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.

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.

Not a lot going on

around here.


I put in a full 8 hours on the job, doing semies. Uggh. I got home to route my Ethernet cable before booting up Ubuntu and got the browser to work. I downloaded Rosegarden but haven't had the time to play around with it yet.

Canada post has yet to obey the Federal back-to-work order but it should be passed into Law by Thursday. I don't have any problem with Unions striking but when it's an essential service, then I draw the line. The way the "opposition" is carrying on you'd make it think that Union Workers are the only people working in this country when in fact they are a minority. As of 2007 according to Wikipedia, Canada Post has 72,000 workers making an average of $27/hour. Meanwhile many times more people in this country could lose their jobs (including me) if the mail doesn't start flowing soon. Funny though the NDP didn't do much if anything when Air Canada went on strike.

Tonight (Tuesday) Coast has another lame show on-skin cancer and diet. Boring. though last nights show was on Space news. So Coast can be forgiven for their lousy show tonight.

SF Signal in their "Mind Meld" department is asking "What cultures has been neglected as inspiration in Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Good question. I never really gave this much thought. Some on the SF Signal panel are suggesting India is often overlooked. I'd even suggest some micro cultures such as cults are largely ignored. I wouldn't call them a cult but when was the last time Scientology was mentioned in SFF other then L Ron Hubbard? Or how about Amway, Christianity? There are other examples like Freemasonry just to name a few. These groups don't have to be mentioned by name but they provide fertile ground for the SFF genre. Some risk bordering on the line of fanfic and conspiracy theories.

SF Signal also mentions the Stoker award. Now I've never been a fan of the Vampire craze that's been all the rage lately. Everywhere you look there's enough Vampires in this gene. Way to many but I got to give respect where it's do. My favorite vampire of all time wold have to be Barnabous Collins from Dark Shadows and of course from SCTV's Count Floyd. Valley scalley kids.

I've been wanting to play Heroclick for sometime now and over there at Happy Harbour comics they are hosting a Heroclick tournament and run Heroclick Friday game nights at the downtown store. Hopefully I'll be back at work business before to long. James thinks somewhere around the middle of July. Works good for me. Anyway, that's about all for now.