Its a gloomy rainy day out there but its bark looks worse

then its bite. The plan later this afternoon is to head up the street to the Manning shopping centre area for brunch at Smitty's but once Anne takes a look out at that weather, will she even want to go? I don't care myself. Its only a short walk. Our options are limited today because to the lrt needs to shut the Clareview to Corona portion of the line down to accommodate a contractor doing utility work on the Valley line. Once a month doesn't go by when the ETS has to shut the half the lrt Capital line down. They have replacement buses which work well.  

I got the webcam C270 software to work with the laptop. Its for the most part pretty good. I've got to tinker with the gain/contrast a bt more. The but in all of this has to do with their "Gallery sharing" to YouTube/Twitter and Facebook. They don't work. Gallery interface doesn't recognize my YouTube account. Other posters on YouTube with the same webcam have issues with Facebook, nothing happens. The work around is the initial opportunity to have the finished video sent to their "Motion detection" folder. From there, I can drag the video out to my laptop's desktop and, then drag and drop it onto a flash drive then into my desktop already open YouTube account and publish from there. Everything else with the webcam works except their sharing aspect and apparently Logitech's tech support isn't that user friendly. Still with music, I'm considering the iELectribe for my iPod Touch. Its a cool app for about $16 bucks and I've been looking at the iKaoss pad for the iPhone. Garage band has added a Audiobus like feature to its eco system but on my single core iPod Touch processor makes the outcome in Garage band clip too much. I'm not sure if this is a product of the hardware or the software. 

At the moment I'm having my first coffee waking up. I woke out of bed at noon today. Anne wants me to wake her up at 2pm. Last night I won a free 6/49 lottery ticket by hand picking 2 numbers Friday. Plus my Calgary/BC Lions CFL game came in my favour last night. I have 3 NFL games on that ticket. Two to win and one to tie. I got the NFL picks from the Brady and Walker show Friday before I left for work. I'm curious as to see how these games will play out for $83 bucks. 

If we get out for brunch ok, if not ok as well. Tonight the Oiler's are in Chicago. On the Oiler's website the poll asks "How many games will the Oiler's win on this (CFR) road trip. Most respondents are more optimistic then I am. they say 2 games. I say 1. This road trip will be a good road trip for Eberle to get back into the swing of things. If anything its going to put the Oiler's 2nd from last place. The CFR screws the Oiler's up every season. Its hard to play 500 hockey when your on the road so much. The schedule is not very kind to the Oiler's. Never has been. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Not a whole lot of things have been going on

over the past few days. I was down at Employabilities the other day and they couldn't do anything for me because I have a job, even though I don't have any work. 

Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of what is often referred to as 9/11. September 11 2001. Wow, hard to believe it was 14 years ago. I remember on the bus heading into work that morning when Xentel was on 115th and Jasper. Anne was working at the Legion and still had the car. I recall in the bus close to the window on my right side passing City TV. They have flat screen tv's embedded into the front of the building as they still occupy The Bay on the corner of 103rd and Jasper. I remember just half awake noticing a bunch of bystanders collecting around on the corner. When I got into the office the place was buzzing. I heard all kinds of things: airplanes were bombing cities all over the world, to something going on in New York City. Over the course of the day I gradually pieced everything together. I met Anne at the Legion that day and we were in shock. I wasn't even in my 50's then. Crazy. 


I took the above image from a colleagues Facebook page. How fitting as it sums up my life today.

With a bit of time on my hands I called the Provincial adult health benefit program prompted by a letter I received from Alberta monitoring for diabetes. They said that if I was turned down for Provincial benefits I'd need a letter from them stating that, to qualify for diabetes benefits. So I called them the other day and they said I didn't need to have income from last year, they could process it based upon this year to date. The threshold for a married couple with no children is $28K. No way did Anne and I make close to that this year. Monday I've got to get to my bank and get my statements year to date and Anne's got to get hers. I've got a name and a phone number. If we qualify, then I might be able to get my dental work done up. Actually it would make more sense for the first Q of 2016 because when my place of employment shuts down in August I'll be able to utilize that time off to get it done. But it depends on how long that process is.

