Saturday, September 29, 2012

That was a great way to

come off a mediocre week yesterday on the job. One of my better days this week and my name at least has been in the draw for the LED TV the office is giving away.

On my Proline ticket this weekend, I had MTL/HAM, Hamilton W, then I had CLE/BAL, Ravens W, yesterday it was Edmonton/Calgary. I picked T with an Edmonton W but Calgary spoiled my chance to win this week defeating the Esks 15-39. The other 3 games on this weeks ticket are now moot. If I won all 6 games, I would have won $298.60. I should have picked Calgary, all Home teams to win. However, I did manage on a Lotto Max quick pick not to win the $40M but I did win a free Max ticket towards next weeks draw.

About an hour after I woke up this morning I heard Boots crying below, so I went out to get him. He wont go out ground level during daylight. He’s on the chair outside sleeping in the nice weather. Tomorrow our nice weather is about to change.

Not much going on this weekend, I have a Doctor Who episode to watch and a Lodge financial report to write to present that in Lodge. It’s not a big deal. I can sum it up in about the length of the Proline paragraph above. I have a vague idea how much the BBQ made, which was about 10% of the break even cost. It made a bit of money but the idea is that the bbq isn’t supposed to be a money maker. It’s for the members to socialize a bit before Lodge resumes in September. I could have done things a bit differently like print and sell tickets and plan for that.

This morning, I’m heading into Tim’s for breakfast and having it there. Then into the office. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

Friday, September 28, 2012

I've had a couple of slow days

on the job and got pulled into the office for some "call analysis" etc. 

Wednesday at lunch I went down to Rexall under a beautiful autumn afternoon and got a $15 iTunes card and half of a Subway and walked back to the office ate what I could and began the shift. At the break I peeled back the numbers to go into iTunes to order iPhoto but about 10% of the redeem code pealed off. When I got home that night I I took a photo of the back of my iTunes gift card and the receipt in the same photo. I got a response back the following day with the full code. 

Last night when I got home to order iPhoto and installed, it didn;t have what I was hoping for: A way to remove (not delete the photos) back into iTunes but so far I don't know where that could be in my iTunes library. 

This weekend I've got to prepare a bit of a financial report on the Lodge BBQ as October is election month. I hope I have no opposition to my SW chair. Also, our crop pot here at home has fried wiring and I'm paying for a new one (about $20 Walmart.) Festive board for next Thursday is soup and buns and cookies for desert. I'm going to find out how many guys are going to be there and then work from there. We usually have about 15 guys and 2 tables for the festive board.  

So far on my NFL office pool, I won twice but we're changing the format around a bit instead of the participant that has the most games on that week we're going to have a point spread kind of a system. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Ok, as much

 as Ultimate has a few more things in it then KU8, Guitar Rig Pro 5 is $200 as a stand alone product.

I’m having some trouble over managing my photos on my New iPad as they’re taking up 7.8 Gb of space and are the main reason why my iPad hard drive space is so filling up. IPhoto apparently is pretty good at managing photo albums and videos but in order for me to get IPhoto I need to purchase it through ITunes and here’s the thing, I first have to upgrade the new iOS 6 and I lose YouTube. It also means I have to buy a YouTube app and there isn’t a YouTube app for the New iPad yet. Not that both products are expensive or anything it’s just a level of annoyance. I don’t even know if I can remove photo albums, which is taking all my hard drive space. It also means I have to buy another iTunes gift card for $25. It also means getting up a little bit earlier sometime this week and run down to Future shop to get one. My first experience in getting a ITunes gift card the numbers pealed off and I don’t know if Future Shop would peal off the sticker of a back of the card from the rack for me so I can buy it that way.

On the news they were talking about how in a few special cases Canada and Great Britain are about share some embassies as a cost sharing measure so here’s Mulcair whining in Parliament how we‘re getting to cozy with Gb losing our sovereignty etc. Oh brother. 
 

Ok 12 hours later, I had a decent kind of a day today, very windy on my way in. I had a decent afternoon pulling in about $225 and $200 on card. All day I had $325/$225 on card so I had a decent day. We have a little pre kick off before we log in and the boss reads out the more notable totals, so most likely I’ll get a nod tomorrow.

I had to run down to the store just before 5pm before it closed and get another bottle of diet cola as I was running low. I drank almost a liter of my daily 2L and I knew what I had left over wouldn’t last.

