Monday. It was a laid back kind of day at home. Anne brought me back a couple McDonald's quarter pounder burgers and fries for my 5:30pm supper and I spent 3 hours of watching wrestling. Then browsing the job ads on Kijiji, then supper and more job browsing. I found a work from home job but I doubt I'll get that but I uploaded my resume anyway. I'm calling the boss this afternoon to see what's coming up for work as things are slowing down. Anne's shifts are restored but mine are still in limbo.
The massacre in Orlando on the weekend at the Pulse club was senseless, most of these shootings are. Was it a hate crime or inspired by a terrorist organization? I don't know. Banning Muslims from entering a country isn't the answer either. There are about 3 million peaceful Muslims already in the US. The FBI dropped the ball on the Orlando shooter file. Maybe Muslims in the US and here should have certain rights suspended. Maybe banning Muslims from bearing arms is the way to go. Maybe better surveillance of Muslims needs to be tightened. I don't know what the answer is. All I know is hate is not the answer.
Over the weekend I learned of a new Star Trek movie, called "Star Trek Beyond." Its news to me. Its going to be released July 22nd. I really am enjoying JJ Abrams Star Trek. This is his 3rd Trek movie. Also this year is year in December is Star Wars Rouge one. The last time there was a Star Wars and a Star Trek movie in the same year was in 2002 with "Nemesis" and "Attack of the clones." My 2 favorite movie franchises of all time. Marvel Studio's is a close 3rd. Anyway, that's all for now.
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Showing posts with label Job seeking. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Friday, November 20, 2015
From the looks of things
there doesn't seem to be any kind of a schedule for the weekend. We're supposed to be having our staff Christmas party next week, which suggests to me that there won't be work of any kind, at least until the first week of next month. I'm looking for another part time job, anything. The job I have now is ok for when I'm on pension but as for now, its so unpredictable and we cant live like this. I'm checking in about a job in a totally different industry other then call centre work. I've done the work in the other industry before but that was like 15 years ago. I have 2 different resumes for two different industries..
Obama has decided to shut the doors on Syrian refugees most likely a decision based upon last Friday's tragedy in Paris. Yet JT wants to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year? Bordering on asinine. The cost of this program over 6 years will be $1.2 Billion. No doubt there are some of these refugees that would just as soon as kill us then escape the trouble in Syria we don't know. Here in Alberta we're going to be accepting about 6,000 of them. Personally I think it should be the Muslim community that should be looking after these people. Give them tax breaks. They're used to having 8-12 of them in a household aren't they? Personally I think these refugees are a low security risk but one never knows.
Earlier I was able to put up another video to my new YouTube channel. So many "Jimmy Jam's" out there, I decided to drop that and create a new YouTube channel. I'm now a entity or a band, called "Amok Thyme." Its a play on words and a bit of a shout out to a Star Trek tos episode of a similar name. I'll be working on this over the weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.
Obama has decided to shut the doors on Syrian refugees most likely a decision based upon last Friday's tragedy in Paris. Yet JT wants to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year? Bordering on asinine. The cost of this program over 6 years will be $1.2 Billion. No doubt there are some of these refugees that would just as soon as kill us then escape the trouble in Syria we don't know. Here in Alberta we're going to be accepting about 6,000 of them. Personally I think it should be the Muslim community that should be looking after these people. Give them tax breaks. They're used to having 8-12 of them in a household aren't they? Personally I think these refugees are a low security risk but one never knows.
Earlier I was able to put up another video to my new YouTube channel. So many "Jimmy Jam's" out there, I decided to drop that and create a new YouTube channel. I'm now a entity or a band, called "Amok Thyme." Its a play on words and a bit of a shout out to a Star Trek tos episode of a similar name. I'll be working on this over the weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
With just 2 more
games left in the Oilers pre season, the club is 5-0. No where in Oiler history has the team ventured into this territory. Now if this translates into a few wins in the early go in the regular season, they'll be off to a good start. The only down side is unless I want to watch the pre season games I have to go to video on demand. It'll cost me.
I'd like to get into playing iOS games on my iPod Touch, but with the 6th Gen iPod out makes this iPod look like a trot next to a marathon. The camera is a lot better from a 5mp to 8mp. The loop connector is gone (which I've never used on my 5th gen anyway) The inside chip is faster. The 5th gen single core read write benchmarks are 218 416. The 6th gen has a multi core and its read write speeds are significant at 1383 2442. Game play is going to be super fast. Before that though, I need my lodge dues covered and my desktop upgrade with a bigger hard drive. Then maybe in the new year I can start thinking about a new iPod touch for games.
Anne and I are leaving out of here at about 3pm this afternoon. I'm going to investigate a job lead. I used to work at this place last year for a few days but the other job was offering me more hours and more money. So I'm going to see if they'll take me back and this time, I wont bail on them. It'll be my primary job. They pay more then my current job that has no work for its employees. If my current job has work I can work 2 days. I'll leave the door open for my current job. Anyway, that's all for now.