This weekend for my CFL Proline picks, I picked Hamilton/Argo's (Argos to Win), Riders/Winnipeg (Bombers to win), Stamps/Esks, Stamps to win. On a $3 ticket, if all 3 are correct, I'd win $60. Last nights game at one point in the 1st Q it was tied at 7. At half time it was a Hamilton landslide. Argo penalties were killing them. The Argos mounted a bit of a come back in the 2nd have and tried a hail Marry to tie a 35-27 Hamilton lead but the receiver coverage was too much for the home time. So much for my ticket. Across the street there's supposed to be a Shoppers Drug Mart going in. They have a lottery booth in their stores (which means I could go across the street when it opens and still get another ticket for the 3 remaining games for today and Sunday.) Anyway, that's all for now.

What with having

so much time off, even though its Christmas week, it doesn't look like I'm going to get any work next week with only 1 day off next week, it doesn't look like I'll get a schedule until that first week in January. We're doing ok though.

While Joe Cocker was a legendary British rocker from my generation I wasn't really a fan. I vaguely recall him doing that song "Up where we belong" in 1982 and he had other hits as well. Most of my generation recall him from Woodstock. Cocker died at the age of 70 from lung cancer.

My 4 fd picks were good, except the results were not very good. I barely got 16.3 as most fd players picked the Ottawa/Washington game. First position's score was 45.2 against the last in the top 10 was 37.8. I had 2 decent players in my line up. I just picked the wrong game. 

In the Horus Heresy series I began to wonder how many Horus short stories do I have. BL publishes a lot of them. In one of the Horus series I have "Tales of treachery" and that has a good bunch, and about 5 other Horus books have others as well. I have 33 short stories including some pulled from the audio books I currently have. Coming out in April is "Legacies of Betrayal" and that anthology has 20 short stories in it. Of course that's not all of the shorts BL has published. Anyway, not much going on today 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!

My ride is going to call

me in about an hour to say she is on her way for a 8:30am pick up. Then we go to Westmount to pick up somebody else and then the McDonald's drive through and into the office and I'll have my breakfast before I start and it's a fast 4 hour shift. I'm done at 1:30pm, sweet. 

This afternoon I'm catching a bus to wem then to Campus and then to Audrey's books. I probably wont be able to pick anything up today. That wont happen until the 23rd. That's another 2 weeks away yet. I haven't had a pay cheque in almost 3 weeks. If it wasn't for my proline winnings last week, I'd be broke and even now, I'm living off of that. I'll be able to afford breakfast and another $2 proline ticket because my first pick yesterday ended up in a tie game. The RB's/Esks (much to the delight of we the fans) was a Eskimo win. I still have 2 cfl games left for today and if I can get to a booth before 3:3pm I can still make a pick. Its a parley of 3 games minimum but there World Cup is on Sunday and I can include that as a proline tie or Argentina win, since it's kind of like a Home game for them. So it's Calgary/Argo's Argo's to win and BC/Riders,I don't know about this. I'm going to go for a tie game here.W, T, T. It's only $2.

Then after that, I'm going to head for home and enjoy my weekend. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Just for the record

I'm not gay but I'm not going to come out and bash gay people because they are, it's their business. A bit of a rant coming up. The only problem I have with gays is this preoccupation every year to hold a Pride parade. I know why they have it. I don't understand why they need to have a parade every year to celebrate they're sexuality. Last year when I was working on a hot Summer Saturday afternoon I watching the Pride parade on my way to Corona station to get the LRT for home. I made eye contact with someone on a float and I gave a thumbs up. As I left I heard someone behind me say the F word in my direction. That's just a sample of hateful people in this world and the cretins we have that can't let others different then them live in peace. Your Gay, so what and if anyone says you can't do this or be this because your gay, is not what I'm about. In Russia they have a zero tolerance policy for their gay people. That's not a country I'd like to live in. Our country is inclusive of every religion and sector of our society. If my gay friends are persecuted I'll stand shoulder to shoulder and support them in anyway I can. I thank God I was born in this country.

I found this story in today's i09. A Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed a medieval bronze ring that might have been used for political murders some 700 years ago. You can read about it here.

