Last night Anne and I went to the

Horseshoe lounge just over here on 58th street and 137th Ave. It's just a little bar behind KFC there. Its been around for years. We checked it because they had WWE's Summer slam on pay per view. They charge $10/person but they couldn't get the sound working. My mood changed for the better as I was getting into the show. I was in a bad mood mainly because of the heat and I hadn't eaten and the heat of the day. We ordered pizza and pop but enjoyed the show anyway. They finally got the sound on about about 70% into the broadcast. They didn't charge for the show, which was a nice gesture. They had about 50 people. It's actually a nice little bar. The bus isn't that far away to take me home on a Saturday afternoon. I'm glad I went after all and I'll be back next pay per view. 

This weekend was kind of a good news bad news type weekend. Saturday morning the boss wants me in for a meeting. He gave me a 2 week notice to pick it up. It's telemarketing, what can I say? The other thing is I won on 3 of my cfl proline games. It's about enough to by a case of beer but at least I'm winning.

I'm looking at getting into the eBook reader business. After doing a bit of research I'm warming up to the 6" Kobo Aura. I'm using it for Warhammer 40k short stories and ebooks. Stuff I can't get at Audrey's. 

Tonight is Monday night Raw on the aftermath of last nights show. Looking forward to it. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Well it was 25 years

ago, Friday was our infamous "Black Friday." hard to believe it was 25 years ago on that afternoon. I was 34 years old working for the Army & Navy Cobogo warehouse (now called Cobogo lofts) I recall a torrent of rain while I was standing on the roof of Cobogo enjoying the rain on a slow work day. I didn't know what was really happening until I got home (9710 156th street #305) about 5pm that afternoon. When I got home my caretaker (I was paying the rent) had said how we had got a Tornado. We were looking at the sky from her 2nd floor balcony facing West and some of the clouds were actually green. I got a call from my parents living back home in Coquitlam BC (lower mainland) hoping I was alright. On the news later it had been confirmed that 27 people had been killed. It still brings back memories 25 years later.

 
At this moment, I'm not that far away from the location in this video.

We'll I'm back to work in the morning. Not a lot going on for today. It's just a regular 8 hour working day.

I was reading in "Above Top Secret" just now that James Holmes' father is Robert Holmes who is about to testify within the next few weeks before a US Senate panel on the largest bank fraud scandal in world history that is currently unfolding and threatens to destabilize and destroy the Western banking system. I don't know if we can connect the dots here or anything but it's interesting coincidence.

Apparently James Rhodes is still going to be playing the role of Captain America "The Winter soldier." This is the working title of the proposed film and I hope they stick with it. I like it. Captain America is one of my favorite comic book hero’s, still is.

Coast has a bunch of soft shows this week. Nothing to get excited about.

There's only 2 CFL games on this week because it's a by week. Two teams from the East and Two teams from the West play. Four teams only 2 games until all teams have a week off. Maybe there's a MLB game I can parley against the two teams. or I might just wait until the normal schedule returns in week #8. The CFL does this every year. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

I've been up for a couple of hours

now trying to get some music synced onto my iTouch player for Anne.

Last night was one of those wow nights. Winnipeg/Montreal saw my pick on Proline (Montreal to win) come through. But I was doing taps for the last hour and got a few sales but the tap file was a slow file netting me out only a few sales. I got my check and everything was right. Just as I had all my stuff packed and ready to go I had one last customer on the screen and he was a $400 tap. I got it on the card but all the bonus money had gone by guys making a lot less then me. I had $635 on card by the end of the shift. The Hamilton/BC game was well underway and BC was leading by a large margin. I felt good about this game and I would catch what was left when I got home. I went to use the bathroom and headed out side into the 1st week of July’s bright sunshine evening. My ticket was still alive. BC was blowing out Hamilton in the 1st Quarter. I felt good about this.

