I'm having a good day

Wow, 3 days and the only LRT snag was Monday.

Via SF Signal John Scalzi asks Star Wars (Original series): “Who got better who got worse?” Interesting question. Ok I’ll take a stab at this. Luke Skywalker: Ist movie: All the characters were great. The 2nd movie: Only Lea got worse. Luke sucked in the 3rd. Matter of fact they all did. But that doesn’t mean I hated star Wars. Star Wars in my opinion is the greatest “SF” series of all time. I pretty much agree with Scalzi here, except I don’t think Luke was a whiney dork. Remember Lucas was inspired by Campbell’s formula on “The Hero’s Journey” and most heroes in the beginning that followed Campbell fit this mode. If they didn‘t the film wouldn‘t have worked.

Not a lot going on today/ I had a decent day though at work pulling in 3 sales and 1 was $125 line listing and a $35 card. Sweet. The boss let us out at 4pm as the sale were almost non existent during the last hour. Most of us were glad to head home anyway. It was so nice and mild out there coming >home, it felt like a preview to Spring.

I picked 3 games on Pro-line earlier and it looks like 2 of them are going to go into OT and only one is winning with 3 min left I n the 3rd. Ok, all games were in and I lost thanks to LA Kings and even the leafs lost to NJ. Anyway, that’s all for now.

Another Wednesday

This morning while making a 5am bathroom trip I heard a cat fight going on. We keep Boots separated from the other guys because of that. Mixing Boots with the other cats is like mixing fire and oil. Anne has this elastic tether head band thing she wraps around the inside doorknob and wraps around to a hook we have in the outside door jam. The door doesn’t lock very well as it is and one push from either way can open the door. Boots somehow did this and squeezed himself through. And that’s how the fight broke out. I don’t know how much it developed but I was able to scoop Boots up and place him back inside my office. I tried going back to sleep after that but I kept waking up listening for a potential cat fight, which of course kind of wrecked my sleep for the last 2 hours.

Not much on my plate for today. I’m going to try this store in City Centre Mall called Co-op City because that’s where I can pick up some cleats. They have some in the pharmacy at the office they let me try on but they wouldn’t fit my boot. The ones James has fit me ok. It’s so treacherous walking out there, especially with the freezing rain and all, when we get it. There’s a particularly nasty stretch from 106th/Jasper and the back pf First Edmonton Place building that is dangerously icy and at the lodge it gets pretty bad in some places. In my commute I know the good and bad icy parts to avoid.

Not a hole lot going on for today. Its mid week and we’re heading into a warm up spell for awhile. Lets of snow bank run off, which means more ice in the mornings. I’m making some progress in the Lodge work and I think I should have most if it down when we do the practice Sunday. I know the overall structure and the larger parts. I don’t think this upcoming work will be exactly my finest hour, but I’ll do the best I can. Tonight the Oiler’s are playing here at Rexall. There are a couple of our players up for trade talks. Anne’s working tonight I’m watching the hockey game. Well there you have it. Time for my shh and a little breakfast for my insulin and head out the door. Anyway, that’s all for now

I had a post

set last night for this morning with a photo. The photo was in Itunes and I figured that the backing up prompt was a good idea. Wrong. I lost all of my photos on my Itouch. Fortunately I have them all backed up.

Although it wasn't without a few close calls. My laptop crashed and reset my settings back to factory default. I almost became sick to my stomach but the settings were still in the buffer and I was able to reset everything back to normal.

Ok, I think I got Blogger's HTML figured out, so this should be the permanent font/layout for this Blog. Sorry I don;t have a graphic for today. My post here is different then the one on my website only because of the glitch I had last night with Itunes and my photos. The other thing which seems to work haphazardly less is tables.They barely work on my website, little alone here.
Super bowl weekend has a lot of interesting ads and other then known singers botching up the national anthem, the event also has pretty good half time shows. One of the ads that I liked was the star wars Darth Vader ad. It’s on YouTube someplace.
I got up a bit earlier then usual this morning. I couldn’t sleep after having a solid 5.5 hours before that. I got coffee on the stove ready to go and I did the shh thing already. So, I’m charging up my Itouch as the last thing to do this morning before I post this and out the door for a full day. Anyway, that‘s all for now.

Not much on my

plate for today. I’ve got my lodge memory work to do and I want to read more from my book. I read about 20 pages earlier.