Yes, I know. I had the Al's to win on my Proline ticket and in a real thriller, they won based on a field goal at the last second: 38-39! I needed the Al's to win but by more then 3 points. I've got another chance to redeem myself as tonight it's Calgary at Toronto, maybe I should pick them to tie. The Argo's might win 34-37, that's a tie Proline win. I'm going to pick all ties. Better odds as well, better payout.

Thanks to Coast For this: On this day in 565, the Irish monk St. Columba is said to have made the first sighting of the Loch Ness "monster." I'm surprised the monk wasn't executed for witchcraft for reveling his assertion. The monk was probably staying at Urquhart Castle.

I was going to go into Canada place this afternoon but we have to give Sporty his fluids before Anne leaves for work. He took them well yesterday. When the bag is gone he should be ok. I'm up about 10am to go down to the Superstore get my Proline ticket for the last 3 CFL games this weekend and maybe a bag of chips as well. Minimum games on a CFL Proline ticket is 3. 

Uh-oh another rant. "What's he going on about this time?" There's a movement in Quebec that's trying to ban all forms of religious head gear such as hijabs, turbans and kippas. The rational is to separate religious groups based upon what they wear so that they are Quebecker's first and religious supporters second. A lot of businesses don't allow t-shirts with sports logos, or mussel shirts, that sort of thing. They have a dress code. I don't agree with it this kind of behavior. If someone wants to wear a turban so what? Their not trying to convert anyone. The worst offenders of that behavior are Christians, especially people that have bibles at their desk. So now Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is looking into it, yeesh. Can we hold another referendum on Quebec separation please? It's been known to happen. Anyway, that's about all for now.

There are several

options open to me here. I can upgrade from the two pc cases I have mATX and ATX and build a pc from within those two chassis or buy a pre-built system. A pre-built system is a lot more expensive then a custom built i7 quad core,1-2 TB 32 bit Ram system. Or I can buy a laptop and put in a ssd drive but that limits my Ram to 16 Gb. A custom built mATX system means I can add 32 Ram. There are a few places in town that will do it for about the cost of a 25 inch iMac, that's my budget. Then iMac fans will say buy a Mac. Well that's fine and well but the local Apple store can't do upgrades you either have to buy it configured and it gets shipped to the customer not an option and too much of a headache.

Some people think I live in a shell that I don't have a life outside of going to work and come home watch TV. First of all, I watch very little TV maybe 13 hours a week. I read a lot of books, about 6 per year and these are not comic books or graphic novels. Other then July and August, I'm in volved in my Mason Lodge and out visiting other Lodges. When I'm not doing that I'm working on my music production and take my wife out to dinner once every other week. This weekend we're going to K-days after she gets off work Saturday night plus I have my job and those hours always change some weeks I'm working 9-5 while others I'm working from 1-9

Coast last night was pretty good (from what little I listened of it) and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK is just around the corner. Whether you believe in the Warren Commission's report of a lone gunman or there was a cover up its a case that still echos even today 50 years since the incident. The FBI has thousands of pages of unclassified information they wont release until 2017 or even 2029. What are they afraid of?

Late yesterday afternoon I was watching a bit of the Hamilton/Riders game. I had Hamilton to win on my Proline, the finale score was 0/37 Riders! What was I thinking! Anyway, that's all for now.

A bit of a break today

as I'm in for 1pm-9pm but there's some training in there so it's going to be a bit easier. I'm up a bit latter this morning and even if I'm in bed by 3 this morning, I can still get 7.5 hours of sleep. Good deal.

On local news earlier they had a spot on a activity called Parkour. For those not in the know it is a historic activity In Western Europe, a forerunner of Parkour was French naval officer Georges Hébert, who before World War I promoted athletic skill based on the models of indigenous tribes he had met in Africa. Some of the moves you might have sene are: Running towards a high wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall.using a rolling motion to help absorb large impacts to name a few out of Wikipedia. There is a training "school" of sorts here in Edmonton but it's mostly for young people. I admire the athleticism and skill involved.

The train derailment in Lac-Megantic in Quebec over last weekend is taking a tragic turn for the worse. Investigators in the red "zone" are pulling out more bodies. I heard on the news that there are 20 dead. It's now a criminal investigation.

