Yesterday I went in for

just 3 hours to do some reminder calls and envelope stuffing. Hardly worth going in for but money is money right?  

Rare is it that I find myself on a 4:30pm train heading to Clareview station but that was the case yesterday afternoon. Anne was surprised to see me come through the door so early. Yes my shifts for this week are intact, I told her. We gathered our id and voting cards and headed to Sifton school to cast our ballot. The air was mild for a mid/late October afternoon. I think we got up to +16 and that's warm for this time of year. Watching Monday night Raw wasn't on my list of priorities last night, what with the election on. Most people here in Canada were either watching the Royal's/Blue Jays baseball game or election returns. When I watched the early returns, it showed the Liberals ahead in Atlantic Canada 33 seats. Everyone else was 0. Anne was on Skype with her sister in Atlantic Canada as I was watching a bit of wrestling and the returns. Anne went to Giant Tiger while I was watching the election results. There was a break while the program I was watching were waiting for all the poling stations to close up to Alberta. I dozed off on the couch having a bit of a nap and Anne came through the door which woke me. The results started pouring in. When it was all over it was a Liberal majority with 185 seats, Conservatives 101 seats and the NDP with 41, Block 10, Green 1. All leaders except Block won their seats. There are some rumblings that Stephen Harper might step down as party leader and just run as a MP. Trudeau "assumes the gavel" of the House of Commons in the new year.

As for today its a beautiful clear day as we should get to another +14 or +16, temperature wise. My commute should be trouble free under clear skies and if I leave out of here by noon I should get to work by about 1:15, time to get a update on the project I'm currently doing get a coffee and settle in for a full day. Anyway, that's about all for now.

My plan this afternoon before I head out for work

was to call my Doctor to confirm my appointment for May 7th, hence I'm off that day anyway. I got a call just now from my Doctors reception letting me know the appointment was for today. uh-oh. I thought I said May 7th and I forgot to take the time and date down but its confirmed now for May 7th, next week.

I'm going to get my bath and have a bit to eat pack my things for my commute this afternoon and head over to the construction site across the street to ask whats being built there. I don't know if they'll tell me. Doesn't hurt to ask. Then I hope I got a full 5.5 hours tonight. I put my schedule in for May except for having Thursday off for Lodge and the 3rd Saturday off to go to Commercial Lodge. Then its home to catch what I can from wrestling and get the playoff highlights.

Other then that not much going on for me this week. With the earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, the volcano eruption in Chile, the Alberta election race underway, interesting times. Anyway that's all from me.

This morning I've got to go to the

employment agency (ea) to get my resume tweaked and see what they can do for me, check my web mail do a job search, head over to my pc by way of the #16 bus and see the front desk and ask for the medical forms again, then upstairs to AW get in line and see what I can get accomplished with all my t4's and a job search. I'll ask if I can see somebody today or this week. I can't do anything further with ei until I get my roe anyway. After that I'm calling a place I used to work at to se if they have started yet and if they need anyone. I've got another place like that and an ad job.

I think we got a lot of things accomplished at the lodge last night. I don't need to worry too much at the moment as I'm not 2 years in arrears. One of the guys there is in the same boat as I am but at least he has a job.

The Hyperloop guy is back. Elon Musk’s radical plan to let people travel in 760 mph tubes will be tested in California next year. The man behind Tesla Motors, SpaceX and Paypal joint-founder. Is this another pipe dream or can Musk pull this off. LA to San Fransisco in 30 minutes is almost as fast as a Concorde but faster then a Boeing 737. Its about 613 Km between LA and San Fransisco. Or about the distance from Calgary to Fort MacMurray. Here's a link to the story. Anyway that's all for now. 