I'd like to get into playing iOS games on my iPod Touch, but with the 6th Gen iPod out makes this iPod look like a trot next to a marathon. The camera is a lot better from a 5mp to 8mp. The loop connector is gone (which I've never used on my 5th gen anyway) The inside chip is faster. The 5th gen single core read write benchmarks are 218 416. The 6th gen has a multi core and its read write speeds are significant at 1383 2442. Game play is going to be super fast. Before that though, I need my lodge dues covered and my desktop upgrade with a bigger hard drive. Then maybe in the new year I can start thinking about a new iPod touch for games.
Anne and I are leaving out of here at about 3pm this afternoon. I'm going to investigate a job lead. I used to work at this place last year for a few days but the other job was offering me more hours and more money. So I'm going to see if they'll take me back and this time, I wont bail on them. It'll be my primary job. They pay more then my current job that has no work for its employees. If my current job has work I can work 2 days. I'll leave the door open for my current job. Anyway, that's all for now.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
If the place I work at calls me in September they
better make it quick because I'm not waiting on anyone. The plan is to take on another part time job, before my ei is about to expire. Its all in the timing. If the job calls me back between now and the end of next month, the new part time job is there to make room for them. If they don't call me back, I'm moving on. This current job is something I can save for when I'm on pension. I wont burn my bridges. If I get a full time offer, I'll take it but right now there is no income other then ei coming in.
Bare with me as I go down memory lane here. The best job I ever had was when I was working at the Army and Navy department store (AN) in the 1980's over 25 years ago. I dropped the ball on that one and it pains me to this day. The pay was min wage. I was transferred from my comfortable job at the Cobogo warehouse (now lofts) behind where the Ultima building is being built. I was at AN from 1982-1989. 90% of my tenure at AN was at the warehouse the rest at the North side store. While working at the store my hours were pushed ahead and I needed a second income. In 1988 I worked a bit for Associated Canadian Travelers (ACT) for about 3 months but it was a short project for the ACT Telerma. That job was on 149th where the tennis courts are at Coronation park, across the street from there. After that I was working for awhile with Xentel (it was called great west entertainment gwe) back then but I had to give it up because the store had me working from 10-5 when gwe was 5-9. AN was across the street from the Law courts building in those days. I had to get from AN to behind the Associated Engineering building on 110th Jasper. I probably could have made some arrangements to arrive a bit later but space was at a premium at gwe and the economy in the late 1980's wasn't that great here, basically first come first serve. One day I had a Doctors appointment in late March of 1989 out when my Doctor was in the Tera losa shopping centre out in the West end. While out in the West end after seeing my Doctor I thought I'd go see the ACT phone room supervisor Gavin and see when their summer project would begin. I didn't have a phone at the time. I should have said something like,"I'll call to follow up." My mistake was to mention where I was working. When I left ACT I thought nothing of it and went to begin my shift at AN. While working upstairs in the stockroom, I was called to see the general manager. "Your other employer called. I'm not having anyone on my watch look for another job when they should be working here. You can pick up your cheque on Friday." Or words to that affect. I was devastated in complete shock. No matter how hard I tried to protest to explain it fell on deaf ears. I even had a few colleagues speak on my behalf. They'd return shaking heads. I worked at gwe after that for awhile and then for a few other places, including Rainbow productions. I even tried Security guard work but there was a snag in that. Life in the 1990's was hard. I had odd jobs here ad there and on welfare once in a while. My problem was (still is) to keep my mouth shut. If I did and kept cool and not give Gavin any indication where to contact me, I probably would have continued on with AN through out into the 1990's. No doubt I would still work Xentel when they moved to 124th street out by Stony Plain Road in the 1990's. I would have even stayed with them up until I met Anne and got married. I would have stayed with gwe and Xentel for just 3 nights a week. Its not like AN was good income. It was steady income. Something badly missing from today. Now I'm on ei and I haven't been on ei since 2000 just before I got married.
The highlight of my day today is heading out of here at 6pm for practice night at the lodge. We get the space for free that first Sunday before lodge. After I get up I'm gathering some phone numbers of places I can send my resume to for the week. Anyway, that's all for now.