I never did win on that Star Trek scratch n' win ticket and the Riders beat out the Argo's in this evenings CFL outing. I've got my 3 games on the ticket so I can still put another $2 to win for the double header on Saturday. Odds for those games are 7.5 x $3 would still be $22.50 to win. That's are dinner at the food court Sunday!Anyway, that's about all for now.

 

That was a great way to

come off a mediocre week yesterday on the job. One of my better days this week and my name at least has been in the draw for the LED TV the office is giving away.

On my Proline ticket this weekend, I had MTL/HAM, Hamilton W, then I had CLE/BAL, Ravens W, yesterday it was Edmonton/Calgary. I picked T with an Edmonton W but Calgary spoiled my chance to win this week defeating the Esks 15-39. The other 3 games on this weeks ticket are now moot. If I won all 6 games, I would have won $298.60. I should have picked Calgary, all Home teams to win. However, I did manage on a Lotto Max quick pick not to win the $40M but I did win a free Max ticket towards next weeks draw.

About an hour after I woke up this morning I heard Boots crying below, so I went out to get him. He wont go out ground level during daylight. He’s on the chair outside sleeping in the nice weather. Tomorrow our nice weather is about to change.

Not much going on this weekend, I have a Doctor Who episode to watch and a Lodge financial report to write to present that in Lodge. It’s not a big deal. I can sum it up in about the length of the Proline paragraph above. I have a vague idea how much the BBQ made, which was about 10% of the break even cost. It made a bit of money but the idea is that the bbq isn’t supposed to be a money maker. It’s for the members to socialize a bit before Lodge resumes in September. I could have done things a bit differently like print and sell tickets and plan for that.

This morning, I’m heading into Tim’s for breakfast and having it there. Then into the office. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

It was a nice uneventful train

into the office but I stopped in at Tim’s long enough to get a bottle of diet Cola and waited outside for my colleagues to show up.

I got a few sales on OPC but nothing like Thursday day. I had 3 sales all day and they weren’t very good and some of us had lousy totals even worse then me and that ‘s not saying much.

Tim asked me if I was taking the train home but only if we could  make a pit stop at Tim’s. I got a small bowl of lasagna and a donut and we got a crowded bus to the game of Eskimo fans. The trains sure emptied out at Commonwealth. I was home by 5:30pm listened to a bit of music and had my lasagna and watched some of the football game passing out on the couch. At the half the Esks were leading 15/10 but they let the game get away as the outcome was 18/19 BC. A Pro-line tie. There goes my ticket. I won $25 on the NFL office pool, so that’s good news and my picks are in for the weekends NFL games. Warren and I had a double or nothing and he won that back, so I had a loss kind of a day all way around.

Despite all of this, it was a beautiful warm autumn day out there at +25. I’ll take it. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate today a 7. Not good but not great only because it’s the end of the week and the weather is nice. I think the reason for my flat kind of a day was because I had a bit of a soar throat. Anyway, that’s about all I have for today.

around here lately.
 
Saturday's NHL lockout and my Sunday meeting at the Lodge have been my 2 big days in the last 4 since my last post.

So here we go again, the owner of the Edmonton Oiler's he's now giving some new stipulations to city council about a new downtown arena that the city must now pay out the $6M/year in operating costs and that the city must be one of the anchor tenants in a new office tower before he'll agree to go ahead with the new arean. I thought we already had a deal with some minor things to work out? So does this mean that the Billionaire owner from Edmonton who believes in our City and a long term vision for the Oilers here in Edmonton is having second thoughts? Is this another NHL owner is about to hold it's hockey team over our heads and threatening to move the team if it doesn;t get its way here in Edmonton? We've been down a similar path before. Let me guess: "We're in negotiation's with the City of Quebec to bring an NHL team to that City and if a new arena doesn't get built in downtown Edmonton, then I'll move the club there." Anything can happen but not only is the future of the NHL in contentions but also the Edmonton Oiler's.

The other highlight over the weekend was watching the recent Doctor Who episode a "Town called Mercy." It was really good.

