Curious stuff

I've been working on a family history. The Great Depression in the 1930's had a huge impact on our parents families so I have been cruising the official archives to get some photos of the era since our family doesn't have any photos from that time.

The Glenbow Archives, the Edmonton City Archives and the Edmonton Library historical website have all pulled their photos and stories of personal hardship and civil unrest from their collections. All you can access from those years are pictures of buildings and military doings. It's particularly noticeable in the Library website where so many pictures and blocks of text have been removed that there are big gaps left on the pages, (some of the text gaps have since been filled since I was in there). No web designer would design a page like that. Looks like the Alberta government has decided to edit the thirties from the history of Alberta. Wonder why? Afraid that people might start remembering that bust sometimes follows boom?

Blogger Blues

Went to a memorial for my friend Brenda. Pretty sad. Didn't know many people there except her family and an old boyfriend. Her daughter is so young, just 22 and moving out into her own world. I'm pretty sure her grandparents will be supportive but having her mother around to cheer her on would have been better. I'm wondering if the reason her doctors didn't suggest an operation in January when she finally got symptoms unequivocal enough to diagnose the problem was that they had to wait for her to use the MRI machine?

Over on my history blog I have been having nothing but trouble. It doesn't want to load any photos at all and not even any longer text pieces. Been jammed up for the last month. Totally frustrating. I notice on my email account they have upped my storage capacity to 5 gigs, like I really need that much. But email doesn't want to ship jpegs either, takes many tries before they will load. Google seems to be promising more and more and delivering less and less.

Stunned

Got a phone call that stunned me tonight. A friend who had gone into the hospital for a chest operation died yesterday. The operation she was to have, if performed in time is normally quite effective, but she left it too long. I'm devastated. We used to fight because I was never willing to be quite as negative about allopathic medicine as she was. She had just spent five years training as a homeopathic practitioner. I almost feel as if bloody political correctness killed my friend. I hate it when everything gets so politicized that people put their lives and health in jeopardy because of it.