The new Edmonton downtown

arena will be called Rogers Place. City council still has to approve the overall budget of $600 million if it goes over that then it has to go back to City council but even if it goes over budget it's the contractor that has to pick up the tab for the over runs. If all goes well, then shovels could be in the ground by March 2014.

Yesterday on the news they were making fun of a proposal by Amazon to drop small packages to customers by helicopter drones. The idea is to get small packages in the customer's hands within 48 hours or something like that. I can just imagine the skies being littered by these drones and Anne and I trying to leave our apartment having these things swarming like misquotes all over the front door, lol.

I mentioned to my boss that I have another part time job and he said he was surprised it took me so long. So that's a relief. I start my new job today as I'm off at 8:30pm tonight. I'm working at my first job Sunday (If they have a Sunday shift) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. My 2nd job, Thursday, Friday Saturday. Of course my first Thursday of the month is out because of Lodge commitments. Both jobs unfortunately are not steady full time jobs. My 2nd job I'm off in the month of February, June, July, August. August at my 1st job is usually slow and my 2nd job isn't activated until September. My first job pays me less then my 2nd job by an extra $4/hour. So tonight I'm starting at my 2nd job, tomorrow is Lodge night and Friday my 1st job is having their annual "holiday party." I'm working Saturday morning at my 2nd job. Sunday I'm at my first job from 10-6pm. Then I'm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at my first job. Then Thursday, Friday Saturday at my 2nd job. So from Saturday December 7th until Saturday December 14th but it's only 4 hours. Sounds confusing? No kidding. 

I was at my bank before my shift yesterday afternoon trying to get a DBD form for my 2nd job and then they asked me my address. What? Then they asked me my date of birth. I began to get suspicious. Then at work I began to realize what's going on. When I opened my account I didn't use my original mailing address as I didn't want any mail from a bank getting to my residence because I wanted this account private account so I could save some money. So this means I need to leave out of here about 2:30pm today to explain whats going on. The bank is under new management and I didn't recognize anyone behind the teller there that would know me. Anyway, that's about all for now. 
 

Not much was acomplished this weekend

I watched the Esks defeat the Lions and Chicago defeating the Bruins for a game #5. Chicago (I hope) wins tonight so we can end this disastrous season. 

I didn't make it to the BBQ because I'm as far as the opposite end of the street (the other end of the city) I was more or less stranded and the LRT wasn't running so there was no way to ask for a on the way pick up from at Southgate from one of my colleagues. I did leave a message and will try to place a call tonight before wrestling and the hockey game.

Some residents in Calgary have been able to get back into their homes yesterday as they clean up the downtown core. Now it's Medicine Hat's turn. It's not looking good for them.

This afternoon, I'm running over to my bank to see why I got a NSF cheque against me from a pre authorized payment account that was a stop payment 3 days ago. I only found this out Friday night. Tuesday nothing much is going on. Wednesday I'm either at my ISP store to find out how my account was compromised. Now if it was compromised by someone other then myself, I'm not paying it but if I did something wrong, I'll ask what can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again and pay the bill Anyway, that's what my week looks like, that's all for now.
 

I had a a nice

outing last night.

First time getting out this year and other to get my book at Audrey's latter today, I'm home all weekend.

The idea was to head out and do all that running around today but my wife is off Monday and I can get everything done then. Including my appointment downtown.

The proposed "Downtown Arena"(future home of the Edmonton Oiler's) is a controversial topic here in the City. In order for the Arena to go ahead the arena is short $100 million dollars. Alberta opposition Leader Daniel Smith present the idea of a keno type lottery ticket. It's very popular in BC but not much here. She says if it's marketed properly on the same scale as BC it could generate the funds to pay for it. City residence do not want the Province to use tax dollars to fund this project as the game could go into 1,000 bars and pubs across the province. The idea would have to have NHL and approval by the Province. The Province has talked about some thing called, "cultural and recreational infrastructure projects." Such a game could generate about $200 million/year. Interesting.

Next Thursday I'd like to go to Saskatchewan #92 at Freemason's Hall. I'm not known there but it's another chance to get out.

