I needed that

9 hours of sleep in the middle of the week. I love these mid week stat holidays for that reason alone.

My day yesterday was ok except for the person beside me. She's a nice lady but has a drowning nasal voice that penetrated right into my headset. I think my respondents heard more of her then me. I ended up with barely 5 completions. I don't make the seating plan up but I know who does now and I'm going to implore him to put some separation between us. Its bad enough having to listen to my loud neighbor score on every call while I'm getting 1 every 90 minutes or so. Tomorrow, I'm going to leave an earplug in my ear and see if that helps a little. About 80% of the time a 15 minute takes about half an hour because most of the respondents have accents. Because they hear the echo of my neighbor more then me, their asking to repeat the question. I like the project I'm working on but I think it's going to come to an end (and the calling) Saturday. I'll know my schedule when it gets emailed as the availability sheet  has been missing lately. Since I don't have spell check on the computer where I'm sitting, I'm going to open up Google and use that as a spell check in another window and just copy and paste. Many times I can't go back after the survey is done to correct spelling. We're not supposed to use the Internet for inappropriate use but this is appropriate use as far as I'm concerned. 

The other day I found (after almost 2 years of working in the building) my service provider wifi. Listed was Shaw's Go wifi, which since I'm not on Shaw wont open for me. So, I thought the back door to Subway was on the main floor of the building. Subway has free wifi. I thought maybe all I have to do to access it without going outside (sometimes the intercom to the building doesn't work, and I don't like to stand there outside when it gets -25 waiting for the buzzer to click to let me in) While on the other side of the "Subway door"I go to my list of available networks and there's my ISP's open. I just type in my email hit the TOS button and I'm online. Oh, wait..this isn't Subway. It's another business! It just says my ISP and I think I can get online access anywhere on the main floor. I'll try that tomorrow. I wish I would have known about this during this last CFL season. The CFL season is now over as of this last weekend. Esks lost in Regina but they played all 18 games. Having known about this during week one in June I could check on the games during my 2 breaks and my half. At least I can check on Oiler games. 

Speaking of which the Oilers are in Nashville tonight at 6pm. This is a market we have trouble winning against while on the road. I don't think we're going to take this one but our boys have been playing good on the road winning their last 2. Here I was thinking they'd win at least 1 in OT. Now two back to back? Can they make it 3 tonight on the road?

I decided on my day off Friday before lodge, I'm running down to my bank then over to Audrey's to get my books and then to Memory express to get a sshd 1Tb drive for my laptop, a 1Tb drive for my desktop and a sata/ide connector, a screwdriver set and memory card for my camera and a dedicated memory card for my Kobo and Windows 8.1 64 bit. I'm going to just start over and reset my laptop back to factory settings and install Win 8 and then reinstall my music programs. Komplete 8 is about 110 Gb, Maschine is maybe 4 Gb, the Oxygen keyboard is minimal and that's all I need for now. On the desktop, I plan on getting a hard drive dock duplicator. They're priced at about $75 take out the desktop drive and do the data transfer and install the new drive with the sata/ide connector inside. Anyway, that's all for now.  

I'm enjoying my Sunday afternoon off

despite no football or hockey.

For nearing the end of July it's not that warm of a day out there sitting at +15 showing a bit of rain.

I'm going to miss iGoogle when it's gone in November. I can still get similar "gadgets" on my Google Drive page without going Chrome. I'm too used to Firefox. Anyway a Science story appeared on my iGoogle page about a 15 meter "magnetic ring" transported to Fermilab in Wisconsin. It took 6 weeks to get to Fermilab. The story from the Science insider is here.  
 
I almost bought a Intel quad Core i7 laptop today from Future shop but I checked and it seems that all locations don't even have this item in stock. Best buy has a AMD A10 in my price range and if they have it in stock at t heir West Edmonton Mall location, I might just pick it up Wednesday. I'm not buying this for gaming, maybe 10% or so for gaming. So, we'll see. I might just end up waiting until their labor Day sale. 

The objective is to put a full week in for this week. I've got the hours and the work. Hopefully nothing will go wrong. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Great day yesterday

Now that the election is over with we can get on with the order of business.

Also at Future Shop (FS) yesterday the guy that took me to the check out we passed by all the Itunes cards etc and I mentioned my experience with the card the other day. The clerk pealed one off and preserved the numbers and I thought, maybe I should just buy the card but he folded it rendering it null and void to his colleague girl at the till because apparently it’s not in the system. Maybe I got a bad batch of them.

Today, I‘m calling Apple and ask how I can get my Itunes gift card redeemed with just partial numbers so I can get some apps from the app store. I want to get Garageband and iSequence and a game called “Swordigo” 

 and it’s only $2 from the app store. I’ve been looking at some of the books I have on my shelf and some of them are offered in iBooks, which is pretty good. Now that I have internet up on my iPad 3, this will be my go to gaming, reading on the go Internet device. Cubase 6 and FL Studio are my music production platforms. I think I need 2 weeks off

It was a good day Monday, the weather was warm, I got my headphones and info on the Itunes cards and also, the clerk said all I have to do is to call up Apple and give them as much of the number on the card as I have and they will redeem the card for me.

