its only +6 or so, its still pretty nice out there. Even for this time of night.
It's officially Halloween and Anne carved out her pumpkin for the year. It's probably going to be up for the whole weekend. Something isn't quite right with my iPad camera. It seems the photo's are a bit grainy.
I
decided once I get my guitar in tune and the strings replaced. Also get some advice on how to tune it, I'm
going to use my guitar for my guitar sound. There's a novel concept. I'm also going to upgrade my
laptop for that SSHD drive but that's in the new year. I'm just playing
power chords anyway and that's easy to do. It's not for performance it's
just to add to the tone I need. At the moment I don't need a $1,000
computer system.
If I can execute my part ok next Thursday I've got the Master's job in my Lodge. I know my material well enough I can open and close, no problem. The close part is about 80% but I've got the weekend.
Today I'm leaving out of here a bit early because we're having our staff appreciation day at 2pm. The boss is buying pizza for the staff, and it's a paid pizza party. It's a nice gesture Anyway, that's about all for now.
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11:25am
I didn't get much sleep overnight, mainly because unknown to me at the time, my blood sugars were way up there. Or I could "feel them" up there. I just checked and they're at 13.4. That's pretty high. One of the main culprits that increases my blood sugar levels is ketchup. Last night though we had my wife's home made perogies and one of those kielbasa cheese filled sausages, which I like so much.
At the moment it's very nice outside with Sunlight poking through various cloud. It's very mild outside with the high humidity at 0ver 70% even makes a low temperature feel warm. I could handle November like this but it's very dry out there. Or High is expected to be about +10 today.
I've got about 45 minutes before my bath and a shave and pack up to leave out of here at 1pm. Since it takes me a hour to get anywhere in this City. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I "survived" Monday. I have a day off today and I'll take what ever the rest of the week has in store. If they want to get rid of me, I'm ok with it. I'll survive. It's on them not on me. I've got 4 more years left in the work force and I'll be glad when it's all over and done with and I can do my stuff go to Lodge and work on my music etc. Ok enough of that.
I love Halloween week. It's something for all ages. There's office parties for the adults, trick or treat for the kids. There's something for everybody. It's a fun time of the year.
I think it was hearing about Lou Reed and the above office bs that put a damper on my shift yesterday. I was glad to get out of there when I did and on my way home. Anne left a note for me saying she had to go to the medi centre up the street. She left half of a papa John's Pizza for me but she came in as soon as I had my coat and shoes off.
Today I'm sleeping in for as late as I want and this evening Edmonton Oiler fans turn into Leaf fans. Very scary kids! Even though the game is at Rexall place its a Leaf home game. Might be a good time to get a Proline ticket. Anyway, that's about all for now.
as it was announced on last nights news Lou Reed founder of the Velvet Underground died at the age of 71. Lou Reed was 10 years older then me but his music was in my consciousness. He was sponsored in the mid 1960's by Andy Warhol the avant-garde Manhattan artist that founded The Factory. Lou Reed had only 1 #1 hit song: "Walk on the wild side." A lot of rock n' roll artists were influenced by Lou Read,most notably David Bowie, who helped Lou Reed with Reed's album "Transformer." I enjoyed most of Reeds music and sad by his passing. Lou Reed passed away from complications of a liver transplant. Last year it was David Jones of the Monkees. Who's next Iggy Pop?
We figured out how to use the video camera in the recent iOS update. With that and Kingston mobile lite we can store tons of stuff and access it over wifi on the iPad.
I'm at my desk at noon ready to start and the supervisor before shift, begins with how upper management or whatever is going to be looking at the coding of this current project from each employee today and make decisions. My coding did not start off good during the first part of this current project but if I get pulled from this project and there's nothing else coming, I wont come back. That being said I had a decent day on the job Sunday anyway, more or less meeting my obligations. If I get pulled off this project I have a plan B. $10/hour isn't great but its better then nothing. I'm also checking into local Kijiji and I have a couple of options there. One thing is for certain, I wont do market research again. Also, I'll be asking for my record of employment (roe) and filing for employment insurance (ei) ei won't pull my claim because I refuse to take a commission job. On my day off Tuesday, I'm going to Service Canada to set things up for their job bank. If I'm not removed from the project I'm still looking for another job.
Today I'm on the job about 2:30pm to start at 3pm and if I leave out of there still on this project, then that's a bonus. If not I'm still buying my Kingston device anyway after work and home to watch Monday night Raw and stay up late working on my new toy. I'm not going to lose any sleep over the job thing. Anyway, that's all for now.
bed shortly after 9am a few minutes ago. Outside a new blanket of snow had fallen overnight. Hint: The skies are still overcast. It also looks pretty breezy out there as well for my late morning commute. Seems like the snow stopped falling awhile ago but we could see an encore latter today possibly again overnight.
I’m still looking at getting that Kingston mobile link. Most likely I’ll need to register the product read the instructions as part of the set up process. If it works, along with the last iOS update then it’s almost like having a new iPad. I’ll be doing this on my day off Tuesday.
At the moment, I’m enjoying a morning coffee but I still have time to go over my email and do some more “research” on this Kingston device.
