{"id":1396,"date":"2023-07-12T02:11:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-sinclair.com\/editorialog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2023-07-12T02:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:11:59","slug":"epistle-of-q-chapter-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-sinclair.com\/editorialog\/epistle-of-q-chapter-184\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistle of Q — Chapter 184"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A new<\/mark> final chapter or maybe not<\/mark>... <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
About a month ago I dropped in to my office to pick up a revenue cheque. As I was driving around the block looking for a place to park, I noticed the entrance to a new parkade beside the main doors of the tower wherein my office resides. Immediately I thought that this was a beautiful coincidence and boded well for the future\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, I managed to quickly find a space and went up to reception. My first comments (to a new\/unknown receptionist) were related to the surprising discovery of the parkade. There I was politely told that we have had that facility for about three [3] years (it was finished during the early months of Covid-19). While she looked unsuccessfuly for the envelope, from another office emerged a familiar face who greeted me warmly then had a conversation about when I last actually visited the place. Turns out it was more than four [4] years ago. Obviously working remotely has a debilitating impact on memory cells if nothing else!! After picking up the found envelope, wishing old and new friends well, I decided it was time to do a little bit of reflecting. If I could survive four [4] years without even showing up at an office why would I keep it, even if there is a handy parking facility right beside it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First thought<\/mark> \u2013 it was about the same time, more or less, that I lost my little suite in the basement of a townhouse in a wonderful neighbourhood by the river (in Edmonton). While CUE has been good to rent me a little cabin\/house on campus, it does not provide year round options nor permit storage of clothing and other residential accoutrements!! This means that any non-teaching trip (in autumn & winter) requires at least one checked suitcase (the cabin during the conventional fall & winter semesters is used to house grad students).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second thought<\/mark> \u2013 I have no plans to quit teaching voluntarily any time soon. Even with the new scheduling constrictions, I\u2019ve managed to re-design my signature course at CUE such that I am enjoying the gig once again at a very positive level (and the two-cohort on the same week system has helped mitigate the expenses, thus making things more than break-even economically speaking). Besides I have some new learning moment<\/mark> ideas in the winds that wouldn\u2019t require additional time in Edmonton. Moreover I am not planning on relinquishing my EE Seasons\u2019 Tix<\/mark> either as I now have several game-by-game buyers to cover the ones I can\u2019t attend later in the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus it has become rather apparent that this new fiscal year (which started on July 1st) should see a new approach to the corporate world where I still live on the fringe.
\u2022 I am closing my Edmonton office<\/mark> (except for official legal registration & annual financial reporting) and will transfer all operational activities<\/mark> (including corporate banking and official postal mailing) to my office in Penticton<\/mark>: Unit #116, 1675 Penticton Avenue, Penticton, BC V2A 9E2.
\u2022 This will take some time so I am targeting January 1st, 2024<\/mark> as the date when all correspondence of a professional, corporate (& even latent personal) nature shall be directed to the Penticton address.
\u2022 Due to commitments made to this spring\/summer student cohorts the Edmonton phone number will stay in effect until June 30th, 2024<\/mark>. At that point, anyone in the greater Edmonton area will need to use (as does everyone else who now resides outside the Okanagan) the toll-free system: 1-866-4-ethink<\/mark> (which numerically is 1-866-438-4465).
\u2022 As for e-mail purposes I will be relegating ethink@telusplanet.net<\/mark> to informal personal use and other related issues, while retaining gws@e-sinclair.com<\/mark> and gws_inc@telus.net<\/mark> for corporate activities.
\u2022 My academic emails will be confined to academic and designated users as at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so as I did over fifty years ago, the corporate me is moving out of Edmonton to the Okanagan. While I always will have a unique feeling for Alberta\u2019s capital, when I think about it the main attraction has been a combination of the UofA<\/mark> (including it\u2019s FacClub, now University Club), teaching moments at UofA<\/mark>, CUE<\/mark> & even NAIT<\/mark>, and the EE CFL Club<\/mark>. All these I will retain, as I did way back in the day. Will there be enough savings to facilitate buying a boat? Well, it didn\u2019t happen fifty years ago, so I am not optimistic it will happen now! But at least communications should be more straightforward (for whatever that is worth!!). I do think though that I may take a lazy road trip at the end of school this summer just to refresh my memory bank of some of the places that did make Alberta such a home even when I wasn\u2019t here\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now though, it\u2019s back to work\u2026 I have courses to wind up this month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enjoy your summer<\/em>,
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