Today I'm taking it easy enjoying my

time off. After the weekend I'm going to be looking for a more steady part time job. Something that doesn't rely on projects or is seasonal. I need a job steady that's open year round from 9am-3pm, somewhere in there. Security guard work is out because its too regulated and I have to fork out $100 to take a test and pass with 80% or greater. Then there's a fingerprint service fee and a Police records check fee etc. It's not like the old days where you can just apply and they suit you up and your ready to go. I'm also looking at house keeping or janitorial. It doesn't have to be long term. Once I get on pension my current casual job will be good enough. I've been looking around lately on Kijiji. I got a job in the summer of 2014 through Kijiji and this job. I'll find something.

This week I need to go to the Southgate Apple store, and I'll probably do that Monday. We want to have our i0S devices separated so I can get Airdrop on our iPad. There's probably a online solution but I might screw up. Better let them know and get expert advice. I have a back up email and I'll need that to open a Apple id for the iPad and work from there. I also want to get Apple TV because it has Airplay. Airplay (as I understand it) will let me mirror our iOS screens on our TV. There's a 3rd party app that with Airplay lets an iOS user record the iOS screen. If this works, then I can just record the iOS system audio using a 3.5mm male to male jack plug that into my laptop using Audacity to record the audio export as a wav file, then once the video is recorded load that into iMovie and sync the two together. In theory. It's a long process but its the easiest way to screen record an iOS device that I know of that doesn't jailbreak (hack) our iOS devices. This process if it works like I think, will enable me to record my iOS screen and upload to YouTube. iOS music production has really taken off since the birth of the iPad in 2010. There's Audio bus and a ton of music apps and sequencers out there. Most music software studios like Cubase and Fl. Studio have their own versions for the iPad and Android devices. Even Native Instruments has iMachine 2 and a "stripped down" version of Apples garage band is available like for $5 from the app store. What I like about iOS music production is that in the world of music production an iOS device is more hardware, then software. Producing music on a computer can be labour intensive and costs a lot of money to keep up to date with computers and the software libraries are so huge. Anyone starting up with this hobby today here in Edmonton, doesn't need any money to get started to produce music. The library downtown has their maker space, complete with green screen, sound booth occupied with Mac/PC complete with Ableton Live 9 etc. The maker space is free and open to the public. They have mixers, speakers, video camera's the works. We got our iPad in 2012. Apple TV starts off at about $100. The 3.5mm cables are pricey but I want them now not 3 months from now from eBay etc. So I don't mind paying $20 at London Drugs. Best Buy has them cheaper but these are only sold online and a long wait to get them. Apple TV is similar to Googles Chromecast. Anne bought into the Apple TV idea last night when she heard that she can watch YouTube, and have our Flikr photos displayed on flat screen TV. By separating our iOS devices on 2 different accounts I can free up iPad storage space by Airdropping then onto my iPod touch as I still have about 11Gb of space. All I need is to free up about 4Gb off of the iPad. Airdrop isn't on the iPad. I need both devices to have Airdrop. Airdrop and Airplay are different concepts. 

Our Christmas yesterday was good. Anne started early on her Christmas turkey. I got Anne her annual Shriner's Calendar and a fantasy novel trilogy Mercedes Lackey. She got me some t-shirts, each with a front breast pocket and a Tim Horton's cup. We got lots of cat toys. We watched some Doctor Who. She got face time calls from her family that she missed because they were in Florida. We just let the rest of the night sort it self out and went from there. Anne's off to work for her usual shift today and I'm watching the Oilers/Canucks game later tonight. Anyway, that's all for now

Other then my wife being sick with

the flue, one might think I'm on the other side of 'marital bliss.' Or on the other end of a strong case of PMS. Wait now, its almost the same thing. She's reacting the only way she knows how, its not her fault. I have one more day with this and back to work Friday, yeaaaa! It's only for 4 hours though.

Anne tells me we have a couple of Doctor Who episodes in the ol pvr, I'll be catching one of them today and Saturday after work.  

