2023
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 4, 2023, 10:50 PM 017 – 0402
Dear Justin,
We had a great talk with Rose yesterday, unexpectedly smooth and open and warm, despite the difficult subject. She seems to be doing so much better, I am really starting to believe that the transition to high
school – and even the concept of school – was really having an adverse affect on her. Also, maybe playing more Stardew Valley helps? And Jessica introduced her to a new game celled Unpacking, where you learn about the main character as you unpack for them from their various moves throughout their life. She started around grade four with her
first room, then a college dorm, then with a roommate, then she moves into a boyfriends place, then breaks up and moves back into her childhood room, then into her own apartment, then a female partner moves in, and that’s about as far as she’s gone.It’s a refreshing, delightful and peaceful game where you unpack and re-arrange things. Anyway, after lots of video games in the morning, making breakfasts and lunches, and taking Rose to see her talk doctor, then packing up the kids’ things and taking them to my Ex, I was able to spend some time in the studio and have almost, almost finished that commission. Will try to finish it tomorrow, as Monday and Tuesday I am booked at the Biosphere and then Wednesday I leave for Windsor.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 9, 2023, 11:58 PM subject 018 – 0902
Hi Justin,
Last night in Windsor. Got the exhibition up in the best shape I could given the particularities of the museum space. Now just rotting my brain with TV in my hotel room. Did you know there is a show called Battle Bots? And a Lego-building show? And so many ads. Did you know that Tim Hortons has espresso now? And there is a Picard Star Trek series – and the third and final season drops next week? And I swear that the ads are coming more frequently, the start of the Lego show dragged on and on and on before the first few breaks. I feel guilty for not engaging much with any activism or reading or writing or listening to anything the last few days. I’lll make up for it soon. Maybe.
Sent with positive vibes from my super-duper hand-held computing device.
from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 11, 2023, 12:06 AM subject 019 – 1102
Hey Justin,
My flight was delayed, but I’m back in Montreal, better late than never. The exhibition is up and about as good as I can get it. Now back into Dad Mode, which means playing SDV with Sol and Rose, and meetings and skating and playdates and snow forts but also unfortunately it also means I need to repair the hole in that damn giraffe.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 13, 2023, 10:05 PM subject 020 – 1302
Dear Justin,
I’m still alive, think I fixed the giraffe, but why does it seem that I am falling behind on everything? I haven’t wrapped Sol’s birthday gifts yet, meal prep and dishes cleanup seems to take all the time, and SDV is sucking up whatever remains – but it’s so peaceful! And helps me forget for a brief moment all the crap in the world.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 17, 2023, 11:12 PM subject 021 – 1702
Dear Justin,
We celebrated Sol’s 10th birthday yesterday, he opened a gift before school and I had made cupcakes the night before for breakfast. I’ve been at work all week, set up the big ass dust collector today and boy does it suck. It sucks so hard. It’s awesome. I’m still playing SDV in spare time, met Louis this week to discuss RBC arts funding, and I have a marathon 3-hour training with DS tomorrow. Also on the menu for my solo weekend (Jess is still in TO on a pet-sitting residency) is housecleaning, The place is a mess.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 19, 2023, 11:33 PM subject 022 – 1902
Dear Justin,
Spent the afternoon at iSaute with my Ex, I drove half of Sol’s birthday gang to Laval, she drove the other half. 8 kids in total. Was it weird? Awkward? Normal? Familiar? Bizarre? Uncomfortable? All of the above. It was the same place we went with Rose and Sol back in 2018 and she broke her foot. I didn’t know at the time but she was probably already seeing S. Whatever, all water under the bridge right? Anyway my cupcakes were a big hit, they turned out great, one of Sol’s friends even asked me to send the recipe to his mom. I had a Decolonial Solidarity affinity group check-in call tonight, then afterwards watched What we do in the shadows. When the kids and Jess are not here I really don’t know what to do with myself, and find it hard to get motivated to go to the studio or organize my taxes. I’m sticking around the house tomorrow as FedEx is scheduled to drop off the comics I sent away to CBCS to be graded almost exactly 1 year ago. I’m excited and a los a bit nervous to see how they were graded, and to start the process of either shopping them around to stores or trying to sell them individually at auctions or eBay.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 20, 2023, 11:07 PM subject 023 – 2002
Dear Justin,
Met with the neuropsychologist who saw Rose for a number of tests back in January, with my Ex, to hear her report, and just now finished reading it, all 17 pages. I don’t want to get into all the details, it