So far my

9 hour days are holding out ok but its early yet. Anything can happen and I'm prepared for anything. If these hours hold out ok by mid next month I should have enough for my new computer. There were only 3 of us on the project at 10pm last night. It was nice to get out of there and enjoy the walk to Corona in the nice mild air and to get on the train and on my way home despite the wait at Corona. At Rexall all the Oiler fans spent a few extra minutes boarding the train and they seemed pretty happy. The Oiler's must have won. However the downside was I  missed that bus and I ended up walking home from Clareview station. The weather was nice and mild and I didn't mind too much. It was nice to be surounded by all that copper and blue. I checked my iPad when I got home and the Oiler's finally won the first attempt out of 5 games as the finale score was 3-2 for us.

I just took this of the window installers and it looks like they are doing 2 suites at a time as they want to be done this side by first snow and do the rest next Spring. I just put  my earplugs in and sleep from there and it doesn't bother me.

They're doing lots of pounding and hammering below. Anne tells me the windows look really nice and lock without having to put a stick in the frame. The locking mechanism is much better.

I got home last night to answer some email and watch what was left over of Monday night Raw. Better show this week then last week. "Hell in a cell" pay per view is this Sunday but I'll be at work.

One of the new guys also an Oiler fan was showing me that he can get live TV on his smart phone. We tried to get some of the game on his phone but apparently his trial offer expired. Our cable bill is about $120/month and I just wonder how much his would cost with data on his phone but we have a lot of specialty channels. He said his plan is $75/month. Having TV on a cell phone would be great to watch the games on my break or if they are in progress on my way home but I just can't justify another $130/month. That'd be great to watch WWE pay per views on a cell phone on my breaks at work. It would make sense if I was working full time or when I'm on pension in a few years but not with this job.  

I must have got 6.5 hours of sleep overnight and i don't feel too bad. Lets see how I am Saturday morning when I have to get up and go to lodge. Anyway, another 1-10 shift today so that's about all for now.

We are in the middle of another heat wave

this week, with +29, +30's all over the place and it brings out the skeeters. 

I was in good spirits about 1:30pm heading towards Clareview station. I got to my Doctors office about 2pm but apparently my appointment was for 3:30pm. Uh-oh. It was very warm about +30 so I went to my barber only his shop was closed. No note or anything. Ok. I went over to my part time job's office and put in my availability. I've got Saturday 3-6, Sunday off because of the birthday outing Anne has planned for me then I'm back at it Monday for 4 hours. Normally it's supposed to be Saturday and Sunday but I've got  Monday's as I'm trying to save up for the computer. Once I've got that, I'll go back to just Saturdays and Sundays. After that I went over to Audrey's and picked up my Warhammer 40K "Hunter's moon" cd, since I didn't get the haircut. Then to the Doctor's office building and I got a little ice cream treat. I had about a 40 minute wait. The main attraction for my appointment was to check my blood pressure and it was 132/70 something much to the Doctors surprise. I took the train home and had a bit of supper and watched a great Monday night Raw.

While I never was a fan of Robbin Williams and only remember him vaguely in Mork and Mindy, I was aware of some of his work. He was the same age as me. We lost 2 Hollywood stars this summer: James Garner and Robbin Williams.  

That was my day off yesterday. I've got a 10 hour day tomorrow but only 5.5 hours is work. I get the bus about 12:30pm and I have about a half hour wait from 1-1:30pm and about a 40 minute bus ride and a half hour wait on the job site. It's just that the job is across town for me. It's a long day. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Monday just before noon and I have a coffee here

I'm working on before I get ready, and head out the door for another 4 hour shift.

This week I'm at Lodge Thursday and I'm under some pressure. There's also a budget meeting with the 3 main officers before that. It's going to make for a interesting night. That's the main event for me for this week.  

After doing a bit of research it looks like I'm going to buy the Yamaha Mx49 it acts as a co processor for my old laptop and has a audio interface built in. The guitar tones are VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) not DSP (Digital Signal Processing). Nothing wrong with DSP but VCM is better. Also, with the Mx49 I don't need to take out an account. I can pay for it earning some Scotia scene points. It's going to be a nice Christmas present for me. In December I can work on paying my Lodge dues and getting my wife something for Christmas. The only difference between the MX61 and the MX49 is the number of keys and the price. The 49 fits nicely into my budget. I'll upgrade the PC in the Spring.

