we have had this Spring, what with being at +26 degrees. Wind is South at 10 kmh. Its times like this I wish I had a bike. I'm finding walking difficult but not impossible. I don't need a cane or a walker, yet. On a nice day like today, I'd like to be out on a bike for a couple of hours.
Last nights Jets/Preds game started out with no score in the first. Then everything opened up in the 2nd. Six goals scored! This is where the Oilers should have been in 2006. If the Saturday game was in Carolina and the return game here, I have no doubt the Oilers would have become Stanley Cup champions. Yeah, yeah, woulda, coulda, shoulda. Odds are pretty high if the Jets play tomorrow night like they did last night, they'll close out Nashville and go onto round 3.
This week, I'm in the office Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday off and I have Saturday. During that time, I need to visit with Service Canada to set up my gis. I'll try to do the Service Canada thing Tuesday. I'm sure its going to take more then one visit there. Tomorrow I need to set up a visit with my pcn, hopefully Friday morning, get some lunch, swing over to pay a bill by the Brick area, back to get some dinner at Red Robin with a friend. I have a busy week.
job is good because it is flexible and gives me time off between projects. Like now. I'm on day 1/5. On the other hand its no good for the pocket book. I think I'm back to work Tuesday.
Having time off like I have especially this time of year, lets me watch some play off hokey. Even though the Oilers aren't in it, I'm supporting The Winnipeg Jets. They advanced to the 2nd round finishing game #5 5-0 over The Wild. Could the Jets go to the finale? Hard to say.
All this week I've been working at getting a banner up on my You Tube channel. I've been using Pixlr, and its very easy to use. Its free and online. The next thing I'm working on is an outro over the weekend.
Today, we've had one of the nicest days so far here in Edmonton this year. Temperature rose to +15☀Even now as the sun sets its +12 but we're on the other side and its mostly shade here. I have my window opened and its very nice, and comfortable. Anyway, that's all for now.
here in the Edmonton area, we're sitting at +3, which for this time of year after that near deep freeze month, is welcome relief. This week we're calling for about the same. it would be nice if this could go to the end of the month.
So Twitter is musing the idea of banning Donald Trump. Finally, some common sense in all of this. Don't get me wrong, for the most part I like Trump, its just his reckless off the cuff Twitter comments give me pause. You don't see other world leaders behaving like this.
Finally, ETS has fixed their lrt call boards and has the eta back on. Yesterday, before my morning commute I downloaded the ETS bus tracker app. This is really handy as it gives almost an exact time of my incoming bus. The app doesn't give a gps reading though, which would have been nice so I can see where the bus is. Five minutes away though is isn't bad, and gives me a rough idea where the bus is in relation to where I am. Especially when its like -25 on a cold start to the winter commute.
I'm thinking about getting a iPhone in September, when I'm on pension. Not just for the ETS bus tracker app when I'm, on the go, but I don't like having to ask my colleagues for sports scores. I'm off work in the summer, so its not an issue but in the autumn, its different. When I'm at lodge, its nice to have something like that handy or even the apple watch tethered to the iPhone. Usually the Oilers are always playing on that first Thursday of the month.
So yesterday on my 2pm lunch, I'm over to the store across from where I work. The store owner (a little Chinese guy) had Smackdown Live on his little tv. He's a nice guy. I bought 2 Blackjack tickets and got a free ticket on a 18. I cashed in ticket to play once more, nothing. I bought a quick pick for the 6/49 for last nights $20M thinking I may as well since I'm on a roll. I checked the numbers earlier and I got 2 numbers for another, wait for it.....free ticket, LOL.
I'm going to call ahead on Wednesday to Long & McQuade, to see if they have the Mackie mix 5 mixer in stock. At $65, I could afford that. Its about the same size as my little Nintendo. If it's in stock, I can leave out of here about 11am (its on the #3 bus route on another way into work) get the #3 at Central, get off at the stop on 101st/107th ave and pop in, pick it up and look around. Then head into work. I'm also looking at the Korg Electribe 2 Sampler for around June.
And finally, this week, I'm 1-9 everyday except Saturday and its 10-4:30pm because of the hours per week cap here in Alberta. the Alberta Government caps it off at 41 hours in a week. Anyway, that's all for now.
job and all but its so unpredictable, you can't depend on it as a source of income. Unless of course your on pension. I was happy when my other job sent me a invitation to return March 1st-May15th. I'll do 3 shifts at one job and 3 at the other. The object of the exercise is to work as much as I can until work stops and then open up a ei claim. It takes 6-8 weeks to get the first cheque in but once its in I can put the claim to sleep, so to speak (September) and reactivate it in the Spring next year (no waiting) until my pension is activated. That's why receiving the the invitation yesterday is so important.
I began Book #2 "Dreams if Eagles"/Eagles series by William W. Johnstone January 20th and I'm going to finish reading the book in the next 2-3 days. Just about 3 weeks. I don't know whats going on here. Normally when I read a science fiction book, it can take me 2-3 months to finish. At any rate, I like reading westerns.
It felt like a Spring time day, late March heading into work yesterday. We're getting some crazy good weather lately. Anyway, that's all today.