I got a few sales after 5pm but not many. So I had a decent day for  an acq campaign.Anyway, that's all I have for now.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Anne spent most of the afternoon yesterday

at the bank trying to set up her Scotia account. The good news is that on the rare times we go to the movies (maybe twice/year) for every $20 spent at the movies we get 1000 Scene points. Plus we're using my Scene card to pay our rent and that's 175 Scene points/month or 2,100 scene points from our rent. Our transit passes we get another 204 plus we're using my Scene debit card to get our groceries etc. It costs 1,000 points for a movie and 1,000 points for popcorn/pop, so it's worth it but its a bit of work to get everything set up for it.

Sigh, the Katz group that owns the Edmonton Oiler's are playing a blackmailing game trying to put pressure on City council to come to terms with his demands so he's out there looking at other markets. Katz was in Seattle today and tomorrow in Houston. In my books this guys credibility is weakening every time he makes the news. The City of Edmonton said October 17th is the "drop dead" deadline. Meaning come to council explain your position. Use it or lose it." Meanwhile the fans are the ones hurting here. Even with an "inferior product" since the the end of Pocklington era, Rexall place has sold out for 6+ seasons in a row. Anyway, that's about all for now.

When I first arrived here in Edmonton August 16th 1978 the Edmonton Oiler's hadn't yet joined the NHL. They hadn;t joined until the following year.

I don't suspect that the NHL would even entertain the team to leave. Anyway that's about all for now. 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

I'm having a nice weekend

for a change and even though I'm inside, the weather is great.

At the moment, Anne is doing some shopping and we have this weekends, Doctor Who on tap to watch while we're having our breakfast lunch. I've got my stuff to do, things are going along fine.

I'm following the game between our Sherwood Park Crusaders/Oil Barons (AJHL) the Crusaders are leading by 1, 3-2. Calgary 16/Riders 27, this looks like a win. I had all CFL games on my Proline this weekend to win and only the BC/Edmonton game came to a tied game. Stamps/Riders 25-30, Riders won

Doctor Who "Power of 3" was good. On a scale from 1-10 though, I'd rate this one a 7.5. 

The Baron's/Crusaders game ended up 3-2 Crusaders! That means we're now 4th in the North. 52 more games to go. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

It was a nice uneventful train

into the office but I stopped in at Tim’s long enough to get a bottle of diet Cola and waited outside for my colleagues to show up.

I got a few sales on OPC but nothing like Thursday day. I had 3 sales all day and they weren’t very good and some of us had lousy totals even worse then me and that ‘s not saying much.

Tim asked me if I was taking the train home but only if we could  make a pit stop at Tim’s. I got a small bowl of lasagna and a donut and we got a crowded bus to the game of Eskimo fans. The trains sure emptied out at Commonwealth. I was home by 5:30pm listened to a bit of music and had my lasagna and watched some of the football game passing out on the couch. At the half the Esks were leading 15/10 but they let the game get away as the outcome was 18/19 BC. A Pro-line tie. There goes my ticket. I won $25 on the NFL office pool, so that’s good news and my picks are in for the weekends NFL games. Warren and I had a double or nothing and he won that back, so I had a loss kind of a day all way around.

Despite all of this, it was a beautiful warm autumn day out there at +25. I’ll take it. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate today a 7. Not good but not great only because it’s the end of the week and the weather is nice. I think the reason for my flat kind of a day was because I had a bit of a soar throat. Anyway, that’s about all I have for today.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

That was strange,

I had a work in progress post and then suddenly, Blogger shut down on me and I lost my work. Not that it was a lot to lose or anything but why would it just blink out on me? Strange.

Anyway, I had a heck of a day which began when I did OPC but another campaign of OPC and it was short and too the point and I had $400/$200 on card by break, wow! I ended up with $570/$335 on card. That was a pretty good day for  me. I needed one of those $400+ days. They're good to have.

We're getting some very nice weather out here very mild and the evenings are nice, especially about 7pm when the Sun is about to go down. I love late September. 

Am I going to miss Oiler hockey here in Edmonton? Hell yeah but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Just as we've got all the pieces of the puzzle coming together and then the lockout. Who do I blame for this mess? A little bit of the players and a bit of the owners and who gets the short end of the stick here? We the fans. I feel bad for Winnipeg, just after the fans got their team back, this happens. The way things are going it doesn't look good for any Oiler hockey this year. Anyway that's about all for now.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

around here lately.
 