We have 2500 Scene movie points. To cash in on a "free movie" is 1,000 points. Anne wants to spend at least $20 at the movies to buy 1 so we get another 1,000 points. We're going to wait until we have 3,000 before we go as she wants the extra points and the 1,000 points pays for her movie snacks. We get the points every time we swipe my Scotia Scene debit card. Most of our Scene points come out of things like paying our rent and bus pass, bills etc. For every $5 spent we get 1 point. So I'm actually getting 10 points when I make a LM payment. Because I'm 60 years old I we signed up for the 59+ plan which gives us unlimited ATM transactions. Scotia customers under 59 get 12 transactions. The other way to build points faster is with a credit card. Since we don't have one or want one, we  build up points just as fast With a credit card, its 1 $ = 1 point. It's a good deal to see first run movies and a chance to get out together.

I'm going to have an easy weekend and the only thing I've got on my agenda tonight if I decide not to go out, is to watch Smackdown. Anyway, that's about all for now. 
 

Ok so the big

“End of the World” even is supposed to be tomorrow: 12-21-12 the day of the winter Solstice. Or just about anytime give or take a couple of days. A caller on Coast called in last night claiming how he was working with a quasi government organization collecting solar data suggesting that major solar activity 100 times more in magnitude of the Carrington Event of 1859. Now I‘m no expert on this but according to Wikipedia on the Carrington Event from August 28, 1859, until September 2, for 6 days the soar storm was active, shorting out Telegraph lines etc. At one point Gold miners up North began to prepare breakfast because they thought it was daylight. The caller said that major coronal mass ejection will take place within the next couple of days. The caller said that a cme 100 times more powerful could wipe us out. Sunspot activity has been very active lately. According to Wiki we get about 2 every 100 years. We had 1 in about 1921 but nothing like in 1859.

On this date December 20th the world got its first look at the Zodiac murders, December 20th 1968. Lots of crazy things going on huh?

On Coast tonight Expert in theology, Biblical languages, and world civilizations, Mike Heiser will discuss the history of apocalyptic beliefs, why for millennia we have predicted "end times," and which ideas have some validity. I’ll listen in on this for tonight.

Anne said, she’d run down to the ban for me to deposit that $40 in my Scotia bank for my Telus account. The last of the plan 35 for awhile. I’m still considering Ivanhoe Lodge’s installation but nobody knows me there or can vouch for me. But it depends on how Friday turns out as far as my severance pay goes and if my direct bank deposit form went through without complications. So if My Friday turns out ok, then I might just head over to Ivanhoe. We’ll see.

This weekend depending on how My Friday goes I hope to go down to Audrey’s for another Warhammer Space Marine Battles book. I’m hoping to do this maybe Saturday morning and get some breakfast at Tim’s and head home. My LM monthly payment is ok up until the end of march. I was hoping to have it paid off by this weekend or at least by the end of the month.

I’m not doing anything with my CPP until the New Year. There’s no point on doing anything right now. I’m more concerned how My Friday is going to go tomorrow. If my severance forms were sent out as J said they were last week, then I should get something in tomorrow. If there was a complication on my Direct Bank Deposit form (DPD) then the cheque would have been cut and mailed out Monday meaning I won’t know anything for a couple of weeks yet. If I don’t get my cheque in my account Friday, then I know it’s in the mail this Monday/now. Meaning to say, I might get it next week. If by 4pm Friday there’s no indication that nothing is in my bank, then I’ll know that it was mailed and J didn’t get the form out or there were complications. But I’ll be checking and I should know by this time tomorrow. For all I know, it might even be in today but I’m not going to hold my breath. Christmas mail is notorious for being slow like this.

On Coast last night as they were talking about the electrical grid and how a massive CME would take it out, I began to do some research and the first street lights that went up here in Edmonton were in 1891 along Jasper Avenue and were turned off at 1am. They were turned on 24/7 in 1902. In 1905, Edmonton Light Department had 53 customers! In 1982, work began on the Genesee Generating Station, 50 km southwest of Edmonton.  The project cost was $1.2 Billion. Recently the Alberta Government went ahead with the Heartland transmission project but that’s a whole other topic.

Sometime around next August or so (2013) I’m looking at getting a new digital camera. In researching wifi cameras from the main brands I’m liking the new Kodak Easy Share M70 but I don’t think Walmart has the new wifi easy share versions yet, maybe they do but once. Future shop and Best Buy as far as I know I don’t think they carry them in stock. 

Seems that our Mayer Mandel and NDP leader Brian Mason are in a war of words here as Mandel claims that Mason doesn’t seem to support Edmonton very much when it comes to gaining funding on the proposed downtown arena. Mason said that while Mandel was making his money he had spent 12 years on City council. He doesn’t care about Edmonton? Sorry Mandel as much as I think you’re the best City Mayor we’ve ever had here in Edmonton in all my 35 years here, while I don’t like his politics I have to give this one to Brian Mason.

