to go get my blood test. I've had 5 days off and I'm eager to get back to work as soon as the new project is underway. When I'm on full pension and if my health dictates, I'm going to try and work the last week of the month and the rest of the week go to lodge, if I want. That's if Anne and I are still in business. The next 2 years are going to be hard on us.
Not that I would ever do it and I can't speak for anyone else but I'm sure lots of people cheat on their significant other. I think this happens more with people when the marry young in life as opposed to people that marry late. I've often thought about it when my wife and I are fighting but I don't think I could actually go through with it. I've had opportunity. Ashley Madison is a popular website that is just for people that want to cheat. Not that such a website surprises me. Most likely its like "dating sites." Women sign up for free men pay type thing. I'd say 80% of the sites customers are men the rest women. "The impact team" is a hacker group that broke into the site and stole a lot of personal information and threatened to publish it if the Canadian website isn't shut down. They claimed that the site told its customers that for a $20 fee customer profile would be deleted but apparently there was no such option in the first place.
Some good news for me yesterday. Anne had a piece of mail in her purse from Alberta Monitoring for health program has been extended until October 15 for those that don't qualify to get alternative health benefits. I'm going to ask more about this today and hopefully stock up on test strips while I can. I might even be able to get some insulin because I might not qualify for alternative plan benefits. Anne is leaving out of here early for work. It will buy me some time. Anyway, that's all for now.
Welcome to my Blog. Anne and I live here in Clareview Edmonton Alberta, with our 2 cats etc. This blog is about my life, rants, politics, books, music production, Sports, some gaming, Freemasonry and some WTF-ish moments that give me pause. Feel free to contact me on my Twitter feed or YouTube channel Shannon on Sounds. Thanks for dropping by
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Summer weekends go by so fast dont
they? Mine begins Saturday afternoon at 1:30pm. What I like about where I work is I'm one bus ride to wem. The only tough part about getting to the job is catching that #4. It's the only bus out of there from anywhere in Campus terminal that's loaded all day. Its connected to the University.
I decided to try out Instagram last night and I opened an account. I haven't used it yet. I'm sure there's a lot about it on YouTube and I'll be looking at that to see if this is something I want to use.
On local news last night there was another condo fire. This one in the West end. The fire caused extensive damage to the upper portion of the building. Investigators were quick to determine the cause: Careless use of a cigarette. This fire displaced about 400 people, killed some family pets and sent some people to the hospital with burn injuries. An incident like this could happen anywhere. Credit fire fighters that were quick on the scene to do their job. If it was a busy night what with K-days going on, the results could have been worse. The worst injury was to one individual that is in serious condition now in the hospital shortly before I began the job. Most likely the one that is responsible. The lady that drives me home every night was displaced by a fire in her building. She just lives over here by the police station on the other side of Manning. She took me to her building on the way home last Thursday night showing me the fire damage to her apartment building as we drove by. The smoke damage was quite visible. I'm going to ask her what the cause of the fire was. The most common apartment/condo fires are unintended use of something on a stove or cigarettes. I hope the idiot smoker gets criminal chargers and is held accountable. The incident on the news was disturbing because, what if something like that happens here to our building? We had a fire to the building across from us several years ago on the upper floor. The whole roof had to be repaired. I'm not going to go on a rant about smokers. That's for another time but the apartment fire that happened over the weekend hit close to Home. other then here, I'm going to keep my comments to myself.
Just finished browsing the Star Wars.com website and Hasbro is going to release a huge Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. This thing is about 2 feet long and is going to be out around November at Walmart of this year for about $60, cool. Not that I have the space for for something like this. Anyway, that's all for now.
I decided to try out Instagram last night and I opened an account. I haven't used it yet. I'm sure there's a lot about it on YouTube and I'll be looking at that to see if this is something I want to use.
