I could do 50 hours

week for the rest of my life but I'm not going to get hours like that for awhile. If we just have a evening project, best I could get away with is 6 days and weekdays only 4 hours a shift. That's if they have evening calling only. In that case best I could get is 31 hours week or 62 hours on a pay cheque. However, that's not permanent. I need 50 hours/week until I'm on full pension. At that time, I could handle 31 hours/week easy.

Good news is I have articles and ebooks added onto my Kobo! Helps to have a memory card and ePub. I'm going to download a sample BL quick reads after I have about 8-9 hours of sleep before the Esks/Riders game. If the sample works out, I'll download "Legion."

Wow, the Oiler's finally won one in Buffalo last night! Good news. I'd be happy if they win 1 on this road trip. They won 3-2.

Whats this? Free wi-fi coming soon to all lrt stations? Soon meaning by this time next year. This is great. It means that I can access Esks/Oiler scores as my train pulls into the stations, nice. Anyway, that's all for now.

Another nice looking

day out there.

I'm still fiddling with my Kobo reader. Trying to get ePub books onto the device that are not from the Kobo store. Pocket doesn't seem to work but I'm going to try a few more things tomorrow on my day off. I'm not giving up on this thing yet but if there's no possible way to get my Warhammer 40K books onto this thing, I'm buying a iPad mini. 

Anyway, its time to get our of here, that's all for now.

At 10pm last night after 8 and a half hours

I get my last comp. I was tired and drained but ok. I just wanted out of the office and on my way home. I met Anne on her way home at Bay station. We were in good spirits. Anne made her chili and rice bowl and pumpkin pie with whipped cream for desert, yum.
  
Update: I wrote before the update this morning after I had a good 7 hour sleep. I'm ready to go for another 8.5 on the job today. The first thing I do when I get into the building is go to the elevator, press the button for my appropriate floor, buzz to get into the office, go to the board and look at the sheet of paper posted as to what project I'm doing for the day. If I'm on the current project, good. If not and my colleagues are doing my current project, I know I've been pulled from my current project. (That means a talk with the boss because usually I've done something wrong the day before) If all looks good from there then I check to see where I'm seated according to the seating plan posted on the board, hang up my coat, get my folder, put it on my station, check to see how much time I have before I need to log in. Then I'll have half a sandwich or something with my insulin in the lunchroom, scan the Sun or Metro, a brief bathroom break get back to my station, log in open the project and I'm ready to go.  
     Yesterday I had one of my colleagues from Sri Lanka sit across from me on the other side of the partition and later in the day the respondent could barely hear me because she was so loud. My Sri Lanka colleague is a nice lady  and one of "the regulars" but the Respondent couldn't get half of what I said and a 15 minute survey would have taken 35 minutes, tops. I was having a slow day as it was. One of the regular supervisors knows this about my colleague and would have taken appropriate measures. I think on the day I might have had 6 completions (cmp's) possibly 7.
     I was more or less ok with the day I had. I would  have had a few more but several Respondents bailed on me. Every day I can do this current project is a blessing. I really like it.         
     
Temperature wise we're sitting at +6* right now and apparently we're reaching a high of +10. Sunday -2, Monday -7, holiday Tuesday -8. Today looks like our best day until about mid-late March.
    
I'm still researching motherboards for my pc build.  I'm looking at a i5 or possibly a A8 cpu, 32 Gb Ram, and a 4Tb hard drive. Most likely in 5-8 years or so consumers will begin to see Petabyte hard drives. For the moment though a 4Tb drive will suit my needs, for now. Anyway, that's all for now.

Now we get the plumber is upstairs

pounding away and the window installers are at it next door. Anne said they left an inch of sawdust on the balcony and she had to convince them to clean up their mess. Reluctantly they did somewhat but it was a big job to clean up after them and replace everything. All this while I was on the job from 1-10 yesterday and I'm out of here for the same today, tomorrow and Friday. Hopefully I get the same hours right up until the 22nd, then back to normal.