As for today, I’m out of here about 10:45am for my morning commute. I had about 6 hours sleep so I’m ok for the day. My day at work is from noon-6pm today. I wish all my shifts were like that. At work I’m calling Audrey’s to let them know I’ll be picking up a special order this upcoming Friday and Anne. Then after work my train to Grandin and then home. Anne’s going to have our Sunday brunch ready and I should be home to watch the Oiler/Kings hockey game. The rest of the night is mine. Anyway, that’s about all for now.
which made me feel exhausted by "last call" rolled around by 4pm. I went over to Tim's to see what they had on the menu and their lasagna is back! It was about this time last year they pulled it. If it's still there in mid December, then great. At Tim's using their wifi to get the results of Oiler's 4/Phoenix 5 game I finished my dinner and checked my email. My colleague in my Lodge, failed to get the DDGM position he wanted. It sounds like he had to go before a review panel like I did in order to get the position. I caught the train to Grandin and after a brief wait the train back to Clareview. Despite my day my voice held out till the end. I got home and began watching the Riders 25-29 Stamps game dozing on the couch for a bit until Anne called.
Now I'm wondering if installing that iOS update was such a good idea after. Anne said we can only take photo's no video. That sucks. I'm hoping it's something she overlooked. I'll have to take a look around. It's probably something to do with the update and location services or something like that. The other thing I discovered this morning in a last bid to have my iPad read a flash device, I stumbled upon a video for the Kingston Mobile Lite Wireless Reader. This thing can stream over a host's network, photo's, video, music and I think even data. I'm not sure about data though. But it means that I can use my external 1Tb hard drive and attach that to my iTouch and iPad. There are other competing products like it and I'm going to do some research tonight. For $60 it's a pretty good deal. I'm also thinking that I can utilize the contents of my Samsung camera and clone the photo's etc off of that.
The weather out there is still pretty decent. I think the high was maybe 15 or something like that. We should get a rain or snow mix tomorrow at +1! We're gradually supposed to get up to +10 by Wednesday. This weather trend could go to the first week in November.
This week is a full week and we have at work our staff Halloween/ "staff appreciation" day party Thursday afternoon. Most likely without pay but they're buying pizza. So no training.
I'm looking at another job doing something similar to what I'm doing now. Unless of course they pay in survey completions say like $1 a complete, forget it. If they pay an hourly rate, then it might be ok. It might be something I can do 4 days/week depending on the opportunity. The catch is (probably more the one) is I'll need another phone line. But it might be worth while, we'll see.
So tomorrow, it's another 5.5 hour day as I'm in at noon and out by 6pm. Home by 7pm so we can have our Sunday brunch and watch the Oiler's lose in LA. Another Oiler loss. Anyway, that's all for now.
I still had a decent day. Last night I had hockey, CFL football, Impact wrestling, I was flipping channels like crazy. The Oiler game was hardly worth watching as the visitors won 4-1! Last nights Oiler's played like juniors. The worst of it was I missed a good opportunity to make some Proline cash, what with the Bombers at Argos and the Argos won that one. Almost any Oiler game is a loss, which is always money, and Vancouver Canucks winning last night, I might have won enough cash to buy that Warhammer 40K 5 disk CD set.
At first I was excited about the upcoming Captain America movie until I read a little bit into it. The side-kick isn't Bucky Barnes as I hoped it would be but we get the "The Black Widow" instead. This BW factors into the Marvel multiverse, which in my opinion kind of tarnishes the original Marvel "universe." I did like the 2011 Thor movie and I'm going to enjoy the second installment coming out soon and I'm still going to see Captain America maybe on video on demand or something. I'm saving my scene points for Wrestlemania in the Spring.
Japans space agency has successfully test-fired a "space cannon" designed to launch a projectile into an asteroid as part of the search for the origins of the universe. Wow! They want to launch it in 2018. More about this here:
This is a working weekend beginning with this evening and I'm in Saturday for 5 hours and same for Sunday. November is going to be alright if we keep this current project until years end. However I'm looking for a job I can do in the mornings say 3 days/week or even in the evening after work for a few hours but these hours aren't going to last forever, so best fit for me would be mornings from1-9 or something like that. Anyway, that's about all for now.
unscheduled day off today, lucky me. Not. That's 3 days I missed this week off this pay period, not good. So, tonight I'm following the Washington/Oiler game on TV later on this evening and I'll catch bits of Impact wrestling in there as well.
I was going to make a visit to Service Canada today but I don't know if they can do anything for me. Other then use the computers to access their job bank, which I think I can do at home anyway. I got about 3 and a half years left in the "rat race" before I can "fully retire" at 65 and work part time just to get out of the apartment a couple nights/week and go to Lodge the rest, "living the dream" oh well.
During the game tonight I'm taking the files off the flash drive I bought yesterday and putting them back onto the iPad. The iPad can't read the flash drive because it needs more power. So, I'll be doing that this evening while following the hockey game. The other thing I'm trying to do is after backing up my 3rd Gen iTouch is to jailbreak (jb) it. Apple doesn't seem to support this device anymore with any new updates. There's a lot of ways to do this online and I'm about to do that today. I'd like to get a program called iFile I've been seeing so much about.
This has been all over the Internet recently but apparently Nasa is expected to make a huge announcement with earth shattering implications November 13th 2013. There's all kinds of speculation about this. Some are saying it's a asteroid, or even space aliens. Posters on Youtube are saying it's a hoax that if anyone clicks on the link they collect data from your computer.
I was going to go to the District Lodge on Saturday but with my shift changed today, that definitely makes that decision for me. So much for that idea. I'll be making a call tonight to let my colleague know I won't be able to make it. With Friday and Saturday's hours in there I barely have enough hours to meet my obligations this pay period as it is. I need a full time day job, or something that can give me better hours. Anyway, that's about all for now.