On local news last night there was another condo fire. This one in the West end. The fire caused extensive damage to the upper portion of the building. Investigators were quick to determine the cause: Careless use of a cigarette. This fire displaced about 400 people, killed some family pets and sent some people to the hospital with burn injuries. An incident like this could happen anywhere. Credit fire fighters that were quick on the scene to do their job. If it was a busy night what with K-days going on, the results could have been worse. The worst injury was to one individual that is in serious condition now in the hospital shortly before I began the job. Most likely the one that is responsible. The lady that drives me home every night was displaced by a fire in her building. She just lives over here by the police station on the other side of Manning. She took me to her building on the way home last Thursday night showing me the fire damage to her apartment building as we drove by. The smoke damage was quite visible. I'm going to ask her what the cause of the fire was. The most common apartment/condo fires are unintended use of something on a stove or cigarettes. I hope the idiot smoker gets criminal chargers and is held accountable. The incident on the news was disturbing because, what if something like that happens here to our building? We had a fire to the building across from us several years ago on the upper floor. The whole roof had to be repaired. I'm not going to go on a rant about smokers. That's for another time but the apartment fire that happened over the weekend hit close to Home. other then here, I'm going to keep my comments to myself.
Just finished browsing the Star Wars.com website and Hasbro is going to release a huge Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. This thing is about 2 feet long and is going to be out around November at Walmart of this year for about $60, cool. Not that I have the space for for something like this. Anyway, that's all for now.
Friday, May 9, 2014
The funeral service
yesterday was billed a "celebration of life" and not a funeral service with clergy etc. I had some speaking parts and I was really nervous getting up behind the podium. I didn't stick around for the turkey dinner later. There are some pictures on my Facebook/Flikr photo stream.
Speaking about my Flikr account I've got it synced to my iPad so any photo taken from my iPad can automatically be uploaded to my Flikr account. What I'd like to see is a wifi digital camera that has Flikr/Twitter social media features.
I had a couple of Lodge calls to make earlier and I re-booked my appointment at the PCN and it's now just a walk in drop off materials at the counter type thing. Anne can do this for us on Monday while I'm at work.
Today I'm going to pick up my 1st Eagles book and then head into work for a 6.5 hour shift and a 7.5 hour shift for Saturday. Sunday is just 4 hours. Anyway, that's all for now.
Speaking about my Flikr account I've got it synced to my iPad so any photo taken from my iPad can automatically be uploaded to my Flikr account. What I'd like to see is a wifi digital camera that has Flikr/Twitter social media features.
I had a couple of Lodge calls to make earlier and I re-booked my appointment at the PCN and it's now just a walk in drop off materials at the counter type thing. Anne can do this for us on Monday while I'm at work.
Today I'm going to pick up my 1st Eagles book and then head into work for a 6.5 hour shift and a 7.5 hour shift for Saturday. Sunday is just 4 hours. Anyway, that's all for now.
Friday, October 11, 2013
A lot going on yesterday and today so lets get
started:
Canadian author Alice Munro won the Nobel prize for literature. Apparently she retired from writing but after winning the Nobel she said she's reconsidering one more shot. To be honest I've never heard of her but this is great news for Canada I'm happy she won.
The other thing I wanted to talk about today is a Facebook conversation I'm having, in Groups. I recall something that happened in the Summer of 1967 before I went in for my back operation. It was the birthday of a old friend of mine. We were both teens and into Star Trek. The closest hobby shop to us (at the time I knew of) was in the Caribou shopping centre just South of Lougheed Mall. My buddy wanted the AMT Star Trek Enterprise Model. How heard about it even being there I don't know. So I went with him. it was a beautiful summer day as it usually is in the lower mainland that time of year. After he bought the model he bought us Pizza. We ate it in the bushes behind the mall. Back to the Facebook conversation, which was about Hobby shops as I'm trying to see if anyone in this group that go back that far remembers the name of the hobby shop. One poster said he remembered my friend, even identified his wife by name. They lived in the same apartment building together before my friend moved into a house. My friend worked at the Vancouver golf club all his life and the poster said he probably retired from there. I'm trying to accomplish several things with this post. First to find the name of that hobby shop and to see if anyone recalls another hobby shop I used to go to called Raceway hobbies in Vancouver. For all I know both of these hobby shops might have survived late into the 1990's. Also to see if anyone knew my friend and sure enough to my surprise somebody did. I'd go to hobby shops all the time to get my wargaming fix and Napoleonic models, which I used to build and paint. Most of that stuff didn't make my migration to Edmonton in 1978. The poster replied back saying he hadn't seen my friend in over 20 years. My friend's wife was drinking a lot, but that's all the poster said about her.
