I'm having a good fathers day

Sunday. We're not much for going out doing the family thing, other than going out to eat but we did that last Thursday. I did watch a couple of hour-long streams earlier.

I uploaded my latest video. Just go to my channel to watch it if you want. The link to my channel is in the top left icon of this blog. My channel is sitting at 114 subscribers. I'm uploading 2 video's a month on average. 

I'm having trouble though getting a Giff (animation) file image to mask (transparent) to add a bit of spice to my uploads. I've got one source but they won't accept that file type. They will for MP4. Maybe that's what I need to ask. 

Not much going on this week. I'm watching hockey and I have a breakfast gathering Saturday morning. Basically, that's about it. Not much going on. I've got a couple of chats with the same person this week. Anyway, that's all for now.

September's weather is usually on the cooler side as at the moment its overcast

with some patchy clear breaks and a few dark clouds. Sunsets at 8:17pm I like this time of year. It's not to hot or cold. Nice mix of Sun and rain. Gone are the +30's. Thank god.

Friday I had a few things to take care of like my Doctors office first. I arranged this over the phone with the reception a few days ago. I needed to pick up some sample meds over the counter in and out. I left out of the apartment under threatening skies and rising humidity to my Doctors office about 1:45pm. So far so good. I had 3 items to take care of yesterday afternoon: Doctor, bank, Service Canada in a small 2 hour window. Travel time would eat up a lot of that window. The reception at the Doctors office said something like "Oh the Doctor wants to take your blood pressure before he gives out the samples," "I don't have time for this now. I thought this was a just over the counter pick up like in our phone conversation a few days ago. I have less then a 2 hour window and its already 2:10pm, alright." I was becoming anxious. Experience has taught me that seeing a Doctor on a Friday afternoon (especially on the start of a long weekend) is going be awkward and could compromise my window. I spent more then a few times waiting up to an hour in his office. After the 2nd blood pressure reading, I had enough of this and unhooked myself off the blood pressure machine and headed out of the waiting room to the reception counter. "I don't mean to be rude, but I don't have time for this, can I re-book this for next week?" All they had were morning openings until the week of the 12th so I got a 1:30pm on the 15th. I can go without for 2 weeks. It's not like I need penicillin or anything like that and I have a bit left over. Its not life or death. At first they wanted to send it over to my pcn but that's another appointment and something about email? Don't they know that C means confidential :) The 15th will do. Its entered in my calendar. I walked East along the South side of Jasper Ave up to my RBC and got the form I needed. Then I worked my way up past the renovated Alberta Hotel. I thought about ducking in for a beer, maybe later. At Service Canada there was a line up but I had my iPod touch and some offline reading I could do in the mean time. Very little waiting and I was able to see somebody right away. All my details were in order for my oas, bank form etc. I didn't know I could apply for my GIS in the Spring when our Notice of Assessment's came in. That's pretty cool. I was out of there at 3pm and I thought maybe I should try the Doctor's office again but I was sweating like a pig and all I wanted to do was to get home.

I was able to buy the Filmora Go remove watermark license for just a few bucks (My gopro alternative) for my iPod Touch from the app store the other day. Works great. Then I discovered Pinnacle Studio for the iPad. It's like iMovie but more robust, more options. iMovie won't work that well on my iPod Touch 5 Gen and barely on our iPad 2. Pinnacle is pricey but I'm seriously thinking about picking it up. 

Learning Pinterest is a bit of a struggle. There's lots on you tube but its old and out of date. I've got a blog board and I'm going to pin a couple of other items to my wall soon. I don't know how I was able to get over 390 page views (Pintrest) and 16 followers last week but maybe that was a fluke. Since on my blog I have 1 follower. It'd be cool to have some of those Pinterest followers as blogger followers. Anyway, that's all for now.

Our day out here today

and lately has been somewhat over cast over the past few days with threatening skies. It didn't impact the Esks CFL game last night at Commonwealth. Right up to the end of the first half the Visiting Riders hadn't be able to anything on the board until the closing seconds of the half. They could barely register a field goal. Our D was brilliant and they took Chris Jones and his 1-7 record to record a 1st half rout. The Riders made it a bit more interesting managing a 25-33 comeback. As the weather held, it looked like they might tie the game as they had possession of the ball but it was too little too late. The Rider fans left probably dreading why they took the Eskimo Grey cup winning coach from us knowing he was going to be this bad for them. They were gloating about the jump ship during the off season. Riders are now 1-8 and the weather held.

Not much going on, just having a quiet night at home for a change. I'm just drinking juice, reading, email that type thing. All is quiet on the Clareview front. No drama, no excitement. Its just over cast +14 with a hint of rain.

I've been messing around a bit with the Flimora (Wondershare) iPhone app on my iPod Touch. I uploaded a recent nature video test to my JimTube channel and the video upload was surprisingly slick and easy. I haven't added any of my music to any video's yet but I'll do that when I get a license. What I like about the iPhone app is that it doesn't need my slow lagging computer to process the video. For $40 bucks its a good deal. Anyway, that's about all for now.

At this hour I'm not feeling that bad

after taking 2 tylenol pills about 2:20am while we were enjoying Star Wars "The Force awakens." The pills didn't kick in until the climax portion of the movie. Most of the swelling is gone now in my left side but its still tender. Now there's a problem with my tooth on my right side but so far its not too bad, yet. I'm just hoping I can get my dental work done asap. There are a few hoops to go through in the meantime. Its hard to eat when you haven't got teeth.

This isn't a review of Star Wars "A force awakens"but rather some impressions of the movie. No spoiler alert needed here. The movie was fast paced, with lots of action. The overall story narrative flowed well. One could tell there was a lot of quality in the writing and Disney spared no expense in this movie. There were no corner cutting, and I didn't get the feeling that this movie was rushed in any way. The bad guys were well thought out. "The force awakens" took the Star Wars fan into uncharted territory. Some of it  though seemed familiar, there are only so many way's one can produce a movie. I also liked the overall look and feel of the movie. For $6 and for both of us to be able to watch it together, was a good deal, and it was good entertainment value. I'm happy that Disney didn't dumb down this movie as I was expecting. The next Star Wars movie is going to be called Rogue One, with new characters. The movie is slated for release this December. Now this movie might be rushed but for us video on demand works well.

Last night I was working on my Lenova a I was able to get Windows movie maker on it (win movie). I had some initial difficulty getting a Outlook email account, however. I can sign into win movie easy enough as well. There doesn't seem a way to be able to convert the movie into various file formats and upload to YouTube. Probably because Microsoft doesn't support win movie anymore. My YouTube account is healthy, and I tested my account on my Xp system, it works good. I tried uploading the win movie but it needs to be converted into a proper file format. Once I do that it'll be good to go. At least I downloaded Windows essentials and that works. Also I was able to download Audacity and it works good on Win 10. Anyway that's all for now.