It's a nice looking sunny day out there and according to my iTouch, its -7 and most likely a wind chill in the air for my afternoon commute. After work I'm visiting Audrey's books to place a order and then home as it's Monday night Raw for the 10pm show. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Not much was acomplished this weekend

I watched the Esks defeat the Lions and Chicago defeating the Bruins for a game #5. Chicago (I hope) wins tonight so we can end this disastrous season. 

I didn't make it to the BBQ because I'm as far as the opposite end of the street (the other end of the city) I was more or less stranded and the LRT wasn't running so there was no way to ask for a on the way pick up from at Southgate from one of my colleagues. I did leave a message and will try to place a call tonight before wrestling and the hockey game.

Some residents in Calgary have been able to get back into their homes yesterday as they clean up the downtown core. Now it's Medicine Hat's turn. It's not looking good for them.

This afternoon, I'm running over to my bank to see why I got a NSF cheque against me from a pre authorized payment account that was a stop payment 3 days ago. I only found this out Friday night. Tuesday nothing much is going on. Wednesday I'm either at my ISP store to find out how my account was compromised. Now if it was compromised by someone other then myself, I'm not paying it but if I did something wrong, I'll ask what can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again and pay the bill Anyway, that's what my week looks like, that's all for now.
 

I'm heading out of here

in about half an hour enjoying my morning coffee.

Weather wise, its about -11* but it's the wind chill and it's very slippery out there. Looking outside from my window, you wouldn't think the first day of Spring is on Wednesday!

The photo I just Tweeted may be a bit overkill but I'm not taking any chances until my pathway is cleared this morning and of course there will be the usual ETS LRT delay in the tunnel. But once I'm under way, I should be good to go.

On a news segment yesterday Doctor Oz is promoting  an anti smoking in the work place campaign titled "non smokers need not apply." His rational is that smokers cost a company time and money. I can see what he's getting at not that I agree with it but it makes sense. I recall the last job I had in the Baker Centre my colleagues were more concerned with who's turn it was for a smoke break then the job. Consider that for every 5 minute smoke break once an hour, is 40 minutes of lost time in a 8 hour day. In my that office 80% of my colleagues were smokers,when you add it up that's a lot of lost time and money but there's more to it then that.   

Otherwise, it's a typical Monday morning. Anyway, that's all for now.

I had a great Monday off,

I  managed to get The Mouth, The Finger, Razor and Session strings and I got Reaktor configured sound wise in my laptop. I need to go “under the hood” as it were and connect the inputs and outputs. Simple enough to do. The only instrument I haven’t been able to get yet out of K8 has been “Retro Synths 2. It might be under the Legacy file in Reaktor.”

I’m in bed in about 15 minutes Anne and I are going to spend some quality time and I’ll listen to a bit of Coast and pass out. The topic tonight is Crypto zoology (Bigfoot) and the “Fiscal cliff,” boring bed sounds like a better plan.

On my way into work I’m over to Rexall to get a $10 iTunes gif card as I want to buy the “Pages” app. I’m moving my diary away from my computer and composing everything on my iPad and after I get a month done, I’m uploading it to my iCloud account.

Other then that, not much is going on. I have this week and next week to put my vacation pay release request in, so I’ll have a cheque when I get back and that first week in January to pay my website and Lodge dues and take care of the K8 LM and bring home Machine. Can’t wait. Reaktor and Machine, is going to be awesome. Anyway that’s all for now.

Too get temperatures

like what we're having at this hour this time of year here in Edmonton, It's +10 is significant! Tomorrow we could get +4 but after that it drops. By mid month we could be back in the deep freeze.

I've been doing some genealogy research on my family tree on my father's side. Somehow after 1940 my fathers sister got married in 1942 but I don't know if that was here in Canada or in California. Apparently they lived on the island of Catalina in 1941. My father would have been 19 and his sister 22. The only thing I can think of that what motivated my father and his sister to come to Canada was his older and only sister, got married in 1942. I know who and why but not the when and where, if that makes sense.