Saturday's NHL lockout and my Sunday meeting at the Lodge have been my 2 big days in the last 4 since my last post.

So here we go again, the owner of the Edmonton Oiler's he's now giving some new stipulations to city council about a new downtown arena that the city must now pay out the $6M/year in operating costs and that the city must be one of the anchor tenants in a new office tower before he'll agree to go ahead with the new arean. I thought we already had a deal with some minor things to work out? So does this mean that the Billionaire owner from Edmonton who believes in our City and a long term vision for the Oilers here in Edmonton is having second thoughts? Is this another NHL owner is about to hold it's hockey team over our heads and threatening to move the team if it doesn;t get its way here in Edmonton? We've been down a similar path before. Let me guess: "We're in negotiation's with the City of Quebec to bring an NHL team to that City and if a new arena doesn't get built in downtown Edmonton, then I'll move the club there." Anything can happen but not only is the future of the NHL in contentions but also the Edmonton Oiler's.

The other highlight over the weekend was watching the recent Doctor Who episode a "Town called Mercy." It was really good.

Also yesterday I learned I won in our NFL pool for week 2, which is $25! Plus last night I had a decent total for a change, so I can't complain I got above line hour. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Added to my links

list were "Movies 12" just down here off of 50th street and "Empire Cinemas." Anne's trying to find out if my Scotia Scene cards 4 movies can be redeemed at either of these 2 movie theaters nearby. other then "Looper" coming up there isn't a lot out there I'd like to see.

I took the train to Rexall and got to street level to wait for my bus. I had my book to read for a brief wait to the Lodge and there was a truck there. Mike was there and said something "like lets go inside," Um, sure but I didn't have a key. Dan has my key. He told me that the only ones that were to have a key from our Lodge were JW, SW, WM. Dan said that only the 3 main officers should have a key. He said that since I'm always getting a ride with Neil I really don't need a key so I gave it to him. As vehicles were filing in we tried to get the building custodian's phone number but nobody had it until we managed to get it from someone and made the call and ten minutes later John came along but he never said anything to me about it. I thought when I got there that Mike (SW) had the key. We got inside and had a productive meeting that lasted for about an hour and a half. We got all the chairs filled. Nathan gave me a lift home and I was in by 8:45pm.

I was considering heading in for work tomorrow for the 5-9 shift but that would have cut my weekend short and I want to sleep in a bit tomorrow and work on my demo song for a bit

Only one of my CFL picks came through for me this weekend. All the Home teams won including the Riders/Montreal. Montreal won. 

Just before I headed out while having our brunch, Anne and I were watching Doctor Who "A town called mercy," was excellent. I love it. Here's a teaser from the show:


This is the best science fiction television going. I'd love to see a Doctor who silver screen movie with these characters, it'd be awesome. 

Anne's going to try out my Scene movie card tomorrow at Movies 12 and if it works, I'll wait until "Looper" comes out. Anyway, that's about all I have for now.   

Friday, September 14, 2012

Ouch

it's 3-44 Winnipeg/Calgary. My CFL tie game prediction on  my Proline ticket is taking a real shellacking. Even before it has the time to get off the ground. 

It was very mild for this time of year heading into work this morning. One of my colleagues (Darryl) boarded the train at Belvedere station and sat with me down to Carona and into the office and. In one word today can be summed up as Disaster! I had 1 sale for $15 all day. Some of my peers were doing no better. I called Anne at break and had a chat. She wanted to borrow $20 from me but that's no problem. I had a nice lunch and thought I'd have a better second half. X. But I got a few more sales and ended up with $80. I got a nice cheque and my stat pay, my cheque ended up equal to have our rent, nice. Now if I worked Monday night, I could have had Saturday off. Oh well. I'll have a nice check next week. I think (if I still have my job next week) I'll be able to get Melodyne editor 2.0 and still have about $40 for the week. 

