Sleep was not very good to me over night only because

I was worried about my pcn appointment this morning. I got 2 reminder calls from them on a Saturday night and I was getting a bit annoyed, with 2 back to back calls. Anne said I was supposed to say accept. So I emailed my pharmacist saying I'll be there for my 10:15, and called pcn when I got out of bed about 8am to confirm my appointment. I was still good to go. I left out of here about 8:40am for Northgate under a nice pc sunrise, and headed to Tim's to get some breakfast. I settled on my usual breakfast sausage sandwich combo. No problems. I enjoyed my breakfast, kept my appointment and got enough insulin to last me until the end of February. I had a lengthy wait for my bus only because a snow blizzard developed. It tapered off on my commute home, and now the Sun is breaking through cloud. My afternoon commute looks good. When I got home I went to bed for an hour or so and rested. I didn't get any real sleep but I'm ok and no worse for wear.
 
Last night the Oilers won in Boston in OT. That's 6 consecutive wins. With that win the Oilers are right in the mix for that last playoff spot. There's a lot of hockey between now and the last game of the regular season in early April. The Oiler's are doing all of this without McDavid. 

At the office Christmas party last night, super announced we're going to go until December 23rd. My other boss called while I was out. Anne said I'm good to go for at least Thursday, and Friday but to call first Thursday just in case. By then I'll have at least 3 days in at my other job and I'll have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which is the 23rd. I'll have work, and still about 12 days off. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Tomorrow morning about

9:30 I'm on the road to my pcn and then to my place of employment to confirm any work for next week. While there I'll check my availability for this month and fill out a calendar for September. While downtown I'll pop into the 109th and Jasper employment agency to see about taking a possible course this fall. Other then that, not a lot going on this week. Also Thursday night while I'm at home I can watch the Esks/Al's game. That's the highlight of my week. 

There's been no word so far as to when and if our 15 month delayed Metro LRT line will open. There was supposed to be a audit report August 1st. Monday the Mayor said "Eventually." Huh? Apparently there is something about this August 17 so maybe we'll know what to expect from there. That's not a opening date. The City is still testing cars on the Metro line. The city is also hard at work on the early stages of the Valley line with building demolition at key areas along its route. By this time next year, Valley line lrt construction will be well under way. 

Anne's working this evening. We've had to put up with each other and the heat for the last 3 days. I'll be glad to get back to work because being held in limbo like this isn't doing any good for my self esteem. If the office calls me today, great I'm there. This is why I'm looking forward to pension folks. I'll  be out of the rat race. Anyway, that's all for now.

Later this evening its

Riders/Esks match up at Commonwealth. It should be a full house what with all the Rider fans in town. I'm looking forward to this one.

This after noon I have a 5pm appointment a few blocks North of Grant MacEwan university. It's on good old 107th Ave taking the #7. Then home to settle in and watch the football game. As far as I know I have this weekend (that could change by the time I head out of here at 4pm) off but I hope to be working Tuesday night one way or another. 

Also this evening is the 3rd annual Edmonton Comicon Expo. This weekend its people from "The Big bang theory" and others as well. I'd love to attend one of these days. This one is a lot bigger then the Comicon I used to go to with Ellen back in '79 at the Ramada Inn on Kingsway. 

Earlier yesterday afternoon I got a email from our upcoming lodge secretary to sign a form out to Grand Lodge. October is going to be a stressful month for me but after that its a easy slide out of the Worshipful Master's chair and I take the immediate past masters chair (or ipm) and no responsibility. It's been a long journey from being Tyler in 2008 to WM in 2014. I'll be relieved when it's our last meeting in December and I'm having a beer at the festive board. Looking forward to that.

I signed up to Fan Duel the other day (fantasy sports betting) and as soon as I get some funds together I'd like to get involved in that. Should be a lot of fun. If I bet $2 and gain $3, I'd be happy. Anyway that's all for now, "Go Esks Go!

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.

This morning I'm out of here

for my 10am at Northgate Centre. My wife isn't coming with me this round but I'm going to go to AW anyway, to set things up before I go to work from there. I'll get a bite to eat there at Northgate.