I'm in hunker down mode this weekend even though it's Monday it's still my weekend. 

I'm also learning my SW parts as well for next year when I take the SW chair. 

Speaking of the above LM has a recording workshop happening this month and wouldn't you know it, it's on the same night as our Lodge practice. I would have loved to have gone to this thing.  

Tonight is another Monday night Raw and Anne is doing laundry. So I'm going to be in for a decent night. 

Not much in the way of book buying this month although I'm interested in Repo Men by Eric Garcia and Elizabeth Bear's Shadow unit series are out in paperback. I might see if I can special order 1 of them, try it out. Other then that, anyway, that's about all I have for now.

We’ve got some very

nice mid October weather out there. It’s about 12:40am and my window is open. Humidity is at 67%, which is why its so mild out there.

I’ve had a great Sunday. I got up about 11am and watched some of the Cowboys/Ravens NFL game. Ravens won but it would have been a Proline tie.

By accident, while being redirected by some hiccup in the Connect 2 Edmonton forum, I stumbled upon another thread about that sometime in the wee hours By accident, while being redirected by some hiccup in the Connect 2 Edmonton forum, I stumbled upon another thread about that sometime in the wee hours of Friday morning, Sandy Lane strip mall was burnt down. Cause of the fire has yet to be determined. Sandy lane was a small strip mall about 2 blocks from where I lived in the 1980‘s 1990‘s. It was built sometime around the 1960‘s. I have fond memories of gaming at Adventure gaming supplies in the early 1990's. It was at that strip mall I remember calling Helga about Ellen when we tried to go and pick her up at Richard's place that Friday April 25th 1980. The pay phone (long since gone) was on the same property in front of the access road where the ETS bus stop is. Another piece of my past up in smoke.


Most of the day I’ve been on my laptop fooling around with my new program. I’ve tried Studio drummer, Guitar Rig 5 and the Scarbee Bass program.

It was a historic occasion yesterday to see the amazing freefall jump by Felix Baumgartner stepped into the void nearly 128,000 feet (39,000 meters) above southeastern New Mexico Sunday at just after 12 p.m. MT. What an amazing feet.

This afternoon I’m out the door by noon and I’ve got to head over to the RBC do some banking there and then take the train down to Corona and do some banking at Scotia then if the hold on my funds is ok, I run down to LM make a payment and then I’ll take the #2 and maybe get a bite to eat at city Centre mall for some Chinese or something. Anyway, that’s about all for now. 

Despite having been woken up to

an annoying stereo behind our bedroom wall where our bass board of our bed is at 9:30 this morning, I had a good day.

We had a real change in the weather as well as earlier this afternoon it was about +20 until the wind picked up.

Also, I found out how to remove photos/video off of my iPad, which gave me an extra 3 Gb of space on my iPad.

After the wind storm above Anne went to get us some Pizza from her staff discount and it was really nice. 

I've got a nice bag of "Crispers" chips here for Monday night Raw, which will get underway in about half an hour. That's one of the reasons why I don't like working Monday nights is because Raw now is a 3 hour show and I don't want to get the encore edition at 10pm and be up until 1am watching wrestling all night. 

My blood sugar reading is way to high right now sitting at 13.4! Too be fair though, I had just eaten a small pizza and a small piece of cake

This is the last week of standard time as ext weekend we go back to daylight savings. Anyway that's about all I have for now. 

Not much going on today

I was checking out this documentary on The Money pit on oak island. Fascinating subject but when I went to my topics page, I discovered I have 2 topic pages and the video's I put in there somehow vanished. I probably for got to save them but I'll try again and fix them. But here's the 5 part YouTube documentary on the money pit. This is part 1 

Later this afternoon the Esks are in Toronto playing the Argo's. Should be a good game but on a Monday?  As far as I know this is the only game in the CFL schedule that is being played on a Monday night, why?

Over this last weekend the Fringe festival wrapped up and Sunday at Giovanni park the Italian cultural club had an East meets West festival where you could be "Italian for a day." Looks like they had a lot of fun. Anne and I were talking about taking a bus out there to the Italian bakery I'd like to go there because it's one of the few places that I know of that has off track horse race betting here in Edmonton.