This time, I decided to walk up to my RBC as that end of Jasper is reduced to just 1 lane. The first ATM had a bit of a glitch as the envelope deposit “tray” or window wouldn’t open. It cycled through trying to open so I went to the next one and did my banking and I had trouble getting 45 day statement. The 2nd effort I got my statement. Yeesh.

For some reason a huge crowd got on the train at Churchill. What was going on at Churchill I had no idea. Maybe Jazz City, probably.  I got home and I think the score on the game was something like 14/33 in the 3rd quarter but Hamilton was making a comeback. There was a 3 point difference point wise (Tie game in Proline) and the Lions had the ball on the Hamilton 10 yard line 20 seconds on the clock. It was 1st down and rather then kick a field goal for the extra 2 points, they ran out the clock! So much for my ticket. The other 2 games are meaningless now. BC won all right but a 3 point spread difference in Proline, is a tie game. Pissed me right off!  At least wrestling was fun. Anne made me some lunch and I went to bed, or tried to sleep but best I could do out of all of that was maybe 2-3 hours of sleep.

I got a full day ahead of me. I want to go get some breakfast this morning. I’ve got a 6 hour shift. After this I’m getting my book at Audrey’s “Going Pro with Cubase 6.” Then after that, I’m taking the #2 bus out over to Wendy’s as I have a craving for their Baconator combo and I’ll wait for the #183 at the half which takes me home. Then pass out. It’s nap time.

Most likely I’ll go to the casino next weekend because I’ll have a bit more cash to play with. I’m already wiped out. It’s been a big week:
 
Tuesday am I had to go over to the Registry and get my Government ID and I spent an unexpected amount wiping out half my funds in my account. I didn’t realize coming home I had left my bank card etc there at the office with my new Scene debit card. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were slow for me at it was. I was lucky to avoid the LRT ticket Police that night but they were out there asking for tickets the next night when I had my bus pass. If they were out there the previous night when I had left my buss pass behind, I would have gotten a $150 fine. Then Thursday I had to get a form filled out from my employer for CRHC and yesterday a bank statement from my Scotia bank and then last night one from my RBC. Yeesh. The good news is at least I got my Government ID and my Cubase book is in and so are my Paypal funds (Wednesday). It's been a busy week, that's about all for now.

I'm up at 9am so I can wake up and get ready

so I can get ready to leave out the door by 10am this morning for the bus stop by Pet Smart 10:15am and I can be at the Registry by 10:30am. It shouldn’t take me more then half an hour to get my photo taken. If I time it right I should be downtown by 11:30-45am and into my Scotia bank to get a bank statement and I should be in the office by noon, perfect. 

On Coast this evening the topic is on Energy & Space Exploration. Should be a good show. Were still in the stone age period of space exploration in my opinion. Were a long way away from something like Star Trek. Michio Kaku calls Star Trek a type 3 civilization, we’re barely a type 0.

Not much going on this week. I’m waiting to see if the funds were successfully uploaded to my Paypal account. Probably by the time I get home, would have made it 8 days. Other then this, it’s just going to be a regular working week, Tuesday-Saturday. I’ll most likely go up to the Baker Centre post office to get the gift card and take advantage of the 40% off sale Image line has on all of their plugins. But that depends on how much is in my account after I get my Government ID today. Or rather order it today. It’s not like an over the counter type of thing where I buy something I can leave with. It takes about 3 weeks and comes in the mail.

There were 2 winners on the big $32M 6/49 prize Saturday and nobody won the Lotto Max $50M so it continues on For Friday. I’ll get a $5 ticket for that and my Proline. Week #2 Has the following games: Winnipeg/Montreal, Hamilton/BC, Calgary/Toronto, Edmonton/Saskatchewan. Two games are on Friday and one on Saturday and Sunday it’s Edmonton/Sask. So I’ll get the Max ticket and the Proline, I don’t normally play 6/49 until it’s about $8M. Anyway, that’s about all I have for today.

 

Hey, hey

all 3 of my CFL games came in this weekend. I won $28 bucks so it looks like Anne and I are going to brunch Sunday. She'll be happy.