4 days off, so in a sense its almost like a long weekend.
Despite having a cold and sick over the last 10 days I was able to watch some hockey get some reading done and sleep in a bit but all the coughing kept me awake lying down in bed. Lying on the couch I felt a little better. We figured it out that with the humidifier on keeps things warm and dry. I was able to get some sleep.
This morning I was up at 11:00am and out the door by 11:45am in my new coat Anne had bought me for Christmas. It was slippery out there from the freezing rain the day before. I got my pay check including the $150 bonus, which will help. I said my "Happy new years" to everyone at the office and headed out to Audrey's books. I bought my 20th book of the year, "Back to the moon" by Taylor/Johnson. I'll get to it eventually. I went up to my bank did my banking and after paying my ticket missed the first train back to Clairview. The trains were loaded with hockey fans enjoying the World Juniors. I got to my bus stop and as I was getting off there was Anne flagging me down. She went and got us an A&W burger combo. That was 7 hours ago and I'm still full. It was really good. I gave her a little extra because of my bonus money and enjoyed my burger/fries and watched the last 2 periods. Team USA/Chez. Finale outcome was Team USA 2 Chez 5 and tomorrow night is the Oilers and Anne is working all night from 7-9, yikes.
I'm a little bit soured on my Lodge dues. I know we voted on an increase but I didn't think the increase would be until this time next year. It's almost like a cash grab. Kind of cheesy the way the rammed it through, so I'm paying mine at the February communication. There are no penalties for late payment of dues. Other wise I wouldn't be able to take Anne out for our New Years Dinner tomorrow. I've also got it in my calendar Edmonton #7 (2nd Tuesday) at Freemason's Hall is having a crib night, so this is something I want to check out. More then likely I'll post Sunday January 1st. "Happy New Year" everyone. See you in the New Year. Anyway, that's about all for today.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
As of today I still have
six more days off!
But if were still going to be doing this political stuff and bugging us about line hour, I may be out of there by the end of January, if not earlier. I mean it's bad enough the customer (so were being told) wont get a tax receipt but I find that hard to swallow. Any contribution to a political party is always tax deductible. If it's not then I'm out of my current job. I'll try the ccc job first and if that doesn't pan out, then I'm off to Pizza. Worst part about this is, I put 11 years into that place and you think they'd honor my wage review that I passed? Also I lose that seniority as well. Bonus money? With this thing forget it. Eleven years and I'm still at minimum wage. And I was voted the most cost effective employee of 2011 and one of the top 3 bank in the office. All of this and they still can't pay me an extra buck an hour. I think it's time to leave but I'm going to see how the week goes and then if there's no change by the end of next week, then I'm putting my name in for Pizza and I can work part time where I am now and part time at Pizza. I've got to give the company notice. i don;t want to burn my bridges or anything as I want to go out on a nice way.
All Tuesday afternoon I worked on my Lodge material for the EA exam and my music. I had a nap at about 8pm but it didn't help much. Anyway, that's about all for now.
But if were still going to be doing this political stuff and bugging us about line hour, I may be out of there by the end of January, if not earlier. I mean it's bad enough the customer (so were being told) wont get a tax receipt but I find that hard to swallow. Any contribution to a political party is always tax deductible. If it's not then I'm out of my current job. I'll try the ccc job first and if that doesn't pan out, then I'm off to Pizza. Worst part about this is, I put 11 years into that place and you think they'd honor my wage review that I passed? Also I lose that seniority as well. Bonus money? With this thing forget it. Eleven years and I'm still at minimum wage. And I was voted the most cost effective employee of 2011 and one of the top 3 bank in the office. All of this and they still can't pay me an extra buck an hour. I think it's time to leave but I'm going to see how the week goes and then if there's no change by the end of next week, then I'm putting my name in for Pizza and I can work part time where I am now and part time at Pizza. I've got to give the company notice. i don;t want to burn my bridges or anything as I want to go out on a nice way.
All Tuesday afternoon I worked on my Lodge material for the EA exam and my music. I had a nap at about 8pm but it didn't help much. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Doctor Who "Widow and the wardrobe" was great. Matt Smith with his interpretation of Doctor Who is making it his own. You can tell he's having fun with it. I hope he goes on this series for a long time.
I knew Friday night leaving the office, I was catching a bug. The early signs were there. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. When I go back to work this time next week, I should all be but done with it.