It was Monday

February 6th 2012 Sparky was put down. I still cast my eyes over to the Pet Smart when I see it from the train. I still love him and miss him.

Yesterday I was able to set up my Interac online debit card with my Scotiabank. I haven’t used it yet but in the morning when I get up I’m going to call Scotia and make sure I have it set up properly.

On my way into work the snow had just come down and was pretty heavy there for awhile. I went into my Scotia bank to deposit some funds into my account. The snow was falling thick on my way to work and I stepped inside the bus shelter on Jasper Ave beside Tim’s to shoot this photo. By about 1:30pm the snow was so thick it was almost like fog:

 

I had a decent day pulling in almost $400 in card and maybe $600 in sales, although doing CPC I stalled the last hour but it was better. Also I was able to call Neil to see about Frank‘s phone number but it was the wrong #, then I called Nathan but he didn’t have his number. I called Mike and Mike volunteered to do a Costco run for me for mix paper plates forks etc. Great everything is set up. I just need to review my material and I‘m good to go.

The last 10 minutes was brutal and I had to be careful paying attention crossing the icy streets and downstairs to Corona. I got home about 9:45pm. Tomorrow I‘m in for 4 hours and then home and off to Lodge. I‘ll be glad when it‘s Sunday and Anne and I are celebrating a positive and a bitter suit kind of an anniversary for us. For us it’s a full 12 years of marriage heading into our 13th year. That‘s the sweet spot. The sad news is, it‘s going to be 11 months since we had to put Sparky down. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

Today is my banking day

and after I make a deposit, its across the street to Audrey's books as they have the recent "Fate of the Jedi book" there and then up to the office. After work, it's Eat along Jasper ave to my RBC by way of the LRT. Normally I'd just walk there. Then I have Saturday and I'm done for the week.

After work tomorrow, it's off to LM to make a payment and then hobble over to Wendy's or maybe even Denny's. I think this time, I'm going to go to Denny's. I only have to cross 1 street (103rd) and North on 104th and a block away from the National Film board and I'm there but we'll see.

Actually Anne makes an interesting point that because I'll be getting my vacation pay anyway (and I'm taking a week off) My vacation pay will not only cover my website but also it will cover my Lodge dues and my LM bill, cool. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I had a slow afternoon but after 6pm I

changed sources and did a lot better.

I got a great pay cheque because I had full hours and my stat pay and over $150 on bonus money, which will go towards making a payment at LM and my tablet internet plan and still give me a lot left over, very happy.  

As we were "watching" the early double header CFL game Bombers/Argo's. I didn't know if I had them on my Proline ticket. Winnipeg were all over the Argo's. When I got home to check my ticket, the Argo's were losing and the finale was 44-32 Bombers. Yikes. Its in the half right now and its 16-10 BC. I picked a tie game for this one.

Saturday is an easy 4 hours in the morning/afternoon and the 3 hour extension and then I'm off for 2 but the boss is pleading for us to do extra hours. Since I'm not watching Raw, I'd like to come in Monday's for an extra 4 hours. I'm not going to mention this until I actually do it. 

I really need to subscribe to these things but this weekend (sigh, wish I had the time) Our Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo is this weekend at the Edmonton Expo (adjacent to Rexall Place. They've got some great guests this year: Michelle Nichols, Billy Dee Williams, Burt Ward and Lee Majors. Photo Ops are very reasonable at about $50 each. $200 plus the $15 entrance fee. Next Year I'm going to save up for this and subscribe to the newsletter to get updates so I'll no in advance. The show usually alternates between October and April. 

Yesterday I had a bit of a problem with my iPad's "on" button as it was "sticking." I had to press extra hard to bring the Home screen on. I used a bit of spray from a product by "Monster" to clean the iPad's screen and I sprayed a bit on the "on" button and it works fine now. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I could go back to bed for another hour but I’m up anyway. I don’t want to be scrambling at the last minute here.

Looks like a overcast day out there not nice, one of those days to stay inside but I’ll be in the office all day anyway. At +5* it’s a bit below average for this time of year.

I’ve also been looking at getting some kind of video screen recorder software. The mother of all of these kind of products is called Camtasia studio but they want about $300 for their package. There are a lot of free ones out there but they attach things like tool bars and crap and add other things as well like price gongs etc. I downloaded one but it was so heavily add supported, I had to uninstall it. There are a few others out there I’m looking at. I tried to even upgrade my free recorder but it’s not working. 

