Anne and I headed out of here about 3pm

It was a good trip to Clareview. The Evergreen bus was waiting at Clareview East to we took that up to Kal tire and walked the rest of the way to Dollarama. Anne got a few thing. I wanted some blank note paper. Anne ordered the steak Sammy. I ordered the Brigade burger. Allways good. After that we took the #104 to Pet Smart and into Costco. I hadn't been in Costco in a long time. Anne bought me a Costco Sundae for desert. I nished that and waited for her, and we went back to the Per Smart ETS bus stop. 

Anne took this photo of me before the us arrived to Coliseum station and to Capilano mall. We got home about 8:45pm.

Anne decided she wanted Pizza 73 so we had the grand slam pizza, watched the news and called it a day. 

My Miyoo mini handheld was an utter dissaster. I thought I was getting a handheld gamin console that could out put to the TV, through the USB C port. The port was for chaging only. I tried to get Onion OS installed and get a 3rd party program called Twilight which has that capability. I tried many times, following half a dozen guides, and just couldn't get anywhere with it. So, I did a bit of research and found an Abneric device. The RG35XXSP Flip Handheld Game Console has hdmi TV out and has thousands of games. I placed the $133 order. This will be the last handheld console, I will buy if it doesnt work. It's supposed to arrive on Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now.

I just came off

of watching an awesome new Howard Stern interveiw with keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Recorded just the other day. Before that another intervieww days old of Mick Jagger.  I don't know who did that interview. 

 Yesterday I had one of those days that I did absolutely nothing. Anne made us a nice brunch and I watched some CFL football. It was one of those do nothing days.

Not much going on today. I have a few phone calls to make before wrestling: Ordering my Compression stockings, setting up a Doctors appointment for Thursday. Anne and I are going out for our monthly outing. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I never made it to

BoB yesterday morning. Anne wanted to visit the Corona Tim Horton's downtown because its the easiest one for us. She takes the 5:30 Strathearn to Churchill connector and the Capital line to Corona stattion. She returned home later then usual. She said the storm the night before and over night yesterday took out the Capital line LRT and ETS decided to shut the line down for the weekend providing contingency buses. Not very user friendly. When Anne returned she gave me the run down. I decided to stay home, dropping Merril a note why I wont be attending. I'll get the next one 2 weeks from today. 

The issue I'm having is lack of sleep. I have 2 sleeping disorders: Restless leg syndrom, and Apnea. Probably others. The only time I can get a good 5-7 hours is if I have a Melatonin pill or Nyquil. A glass of white wine also helps. Lets see what overnight brings.

It's been one of my Masonic ambitions to get my 32° and become a Grand lodge officer. I'll be getting my 32° in a couple of months. Another Masonic milestone will be my 25 year pin. That will be in March. The big one, is becoming a Grand Lodge officer. We have 2 Deputy District Grand Master candidates frim our lodge, putting their names in for DDGM. DDGM picks the officers for his year. I asked one of our DDGM candidates if he would consider me for a Grand Lodge officer appointment. If he's elected. That's in October. The banquet portion of my. I'm wondering if like the DDGM, I place my name on the ballot for a position. More on this later. Anyway, that's all for now.

Last nights storm

took out our power for about 15. Anne went to Corona Station Tim's and bought us breakfast. Me for Bob. When she returned she said that the storm took the Capital (main LRT line) offline and ETS had to deploy contingency buses. I took a video of the rain coming down outside my window. It's on my Facebook page.     

I was going to go to Long & McQuade in Highlands (which is on my way home) because of the LRT Capital line not running, so much for that idea.

I was going to save my Tim's for my 5pm dinner as a bit of a snack and watch the Stamps/Al's game. The above is still the plan. Anyway, that's all for now. 

We had an impressive

lightning/thunderstorm roll in here about 7:40pm. It was m assive. I aven't seen rain like that in a long time. Have we seen the worst of it yet? Probably not. 

Scottish Rite in the Edmonton Valley at least comes in 3 sections: Lodge of perfection, Rose Croix, and Consistory. The first 2 were the same fee. I assumed the last one in October. The last one like all the rest are 3 days each. followed by a complementary breakfast. I wont do the breakfst in October because our Lodge jusrisdiction annual meeting is on the same day. The fees are paid for the Consistory. I over paid thinking they were all the same amount. I overpaid by $50. The lodge secratary suggested the office uses that for next years dues. Good idea.

In the morning before I head out of here for BoB at about 7:30am tomorrow am, Anne wants to go pick me up some Tims breakfast. 

I might drop by Long & McQuade on my way home and get some new headphones because, the Bluetooth ones have a tendancy to make my wireless mic drop out in Fl. Sudio. Anyway, that's all for now.

I shut comments off here because I don't want

people giving me "advice." For example, 4 "people" bot's etc, I have no clue, visit this page every day. You could be Mary, Wade, Don, my sister, Master Greg or even fictional chracters..

Whoever you are, I'm on messenger. Drop me a line. Say hi. Sorry the above is stretched. You get the idea. 

The Elks are in Ottawa tonight. Hopefully we can pull off a win after Saturday's loss. The Elk's had a target on their back in Kelowna from a 0-3 win loss record. The Lions one of the only remaining teams still not on the winning side of the ledger needed the W more then we did. 

I've been following Russian/Ukrnian War since Putin invaded in February 2022. Did I her this right that Trump gave Kiev license to build patriot missles? This is a game changer. It's not like Ukraine will have these missiles immediatly, but if Trump is true to his word, then this changes the picture. Anyway, that's all for now.  

Not a lot going on for today

except laptop maintenance at 10am this morning. In the email reminder, they always say, it's from 10-3pm but it's been my experience, that tech support usualy is in and out of my laptop by noon. I shut it down and go back to bed. 

Yesterday I was researching the idea of upgrading my computer. Google told me all I need is an mATX mother board and appropiate CPU and uses DDR4 Ram. I recall buying 4 sicks 16Gb each and I paid about $300. Today that same Ram is about $1,600. Data farms are driving up the costof Ram. Ai and Bit coin I believe are the 2 main villains in the rising cost of tech. I have 64 Gb of Ram on my machine here. In my case because I like Intel, I'd need an LGA 1700 board. Most of these come with. 

Not much going on this week either. I have the Elks Ottawa game going on, tomorrow, Friday night Smackdown. BoB Saturday. Lets see if Don will make an appearence. If talking smack behind his back draws him out the plan worked. Anyway, that's all for now I can't wait for when the valley line West comes on line so I can wander into Tuesday night Bible study and Peoples church. Anyway, that's all for now.