Bare with me as I go down memory lane here. The best job I ever had was when I was working at the Army and Navy department store (AN) in the 1980's over 25 years ago. I dropped the ball on that one and it pains me to this day. The pay was min wage. I was transferred from my comfortable job at the Cobogo warehouse (now lofts) behind where the Ultima building is being built. I was at AN from 1982-1989. 90% of my tenure at AN was at the warehouse the rest at the North side store. While working at the store my hours were pushed ahead and I needed a second income. In 1988 I worked a bit for Associated Canadian Travelers (ACT) for about 3 months but it was a short project for the ACT Telerma. That job was on 149th where the tennis courts are at Coronation park, across the street from there. After that I was working for awhile with Xentel (it was called great west entertainment gwe) back then but I had to give it up because the store had me working from 10-5 when gwe was 5-9. AN was across the street from the Law courts building in those days. I had to get from AN to behind the Associated Engineering building on 110th Jasper. I probably could have made some arrangements to arrive a bit later but space was at a premium at gwe and the economy in the late 1980's wasn't that great here, basically first come first serve. One day I had a Doctors appointment in late March of 1989 out when my Doctor was in the Tera losa shopping centre out in the West end. While out in the West end after seeing my Doctor I thought I'd go see the ACT phone room supervisor Gavin and see when their summer project would begin. I didn't have a phone at the time. I should have said something like,"I'll call to follow up." My mistake was to mention where I was working. When I left ACT I thought nothing of it and went to begin my shift at AN. While working upstairs in the stockroom, I was called to see the general manager. "Your other employer called. I'm not having anyone on my watch look for another job when they should be working here. You can pick up your cheque on Friday." Or words to that affect. I was devastated in complete shock. No matter how hard I tried to protest to explain it fell on deaf ears. I even had a few colleagues speak on my behalf. They'd return shaking heads. I worked at gwe after that for awhile and then for a few other places, including Rainbow productions. I even tried Security guard work but there was a snag in that. Life in the 1990's was hard. I had odd jobs here ad there and on welfare once in a while. My problem was (still is) to keep my mouth shut. If I did and kept cool and not give Gavin any indication where to contact me, I probably would have continued on with AN through out into the 1990's. No doubt I would still work Xentel when they moved to 124th street out by Stony Plain Road in the 1990's. I would have even stayed with them up until I met Anne and got married. I would have stayed with gwe and Xentel for just 3 nights a week. Its not like AN was good income. It was steady income. Something badly missing from today. Now I'm on ei and I haven't been on ei since 2000 just before I got married.
The highlight of my day today is heading out of here at 6pm for practice night at the lodge. We get the space for free that first Sunday before lodge. After I get up I'm gathering some phone numbers of places I can send my resume to for the week. Anyway, that's all for now.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
I'm off today but planning for my week ahead
in my ongoing quest for work. I've got a couple leads and I'm applying for some cash jobs, paid by the day. I don't mind pushing a broom 8 hours a day for minimum wage for the next few days or even years.
Speaking about jobs and stuff and due to the downturn in our economy, a lot of tfw's (temporary foreign workers) come April 1st of this year will be told to leave the country. This has been in the works for awhile now. There are of course hardship cases of tfw's that have since arrived here have become disabled or have other situations. They hope to be granted special status to remain here and for those people I feel for. This move will also open up lots of jobs for Canadian citizens. Apparently there are about 16,000 tfw's for example here in Alberta.
All I know is I have 2.11 years to go until I can get full pension. Add that and living here with Anne and a small part time job is all I need. If I can get a couple of days cash jobs in the short term and If I can do that work from home job if its feasible long term until I get something stable, we should be ok. Anyway, that's all for now.
Speaking about jobs and stuff and due to the downturn in our economy, a lot of tfw's (temporary foreign workers) come April 1st of this year will be told to leave the country. This has been in the works for awhile now. There are of course hardship cases of tfw's that have since arrived here have become disabled or have other situations. They hope to be granted special status to remain here and for those people I feel for. This move will also open up lots of jobs for Canadian citizens. Apparently there are about 16,000 tfw's for example here in Alberta.
All I know is I have 2.11 years to go until I can get full pension. Add that and living here with Anne and a small part time job is all I need. If I can get a couple of days cash jobs in the short term and If I can do that work from home job if its feasible long term until I get something stable, we should be ok. Anyway, that's all for now.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
It was a bit of a shocker to
hear over the phone a near last ditch job lead say, they have no openings. Now watch by next week that's going to change. I sent them out a resume anyway and got out of here about 1pm to my bank and got the form I needed. I caught the train to Service Canada and read read my Warhammer 40K book while in line. All that just to drop off the form. I caught a Northgate bus from the library and picked up my form at pcn and home. I called another job lead and I have a interview set up at 10:30 this morning. I'm up at 8am out the door by 9am. Its out in the Inglewood area. Its about an hour and a half long bus ride. All I do is take the #5 at Corona transfer to the #3 about 111th and 124th street and I'm there. The good thing about this job is I know people I used to work with that are there from the old Xentel days. Anyway, that's all for now.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
At least the weather is decent enough as
this is daylight savings weekend. Even though at the moment its +5 it feels like +1. Its because of all the ice and snow on the ground and the wind circulating the cold off it.
I got to thinking, why am I limiting my options to just customer service? I've done light warehouse work before (even though that was 30 years ago) and some janitorial (almost 20 years ago) and security guard work 15 years ago. The way my conditioning is now, I doubt I could do heavy duty warehouse work but light warehouse work like stocking shelves, that kind of thing. Maybe. At Malatest the cleaning crew would be working around us from about 7:30pm-8pm. I could do something like that. The key there is to keep moving. Security guard work though is my best option for anything other then customer service. Holding me back from any security guard work is a course that seems to be mandatory for all guards is called "Tip of Spear." Its $100 online and $200 on site. I need to check this out in case my ei claim doesn't go through, then what?