The other item more closer to home yesterday just by chance I checked my RBC bank and my first cpp cheque came in. It's another chapter in my life. It's kind of bitter sweet for me because it just means I'm getting a little closer to full retirement. My sister in law in Sydney NS took out her early retirement as well. She's a breast cancer survivor and I'm diabetic. She was a teacher for most of her life and me, just a living from pay cheque to pay cheque. Yet she got twice as much then I did for all she did the difference between the two "careers" as far as cpp goes is like night and day. It also serves as a reminder to me that being a full pensioner is only a full years away.
Today (I hope) I'm in for a easy 4 hours and out by 7:00pm. With any luck at all I might be able to catch whats left of the BC/Calgary football game. Saturday is a full day.
I was hoping to get some cpp back pay for months delayed while my claim was being finalized. I was going to use that towards a new computer. That's not going to happen. My next plan is to breath some new life into my old Acer laptop clone and install a 1 Tb SSHD drive. If the drive doesn't work at least the target drive would still work and I can use the SSHD drive in a near future desktop. Anyway, that's all for now.
Canadian author Alice Munro won the Nobel prize for literature. Apparently she retired from writing but after winning the Nobel she said she's reconsidering one more shot. To be honest I've never heard of her but this is great news for Canada I'm happy she won.
The other thing I wanted to talk about today is a Facebook conversation I'm having, in Groups. I recall something that happened in the Summer of 1967 before I went in for my back operation. It was the birthday of a old friend of mine. We were both teens and into Star Trek. The closest hobby shop to us (at the time I knew of) was in the Caribou shopping centre just South of Lougheed Mall. My buddy wanted the AMT Star Trek Enterprise Model. How heard about it even being there I don't know. So I went with him. it was a beautiful summer day as it usually is in the lower mainland that time of year. After he bought the model he bought us Pizza. We ate it in the bushes behind the mall. Back to the Facebook conversation, which was about Hobby shops as I'm trying to see if anyone in this group that go back that far remembers the name of the hobby shop. One poster said he remembered my friend, even identified his wife by name. They lived in the same apartment building together before my friend moved into a house. My friend worked at the Vancouver golf club all his life and the poster said he probably retired from there. I'm trying to accomplish several things with this post. First to find the name of that hobby shop and to see if anyone recalls another hobby shop I used to go to called Raceway hobbies in Vancouver. For all I know both of these hobby shops might have survived late into the 1990's. Also to see if anyone knew my friend and sure enough to my surprise somebody did. I'd go to hobby shops all the time to get my wargaming fix and Napoleonic models, which I used to build and paint. Most of that stuff didn't make my migration to Edmonton in 1978. The poster replied back saying he hadn't seen my friend in over 20 years. My friend's wife was drinking a lot, but that's all the poster said about her.
The other item more closer to home yesterday just by chance I checked my RBC bank and my first cpp cheque came in. It's another chapter in my life. It's kind of bitter sweet for me because it just means I'm getting a little closer to full retirement. My sister in law in Sydney NS took out her early retirement as well. She's a breast cancer survivor and I'm diabetic. She was a teacher for most of her life and me, just a living from pay cheque to pay cheque. Yet she got twice as much then I did for all she did the difference between the two "careers" as far as cpp goes is like night and day. It also serves as a reminder to me that being a full pensioner is only a full years away.
Today (I hope) I'm in for a easy 4 hours and out by 7:00pm. With any luck at all I might be able to catch whats left of the BC/Calgary football game. Saturday is a full day.
I was hoping to get some cpp back pay for months delayed while my claim was being finalized. I was going to use that towards a new computer. That's not going to happen. My next plan is to breath some new life into my old Acer laptop clone and install a 1 Tb SSHD drive. If the drive doesn't work at least the target drive would still work and I can use the SSHD drive in a near future desktop. Anyway, that's all for now.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
I'm back at it today
but if things don't pick up I'm going to get the extra hours someplace else. I'm running out of my savings. If I can work 4-9 Tuesday-Saturday, that'd be ok until my early retirement comes in around November but I need something steady.
