Finally, April is over with as

it was mentioned on local news that our local weather hasn't been this cold since the early 1980's. The first time in local weather history that we did not on this day reach above 0..ever!

Tonight on Coast the topic is a bit lame: "Harnessing Your Dreams." Not really something I'm interested in so it looks like George is out to promote another book.So for the next several days they have some soft topics.

It's with a sense of relief after reading my Lodge newsletter that our Lodge secretary (at my request) placed a announcement for a special meeting the first weekend in June. I'm grateful for that. If I have my health and when I'm say 73, I can look back at this post with a sense of nostalgia.

My job woes continue to give me grief. I almost got pulled off a project and I'm not out of the woods yet. I asked the boss if this means I'm fired and he said no. It's not that I'm not without options and I have some savings for a rainy day and I can always go on unemployment insurance for like 8 months and continue my education (It might save me from a job search) as I'd like to take a accounting course or something like that. Although, I'd like to be working for as long as I can I'd like to continue working, that's what I'd like to do but I have another 4 years and 4 months until I qualify for full pension, wu-who! Like that's something to look forward to.

On local news this evening they had a story on Space tourism and they said that for a $200,000 deposit, you can book a spot in about 3 years. Would I go into space? What with 2 metal rods in my spine? Not a chance. I'd get rejected before the ink was signed. Anyway, that's all for now.

My wife

comes barging in claiming a change of plans, great now what?

So she says she spent 40 minutes in a broken down humid bus and she's a bit stressed out. I was mad and upset but followed her to the Swiss Chalet just down over here and felt a little better when we finally got inside. I wasn't that hungry and all I had was a side of fries and a diet cola. We talked about the potential of my Scene movie card and how many points we could earn towards free movies when we use towards big ticket items like rent and stuff. We get 4 free movies (just for sighing up) which I haven't tried yet so Anne want's to use them today while I'm watching Monday night Raw tonight. On our way out of Swiss, I stopped in for a coffee at the Tim Horton's express and a couple of double chocolate donuts.

Anne had to take off again on another errand and I had a bit of a nap and got woken up around 8pm when she came in. My ipad was ringing and it was Anne's sister from Winnipeg wanting Anne to use Facetime, that comes with the ipad. She got a kick out of that and that was a first.

Now Anne and I had been trying to watch the 2nd episode of Season 7 of "Doctor Who" and it didn't disappoint. About an hour after the show and as I began to open my Blog I checked i09 one of my go to source for all things SF etc. Then I cam across this *fascinating story about how this weekends Saturday nights World Con broadcast got shut down just as SF author Neil Gaiman received an award for his Doctor Who script "The Doctor's Wife" got pulled for copyright *infringement. The broadcast got pulled essentially because the service gave priority over it's paid subscribers then it's non paid subscribers. Too funny. There's more to it then that of course and you can read about it here.

Just a note here but "Doctor Who" is probably the best thing going on in Science Fiction TV at the moment. The characters are great, the writing is top caliber and the FX is about the best anywhere. I don't know if in my lifetime, I'll ever see a new Star Trek TV series but in the meantime, Doctor Who suits me just fine.
 
About noon I'm off down to Canada Place to Service Canada to see if there I can fill out my CPP forms and at the same time, to see if I can get a new Sin card or at least get the paper work together for it. There's a little Chinese kitchen there as well and I'm either going there to get some lunch or to City Centre food court. Anyway, that's about all for now

The other day some of my colleagues

were asking me if I have any photos of me from say my early 20's? The earliest picture I have taken of me was in 1987 and that was in a photo booth. I was 35. Of course I have pictures taken of me in grade school and high school but nothing as a young adult. I wish I had some of every year since I could take pictures but I wasn't interested in photography that much. I think Ellen took a picture of me when I was over at her mothers place sleeping overnight and I was under the covers sleeping. That would have been 1979. Also, I recall while working with GWE (Pre-Xentel days.) a group of us were holding this banner for some sponsor and I was in it, 1989. I also have a photo taken of me 1997 in a Heart and Stroke function. I wish I had a camera back then but chances are it would have found its way into a pawn shop pretty darn quick. Since I had got the digital camera in 2005 of course, there are lots of photos and from the Lodge as in group photos.

