Lots of people are

"coming out." Translation: Gender change. People have sex changes for various reasons. Maybe they identify themselves with the opposite gender. Personally I don't care what people do with their bodies. I don't necessarily condone it but for me I'm comfortable in the skin I was born with. I have 2 metal rods in my spine, I have reason to dislike my body but this is the hand I was dealt. I don't want to change that nor would I spend the thousands of dollars to do it. It seems celebs are into this "coming out" phenomena. They have the money. 

Since last October our building complex has had our 100 stall parking lot out front here closed off. Its been under an upgrade but I don't see any evidence of this. Friday night after over 6 months of guests or people with cars etc to drop people off park and idle on the side walk the parkade is open. Its been a bit of a hassle for renters. Now if I get a ride back from lodge I can say our parkade is back.

Later this afternoon we're about to enjoy "Extreme rules." Its a WWE wrestling pay per view event. We're going to order our Maximus pizza and have a good time. Speaking of sporting events, I was following the Canucks/Flames series as this was game 6 last night. If the Canucks won the series gets transferred back to Vancouver for a game 7. It was really up and down Calgary finally won and sent the Canucks packing. I think I'm going to jump on the Flames bandwagon but I doubt they'll get past the 2nd round facing Anaheim, the top team in the West. Anyway, that's about all for now.  

I'm taking Dougs advice and I'm having a great

weekend. Monday the employment agency (ea) is going to help me get started and I'm going to tweak my resume and get a job search going. Then check my email to see if I have a pdf of my upcoming pay and roe. After that its to go to Alberta Works to meet Anne and get that going have lunch and do a follow up on a job lead. When I get my roe, I'll be getting that printed off at ei. Ei also needs my last 22 weeks and I'll be doing that later today. 

Did you see this one? A doctor in Turin Italy, Sergio  Canavero has drawn up plans to graft a living persons head onto a donor body and claims that this procedure is only two years away. If this actually works, I imagine the first patient will be the Doctor himself. For the rest of us, the asking fee will be quite high. Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic to say the least. Sorry I don't have a working link but you can Google it.  
   
Even though its cold out there, we're about to warm up. Its supposed to get up to +5 and +6 Thursday and the next 4 days after that. Also, next Sunday will be daylight savings. I might be (for now) out of a job but at least its warming up out there. Anyway, that's all for now.

Finally its now Christmas eve

and I'm about to have a bit of down time for myself. Anne is watching her shows. We got Christmas snacks and 3 days off! I'm back Friday, Saturday.

Anne's going to check it out of course but we're going to try and go to our local Swiss Chalet just down the block. I'm having a burger and a beer. Then we're coming home having a relaxing night and open presents.

I09 has a great video response to Michio Kaku's surprisingly weak critique of Alcor's life extension foundation, cryonics. I'm no expert on this but I find it a fascinating topic. Kaku thinks that cryonics is mainly for the rich that want to live forever. According to Alcor's spokes person, it doesn't work like that. The idea is that after a doctor has tried everything to treat a patient and failed as part of said patient's life insurance policy at just a few dollars/day can have their body frozen. The idea is when the science is there at a future date say 2-3 decades out that person can be revived or thawed. The problem now is that we can't as far as I know actually freeze much less thaw a human body. It hasn't been done, yet. Or even if it can be done. Then there's brain and cell damage in the meantime. However, science has been able to clone a sheep. There are some interesting questions about freezing a human being for future thawing out. Where do we keep the hundreds, perhaps millions of bodies? There are lot of unknowns and conditionals, like cell ice expansion. Yet these are problems of today, not 2-3 decades away. Also, what if companies like Alcor fall victim to economic downturns and file for bankruptcy? Also, how much power would it cost to keep one individual frozen for a day, month or decades? Where are they going to be stored? What happens if there is some kind of natural l disaster?

Work yesterday went by ok I fucked up on the job a couple of times but nothing serious. On my way out by Starbucks I slipped on some black ice and skinned my knee as we were receiving a bit of freezing rain downtown on my way home about 10pm. 

I fixed my blog intro above and I want to make a better banner to reflect what I'm currently into. If I covered everything in the intro just  below the banner it would take almost a whole page by itself. Anyway that's about all for now.