The plan Monday is to call a job lead too see if they are hiring and how do I get my resume. It's days. Then I've got to gather all of my roe's and head down to Service Canada. Then down to my bank to get a couple of direct bank deposit forms. Then to call the above job lead to confirm they have my resume. Then, timing is critical here, head out to another job lead and wander in at 4:30pm and ask if I can get my job back. Hopefully I can citing the other job at the time has a shortage of work but at the time I left they had a long project with lots of overtime. I just hope that I didn't burn my bridge with these people in October, when last I was there.
As for today, I'm getting some pdf files for ei, reading and working on a track. Anyway, that's all for now.
I got to thinking, why am I limiting my options to just customer service? I've done light warehouse work before (even though that was 30 years ago) and some janitorial (almost 20 years ago) and security guard work 15 years ago. The way my conditioning is now, I doubt I could do heavy duty warehouse work but light warehouse work like stocking shelves, that kind of thing. Maybe. At Malatest the cleaning crew would be working around us from about 7:30pm-8pm. I could do something like that. The key there is to keep moving. Security guard work though is my best option for anything other then customer service. Holding me back from any security guard work is a course that seems to be mandatory for all guards is called "Tip of Spear." Its $100 online and $200 on site. I need to check this out in case my ei claim doesn't go through, then what?
The plan Monday is to call a job lead too see if they are hiring and how do I get my resume. It's days. Then I've got to gather all of my roe's and head down to Service Canada. Then down to my bank to get a couple of direct bank deposit forms. Then to call the above job lead to confirm they have my resume. Then, timing is critical here, head out to another job lead and wander in at 4:30pm and ask if I can get my job back. Hopefully I can citing the other job at the time has a shortage of work but at the time I left they had a long project with lots of overtime. I just hope that I didn't burn my bridge with these people in October, when last I was there.
As for today, I'm getting some pdf files for ei, reading and working on a track. Anyway, that's all for now.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Now that I have more or less
caught my breath and caught up on my sleep, I'm planning what to do next. Moving forward from what happened last week.
At the moment I can't do much until I get that roe and apparently they have 10 days to get it to me. The job lead Monday said give him a couple of days either for him to call me and or for me to follow up. If I get a call today, I'll go in today and start tonight or even Friday, since I have my pcn appointment to get my insulin tomorrow at 3pm and lodge tomorrow night. Or if he calls me tomorrow when I come home I can go in Friday. Hopefully I can work Friday/Saturday.
Weather wise we're holding -10/-16. We're getting warmer. The number after the / is always the wind chill. Sunday we turn the clocks ahead for daylight savings time. Spring is a few weeks away but we're getting there.
As for today, I'm home doing a job search, seeing what's out there and getting some more leads. I also need to get my last 22 weeks on paper and for ei so when I get my roe I can present both to them and a job search. Anyway, that's all for now.
At the moment I can't do much until I get that roe and apparently they have 10 days to get it to me. The job lead Monday said give him a couple of days either for him to call me and or for me to follow up. If I get a call today, I'll go in today and start tonight or even Friday, since I have my pcn appointment to get my insulin tomorrow at 3pm and lodge tomorrow night. Or if he calls me tomorrow when I come home I can go in Friday. Hopefully I can work Friday/Saturday.
Weather wise we're holding -10/-16. We're getting warmer. The number after the / is always the wind chill. Sunday we turn the clocks ahead for daylight savings time. Spring is a few weeks away but we're getting there.
As for today, I'm home doing a job search, seeing what's out there and getting some more leads. I also need to get my last 22 weeks on paper and for ei so when I get my roe I can present both to them and a job search. Anyway, that's all for now.
Friday, September 5, 2014
I might have a busy
day of things today. I'm up and out of here to Northgate to my pcn to drop off the adult benefits letter I received and a hand written letter of appeal from me, then home. I've got a 3:30pm telephone interview tomorrow afternoon for a job. We went through 11 email exchanges yesterday. Hopefully that will translate into something positive.
After Anne left for her job yesterday. I caught the #182 Fraser bus to Clareview and a transfer and got my cfl proline picks for the weekend. Then to the hair stylist near Walmart. The lady there didn't know what short meant even after I gave the hint that I get a hair cut twice a year. I was losing my patience with her and I got up saying something like "Sorry, it's not your fault. I should go to m regular barber, he knows how I want my hair cut," and left. I was pissed off and headed back home but I knew there was another hair stylist place actually across the street from me. I can look out my window and see its sign even now. The gal there knew what I meant and gave me a great haircut. After that I went to Future shop to look around. They have the ebook reader I want: The Kobo Aura. They also have the 4Tb hard drive I'm looking at getting and the hard drive dock as well. The last two components in my pc upgrade. I'll probably get the hard drive dock at Future Shop and the ereader. Eventually. After that I went to Bo Didlies a bar across the street from me and I had a pint of Molson Dry and headed home to watch the Seahawks nfl season opener with Green Bay packers. I worked on my track and followed the game after the first half waiting for Anne to call.