Also yesterday I learned I won in our NFL pool for week 2, which is $25! Plus last night I had a decent total for a change, so I can't complain I got above line hour. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Ouch

it's 3-44 Winnipeg/Calgary. My CFL tie game prediction on  my Proline ticket is taking a real shellacking. Even before it has the time to get off the ground. 

It was very mild for this time of year heading into work this morning. One of my colleagues (Darryl) boarded the train at Belvedere station and sat with me down to Carona and into the office and. In one word today can be summed up as Disaster! I had 1 sale for $15 all day. Some of my peers were doing no better. I called Anne at break and had a chat. She wanted to borrow $20 from me but that's no problem. I had a nice lunch and thought I'd have a better second half. X. But I got a few more sales and ended up with $80. I got a nice cheque and my stat pay, my cheque ended up equal to have our rent, nice. Now if I worked Monday night, I could have had Saturday off. Oh well. I'll have a nice check next week. I think (if I still have my job next week) I'll be able to get Melodyne editor 2.0 and still have about $40 for the week. 

Anyway, its a full day tomorrow. After work, if I'm up to it I'd like to head over to Wendy's but we'll see.

This was from yesterday and some of today

getting about 11:30am took my insulin and had some cereal and did some stuff on the computer for a couple of hours. Then my wife got up later and I had a shower and she made lunch then went down to pay the rent and I walked down to the LRT and waited for her to join me. We had a go there on the train for awhile. I got my cheque at the office and a diet cola to take with me to my bank. It was very warm out there this afternoon. I cashed my cheque and headed back on a crowded train and at Clareview I went to the Redimart for my weekend Proline fun and a 6/49 ticket for tomorrow night. Where I got off the bus I went to the Dollarrama and got a big old bag of chips for my Calgary/Esks game tonight and I watched some ATOS and UFO hunter.

I've never seen this UFO Hunter before but it's a decent show. They were talking about "Orbs." These are bizzar globes of light that do unusual things and nobody knows what they are. One case was how 3 dogs chased these orbs and the owner saw the dogs go after this Orb but got out of his sight and moments later heard the dogs cry out and when he got to where they were they were liquified. The invistigaters don't know who or what is behind these things. I'm wondering if anyone has ever had a chance to shoot at them with a rifle? Personally I don't know enough about them I like this UFO hunters, good show. 

That was a fun CFL game last night, even though I felt bad for the Esks that they hadn’t won a labor day rubber match in 6 years at Commonwealth, the game wasn’t without it’s dramatics. There was a “fire drill” play at the end of the 2nd half the Esks got a couple of intercepts, and with 1 play on the clock within field goal range, the Esks kicker from 42 yards kicked the last play off and it hit’s the uprights: Dead play. Stamps won 20-18 and my Proline ticket is alive. All 4 games I picked to tie and if they all tie (fat chance) I could win $447!

We had a bit of trouble trying to get a iM message through that Anne couldn’t get out to her sister in Winnipeg that also owns a iPad. I called Telus tech support and we first tried to see if Safari was working. Check. Then we figured it must be because Donna had her iM off. Tech support also suggested I turn the iPad off for a bit with the recall button or whatever that thingy button is on top. I did and nothing. Anne was on her way home. Then I tried to attach a photo and sent the message through with a photo and it went through. I also sent a follow up message and got that through. I think it works fine. Also I got my iPad plan augmented I get 2Gb internet memory for $35/month, good deal.

I got today and Sunday off and my week off is over. I go back Monday night for 4 hours for 35.5 on the week and off next Saturday for Lodge and our Lodge BGP meeting the Sunday following. Anyway, that’s about all for now. 
Anyway, that's all for now 

Not much going on today

I was checking out this documentary on The Money pit on oak island. Fascinating subject but when I went to my topics page, I discovered I have 2 topic pages and the video's I put in there somehow vanished. I probably for got to save them but I'll try again and fix them. But here's the 5 part YouTube documentary on the money pit. This is part 1 

Later this afternoon the Esks are in Toronto playing the Argo's. Should be a good game but on a Monday?  As far as I know this is the only game in the CFL schedule that is being played on a Monday night, why?

