Its a nice cool

breeze out there, which is perfect for sleeping overnight. At the moment its +18* out there.

On our local news they were talking about a Venus transit of the Sun, which should be taking place just after 4pm this afternoon. I’ll be inside the office as the transit will be able to be seen here on earth but weather forecasters are calling for a partially overcast day so we might not be able to see it here. This is going to be the opening topic on Coast tonight. The next one wont be until 2117.

Affiliates of these foreign funded radical groups and even local ones like the David Suzuki foundation went and partially dimmed their websites in protest to Ottawa’s plans to fast track important energy projects. I’d like to see them shut down myself. I don’t visit them. I know where their money comes from.

It’s hard to believe that “A Game of Thorns” (AGT) is in its 10th week. I read the first novel and I hope to go back to the series and read the book #2 and when the first year of the series is over, I’ll order it on iTunes

Edmonton Oiler’s first round Nail Yakapov was in town the other day and he seems to like Edmonton. We should use him as trade bait and make a play for, Alexander Semin, Zach Parise or Shane Doan and maybe trade Yakapov and a couple of others for him. Parise is the most hot after potential free agent this summer. We maybe sign them for a 2 year contract. Anyway, that’s about all I have for now.

Since I began

this HDI campaign about mid January of this year, I had always on any given shift been able to score some money on this campaign. At least something. Yesterday however, not one sale. I could go nuts trying to figure out what went wrong, I mean not one sale in a 4 hour shift? As soon as I got outside into the brisk early March air heading for Corona station, a kind of weight just lifted from my shoulders. The only thing on my mind was to head home and get ready for Lodge. Neil’s wife said he’d be picking me up. Great, I had a little bit of time, chance for a bite to eat from the can of stew Anne had prepared for me and shit, shower, shave and change into my suite and wait out there for Neil. Right on time.

I had a very good night last night except I had forgotten the Lodge keys. Only the 3 principle officers are suppose to have keys to the building and the building custodian that sets everything up for us. I was also shown where the spare key to the cabinet was. We had our District Deputy Grand Master pay us a visit and there were a few members there from Grand Lodge. I did my part and pulled it off without a hitch, no problems. I was having a good night. The energy  in the Lodge was good. The festive board just as good and crib night afterwards. We had 5 guys playing crib and I won one game playing on a 3 lane board. I want to set up a bit of a tournament.

Next week I want to go to AW on Monday with Anne and put 4 hours in that Monday night, then work the full week. I’d also like to go to Ye Old Craft Lodge which is early on a Saturday morning, they tyle at 9am but they serve a lunch and I’m up early anyway on a Saturday morning, so why not? I’ll be home by 3pm time for Anne to make me a bite to eat and 35.5 hours on the week. Then on that Sunday we have our Master Mason degree practice, which I want to be there and that‘s on the 11th. Then I’m working Monday night through to Friday night and I’m going to be at Commercial Lodge on the 17th (if all goes well.) So that’s going to be our regular communication (last night) Ye Old craft on the 10th Lodge practice on the 11th and Commercial on the 17th. it’s a busy Lodge month.

Today I hope to make up for lost ground from my dismal non show yesterday and then to my bank and home. Tomorrow, it’s a full 6 hours and then I’m off to either LM or Axe for a product I want to buy but more  on that Saturday. Anyway. That’s all for now.

For some reason

unknown to me, my Blogger link was removed or replaced and it took me almost half an hour searching for it. Waste of time or what?

Ok, the Oiler's are back to their losing ways again. They'll be at the bottom of the conference by February. Why so negative Jim? Well, they've won only 2 games on their last 10 and they always get these long breaks in between games and they either get injured or a game suspension. It's not so much the team its just in general. Watch, in 2012, they will be last place again and will get another first round pick. They play again I think on Thursday (Wild) Boxing day.

At least the weather is nice. This time last year we had a foot of snow on the ground and around -20. Now we have a little snow and I can see grassy patches and its about +1 out there. Crazy.

The environmental movement in the US and in some cases here in Canada are trying to axe the Keystone pipeline. What I don't get is why do they want to stop a oil resource that's friendly to the US, will create jobs and a steady supply of oil, something they need anyway. The Republicans are in favour of it. It's good for Americans and us. Everyone wins in this. The US environmentalists think that by acquiring Alberta oil the process of researching alternate clean energy types will be suspended but what they don't seem to get (or maybe they do) is that until those alternate forms of energy can be found, they still need energy/oil. Talk about clueless. The other thing is this current movement is obviously orchestrated by the big oil companies because they'd lose revenue from middle east oil. One only has to follow the money but these environmentalists can't see the forest for the trees. When gas at the pump is like $5/gallon, then they'll want our oil. Meanwhile, we're in nogotiations with China to sell our oil and I think we got the green light to build a pipeline to Prince Rupert.

Well, at at it for another 8 hours. I've already got 5 in the bank and 32 on the way. Anyway, that's about all for now.  

