A couple of things going on

this month. First off it's the Edmonton public library's main branch Centennial year, nice. Too celebrate the City of Edmonton is handing out free library cards to any city resident. It's a good deal. I haven't used the library in years but it's free right. why not?  

Yesterday I found out my job isn't permanent. It's on a project by project bases. I have these hours for at least the middle of June. After that I don't know. If near that time, I have no conformation of anything, say like a week or 2 off, I can live with that. If however things are shut down for a couple of months, then I have a few other options. If all we have is evening work, I can live with that. I'd rather work part time where I am now then full time out out on 124th street with the gang. Maybe I'd do it next year when the Nait line opens up. In that case it'd be a train to Churchill and connect to the Nait line out to Kingsway board the #12 out to the job site. That might be easier, but we'll see. I don't want to give up on my present job for just a few dollars more an hour.

This caught my attention from i09 earlier: Should we put criminals under surveillance instead of in prison? The thing is putting criminals under surveillance wont prevent crimes. And how are we going to apprehend these criminals once they figure out that resources are so stretched it's going to be very hard to catch them? Read more here:

The other thing I want to do one of these Saturday's this month is head out to the Telus World of Science for the Star War's "Identities" show before it leaves by the end of the month so maybe next Saturday night. I really want to see this before it leaves. I can get a bite to eat at Westmount and take the #5 to Corona station from Westmount and the train home before Anne calls.

The other thing is our local landmark, the High level bridge, has a built in attraction called the "High level bridge waterfall."  It's normally an event for the summer, usually around Summer long weekends. There are lights that shine from behind the waterfall hooked up from just under the bridge. It's nice at night but the event has been shut down over the past couple of years. Forces at City Hall want to bring it back but with Redford's cutbacks and all that affect the City, it's hard to come up with the funds to justify opening it again. What's odd about this project is the water wasn't pumped from the river below and recycled. It was treated water. Now City councilors want to use the water from the river. They should have done that years ago.  

On Coast this morning the topic is about how scientists have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. Cool. Looking forward to listening in on this for a bit. Anyway, that's about all for now.
 

This isn’t breaking

 news but it’s all over the blog sphere: George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm to Disney for a huge $4.5B deal. The deal gives Lucas title as “creative consultant.” It means that Lucas is a major Disney shareholder. Disney hinted that more Star Wars movies with Star Wars 7 in 2015 just a few years away. I just hope Doesn’t “dumb down” the movies to a Harry Potter level and make them “family friendly.” I like the level of the last movie and if they keep it like that or even like the last Star Trek  movie, I’d be satisfied with that. Wow, what an announcement. Also Lucas will get 40 million Disney shares, making him the 10th largest shareholder,. Also in the deal is the Indy movies as well. No doubt though Disney will milk the Ewok’s and Jar-jar to death. I wonder what the implications of this deal are what with the NYSE closed yesterday?

I’ve got a full 8 hours ahead of me and 7 tomorrow and lodge night. Anne was saying that Sobey’s has subs a lot cheaper then Subway, so I’m going to go drop my $50 into my Scotia account to by 4 assorted. Bay station, home and have a bite to eat, clean up get ready, head out and go down to the Lodge. I have the key’s so I can get in even before others show up. The only thing I don’t like about being JW is that I’ve got to shell out the cash first out of pocket and then recover my costs from the festive board. I don’t always recover the full amount and I’m trying to save up enough so on Saturday I can make 2 payments at LM. If I have $50 in my pocket tomorrow morning, then I’m heading to my bank first thing in the morning and making that deposit for LM and then off again Saturday after work.

At the moment, it’s -12 partially overcast. It’s wearing boot season again but the Sun is shining nicely through a veil of thin cloud.

For some reason, Firefox won’t let me open a web page this morning. I keep getting a error warning dialogue box. I can hear it cycling through in the background. Anyway, that’s about all for now.