With so many festivals going on the City crams them all into a 2 month time frame to take advantage of the kids out of school. They go back after the Labor Day weekend, then I can get my ETS LRT schedule back that takes a break from July 1st to the end of the Labor Day weekend. But there's enough festivals out there to go from May 1st to the Labor Day weekend.

I'm making slow progress in my book that I'm reading but I read a bit each day. I'll probably have about 4 books read by the end of the year when usually I'll have between 8-10. It's not a race or anything.

Other then the CFL game this evening, I'm watching Monday night Raw wrapping up a few things and bed. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Victoria Day Monday

I love this time of year. A day off with pay and a full week ahead. This check wont be very big but next week‘s will. Weather wise out there, it’s +20 out there.

This summer I‘m going to get on the phone and call up Telus and find out how I can turn iPad into a hot spot. My iPad is great for music and games and internet and with the NBA/soccer crowd the Oiler games this next season will be a low priority. The other thing is when 2 of my colleagues sit on the other side of my cubicle to watch TV they‘re pretty loud and I rarely make sales when those two are on the other side of me. During the afternoon, fine or if there‘s no hockey. So this summer I‘m going to get the iTouch 8Gb just to add as a hot spot device so I can put it in my pocket to get the scores. When it‘s 5pm for the evening shift and there‘s hockey, I‘m moving to a more quieter part of the floor.

If you‘ve been watching Canadian National news, you might have seen the massive amounts of student protesting university tuition fees. Most people outside of Quebec here in Canada are aware that Quebec has the lowest university tuition fees in the country. These student protesters are an embarrassment to the rest of the country. Quebec has introduced new Laws that if students don’t inform the Police they are holding a protest then Police have the right to make arrests. Good. I hope they get criminal records for life and let them try and get a job with a criminal record, bunch of scumbags are what they are. They were even talking at one point how Quebec university students deserve free education, only because its through Alberta transfer payments that pays for what they have now.

This morning our Telus service was down for about half an hour including my 3G. Including my iPad tablet flex plan. It was a service wide shut down obviously.

One of the hottest products out on the market is the electric car. Early automobiles were electric as early as the late 1800‘s. But the development of the internal combustion engine in the 1920‘s made the electric car obsolete. Today the electric car such as the 2 passenger Reva and hybrid vehicles are gaining in popularity but the initial costs of these vehicles are so expensive not everyone can afford them. They still need to be charged up and that‘s going to cost as well. Abut half of our electricity comes from coal and coal is dirtier then Canada‘s so called “dirty oil.” There was a story in our local news how this character plugged his electric car into the jack at his apartment building and wondered why on his electric bill was up by 75%. I‘d rather take the LRT to work over an electric car any day. Anyway, time to watch some hockey.

The plan was to head out of here

about 7:45am this morning and head over there to Alberta Works in Northgate Mall. Last week when Anne called, they said they’d send us a package in the mail about adult health benefits, which we got today but other things kind of got in the way. We’ll go next Monday morning.

So I have a night off, before I have a full week in front of me. I’m working Tuesday for a full 8 hours, same with Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday is 7.5 hours and my favorite day of the week, is Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm, which is home time and 2 days off.

Most likely Keith will be able to set something up with me this week for my laptop but I‘m only using my laptop for music production. My web surfing, blogging and other activities will be done on my desktop. Eventually this year, I want to get a new desktop and a more powerful laptop, anyway that's all for now

I had a nice day off today just lounging around. Even wrestling was good this evening. Maybe they'll have the big screen TV up in the office when I go in for tomorrow and I hope they have it in the main floor so everyone can see it. After 2 days off, I'm happy to go back to work tomorrow and get on with my week. I'm going to pop into Tim's and get my usual cup of coffee and find my usual seat and settle in for the afternoon. I've got nothing pressing to do for the short term or even long term.

