling out their forms, but they never say so, or even imply it. They are efficient and friendly.

So... next time I have to phone will I still dread it?

Probably.

St David's Day...

For of my Welsh friends and acquaintances and ancestors and relatives and many beloved fictional characters, happy St. David's Day to everyone!



Hwyl fawr ar DDydd Gweyl Dewi

Birds, robots and warfare...

Is this article on Air Force Bugbots for real?

And if they have all that fancy technology, couldn't they and wouldn't they use it to make these things look more like, for example, real birds?

Now I'm picturing my budgies being drafted to fly into war zones dropping little budgie-sized bombs. Don't do it, Little Guys. Your mama would weep.