Over this last weekend the Fringe festival wrapped up and Sunday at Giovanni park the Italian cultural club had an East meets West festival where you could be "Italian for a day." Looks like they had a lot of fun. Anne and I were talking about taking a bus out there to the Italian bakery I'd like to go there because it's one of the few places that I know of that has off track horse race betting here in Edmonton.

With so many festivals going on the City crams them all into a 2 month time frame to take advantage of the kids out of school. They go back after the Labor Day weekend, then I can get my ETS LRT schedule back that takes a break from July 1st to the end of the Labor Day weekend. But there's enough festivals out there to go from May 1st to the Labor Day weekend.

I'm making slow progress in my book that I'm reading but I read a bit each day. I'll probably have about 4 books read by the end of the year when usually I'll have between 8-10. It's not a race or anything.

Other then the CFL game this evening, I'm watching Monday night Raw wrapping up a few things and bed. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

A huge change in the

 weather. During our recent heat wave, by this time of the morning we’d be about +18 but this morning we’re at +10. A lot more comfortable.

I can only wish for the same on my job. To be fair they actually lowered the line hour requirement for the source I‘m on. I didn’t make line hour (lh) as I was out only by $15 but the bulk of my sales were on card. For the last 3 weeks I’ve been working only 33.5 hours though. Any day though can be different then the next.

Looks like there’s another provincial by election coming up in BC now. An NDP MPP there has resigned. That’s 3 now, Kitchener-Waterloo, and the other in Vaughn.

Lately I’ve been doing some research on Hanna Reitsch. She was a test pilot for the Nazi’s in WW2.  She was the first woman to ever receive the Iron Cross (medal) first woman ever to fly a helicopter and to fly one indoors. She was also the first woman ever to fly a jet plane. What made her exploits even more fascinating to me being a WW2 buff, was how she flew under heavy Soviet fire General Von Griem in a small a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch improvised airstrip in the Tiergarten near Hitler’s bunker April 28th 1945 a few days before the end of WW2. The Storch had a damaged fuel tank before it landed. Reitsch and Von Griem used an Arado Ar 96 trainer to leave Berlin but who’s to say that the Hitler’s were not in that plane? A very interesting woman. She died young at the age of 67 in 1979.

My 4 games/Proline ticket last night died as Hamilton/Montreal tied. I had Montreal to win. I’m getting another Proline for the remaining 3 games and picking ties.

Well, today is another full day on the job. I hope I have a better go of things then I did over the last couple of days but I’m  not that far away from having lh for the week. Tonight after rework, I’m doing my banking and home. I’ve got a “X-Wing” Star Wars book to pick up at Audrey’s Saturday. Anyway, that’s about all for now.
 
Yesterday I had a problem with my Google account but the issue is fixed now, so no problem.

I was in good spirits earlier but still only 2 sales all day. I didn’t even get $100 on the day. I might have $600 on the week. I think the reason why I didn’t do that well was because it’s a Friday.

Well it was 25 years

ago, Friday was our infamous "Black Friday." hard to believe it was 25 years ago on that afternoon. I was 34 years old working for the Army & Navy Cobogo warehouse (now called Cobogo lofts) I recall a torrent of rain while I was standing on the roof of Cobogo enjoying the rain on a slow work day. I didn't know what was really happening until I got home (9710 156th street #305) about 5pm that afternoon. When I got home my caretaker (I was paying the rent) had said how we had got a Tornado. We were looking at the sky from her 2nd floor balcony facing West and some of the clouds were actually green. I got a call from my parents living back home in Coquitlam BC (lower mainland) hoping I was alright. On the news later it had been confirmed that 27 people had been killed. It still brings back memories 25 years later.

 
At this moment, I'm not that far away from the location in this video.

We'll I'm back to work in the morning. Not a lot going on for today. It's just a regular 8 hour working day.

I was reading in "Above Top Secret" just now that James Holmes' father is Robert Holmes who is about to testify within the next few weeks before a US Senate panel on the largest bank fraud scandal in world history that is currently unfolding and threatens to destabilize and destroy the Western banking system. I don't know if we can connect the dots here or anything but it's interesting coincidence.