I was never a fan of Joan Rivers but I'd be in remiss if I didn't mention her passing away yesterday at the age of 81. Hollywood lost 2 comedians, Robin Williams and Joan Rivers. Anyway, that's about all for now.
After Anne left for her job yesterday. I caught the #182 Fraser bus to Clareview and a transfer and got my cfl proline picks for the weekend. Then to the hair stylist near Walmart. The lady there didn't know what short meant even after I gave the hint that I get a hair cut twice a year. I was losing my patience with her and I got up saying something like "Sorry, it's not your fault. I should go to m regular barber, he knows how I want my hair cut," and left. I was pissed off and headed back home but I knew there was another hair stylist place actually across the street from me. I can look out my window and see its sign even now. The gal there knew what I meant and gave me a great haircut. After that I went to Future shop to look around. They have the ebook reader I want: The Kobo Aura. They also have the 4Tb hard drive I'm looking at getting and the hard drive dock as well. The last two components in my pc upgrade. I'll probably get the hard drive dock at Future Shop and the ereader. Eventually. After that I went to Bo Didlies a bar across the street from me and I had a pint of Molson Dry and headed home to watch the Seahawks nfl season opener with Green Bay packers. I worked on my track and followed the game after the first half waiting for Anne to call.
I was never a fan of Joan Rivers but I'd be in remiss if I didn't mention her passing away yesterday at the age of 81. Hollywood lost 2 comedians, Robin Williams and Joan Rivers. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Nothing much of anything materialized on the
job front yesterday. I managed to, however get the email contact of a call centre job I wanted to apply to. I got my resume out and managed to email my resume.
I've been so busy lately I forgot a critical Doctors appointment I had yesterday but I was able to rebook for 2:45pm this afternoon. I think he wanted a follow up on the extended benefits package he wrote his PCN on my behalf. it's stalled because I had to edit my health #. If I can get on this program, it will cover my diabetic needs, my vision, dental, the works. It's basically a waste of a Monday afternoon. I'm seeing his PCN July 4th anyway to edit the application.
Anne had went out shopping: Value Village. They have half price days and she got a few goodies but didn't come back until well after my Monday night Raw Anyway, that's all for now.
I've been so busy lately I forgot a critical Doctors appointment I had yesterday but I was able to rebook for 2:45pm this afternoon. I think he wanted a follow up on the extended benefits package he wrote his PCN on my behalf. it's stalled because I had to edit my health #. If I can get on this program, it will cover my diabetic needs, my vision, dental, the works. It's basically a waste of a Monday afternoon. I'm seeing his PCN July 4th anyway to edit the application.
Anne had went out shopping: Value Village. They have half price days and she got a few goodies but didn't come back until well after my Monday night Raw Anyway, that's all for now.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Its been a long week
and I'm relaxing listening to some Chill-Out ambient music.
Not much going on yesterday. I'm worried about my my 1st job with no hours next week and my 2nd job dangling by a thread. The "good news is" I've got a couple of weeks before the end of the month and options. I've got resumes out everyday. The first job that looks have decent is going to be my only job. I'm tired of my hours dropping. I can't depend on that. Basically I was taking stock of things in my life yesterday. My worst fear is that I wont have an income at the end of the month and the "safety net" isn't there I've got 2 more days off as part of this long weekend. I was hoping I'd be able to work Saturday but so much for that. I'm considering a part time security guard job but I have a few places I want to try first .
I went and removed and downloaded the open source The Gimp 2 for 2.8 a photo shop clone. It's pretty good software that I've been using a lot of as I want to redesign my blog banner.
One nice thing about having a couple of days off this time of year I can watch hockey tonight and Monday night Raw. I'm sure things will work out ok. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Not much going on yesterday. I'm worried about my my 1st job with no hours next week and my 2nd job dangling by a thread. The "good news is" I've got a couple of weeks before the end of the month and options. I've got resumes out everyday. The first job that looks have decent is going to be my only job. I'm tired of my hours dropping. I can't depend on that. Basically I was taking stock of things in my life yesterday. My worst fear is that I wont have an income at the end of the month and the "safety net" isn't there I've got 2 more days off as part of this long weekend. I was hoping I'd be able to work Saturday but so much for that. I'm considering a part time security guard job but I have a few places I want to try first .
I went and removed and downloaded the open source The Gimp 2 for 2.8 a photo shop clone. It's pretty good software that I've been using a lot of as I want to redesign my blog banner.
One nice thing about having a couple of days off this time of year I can watch hockey tonight and Monday night Raw. I'm sure things will work out ok. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Its not that I'm
overly busy or anything, there's been not much that's relevant to say. There's not much going on as well around here.
