I woke up yesterday morning

and a blanket of fresh snow on the ground! It was cold waiting for the bus.

*An overnight update; Anne said the guy that is doing our taxes called yesterday. Maybe it's to say he wont be in today (most likely the weather) but I'll call this afternoon before she leaves to meet me later today at the office. I'm so exhausted I could call in and cancel for today, but it's on with the show.

This one is just too weird, suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course's fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round. The 43-year-old mortgage broker was counting his blessings Tuesday and nursing a dislocated shoulder sustained four days earlier when he tumbled into an 5.5 metre deep sinkhole on the 14th hole of the Annbriar Golf Club near Waterloo, Ill. Read more here:

At work this morning I need to ask the boss if I can book off half an hour early so Anne and I (she’s meeting me at my office) at 4:30pm can go to her building to see if we/I owe Revenue Canada this year or if I get a break as one of her co workers does taxes as a business. Now I won’t mind if I owe something like $50, $100 something like that. We need it paid off to get that GST check every 4 months. We might not even qualify for that. Then after that, we’re boarding the #12 bus by The Bay out to the Kingsway Ramada Inn for her birthday dinner.  She’s got some shopping to do and I’m heading back downtown catch the train home to watch what’s left of the Oiler/Wing’s game and watch Smackdown. I’m up early to get my haircut, Tim’s breakfast, Audrey’s for my book down to LM pay off Machine bill at LM catch the #2 bust to The Bay and walk down to Freemason Hall. So, I’ve got a busy next couple of days.

 Another one for my WTF files: One of Britain's most famous "madams" announced in January that she was coming out of retirement to set up a brothel exclusively catering to disabled people and the terminally ill. An ordinary brothel would be illegal in the town of Milton Keynes (45 miles from London), but Becky Adams insists that the government could not shut hers down without illegally discriminating against the disabled. [Milton Keynes Citizen, 1-11-2013] Unfortunately I don’t have a link for it but that’s why we have Google, right?

This is good local news: Yesterday the Ottawa announced $250M in LRT infrastructure money for the Millwood’s/Downtown LRT. The line will begin in 2015 and will be open for business by 2017. It’s the 2nd route over the North Saskatchewan river. This means the City of Edmonton has $1.050B, they still need about another $800M and the City hopes to get that much from the Province (despite current cutbacks) We don’t need the money now, we can get it in 2017. By that time the current Government might not be around. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

Well a Yesterday on the job

had it’s moments but I did about 8 completions. Usually by about 4pm most business owners have left for the day meaning for the most part my day is spent leaving messages. That part makes for a slow afternoon.

The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space.  Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through the atmosphere that was picked up by the Goce satellite. On Coast last night they said that magnitude of the earthquake was so powerful it even set the planet off it’s axis by a few degrees.

With all of the Catholic Cardinals in the Vatican getting ready to elect a new Pope, many of the faithful believe the Papacy should begin dialogue on women as Priests and or admitting women as Cardinals. Make’s sense. At least to begin a dialogue.  

Slight change of plans for Anne’s birthday. Instead of going out Saturday night, she’s going to feel to wiped out to go out with me and her sister Sunday. So, I’m going to Lodge Saturday and home Saturday night. Makes sense.

Now this is interesting: Drugs that could combat aging and help people to live to 150-years-old may be available within five years, following landmark research. The rest of the article is here.

No change of plans for me this week. Nothing could go off the rails. So it’s pretty well, business as usual. Anyway, that’s 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.