Since we got onto the Scotia Scene in August we’ve got 386 points. We got 60 for paying part of our rent yesterday 17 on the bus pass and 10 points for my insulin. We get 173 points just on our rent. That’s 2 free movies right there at the end of the year. We usually go in the summer but if there’s something that looks interesting we’ve been known to go in February if the weather is fair.

I just transferred about $40 from my pp account to my bank as it should take a few days but it saves me a trip into my bank this week.

This week, is a regular work week but I a short pay one because of my Lodge night but I’m going to go in for 4 hours Thursday. Anne’s getting 3 cans of chunky soup and a can of bacon been soup because I have 3 in the cupboard at the Lodge. She’s getting some cookies and buns and that’s the festive board. I’ve got a brief “financial” bbq statement prepared to read out loud.

I’m going to cash in on my free lotto Max ticket today for a free ticket for Friday’s $50M! Plus if they’re posted I’ll get my CFL Proline ticket as well.

And finally, it looks pretty easy to fill out my CPP online. They want me to fill out the form and then submit and then make a printed copy to mail. If I can get it done this week, then I might be able to get my first check in early November. The amount I’d be receiving is about the cost of a Ntendo DS. More or less. Anyway, that’s all for now.

I got up out of here

about 10:40am and had some cereal and fed the cats and got ready for my little jaunt downtown. At about 11:20am it was muggy out there but I had our Itouch player listening to some music by The Clash. I had a 10 minute wait for the train and a brief wait between Stadium and Churchill and I was at Scotia making my deposit. A brief wait for the train and (on track 2 this time, finally.) I was home about 12:40pm, so just under an hour. I got the funds uploaded to pp and this means I’ll have the funds in pp by next Wednesday.

ETS tunnel construction from the Bissel Centre to Churchill station is at the half way mark. They should probably break free to Churchill by the New Year if all goes well. I think they are 60% done and will have the new line opened on time April 2014. Which isn't that far away.

This upcoming round of CFL games are as thus Winnipeg(W)/Toronto, Saskatchewan/ Calgary(T), Edmonton/BC(T), Montreal/Hamilton(W). I'm going to play any game with BC and the Riders on the road as a tie. Week 3 I bombed out, again.

I like where I work downtown. What would make this perfect would be if I can keep my job or at least my next one, work in the general vicinity. I have Audrey's, BP's, Corona station, my Scotia bank, Tim's, Rexall Drugs and I'm within walking distance to LM. The only downside is my RBC bank where I do all my pay check cashing is a little out of the way. I hope I can stay at this job but I feel I'm on thin ice. I know I've said this before but it's a different company now where management is in the US. I won't be just called into the office on a moments notice. If anything, they'll give me a week to shape up or ship out kind of a thing. I'm ok with this, I just need some options to work with. I have a few. One thing I won't work for is for collections or Regional. I feel I have about a week or 2 before I get called into the office it's not a matter of "If" anymore it's a matter of when. I have some options to work with but I need a few more and I know a place where I can get those. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I've been up for a couple of hours

now trying to get some music synced onto my iTouch player for Anne.

Last night was one of those wow nights. Winnipeg/Montreal saw my pick on Proline (Montreal to win) come through. But I was doing taps for the last hour and got a few sales but the tap file was a slow file netting me out only a few sales. I got my check and everything was right. Just as I had all my stuff packed and ready to go I had one last customer on the screen and he was a $400 tap. I got it on the card but all the bonus money had gone by guys making a lot less then me. I had $635 on card by the end of the shift. The Hamilton/BC game was well underway and BC was leading by a large margin. I felt good about this game and I would catch what was left when I got home. I went to use the bathroom and headed out side into the 1st week of July’s bright sunshine evening. My ticket was still alive. BC was blowing out Hamilton in the 1st Quarter. I felt good about this.

This time, I decided to walk up to my RBC as that end of Jasper is reduced to just 1 lane. The first ATM had a bit of a glitch as the envelope deposit “tray” or window wouldn’t open. It cycled through trying to open so I went to the next one and did my banking and I had trouble getting 45 day statement. The 2nd effort I got my statement. Yeesh.

