When I'm on pension

there will definitely be no more morning shifts. Every weekend will be a long weekend, except for lodge week and then I'll ask to come in from noon-6pm. Something like that I can handle once/month.

Thursday the Oilers gave special dinner to honor Glen Sather. Most of the Stanley Cup winning Oiler notables were there, including #99 himself. He couldn't make it for the raising of Sather's name but the banner raising was quite touching. It was a memorable night. There's just one more name that they need to raise to the rafters: Joey Moss. He was the equipment manager for the Oilers during those years. Gretzky befriended him in the beginning. Not just all of the above, but the Oilers won their 5th straight win. That hasn't happened in a long time. Also, with those 2 points last night brought the Oilers within 2 points of the last play off spot. What with the upcoming road trip I doubt that's going to hold up for long. When McDavid comes back, I think the Oilers have a chance of making the play offs this campaign. 

As for this weekend, I'm out of here shortly before 9 for my 10am shift. I'll get my very small cheque work out the afternoon to my bank and home by 7pm for the rest of the night. Sunday, its a repeat of today except no bank. just straight home. I'm looking forward to a break over the Christmas holidays.

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.