The weather we have now is

more like March weather. This isn't too bad. By this time next weekend, we are back to the -4 to 0 pattern. 

To recap January: It started off with my hours reduced. Then we had the dreaded bed bug inspection, which we were able to avert. Then we had that nice 2 week warming trend and then an inspection looking over us and 3 days trying to get our iPad fixed. I resolved that yesterday. On top of all that, I'm up early this morning for a full day and Sunday. I'm going to try for a day off Monday. It was Anne that suggested it. If I need it.

After work today, I'm going to indulge in a cold beer, probably at BD's (Bo Didlies) before the Oiler/Flames game and pass out on the couch and catch a bit of the game between dozing off here and there and back at it for a fill day Sunday. Anyway, that's all for now.

I had a great night last night on the

job but my blood sugar was dropping. I'm on the busy Corona station platform waiting for my train 9pm Clareview train home. It was pact as usual. All the University students At that time of night as Track 2 Clareview always has more passengers then track 1 Century Park heading South. I was lucky to find a window seat so I could doze off here and there.

I'm waiting on the 129 Northgate bus to clear out of Clareview nodding off here and there. There's that character standing at the front of the bus driver again. I pull the cord for my usual stop request. And a "Sorry." What? That character distracted the driver past my stop by about 100 feet. He let out about half a dozen of us onto windrows walking back to the lights. I was pissed off. So much so that I made a rare complaint to ETS complaint line and explained to the operator what had just happened. The bus driver is a  nice guy and all but its that distracted driving. The complaint line lady said this was something worth complaining about and asked if that was a ETS off duty driver standing there talking to the driver? I didn't know but he didn't look like that to me. If it was, the off duty guy should have known better. I wont be on that bus tonight but she took down my false name and my phone number and will put the complaint forward. Around mid December before I got off at my usual stop, I yelled out: "Thanks for distracting the driver bitch." I told that story to the complaint line operator. If the bus driver had not missed my stop obviously I would have never any reason to make a complaint. 

We have management coming in for a annual inspection of the premisses in the morning (we hope) If not by 1pm if they are not here, one of us should remain behind to go to Southgate Apple store to get our replacement iPad. Most likely that'll be me, because Anne needs to work this afternoon. "I have a day off." If I'm successful with the iPod I might just go to Bo Didlies across the street for a cold one. Although I'm having this craving for a shot of Sambucca. We'll see. Anyway, that's all for now.

Our nice over 2 week mild weather January break

is about to end this weekend. We're supposed to get temperatures of about -15, -13 for a few days and by this time next weekend, we're back in the "heat wave" again       as we're supposed to be around "0." That was this year. A far contrast from last years -25's and -30's. 

Back in the early hours of the New Millennium I was heavily involved in a online chat room called A God(s) fight. Or AGF. It got pretty lively talking, arguing and debating about religion and politics. I nicknamed myself Sebek (Egyptian crocodile god). In those days I was slowly losing interest in metaphysics. About 2001 the chat room dissolved into a message board. I go in and post a couple times/year but keep it light and say hi and promote my blog etc. AGF is now a shadow of its former self. Not much activity these days at AGF.

A drone company from Calgary, Skymatics has launched a DJI S1000 drone, to take aerial film of the Waterdale bridge and the downtown arena Wednesday's flights mark the first time a Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) has been issued to a drone company by Transport Canada to conduct operations in Edmonton. The drone has to fly at least 400 feet away from a target.

I'm in the office from 5-9 tonight. We're picking up our iPad replacement Friday. Anne's buying lunch. Then I'll ride the train with her to Bay Station and I'm going to Clareview and a Northgate bus to Londonderry Mall, and into Buds for a beer and home to watch Smackdown. I'm up early Saturday morning. Anyway, that's all for now.

Apparently this was supposed to be a

4-6 hour back up to iCloud. When we got to the Apple store the guy took a look at our device and said something like" "Ok lets see how long the back up will take," Five hours? Anne was all pissed off. I thought the back up was going on Monday night. She said something about how we'll do the back up at home and they'll save our replacement iPad until Saturday. So Anne walked out on me. I lost her in the crowd so I figured I'd go to the office and check the screen to see on the screen if the new project is ready and of course use the bathroom. The supervisor said, "Good thing you showed up, here's your T4 we were going to put in the mail." That and the new project will apparently begin next week.

I caught the train home and there was Anne on the couch wondering where I went. She said what had happened with the back up was sometime last night, she took the device in her purse across the street (naturally it broke the internet connection. So she did the back up last night according to the tech's instructions. That whole thing was on her not on me or on tech support.