For some reason a huge crowd got on the train at Churchill. What was going on at Churchill I had no idea. Maybe Jazz City, probably.  I got home and I think the score on the game was something like 14/33 in the 3rd quarter but Hamilton was making a comeback. There was a 3 point difference point wise (Tie game in Proline) and the Lions had the ball on the Hamilton 10 yard line 20 seconds on the clock. It was 1st down and rather then kick a field goal for the extra 2 points, they ran out the clock! So much for my ticket. The other 2 games are meaningless now. BC won all right but a 3 point spread difference in Proline, is a tie game. Pissed me right off!  At least wrestling was fun. Anne made me some lunch and I went to bed, or tried to sleep but best I could do out of all of that was maybe 2-3 hours of sleep.

I got a full day ahead of me. I want to go get some breakfast this morning. I’ve got a 6 hour shift. After this I’m getting my book at Audrey’s “Going Pro with Cubase 6.” Then after that, I’m taking the #2 bus out over to Wendy’s as I have a craving for their Baconator combo and I’ll wait for the #183 at the half which takes me home. Then pass out. It’s nap time.

Most likely I’ll go to the casino next weekend because I’ll have a bit more cash to play with. I’m already wiped out. It’s been a big week:
 
Tuesday am I had to go over to the Registry and get my Government ID and I spent an unexpected amount wiping out half my funds in my account. I didn’t realize coming home I had left my bank card etc there at the office with my new Scene debit card. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were slow for me at it was. I was lucky to avoid the LRT ticket Police that night but they were out there asking for tickets the next night when I had my bus pass. If they were out there the previous night when I had left my buss pass behind, I would have gotten a $150 fine. Then Thursday I had to get a form filled out from my employer for CRHC and yesterday a bank statement from my Scotia bank and then last night one from my RBC. Yeesh. The good news is at least I got my Government ID and my Cubase book is in and so are my Paypal funds (Wednesday). It's been a busy week, that's about all for now.

I've been doing a lot of

running around all this week getting my Government ID and bank statements. I've got to go down to Scotia and get one from them this morning and watch, there's going to be 10 people in the line up on a Friday afternoon. if that's the case I'll see if I can get this done by way of ATM but I need to talk to someone at the counter anyway on how to go about a Scene CC and a current bank statement. I'm sure for the Scene CC I'll need to fill out the application. 

Today it's a 7.5 hour day instead of 8 because of Fridays people want to go to the bank that sort of thing. I'll go to my RBC and I'll need a bank statement from them from the ATM and then I'm done with all of this stuff. This is probably why we were passed over because this stuff wasn't on our file 3 years ago. I'm wondering if they'll pro rate this because of the previous 3 years we had to wait and pay us for the waiting time? I doubt it. After RBC, it's home and I'm done with all of this crap from CRHC so we go through all of this to wait another 3 years mainly because immigrants get first crack for subsidy and the rest of us stand in line? I don't know if that's the case but it seems that way.

I was able to do a bit of recording in FL Studio a work around in creating a double track, so that's ok. There could be typo's and spell'o's within this post but right now I I'm in a bit of a hurry and at the moment I don't really don't care. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I’m up early unable to

sleep but I had a good 5.5 hours of sleep so I’m ok for the rest of the day.

Yesterday I ended up with just under $300 with $70 on card. Fran comes in from 5-9 and ends up getting sale after sale on WR. I was on TD run CPC tap list that for about half an hour got nothing for me until the last 20 minutes I ended up with a C note and a $25 but nothing on card for this evening. At least it bumped up my sales near the end there. Part of my poor showing was the fact that I had to get up early to go to the Registry yesterday for my Government ID and even though the process was nothing at all, it was still part of my day that showed up in my effort. The perfect day for me is if I have nothing on my mind, no fights with Anne and a source where I get to pitch somebody at home. I don’t think I got my first sale until after break yesterday.

I’m thinking about taking some baby steps in the markets with iTrade. Nothing spectacular just a few investments to get my feet wet with no expectations. Some iTrade stocks.

We’re supposed to get some hot weather on the weekend heading up to the +28-30 range. Not good for me. I like it just like where it is now. We‘re supposed to get a lot of wind later this afternoon with gusts of up to 55 knots. Not good for the trees out behind us.

