Cooling the Jets
The last little bit I've been rather busy with moving out of my old apartment in the Annapolis Valley. It was really hot the day we moved, over 30*C which is a welcome change, because every other day I've moved, it's been a torrential downpour. So anyway, I'm at my parents house for the very short term while looking for work.
However, my parents have found some work for me - cleaning the basement. Twenty years of mouse crap and my dad's pack rat-ism. Every receipt for everything my grandmother ever purchased, and a whole lot of spiders. Also, forty years of old National Geographics.
Speaking of National Geographic, I was talking to the former editor of National Geographic magazine and president of the Society, Gilbert Grosvenor on Tuesday. National Geographic and Parks Canada collaborated to create a guide book to all of Canada's national parks. It is possible that some of the data used in the maps was data I had created last summer. The book was launched at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, NS. Bell, most famous for inventing the telephone, was a founder of National Geographic, and lived in Baddeck from 1886 until his death in 1922. Grosvenor is his great grandson. However, I didn't get any leads on cartography jobs at National Geographic, but I did get the book signed.
Yesterday I was at Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Site which is an enormous reconstruction of an 18th century French fortified town in Cape Breton. It was the largest fortification in North America the time, and the third busiest port. While impregnable from the sea, the fort was fatally weak on the land, as many hills above the town were excellent sites for siege guns, something the British made great use of the two times they captured the fort in 1745 and 1758. The British demolished the fort in 1760 to avoid having to capture it again. The weather was foggy and cold as it usually is there.
Anyway, I need to get back to looking for work, and not finding it in my parent's basement.
However, my parents have found some work for me - cleaning the basement. Twenty years of mouse crap and my dad's pack rat-ism. Every receipt for everything my grandmother ever purchased, and a whole lot of spiders. Also, forty years of old National Geographics.
Speaking of National Geographic, I was talking to the former editor of National Geographic magazine and president of the Society, Gilbert Grosvenor on Tuesday. National Geographic and Parks Canada collaborated to create a guide book to all of Canada's national parks. It is possible that some of the data used in the maps was data I had created last summer. The book was launched at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, NS. Bell, most famous for inventing the telephone, was a founder of National Geographic, and lived in Baddeck from 1886 until his death in 1922. Grosvenor is his great grandson. However, I didn't get any leads on cartography jobs at National Geographic, but I did get the book signed.
Yesterday I was at Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Site which is an enormous reconstruction of an 18th century French fortified town in Cape Breton. It was the largest fortification in North America the time, and the third busiest port. While impregnable from the sea, the fort was fatally weak on the land, as many hills above the town were excellent sites for siege guns, something the British made great use of the two times they captured the fort in 1745 and 1758. The British demolished the fort in 1760 to avoid having to capture it again. The weather was foggy and cold as it usually is there.
Anyway, I need to get back to looking for work, and not finding it in my parent's basement.