I didn't know this

right away but my Internet was down. I was too busy with FL9 but noticed it when Anne called. it was a real bummer because that meant that last night was going to be dreadful.

We placed a couple of irate calls and before missing the Grey Cup game this afternoon. Al's won 21-18, I came back into the office and found out the modem box lights are all lit up. Indicating we're back in business--maybe. Anne's got the TV on another "Channel" I can't get to our service provider one to see if all channels are clear, At least my ITouch is working. Anne came home just briefly about 10 minutes ago and stepped out to do some shopping and she doesn't know the good news yet. We're not out of the woods yet though.

Yesterday I was informed that there would be no late afternoon shift and even though I could have used the hours and all, I was grateful as Vinny download FL9 onto my laptop from his USB drive but it wouldn't work. Packing up my laptop in my knapsack we went to his place (across the street from Grant MacEewan University) he ended up getting the whole program installed with no trouble. It works great even now. I figured after that was done, why not take the #2 bus and head over to Wendy's and get a burger for my lunch. Why not get a bottle of diet Coke, wait for the #2 but I was to far East and missed the connection. After wandering around the downtown core, trying to figure out where to go get a bite to eat I found myself outside City Centre mall and decided to go in. Rider jerseys everywhere. Then I decided I hadn't been to Sizzling Wox in a long time. They changed the company name but it's still the same place. I bought 2 orders of Chinese and and a diet Coke, sat down at an empty table and enjoyed my lunch. On my way to Coles, Ebay games was still there. I looked around and they have some used copies of Assasin's Creed 2. At $27 the price was right but I didnn't have the money. I was also looking at the Dsi the one with the 2 camera's on it. They had it for $179 plus it caomes with games as well. Perfect for my commute. After that I headed over to Cole's with my laptop with me all the way. I hadn't been in Cole's for almost 2 years. I shopped around and looked at their version of the Kindle 2 the Kobo. I'm still leaning towards the kindle 2. Shopping around for books I came across Jack Whyte's books. I've never read Whyte before but his books are in the SFF area. I bought the first book of "The Eagle" duo-logy "Clothar The Frank." Book two is there as well but its part of a larger series.

Since I didn't need to go out with Warren and the guys Saturday night I had a night off and enjoyed playing around with FL9. Anyway, that's all for now.

From yesterday and today

I went and bought my 6/49 ticket at the Clairview Redi mart to get change to whomever might have won Thursdays (US) NFL Thanksgiving day games. But when I got inside the office, according to Gerry they only had a few games. The rest will be played on Sunday.

Ok so it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to upgrade my laptops video card for gaming purposes. I’m back to upgrading my desktop, again. Vinny was saying earlier that my desktop mobo doesn’t need to worry about Sata cables etc. for a video card upgrade but to play today’s games, I defiantly need PCI express slots and my mobo doesn’t have PCI express. So I need a mobo upgrade. I’m looking at one from Gigabyte. Its got 2 PCIe slots but most likely I will need to go into the Bios to disable it before I install the graphics card. I’m looking at possibly the GTX 480. I’m not sure yet.

I went to bed about 1am and woke up suddenly at around 3am and I couldn’t get back to sleep from there. I wanted to get up around 7am anyway about when dawn breaks because this way Boots won’t want to jump the balcony when its daylight. I just began a cup of coffee and I‘ve got an hour or so here until I stat getting ready for work. The last thing I‘m going to do is to pack up my laptop for the office. It would be really nice if Vinny could install the software for me before we start the shift so right after work (4:30pm) we can head immediately over to BP’s. I can get a bite to eat there and hang out with the guys before heading out to “Hot to Huddle.” Well, I want to check it out as long as it doesn’t cost anything. I think it’s a free event open to the public. If anything, I’ll be hankering to get into FL9 tonight after a bite to eat and a beer at BP’s in my system, I’ll be able to nap for an hour or so and a couple hours to myself to get into this thing.

Tomorrows the big game. Grey Cup edition #98. After work last night as I was doing my banking the “Rider Nation” was out in full force. Green “S” jersey’s everywhere. The bars are full it’s a great time for the city. Next year it’s the 99th Grey Cup and the host city will be Vancouver. Game time starts at 4pm Sunday. Go Rider’s Go! They have home field advantage against Montreal.

SF Signal today asks about SF turkeys. Books that have been “turkeys.” one of the most uninspiring books I’ve tried to read over the last while has been Sheri S. Tepper’s “The family tree.” I stuck it out for about 150 pages, uggh. I haven’t read many books this year. In fact I’m currently reading my 6th book of the year this month. None of the books I’ve read this year have been strong enough to hold my interest except the last L.E. Modesitt jr. book and even then that wasn’t exactly a page turner either.

Coast has another boring topic on for tonight, “Non Conformity.” Oh brother. I’m not a programming director or anything but for the love of God can we get these soft topics off Saturday night? The good stuff is always on Sunday nights, when Ian Isn’t hosting the show. I’m heading back to business Monday morning for a full day At least I’ll get 40 hours in. Anyway, have a good weekend everyone.

Its not like I'm going

anytime soon but Blogger will be around a lot longer then me. My website will only be around for as long as there is funds to keep it going. Bloggger is free and more or less forever, But From July 20th I lost a lot of material from my diary. So I'm going to try and copy and past the entries from July but what I wanted to post kind of exceeds bloggers limitations.All the above is leading up to I'll be posting both on my website and here. I've done this before but lost track of what I was doing.

I've been looking at getting "Napoleon Total War" by Sega but I'm a long way off from PC gaming and I don;t think I can get a video card upgrad on this laptop.

Today I'm in from 5-8:30pm and off to my bank.

Weatherwise it's been a nice couple of days but we're supposed to go back into the deep freeze next week. it seems when Eastern Canada gets good weather we get bad, and vice versa. But these nice little breaks during winter remind us that Spring is not far off. Anyways that's about all for now

I haven’t been here

in awhile. This is test