Its not that I'm

overly busy or anything, there's been not much that's relevant to say. There's not much going on as well around here. 

Yesterday (last night) I went for my meeting and one of the guys drove me home and along the way I bought April's bus pass at the nearby 7-11. After I got home I was going over my duties of a lodge master in the constitution and worked on my Cubase and had audio coming out of most tracks then I lost audio. Reason for this is I'm running Cubase and Maschine on minimum system requirements. Through out my Sunday afternoon I did a lot of JFK research and found a real nugget of some information about a peripheral  character in the case. Also I learned yesterday that earlier this month James Tague passed away. He was the fellow standing by the triple underpass, when one of the missed shots in the JFK assassination hit the near by curb and a bit of he curb hit his cheek. I put my Cubase project away around 4am shut the laptop down and went to bed. 

About the first week of this month, I put my resume in for a call centre job at the Blue Cross catty corner to where to where I'm working now. My resume was languishing in their slush pile I more or less forgot about it. Finally almost a month latter they replied back with a generic email saying my application was not successful. Most likely I'm over qualified and people where I work were saying they were looking for kids mostly to fill summer positions anyway. After the kids go back to school, I'll probably get another generic email asking if I'm interested in applying again. Um, no thanks It's time to move on. 

Saturday was "Earth Hour," and my wife was saying how they were working in the dark during that time. They still had their computers on. Most of Edmonton was business as usual but I think City Hall was shut down. I think I was having a nap during Earth hour anyway. Some of the guys were talking about it at the meeting last night. I'm not much into that stuff as it is, so it's business as usual around here for me. Earth hour or no Earth hour. 

Today I'm out of here about 3pm. I've got 5 hours for today, possibly tomorrow as well, I don't know yet. For the most part this week I'm back to 5-9. I've got some business at the PCN/Northgate on Thursday and my Lodge night is Thursday after the PCN. I'm working Friday and Saturday is a full day and Sunday is Wrestlemania 30. It looks like this week, my hours will be reduced but next week I should be more or less back to normal. Other then that, like I said above not much going on. I'll be launching Tweets of course in between my next blog post. Anyway, that's all for now. 

So far there is no date on the upcoming

Alberta PC leadership convention. There are a few contenders such as Doug Horner (Spruce Grove) Thomas Lukaszuk (Edmonton-Castle Downs) Lukaszuk would be my first choice. Before the PC party calls for a leadership convention they want to make sure they have enough candidates.

If someone were to come up to me and ask "Jim, why do you blog?" I blog to leave a record of my life when I'm gone. Blogger might not last 10 years after I'm gone but as long as people are using it then it served it's purpose. I'm hoping Google will continue to use Blogger 10-50 years from now or even later. Sure my blog might be in the slush pile but at least it's somewhere. In a sense, my blog is my legacy. With pictures and links and my rants and raves, this blog is like a a snapshot of my life and my community (or my impression) in which I lived long after my death and what my life in my community was all about. That's why I blog and then this entry gets copied and pasted to my diary from here. My diary is a bit more private then the blog of course.

I'm a little tired and feel a need for a nap for an hour. I had a little nap there and feel a bit better. Monday is the last of my 5 hour shift's as I'm back to my 4 hours. It gives me 27.5 hours minimum during the week. Tonight I'm in for my 5-9 and all day Saturday from 10-6 and my lodge get together Sunday night and that's the weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.

It seems that the

wreckage of flight MH370 is still being elusive. I was reading that finding the black box and flight recorder batteries could die out within a month. It could take years to find the black box when that happens. 

Closer to home we're still under the grip of this Spring "cold snap" but it's not a arctic -25 cold snap either. It's too cold for this time of year. It's expected to warm up by Monday or Tuesday. At the moment its -6 -11 wind chill but the snow on the ground still seems like winter. It wasn't bad coming back from work last night though. 

It's another 5 hour shift today and yesterday's shift went by fast. I was asked to come in on Sunday but I have that meeting Sunday night at Highlands Hall. Next Sunday is out as well because of Wrestlemania 30. When Anne came home last night she said she just missed my train as she got out about the same time as me. I think tonight after work I'm going into Tim's for a decaff coffee and get one of the few remaining Roll-up-Rim coffee cups and see if I can meet her coming home tonight. Also to see if she could record Impact wrestling tonight. Anyway, that's all for now.

The only down side of things

yesterday was the Oiler's lost and just about in the 2nd period of the game, the snow began falling. The snow hasn't let up since about 8pm and is forecast to go all day today.

Health wise, my insulin doesn't seem to be working because my blood sugar level has been very high over the last few days. Like in the 15 -18 range. Not good.