Apparently James Rhodes is still going to be playing the role of Captain America "The Winter soldier." This is the working title of the proposed film and I hope they stick with it. I like it. Captain America is one of my favorite comic book hero’s, still is.

Coast has a bunch of soft shows this week. Nothing to get excited about.

There's only 2 CFL games on this week because it's a by week. Two teams from the East and Two teams from the West play. Four teams only 2 games until all teams have a week off. Maybe there's a MLB game I can parley against the two teams. or I might just wait until the normal schedule returns in week #8. The CFL does this every year. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

to tie, did. I picked the Riders to win but that game was tied and the Argo game last night was tied. A tie game in Proline/CFL is within 3 points and now it's half time and BC/Calgary and this game looks like its going to be a 3 point game. I'm picking all ties next week.

What a day I had today doing OPC and I got $30 bucks worth of bonus money last night and $10 today, so I'm going to have a nice check next week. Other then a few days of low totals and the couple of fights Anne and I had and made up, this week has been really good. I needed that solid day today.

I haven't got things firmed up for Fort Edmonton for next weekend but I'll call tomorrow just to make sure that my volunteer partner and I are on the same page here for next weekend.

After work as I stated briefly in a Twiter post I went Audrey's said I'd pick up  my 2 Star Wars books and after that I went to Rexall Drugs to get a 6/49 ticket then to Tim's for some of their lasagna and it was really good and it filled me up. I just took the train after that and of course the usual 5 minute wait in the tunnel. All in all today was a great day except that last hour where nothing was going my way sales wise.

Now I have a couple of days off to relax and work on my music now that the last of this CFL week is underway now.

The gang after work went down to Victoria Park for a get together and Tim brought a whole bunch of KFC for the gang and of course in a "responsible but controlled manner," lots of beer but I didn't go because I didn't want to get eaten alive by the bugs out there.

So, the Northern Gateway pipeline could be stalled because of this war of revenue sharing between BC and Alberta. I can see both arguments but this is something bigger then royalties. The whole pipeline is worth about $82B over a 30 year period. Crazy. Anyway, that's about all from me for today.

I'm having a pretty

good weekend

Yesterday was ok as well except sales were low. I got 1 all day worth $200 but it wasn't line hour I need. I could have used 2 more sales on card or a $100 on card. I don't understand why I was having so much trouble and other people on similar source were getting all the sales.

After work yesterday I went over to have a beer with the guys and a few laughs. After about 2 hours in there, I was hungry to gets something to eat but BP's food is a bit lame. I ended up going into Tim's for a bowl of their new lasagna. It was really good and it hit the spot. I went home after that.

Over the weekend I’ve been Tweeting here and there about my Proline Sports select CFL games. I had a ticket for all 4 games. Two of these games were picked as ties and they came in causing a bit of a stir in the office. Then when Edmonton won in BC, my ticket was causing a bit of a buzz. If I would have won on this ticket, I would have won $682! Yesterday at BP‘s I was following the game from my iPad as they didn’t have the game on where we were sitting. The game was about half way in the 2nd  Q 10-22. I know my Proline ticket boat was taking water. On my way home from Tim‘s it was late in the 3rd at 39 something for Hamilton. I should have picked a 2nd win on this ticket. Picking 3 games is a lot easier to win on then all 4. From now  on its just 3 games. My ticket sank faster then a iron anchor. But it was an interesting run to say the least. 24-39. There was about 8 minutes left in the game but Hamilton was too much for Montreal. Week #5 is Edmonton/Winnipeg (W) Argo’s/Montreal, Hamilton/Saskatchewan(T), BC/Calgary(T) I’m not even going to touch the Argo/Montreal game. Forget it. 

Coast has a lame show on over night: Greed/ Media Manipulation. There's only so many UFO shows you can do I guess. Tuesday nights show is better: Redefining Space & Time Nassim Haramein.

I've been kind of delaying the guitar because of the difficulty in transporting it home. It comes in a cardboard box Tim was saying. So I thought, why not put it in a garbage bag and carry it home that way? This is a good idea actually, so I'll call ahead first and ask if they have the Fender Squire bullet strat. If so I'll run down and pick it up and ask for a guitar to amp cable, some picks and take a look at the Mustang 1 Fender amp. I have the usb cable that will go right from my amp into my laptop. Until then I can plug the guitar into my audio interface and utilize my Guitar Pro 6 that I bought last November. I also want to take a look at the Fender Mustang 1 amp as well, while they're tuning my guitar. 

