Underway at this moment is NAMM 2015

National Association of Music Merchants, commonly called NAMM in reference to the organization's popular NAMM trade shows. Every year its a different city. This year NAMM 2015 is in Anaheim, California. What I like so far from NAMM this year is Roland's JD-X1 synth. The price is something I can afford. Teenage Engineering has released these cool Pocket Operators. The size of a calculator these mini step sequencers fit in the pocket and have a big sound. They sync up to each other and can sync to a daw for about $60 bucks each. They have 3 units in their line up so far.

Saudi Arabia's King abdullah bin abdulaziz al saud passed away. The SA King was instrumental in having SA increase oil productivity last fall. How this will play out when Opec meets in June will be very interesting.

If I'm not working Sunday Anne wants me to go to the WEM Scotia bank theatre, and use our scene points so I can see Royal Rumble. That sounds like a great idea. I can get a bite to eat use my Chapters/Indigo $25 gift card to buy a Warhammer 40k book. Then go to the show. Sounds like fun. 

Finally we know what's going to happen to the old Greyhound bus depot location downtown: Cinneplex (after the site is demolished) is building an adults-only multiplex theatre where patrons can reserve seats and order food and beverage from them. There's going to be a bar in there etc. Tickets might cost more then the City Centre theatres at the CC mall. Its a good fit for the EAD as the new 50 story Delta hotel will be virtual across the street from the theatre district.

So if I don't get schedule for next week in my email later today, (I can take 3 days would be an exception) then Monday I'm making a few phone calls. I'm looking to get something to fill in for a couple of days instead. I know of a few disposable type jobs I can "sign up" for. If I can get them that is. Update: I got a schedule (of sorts) I've got 4 hours Wednesday, Thursday and 10-6 on Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now.

Yeesh. That's about all I can say for now

I can't site any details but yesterday I lost  my job. I spent 12 years and 3 months at it. I was always on time for all my shifts. I did the best that I could. It's the end of an era. The worst part of all of this is I worked with some great people that I'm going to really miss. They were like my family. There's an empty feeling in my stomach right now. I'm not going to dwell upon it here as I can't say anything. Suffice to say I'm going to be ok, no need to panic or anything.

One thing is understood: I'm canceling my website until I can obtain something steady. My website saw me post 1723 blog posts. Many of those entries were excerpts out of my diary and or  copies from Blogger. Of course I'll keep my Blog open here. Maybe I'll come back to the website this time next year, we'll see. As for my 2Gb internet tablet at $37/month, I cancelled that yesterday afternoon. I'm back to the Flex plan at $5/month for 10Mb but I have wifi and my home internet. 

This morning I'm back in the office with some papers to sign and I'm picking up my last cheque on Friday. Next week, I'm applying for my CPP. I didn't want to do this so soon but it's necessary to get on it right away. I'll probably do this Thursday and next week I'm going to register for Alberta Works and get that thing going. 

I have 2 big bills to pay off, LM and my Lodge dues and also my current bill for my tablet. Not the $5 one.

One thing, I've got some time do get some reading done, that's for sure and maybe even go to Commercial next Saturday. I'm also learning the WM opening and closing charge, which is quite substantial but with all this on my mind it's going to be tough to sleep tonight. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I didn’t sleep

well over night. Not even the warm glass of milk helped. I was up until about 4:30 this morning working on a music track in FL Studio 10. I want to get the update 10.5 but I can’t view my licenses for some reason.

It‘s been a rough week so far. I got six Tuesday morning, I lost 4 hours of work, I bought a credit card I can‘t use where I want to use it, my sales volume has been low all week, I busted a tooth last night (diabetes) The only good news was winning that $10 on my 6/49 draw and Anne buying me that new windbreaker and this morning I couldn’t sleep. I got 2 more days off and Saturday, I‘m going to buy my Tim‘s breakfast and bring $25 with me to head over to the casino have a beer and relax and play the penny slots.

It was on this week 32 years ago I moved out of the Meyer house. They were getting freaked out over my (Wicca) “occult activities.” Of course I can understand my land lady‘s concern, with her and her husband being Pentecostal supporters and all. I wasn‘t into Thelema when I first moved into that house just behind where Peoples Church is now. Matter of fact if I hadn’t stumbled into Thelema chasing Ellen around I would have probably had thought I was a bit off my rocker as well. I moved in there almost a month after mom and dad moved back to Coquitlam my home town. My stay there was October 1979-June 25th 1980. I never had a woman in my room but it wasn’t much bigger then my office here. It was my land lady‘s nosing around into my business that eventually led to my decision to leave. It was an ugly scene when I left and I didn’t have to much with me to pack either. I even have the hand written letter or a copy of it I made just before I moved out of that residence.

