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shannon_aThe Workshop. Day two of Rebooting the Web of Trust is the day of casual work, when you've still got two full days ahead of you and it feels like all the time in the world. My group, working on how to offer compelling stories to the average person about self-sovereign identity, came up with a standard format and then worked through two of our five people, Dad and Sis. I'd hoped that after we'd standardized the format with the first one, we could then send everyone off to work on one of the sections and BOOM we were done. But, there was too much good synergy and innovation from talking each one out, so we went that way instead.
I'm not sure if I'm a good leader or a bad leader. I worked hard to incorporate any viewpoint or idea that seemed like it was on the same page as the general gestalt, but more than once I also just wrote so that we could get something down. The *hope* is to finish our five people by the end of tomorrow, then have the introduction and conclusion (and editing) to do in the post-game show (e.g., the near future). We'll see. As usual, I like the people I'm working with. RWOT does a great job of bringing together great, intelligent, and cooperative people. Also, they usually like my sense of humor.
The Furor Down in the US. Today was a great day to be workshopping because if I were sitting at my desk at home, I suspect I might have been obsessed with the unprecedented attempt in the SENATE to shame and denounce a woman for coming forth to talk about her near-rape. As was, several of us checked in on it over the course of the day. Suffice to say: the Republicans in the Senate are absolutely disgusting and have no place in deciding the future of this nation. At this point, they must know that our next Supreme Court Justice has been an blackout drunk and a serial abuser of women, and they just don't care. They intend to not just tarnish, but entirely blacken the Supreme Court, and I think they're going to. I just hope the Democrats have the balls to fully investigate Kavanagh, impeach him, and send their information onto the Maryland authorities so that they can throw him in jail once they return to power ... and that return to power is going to be a lot sooner after the GOP confirms a known rapist to the Supreme Court.
Despair and De Feet. I have given up on Mississauga as any type of ... not just walkable, but accessible city. Everything is miles apart. Many places have no sidewalks. If you want to walk from one place to another, you walk along huge, very busy streets. There's no subway. The train up near our worksite apparently only runs in the morning, and the rest of the time it's a bus line in disguise. Whether it's a train or bus, the line runs straight to Union Station in Toronto, and then you have to turn around to go anywhere else, and it's all slow and ineffecient. Buses at least double the time for a car, sometimes more. So, for example, today when I was going from the Microsoft locale of our workshop to Port Credit, my choices were walk (3.75 hours), bus (1.5 hours), "train" (2 hours), or Lyft (.5 hours). Yes, I Lyfted, but that just drives me crazy.
Port Credit. So my after-work destination today was Port Credit, which looked like one of the nicer places along Lake Ontario in Mississauga and maybe close enough to walk home (ha!). I found a nice park near the Lake and walked around it a bit. It was great seeing Lake Ontario, though it's less scenic than (say) the Bay, because it's just gray and huge. You look out and there's just water, water, water. Port Credit is right at the mouth of the Credit River, apparently named for the fact that traders sent goods up the river in exchange for furs that would come down the river the next season. Hence, credit. The best walking was in a variety of parks on either side of the river mouth. From there I walked through a beautiful neighborhood of huge stone and brick houses that was really lovely. But then it was out to the main road and more of the unattractive walking that seems the standard in Mississauga. I stopped as soon as I hit some food, by which time I'd walked about 6.5 miles for the day. After that I checked to see if I was close enough to the AirBnB to walk, and discovered that I was still an hour away. Sigh. Lyft it was.
I'm not sure if I'm a good leader or a bad leader. I worked hard to incorporate any viewpoint or idea that seemed like it was on the same page as the general gestalt, but more than once I also just wrote so that we could get something down. The *hope* is to finish our five people by the end of tomorrow, then have the introduction and conclusion (and editing) to do in the post-game show (e.g., the near future). We'll see. As usual, I like the people I'm working with. RWOT does a great job of bringing together great, intelligent, and cooperative people. Also, they usually like my sense of humor.
The Furor Down in the US. Today was a great day to be workshopping because if I were sitting at my desk at home, I suspect I might have been obsessed with the unprecedented attempt in the SENATE to shame and denounce a woman for coming forth to talk about her near-rape. As was, several of us checked in on it over the course of the day. Suffice to say: the Republicans in the Senate are absolutely disgusting and have no place in deciding the future of this nation. At this point, they must know that our next Supreme Court Justice has been an blackout drunk and a serial abuser of women, and they just don't care. They intend to not just tarnish, but entirely blacken the Supreme Court, and I think they're going to. I just hope the Democrats have the balls to fully investigate Kavanagh, impeach him, and send their information onto the Maryland authorities so that they can throw him in jail once they return to power ... and that return to power is going to be a lot sooner after the GOP confirms a known rapist to the Supreme Court.
Despair and De Feet. I have given up on Mississauga as any type of ... not just walkable, but accessible city. Everything is miles apart. Many places have no sidewalks. If you want to walk from one place to another, you walk along huge, very busy streets. There's no subway. The train up near our worksite apparently only runs in the morning, and the rest of the time it's a bus line in disguise. Whether it's a train or bus, the line runs straight to Union Station in Toronto, and then you have to turn around to go anywhere else, and it's all slow and ineffecient. Buses at least double the time for a car, sometimes more. So, for example, today when I was going from the Microsoft locale of our workshop to Port Credit, my choices were walk (3.75 hours), bus (1.5 hours), "train" (2 hours), or Lyft (.5 hours). Yes, I Lyfted, but that just drives me crazy.
Port Credit. So my after-work destination today was Port Credit, which looked like one of the nicer places along Lake Ontario in Mississauga and maybe close enough to walk home (ha!). I found a nice park near the Lake and walked around it a bit. It was great seeing Lake Ontario, though it's less scenic than (say) the Bay, because it's just gray and huge. You look out and there's just water, water, water. Port Credit is right at the mouth of the Credit River, apparently named for the fact that traders sent goods up the river in exchange for furs that would come down the river the next season. Hence, credit. The best walking was in a variety of parks on either side of the river mouth. From there I walked through a beautiful neighborhood of huge stone and brick houses that was really lovely. But then it was out to the main road and more of the unattractive walking that seems the standard in Mississauga. I stopped as soon as I hit some food, by which time I'd walked about 6.5 miles for the day. After that I checked to see if I was close enough to the AirBnB to walk, and discovered that I was still an hour away. Sigh. Lyft it was.