Anyway, its a full day tomorrow. After work, if I'm up to it I'd like to head over to Wendy's but we'll see.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Last night

I was enjoying Monday night Raw broadcast from Montreal when suddenly in mid match the broadcast went to Commercial, then it was explained by Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler's ring announcer partner that Lawler was having a heart attack and how ems workers were giving Jerry CPR and Lawler was rushed to a local hospital. Apparently he's undergoing a Cat scan. He's breathing on his own and seems to be doing ok. Like most people watching the show my wife and I at home thought it was all part of the entertainment or (my theory at the time) maybe a story line to give Jerry an exit strategy for some much needed time off. I hope he's Ok. Jerry is only a few years older then I am. 

I'm back at the job thing today. The afternoon clips by ok, it's just the evening after 7pm that drags but I'm in for a full week.

Last nights Coast was, boring. The topic was on parenting and voting, boring. Not every show though can be a UFO show. 

We had a nice storm move in through here over night. No Thunder or lightning or anything, just lots of wind and rain. It's nice out there now but windy.

My wife had a lot of fun fooling around with Face time last night talking with her sister. it's a great technology but it's not ubiquitous yet as a ones home phone but it's getting thee. Anyway, that's about all from me for today.

Monday, September 10, 2012

My wife

comes barging in claiming a change of plans, great now what?

So she says she spent 40 minutes in a broken down humid bus and she's a bit stressed out. I was mad and upset but followed her to the Swiss Chalet just down over here and felt a little better when we finally got inside. I wasn't that hungry and all I had was a side of fries and a diet cola. We talked about the potential of my Scene movie card and how many points we could earn towards free movies when we use towards big ticket items like rent and stuff. We get 4 free movies (just for sighing up) which I haven't tried yet so Anne want's to use them today while I'm watching Monday night Raw tonight. On our way out of Swiss, I stopped in for a coffee at the Tim Horton's express and a couple of double chocolate donuts.

Anne had to take off again on another errand and I had a bit of a nap and got woken up around 8pm when she came in. My ipad was ringing and it was Anne's sister from Winnipeg wanting Anne to use Facetime, that comes with the ipad. She got a kick out of that and that was a first.

Now Anne and I had been trying to watch the 2nd episode of Season 7 of "Doctor Who" and it didn't disappoint. About an hour after the show and as I began to open my Blog I checked i09 one of my go to source for all things SF etc. Then I cam across this *fascinating story about how this weekends Saturday nights World Con broadcast got shut down just as SF author Neil Gaiman received an award for his Doctor Who script "The Doctor's Wife" got pulled for copyright *infringement. The broadcast got pulled essentially because the service gave priority over it's paid subscribers then it's non paid subscribers. Too funny. There's more to it then that of course and you can read about it here.

Just a note here but "Doctor Who" is probably the best thing going on in Science Fiction TV at the moment. The characters are great, the writing is top caliber and the FX is about the best anywhere. I don't know if in my lifetime, I'll ever see a new Star Trek TV series but in the meantime, Doctor Who suits me just fine.
 
About noon I'm off down to Canada Place to Service Canada to see if there I can fill out my CPP forms and at the same time, to see if I can get a new Sin card or at least get the paper work together for it. There's a little Chinese kitchen there as well and I'm either going there to get some lunch or to City Centre food court. Anyway, that's about all for now

Saturday, September 8, 2012

This was from yesterday and some of today

getting about 11:30am took my insulin and had some cereal and did some stuff on the computer for a couple of hours. Then my wife got up later and I had a shower and she made lunch then went down to pay the rent and I walked down to the LRT and waited for her to join me. We had a go there on the train for awhile. I got my cheque at the office and a diet cola to take with me to my bank. It was very warm out there this afternoon. I cashed my cheque and headed back on a crowded train and at Clareview I went to the Redimart for my weekend Proline fun and a 6/49 ticket for tomorrow night. Where I got off the bus I went to the Dollarrama and got a big old bag of chips for my Calgary/Esks game tonight and I watched some ATOS and UFO hunter.

I've never seen this UFO Hunter before but it's a decent show. They were talking about "Orbs." These are bizzar globes of light that do unusual things and nobody knows what they are. One case was how 3 dogs chased these orbs and the owner saw the dogs go after this Orb but got out of his sight and moments later heard the dogs cry out and when he got to where they were they were liquified. The invistigaters don't know who or what is behind these things. I'm wondering if anyone has ever had a chance to shoot at them with a rifle? Personally I don't know enough about them I like this UFO hunters, good show. 