Yesterday (last night) I went for my meeting and one of the guys drove me home and along the way I bought April's bus pass at the nearby 7-11. After I got home I was going over my duties of a lodge master in the constitution and worked on my Cubase and had audio coming out of most tracks then I lost audio. Reason for this is I'm running Cubase and Maschine on minimum system requirements. Through out my Sunday afternoon I did a lot of JFK research and found a real nugget of some information about a peripheral character in the case. Also I learned yesterday that earlier this month James Tague passed away. He was the fellow standing by the triple underpass, when one of the missed shots in the JFK assassination hit the near by curb and a bit of he curb hit his cheek. I put my Cubase project away around 4am shut the laptop down and went to bed.
About the first week of this month, I put my resume in for a call centre job at the Blue Cross catty corner to where to where I'm working now. My resume was languishing in their slush pile I more or less forgot about it. Finally almost a month latter they replied back with a generic email saying my application was not successful. Most likely I'm over qualified and people where I work were saying they were looking for kids mostly to fill summer positions anyway. After the kids go back to school, I'll probably get another generic email asking if I'm interested in applying again. Um, no thanks It's time to move on.
Saturday was "Earth Hour," and my wife was saying how they were working in the dark during that time. They still had their computers on. Most of Edmonton was business as usual but I think City Hall was shut down. I think I was having a nap during Earth hour anyway. Some of the guys were talking about it at the meeting last night. I'm not much into that stuff as it is, so it's business as usual around here for me. Earth hour or no Earth hour.
Today I'm out of here about 3pm. I've got 5 hours for today, possibly tomorrow as well, I don't know yet. For the most part this week I'm back to 5-9. I've got some business at the PCN/Northgate on Thursday and my Lodge night is Thursday after the PCN. I'm working Friday and Saturday is a full day and Sunday is Wrestlemania 30. It looks like this week, my hours will be reduced but next week I should be more or less back to normal. Other then that, like I said above not much going on. I'll be launching Tweets of course in between my next blog post. Anyway, that's all for now.
Yesterday (last night) I went for my meeting and one of the guys drove me home and along the way I bought April's bus pass at the nearby 7-11. After I got home I was going over my duties of a lodge master in the constitution and worked on my Cubase and had audio coming out of most tracks then I lost audio. Reason for this is I'm running Cubase and Maschine on minimum system requirements. Through out my Sunday afternoon I did a lot of JFK research and found a real nugget of some information about a peripheral character in the case. Also I learned yesterday that earlier this month James Tague passed away. He was the fellow standing by the triple underpass, when one of the missed shots in the JFK assassination hit the near by curb and a bit of he curb hit his cheek. I put my Cubase project away around 4am shut the laptop down and went to bed.
About the first week of this month, I put my resume in for a call centre job at the Blue Cross catty corner to where to where I'm working now. My resume was languishing in their slush pile I more or less forgot about it. Finally almost a month latter they replied back with a generic email saying my application was not successful. Most likely I'm over qualified and people where I work were saying they were looking for kids mostly to fill summer positions anyway. After the kids go back to school, I'll probably get another generic email asking if I'm interested in applying again. Um, no thanks It's time to move on.
Saturday was "Earth Hour," and my wife was saying how they were working in the dark during that time. They still had their computers on. Most of Edmonton was business as usual but I think City Hall was shut down. I think I was having a nap during Earth hour anyway. Some of the guys were talking about it at the meeting last night. I'm not much into that stuff as it is, so it's business as usual around here for me. Earth hour or no Earth hour.
Today I'm out of here about 3pm. I've got 5 hours for today, possibly tomorrow as well, I don't know yet. For the most part this week I'm back to 5-9. I've got some business at the PCN/Northgate on Thursday and my Lodge night is Thursday after the PCN. I'm working Friday and Saturday is a full day and Sunday is Wrestlemania 30. It looks like this week, my hours will be reduced but next week I should be more or less back to normal. Other then that, like I said above not much going on. I'll be launching Tweets of course in between my next blog post. Anyway, that's all for now.
Friday, February 28, 2014
We have our first ever Bitcoin ATM
machine here in the city. 1BTC= about $816CND. Bitcoins are stored in "electronic wallets" on smart phones. Bitcoins might make solid currency obsolete but I doubt it will be in my lifetime. Yet look at cell phones. In 1973 when the cell phone was invented it's coming out party was mostly ignored until about 10 years later. Cell phones in 1982 were a bit of a novelty but they gradually became ubiquitous. Bitcoin will no doubt experience growing pains and a cashless society might yet be around the corner. Whether it's Bitcoin or something else the potential is there.
I arrived at Corona station on my afternoon commute in record time yesterday: 4:15pm! So I went into Tim's and ordered a decaf. No roll up prize yet. Having a bit of time on my hands, I read more out of False Gods enjoying my coffee.