If you notice to the right, I retweeted week #3 of the excavation of the new downtown arena site. I think this shot is from the CN building. I'll be retweeting this every week:
 

Yesterday our accountant called back and I called home from work to get the news. I owe but the amount is small and that gets taken off from my gst. The amount I owe is about equal to the amount our accountant charge. So essentially I come out more or less even this year. My wife owes $4 bucks! It could have been a lot worse. So much for the new pc.

Update: This morning I caught the Northgate bus just outside here and even though it was a long 40 minute ride I was able to read more "False Gods." I got to Northgate and crossed the street at about 9:30am and had some McDonald's breakfast and found where I needed to be at the Primary Care Network. I had a chat with the Pharmacist it turned out to be very productive. My next appointment is April 3rd.  

Wednesday is a scheduled day off and I've got the green light to go ahead with that. Thursday is my eye appointment but I'm still in the office. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm in for my usual

5-9 this afternoon. I like the shift because it goes by fast and I can stay up late and sleep in late. Except for Saturday 10-6pm that is. It's a short week because of Family Day Monday. Even if we have another day project, I think I'll just work just 5 hours, from noon-5pm or something like that as I close in on my retiring years. 

About my 2nd job, which has been on hold for the month of February, starts Saturday March 1st. It doesn't look good that I'll be invited back. According to my super last night that works at my first job, she said the boss sent invitation letters out by mail last week. If I get a invitation to return, I'm making my 2nd job my primary job and work Saturdays at my current job, so at least I'm on the payroll of my first job. My 2nd job pays more but it's not steady and that's part of the problem. otherwise, I'd be there instead of where I'm working now. If I don't get a letter from my 2nd job, that's ok but it's going to have to be between today and Thursday of next week. I think the reason why I wouldn't be invited back would be because of that accusation made against me (unsupported) by one of the volunteers and that I was working just a few days/week. Those two things could go against me. As far as I know, I might even get a letter today from my 2nd job. I won't know until Anne comes back from work tonight.

Switching gears, I'm on the last 100 pages of "Horus Rising" of the Horus Heresy series and I should have the novel read by the weekend. I came across this one site which seems to be supported by the Black Library (BL) "Bolthole." I'm looking for fan fiction. The BL is publishing a Warhammer/Warhammer 40K short story on a weekly basis over the last few years. I have the first one. It makes sense to have a fan fiction site to get an idea of emerging writers that could advance to having their work go from armature to pro. I couldn't say, how many short stories BL has published so far and I get the email notices all the time. I'm enjoying this Horus Rising book though. 

This is the last weekend of the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. I haven't been able to enjoy much of this because of our current crisis with our washer and dishwasher. Also what with events on TV at odd hours due to Sochi being, what 11 hours difference? I've been following bits and pieces of the Olympics on the news and in the papers. We got 2 gold this week in women's Curling and Bobsled the other day and a gold today in women's speed skating. I think we have 7-8 gold medals. In mens ice hockey Canada beat USA in the semi finales today to go on and defend the gold Sunday! It's going to be Sweden/Canada. I'm going to have a front row seat watching this one.  

Our family Doctor's office reception called earlier to rebook Anne's appointment. I asked if I could book one as well March 5th. Mine's at 2:30pm. I want to get some blood work done and check for my diabetes. I haven't had that done since I became diabetic in 2004.

So far Anne's not doing anything about our washer/dryer crisis. She has (sort of) about our washer and we have that taken care of. We have until next Thursday to get our dishwasher out of our suite but they still have to give us written notice they are coming in to check and see both appliances are out of the premises. If not we will be faced with a eviction notice. Not an option what with a near zero % vacancy rate. One of the downfalls of have a strong economy. My wife knows what the options are but if nothing has been done by Wednesday about our dishwasher, then I'll be doing something about the it myself. I got a number of a guy with a hand dolly and a truck and I'll be calling him to have it hauled out Wednesday night. Anne has that number as well. If Anne hasn't done anything before, then she knows the consequences but keeping me in the dark like this wont do either. She says "I don't want to talk about this over the weekend." I have a couple of options as well and I'm sure she'll do the right thing. I'll be relieved when it's this time next week. Anyway, that's about all for now.