We also got our invoice for the iCloud upgrade on the iPad. It's $1 for 20Gb. That's a decent deal. I'm going to get another 20Gb on my iPod as well. Today I have a 4 hour shift in and out. Anyway, that's all for now.

Lots of snow coming down

right now along some parts of the East coast. So much so that Monday night Raw cancelled its live show. They're going to get about 3 feet of snow in places like New York City, Boston etc. In contrast, because of the nice mild weather we're getting here now. We might have an inch of snow and most of it has melted. It feels like spring around here but it's going to get "colder" to about -7. Yeah right. This could be the warmest February in a long time.

So, apparently our lack of sound on our iPad is because Anne dropped the iPad and cracked the glass. This was some months ago. This compromised our battery, so Apple backed everything up for us and all we need to do now is go back today and they're giving us a new iPad (same model) but we don't have to repair the cracked glass, which would otherwise cost us about $250. We also had to buy some extra cloud space as they backed our iPad up there. The cloud space is $1/month, which is pretty good and we get the new new OS8 operating system and they're going to show us how to access the cloud etc. So its a good deal.

I was also able to get 2 Warhammer 40K books out of a store gift card from last December. I got the recent Horus Heresy novel "Vengeful Spirit," and the "Bastion Wars" Omnibus. Plus we had a bite to eat at the food court. We're out of here about 2:30pm to pickup our "new" iPad and I'm home to watch some Wild/Oiler hockey tonight. Anyway, that's all for now.

Sunday would have been a good day to get out because of the weather

as temperatures climbed up to 9.2 Sunday afternoon. I was surprised to hear Anne say she ordered Royal Rumble for me. Great. I had a bag of chips lots of pop after our breakfast for the show and had a good time.

Next Saturday after work (after checking out times etc) I’m going to go to the new Clareview arena. Hopefully I can get a tour of the facilities and use the pool, hot tub and steam room. Maybe spend an hour or so. I think this would be great for Anne and I after she has her Sunday face time with her sister. I need to see my pharmacist anyway so I can get some more Insulin and maybe arrange for a free rec centre pass. I’d use it every weekend if It was free.

Earlier today I was fooling around with iMovie on my iPod Touch. It's an app that came with my iPod. It's not as good as Windows Movie Maker but for the iPod, it is what it is. I'm trying to find a way to have the iPod mic enabled so I can just have silence and over dub on top of it and add my own music etc. There are other iMovie apps that are similar to iMovie.

Later today Anne and I are heading out of here at 2pm to the Apple store at Southgate. We're having issues with our sound on our iPad and I need to find out why I can't access iTunes from my iPod. They have our Apple ID on file to set up the appointment and my email address in case we have to rebook. After that we're going to Coles Indigo to cash in on my gift card and get a bit to eat and home. Anyway, that's all for now. 

National news last night

showed something from Microsoft called HoloLens to bring augmented reality experiences to life. The technology essentially places an overlay on real environments, enabling wearers of the HoloLens to turn their living rooms into levels of the game Minecraft, for example, or let architects take clients through new constructions or scientists tour Mars. Its not quite a Star Trek Holodeck or anything and the headsets are not as cool looking as Google glass. Hololens is slated to come out around Christmas time. I haven't heard anything about pricing but my guess is probably about $500 street.

I decided against going out to Royal Rumble today only because Anne and I need to go out Monday to the Apple store at Southgate. We're having trouble with our iPad 2 sound and its a bit of a outing for us as well. I've been trying out various solutions on the web but that hasn't fixed the problem so we're going to the source.

I'm really enjoying this Facebook site "I grew up in Coquitlam." I'm in the Soupy's thread. Soupy's the name of a popular corner grocery store. Soupy's was just about the only store in Coquitlam for a large chunk of the City and pretty much was until it closed. I remember as a kid growing up in the 1960's this is where we got our Marvel comics, bubble gum cards, penny candy, just about everything. One of the contributors to this post says he is neighbors with the owners. The store in its then incarnation goes back to 1962 (possibly earlier) and even before that it was called something else. The store is empty and if you use Google maps its on the corner of Como Lake and Robinson.

Also about the group I learned that the school I used to go to Austin Height's was called Central before I went there in 1965. Austin was met with the wrecking ball in the early 1980's I believe. Before we head out Monday I'm calling my school district and ask if I can get my transcripts. That'd be really cool. Anyway, that's all for now.