Coast had a good show on for Christmas night, which is odd because most of the time they have canned Christmas music and Coast is suspended for about 3-4 days. I'm glad they (630 Ched) realize that the Coast audience doesn't stop for Christmas. I'm sure there have been a lot of times over the years that stranded Christmas eve airline passengers wish Coast was on. Lots of people still have to work the night shift.
This year we lost some major celebrities. I gathered a partial list out of this site. There is very little love lost here in the West over Kim Jong Ill. one caller on Coast this morning suggested that the North Korean dictator was murdered by his son who is now occupying the seat of power. Some believe that the military was behind his murder. Then there was just recently 12/18/11: Playwright and President of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel died in his home at the age of 75. I felt especially sad over the passing of Harry Morgan but he had a good life living well into his 90s. Although I never read her books she was a literary heavyweight 11/21/11: Notable author of such Science Fiction book series as "Dragonriders of Pern" , Anne McCaffrey, died from complications due to a stroke. She was 84 And it was a real shocker when Bill Kane passed away on 11/8/11: Creator of the long-running newspaper comic "Family Circus", Bill Keane passed at the age of 89. I wasn't a fan of Boxing but Joe Frazier will be well remembered in the boxing world. Andy Rooney was more of an American thing and even though I caught many of his commentaries they made me laugh and ponder 9/10/11: Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson, best known to modern audiences as Uncle Ben from the "Spider-Man" films, died just one day after his 88th birthday. Then there was Betty Ford, founder of the Betty Ford clinic. We lost Peter Falk from the Columbo series. My mom always used to like him, me to. Another shocker for me was hearing the news in the Spring about Macho man Randy Savage. Then there was Jackie Cooper from the Superman films. Osama Bin Ladin (yeaaaa!) I hope that fucker rots in hell. I'm saddened by the loss of Elisabeth Sladen starred as the beloved companion to the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, in the long-running Doctor Who. She passed away at 63. She had returned to the Doctor Who franchise during David Tennant's run as the doctor and spun off into her own series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. We lost Elizabeth Taylor. Michael Gough or--as most people know him--Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films died at the age of 94. Jane Russel passed away,Best known for her roles in the 1950s science-fiction film "Forbidden Planet" and the 1960s television series Honey West died on complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 80 and of course who can't forget losing Steve Jobs. There are a lot more I could name, like Amy Winehouse lots of rappers but these people did not make an impression on my consciousness.
Anne went out to get some things like Christmas cake and other treats because it was boxing day. There are a lot of good deals out there. If the sale is still on tomorrow, I'm going to run over to the Clareview Pharmacy and pick up a couple of plugins Image line has on for 50% off for all registered Image line customers of which I am one due to buying FL. Studio in August and Groove Machine in October.
Tonight I'm watching a bit of the Oiler game and some wrestling. I'll switch back and forth. Anyway, that's about all for tonight.
I knew Friday night leaving the office, I was catching a bug. The early signs were there. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. When I go back to work this time next week, I should all be but done with it.
Coast had a good show on for Christmas night, which is odd because most of the time they have canned Christmas music and Coast is suspended for about 3-4 days. I'm glad they (630 Ched) realize that the Coast audience doesn't stop for Christmas. I'm sure there have been a lot of times over the years that stranded Christmas eve airline passengers wish Coast was on. Lots of people still have to work the night shift.
This year we lost some major celebrities. I gathered a partial list out of this site. There is very little love lost here in the West over Kim Jong Ill. one caller on Coast this morning suggested that the North Korean dictator was murdered by his son who is now occupying the seat of power. Some believe that the military was behind his murder. Then there was just recently 12/18/11: Playwright and President of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel died in his home at the age of 75. I felt especially sad over the passing of Harry Morgan but he had a good life living well into his 90s. Although I never read her books she was a literary heavyweight 11/21/11: Notable author of such Science Fiction book series as "Dragonriders of Pern" , Anne McCaffrey, died from complications due to a stroke. She was 84 And it was a real shocker when Bill Kane passed away on 11/8/11: Creator of the long-running newspaper comic "Family Circus", Bill Keane passed at the age of 89. I wasn't a fan of Boxing but Joe Frazier will be well remembered in the boxing world. Andy Rooney was more of an American thing and even though I caught many of his commentaries they made me laugh and ponder 9/10/11: Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson, best known to modern audiences as Uncle Ben from the "Spider-Man" films, died just one day after his 88th birthday. Then there was Betty Ford, founder of the Betty Ford clinic. We lost Peter Falk from the Columbo series. My mom always used to like him, me to. Another shocker for me was hearing the news in the Spring about Macho man Randy Savage. Then there was Jackie Cooper from the Superman films. Osama Bin Ladin (yeaaaa!) I hope that fucker rots in hell. I'm saddened by the loss of Elisabeth Sladen starred as the beloved companion to the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, in the long-running Doctor Who. She passed away at 63. She had returned to the Doctor Who franchise during David Tennant's run as the doctor and spun off into her own series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. We lost Elizabeth Taylor. Michael Gough or--as most people know him--Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films died at the age of 94. Jane Russel passed away,Best known for her roles in the 1950s science-fiction film "Forbidden Planet" and the 1960s television series Honey West died on complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 80 and of course who can't forget losing Steve Jobs. There are a lot more I could name, like Amy Winehouse lots of rappers but these people did not make an impression on my consciousness.