is inconclusive that Rose suffers from ADD or not, but she certainly has some difficulties, including possible depression, and one suggestion is that she sees a paediatric psychiatrist. Just add that
to the list of things not easy to get in Quebec. The rest of my day I spent watching some Home on Native Land lesson videos and a talk on art and activism by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Tania Willard. And I started watching The last of us. My comics didn’t arrive, the date was pushed back to the original Wednesday, which is when the plywood is being delivered for the new reception desk I’m supposed to make. Oh, and I booked 3 nights in a chalet in Témiscouata for the end of
next week, I’ll go with the kids and meet my parents there and we’ll do fun outdoor activities. And the internet keeps crashing thanks Ebox thanks a lot, they called me back today after I left a message last night but of course it was back up, but now it’s gone down a number of times this evening. Oh its back so better send this now while I can,
and then hit the sack.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 21, 2023, 11:01 PM subject 024 – 2102
Dear Justin,
This one is just to try to keep my numbers up. I want to try to get my average up over .500
Other news, feeling low, not super-motivated, yet a teeny bit stressed about the upcoming reception desk project and the de-install begins in like 2 weeks. Went to work, drove out east to get an old steamer trunk Tomy found that the team will use with their education program to accompany the Diane Landry show. Rose came here after school she can’t find her metro pass. I drove her home after she played some SDV and studied a bit for her history test. I got my haircut tonight, gone is
the mullet. I miss Jess.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 23, 2023, 10:53 PM subject 025 – 2302
Dear Justin,
I keep forgetting to write you. Not much to report, went to work late as I was on the phone with eBox and Bell technicians because the internet keeps failing. At Vox I’m refining the plans for the
reception desk and making the cut list, and continuing the workshop cleanup and bringing trash for the Éco Collecte down to the basement. Tonight had another session with DS looking for more allies against RBC heading up to their AGM. Oh great the internet is down again.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 25, 2023, 11:17 PM subject 026 – 2502
Dear Justin,
Almost forgot to wish my brother a happy birthday. Slept in this morning, the kids already up and playing SDV, made second breakfasts and then we were out to drop rose off at her therapy session and sol and I went to a Renaud Bray to exchange a couple One Pieces her received for his birthday but had already read. Then home for lunch, then dropped sol off at a friend’s house for a playdate, then rose and
I went to visit SRoberts and the girls, then picked up sol, then made supper, then we watched episode 6 of The Last of Us. Oh, and my comics I picked up on Thursday and I’m surprised at how interested Rose is in them, the grading process and value attributed to them. I was disheartened a little as the grades were lower than I expected, but oh well. At least with the certification it should be easier to sel them,
either to dealers or other collectors or maybe the online auctions or eBay or something. I’m in no rush, maybe even hold onto them a bit longer. Anyway I’m going to play a day or two of SDV myself before bed. Tonight is Nuit Blanche, and I’m so happy to not be out in the cold standing in lineups with drunken crowds. Aaaaaaaand the internet is down again. A new modem is expected on Monday. Aaaaaaand we’re back.
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from chris lloyd to pm@pm.gc.ca
date Feb 28, 2023, 8:15 PM subject 027 – 2802
Dear Justin,
We made it to Temiscouata! Yesterday was a bit nuts, I had forgotten where I put the prescription for Rose’s blood tests and when it was time to see the nurse she wouldn’t do it without that piece of paper.
So I had to drive to the doctor’s clinic and get admonished by the secretary there at how disruptive I was being, and then while waiting I remembered I had left it on the fridge. They had a copy made and signed – the signature was the important part – so I was able to drive back and the nurse saw Rose after not too much more waiting, and we were off for the rest of our day. I had planned to cut a few of the
support ribs for the new reception desk at Vox but when we arrived the Christie wasn’t working properly. It was projecting no light, so not even working at all, really. So I decided to throw up one of the Panasonics so that the group that was there would be able to see the work, and that the video would be up for the final week of the exhibition. The I zipped back up to the Plateau to drop Rose off for a final meeting with her neuropsychologist, went home and made lunch for us all and played chess with Sol, then we picked Rose up, then we went back to Vox, then we went to Chinatown, then we stopped at a grocery store on the way home and packed and prepared for the drive today. We left in snow but left the snow behind us just past Quebec City. And here we are, at a nice enough chalet, ready for skiing tomorrow.
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DEAR PM 