I'm hoping my Lodge

brother will have no work snags this afternoon. We're looking at a 5pm pick up Jim time. I'm all set up with doing everything on my iPhone. I just need to shave and as long as he has the green light, I'll be waiting down stairs at ~ 4:45pm. knowing my luck this weekend, I'll get the can't make it to pick you up message in messenger to activate plan B. 

I'm all set up with Apple "Affirm" payment plan. I know the Mac mini configuration I want. I did my research. I'm looking at the M6 Mac mini, 32gb Ram, 1Tb hard drive with Logic pro. I'm not sure about the ~ $100/month plan. It's doable. The 1Tb is ok but I have some large music libraries. T only things I want on he I have an old iOmega 1 Tb drive for that. The only programs I want on the internal SSD is Omnisphere 3 and UVi Sonic pass. I won't go over 500gb on the internal drive. This could be wishfull thinking on my part. I've used sys links before so maybe there is that. I'm looking to order the Mac for sometime in November. There are a few lose ends I need to cover. 

The Good: Lodge degree night tonight. The bad: It's on my same time as my Elks/Hanilton game. The Good: It's WWE "Money in the bank" Saturday: The bad it's on ESPN and I'm not subscribed to that. The Good: Oilers/Sharks at 2pm. At least I can watch that. Knowing my luck the Oilers will lose this one. Not only that but Anne gave me that Senna Tea "shit tea." Guess what I'll be doing tonight at Lodge. Anne's heart is in the right place, but geese already. Anyway, that's all for now.

It's been an easy week so far.

Anne & I never made it out to Bearshill Casino. Mainly because we'd be spending about $50 each. We're trying to go easy on our money this month. Plus the outing yesterday would have cut into our monthly outiong where Anne and I like to go out to, iHop, Denny's or Rickies. That's coming  up next week. 

I did spend about $8 bucks on an app called Porthill audio for my iPad. What's cool about this is how it interfaces with Koala sample. 

I can get a sample from You Tube, say something in the public domain copy the audio into Koala, condense the audio individual stems, pitch the audio up or down and or add some FX like tape echo etc and make a beat out of the audio slices. Etc. Also, I ca get the audio from my device and use it for my lodge.

Outside of the Oilers game tonight, I have an emergent Lodge meeting Friday. Then let the long weekend begin. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Anne rode in with me on the Valley/Capital line as

far as Coliseum station about 6:30pm last night. My destination: Highlands Masonic Hall. Our secratary brought with him the book of the work I requested. My evening went well. This was about 6:30pm last night. Sun was very bright.

Anne had a great idea: Lets opt out of the Casino outing tomorrow. I've been pushing it since last Thursday night. Its an early outing for us and we'd be gone away from our cats for about 5 hours, and spending close to $50. Besides, it compromises our mid week outing. Good call Anne. Anyway, that's all for now.

Thursday was Lodge

Friday was Al Shamal (AASR) Saturday morning at Momentum. It was nice being with the guys. The topic was on forgiveness. I can forgive Mary for ghosting me. I'm forgiving her for myself not for her, so I can heal and move on. I hope to God, I never see her or her husband again. I'm in his head, which is why he wont come out to momentum. He lied to me, and he knows I know. He and Mary are in suspension. Some days are better then others. This evening its our finale practice for Friday. Plus other things going on. More details later.

One of those details could be bus outing. Our provider has bus outings every month. These are posted in the elevators. It's a $5 sign up. We've been late on a few of these before.

I'm getting change on the way home. or ask my Lodge brother if we could get a coffee on the way, and change back. I'll figure something out. Also, our provider was saying they have a new bus.

One of my co workers in chat was telling me I should sign up for home care. It's free. I'm having fungus issues with nail and foot care. Life is good. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm still going to

support the Oilers even though I can't watch any of the games. At least I can listen to the play by play on the radio, and watch the replays on sportsnet immediately following. It's not quite the same thing. 

I told myself over and over, don't buy anything on impulse. So I did. It was a drum machine, that looked like it can do some amazing things. $54 USD. 

The above is hardwear. I had trouble installing it. I still don't have it working properly. I should have bought Little drum machine instead. This still might have potential. 

I've got lodge tonight, Al Shamal Friday night 🤔I think. I'll need to text Gordan about this. And BoB Saturday morning. That depends on my call to ETS if Coliseum station is shut down. I'll call before I head out to lodge. If it's ok, I'll call about getting my flue/covid shots etc. Elks are on a bye week, so I have lots of time off. Unless I go back to work. I hope not. Anyway, that's all for now. Happy October everyone. 

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. 

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.