So slow to get things

going his morning. Very little gas in the tank. I was in bed by 2am, Awake by 7 and laid in bed for an hour. Well, I'm up and awake, sort of. Yawn. Cats are fed, I've got my morning coffee here and juice. Our morning Sun is shinning brightly through the clouds. Its -1c but the humidity makes it warmer. All you need today if your outside is a hoody under a sweater (preferably with Home team logo's) and your good to go. 

Last night I was asked to come in for Sunday to do election calling. Its municipal election time here in Alberta. I know what Anne's response to this will be: "You need 2 days off, your not 51 anymore...." So, I agreed to sign up for Sunday's 10-6 shift, only if I could have Friday off. Fair enough. Super tweaked his schedule so I can have Friday/Saturday off. We're doing election calling over the weekend. This means Friday I still need to go into the office to get my pay and then to my bank and over to my music store to make that payment. If I have enough, I just might pay it out right. There's probably a Eskimo/Oilers game on television this weekend, plus Star Trek Discovery. Oh, and since its Friday/13th: Scratch n' win time.

I was thinking about leaving out of here a bit early today but I'm off Friday and in the area anyway. I could either go to my bank and double back to my music store. Or just leave out of  here by 1pm, play my scratch n win cards, at the store across the street from the office, pick up my cheque, head to my music store, to the bank and then home. Decisions, decisions. Anyway, that's all for now.

I was in bed by 3am

this morning up at around 7:30, so I had a good 4 hours of sleep. I rested in bed for another hour. I'm ok for a full day. On these  full days I don't usually get wiped out until about 8pm.

On my 5:30pm break yesterday I walked over to the store across the street to play some Tuesday night blackjack but the store owner didn't have any blackjack scratch n' win cards. "Play Walking dead, its easy. Same price." First card X, nothing 2nd card "wu-who." That's the sound the machine makes when there is a winner. I won $10/$6. With the amount of money I spend on these things, maybe $4-$6 a month, I think I broke even. I might play "Walking dead" Friday. Some months I dont play at all (summer) So because its Friday the 13th week, (my lucky week) the stars are aligned. My new favorite card game:
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Speaking of stars (no not Hollywood actresses coming out of the woodwork claiming sexual harassment) I'm trying to get a pdf sent to my boss's email so he can print off an application form I'm trying to get out to the department of vital stats in BC. Its called a genealogy birth chart which shows the time of my birth. It seems this was not recorded prior to 1944 in BC but since I'm a early 1950's kid I'm in the clear. Like most of us we either are oblivious to the time of birth or don't know don't care. With the time of my birth, I'll be able to put together a complete astrological chart. There are lots of online programs that where you just input the appropriate field and it cranks a chart out for you. There's still lots to do without the time of birth, but with the birth time, you can do a lot more. Its something I've always wanted to do but didn't know where to look.

Anyway, I have another full 8 hour day ahead of me today. I'm lucky as a senior I'm on pension and have a wife and a job. With Eaton's closing stores and about 12,000 jobs lost and now Chillies is closing a bunch of stores here, I'm in a good place. However if this asteroid hits us tomorrow morning, I won't have either. Anyway, that's all for now.

Trouble with long weekends is that they tend to be

to short. I could use another day off. as I'm in the office from 1-9 today. Its a full day but I get 2 15's and a half hour for lunch. Enough to go out to the store get some air. At least I'm not in a day care for adults, couldn't resist that one.

Another apocalyptic type warning (not that I believe these things) but this one gives me pause. Asteroid 2002 T4C is making a close earth flyby Thursday within 4000 miles. Conspiracy people note that Friday the 13 coming up and the 3rd and finale 100th anniversary of the Marian Fatima apparition. Ok, I can see where some people might be alarmed here. Here's a Coast link to further expand on this story.

So far no calls in from the office but that could change at any time. I need to be out of here in an hour. At the moment I'll have enough time to get my bath, pack up get some lunch and head out the door. looks like I have the green light to go in for 1-9 today. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Not that last week was busy

week, I had lodge Thursday night and 5 hours last night. I didn't get much sleep, mainly due to circulation complications in my legs. I got about 6 hours. I'm happy I have the Thanksgiving day long weekend off.

