It's been a great week

I‘ve been having a nice couple of days at work this week. The other day I got a Facebook message reply from an old friend I hadn’t seen since before I got married. We used to play Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) but even though I hadn‘t played the game in like over 10 years I‘d still like to get into it, so hopefully he got my message reply and my phone number to call me back but it took him forever to even find my message to him, it could take me just as long for him to reply back. I‘d like to game over the next long weekend.

So far I haven’t heard any new information on the proposed upcoming Star Wars live action TV show. What I know is they are looking for writers and plan for 100 hours. The series is supposed to take place between “Revenge of the Syth“ and “A new hope."

We got a lot of snow today as it started coming down about 8am this morning. I think we got 6 inches of it so far and its still coming down. The boots come back on tomorrow morning. Anyway, that’s all for now

I'm having a pretty

good day today and just winding it down this evening.

This morning I got into the office without incident just the way I like it. Most of the snow is melted out there now.

I tried calling Anne at about 3:30pm and found none picking up the phone, kind of telling me she was out as our gst check had come in. I got home shortly after 5pm and she was all happy. So after supper she went to get her BBQ because the one we had for over 10 years had broken down on us. It was time for a new one.

I was doing some research on DAW's and any that had note composing tools built in but couldn't find anything so far. Apparently Silebus is supposed to be able to merge with most DAW hosts.

I got a feeling that my income tax return is coming in shortly as I'm going to use it to try and get the Iphone 4. If I can't get that, then I'm going to get "Addictive Drums." Anyway, that's about all for now.

Having a decent Monday night

=The first day back from Spring break and the trains were packed. I think a lot of the extra traffic had to do with people giving up their cars because of the high price at the pumps with gas. There was a story on the news about drivers and driving habits. Seems people would rather give up on things like eating out at restaurants a bit or missing an extra Tim’s coffee in the morning then give up their cars. What with the upcoming Federal election the Liberals/NDP/Green want to put pressure on Alberta oilssands development to tax the crap out of them to help pay for their “election promises.” and you don’t think that’s not going to increase the price of gas? Better believe it will.

Early this morning Boots had jumped again. I keep telling Anne because she goes to bed about 4am and opens my office window boots is let out to early. If anything she should wait until I get up because Boots won’t go out wandering during daylight. It makes for a long day for him. There’s a utility shed just behind us here in this Edmonton housing complex he hides all day then comes back around 10pm.

I had a decent day sales wise getting at least 3 sales and more then 2/3rds of it on card, so I can’t complain. I had a good day today and I even got to read a little this afternoon from my Star Wars book “Vector Prime” in between calls. On my afternoon commute home I couldn’t believe how much the snow on the ground had melted. About 80% of it is gone. It’ll all evaporate by the end of the week.

Anyway, I’m going to post this, so that’s about all for now.

I had a enjoyable night at the

the Lodge last night. I made a few mistakes but nothing I’m told was major.

Donna (Anne's sister) took us along to Jasper 2 years ago this July. She took this photo of us in the mountains on our way to the Miette Hot springs.I was losing my hair about this time. I'm tilting over because of my scoliosis. Just thought I'd share this photo:

I was on time this morning but ended up with no sales on the board. It wasn’t a very good day sales wise today. I got my cheque at 3:30pm and was surprised to see I got a nice ammount! Also, we got shut down at 4pm. I headed over to Scotia cashed my cheque and picked up Robert J. Sawyer’s “Wonder.” I‘m missing book 2 but it‘s on order.

The weeks not quite over yet but I had a nice one, with Monday going out to meet RJS and having Audrey's letting me get a book signed and letting me keep it for me for 5 days. Classy act. Then winning money on Pro-line was nice, Thursday with Lodge night and today even though I didn't make any sales, I got a decent pay cheque. All in all, this week was good.

After I got the book, I waited for the train. Most likely standing room only. I decided I’d get on the Century Park train and took a long ride there and on the way back kind of napped on the train. At Clairview I decided to go get some beer for Anne and I and I made it in time with about half an hour to spare before the Wild/Oiler game here at Rexall. Anyway, that‘s about all for today.

I updated my

My pages above and added new content and images.

I had a decent

I had a decent sleep overnight except for the last 2 hours or so, what with Anne waking me up and me making so many trips to the bathroom.

