The new Edmonton downtown

arena will be called Rogers Place. City council still has to approve the overall budget of $600 million if it goes over that then it has to go back to City council but even if it goes over budget it's the contractor that has to pick up the tab for the over runs. If all goes well, then shovels could be in the ground by March 2014.

Yesterday on the news they were making fun of a proposal by Amazon to drop small packages to customers by helicopter drones. The idea is to get small packages in the customer's hands within 48 hours or something like that. I can just imagine the skies being littered by these drones and Anne and I trying to leave our apartment having these things swarming like misquotes all over the front door, lol.

I mentioned to my boss that I have another part time job and he said he was surprised it took me so long. So that's a relief. I start my new job today as I'm off at 8:30pm tonight. I'm working at my first job Sunday (If they have a Sunday shift) Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. My 2nd job, Thursday, Friday Saturday. Of course my first Thursday of the month is out because of Lodge commitments. Both jobs unfortunately are not steady full time jobs. My 2nd job I'm off in the month of February, June, July, August. August at my 1st job is usually slow and my 2nd job isn't activated until September. My first job pays me less then my 2nd job by an extra $4/hour. So tonight I'm starting at my 2nd job, tomorrow is Lodge night and Friday my 1st job is having their annual "holiday party." I'm working Saturday morning at my 2nd job. Sunday I'm at my first job from 10-6pm. Then I'm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at my first job. Then Thursday, Friday Saturday at my 2nd job. So from Saturday December 7th until Saturday December 14th but it's only 4 hours. Sounds confusing? No kidding. 

I was at my bank before my shift yesterday afternoon trying to get a DBD form for my 2nd job and then they asked me my address. What? Then they asked me my date of birth. I began to get suspicious. Then at work I began to realize what's going on. When I opened my account I didn't use my original mailing address as I didn't want any mail from a bank getting to my residence because I wanted this account private account so I could save some money. So this means I need to leave out of here about 2:30pm today to explain whats going on. The bank is under new management and I didn't recognize anyone behind the teller there that would know me. Anyway, that's about all for now. 
 

Now if I looked at the availibility board

Friday on the eve of the long weekend like I should have, I would have left from home about 9:30am for a 10:30am training session. But, I failed to look at the board and as a result, I headed in what I thought this morning at 8am, was my usual time of day. In other words, I lost an hour and a half potential sleep. We began a new study and we had a almost a 4 hour training session. Half an hour for lunch,we didn't get under way until about 2pm,making it for a short day. Works for me.

This one cracks me up: The folks at ‘LivesOn’ allows you to Tweet "beyond the grave." It's an app that collects RSS feed pertaining to one's Twitter profile,interests etc on their behalf and continues to send out Tweets long after as they say "kick the bucket". Click the link above for the full story. I like this.

The Oiler's dropped another one last night, LA got a lucky bounce on a rush and took a game tied at 1 with something like .46 seconds left on the clock sending the game to a 2-1 win for LA and got an empty net goal. The Oiler's put the effort in but it was a lucky bounce on the rush. Anyway that's about all for now..

I was considering the

camera connection kit but I have a Internet bill coming up for my iPad tablet. I’m on this thing called a “Flex plan” and as long as I don’t use a lot of 3G like streaming video my bill will be around $5-10 month. I mostly use my iPad for music, Twitter, email and I’m just getting into iMessaging and playing the odd game on my commute home. I checked my ebill and at stage three of the billing month, my ebill shows something like $5.78 if I pay it before May 22nd which is after this upcoming long weekend but I don’t know where or how to pay this bill. I meant to ask when I got signed up about this, the day after the election.

I tried getting a hold of somebody in cell phones but they’re a little busy. I’d rather call the store where I signed up from and maybe I can pay my bill there.

Last night on Coast was very interesting. They were talking about Adolph Hitler’s last hours in his apartment/bunker in WW2. I was watching this well done documentary as a follow up to my own research and discovered some interesting things. First of all, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had for years claimed Hitler had escaped the bunker and may have used a double as a result of the attempted assassination on him in July 20th 1944. The Russians have claimed they have a portion of his burned skull and the couch used in the sitting room of where Hitler allegedly committed suicide they‘ve held in their archives for years. The Russians have also made it impossible from the West to examine the evidence until recently in the 1990‘s. DNA and blood samples were taking from the couch. Forensic DNA determined that the skull and blood samples were taken from a woman. The Soviets that have claimed for 60+ years that they have the skull of Adolph Hitler were in fact lying. It‘s a fascinating topic and there are a lot of resources on this topic. Here‘s the video I watched:


Also Anne said she’d give me the money for the RJS book as she might get her estate funds today. If so then I could get the RJS book tomorrow on my way in. Once I find out more details on my Flex bill for my iPad,

I’m not going in for this evening mainly because of the long weekend. This could be worth about $80 bucks of “free” money to me. If Commercial didn’t fall on a long weekend then I’d say sure, but I need to work the day before and the day after. The day before is that Saturday and the day after is my regular Tuesday getting back. But because I hadn’t taken a Saturday off since moving into the new office because I haven’t exactly been putting in the min of 35.5 hours for full time, I can’t guarantee HO will pay me my stat pay. Better safe then sorry. I’ll go to their last one in June. There’s no long weekend in June.

In about 10 minutes, I’m about to watch some, probably not all of the New York/NJ game. This should be a great series. Anyway, that’s all for now.

I had a good day for a saturday but it's been long

I felt good heading into work this morning. Dan is a supervisor/colleague of mine and I met him at Tim’s and he walked with me to the office getting to the elevators at 9:30am. At 2pm we were watching the BC/Riders game and the Riders were losing big time. I think I got about $200 by the end of the first shift and I tried calling Anne at the break bit she wasn’t answering the phone. The last 2 hours went by slow. I was so glad to get out of there and the 35 hours in the bank and about $30 bucks in bonus money on my check for the week next week.


After work Big James, Kyle and Warren and I went over to BP‘s for some drinks. I bought a pitcher of beer for the guys and I bought a bottle for myself. We watched the game from the big screen TV‘s as BC was winning something like 42-5! We had the Winnipeg/Argo game on as I was munching on my cheeseburger. Our food took a long time to get to the table. When we left our separate ways out of there at 6pm.

I walked over to the LRT entrance beside Audrey’s. The Argo’s were leading when I left BP’s, uh-oh. I got to Clairview and there was my bus pulling away. I barely caught it and home by 6:30pm. I watched the last of the Bomber/Argo’s game as Argo’s won, 25-24. That’s a tie game in the CFL. Earlier before the noon break we were watching Manchester/Stoke City play to a 1-1 tie. Soccer is gradually beginning to grow on me.

Yesterday I blogged about how Darth Vader and a collection of Storm Troopers went on the pitching mound and Darth Vader himself made the first ceremonial toss! don’t believe me? Here’s the proof:

I have a couple of days off here, thank God. I need it. I’m going to work on song that’s been brewing in my head for awhile now. Anyway, that’s all for now.