Lodge wise, its pretty quiet for now. Sunday we have a practice and I'm going to try and leave work early at 6pm to get there by 7pm. Then we have Remembrance Day as a day off and my scheduled day off next Friday for lodge, then back at it Saturday-Friday. I'm kind of curious as to what my schedule is for next week, if I still have 1-10. I think we might have another week of 1-10 but after that the hours drop. Even now I'm lucky if I get 6 cmps/day. Most of the time its coding leaving messages on answering machines. This pay period if everything works out ok I could have 100 hours on  my cheque. Next time, about 81. I get some overtime and a buck added to my rate of pay. I lose out because of lodge night and Remembrance day. If I have up to the 22nd on this current project 1-10, I'll have enough for my computer before the end of the month. In theory. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Just watched the encore

edition of Raw, wow! What a show. Randy Orton. Even though I missed the first hour, wow! 

I got my bus and train and rushed towards the corner of 108/Jasper. What a beautiful afternoon. I rushed ahead of people some holding parcels and I knew that's where they were going to the post office. I scooted ahead of them and got my gift card for $25 and behind me I recognized 3 people on the street. I had 15 minutes to get to work and if I would have taken my time. If I would have let those people ahead of me, I would have been late.

It took me about an hour to get my first completion (cmp) and by my 5:30pm half I must have had 3 completions. I had a tasty 3 piece TV "chicken cutlet" dinner. Very nice. I tried calling Anne a couple of times but she must have been out. The only time my night dragged was after my half as my sugar was dropping. I hurried down below to Subway to get a regular bottle of Coke and back upstairs. I fared a bit better later on cmp wise.

After work I got my train home and walked home from Clareview. Anne as making our "Sunday brunch" a bit later. She gave me the low down on what's happening later ths morning. The installers are doing the windows next door first and ours in the afternoon. Anne's going to get everything sorted out over night. I just half to help her with my computer desk hutch here and that's coming up right away..

Anyway, once I get back from work later tonight. I'm going to try and order that "legion" ebook and see if I can downloaded it to my Kobo. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm hoping my current hours will continue up until the 22nd

of this month. If they do there's an inside chance I'll have enough for the new pc in January. If not I'll take on a advert job during the day. Usually these jobs give a couple of days or a week try out before they fire someone. The job I'm doing now is something I care about because I'll be doing it (I hope) when I'm on full pension. 

We're holding out at +4 under beautiful sunny skies this morning. If this holds, and we don't get that first snow that stays on the ground until the 11th, then I'd be happy with that. We'd just have December, January, February, March. I'm thinking we're going to get our "real" first snow just before Remembrance day. That's close to mid month.

Speaking of which, Remembrance Day is on a Tuesday next week. I like this because its a stat holiday and a mid week break for me before Lodge on Friday the 14th, which I'm off that day the Oiler's are playing Nashville on TV as well, nice. 

Since I was working Sunday I missed this but daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and those watching around the world with two hair-raising skyscraper crossings on the high wire without a safety net or a harness. Thousands of cheering spectators watched the first tight rope walk and then the 2nd blindfolded! Wow.

Today its a full 8.5 hour day and Monday night Raw when I get home. Anne and I are up early expecting these window installers guys to finally get here to do the job they were supposed to do 2 weeks ago. If they are not out here this time tomorrow chances are they wont get here until Spring Anyway, that's all for now.

We're holding at +5 so far this afternoon

and calling for +8 today.

Before bed this morning I signed up for a Chapters plumb account which gets me wifi at all Chapters locations. Handy to download ebooks a gift card. Apparently though my set up got compromised somehow as something went wrong. I'll bring my Kobo into Chapters to see if I can still access their wifi anyway.

If everything goes according to plan I should have 100 hours on my next cheque. That's if I get all the hours in from tomorrow until Friday. However, anything can happen to offset that plan off the rails. The client could pause the project to look at the data, or even end the project right there and other things that could take me off the project. For now I'll take it day by day. I haven't had 100 hours on a cheque since the old ACT days in the early 1990's over 22 years ago. These days I'm lucky if I can get 40 hours/week.

It's a nice looking day out there for our last day of daylight savings time. Overnight the clocks get set back an hour. I'm about to head out to Northgate/Chapters get my things, Wendy's Dollar-rama and home. 

Today its BC/Eskimo's and Vancouver/Oiler's. I love weekends like this even though I'm back tomorrow noon-8pm. Anyway, that's about all for now.