I took my blood sugar reading about 40 minutes ago and I was sitting at 16.8! Yikes. I think it had something to do with the sugars in the sauerkraut in the Rubin sandwich Anne made for me but if anything sauerkraut actual controls blood sugar. 

I had a nap earlier about 6:30pm and napped for about an hour and I'm ready for bed. Not a lot going on and I don;t have the energy to get into my Cubase/Wav files. Right now, I could just go to bed. Anyway, that's about all I have for now. .

At 4am I knew I was going to be in for

trouble, sleep wise and sure enough I couldn't sleep and when 4:30am rolled around, well at least I'd get 5 hours. I was lucky if I got that and I could use another 6 hours. I'm exhausted at the moment but I got an 8 hour day ahead of me.


I'm thinking maybe I should pick up one of those "5 hour energy" drinks but I heard somewhere they're not that good for diabetics. But after reading a few comments on the forums, nobody is saying anything bad about them. Maybe one sip is all I need but if they cost around $10/per bottle, no. I can see $5 yes.


We're finally getting a little bit of Sun out there after a weekend of overcast (Thursday-Monday)


Whats up with the LA Kings? A last place seeded team in the playoffs taking out the Vancouver CanucksPresidents trophy 1st over all in the league get taken out by the bottom dwellers? They go into Saint Louis and I figure well that was a one hit wonder with Vancouver. Now they're up 2 games to 0 in St. Louis's own building. The way the Kings are going (They've never won a Stanley Cup) could ended up with a sweep with the 2nd seeded team. I think St. Louis though will bounce back in game #3 Wednesday. If though the Kings keep going like they're on 5 hour energy and win all for games and sweep St. Louis in 4, they might go to the finale. It could be LA/Washington. Like I said elsewhere the only time that a Canadian team is ever going to win the Cup will be if there are an even number of teams in the NHL. Say 12 Canadian 12 American teams and to make it truly a National hockey league "league" have the American teams have a cap "like" in the CFL 80% domestic players and 20% Import players. Like that'll ever happen. 


Ok time to start packing up my things and getting ready for the day. It's going to be a long one. I'm going to post Twitter tweets through out the day.  


If you see some strange text, it's only because my laptop mouse wasn't frozen. Anyway, that's all I have for now.. 

This was yesterday's post going out late...

Its not to bad looking out there. I don’t have a lot on my plate for the rest of the day except reading and watching some hockey.

In an upcoming JFK book by author William Lester, there’s been a lot of buzz lately about some top secret memos how JFK asked the CIA for information on UFO’s. It’s not so much that JFK asked for information but its the timing of his request: 10 days before he was assassinated on his way to give a luncheon speech in Dallas.

Prior to JFK‘s assasination JFK wanted to see the UFO files because at the time there had been a lot of UFO sightings in the Soviet Union and JFK wanted to have the information to say to Khrushchev something like “these UFO’s are not American technology, we are not trying to be provocative etc.”

Its no secret to JFK researchers that Kennedy had an interest in UFO’s. One of Kennedy’s biggest critics was the CIA. Kennedy asking to see top secret information on UFO’s shortly after botching the Bay of Pigs is kind of like tossing oil onto the fire JFK had lit earlier. Imagine the CIA at the time looking at the memo. “Now he wants to see the UFO files! Of all the nerve.” JFK didn’t like the CIA either as he wanted to destroy the agency and he might have succeeded if the assasination hadn’t happened. I‘m not suggesting the CIA killed Kennedy, far from it. But if Kennedy hadn’t sent that memo, I wonder if JFK would have been assassinated at all! The memo sent to Lester by the CIA, released under the FOIA had been tested for age of paper font and ink, the whole thing. The memos are real and not faked. More on this later tonight on Coast to Coast. I‘m looking forward to this one.