That was a fun CFL game last night, even though I felt bad for the Esks that they hadn’t won a labor day rubber match in 6 years at Commonwealth, the game wasn’t without it’s dramatics. There was a “fire drill” play at the end of the 2nd half the Esks got a couple of intercepts, and with 1 play on the clock within field goal range, the Esks kicker from 42 yards kicked the last play off and it hit’s the uprights: Dead play. Stamps won 20-18 and my Proline ticket is alive. All 4 games I picked to tie and if they all tie (fat chance) I could win $447!

We had a bit of trouble trying to get a iM message through that Anne couldn’t get out to her sister in Winnipeg that also owns a iPad. I called Telus tech support and we first tried to see if Safari was working. Check. Then we figured it must be because Donna had her iM off. Tech support also suggested I turn the iPad off for a bit with the recall button or whatever that thingy button is on top. I did and nothing. Anne was on her way home. Then I tried to attach a photo and sent the message through with a photo and it went through. I also sent a follow up message and got that through. I think it works fine. Also I got my iPad plan augmented I get 2Gb internet memory for $35/month, good deal.

I got today and Sunday off and my week off is over. I go back Monday night for 4 hours for 35.5 on the week and off next Saturday for Lodge and our Lodge BGP meeting the Sunday following. Anyway, that’s about all for now. 
Anyway, that's all for now 

Thursday, September 6, 2012

This date is important

but also for me it marks 8 months ago this week we lost Sparky. Hard to believe we had him a year ago, healthy and alive. I miss him a lot.

This week marks the 40th year of the famous 1972 Canada/Russia hockey series. I wasn't too much into it but I recall dad was into it when he was home, setting everything up for mom and the other kids to leave for Edmonton a year later. I was 19 in 1972 and that was the year I was working at Canadian Pacific Railway in Port Coquitlam with a beard and as I was walking home on a rainy afternoon, an unmarked car pulled me over and asked if I would participate in a Police line up. I also recall a bachelor party event that year from some church colleagues and how I was getting tired and board and how I left the event finding my way along the Loughheed Highway heading East hitch hiking. I don't think I was missed at all. How the years go by.

It's Lodge night this evening. Anne's going to use her Pizza discount and since it's the duty of every JW chair to take care of the festive board for after the lodge, I'm asking Neil to pick me up a doz assorted donuts and 3 Pizzas along the way like we did in June. A doz donuts should be enough for desert. Next Saturday I'm at Commercial Lodge from about 1-5pm and then that Sunday at Highlands for our Board of General Purposes meeting September 16th from 6-8pm to get all the Lodge chairs for the upcoming year. I suspect though that tonight will be an in and out kind of an evening. I should be home by 10pm. Anyway, that's all for now.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Mid week of my week off here

and I'm having a great evening. 

Anne suggested when I go into Canada Place Friday and pick up my "retirement kit" and then go pick up my check and home from there. I can be back before Anne leaves for her job. This way I can do everything all in one trip. 

I was watching on "Ripley's Believe it or not" how this retired guy in Wales spent years acquiring about 6 million elastic bands and they thought it would make a good idea to drop the elastic ball from an airplane a mile up. The elastic ball came up to the owner's chest. I think it was something like 2,600 pounds or something but physicists Ripley's talked to didn't know what would happen to the ball when it landed from that height. Would it bounce around on the desert floor or create a crater or something else. Ripley's even took this ball on tour across the US, Finley the moment of truth. They dropped the elastic ball it crated a crated but didn;t bounce it. Pieces of the elastic ball were still cracking up even a few feet away from the crater. I think there's a video of this somewhere on YouTube. Crazy.

I was watching on "Inner Space" a half hour segment on Canada's version of the Space Channel (I like this segment) and they were getting news about the next Star Trek movie and apparently it's supposed to be released May 13th 2013, which doesn't sound right as Star Trek usually has a mid May or December release. Looking forward to that. I miss Star Trek TV. There are recent Star Trek stomach growlings floating around Trekville but that's all they are. Until I hear something substantial, you'll probably hear more about it then I would. Also, a new Doctor Who episode will be airing Saturday. Looking forward to that. 

Another show I've been watching here and there when I can on Space has been "Face off." It's kind of like a reality TV based show about SFFH (Science Fiction Fantasy Horror) make up. You can probably YouTube this as well.

