When the score at Rogers

place arena was tied at 2 with Buffalo in town, I thought we might win this game. Then Talbot let in a stinker early in the 2nd. It was all downhill for the Oilers from there. McDavid hadn't even a shot on goal little alone a goal. Talbot was obviously having a tough night losing to the Sabres 6-2. There was even a goal tender change but Larson fell on our relief goaltender already with a history of concussions and he was pulled and Talbot returned. We'll regroup and host Carolina Tuesday and say Hello to the returning Nail Yakapov. Next Sunday we're in Winnipeg. Our first loss in Rogers Place arena. 

I'm not a environmentalist but I have to give a nod of approval to Canada's position on the recent Kigali deal. Its going to cost billions of dollars but by slowly eliminating the use of HFC's (hydro fluoro carbon gases) its going to make the planet cooler, eventually. HFC's are found in air conditioners and refrigerators. HFC's are hundreds of times more powerful then CFC green house gasses. By phasing out the use of HFC's will help to make the planet a bit cooler but not by much. I'm on board with this.

Earlier today I was working from a list of Horus Heresy order of reading. This list includes all of the 31 novels in the series I have to date. In this reading order (suggested by The Black Library) includes short stories, audio books and novellas. There's been a lot of short stories before the novel series I haven't got yet but most of the already published and will be re published in an anthology format in latter editions of the series. Most likely in my format in a couple of years. I have all the way up book #31 in paperback. 

Anne's doing the vacuuming and I'm just winding out my evening. This week is just a working the week at the job. I've got nothing planned. We still have a lot of snow on the ground. Kind of reminds me of mid March out there. Anyway, that's all for now.

The Big event that has my interest

is the JFK assassination. It being the 50th anniversary of the assassination weekend. I was 10 years old when that went down. I recall how, while I was at "Miller park" school just 11 years old when the Principle made the announcement. I didn't know who the President was. For me it was a chance to get off school early. When I got home my mom had it on television I remember how preoccupied she was. I remember "watching" bits of the funeral procession. I was just 11 years old, I didn't know anything. Hard to believe that was 50 years ago. 

So some of the Greenpeace "activists" known as "The Arctic 30," have been released from detainment in Russia lately. "The 30" in case you missed it invaded a Russian artic oil rig jeopardizing the safety of its workers. The others "activists" are being held and about to meat their fate today. I hope Russian Law throws the book at them. Then yesterday there were 2 other Greenpeace activists scaling the Biosphere in Montreal. They face mischief charges for placing a banner saying "Free the arctic 30." It wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't environmentalists that were behind the recent train derailments Alberta out to make a point.

Renowned psychic Sylvia Browne passed away yesterday at the age of 77. She was a regular guest on Coast. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm back at it today

but if things don't pick up I'm going to get the extra hours someplace else. I'm running out of my savings. If I can work 4-9 Tuesday-Saturday, that'd be ok until my early retirement comes in around November but I need something steady.

I get asked all the time,"Jim your in Alberta, whats your take on the Keystone pipeline? Its a accident waiting to happen. This thing is mapped right through Hurricane alley. Its a recipe for disaster. The best way to get our oil to the US is by rail. Just 1 DOT-111 tank car can carry 20,000 US gallons of oil.The  DOT-111 tank car was involved in the Lac-Mégantic derailment earlier this summer in Quebec. There were 72 of them in that disaster. Transporting oil to the US is safer then the pipeline.

I'm having some issues with Google+ and YouTube. My YouTube channel is ok but my YouTube inbox is missing. Also I can't change my profile picture because of size issues. Even after I change size of my photo. I might have to open a new Google+/Hangouts or what ever it's called. It might take me awhile, but I'll figure it out. 

Another thing I get asked all the time is what I think will happen to our society. I don't think we'll have any major wars or anything because our society will be very prosperous. At the same time Earths population will be down to the levels of the 1920's due to over population levels. Et will still be in the realm of science fiction. There will be settlements on Mars and other planets moons etc. There will also be synthetic programmable human like robots. Cloths will be holographic and resistant to the environment. At the latter half of the century physicists would have found alternate earths like in sliders but without humans. That's about all I "see" right now. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Anne went all the way out to the

airport to meet her sister in town for a couple of days but due to the weather fights have been delayed. It means she wont get in until about 8pm,so that ruins her day with her sister. Well one of her days.

By the end of this month we should be out of this cold snap. It means I'm during my commute tomorrow morning,I'm wearing my cleats.

I decided to change browsers and go with Chrome over Firefox because Google is retiring iGoogle after this November. I really liked iGoogle because everything was right there on the same page. I discovered the Google webpage similar to iGoogle where I have my email, Twitter, YouTube, Google maps, Docs and Drive on the same page and I can even put my blog header icon there as well. Google is also getting rid of it's news reader service. All I need now is a Facebook icon link on my Google page. My next step is to sync this with my mobile device and I'm good to go.

I was going to head out yesterday get my haircut, my book, some Tim's breakfast and over to LM and pay my bill and head for Lodge. That would have been a productive morning/afternoon but the weather kept me at bay. 

Nothing special going on this week. If the weather improves then I think I'll be able to get all the above done on this coming up Saturday anyway. 

In a couple of hours, it's Nashville at Edmonton. Should be a good one. Anyway that's about all for now.
  

in weeks but at least it wasn't a total washout as I got my only sale on a card but it made for a long 6 hour shift yesterday.

I was so exhausted and maybe that's why I didn't have a good day on the job but I met my colleagues after for a beer and some Laughs. I needed to use Tim's bathroom badly and got double chocolate donut for my ride home trying to catch up on the Justin Schultz deal the Oiler's made to get him. It was a good day for the Oiler's and signing Ryan Smyth for a 2 year contract. The only question now is our goal tending. Everything else is in place.