Yesterday, I was able to update my blog topics on Freemasonry and "My Philosophy." I also went and updated my Facebook page as well. 

Two movies I'm looking forward to seeing next month are Captain America Winter Soldier and the new Tom Cruise movie, Edge of tomorrow. Saturday is a good day to go because I can go by myself after work. 

I'm out of here for my 4-9 in about 12 hours but the shift more or less is fast. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Finally I have a day off and even though

its about -8 out there the wind chill still makes it colder when we head out of here.

I like taking Tuesday's off because the night before I get to watch all of Monday night Raw and sleep in the following morning. Also it seems Tuesday night is a popular night for Oiler hockey games. I get to sleep in again Wednesday morning so it's almost like having 2 days off. 

Yesterday I was able to go into my laptop's Safe Mode (easy enough to do) and using system restore I was able to go back to another stable date on my computer. I was able to gain access to my Cubase/desktop from there. That worked out well. 

I went to bed about 2:30am and got  up about 20 minutes ago (10:30) fed the cats and onto my first coffee of the day. After I post this I'm back into Cubase as I'm working on a offline Template. I'm going to do all of that or try to before Anne and I head out of here at 1pm for Northgate. Then back home for some dinner and the Oiler game. Anyway, that's all for now.

Sundays on the

job can be rather long but yesterday's shift was brisk. Not that I'm complaining though. I had a craving for pizza all day and I never mentioned this to Anne when I called her on my break at 5pm. She said my SW from Lodge returning my call. At 8pm it was nice to leave the office as it was still light outside, until I got home.

When I got home Anne was on the phone ordering, piazza! She must have read my mind. We watched the news after that. 

I'm having windows password recovery issues again and I forget how I was able to set my password before. I know it involved my pen drive and safe mode. I'll be fooling around with it before I leave for work this afternoon.

Tuesday my wife and I have the day off and we're going to Northgate Town Centre mall to get some AW action going. Anyway, that's all for now.

Heading into work I felt exausted but ok

after having my Tim's breakfast and coffee, I felt pretty good. A bit of a stiff soar left knee lately but feeling ok. It was nice and sunny and cooler hobbling South on 107th there towards the office. 

I was set for a great day. I got 2 completes during my first hour and 2 more by 1pm. By 1pm though I was exhausted. I got maybe 2 hours sleep the night before, which didn't help and it was catching up with me. By 1:15pm I was ready to abandon ship at 2pm and call it a day. Then wtf? The building alarm system went off! We had to shut down our computers as I was right in the middle of a survey. We had to collect our things. The buildings occupants (including us) filed out side into the cooler air,as our group headed to the adjacent building where there was more sunlight and benches. Two fire trucks and emergency responder vehicles later and about 15minutes after that, building security let everybody back in. We had about 10 minutes to collect our thoughts and resume and our computer system was able to pick up where we left off. That was a nice little break and I felt ok to work out the last 3 hours from there and I hadn't had my half hour break yet. Then barely 15 minutes inside, the alarm sounds off again! Yeesh. Same recipe as before. Same location for our group but about half a hour later and less emergency vehicles later, we were allowed back inside, again. At this point I knew we were going to be sent home. We had another break and it was announced that the office would be closing for the day. We'd still get paid for the day of course. Too think earlier I was ready to go at 2pm, lol. Some of us were by the elevator on our way out and we noticed what looked like smoke coming from the overhead lights. We got out asap. So I hobbled along with a colleague to Corona lrt and caught the train home right away. At Clareview I was looking for my wife on her way to catch her train for her commute, hoping I could give her the bus pass. I didn't see her anyway at Clareview as I boarded the #183 and at the bus stop just outside our place. When I got into our suite there was Boots alone with the other cats and the vacuum in use. I figures Anne just left from there thinking she was late. 

I got a call from the Super at work saying we're ok for today's shift. It was steam coming out of the lights not smoke. So, I had a nap for a couple of hours before the hockey game, I woke up about 2 hours later and there was Anne on the couch. She said she had a day off today and noticed I was sleeping, lol! 

The Flame's/Oiler's game started out good and the game was tied at 1 going into the 2nd period, then it got ugly. In the second period the Flames scored 5 unanswered goals! In the 3rd another fan threw a Oiler jersey on the ice and the goaltender with his stick tossed it back into the crowd. The score ended up 8-1 Flames! They were clearly the better team and I give them full marks for playing nearly a perfect game, good for them. It's a full 8 hour day today and I should get home by about 9pm. Anyway, that's about all for now.