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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.