When I got to Clareview station in the +26* heat and seeing the score on the Argo's/Esks game I decided to walk over to Future Shop look around and buy a set of cheep headphones. I paid $10 and headed home. I was sweating so bad I had a shower. After that I had bite to eat and watched the last of the Argo/Esks game. Esks won 15-19. 

Anne called and we had a chat and I tried going to bed for a nap but it wasn't going to happen. I relaxed until Anne came home and had some lunch and had a nice evening.

Earlier I began working on my track but I discovered when I opened the FL Studio file for my track my wav files vanished. Then I realized that I need to have the tracks recorded. Yeesh. 

Anne left to Pet Smart to get some cat food down the end of the block and when she comes home, she's going to start laundry and make breakfast and I might catch the Montreal/Stamps CFL game for latter. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Mid week madness

Yes its mid week madness. The dreaded of all Wednesdays. I don't do too badly work wise for a Wednesday. Yesterday wasn't bad but I would have liked to have had something over $100 and I had 3 tap sales to my 2 regular sales,  nothing over $100 and even those sales were made in the evening. 

This morning in about an hour, at Clareview station I'll be picking up a 6/49 quick pick for tonight's $26M draw. Then on the train waiting to pull out of Clareview checking out my mail on my iPad and ready for the day. 

This morning the Edmonton Oiler's announced Ralph Krueger as their 11th head coach. This guy is the real deal. Ok so out of the 7 games in the NHL as subbing for Renney, he  only won 1 game but I think the Oiler's will do well with Krueger.

Not much going on around here. It's a straight up working mid week day. 

This morning I had a chance to more through Ottawa's bill C-38. It's an Omnibus bill of some 70 pieces of legislation that Harper wants to push through before Parlement 
breaks for the summer. Bill C-38 is something that the opposition likes because they can debate over it's many parts to drag it out to try and force a non confidence vote. C-38 has some things I like and some things I don't. For example, tightening up EI. Its saying that an unemployed banker making say $75K/year can take a job at Tim Horton's for $12 must take the job or be cut off of EI. That's a bit of an extreme case because no unemployed banker making that kind of money will even take EI. But that's an example. Another is the change to the pension act to change eligibility to collect Old Age Security or OAS, from 65-67. That I don't mind and it wont take into affect until 2023 Amendments to the Income Tax Act that will further limit the resources that charities can put towards political activity and give the minister of national revenue greater power to take action against organizations that exceed these limits. I kind of like this one. Also, Amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to wipe out a backlog of 280,000 applications under the Federal Skilled Worker Program. Gives more jobs for Canadians. I also like this one:The elimination of several government-funded groups and agencies including the National Council of Welfare, Rights and Democracy, and the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. This one I don't like: Complex changes to fisheries protection of fish habitats that will result in less-stringent regulations for the sake of promoting commercial and development interests. I like this one as well: Repealing and replacing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in order to expedite the environmental review process and limit public input. But bill C-38 can't be all things to all people. There are some good things I like and some not so good things. more on this latter. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

From yesterday

The first part of the shift didn't work that well as I ended up having a slow start. At break I called Anne and had a brief chat with her. At the half I went down to the pharmacy and the Proline CFL odds were posted. I got my ticket on all 4 games. The 2nd half was a little better and they began “Magic.’ Its December 13th and 14th so we’re calling late and early. I did better in the 2nd half and after the shift one of the guys helped me with my 1Tb external drive as I wanted to reformat it because it was running out of space but upon inspection we found that it had over 750Gb free and 200 something on the drive used. It saves program files as well (applications) except I just can’t launch from the drive. Still it told me what I needed to know
I'm 75% there leaning towards Guitar Pro 6 on Monday. It looks pretty good.

I was kind of having discussion yesterday about the environment and what issues I'd get behind. Well several stand out. Firstly over fishing. This is a big concern of mine why I don't eat seafood anymore. There are animals in the Oceans that need it (fish) more then I do. I think it's selfish for humans to consume this un renewable resource. Farm fish is another matter. Second: Oil tankers. It bothers me that we as consumers still have to send oil by sea. The 3 major contenints have an abundance of oil, why do they have to ship oil by sea? How often is it that we see on the news an oil tanker disaster and the millions of creatures that are affected by this. pardon the detour but I don't have a problem with the Alberta oil sands. It's good for us here in Alberta and good for the Americans. Ethically, "dirty oil" outweighs "conflict oil" in my opinion. We don't need to ship oil to Asia but if the Keystone Xl pipeline doesn't get built, because of some rich environmentalists then by all means, lets ship the oil to China or better yet North Korea.The Americans want "conflict oil," so bad lets give it to them. But in the meantime, there are other markets for our oil even if it means sending the oil by sea to China.Third: Global Warming. I've never been a proponent of GW and this junk science, which for me means I'm a comfortable anti GW'st. Finally, space junk. There's so much crap in orbit its almost becoming a hazard to us all. Instead of spending money on GW alarmists and crazy environmentalists lets put some money towards space junk and how to get rid of it. Now there's a problem Greenpeace should tackle. Just some of the issues that really bug me. 

Last night on Coast the topic was Planet X and the Zeta's, the ET's some believe are from Planet X and have visited us before. Coast had pol asking "What do you believe about the Zeta's?" Out of the 4 topics and 8,654 votes later, the majority believe that they are ETs/interdimensionals with a mixed agenda. Over 2,500 (likeme) don't believe they exists but its a fun topic.


Also, at work in the 2nd half we had the Vancouver/Flyer's game on and I needed the Flyers to win. The only thing that might make my Proline ticket invalid is the shootout win with Ottawa the other night. A shootout might be a Proline tie but I don't think there are any tie games in the NHL. I have $6 riding on the game! Anyway, that’s about all for now.