For the most part I was working on a track in Cubase 6 Christmas day and getting bogged down in clipping issues. My 31st attempt at finally figuring it out and mostly using it correctly. I'm still having issues with some programs grayed out. I'd like to use the limiter under the dynamics tab but it's grayed out to. The forums aren't much help here and neither is Google. 

My mom and dad married in their late 20's and too old to be part of the early rock n' roll scene going on at places like the Hollywood bowl in New West, then the Grooveyard. When my parents were teens they were most likely into Swing music. Jimmy Dorsey, Martha Tilton, Benny Goodman,that sort of thing. My parents as teens would have gone to Vancouver in the 1930's. The Hollywood bowl was mostly a place for 1950's teens to hang out. It was way before my time but the Grooveyard would be just taking over in that location with the sounds of the R and B scene in the mid 1960's. The Hollywood Bowl earned a "rough reputation" in the 1950's, which most likely carried over into the 1960's generation. I would be like 14 when the Grooveyard was in it's prime but we were out in the "sticks" in suburban Coquitlam. The only time we got out to New West was to visit Grandma and to pick out my first bike in 1959 at Caps. But that was in Sapperton on the way to New West as everyone calls it. I'm sure before the club then called "The Hollywood bowl" and Metro today it was another dance spot in the 30's.

Today is Boxing Day and it's going to be crazy busy in about another 8 hours. I'm glad I'm not out there. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

For most of last night

 I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to get Anne an email and then it dawned on me that since I already had Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts on my desktop, I was without a yahoo email account on my laptop. I got that set up for Anne but I’m having a hell of a time with Apple ID but I’m closing in on it. I’ll get her up and running shortly.

Just as an after thought actor Jack Klugman died Christmas Eve from throat cancer. Klugman played Oscar Madison next to Tony Randal as Felix in the Odd couple. I remember seeing the Broadway production of the first episode as it was on tour and I saw them on stage. That would have been 1976, a few months after that I migrated to Calgary to find work. But the show didn't feature Klugman as Oscar, I believe that was with Walter Matthau. Walter Matthau died 12 years ago. The Odd Couple, Mash, All in the family, we don't have shows like that today. With all of this politically correct bs a show like All in the family would never get by the sensors. I don't think I never heard Archie used the N word for (Jefferson). The Odd Couple never went that direction but Hollywood and they're politically correct obsession would probably (if the show were produced today) have made one of the roommates Asian or something. My only beef when it comes to Hollywood casting like this is the show was conceived as it was, if Hollywood made a remake of The odd Couple by tinkering with it to appease this political correct climate nobody cares about, would ruin the show. That's one thing I didn't like when Marvel changed the character of Nick Fury agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hate to break the news to you kids, but Nick Fury originally in the Marvel comics was "Sargent Fury and his Howling Commandos." Look it up. Nick Fury was a white man not a black man. When David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury (1998) last time I checked I don't think Mr. Hasselhoff went from white to black in a decade. No disrespect to Samuel L. Jackson. He played an excellent version of Nick Fury and I think he did a great job in that role but casting of the movie Iron Man in 2008 was an obvious move to appease the politically correct climate plaguing us to this day. I'm happy when I was watching sitcoms back in the 1970's we didn't have this politically correct bs. Partially why these days I don't watch that much TV. How about this pc scenario: James Bond after Daniel Craig will be a Jamaican Bond with a British accent. I'm just sayin.   

Coast 2 Coast this morning is about Christmas movies but the next half of the show is about the Urantia. I did a brief study about this curiosity some 20 years ago. With about 2000 pages and going through a bit of it myself, kind of went over my head. At least Ched is back to normal. Tonight the show on Coast is about “Planet X.”

We just came off of watching the latest Doctor Who Christmas special “The Snowmen.” This was a great special. I liked this one better then last years and I hope they keep the supporting cast. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate this a 9.

Earlier before I got into getting Anne an Apple ID I set myself up a Sound cloud account. I even set up a mobile app for it but it doesn’t look like the app is that well received.

Today being Boxing day is going to be a madhouse out there. If I had any Boxing day funds I’d wait until Friday for the end of Boxing day week.

As for me, I’m relaxing over the next couple of days as I don’t think I’ll be heading out anywhere until Saturday. Anyway, that’s all for now.