As much as I find my job challenging at times, I’m grateful I have it. In these tough economic times, I think the more money you make you’re the first to be facing budget cuts/layoffs. My industry is more or less recession proof, even though there are a lot of people that have been laid off across the country, there are an equal ammount of people still employed. My job pays me a little above min-wage but at least my job is more or less guaranteed even though its been hurt by legislation obstacles over the years. Also, we here in Alberta are more or less carrying the rest of the country as far as the economy goes, that‘s why everybody from around the world comes here because our economy is so buoyant. Also, I have another 20 months or so until I can collect early retirement, which basically translates into a few hundred bucks/month. If that. If I take out early retirement at 60, it’s not going to be enough to cover my rent or anything.

I’m having a great time working with the demo version of FL Studio 9. I want to save up some funds and get FL Studio 9 producer edition. FL 9 9.8 (beta) is available now and they’ve got some cool features but the Beta version expires Feb. 28th. I like the new Picture tool and I came across something new called “Newtone.” It’s kind of like Melodyne but integrates with FL Studio better as I think it’s going to be in the FL studio 10. For this reason I’m a bit reluctant to buy FL 9 because I could miss the plug in and other new features in 10. The nice thing is FL has free lifetime updates, which I like. I‘ve tried other DAW hosts like Sonar, Pro tools etc but I like FL studio the best.

Tomorrow is the big Super bowl game South of the boarder. I’ve never been a fan. My wife works for a major Pizza chain here in this country and its mandatory she work for 3 hours today because Super bowl Sunday and New Years eve are their 2 busiest times in the call centre. The other great thing about Super bowl Sunday week, is the big chains like Future shop etc have been lowing their flat panel TV‘s from $1,800 in 2008 down to almost half. Our 46“ LCD TV in the living room is not 1080p. We‘ve had it now since April 2008 and have no trouble with it. So if your going to buy a big screen TV, now‘s the time to do it. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

Yesteday was a decent Friday

day yesterday. I couldn’t close that sale so I’m going to chase after it on Monday. I got my check with a few more hours then I had originally thought, which was nice.

After work I went to my RBC bank it was very mild out there, probably about +5. I got to my bank and took out some cash and doubled back to Corona because above the LRT is Audrey’s books. I picked up my last Warhammer 40k book

After that I decided to head down the block to “The Burger baron” for a bite and got some over priced chicken nuggets. Most of the stuff they serve up is from out of the freezer and deep fried. I’d rather go to Wendy’s but with all the ice on the sidewalk and all forget it. I got the train to Clairview and got into the apartment by about 6:30pm as the Oiler game was in progress.
On my plate for today after I get up about 1pm, I’m staying inside all weekend because of all the ice out there on the sidewalks. So I got some memory work to do for the Lodge, I want to read a bit more from my book, there’s another Oiler game on for later tonight. Also this weekend I want to try and get the Xbox 360 clear cache codes Nathan told me about Thursday night. Also, I’ll be working on my music as well. Anyway, that’s about all for now

It's another Lodge night

I’ve been hearing bits and pieces of this over the last couple of days. The Canadian Radio Television Corporation (CRTC or the equivalent to the FCC in the states) has let Bell one of the largest internet service providers here in Canada has been awarded the right to utilize something called User based billing. What this means is a cap space usage for internet usage. One ISP here (I think its Rogers) has a cap space of 60Gb/month and charges $1/month for every GB over that. When your streaming a movie over Netflex for example that alone can compromise the UBB cap. Ok, a bit of an update on this. It seems that Ottawa is looking into this thing because it might be an election issue. I think the whole issue might be overturned. I don’t know how much I’m using as far as bandwidth is concerned. This is something worth checking into.

Today is a typical work day. My tooth was bothering me all day but not to the point where it became unbearable to work. I drank copious amounts of diet Cola, which helped and I used this kind of oral gel that helped out a bit as well but it really bothered me on the train home.

Tonight I’m in Lodge and finally paying my Lodge dues for 2011. Who knows, I might even get a haircut as well this afternoon. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

Running behind this morning

My 7am alarm didn’t go off this morning, so I’m running a bit late. Ooops. I really need to get that external current adapter for my Itouch because every time I shut down my computer I’m getting an update (even after I went and turned off updates.)

I left out of here in a bit of a hurry this morning but got into work 10 minutes before shift. As soon as I stepped outside I felt no toothache pain all the way into work and not much through out the day. I had a decent day today so I can’t complain.

One of my co workers mentioned this morning about a laser disk cleaner that can clean up laser disk readers suitable for gaming consoles and they’re just disks with brushes on them or something that clean the lasers as a lot of the time, dust can build up on the laser causing the game cd to become unreadable. If I had any money with me I would have bought one on the way home, so tomorrow after work I’m getting one. I hope its what I need.

I’m going to spend an hour reading from my book tonight. Oh on my Goodreads site I took advantage of my favourites shelf and filled it with some of my favourite books. You can link to it here. Anyway, that’s about all for now.