The other main concern I have is the Lodge BBQ. Dan said he had a back up cook for me if he can't make it due to work constraints. We also need propane and a BBQ lighter and of course any fixings. I'm calling Mike tomorrow as he's in charge of entertainment. I'll be glad when I'm done this  post. It's interesting but it sure is a lot of work and when you don't have a vehicle your at the mercy of everyone else. I'll be really relieved when I'm done being IPM and I can maybe do the Registrar again but the way things are going in our Lodge, we might end up merging with another York rite lodge in which case, we'll most likely merge with Strathcona #77 or something like that. But I'll be relieved when it's September. Anyway, that's about all for now.


 

I got up out of here

about 10:40am and had some cereal and fed the cats and got ready for my little jaunt downtown. At about 11:20am it was muggy out there but I had our Itouch player listening to some music by The Clash. I had a 10 minute wait for the train and a brief wait between Stadium and Churchill and I was at Scotia making my deposit. A brief wait for the train and (on track 2 this time, finally.) I was home about 12:40pm, so just under an hour. I got the funds uploaded to pp and this means I’ll have the funds in pp by next Wednesday.

ETS tunnel construction from the Bissel Centre to Churchill station is at the half way mark. They should probably break free to Churchill by the New Year if all goes well. I think they are 60% done and will have the new line opened on time April 2014. Which isn't that far away.

This upcoming round of CFL games are as thus Winnipeg(W)/Toronto, Saskatchewan/ Calgary(T), Edmonton/BC(T), Montreal/Hamilton(W). I'm going to play any game with BC and the Riders on the road as a tie. Week 3 I bombed out, again.

I like where I work downtown. What would make this perfect would be if I can keep my job or at least my next one, work in the general vicinity. I have Audrey's, BP's, Corona station, my Scotia bank, Tim's, Rexall Drugs and I'm within walking distance to LM. The only downside is my RBC bank where I do all my pay check cashing is a little out of the way. I hope I can stay at this job but I feel I'm on thin ice. I know I've said this before but it's a different company now where management is in the US. I won't be just called into the office on a moments notice. If anything, they'll give me a week to shape up or ship out kind of a thing. I'm ok with this, I just need some options to work with. I have a few. One thing I won't work for is for collections or Regional. I feel I have about a week or 2 before I get called into the office it's not a matter of "If" anymore it's a matter of when. I have some options to work with but I need a few more and I know a place where I can get those. Anyway, that's about all for now.

This morning I’m getting my

Proline CFL ticket for all 4 games. This week we have tonight: Calgary(W)/Montreal. I haven’t got my ticket yet. Friday it’s Winnipeg/Edmonton(W), Saturday it’s a double header: BC(W)/Riders and Argo’s/Hamilton.(W) I’m not that sure about Hamilton though. My initial thoughts could be a W. I’m also getting my Max as well, $45M

The last 15 minutes at about 1:30am I was sitting outside watching the lightning and thunder and there’s a nice rain outside cooling things down to a pleasant +22* out there.

Nasa has apparently discovered another moon around Pluto making this Pluto’s 5th moon. For now Nasa is calling this moon P5 but their New Horizon spacecraft soon to reach Pluto in 2015 is supposed to explore the moon/Pluto and others. They haven’t got an official name for P5 yet. Should be interesting.

I’m not a baseball fan at all (game is way to slow for me) but Karl Kissner Ohio from Defiance found the rare set of cards after cleaning out his Grandmothers attic. The cards were from 1910 and in  mint condition featuring some historic baseball players like Ty Cobb, Cy Young (I heard that name before) 37 cards all in all could be worth millions of dollars. What a find.

And finally, tomorrow night on Coast is Paranormal Friday. Maybe 1 should pick #13 on my Lotto max ticket tonight, 8 and 13 are my 2 favorite numbers. Anyway that‘s about all for now.