I get asked all the time,"Jim your in Alberta, whats your take on the Keystone pipeline? Its a accident waiting to happen. This thing is mapped right through Hurricane alley. Its a recipe for disaster. The best way to get our oil to the US is by rail. Just 1 DOT-111 tank car can carry 20,000 US gallons of oil.The DOT-111 tank car was involved in the Lac-Mégantic derailment earlier this summer in Quebec. There were 72 of them in that disaster. Transporting oil to the US is safer then the pipeline.
I'm having some issues with Google+ and YouTube. My YouTube channel is ok but my YouTube inbox is missing. Also I can't change my profile picture because of size issues. Even after I change size of my photo. I might have to open a new Google+/Hangouts or what ever it's called. It might take me awhile, but I'll figure it out.
Another thing I get asked all the time is what I think will happen to our society. I don't think we'll have any major wars or anything because our society will be very prosperous. At the same time Earths population will be down to the levels of the 1920's due to over population levels. Et will still be in the realm of science fiction. There will be settlements on Mars and other planets moons etc. There will also be synthetic programmable human like robots. Cloths will be holographic and resistant to the environment. At the latter half of the century physicists would have found alternate earths like in sliders but without humans. That's about all I "see" right now. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I get asked all the time,"Jim your in Alberta, whats your take on the Keystone pipeline? Its a accident waiting to happen. This thing is mapped right through Hurricane alley. Its a recipe for disaster. The best way to get our oil to the US is by rail. Just 1 DOT-111 tank car can carry 20,000 US gallons of oil.The DOT-111 tank car was involved in the Lac-Mégantic derailment earlier this summer in Quebec. There were 72 of them in that disaster. Transporting oil to the US is safer then the pipeline.
I'm having some issues with Google+ and YouTube. My YouTube channel is ok but my YouTube inbox is missing. Also I can't change my profile picture because of size issues. Even after I change size of my photo. I might have to open a new Google+/Hangouts or what ever it's called. It might take me awhile, but I'll figure it out.
Another thing I get asked all the time is what I think will happen to our society. I don't think we'll have any major wars or anything because our society will be very prosperous. At the same time Earths population will be down to the levels of the 1920's due to over population levels. Et will still be in the realm of science fiction. There will be settlements on Mars and other planets moons etc. There will also be synthetic programmable human like robots. Cloths will be holographic and resistant to the environment. At the latter half of the century physicists would have found alternate earths like in sliders but without humans. That's about all I "see" right now. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Having a nice weeeknd so far
and it's +16* out there making it nice for sleeping.
Mostly today I've been doing music production research. My Reallpc guitar vst plugin when using Guitar Rig for instance crashes as soon as I launch the program (GR). Reallpc works ok in stand-a-lone, which is kind of lame. It even works ok in my DAW but as soon as I open up an amp simulator lake GR I get heavy cpu spikes and crash! It's disappointing. I'm not about to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on a new PC. I heard about IK media's guitar rig and guitar rig midi for the iPad. I can use the vst guitars in Sample Tank through a third party iPad program called Audio bus. In a YouTube video about iRig midi I asked if I can plug iRig into my laptop and get the signal chain out of Reallpc through iRig midi into my iPad and use Amplitube and the Reallpc signal chain in iPad. IRig midi is about a $60 program so if I go down to LM after work this week and pick it up, it's not going to break me if it doesn't work and I might go get this next weekend. Just some of the fun stuff I'm working on.
Tomorrow is the Esks/Hamilton game so I'll be following that a bit. This is the first road game for Edmonton in this years CFL campaign.
