So far there is no date on the upcoming

Alberta PC leadership convention. There are a few contenders such as Doug Horner (Spruce Grove) Thomas Lukaszuk (Edmonton-Castle Downs) Lukaszuk would be my first choice. Before the PC party calls for a leadership convention they want to make sure they have enough candidates.

If someone were to come up to me and ask "Jim, why do you blog?" I blog to leave a record of my life when I'm gone. Blogger might not last 10 years after I'm gone but as long as people are using it then it served it's purpose. I'm hoping Google will continue to use Blogger 10-50 years from now or even later. Sure my blog might be in the slush pile but at least it's somewhere. In a sense, my blog is my legacy. With pictures and links and my rants and raves, this blog is like a a snapshot of my life and my community (or my impression) in which I lived long after my death and what my life in my community was all about. That's why I blog and then this entry gets copied and pasted to my diary from here. My diary is a bit more private then the blog of course.

I'm a little tired and feel a need for a nap for an hour. I had a little nap there and feel a bit better. Monday is the last of my 5 hour shift's as I'm back to my 4 hours. It gives me 27.5 hours minimum during the week. Tonight I'm in for my 5-9 and all day Saturday from 10-6 and my lodge get together Sunday night and that's the weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.

An hour later and

I'm home. Exactly an hour ago Anne and I were waiting for the bus to Clareview station. I got to BP's and there must have been about 2 groups of people there and a couple of single guys. None of the usual crew were present. I wanted for about half an hour and when it looked like nobody would show, that's when I resigned myself to the realization that it aint going to happen. If it ever will. One last bit of irony here, I was the last GWE/Xentel/iMark Edmonton branch employee of the year. Weird huh? Anyway, enough of that. 

Ok, I'm home for the weekend. Monday I'm going to try for my RBC online banking and get that set up to see if I've got my severance package DBD'd (Direct Bank Deposit). Tuesday I'm heading back to my RBC bank to get another DBD form (for my CPP) to Canada Place/Service Canada and set up my CPP and get that activated. I'll most likely get my first CPP cheque in by the end of January. I can't say when my severance pay ends because I signed a disclosure form. Then on Thursday, it's off to Alberta Works and get that set up before the end of the year. So I have a few things to do over the next couple of days.

As for tomorrow, Anne and I are settling into watch the Christmas Doctor Who special on Space and we'll have our breakfast/brunch and relax.  

I heard on Anne's alarm radio something about the Stanley Cup being rented out to another league? I'd like to see this maybe in the fall. That would be cool. I'd like to see it go to the Canadian hockey league in years where the NHL is on strike every couple of years. The CHL has 60 teams between Canada and the USA. All of the American teams are in the WHL but still, get some national networks involved a couple of sponsorships and it could feasibly happen. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Annes at work, suppers cooking in the oven

after today I got 2 more days off

I went and took a look at the previous Blogger Blog posts going back to 2005 about 600 blog posts. More or less. So this diary then is my legacy. Even if Google/Blogger goes under the posts should still be there for years to come.

I'm still evlauating FL Studio/ Cubase. Cubase is really expensive and it doesn't work very well with my. I like Cubase because of the vari audio and the many features it has. Anyway, more on this later.

I was sure glad when 9pm rolled aound last night

I got out of the office real fast and over to catch the #5. I had a decent check that I cashed including the 36 hours for a full week. So I've got $140 for me the rest for Anne.

Today, I'm in for 4 hours and another 36 on for the week. The rents paid up everything is fine. At work I'm going to try and call L&M and ask them if they have Sib first notation 6. If they do, then great. I'll go to my Scotia bank Tuesday on my way to the office and drop $110 into my account and service charges of course and Next Saturday after work head over to L&M and pick it up. After work though today, I'm running over to Audrey's and I want to pick up a book and head home, have a bite to eat and have a nap before the BC/Edmonton game.

Tonight, I'm relaxing laying down another track for my demo song "Tammy Tweets." I got the organ verse for this thing and a verse baseling. I'm a long way away from laying down a vocal track.

Over the years in the back of my mind I've been thinking what kind of a personal pressence or mark that I can leave behind of my record here? A kind of legacy. Then it hit me. Google earth. Right now my Google earth (thanks to my Linux install has kind of suspended GE for me, which is another thing I want to do for next weekend. I did want to do this today but I haven't set anything up yet for V at work. So the initial idea is to to leave a photo of me take of around here within the next week or so with a sign, something like: "Hi. I'm Jim Shannon. "I have a Blogger blog at: My music is here on YouTube." Type thing. It's my mark in cyberspace. Chances are that Google will be around for a long time, perhaps at least 25-100 years long after my passing.

Finaly, I finnished Vector Prime last night. Great book. Anyway, I got to get ready for work. Sorry for the sloppy editing here. I'll get this done after the game tonight. Anyway, that's about all for now.