blizzard during my morning commute yesterday morning, I got to work on time. Actually despite just getting over my cold, all that talking (more so then usual) was playing havoc on my voice. The blizzard let up about my noon break. My 2 pm half hour was way too fast and even the Sun came out there for a bit. My 4pm break caused me to almost croak my voice was so dry. Even water didn't help or cough drops. Hot coffee helped a bit. I was relieved when super called for Time sheet. My commute home companion/co worker and I waited just as the blizzard showed up again. That's 2 weeks in a row we've had sown on a Saturday. I got home just before 7pm.
I've bee really trying to grasp this feud between Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger but my head spins just thinking
about it. Two Republicans goin gat it. And I don't even watch Celebrity Apprentice. All this stuff makes my head hurt.
At the moment I'm enjoying a cold Sleeman's (helps me sleep)
sleep) beer. That's me in the white shades behind Buddha.
Anyway, Coast this morning is lame. Tonight is a better show. Latter this afternoon, Anne is making our Sunday brunch and we're going to watch WWE Fast lane. That and the Oilers won last night. Life is good. Anyway, that's all for now.
as I asked the boss for today off instead of Saturday because there are more hours for Saturday. I get 7, instead of 4. Besides, if the Stanley Cup game is tonight, I'll be able to see it and if that's not enough, there's the Esks first pre season game and Smackdown. I have the night off to myself as a bonus.
My train yesterday arrived about 4:20pm at Corona station so I decided to take advantage of the patio at Subway and read out in the warm Sun before I headed into the office. After reading the paper in the lunchroom I logged my hours in and got right into it. I'm working from a Excel spreadsheet, so I don't need to log into a server. Work went by very slow as I didn't get one completion the whole night. I wasn't the only one. Closing time couldn't have come soon enough.
Ahh the memories, it was this weekend 34 years ago, was the first Sherwood park "Medieval days." This was a defining moment in my life because of that weekend I was able to resolve the weekend before when my girl friend dropped me. That was part of it, but it was also special because as the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) was the guest of honor at the event. I was flirting with the SCA, not that I was a member or anything. I was asked by the head of our dignitaries to lead the parade as hundreds of people watched. Why I was signaled out I don't know. Later the SCA was asked to meet in a huge nearby city building. We didn't know what to expect but we were surprised when we entered the building in darkness. The lights came as we looked up and saw thousands of people gave us a standing ovation. I always thought this was the Sherwood park arena but it was the leisure center. We sat down at specially designated tables and apparently they had a nice buffet arranged for the SCA and the organizers. Many of my colleagues at the time were disappointed shortly after organizers of this event began to play contemporary music and people would get up and dance. Some of us walked out in protest. It was quite a weekend. After looking at Google maps, the whole area where we had "Medieval Days" has changed drastically. The main grounds is now a man made lake. There's the Sherwood park arena, a baseball diamond, a foot race track, Festival Place and residential development. Thirty four years can do that.
Fast forward to 2014. I got home last night shortly before 10pm. Anne made me a burrito platter, we watched the news and I'm enjoying my Innis-Gunn original beer.
I'm going to try and read my book for a bit before bed and get up around noon today. Anyway that's all for now.
as the snow was melting and being burned off. I got my 6/49 ticket at the Clareview Redi mart and read a bit on my way in. I snapped a couple of photos I'm trying to get the server to accept but I managed to get one of George and I having a drink:
Lodge was interesting and I learned a few things as well. The festive board was in the lounge, which is always nice. They had a new beer I've never tried before Innes-Gun something. It looks like a wheat colored beer at 6.6 %. A very nice honey beer but at $6.50 a bottle it's not cheap. As an added bonus I not only got to have my meal free but also, they had a bourbon tasting and a raffle as well but you had to buy a ticket with the meal to win. The lodge master gave an interesting talk about bourbon's as well. I think it was a bottle of scotch. I had a taste of Booker's, smooth. I got a ride home from one of the other guys there, which was nice as I got in about 5:30. If it wasn't for the ride home, I would have stopped off at Century Casino to play a $20 and ride on that for a few hours.
I did some lodge email business when I got home and relaxed and watched some CBJ/Pens playoff hockey and passed out on the couch.
I got to get another job, something I can do 8-4:30 ish and have my evenings off for lodge or whatever. Hopefully something will present itself in the next few weeks.
Finally, I was going through a site about NW bands that played in the lower mainland of the past and checked out the dance hall tab. The last name was called The Zodiac and it was in the Tower's Hotel on 6th and Royal. I don't know if it's called The Tower's now or even if there's a lounge in there now. I didn't know the name of the pub then and now. It was only just this weekend I could put a name to this place. I remember a friend of mine and I went in for a drink and this was the first time I got asked for ID. I was a young looking 22 year old at the time. I was scrolling down the list of dance halls when the last name "The Zodiac," The Towers. Then the memory hit me like an epiphany. Anyway, that's all for now.
