That's two times

now the Elks had a 0 to the score. ELks 0 Lions 27. Was that an egregious move by Jones to get the ELks into the record books under his watch? Sure looks that way.

The good news the Elks go into a bye week. Hopefully, rational heads can prevail and end this madness. Bring up the assistant coach, and put Jones on the sidelines for the remainder of the season. 

The other day I received something new in my bank account: The Canada Workers Benefit (cwb). This is something that comes out 3 times a year. The next one will be in October. The benefit paid for 3 of my meds yesterday.

The beat I posted on my channel yesterday has so far 4 comments 6 Likes, and 20 views. I hope it gets more of all categories above. Here's a link to the video if you want to listen. I'm even on the mic this time 😃 Anyway, that's all for now.

Next month we're going to apply

again to GEF housing as we have our cat licenses and Anne and I are now both on full pension. If we can get the process started again and pick out 3 places like they suggested, that will shave time off their 2-year waiting list. We should have done this when I turned 65. Anyway, that's all for now.

We've been taking

our female cat Skippy to the vet down the block once a month for her shot. Skippy had an eye removed so the vet there said this is what she needs.

As of this writing, I got 3 new subscribers on my YouTube channel. now situated at 192. How long I can keep that number going is hard to say. As in life people come, people go. Will I get to 200 Subscribers before the end of the year? IDK?

I'm working on a video for my channel for Saturday. Plus there's CFL football BC Lions/Elks. Will this break the streak or will the Elks have a new record: The most home loss streak in Professional sports of any league. This could be history in the making. Anyway, that's all for now.

We just had a

nice thunder lightning storm that rolled through here about an hour ago. The last bits of it are hanging around. I love a good thunderstorm but it doesn't do any good for the wildfires causing smoke in the area.  

Not a lot going on around here. A work colleague and I over-chat were discussing the Ottawa Rd Blacks/BC Lions CFL game earlier. I knew my friend is a baseball fan. I'm not per se but I asked him if he ever saw a Reiver hawk's game? It's our local Pacific West Coast baseball team. They have such a short season. I'd like to go before the season closes but he hasn't been very well lately but he's into going with me. 

Believe it or not, I have nothing going on this week. No appointments, no getting up early. Nothing. My calendar is empty. Anyway, that's all for now.

Going into the

halftime break last night the Elks and Bombers were tied at 6. After that, it was all Winnipeg. The home team had ball possession for most of the game. Four times we got to the red zone and we failed and got nothing. Finale score was 14-29 Winnipeg. Cornelius threw some pretty good passes. 1 resulted in a major. Next up Saturday, July 29th hosting the BC Lions. Our record is now 7-0. 

Wyndham Crossing has another make-work project: installing siding on the outside. There are 3 self-propelled crane lifters on this property. We got one behind us installing siding on our section facing Capital Place. They began work about 9am Thursday morning. The crane lifter is connected to a compress(I think) and when that came on it vibrated our bed. Hopefully, they will have this done within the next week or so.

Today is day 1 of Klondike days (k-days). Our local Midway. Also in tandem with K-days is The Taste of Edmonton. Both events are running until July 30th. Taste of Edmonton is being held in Churchill Square, right downtown. Anyway, that's all for now.

So far my out of pocket

off the rack compression stockings are holding up. These compression stockings (as far as I know) come in 2 flavors: Cotton and Nylon. I think the cotton ones are better because they are all made with one kind of material. The nylon ones have cottoned on the heel. It's been my experience that the cotton on-the-heel stockings stretch the heel cotton somehow and holes appear in the fabric. Thus losing compression. The cotton stockings are all made from one material. Plus the cotton stockings 'breath" easier.  I don't mind if at $25 a pair of nylon stockings after a month I get holes in them. Anne can patch these to last until my next pair. I'm a low-income senior so $100 is a bitter pill to swallow. Especially when the vendor lied to me. Every day when I put these stockings on is a day I cross my fingers and hope there are no holes in them. I check before putting them on at the heel to see if a hole appeared when Anne takes them off.

Apparently, at the moment we're getting heavy rain. Well somewhere in the area. Just not here. We had a lot of rain over night, which was nice

to help get rid of the smoke we've had over this last weekend. Right now the Air Quality Index is @ 4 which means it's a moderate health risk.

Not much is happening right now. I'm trying to get my Sony ZV-e10 camera calibrated to work in OBS. I've got a lot of noise issues and my screen recording using Camlink is coming out brownish. I have one key light and that could be the cause. ISO/aperture settings could also be an issue, idk. Anyway, that's all for now.

I have absolutely nothing going on

this week at all. Except for the Elks@Winnipeg CFL football game Thursday my calendar is clear. Wow. 

My sister-in-law and my wife's niece are out on a 10-day European cruise. They were in Venice yesterday as Anne got a Face time call from her sister. Europe is having a massive heat dome but Donna was saying it's bearable. Meanwhile, we're dealing with smokey conditions like we had earlier this summer. We had a bit of rain early this morning, and now the Air Quality Index is a 7 from 11 previously. I think today Donna is in Greece. 

So far the $100 pair of stockings I bought 4 weeks ago this Tuesday are holding up. No holes in each stocking so far.  If I can have these last for 4 weeks, Anne can patch them up to last until I can get a pair at $25. Maybe. I might have a post midweek, not sure. You can always reach me via Facebook. Anyway, that's all for now.