Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Heading out to

get our new Government ID, I thought all we needed was our current ID. Not so. Apprently we need a birth certificate and a piece of mail with a current address. I have my birth certificate but the piece of mail is here in my office. After that we went to Dairy Queen. We each had a double cheese burger. It was really good. Then the meduium strawberry Sundae. Nice outing despite not getting our ID. 

I supported the Edmonton Oilers since they joined the league. I bought a lot of their merch, I watched almost every game I could. I was shocked to learn that the Oilers will not have the games on TV like they 

always have been. It's all on Sportsnet+ for $40/month there's about 40 games and not all of them will be Oilers games. It's the end of an era. I just hope the CFL doesnt follow suit.  Nowing my luck the Oilers will go on to win the Stanley Cup and I won't be able to watch it. This is the last time I'll be posting an Oilers logo here.

In a conversation yesterday afternoon over the phone with Memory express, we went through the cost of a new computer. I'm using my own DDR4 Ram and my own storage. I'm looking at an i9 processor and an MSI motherboard, 2 m.2 drives in a Jonsbo micro ATX case. Probably in Q2 of next year. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Monday, September 28, 2026

Because of my basic

Internet connection Omnisphere 3 was installing at ~ 2 mbps. 61 Gb took 8.5 hours to install this product. Now, if we I had the internet at our last residence, Omnisphere would have probably taken an hour. 

Now, I'm not an engineer but bridges have always facinated me. I watched this You Tube short on the first suspension bridge. How do you build a bridge that hangs from enormous iron chains? In 1820, engineers completed the Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed 


between England and Scotland. 
Instead of supporting the roadway with pillars underneath, the bridge was suspended from massive iron chains connected to stone towers. Its an interesting video.


I got some Lodge" work to do this week for our next practice.  Anyway, that's all for now.
 

Sunday, September 27, 2026

That was a slow start

but Hamilton tied the game and it went into OT. Both teams evenend out the turnovers. 35-37 was the finale. Blanchard made 9 field goals. Our win loss record is now 11-4. Elks play Hamilton October 9th. Unfortunatly, I won't be able to see it. I'll be at lodge. Ball security and penalties were our main chinks in the armour. 

I have practice at the Lodge this evening after brunch. Let me know (if your reading this) if you're driving and want to carpool. Otherwise, it’s no problem at all for me to just take the train both ways.


Not much going on today except installing Omnisphere 3 and Lodge. Tomorrow Anne and I want to go to get our Alberta Government ID. It will have our health number on it and a bite to eat after that's done, and home for Monday night Raw Anyway, that's all for now.

Saturday, September 26, 2026

The other day

when I tried to install Omnisphere 3 from the ssd, it was taking forever. After a bit of research the best thing I could do was to turn off  my Windows firewall, and my AV firewall. Next, login with my credentials ans serial number and from the download manager, install from the vender site directly. If we had better internet, like I had at Whyndham, no internet issues. We're in our finale contract, with Telus and when that expires, we're going to get a similar plan to what we had at Whyndham. I'll atempt to install Omnisphere 3 when Anne finishes her shift this evening.

Today the Elks are hosting Hamilton week 14/19 for us. ELks are 10-4 as we lost the last game in Toronto. The game is on at 5pm. 



Hopefully we can improve our standings to 11-4 as we're down the home stretch. At least we made the playoffs. FIrst time that's happened since 2019.

I'm still reading Brandon Sandersons  "Mystborn." The main chracter sure likes to smile a lot. It's not that the book is slow. Pacing is quite good. I hope to finish the book before the year is it. I have a busy month in October. Yeash. Anyway, that's all for now.

Friday, September 25, 2026

For some reason, Anne just blew up at

me shortly after I came home. I think it was I asked if she could record the news because I came in at 11:10pm

Since then she hasn't been talking to me. I called after the degree, saying I was thinking about gettting a cab from HH which would have cost me ~ $15. "50?" she said blowing up and I said $15, then she hung up. Perry offered me a ride ride, and I tried calling Anne back, but she wouldn't pick up. Ok. Perry stayed for the festive board. I sat with John Slade. He is from another RAM chapter.  The Coke was on the house. Nice. I had some Kirkness cookies. We left out of there about 1O:45pm. I got home shortly after 11. Anyway, that's all for now.

Thursday, September 24, 2026

I started installing Omnisphere 3

about an hour ago. It's a massive library, and my internet connection isn't that great, which doesn't help. Also, my fire wall might be snagging it as well. I'm going to give it until, 5am, and, go to bed. I'll let it run in the mean time.

Tnight, I'm off to Chapter. We're confering  a degree. Three guys coming in. Not sure if I'll get a ride home, but I might just take a cab home if Perry doesn't offer me. Either way I'm good.

Monday, Anne & I are going to the Registry. In my case its so I can have the "proper ID." Being a resident here is good enough I supose. But its good to have just in case. Plus we can go to DQ across the street. Anyway, that's all for now.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Not a bad day yesterday.

I didn't do much today. Mostly You Tube stuff. 

It was Glenn that told me (before I got to Chapter) he did the music off his phone. For some reason I had it in my head, "the only way this would work for me is with my iPad." Well, I only had the phone for 2 years now, and lugging the iPad with the keyboard is heavy. Plus the speaker. My phone recognizes the bluetooth speaker. A.U.M. (Audio Unit Mixer) is installed and even Audio Share. Both apps work hand in hand. The only snag is this iPhone needs a lightning adapter.


 It's not USB C. But Amazon has them availible. I'd rather carry my iPhone/speaker with me, rather then my heavy iPad pro. I'll bring my iPad Thursday, in case there is a snag some where. I need a lightning male and USB A female. so I can transfer files. 

Frances, or Mary want to leave a comment, on my Blog, I'll be able to respond. Anyway, that's all for now.