Also, I went out to vote about 5pm and the candidate in my riding Clareview riding wasn‘t elected. The results of the election were like this: PC-59, WR-19, NDP-4, LIB 4, Even though I worked behind the scenes doing fundraising for WR, I thought long and hard about it and over the last few days and I came to the realization that PC Alberta has always done ok by me over the last 34 years, which is why I decided to vote PC instead of Wild Roes. WR is too far right for me.

Now I‘ve got Inter net on my Ipad but I don’t know how to pay my bill which is $35/month but most likely I can pay it at a local Telus kiosk. There‘s one in Edmonton Centre and I‘m sure I can pay it there. I‘ll try it for a few months to see if it‘s something I‘ll be using for awhile.

Anne made me one of  her home made cheese burgers and fries. I‘ve got a cold beer in the fridge and when I‘m ready for bed, I‘ll be able to sleep easier.

On Wednesday Coast’s topics will be: Restoring U.S./ Illuminati. Should be a good show.

I‘ve had a small bit of a psoriasis on my leg which has spread due to  me scratching the affected area on my left leg. I think had this before I was diagnosed with diabetes and it‘s only on one leg but I have had psoriasis on my scalp before. I know I’m over weight but not by much. I weigh last time I checked about 236 lbs in weight with me being 5‘ 11“ and according to a height weight chart I‘m 42, which means I‘m about 95 pounds over weight. Most of this weight is in my belly. I came across this news item about tummy tucks and how it can actually cure diabetes in some cases because the stomach can only after the tuck less food intake means less weight. My problem is I like this diet cola too much the other thing is the operation might not be covered by Alberta health care or maybe it might be covered Alberta Works benefits along with my dental. But I‘m not fat in the arms or in the legs or back or anything, only in the belly. If I can get it done or even save up for it, maybe it‘s something I might want to do in a year or two. Something to look into.

Ottawa Senators last night had a chance to put away the New York Ranges but the Rangers got a couple of lucky breaks by the officiating. The Sens made it exciting near the end but the NHL was embarrassed the other day when LA defeated Vancouver and the last thing the NHL doesn’t want is a repeat of the LA/Vancouver game in the Eastern Conference. Some of the plays called against the Sens by the officials were really soft. Ottawa can‘t win, this is why no Canadian NHL team will ever win the Stanley Cup, not under Gary Bettman’s watch. I‘d bet a $100 on Thursday‘s game 7 that the Rangers will win the game. Easy money for me. But when the Sens lose Thursday I‘ll be pulling for the Rangers because of Glen Sather and Mark Messier‘s involvement. Anyway, that’s about all I have for now. 

I didn't know this

right away but my Internet was down. I was too busy with FL9 but noticed it when Anne called. it was a real bummer because that meant that last night was going to be dreadful.

We placed a couple of irate calls and before missing the Grey Cup game this afternoon. Al's won 21-18, I came back into the office and found out the modem box lights are all lit up. Indicating we're back in business--maybe. Anne's got the TV on another "Channel" I can't get to our service provider one to see if all channels are clear, At least my ITouch is working. Anne came home just briefly about 10 minutes ago and stepped out to do some shopping and she doesn't know the good news yet. We're not out of the woods yet though.

Yesterday I was informed that there would be no late afternoon shift and even though I could have used the hours and all, I was grateful as Vinny download FL9 onto my laptop from his USB drive but it wouldn't work. Packing up my laptop in my knapsack we went to his place (across the street from Grant MacEewan University) he ended up getting the whole program installed with no trouble. It works great even now. I figured after that was done, why not take the #2 bus and head over to Wendy's and get a burger for my lunch. Why not get a bottle of diet Coke, wait for the #2 but I was to far East and missed the connection. After wandering around the downtown core, trying to figure out where to go get a bite to eat I found myself outside City Centre mall and decided to go in. Rider jerseys everywhere. Then I decided I hadn't been to Sizzling Wox in a long time. They changed the company name but it's still the same place. I bought 2 orders of Chinese and and a diet Coke, sat down at an empty table and enjoyed my lunch. On my way to Coles, Ebay games was still there. I looked around and they have some used copies of Assasin's Creed 2. At $27 the price was right but I didnn't have the money. I was also looking at the Dsi the one with the 2 camera's on it. They had it for $179 plus it caomes with games as well. Perfect for my commute. After that I headed over to Cole's with my laptop with me all the way. I hadn't been in Cole's for almost 2 years. I shopped around and looked at their version of the Kindle 2 the Kobo. I'm still leaning towards the kindle 2. Shopping around for books I came across Jack Whyte's books. I've never read Whyte before but his books are in the SFF area. I bought the first book of "The Eagle" duo-logy "Clothar The Frank." Book two is there as well but its part of a larger series.

Since I didn't need to go out with Warren and the guys Saturday night I had a night off and enjoyed playing around with FL9. Anyway, that's all for now.