There is a definite change in the

air quality this time of year. The rain in the air is quite noticeable. this time of year we could get anything. Today is expected to be a nice day. I might even go out for a walk.

Nasa's Perseverance rover helicopter "Ingenuity," might launch as early as April 8th. That would be so cool to witness. There is even a bit of the Wright brothers airplane attached to ingenuity as part of the historic flight.

There was supposed to be an Oilers/Canucks game this evening but 8 players and a staff member is on Covid protocol. That means the Oilers have 2 Montreal Canadians and 1 Canucks games to make up. So far Oilers have played 38/56 games. Barring anymore Covid protocols, means Oilers have 3 games in hand. Happy Easter eveyone. That's all for now.

What a shocker yesterday

morning, when I learned that Future Shop (FS) is closing all 65 of its national locations. FS and Best buy are the nation's leaders in consumer electronics and computers. Three here in Edmonton will be permanently closed, and some of them will be re branded into Best Buy. Best Buy bought out FS in 2001. Best Buy retains the FS store here in Clareview, Grant MacEwan, and St. Albert. The other 3 FS's to permanently close will be the West End (I used to go to that one all the time before I got married) Northgate (that's where I bought my iPod Touch last December) and Edmonton common. Its the end of an era.    

I'm an "environmentalist" when it comes to animals, the forest, overfishing, things like that. What I can't get is this flaky junk science of "climate change." I couldn't help mentioning this only because yesterday was Earth hour. With the global threat of those rouge nutcases making news every night in the middle east, it boggles the mind that some weirdo's are so enamored with "climate change" they can't see the forest before the trees. 

Update: Anne noticed while channel surfing this morning that the WWE network is now on our Telus "Optix" tv. Its $11.99/month but after deleting some channels (thanks to the crtc relaxing rules that favour the subscriber called pick and pay earlier this month) she doesn't watch anymore and now that I've got a job Tuesday, she ordered the WWE network. it now means today, we get to watch Wrestlemania 31. I think it starts at 4pm. If I had money I'd order my favorite pizza but we'll do that when the next pay-per-view wwe event comes out. "Money in the bank."

So Nasa wants to have astronaught's live in space for a year. It's the longest continuous stretch of time a astronaut will have been in space. It's an important stepping-stone on our journey to Mars. Its quite a mission. I don't know if I could be cooped up like that for a week little alone a year. I'm getting stir crazy just living in this apartment for the last month without a job. I'm looking forward to Tuesday. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Friday at work began

slow. I got 1 "sale" just before lunch. It was slow going from after lunch until break but it picked up after break and I ended up with 8 "sales." Sales isn't the right word but its good enough. My personal diary defines what "sales" is

I read in yesterdays Edmonton Journal how Nasa's comet chasing spacecraft "Stardust" had captured dust particles that might have originated outside our solar system. About 30,000 scientists and citizen scientists dubbed "dusters" are examining these fine dust particles since 2009. Findings were published Thursday in the Journal Science. Not to be confused with the Edmonton Journal. 

Overnight our local temperature has been +20 and that's what it is now at 8am but it feels like +24. I don't think I've ever seen an August so warm before and with the mosquito population so heavy. Next week it's going to be more comfortable around +18 or so. 

It was on this day in 1977 that the "Wow" signal was discovered 37 years ago.  

On the way into work this morning, I don't think I'm getting any drive through breakfast. THe ladies are but I just  had a big muffin. Coffee is free at work so I'll get one there. It's a short 4 hours. After work I'll get the #126 bus on 10th Ave/178th street at 1:45pm or so to wem and the express to Corona station and the lrt. I should be home about 3pm. Anyway, that's all for now.