It was a busy week last week

as an old friend passed away. The celebration of life was yesterday. Due to Provincial Covid restrictions on attendance for funerals I stayed away. 

I ordered an ergonomic chair for my studio home office Friday night and a pair of headphones with detachable cables. The order should come in a couple of days from the Leduc fulfillment centre. What's special about this chair is that it is the first one I have had that is not 2nd hand and its weight distribution is greater then the standard 250 pounds.

Last nights Montreal/Oilers game was awesome. The Habs scored first in the 2nd period and then in the 3rd the Oilers tied. The pace for 60 minutes was fast and hard hitting. And if that's not enough Canada's own Patrick Marleau surpassed Gordie Howe's record of 1,767 games played set in 1980 during an April 19, 2021 game against the Vegas Golden knights.

Not only all the other good things above but George Floyd's murderer, was charged with murder and manslaughter. Justice! Plus Mar's rover did a test flight of ingenuity. Great week so far. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I left the apartmenat heading East to Belmont

dental under sunny mild skies. 16 is mild for this time of year. It was a good walk. I had an interesting chat with Ian before I left. I bought some all day breakfast at Tim's. Then into the dental office and signed in. Too the receptionist I asked how much I have remaining on my insurance. I knew it was something like $2,600. If I got a partial and the denture how much would I pay out of pocket. After a few phone calls and some calculations, she said $420. I can handle that on credit and do the fillings later. I felt good about that. I had 5 teeth to remove, uggh. The hygienist said if the molar is too tough to get out they can break it up into chunks. Ok. So in went 2 needles. That was the only pain I felt. Out came the molar, then the other four teeth in about 10 minutes. I felt pretty good about this. The dentist didn't need to stitch my gums. Cool. My next appointment is Wednesday October 30th. I walked home doing just under 4k from. It was very mild when I got in at ~ 4:30. 

I had a good night watching the Oilers win at home over Phili. Finale score was 6-3. McDavid became the second player in Oilers history to notch 17 points through the first seven games of a season, joining Wayne Gretzky, who did it five times in the 1980s. Wow. How cool is that? I took the gauze out as I'm not bleeding as profusely as I did last week. It was.

Anne put together for me some left over meatloaf and KD. I was surprised I was able to eat that. So then Anne told me that the fillings are $215 each. I might have to re think this. I'm now leaning towards just getting the fillings done and a upper denture. My insurance can cover the cost of the fillings. I can always get the partial when I'm working. I want to save the 5 bottom teeth as much as possible. Plus I can get the Steam deck and save some short term cash. As for today, I'm healing working some more on my you Tube channel. Mainly Streamlabs obs. Plus I've got to call my family doctor because I didn't call to re-book yesterday. Friday is more DnB live streaming at ARTfx's channel. Detroit is in town for another barn burner, so I'll be watching that one. Saturday its "band of brothers," Sunday its Oilers/Winnipeg, Monday the election. Anyway, that's all for now.

Over the past couple of days

I've been doing some family genealogy on my mothers side. My grandmother was Mina Hoy Johnston. Her and her husband Henry Hoy lived at 53 Elliott street in New Westminster. Henry Hoy was a contractor and Mayor of New Westminster in 1894. Mina Hoy married E.L. Johnston. They had 3 children, my Uncle Ed, Francis and my mother Elizabeth. Their residence was one of 3 historical homes the City of New Westminster moved in the summer of June 1990, to preserve the homes  from the wrecking ball. The moving of these 3 homes was a major undertaking. In our case to move the home to where it sits now at 202 3rd street Second Ave. in New Westminster BC. In order to move the home, the city put the home on a flatbed truck, removed power lines and trimmed trees to get it up to where it is today. My mom was invited to attend a city event when the home was settled. They named it Hoy house. I believe it's now a rooming house. Its the big blue house on the corner of Second & third street. The link to the above story is here type in moving houses.

http://www.nwheritage.org/database/heritage.php

Last night on Coast to coast, the topic was about The Egyptian Sphynx and the pyramids. The Sphynx and the Egyptian pyramids have long been a fascinating topic of mine. I've always had this notion that the Egyptian pyramids were built from the top down from a mountain of the same limestone material. One caller had the right idea but didn't mention the use of hot air balloons. My variation is on the hot air balloon theory, which advances the notion that crews had to carve the limestone blocks on location. The granite rock is another matter. Place stone block A on top of stone block B & C. Wrap rope between stones. The balloons could be controlled by rope or pulleys as crews on the ground and guided in place according to the design. The engineering would also account for the way there was no gaps between each stone because they could be just dropped into place. The ancient Egyptians didn't need to lift the blocks very high. The whole operation might need just a handful of people. Some rooms in the Gaza pyramid show hieroglyphs that suggest balloons. How they would heat the air I don't know. Its just a silly theory of mine that has a few holes. Here's a better way of explaining some of what I mean it somewhat supporting my theory.
      
                              

The Oilers just came off their long break hosting the LA Kings that played the night before. A fresh LA Kings team I'm sure would have walked all over us. Like Arizona the Kings have owned the Oilers but not yesterday. I purposefully missed the first period because usually nothing happens. I was right. The Oilers won 3-1 earning 2 points. The Oilers play Vancouver Canucks Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now.

Winter solstice arrived here in

Edmonton at 3:44 this morning. After today the days get longer by seconds and then by minutes moving into January and February. With the weather warmer then its been some time off and some income coming in, I feel pretty good about myself.

On my commute home from work last night I began getting mild blood sugar shakes. I had a cookie left over from my lunch at Belvedere station and felt a bit better. I had one thing on my mind pulling into Clareview and boarding the #183 as it was ready to pull out: Getting my $15 iTunes gift card. I picked that up at Shoppers and headed home. Anne was making us a kind of "Shepherds pie." I make mine better in layers and put more cheese in the mash potato and some dried onion in the hamburger with a mix of regular and lean ground. Anne had to go across the street to Shoppers for cream corn and I had a couple of cookies to boost up my sugars. Feeling better I redeemed my iTunes card, and bought Elastic Drums, and Bilbao for Korg Gadget. I'll be playing around with these over the holidays, installing Linux on my laptop, finishing my book and relaxing.

My Westend job's last day of calling before they break for the holidays is today. That's when the cheques are ready. Last day of calling for my Southside job is tomorrow. So I'll be out of here at 2pm later today to run over and get my cheque, then swing into work. I need to have my iPod charged so I can catch the scores on the Oilers/Anaheim game tonight. Then Friday, the Oilers are in San Jose. As for this afternoon, I'm going to suggest to Anne because I have the extra days on my Southside job, that I should just leave my 2 day cheque at the other place for the New Year. Saves me a bit of running around this afternoon. If it was left up to me, I'd say ok. I might anyway. 

I'll have another blog post over the weekend, most likely Saturday as I'm getting into my Christmas holidays. I had such a good night on the job yesterday, I'm hoping for about the same today and tomorrow to close out the year. Anyway, that's all for now.