Nothing much of anything going on for today

as I'm getting ready for the week ahead and not much going on this week as well.

This week I'm uploading some funds to my pp account so I can start playing Fan Dual (fantasy Sports) Mostly just $1 and $2 bets until I know what's going on but my limit is $5/week. I'm not a big gambler and I don't play slots or poker. This is something that on paper makes sense.

We change another month as we're almost out of September in a couple of days, a new month begins. I like this time of year. Early November is ok to. After that, is when it starts getting cold. I'm not looking forward to the -25's and windchill's. Winter is usually about 5.5 months. We still have spotted bits of snow on the ground in April around here. It's not unusual to have a major episode of heavy wet snow late April early May. November is the Grey Cup game and the JFK observances. For me lodge wise, I'm almost done my wm chair. 

So other then the above not much else is going on. I might be AWOL for a couple of days but I'll be launching the occasional Tweet. Anyway, that's all for now.

Sure feels like October out there this afternoon

and its just a few months away. I took this picture of the Sunset about 6:30 last night:

 The image above was a lot lighter then this, but that's due to my camera settings. I'm wondering if its because it wasn't set for night. 

I took these two of the Fox tower development last night on my way home:

And later this one:

Last nights Riders/Esks game was probably the best game the Esks had played in years and first shutout victory since Sept. 5, 2003 (38-0 over the Calgary Stampeders). There were 42,161 fans in attendance last night. US College football gets about 45,000 in attendance almost every city/every game. I'm just glad to finally see the Riders get a goose egg. They were embarrassed in front of their hoard of fans too boot. We have 2 more meets with them on their turf. We may have won the battle but not the war. Next up October 19th week 17. Not for awhile yet. They'll have us week 17 and week 20. I'm sure the outcome will be different then.

Not much going on around here today. I'm going to try and catch a Doctor Who episode later and work on a beat I'm toying around with. Anyway that's all for now.

Later this evening its

Riders/Esks match up at Commonwealth. It should be a full house what with all the Rider fans in town. I'm looking forward to this one.

This after noon I have a 5pm appointment a few blocks North of Grant MacEwan university. It's on good old 107th Ave taking the #7. Then home to settle in and watch the football game. As far as I know I have this weekend (that could change by the time I head out of here at 4pm) off but I hope to be working Tuesday night one way or another. 

Also this evening is the 3rd annual Edmonton Comicon Expo. This weekend its people from "The Big bang theory" and others as well. I'd love to attend one of these days. This one is a lot bigger then the Comicon I used to go to with Ellen back in '79 at the Ramada Inn on Kingsway. 

Earlier yesterday afternoon I got a email from our upcoming lodge secretary to sign a form out to Grand Lodge. October is going to be a stressful month for me but after that its a easy slide out of the Worshipful Master's chair and I take the immediate past masters chair (or ipm) and no responsibility. It's been a long journey from being Tyler in 2008 to WM in 2014. I'll be relieved when it's our last meeting in December and I'm having a beer at the festive board. Looking forward to that.

I signed up to Fan Duel the other day (fantasy sports betting) and as soon as I get some funds together I'd like to get involved in that. Should be a lot of fun. If I bet $2 and gain $3, I'd be happy. Anyway that's all for now, "Go Esks Go!

As I went into work yesterday

morning a little tired, but feeling good about the day ahead. Work went along well. I was happy feeling productive and logged off and headed home. Coming into the apartment forty minutes later the phone rang as soon as I barely hung  up my coat. The supervisor said my shifts for today and Friday are cancelled. The client has decided to scale back the project to evening calling as projects across the board are closing down, with no work as far as I know, for next week. So I got 2 days off and the weekend. 

I got on the phone and called about another job and spoke with somebody there about coming in for a face to face meeting. I said I need to consult with someone else first but I'd call back today, and I will. It's telemarketing but there's no cold calling and its for the same pay. The hours are 5-9. So I'm going to call this afternoon and see if I can go in Friday, and if I get hired on do that 4 days and the other job on the weekends and have my Friday nights off. At least this morning I can sleep in so that's a good thing. Anyway, that's all for now.

I think I got about 4 hours of sleep

overnight. From about 6am onward rls has been for the  most part keeping me awake. Sleep was hard to come by after that. Also, overnight heat of the day didn't help much.

As for today I'm in for a easy 5 hour shift, in and out. After that I hope to be home by 4pm have a quick nap for an hour get dressed and ready for lodge tonight. It's going to be a great night as they are conferring a degree and I'm going to relax at the festive board, have a cold beer home tonight do some stuff and back to bed. 

Last night's wrestling was kind of lame. Ordinarily after a pay per view, the show is pretty good. Then it slows down and builds up until the next pay per view. I slept through a lot of Raw last night, which is probably another reason why I didn't sleep so well. Anyway that's about all for now.

Yesterday we got up to

+28 and its supposed to go that way again for today. Anytime we can get weather like this is a blessing, especially this time of year when its officially the first day of fall. 

I'm in the office downtown at my market research job this morning from 10-3pm this afternoon. It's a short 5 hour shift and a 10 minute break. I need the hours. I'm looking at another job not far away from Grant MacEwan University. Behind MC the neighborhood is rather ghetto and I'd have to take a bus there, which means a transfer. Coming back from that area isn't great but there's a shell station across the street. I only need a couple of shifts but I'm going to see what today brings. I haven't got anything for the upcoming weekend. We're barely going to make our rent for October.and we'll be paying our bills in October.

Not just that stress but I've got lodge elections coming. Plus if that's not enough, Anne is pushing me to get something to do during the day even if it's just three days a week. I'm not sure if this new job prospect will be the answer. Also, after work today I' popping into Audrey's hoping I can delay picking up that Warhammer 40k CD until the end of the month. Yeesh. Anyway, that's all for now.

Here we are in mid September already

and it's +17 out there, nice.

The plan was to head out to lodge this afternoon but something else came up that was a bit more urgent. My own lodge business. I've been trying to get a "investigative team" together to meet with one of our new candidates for membership. He want's to be SW and is a new IPM from a lodge in our District. I've also got his nomination form for him to sign and and I need a letter of good standing because he wont be at lodge the  night of our elections coming up soon. I'll be doing this later this afternoon as he's picking me up for coffee and maybe I can get him to pull into Petro Can gas station just over here and get my Sunday Proline picks. 

A couple nights ago shortly after I got fired from Pizza my wife talked to somebody that she was training. This lady apparently worked at Pizza before so she was just kind of helping her along. So in a conversation between calls Anne mentioned about me and this lady gave her a couple of places for me to try out. Anne didn't get the numbers last night but a name stuck in her mind and from there she got more info when she got home and I searched and got the phone number. I'll be calling this place Monday morning. Maybe I can work 4 days at my market research job and 2 days on the weekends there and have Friday nights off. Its about the same money as my market research job.

Other then that quick meeting this afternoon and pop into pick up my proline picks, I'm going to be missing the first half of the Eskimo/Hamilton football game. My Sunday picks are for the 2 Sunday CFL and the Denver/Seattle game. I'm picking Seahawks to win but it could be a close low scoring game

All next week I'm in from 10-3pm, which means I have my nights off and I can go visit Highlands Unity lodge Tuesday night. That's if I'm not working at the other place. Anyway, that's all for now.