I’d like to get “Torchlight 2” when it comes out for the Xbox, but apparently it’s only out on Xbox live. I‘ve been seeing this talked about on Xplay and it looks good. Probably ready for July.

I had a blog post ready to go yesterday but got caught up in other things. I’m onto my first coffee and for the most part today is another reading day. Despite what the “Currently reading” block says, I’m currently reading, Star Wars The New Jedi Order: “Vector Prime.” Its by R.A. Salvatore. I’ve read some of his work in the Forgotten Realm series. I think this predates that. This book is almost 11 years old but I have it new. It’s been on my shelf for about 3 years now. Probably out of print. The story takes place 25 years after “A new Hope.” R.A. Salvatore is a “Fantasy guy” but I’ve never gone wrong reading his work. The series itself has 21 books in it by various authors. I’m not going to read the whole thing one after another of course.

Over the past couple of nights before bed, Anne and I have been watching this National Geo series 2/2 on Freemasonry. The first part of the show was good but the 2nd part while interesting exposed a lot of the conspiracy parts of FM, beginning with the oldest about Jack the Ripper, then the Leo Taxil hoax which some evangelists still like to propagate, even though Taxil admitted publicly what he published was a hoax. Then there was the one about the P2 or Propaganda du. The P2 had been an irregular Masonic body since and had nothing to do with the United Grande Lodge of England (UGLE) P2 was even an illegal lodge even by the standards of the Grand Orient of Italy. There’s a lot of controversy over the death of “God’s banker’ Roberto Calvi. I just know the skinny on it. But aside from the conspiracy aspects of the documentary, I thought the series was handled very well.

Because of the Lodge night, I’m missing Wrestlemania. Just as well, we can’t really afford it anyway. In a couple of hours, we’ll have our brunch. Neil is picking me up outside my place at 6:30pm for the practice tonight, which is why I can’t watch Wrestlemania. But some things are more important then others. Sorry Wrestlemania, next year. But I’ll probably get the next pay per view anyway. The results will be in at 10pm anyway.

Last night the Oiler’s broke out of their 10 game losing streak in Vancouver of all places. If we had kept Penner and Hall not injured (He’s not even going to the World juniors because of his ankle injury) and our starting goal tender, Khabibulin played 45 games this year he won 10 and lost 31, the others were shootouts. Losing 31 games is a huge ammount of points. NK lets in way to many soft goals and then he redeems himself while the team is down 3-0 by playing spectacular. Even if he won half of those games he lost the Oiler’s would have 30 points more then they do and we would be where the Flames are now. There are those that would say, it’s our defence. It‘s not the D. I would agree if NK had say lost 50% of his games and we have a young team this year but NK should have been way better then the money he signed for. As long as we have NK, I’m afraid the Oiler’s won’t make the playoffs this time next year, unless NK really picks up his play. To be fair to him, he has had off ice distractions and injuries that didn‘t help matters much. When the new season starts in October and everyone back and healthy and a few tweaks to the line up and if the Oiler‘s can avoid series injuries and NK is the goaltender he was with Tampa Bay then maybe the Oiler‘s might make the playoffs. Anyway, that’s about all for now

I left out of here

at my usual time about 8am feeling pretty good.
I got into the office about 8:32am. We changed campaigns back to Circus and I did ok pulling in $125. In the afternoon I got nothing.

This week I won twice on my Pro-line for a total of $25. The good news is the boss gave the option of working from 2:30pm-4:30pm in family or leaving now. I decided to leave early and handed over to my bank and I discovered if this was ll Anne had to pay our rent, then we were in trouble. So I had some time on my hands and at 3:30pm I waited in the lobby of her downtown office building a few blocks away. She wandered in shortly before 4pm and was surprised to see me. She said, everything is ok and asked if I could pay the rent to the caretaker when I got home. I was reluctant but ok.

 I had a pleasant LRT ride home and paid the land lady the rent saying Anne will be paying the balance next Friday like she said she would.

I bought a Pro-line ticket for the only 4 games earlier and all but one came in for me. I put $5 bucks on it for a chance to win $43!

When I got into the apartment and got comfortable, I played around with a song I'm in the process of creating. I got the bass rift for it and the distortion guitar chord progression. When I have a finished product I'll put it up on my YouTube channel. Anyway, that's all for now.