By this time last Monday Sparky was dead. Anne mentioned that he was moving under the blanket that often drapes over the couch onto the floor. The last image he saw of us was Anne about 6pm last Monday night and I'm heart broken all over again. I know it's not so but lately Anne's been upset about all the cat litter she has to clean and I'm wondering did she talk with the Doctor to invent some excuse to have Sparky put down for her own ends? Did the Doctor have a slow day and invent this "heart condition" Sparky allegedly have? She was the one that harped on Pledges dying. I might have been in denial until I saw the blood spot on the rug. Anne thinks it was some form of cat Leukemia. Too me Sparky looked like a healthy cat, except he wasn't eating. He would eat a little bit here and there and I did see him drink water Sunday night. I don't think any of our cats are going to get ill and die anytime soon, not that I'd wish for that. Now that I think about it, I should have sent Anne out first and let Sparky's last image be of me. 

After I get Cubase 6 at the end of the month, I'm saving up for a new desktop PC. I'm looking at a HP Pavilion; it has 8 Ram, a T2 hard drive and 6 core processor, all for under a grand. Anne and I will share the laptop. I'm going to start saving for it after I get HAlion 4 in March and save up for the desktop beginning first week in April. It's going to take me 3  months to save up for it, so I figure I'll have it around the end of June. Well that's the plan. Anyway that's all for now. 

This post is kind of an amendment to

yesterdays post on memories.

For some reason I've been thinking a lot about Dave lately and wondered what became of him. I checked the golf club and they showed a group photo of the employees, chefs, pros etc. They even had contact info (email) from some of the staff. I couldn't find Dave's name, even as "superintendent." If he stayed with the golf course he would have been super by now. So this might hint at something like he might have been passed for super, which is why he (USS) might have left. The only way to know for sure is to call the golf club. At least I got a phone # and I might call it this week.

Monday night Raw was ok. Not great, but ok. On a scale from 1-10, I'd rate it a 7.5.

I thought the two were unrelated

so I did some checking around on how to delete a New Volume partition on my laptop with Windows 7. I went through the steps. Lets turn off the computer and see if  I got more hard drive space. I get the opening Acer logo and then a command line: Grub recovery (waiting for a response.) Fortunately for me I still have my desktop Xp system (slow). Ten minutes later I was checking the web for this Grub recovery and discovered its a Linux recovery application for when Linux (running beside my Windows 7) gets removed by accident or shut down without being prompted to do so. Great way to start off the New Year! 
When I go back to work tomorrow I'm going to ask Vinay or Keith or anyone of the "brown guys" as James calls them, how do I get back to Windows and bypass this Grub recovery. If I could do it from here today, I'd remove Linux altogether. 

Today I have a day off but no hockey, the Oiler's don't play again until I think on Wednesday. The good news if they can get on a roll and healthy and with a winning streak they might make a run for the last play off spot but that's a lot of if's. 

Today, I'm relaxing and reading. I've got Monday night Raw for this evening. Since I can't get into my laptop I can't make any beats. I was thinking about going down to LM and pick up Komplete 8 if they have it there but I don't like shelling out all that money when my job unlike last year was more or less safe. This year, it's a new company and anything can happen. We don't have taps yet for HDI as this campaign we're on now is realativley new so for the most part were calling cold. Other offices have our good campaigns. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Its 2am and i'm finifhing up a

can of beer before bed, waiting for Anne to return home from Walmart. During Christmas Walmart is opened 24/7.

At noon I'm up and out of here for that 12:20pm bus to Clairview and then down to my Scotia bank so I can pay on my website.Ok, I  know Blogger and the website do pretty well much the same thing I need them to do. Websites are basically used for selling something. I don't have anything to sell but I like to have the website because most of my Twitter followers know me from that. Keeping it up and running costs me about $2 bucks/week. No big deal. If Anne knew that Blogger can do the same thing, it'd start a fight I'd hear for a week and I don't need that over the holidays. ng

I don't know if any of you have seenthis at all but on the news last there was this story about apples falling from the sky in Coventry UK. Some say its got to do with everything from freaky weather to a plane leaking out contents to witches. The whole story is here..

