We're having a nice Indian summer here in

Edmonton. Today (Saturday) we got up to 25.5. Unbelievable. It was dark by the time I got home, however. 

Yesterday the lotto 6/49 jackpot was worth $41M. Nobody claimed the prize, so the amount is increased to $50M on Wednesday. I'm buying a ticket of course and I might even buy into the office pool for Wednesday's draw. 

I have 2 days off. I'm looking forward to pension. If Anne and I still have our health, I'd work 3 days/week the last week of the month and go to lodge and watch Oiler games. Works for me.

This week, I've got Sunday and Monday off (Monday with pay) Its a regular work week but I'm having Saturday off for lodge. Anyway, that's all for now.

I woke up on the late side

of about 1:30pm today. That beer was a great sleeping aid. I passed right out after that. I needed a good 9 hours sleep.

It's a bit on the breezy side out there under bright sunny skies. Temperature is +15. Very nice for this time of year. I love the fall colours. This photo was taken moments ago:

Today I'm just relaxing, reading from my Warhammer 40k Fulgrim book. Later after brunch I'll probably work on a beat, answer some email and some lodge stuff and take it from there.

After the District meeting on the 25th of this month all I have to do is open lodge in November and December and I'm pretty much done. I'm back to where I was (lodge wise) in 2005.   

Anne is doing laundry and vacuuming and stuff around the apartment. I'm just enjoying my day off puttering around on the computer. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Holiday Monday was laid back

relaxing at home. I was mostly at the computer but I watched a bit CFL and did some Lodge stuff. At 5pm Anne brought out the Turkey and I watched the Oilers/Washington game. It started out good. Anne was face timing her sister in Sydney NS. I forgot Monday night Raw was on at 6pm so when the Oiler game soured I switched and watched what was left of Raw. For the most part Raw was a snoozer but the outcome of the last match was great.

From a link on the Coast website pointed me to this story about Amelia Earhart and how a research expedition is hoping to find her airplane. Starting about the middle of August 2014, the 30-day expedition will be carried out by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 76 years ago. You can read more about it here:
 
Also for the first time in over a decade I tried my wife's turkey. For some reason about 2002 or so, I got turned off her turkey dinners. I think it was because she had so much of it about 4 times/year. I used to like Turkey before I got married. I tried it again and it was surprisingly good.

This week I'm buckling down on Lodge stuff and I'm slated to work from 3-9 each day but I thought I had Saturday and Sunday booked off. I'll be talking with the boss about this when I get  in this afternoon. I think Saturday if I can get a ride out to Baseline, I'll go. If not then I'll take my laptop in for an upgrade. I'm not sure if I want to spend the $120 on the SSHD drive this weekend though. This upcoming Sunday I have more Lodge stuff at my place relevant to the opening sentence of this paragraph.

At the moment I'm enjoying a cold can of Pilsener beer. I don't know if single cans of beer could be purchased prior to 1993 here in Alberta. That's the year that the Alberta Liquor Control Board (ALCB) was privatized. Instead of the 12 or so outlets to get beer and wine in the city at that time, after privatization dozens of liquor stores popped up all over the place. I like our little Superstore liquor store across the street because we can buy 1 or 2 cans and they're open until 11pm 7 days week. I don't know if that was possible before privatization. This can of beer hits the spot and I don't have to worry about passing out because I don't have to get up as late as noon this afternoon.

Anne and I have been thinking about getting a couple of bicycles just to cycle around the neighborhood next summer. It's just to get out around town on the weekends but we'll need to get bike licenses from City Hall. I wouldn't buy one used because they could be stolen. We're thinking about getting them with our tax refund (if I get one) in the spring.  
Anyway, that's about all for now.

Its been a nice long weekend

but for me, it's just another weekend but one with pay, so I can't complain.

I was able to pick up my Komplete 8 from Native Instruments at LM Saturday and get the fiasco of Saturdays Tim's slomasal straitened up heading in after LM and home for the weekend. I was thinking on my way to Corona from Long, we could stop off at Rexall Drugs over there by Subway but there was 7-11 and I could accomplish the same thing there but I forgot to get my 6/49 ticket and Tim hadn't had enough time to pick his wife up and everything.

Yesterday I spent most of the day with Komplete 8. I played around with Guitar Rig 5 and had a good day off. Today it's CFL football and back at it for a full week for me.

Last night Anne did a rearrange on our bedroom so the stereo next door wouldn't bother us as much. After the Riders/Argo's game its more on Komplete 8 and Anne's doing laundry and I'm settling in to watch Monday night Raw.

That was a lame football game. 36-10 Riders. I was hoping for an Argo's Win. 

So lets see Felix Baumgartner is about to make a historic free fall drop from 120,000 feet tomorrow, wow!

Two movies this fall I'm interested in: James Bond "Skyfall" and Bruce Willis "Looper." I think the JB one is out in November but Looper should be in theaters this fall and I also want to see Batman: Dark Knight as well.

Anyway, it's another 3 hour Monday night Raw coming up soon, should be a good one. 

I'm having a nice Thanksgiving weekend then in about an hour Monday night Raw. Anyway that's all for now.