I could have slept for another hour

but Anne woke me up because I was snoring.
I emailed Markus Friday morning and I'm surprised with it being Sunday he hasn't got back to me yet about my website fees. I have Blogger, so I don't really need the website, especially if (Lord forbid) something happened to the guy but I'll try to keep it going as best I can. If not, that's ok. I'd hate to lose it because he's not checking his email. I put a lot of time and energy into that and so did he by making the new logo for me earlier this year.

I got the guitars sounding good in GP6. Especially it makes a difference when you use chords instead of individual notes but I can't find the pitch bend and I'm wondering if that's because I'm missing an update.

The next thing I'm getting music wise is that Korg SOS and that will be in January. Then I go on to save up for the computer. I'll need $1,700 when I'm ready to buy, which probably wont be until September. 2012. I'm going to have bonus money but the best I'll be able to do is about get $85/week for me or $50/bank. If I can get 43 hours/week, no problem but best I can do (if I want to go into Scottish Rite) but I think I'm going to join in September (if I get my pension). I have 1 week in January where I can put in 43 hours. One week in March. The only way I can put in 43 hours is if I do the Sunday-Saturday. Most weekends, I'll be lucky if I can claim $80 for myself and put away $50. So, I'm thinking about joining SR only when I'm done my IPM. I'll visit when I can. I'll go in January, maybe in April, that type of thing. I'm trying to juggle it where I can alternate so on my Sunday's I have to work, that week I'll have 43 hours which it looks like will be once or twice/month. I'm hoping this year with the new campaigns and all the bonus money will be better but even if I can have 2 43 hour weeks, best I can do is save up $350/month. I should have the new laptop within 5 months. January is a wash out more or less because I want to get that Korg SOS. So, I'm looking at about the end of June. Then I'll get BPM and Mach Five 3.

This is the start of a new week and we're in a new building. The Baker Centre is in the past. I had 6 good years there and had a lot of fun. Here's the photo Kingsley in haste Kingsley took of me. Notice the clock in the background above Fran's head. Anyway, that's all for now

Pure speculation

is currently underway and I'd love to be there but a $35 hit and the weather kind of keeps me away. If they did this in early November, sure but they need to have it beginning Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. At least the venue is good.

So the people at Occupy Edmonton have until what Monday to vacate or face criminal charges. I mean I could somewhat sympathize if they had some cohesive agenda but they're all "over the place" and so much for that threat by Anonymous!

Well I'm in the office again for another 5 hours and I'll be hard at it in another 12. Then I'm going to have Monday and part of Tuesday going in for Tuesday evening 5-9. This way, I'll have 39 hours for next week.

Kenn Thomas conspiracy investigator, archivist, and editor & publisher of Steamshovel Press, joins Ian Punnett on Coast to Coast to connect the dots between the Maury Island UFO Incident and the JFK assassination. Should be a great show.

Over there on Robert J Sawyer's newsgroup, they are having an interesting discussion on ebook readers. I'm still not quite ready to take the plunge just yet. Thing is with a paperback book I can read it in between calls at work. Friday the calls were so slow, I got to read 4 pagers on the job. Because of the nature of the job, I can't have any electronic devices at my station. Although if I'd get any kind of an ebook reader, it'd be the Kindle 3.

Speaking of tech toys and things, the play station 3 is reduced in price down to $245 from $300. This is probably due to Sony releasing a new version of that game platform. Not that I've heard anything about a new version but my guess one is coming. Anyway, that's about all for now.

False alarm..

with my laptop battery just before loggin on here. Both indicator lights are blue. That's a good sign. Anyway, time for a shave and a shower before I head on out of here to my bank.

What I'm going to do with L&M here is get the software anyway. But it depends on my bank if they'll let me have a secured visa for say $130. The whole MM17 program is $115 but I need a bit left over to pay service fees. A faster form of payment means I get what "I want now" instead of 8 days from now. Anyway, that's all for now   

I'm having some fun with

sample tank, playing around with some cool sounds.

Anyway, I have a full day today. Its always rough just getting back from almost a 3 day weekend. No chance in hell will I ever go back to business. I work 4.5 days and get 2.5 off, works good for me.

I'm about ready for bed now. I did manage to read from my Star Wars book Monday afternoon. I figure for sure, I'll be done with it by the end of this month.Anyway, that's about all for now.

I've got about half an hour here

before I head out to work for an 8 hour shift. Uggh, The first par goes by ok but it's the 5-9 that kind of drags on. I like the hours though from 12:20pm-9 in the summer because there's no hockey and I get a little sleep in and stay up late and Saturday is my favorite day of the week because I'm there from 10-2 and my weekend begins at 2pm, so it's kind of like a long weekend.
At the moment, I'm charging up my Ipod. I'm investigating the possibility of getting some Government ID because I need that and my birth certificate to get the Iphone. By and large its believed Apple will bring out version 5 in September.
Last night before Anne went to her movie she bought me a new "golf" type shirt with the pocket (which I like and some new runners.) Anyway, that's all for now.