I‘ve got a couple of calls to make before I head on out of here this morning. I need to call Scene and get more details and to finish setting up my account. If we can earn 1 point for every $5 like it says, then we can earn about 175 points paying our rent every month, 17 points for getting a bus pass, 120 points for getting our groceries, etc. The only problem is I get only 12 debit transactions/month. 24 points for paying our Internet and these points are every month plus every time Telus extracts from my preauthorized flex plan for Telus every month I get 2 points for that. Thing with our groceries is, Anne buys a little for what she needs each week. I‘m sure thought I can get more debit transaction packages. Right now I have the Power checking account to which I pay $3.95/month for. I‘d like to utilize Scotia because RBC has had their credit rating lowered and it‘s a little out of my way to get to. Scotia holds every check for I think 10 days unless the customer has A $1,000 monthly balance or something like that. RBC I don’t need a balance to cash my checks. The other thing that kind of nags me about Scotia (at least at my location across from Audrey’s) is the entrance. Customers have to use their client cards to get to the ATM inside the “lobby.” The thing I don’t like about RBC is to get their by train I have to use three flights of stairs to get up to street level, where before all I would need to do is to take the bus but that end of Jasper Ave is reduced to 1 lane of traffic  and buses are routed to just outside of the Bank of Montreal. RBC has its financial section across from “Rickies” and I think there‘s a street entrance for ATM use but I‘m not sure. I‘m going to check into this on Friday.

Anyway, no other news on the Oiler front NHL wise Devils Richard Brodeur has signed with the Devils. We have to play NK out for 1 year. So much for making the playoffs this year for the ‘12-13 season. isn’t going to happen until we deal with NK.

My afternoon was slow

but in the evening I had a fantastic night. My best day ever since we came over to the new office.

I called LM yesterday morning before I left out of here and yes they have K8 I might end up getting it regardless after work on Saturday and head over to Wendy's for a burger or something.

After work I went to catch the #5 bus after a wait and I needed to use the bathroom bad. I got to my bank to take out $20 and to check my balance so I'll have enough to get K8 if I decide to get it. Keith wasn't feeling well so I doubt he did anything to my laptop I'll probably get it back on the weekend, we'll see.

Well the Oiler's dropped another one last night in St Louis. It was a 1-0 Sl win so the Oiler's just before the Allstar break have 38 points 7 points ahead of lowly CBJ. The way things are going this season the Oiler's could be in last place again as I think that's the direction they are headed, again.

Seems some Ipad customers pulled a prank at Future shop, best Buy and London drug stores over the Christmas holidays and took out the Ipads and stuffed th boxes with clay. I got the link from i09. It's cute story but for some reason escaped my attention. < so here's the link to the story.

 

I don't ordinarily watch US politics but this year I'm looking over my shoulder. On one hand I'd like to see Obama get in because he could be the only thing that stands between SOPA yet I'd also like to see the Republicans get in because they'd put the Keystone pipeline through. They don't want our oil heading to China. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Yeash, what a day and I'm trying to get rid of this cold and I'm out doing banking?

Last night Anne suggested I take an extra day to recover from this cold and that’s what I did. I called and left (I hope) a message on the answering machine. I hope they got it. So I slept in for 3 hours and got up at noon, had a coffee and left out of here at 1pm. This extra day off actually helped me out a lot. I feel a lot better. Anyway, my bus came right away and boarded a waiting train, only to be told by the driver that we needed to be on the next train coming in. Huh? So out one train and onto another. I was down at Bay station and the escalator wasn’t working. I caught the elevator up and out and headed East along 103rd street. I went right on 102nd then nope, not this way then left and after awhile found the bank in the Manulife building. There’s only a mall entrance in the building. I found my way in and after a brief wait, the teller couldn’t accept my ID as I only had half of the ID. It was good a few years ago when Anne’s purse got stolen with my bank card in it. So, the teller gave me a 1-800 number to call. I said, I didn’t want to cash a check or make a with drawl or anything. If anything I wanted to put money into my account but they wouldn’t let me! First time a bank ever refused money before.

Well I thought that was the end of it. I’d walk down 102nd to jasper Ave and take the Central Station train home. Then I got the idea to go to my main branch and I explained to the reception. I got into see a teller showed her my old Id and explained I know my pin I want to put funds in to cover service charges and get a replacement card. She verified my address and set me up. I left funds to cover a negative balance and enough for 3 service charges later and a replacement card to my address in about 2 weeks. Now why couldn’t the other RBC bank do that?

I went and waited for the first train, which was jammed packed. There must have been about 6 cars. I waited for half an hour later and got another not so crowded train. With all the snow out there over the last 10 days (37 Cm-2.5 feet) it was really slippery out there to say the lest. But I’m glad I made the trip and got my bank account restored. What I like about my RBC bank is I can deposit a check at the ATM and withdraw immediately after. I can’t do that at my Scotia bank, yet. I feel a lot better not only about taking the day off but I got something accomplished as well at the same time. Anyway, that‘s all for now.