The only thing preventing me from going to bed is that Boots is around, so I'm going to have to bring him into our bedroom because it's his turn tonight. We alternate between him and the other cats so tonight, it's his turn.

So after my trip to the bank I'm having the afternoon off and I can relax tonight there's an Oiler game on TV. Also, I'm buying a Proline ticket tonight as well.

My next toy for my music is the Korg Sound on Sound. I can't wait to get it and play with it. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Ordinarily at midnight I’d

be in bed on a Sunday night but since with these adjusted hours today is my regular scheduled day off. The boss is back from his 10 day break and most likely posting up bonuses.

We got a lot of rain over night and there seems to be a break in the weather. I’m not surprised if we don’t get some more today.

Also on the news the government is going to force Canada Post to go back to work this week so that’s good.

On the news last night this weekend City Police are recording their 26th homicide. Now I don’t know what time of day the last one was but the guy was just going to the store and got jumped by three guys and one pulled out a knife. This is a few blocks from the “Avenue of Nations.” the dreaded 107th Ave. This strip mostly associated with hookers and drugs. The part of this area that hits close to home for me is, this is where Long & McQuade have set up shop and have been there since the early 70’s. The fellow according to the file film looked native. Chances are he knew these people. But 26 murders and its not even the end of June. But this is as nowhere bad as some of the major cities in the US such as San Francisco where its not uncommon to have 2-4 murders on a nightly basis. The death penalty here in Canada was abolished in 1976. I can see the death penalty for first degree murder. I wonder how many first degree murders have their been in Canada since 1976? As of 2001 the cost to keep a prisoner in jail was about $200/day or 70k/year. Currently (according to Yahoo answers/stats Can) there are 2500 inmates in Canada’s prison system serving life sentences. Between 1859-1976, 711 inmates have been hanged.

Anne and I keep seeing the ads for Netflick. It’s streaming movies. TV content for $8/month. According to (Yahoo ansswers Canada) the service is OK but the content is old. Lots of old documentaries childrens shows etc. Unlike in the US your not going to see last years hotest sit com or recently run movies. Its still pretty archaic here in Canada. Not worth spending $8/month on. Sorry Anne but its not going to replace our cable provider anytime soon.

So tomorrow I’m heading out of here at 11am so I can drop $100 in my Scotia account and get to work for an 8 hour day.

The only thing I‘m having issues with in Cubase 5 is my vocals. Other then that, it‘s a great program. Leaps and bounds better then FL Studio 9. I haven’t tried FL 10 yet so I can’t compare it with 10. I‘d like to get FL 10 signature bundle as a cc and Cubase 6and compare the 2. Cubase has that midi note expression which is pretty cool. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

After about 3 attempts Ifinally

was able to get ahold of Freemason Hall's manager and he said he  knows all the Lodges that are in the building (something like 14 of them) and he claims he's never heard of the SRIA but I'm "welcome to check out the Hall's library." This tells me then that the SRIA might not even exist anymore or maybe they are at Highlands Hall after all.

My day at work really dragged on. I ended up though obtaining 1 sale for $20! Lowest on the board surrounded by $200's and up. I went home feeling dejected but the boss said I got a $35 bonus for my check (I hope this week) for that $700 page ad.

The weather is at least warming up somewhat. By next week we should be in single digit numbers -2's and -3's that sort of thing. The PS3, the midi controller, the ITouch 32Gb are 1 of the 3 of the toys I'm considering getting this month. I'm kind of leaning towards the PS3 even though I've got the old Xbox 360. I think the reason Fable 3 wouldn't work on my current Xbox (because last night Anne was playing Indiana Jones lego) Fable 3 was a game released for the black Xbox 360. I wouldn't mind though getting the midi controller though thing is according to Long & Mcquade, they didn't have one in stock at their Northside store but for a $50 deposit they would get it from their Southside store and I could pick it up Friday. I don't think I like the idea of going there twice this week. We'll see.

I just came off watching a really good Monday night Raw. Anyway, that's about all for now.