I got into the office with 10 minutes to spare and got organized. So the announcement was made that if we don't keep up an individual flow rate of 1 completion/hour we would be sent home! Unbelievable! If it happens a 2nd time then we lose shifts. I got my first survey done 45 minutes into my shift. The next three were scattered after break. I said to myself, "Send me home so I can watch the Oiler game." The trouble is Ottawa and Victoria don't realize that our economy is a lot better off here then it is in those cities. Even during my 13 years at Xentel I had been sent home only once for a low total and the manager apologized to me the next day. I was never sent home again for low totals, even when we had really ghetto campaigns. That was before we moved into the Baker Centre. It's times like this I wish I had my 2nd job to go to. Tuesday Anne and I are heading down to AW and I'm going to use their job services to get another part time job or a better full time job. I'd love to do a security guard job again, like the Pacific Rim Mall (PRM) location I had in 1994. I only had 3 days from 7-2am and I got a ride home every night. At that time it was only $7 hour. The PRM has 2 levels and mostly occupied at that time with karaoke, video and gift shops for the Asian community. It also had a dinning facility and a bank as it's 2 major tenants. Getting to the site from my place in the West end was hard, which is why I quit. I should have kept it. I wouldn't mind a site like that now. I did 1 round every 2 hours. I sat down reading books most of the time and writing. That was my second time with Whacken Hut. I don't think they exist any more. I tried finding them awhile ago but no luck. A job like that would be ok. That's what I thought Inner-tech was in 1999 but no way. HO needs to get a grip, this is not Victoria or Ottawa with a 8% something unemployment rate. Only one phrase comes to mind: Boiler room operation.
This afternoon it's more of the same as last night. I got another 4 hour shift and Saturday is a 7.5 hour shift. I'm looking online and in the paper for something else but it's more of the same as what I'm doing now. Tuesday is when I turn it up a notch. Anyway that's all for now.
I arrived at Corona station on my afternoon commute in record time yesterday: 4:15pm! So I went into Tim's and ordered a decaf. No roll up prize yet. Having a bit of time on my hands, I read more out of False Gods enjoying my coffee.
I got into the office with 10 minutes to spare and got organized. So the announcement was made that if we don't keep up an individual flow rate of 1 completion/hour we would be sent home! Unbelievable! If it happens a 2nd time then we lose shifts. I got my first survey done 45 minutes into my shift. The next three were scattered after break. I said to myself, "Send me home so I can watch the Oiler game." The trouble is Ottawa and Victoria don't realize that our economy is a lot better off here then it is in those cities. Even during my 13 years at Xentel I had been sent home only once for a low total and the manager apologized to me the next day. I was never sent home again for low totals, even when we had really ghetto campaigns. That was before we moved into the Baker Centre. It's times like this I wish I had my 2nd job to go to. Tuesday Anne and I are heading down to AW and I'm going to use their job services to get another part time job or a better full time job. I'd love to do a security guard job again, like the Pacific Rim Mall (PRM) location I had in 1994. I only had 3 days from 7-2am and I got a ride home every night. At that time it was only $7 hour. The PRM has 2 levels and mostly occupied at that time with karaoke, video and gift shops for the Asian community. It also had a dinning facility and a bank as it's 2 major tenants. Getting to the site from my place in the West end was hard, which is why I quit. I should have kept it. I wouldn't mind a site like that now. I did 1 round every 2 hours. I sat down reading books most of the time and writing. That was my second time with Whacken Hut. I don't think they exist any more. I tried finding them awhile ago but no luck. A job like that would be ok. That's what I thought Inner-tech was in 1999 but no way. HO needs to get a grip, this is not Victoria or Ottawa with a 8% something unemployment rate. Only one phrase comes to mind: Boiler room operation.
This afternoon it's more of the same as last night. I got another 4 hour shift and Saturday is a 7.5 hour shift. I'm looking online and in the paper for something else but it's more of the same as what I'm doing now. Tuesday is when I turn it up a notch. Anyway that's all for now.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
So I delivered the bad news to my wife that my hours
are reduced but I have options and resources, that's the good news. I still want to keep this job but get some pick up hours in the meantime until things pick up mid January. Thursday I'm heading down to Alberta Works to get some career counseling, resume` building and a job search. Since most employers want email resume` submissions only, that makes it easy to get my resume` into the hands of potential employers. I can always follow up from there. I've got great qualifications, good resources and a strong labor market going for me. Ok, enough of that.
This from i09:Turn your home into the Death Star with these amazing wall tiles. Turn any surface of your home into the cavernous surface of the Death Star thanks to these custom-made Star Wars tiles. This is really cool.
It looks like phase 1 of the Millwoods/Lewis Farms LRT project "Valley Line" will get under way in 2016 and completed by 2020. The preliminary design is done and the City is just waiting until the New Year to apply to the Feds and the Province for P3 funding. We want more from the Province (over $350 million) and just $150 from the Feds. the City has $800 million for the project. We should have the funding in place by 2015. It's about a 6 year project.