Still on a sports theme, the Oiler's cut lose Sean Horcoff and Nikolai Khabibulin this week. Khabibulin didn't do a damn thing for the Oiler's except cost the Oiler's more money. Horcoff's shelf life as a hockey player and as an Oiler were on the verge of expiring anyway. We got a new coach and got rid of some excess baggage and saved some cap room. We just need a couple of big power forwards and out of Rexall place but out of the Rex won't happen for about another 3 years. But at least a new arena and a funding model is in the works. Things are looking good for the Oiler's
I'm still trying to find a way to get my Twitter feed on my Facebook (FB) site. I don't have a fan page up yet because I have no music up and I think you can only get a Twitter feed up and running only on a fan/business page. There's a lot of info about this but it's obsolete since FB has changed everything lately. I have my Twitter feed on this blog but not on my website. Anyway, that's all for now.
Mostly today I've been doing music production research. My Reallpc guitar vst plugin when using Guitar Rig for instance crashes as soon as I launch the program (GR). Reallpc works ok in stand-a-lone, which is kind of lame. It even works ok in my DAW but as soon as I open up an amp simulator lake GR I get heavy cpu spikes and crash! It's disappointing. I'm not about to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on a new PC. I heard about IK media's guitar rig and guitar rig midi for the iPad. I can use the vst guitars in Sample Tank through a third party iPad program called Audio bus. In a YouTube video about iRig midi I asked if I can plug iRig into my laptop and get the signal chain out of Reallpc through iRig midi into my iPad and use Amplitube and the Reallpc signal chain in iPad. IRig midi is about a $60 program so if I go down to LM after work this week and pick it up, it's not going to break me if it doesn't work and I might go get this next weekend. Just some of the fun stuff I'm working on.
Tomorrow is the Esks/Hamilton game so I'll be following that a bit. This is the first road game for Edmonton in this years CFL campaign.
Still on a sports theme, the Oiler's cut lose Sean Horcoff and Nikolai Khabibulin this week. Khabibulin didn't do a damn thing for the Oiler's except cost the Oiler's more money. Horcoff's shelf life as a hockey player and as an Oiler were on the verge of expiring anyway. We got a new coach and got rid of some excess baggage and saved some cap room. We just need a couple of big power forwards and out of Rexall place but out of the Rex won't happen for about another 3 years. But at least a new arena and a funding model is in the works. Things are looking good for the Oiler's
I'm still trying to find a way to get my Twitter feed on my Facebook (FB) site. I don't have a fan page up yet because I have no music up and I think you can only get a Twitter feed up and running only on a fan/business page. There's a lot of info about this but it's obsolete since FB has changed everything lately. I have my Twitter feed on this blog but not on my website. Anyway, that's all for now.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Looks like a nice day out there
and I got a full day ahead.
I don't know what I'll be doing next week or even if I have any work at all. That's one of the realities of doing research work. So far I've been working a full work week since I started. Even if I get 25 hours a week (part time) I can live with that. It'll give me a chance to explore other options, something more stable.
I'm seriously considering either a new Facebook page or opting out of FB all together because of this bar called "people you may know." It's been a real pain for FB page fans even though there are lots of FB hacks out there FB keeps changing and it's hard to find the hacks. Twitter is better and I'm thinking of putting a Twitter feed on my FB page so my FB friends can see my activity and what's going on. At the same time keep my FB page still going on.
Other then that, tomorrow is "NHL's Free agent frenzy" and it's going to be interesting to see if the Oiler's are going to do anything or remain quiet like they always do. Since I don't have internet on my iPad anymore and Anne uses it I don't have my internet on the go. Anyway, that's all for now.
I don't know what I'll be doing next week or even if I have any work at all. That's one of the realities of doing research work. So far I've been working a full work week since I started. Even if I get 25 hours a week (part time) I can live with that. It'll give me a chance to explore other options, something more stable.
I'm seriously considering either a new Facebook page or opting out of FB all together because of this bar called "people you may know." It's been a real pain for FB page fans even though there are lots of FB hacks out there FB keeps changing and it's hard to find the hacks. Twitter is better and I'm thinking of putting a Twitter feed on my FB page so my FB friends can see my activity and what's going on. At the same time keep my FB page still going on.
Other then that, tomorrow is "NHL's Free agent frenzy" and it's going to be interesting to see if the Oiler's are going to do anything or remain quiet like they always do. Since I don't have internet on my iPad anymore and Anne uses it I don't have my internet on the go. Anyway, that's all for now.
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