Today I got 7.5 hours ahead of me and it‘s the NHL entry draft. I don‘t really care because the Oiler‘s can have all the star power they want to but if Nikolai Khabibulin still ends up being our starting goal tender we‘re going to win about 50% of our games with Dubnyk and less with NK The result is going to be similar to last season near last place. We could have all the first round draft picks in the world but if we don’t have that goal tender, then all we’re going to be is just a team that doesn’t make the playoffs. And of course Hall gets injured every Spring and gets taken out about 2 weeks before the regular season. 

And the Eskimo’s are no better. Last night they lost hosting BC 24-16. That’s 2 pre season losses now. We lost all of our 3 pre-season games, Toronto, Calgary and last night BC. It’s tough being a Sports fan in the “City of champions.”

So, today being payday, I’ll have a full 37.5 hours on my check and at 8:30 I’ll be heading towards my bank RBC bank cash my check and head for home to work on my track and watch some Smackdown have a bite to eat and then done for the day. Anyway, that’s all I have for now.  

The 1st part of the shift

 went really well and hat set the tone for the rest of the day. I had a excellent day for a change. 

After work I headed over to Audrey‘s and all the lights were off. Uh oh. There was one person behind the till on the phone and I got her attention and she said through the doors that RJS had asked to start a bit early and they were all done by 8:30pm but he did sign a few of his books and I asked if they could hold one for me for Saturday. No problem.I had a pleasant ride home and waited for the bus in the nice mild Spring air pleased with my day. Other then missing RJS, today would have been an excellent day. Still was.

I got home to notice the LA/Vancouver game was just nearing the end of the 1st period, tied at 1. I caught the 2nd period, and LA pulled ahead and Vancouver tied it at 2. Just ready to start the 3rd. Good stuff, anyway that's all for now..

I updated my

My pages above and added new content and images.

Another update

Anne called at about 7:30pm and we had a nice chat. We decided tomorrow we’re going to get Sugar a new budgie mate for her. Nothing will ever replace Chirpie. I think he really loved Sugar and it showed every time he’d sit on the ramp outside his cage. So sad.


I’m having relaxing night. I post a lot of stuff over on my Blogger blog because it gets very little traffic and I can get more personal. One thing I’m considering doing is establishing my own “school of mysticism” and publishing this on Blogger and maybe some hard copy books off of Lulu or something like that before I go. My legacy if you will. This system will be a bit of magic/Freemasonry but Fm for both men and women/co masonry. I call this new system, “Mygick.” Its going to be a massive undertaking. Its been percolating in the back of my mind for years now. Most likely I’ll never see it realized and at his point its only a dream.

I watched the last part of Smackdown earlier and had fun with it. I’m getting the makings of a virus of some kind. I got the scratchy throat and runny nose.

This weekend is going to be interesting. “Saturday” is my only day off and I have the practice to go to for Sunday. I still don’t know what time the practice is on. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

A bit of an update

Now it’s some 12 hours later. This morning was another easy going morning. I was at the corner of 106th st and Jasper across the street from BP’s facing East as usual. It was nice and mild out there as it felt like +2 and it probably was. I got to my station and Gerry tells us we’re moving to res for today. I thought, maybe I should stay until noon and take care of business and go out to eat. So I hung around the office and made some business calls which didn’t pan out. Then I sat around by the reception chatting with Angela until I finally got up to leave around 1pm. Then I headed downstairs hoping Rami was in and I could chat with him but no dice. I loitered around the pharmacy but then decided I could kill better time maybe riding the LRT. So I walked around to Jasper and back the way I came from this morning. I got the train to Clairview and rode it to Century park. That took about an hour. Then while about crossing the North Saskatchewan river bridge downtown I thought. I can get off downtown at Central station below the bank and call Anne if she was up. She was and I said, “Gerry let us out early so I’m at the bank.” (We don’t have the cell phones up and running this week.) So I went and cashed my check at the ATM took out $180 but again talking with Anne we didn’t think this was right. She checked her balance on the home laptop and she had $514 in her account. “Hurry home so I can use the bus pass.” That’s when I realized, I had to put back in her account $100. So back upstairs and 2 people rushed in ahead of me and a small line up of 4. Shit. The line up went by fast though. I put the money in and when the train came by took it home hoping I could still meet with her at Clairview but 3 trains went by me the other direction before I even got to Belvedere. I waited around for her 4 buses she could have taken but no Anne. I went home and paid the balance of the rent. Anne called just before 4pm and we sorted everything out. She has $150 in her account and I have $150 here to work with towards FL studio I’m holding onto the $100, which Monday at noon goes into my Scotia account. I got $15 in my RBC account and what’s left over from Sunday’s dinner will last me the week. Next week I’ll get about $315 and they’ll take out maybe $31 for taxes. I’ll get $60. I’m just wondering if I should just wait until I get my income tax return and vacation pay and order FL then?



I might decide to work tomorrow anyway because I need the money. 35 hours will get me about $320. Other then FL studio at Fs I want the keyboard of course but also the New Itouch 4th gen.