Its been pretty busy up until

yesterday. Tuesday I had an event to go to Wednesday a Doctors appointment, Thursday, Lodge. Last night I just relaxed and took it easy I was going to fast Thursday night for blood work yesterday. I didn't plan that very well.

The main project this weekend is to get an expanding font logo for my You Tube channel somewhere in the lower portion of my obs screen. I'd actually like to have it where the logo "Jim Shannon on Sounds" (2 syllables/blocks) enlarges to its current state on the screen and dissolves. That's pretty advanced for me I'd also like to have it where my logo comes in like a template. Not sure if obs is that advanced yet.

In a "checking in to the office" call yesterday the boss said we have a project around after the Provincial election. It means we have something. It doesn't mean have steady work, it just means we have something. It could be one pay period, or work to last until the end of July. Anyway, that's all for now.

Election day is today and

we did PC reminder calls on the job last night. I screwed up a bit but it wasn't too bad of a screw up. I had a good day despite having a abscessed tooth going on for most of my shift. Then I get a call at the end of my shift (like I knew that wasn't going to happen) and again I missed my 9:40pm bus. I got home shortly before 11pm. Anne made me a nice baked pasta as I watched what was left of wrestling.

Earlier Monday before I left work, I ended up getting a hold of a ei agent and I have my claim on hold. So if there's any downtime this summer that will make up for any lack of work for a few months.

Today is election day as mentioned above. The NDP are way ahead in the polls and could form a majority Government by the looks of things. The good news is the Alberta NDP's are very supportive of LRT in the major cities. That could mean cap n' trade or a carbon tax to pay for it. The other good news is they will not introduce a provincial sales tax. Anne and I are voting Wild Rose. Hopefully either party will win a minority government. I'd favour a Wild Rose majority over a NDP one even though voting Wild Rose will split the conservative vote its better then nothing. We'll be going out after dinner since the office is closed today because of the election. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Finally after about 8 weeks of

waiting and reporting I got my ei claim finalized. That was the good news. Bad news being they only gave me 18 weeks and 10 of them have been used up waiting. For the moment though I get those weeks paid out and it means I can get my lodge dues paid next week and we can get Skippy fixed up and pay some bills. I can also have my claim put on hold so if this summer I can recover the rest of those weeks to cover me when and if times are slow. It'll buy me 8 more weeks if I plan it right. For the moment I'm getting full time hours. So I might want to have my claim go doormat.

The other thing is I missed my Doctors appointment   and they don't like that but I re booked. I've got to call the office to confirm that the appointment is for next Thursday not this one. I booked the appointment when I wasn't working and I forgot to write down when my appointment was. Next week Thursday works good because I booked myself off for lodge.

I'm trying to follow next weeks historic Alberta Provincial election May 5th. This year our polling station will be at Sifton school. We got our voter card in the mail yesterday. At the moment the NDP are sitting at 35.1% as the Wildrose are at 30.3 and the PC's are in 3rd place at 24.1% according to 308.com. if the NDP are elected they will form a minority Government. The first time this has happened in over 108 years. I know I wont be voting NDP but Wildrose looks good. It could be real neck and neck.

Yesterday we got to +25 at last and it felt warm but we're back into a cooler trend hitting lows of +10/14's. Anyway, that's all for now.

Usually the month of April is very nice with

warm temps. This April its been anything but. We've been getting a lot of wind (like this morning) and cold temps. Right now its +1 overcast and the forecast for today is a 40% chance of snow. I this time of year in 1980 at Richards apartment we had rain but that was normal. 

The new job seems to be going along ok. I'm not sure if I'm going to get full hours today. I'll take them if I can get them.

The Provincial election race is heating up. Thursday was the leadership debate. The PC's could be in for a bit of trouble but not as long as I can help it. The NDP is the front runner. I don't see them forming a majority Government but maybe a minority one.

Also the other day was the 10th anniversary of YouTube. On the news they were saying that YouTube uploads about 300 hours of content every minute. Wow! Anyway, that's all for now.