Anne wants to go out to the movies holiday Monday. We can always record wrestling for later. We have earned over 2,800 Scene points but we haven't gone in since the first Avengers movie. Scene says if saved up points are not used in 2 years then, they expire. I wouldn't mind seeing the new Tom Cruise movie "American made." For the most part, we see all our movies on Net flex. Kind of puts movie theatres in jeopardy,

but I'd rather watch Tom Cruise then Pink, whoever that is. Don't know, don't care. Its surprising though that movies like from Disney/Marvel Studio, etc. make big office. We haven't been out to the new Manning Town centre yet. The  #184 stops right behind the theatre but I'm not sure if its running holiday Monday. The #184 leaves out of Clareview West and has a stop right behind the theatre or across the street. We can always get a bite to eat at Chillies after the movie. its good for us to get out anyway.

Anne's about to make us our Sunday brunch today. I have no idea why she's changing the paradigm, but oh well. I'm grateful for this Thanksgiving day weekend off. Anyway, that's all for now.

My ride to lodge is in about

an hour. I'm doing to chairs in one: SD chair and the Chaplin chair unless my relief for next year shows up. Then its just the SD chair. I feel I'm about to do both tonight but its all good.

I was at work last night while the Oilers were hosting the Flames at Rogers place arena. I couldn't get connected to wifi at Clareview station, Open City wifi while I was waiting in my #183 home. I had the results of the game in a separate tab on my computer. It was 0-1 Oilers, then 0-2 Oilers, then 0-3 Oilers. The highlights on local news said all 3 games we're McDavid's, wow. Oilers not only got a hat trick (3 goals) but Cam Talbot got a shut out. Pretty good for opening night!

Anyhow, I've got lodge tonight, I'm in at work from 1-9 tomorrow, so I'm hoping I have a long weekend. There's "Hell in a cell" plus an Oilers game in there. At the moment its +20.* Very warm for this time of day. Anyway, that's all for now

Usually I like to get up out of bed

about 11am. This way I can get my morning routine out of the way, sit down with my juice and coffee, get caught up with events overnight, write a blog post, my diary, answer email, that sort of thing. With 2 hours left of  my morning time, most of the above is done.

I got to know Tom Petty's music through the "Traveling Wilburys." I have the 2 CD's. I was never into "The Heartbreakers," but I liked "Full moon fever." I wasn't really a follower of Tom Petty but whenever his music was around, I'd perk up and smile. His music was accessible. Tom petty to me was a Wilbury, then Tom Petty solo. I have a lot of good vibes listening to Tom Petty's music. He had that distinct voice.

Last night on the way home, I didn't think about my iPod Touch. I had it since December 2014. After work, I slip it into my T-shirt pocket before I log off, sign out and dash out for my bus. I couldn't find it when I needed it this morning before bed and I was in a panic looking for it. Most likely its where I left it. I'm anxious about it. Of course since these things have a four digit pass code, its useless to anyone. Only my wife and I know the pass code. I want to pay off my Circuit account next week, not buy a new iPod. Most likely its still there by my station, or Super noticed it and put it in his drawer for when I go in later today. He checks each station, making sure people have the right project code and hours, then he closes off each system one by one. "Oh, Jim left his iPod behind, better put it in my desk."

I'm still reading a bit each day on "Way of Kings." Its a big novel and I'm on page 477/1,258. This author writes well. Its easy to tell that he's making it up as he's going along. Kind of like my approach to "song writing." Incidentally I have a new Circuit track I'm trying to get up onto my You Tube channel but our isp has been very sketchy lately. The isp guy is hear latter this afternoon. Anyway, that's all for now.

My post Saturday took place

hours before the crazy man ran his vehicle into a Edmonton Police officer, rushing out to stab him at the Edmonton Eskimo football game outside Commonwealth stadium. This occurred about 8pm. And too think I had a chance to go to the game for free. It was military appreciation day. That was our little taste of terrorism. The would be attacker ran off to get a U-Haul van (details for me are sketchy) and proceeded to use it as a weapon and attempted to run over pedestrians. As shocking to our little community as this was, pales by comparison to what happened last night in Vegas at a country music outdoor concert last night. At the moment, 50 people dead, 400 wounded (how many critically) I don't know. The attacker, is another loan wolf that apparently had 10 rifles in his hotel room over looking the concert and let hundreds of round ring out into the crowd. Authorities there don't believe this was sponsored by any Islamic state. The shooter was a 64 year old man from a retirement community. Apparently there were some Canadians at the concert. My heart goes out to the wounded here from Saturday night and those killed and wounded in Las Vegas yesterday. 

Its a windy day out there with strong gusts, only about +1 degree out there on a cold October day.

Its going to be tough going into work today and keeping focused on my job, with what's going on in the world. Life goes on. Maybe the shift might end early. I hope so. Anyway, that's enough for now.