One of the really cool projects out of rocket company Ad Astra is their VASIMR plasma rocket or Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. Basically unlike conventional chemical rockets that uses chemical fuel VASIMR uses plasma. The engine works and has been tested. It's hoped that the engine could be charged using the International Space Station. More of VASIMR can be found here.
One of my favorite shows growing up in the 1960's is a show called The Avengers and I don't mean the Marvel Superhero group. The Avengers became one of the first British series to be aired on prime time U.S. television. It had a budge of about $60,000 per episode. YouTube it! Great stuff. Anyway, that's about all for now.
This from i09:Turn your home into the Death Star with these amazing wall tiles. Turn any surface of your home into the cavernous surface of the Death Star thanks to these custom-made Star Wars tiles. This is really cool.
It looks like phase 1 of the Millwoods/Lewis Farms LRT project "Valley Line" will get under way in 2016 and completed by 2020. The preliminary design is done and the City is just waiting until the New Year to apply to the Feds and the Province for P3 funding. We want more from the Province (over $350 million) and just $150 from the Feds. the City has $800 million for the project. We should have the funding in place by 2015. It's about a 6 year project.
One of the really cool projects out of rocket company Ad Astra is their VASIMR plasma rocket or Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. Basically unlike conventional chemical rockets that uses chemical fuel VASIMR uses plasma. The engine works and has been tested. It's hoped that the engine could be charged using the International Space Station. More of VASIMR can be found here.
One of my favorite shows growing up in the 1960's is a show called The Avengers and I don't mean the Marvel Superhero group. The Avengers became one of the first British series to be aired on prime time U.S. television. It had a budge of about $60,000 per episode. YouTube it! Great stuff. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Not much was accomplished today but I did get a
resume` emailed and confirmed. This option has positions available. Alberta Works is not a option right now getting up at 7am so I can get there by 8. "First come first serve" maybe ok if I want welfare but I don't want that. I also went to where my wife works to follow up on a resume` I sent out a few days ago. Today, I'm not going to do anything. Lets see if any of these places will call me first. Give them a chance to look over my resume` etc.
After a bit of looking (I love YouTube) I found a Windows non third party password bypass hack. I'm going to try it out when I get home tonight, see if it works.
Last night the Oiler's dropped a 5-1 decision at Rexall place that cost them their chance to have a 4 game winning streak come to a end even before it began. The way these guys are plying, they'll be lucky if they win 20 games this season. The Oiler's are 7-16-2 out of 25 games played I think it's time to move some of these high paying dead-weight players down to the minors and call up some of the players that are playing good hockey there, like Omar and Lander and send RNH and Gordon to replace them.
The other NHL new is that Forbes magazine put the value of the Toronto Maple Leafs at $1.150 Billion. The average NHL team now has an enterprise value (equity plus net debt) of $413 million, 46% more than a year ago. By comparison, the lowly Edmonton Oiler's are now worth $400 million! Keep in mind the Forbes numbers are frequently refuted, and essentially are made up out of thin air. They are just impossible to disprove. I take them with a block of salt.
Also this morning I learner that TSN will no longer as of the end of this season broadcast any more NHL games and Rogers will take over. It's a 5.5+Billion dollar deal. Most likely NHL fans will be offered a ton of pay per view. Is this the finale year we'll be seeing Don Cherry and Ron McLane? its the end of a era.
Next Thursday is my big night at the Lodge where I take the "Big chair." I'm up to the task so it should be looking ok. Anyway, that's about all for now.
After a bit of looking (I love YouTube) I found a Windows non third party password bypass hack. I'm going to try it out when I get home tonight, see if it works.
Last night the Oiler's dropped a 5-1 decision at Rexall place that cost them their chance to have a 4 game winning streak come to a end even before it began. The way these guys are plying, they'll be lucky if they win 20 games this season. The Oiler's are 7-16-2 out of 25 games played I think it's time to move some of these high paying dead-weight players down to the minors and call up some of the players that are playing good hockey there, like Omar and Lander and send RNH and Gordon to replace them.
The other NHL new is that Forbes magazine put the value of the Toronto Maple Leafs at $1.150 Billion. The average NHL team now has an enterprise value (equity plus net debt) of $413 million, 46% more than a year ago. By comparison, the lowly Edmonton Oiler's are now worth $400 million! Keep in mind the Forbes numbers are frequently refuted, and essentially are made up out of thin air. They are just impossible to disprove. I take them with a block of salt.
Also this morning I learner that TSN will no longer as of the end of this season broadcast any more NHL games and Rogers will take over. It's a 5.5+Billion dollar deal. Most likely NHL fans will be offered a ton of pay per view. Is this the finale year we'll be seeing Don Cherry and Ron McLane? its the end of a era.
Next Thursday is my big night at the Lodge where I take the "Big chair." I'm up to the task so it should be looking ok. Anyway, that's about all for now.
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