 On my wish list is a Parrot AR. Drone. Amazon has them for about $300 and have built in forward and are remote controlled by smart phones, iPads etc. They have a range of about 100 meters or about 300 feet. With my iPads on board internet I can have the video streamed to my iPad It means that I can take airborne video and upload to YouTube. They are pretty durable as far as crash landings are concerned. I don't know how well they stack up in winter. The drones are YT ready.These AR drones are being used by real estate agents etc. I don't know how well they would handle in a downtown city environment at all. I might be able to get one used on Ebay. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Wow

Monday night Raw ended with a bit of a wow factor. CM Punk riding in the front of a black car with the driver being Paul Hyman!

Sometime in the afternoon tomorrow I’m calling Service Canada to book an appointment to set up my CPP. I don’t think this is like a walk in service or anything. With so many Baby boomers like myself out there reaching 60 the more they can discourage, delay the Government from paying us out what we can get the better. I have no idea how many people will be turning 60 this year but my guess it’s probably a lot. Ottawa already delayed the OAS so what’s to stop them from delaying CPP next budget? I better grab it while I can.

Hard to believe that the CFL this year is celebrating it’s 100th Grey Cup in November and also this weekend the province is celebrating it’s 100th year as well. Two milestones. Sunday at the “Ledge” (Legislature as we here in Edmonton refer to call it.)

I had a nice Labor Day weekend with lots of Football a chance to winsome money and a nice relaxing day off. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

I’m in bed at 1:30am and up at 7am giving me about 5.5 hours of sleep. Then breakfast at Tim’s and in for a full day (6 hours) and my 9 days off begins. Wu who! 
 

Anne came up with a great idea for me for the Lodge Festive board for next week: Deli Pizzas. She’d pick up 4 for me from Superstore ($25) we heat them up here in the oven and nuke them in the mic at the lodge and there we go. Next month (October) I get sandwiches November: soup and buns, December: (chili and rice again) There’s my festive board and I’m done.

As of yesterday the NHLPA’s Friday offer came three days after the NHL made its first counterproposal. After asking players to cut their share of hockey revenue from 57% to 43%, the NHL altered its proposal to have players receive a 46% share over a six-year deal. This is over and above what players would be getting from their original base wage. They’ve already settled on a salary cap issue. The NHL believes that the revenue sharing should be 50-50. The NHLPA needs to come down and the owners need to bargain up for the deal to make sense. That’s not unrealistic. The NHLPA also wants to help struggling markets, Canadian teams are doing well but Canadian teams in my opinion should not be subsidizing US teams with low attendance records. Both sides will meet next week. They have common ground though, so that’s a good thing.

Not much on my plate toady, looks overcast when it might be raining in some parts of the City. Today I’m off to work and then over to Wendy’s for lunch and then home by about 6:45pm. I don’t mind  the Wendy’s location by LM across Grant MacEwan next door to Future shop but the floors are kind of messy but maybe that was just that one time.

Getting 1 or 2 sales/day doesn’t help my cause very much. I know I said I’m not going to worry about it anymore but in all honesty getting 1 sale/day doesn’t make me feel very good but me keeping my job. I got a feeling when I come back that week, I’m going to be called into the office. When the boss calls you in it’s ok but when the boss and a manager calls you in together, then that’s where it hit’s the fan. I got a feeling that’s where sometime this month I’m going to get called in. When that happens, J said he’d give me 6 weeks notice. That will give me lots of time to look for something else. But it’s not just me, there were about 4 of us possibly 5 of us yesterday that got 1 sale or less and I bet other offices doing what we’re doing aren’t doing any better. I’d like to see what some of the other staff are doing. Lets say take a look at anyone that has been there for say a year and see how many of them did about the same as me. It’s not the clients that are negative it’s the customer not want to part with any money and I don’t blame them. People are just tired of telemarketing and it’s a fading industry. I got my 1 sale early yesterday making it for a long day. If my first sale is anywhere from $100/200, after that I’m going to ask big expecting nothing. I’m glad I got a week off but I don’t know if I’ll be there for December for a week off. I hope so but that’s a decision for my higher ups. It‘s not a good climate to work in if your worried about your job all the time. I try not to worry about it but when I’m getting 1 sale/day, doubt creeps in so does self esteem. Anyway, that’s about all I have for now.