Just Some More From Me

I have to admit that I do live a much different life now. Sure, it has to do a lot about how old I am now. Since I am 70+ years old, I don't do the kind of work now that I did only a few years ago. Seriously, I used to start quite early in the morning and work until quite late in the evening doing all the tasks that I had working with the group with which I associated then.

I stopped doing that about three and half years ago. I think I just got tired doing the work I had done for so many years. More importantly however, as I am certain that you know by now, dear reader, within a relatively short time after I stopped working, it was discovered that I had a very strange disease that very few people in this area had. It was one that not too many medical people knew about at all. Because of being seen right away by one of the doctors in the Emergency Department here who knew a little bit about my illness, my life was saved. Fortunately, I have recovered from it reasonably well although not 100% so that I have difficulties that I have to live with forever.

I do look at my life differently now. I really have no idea about how long I will live. I think about this a lot more today than I ever had in the past. No, I don't really get upset about it because I think I have learned that no one can tell me when I ultimately will leave this earth. I just look at things a little bit differently.

What do I mean by that? I think it is reasonably simple. I don't get worried about the past anymore. The past is over. Period. I cannot deal with it anymore because it happened before and I really can't change it. What I have done is learn the lesson about how not to get into a situation like my past anymore, especially if it is a troubling one. Just as importantly, I can learn how to deal with situations in the past so I can handle similar ones now.

As for my future? I don't worry about that at all now either. I have no idea about what will happen after today. All kinds of things can happen that I can try and figure out how to handle them. However, I just don't do that now. Why worry today about what might happen tomorrow when one really does not have the faintest idea of what will happen tomorrow. Just deal with the time of your life that you can handle.

Accordingly, all that it is important to me at this stage of my life is the present. That is all that I think about ie what am I going to do today. I focus my attention on the particular day that I am up and plan what activities I will be involved in. If there is an issue I have to deal with today, then what I have do is deal with it today. I try always to solve any issue right away and have fortunately been able to do so. I do not want to carry it on.

So that is what my life is like these days. It has been quite a change from my past and sometimes is very difficult. However, dear reader, it seems to be how my life is being carried on and I have to learn how to handle it as best I can.

Now for some interesting matters that I would like to share with you.

ELECTRICAL POWER FAILURES

Fortunately, notwithstanding the very hot and humid weather we have been experiencing, the situation with respect to electrical failures in my area of Tecumseh, and hopefully others, has been quite positive recently. We have not had recently any disasters resulting in the loss of electrical power in the home!  Mind you, I have had a couple of outages recently.  So far, they were infrequent but  who  knows...!!

As you will recall, in the past, we have had a number of cases where we have experienced very short timeouts where our electrical power turned off and then on again. Accordingly, I along with others lost our power resulting in a number of our electrical appliances having to be reset. I was afraid that these timeouts would lengthen eventually resulting in very extreme power outages. These outages could cause severe problems in the home.

I along with others contacted Essex Powerlines Corporation and let them know about the problems we were experiencing and asked them to solve the problems ASAP. As you know from what I have written, they have acted very quickly, identified the problem and solved it just as quickly.

That Company and Hydro One have been working together to minimize any problems in the future. I just thought that I would like to let you see what their General Manager wrote to me recently:

“I am happy to communicate that since your last reported momentary outage on July 21, 2018 no further reports of momentary outages have occurred on the M25 feeder.

We will continue our efforts in mitigating any variables which may contribute to customers experiencing further momentary outages on the M25 feeder in the future.”

CANADA'S BEST PLACES TO LIVE 2018

That is a website as you can find here: https://www.moneysense.ca/tag/canadas-best-places-to-live-2018/

Out of 150 locations in Ontario, Windsor is number 92 in the list. My residence, Tecumseh, is number 59. The best location here is LaSalle which is number 36 on the list.

Here are some interesting numbers for Windsor and Tecumseh:

Economic Factors	Tecumseh	Windsor
Economic region unemployment rate	5.9%	5.9%
Average Household Income	$115,124	$71,896
Average Value of Primary Real Estate	$390,909	$263,959
Average rent for a two-bedroom apartment	$855	$860
Average annual property tax bill	$3,851	$2,032