Anne went out to get some things like Christmas cake and other treats because it was boxing day. There are a lot of good deals out there. If the sale is still on tomorrow, I'm going to run over to the Clareview Pharmacy and pick up a couple of plugins Image line has on for 50% off for all registered Image line customers of which I am one due to buying FL. Studio in August and Groove Machine in October.
Tonight I'm watching a bit of the Oiler game and some wrestling. I'll switch back and forth. Anyway, that's about all for tonight.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
around midnight I get to open
my gifts Anne bought me. There's no fun stuff its just cloths and things like socks and underwear, stuff like that. Stuff I need. I bought Anne an Olive Garden dinner and a Royal Pizza dinner for possibly New Years day if it's open.
Tomorrow, I'm relaxing taking it easy but I need to do a couple of things: First, work on my EA exam memory work as I'm doing the exam for the candidate upgrading to FC. I've done this a couple of times before so I know what to expect. Then I want to make some progress on my book.
Earlier I went and downloaded a demo of Sugarbytes "Turnado." It's got some possibilities. There's a lot you can do with it.
If this looks like my last year on my job (now that were doing this political stuff) I'm thinking about going to the call centre in the building. Its a credit card place of some kind and I'm thinking it pays a lot m ore money then where I'm working now.
I'm thinking about getting that Korg SOS but I also need a faster laptop for music production. I'm also looking at getting BPM from MOTU and Mach 5/3 but I need a fast laptop with more memory. When I go this 2 years ago, I didn't know I was going to get into music production.
I went to bed with a slight tickle to my throat. It's just a passing virus, nothing to worry about.
But if the job looks like its not going anywhere, then the credit card call centre is my next option. My last option is where my wife works at Pizza. At least its an in bound call centre. It has its moments but it can get kind of lax as well.I'd ask for Wednesday's and Thursdays off because this way I can go to Redwood Lodge Anne says that if I work full time the hours start at 11am. I can be off at 7pm. Actually Freemason's Hall is right behind where Anne works and I can go directly from there to Lodge. As long as I can get 38-40 hours/week.
What I like about Pizza is their hours are flexible. So say one day I want to work from 11-10 and go home with Anne and come in say on Lodge night and work from 11-6:00pm change get a bite to eat downtown and head out to my Lodge. But I'd arrange to have my 2 days off to be Wednesday and Thursdays, so this way that first week in the month I can go to Lodge normally. During the week because Freemason's Hall is right downtown, has it's advantages.
My current job looks like its going nowhere. I think a lot of people are are on their way out. But before it gets out of hand at my job and I they either let me go because the line hour isn't there or for example, I don't get my raise (promised last October 18 10 weeks ago) I think it's time to go.
So in the New Year, I'm going to check out the credit card company call centre (ccc). If I can get onto that and it looks good, then I'll give my company 3 weeks notice and leave. How I'll do this is work days at the ccc and work bare min part time at my current job for 3 weeks and leave under good terms. Assuming I can work at the ccc. If I can't get hired on, then there then I'm off to Pizza.
What I like about Pizza also is say after Lodge on a Saturday, I can go straight from there to the office. As long as I can get 8 hours/week, that's perfect. Also, there's no having to worry about when the boss is going to bring the checks on a Friday night because the checks are direct bank deposit into my account.
I don't mind at my job as long as I'm making line hour, then that's ok but I'm barely making that. To be fair to the company, this is the worst time of year to be asking people for money for political campaigns. But if I'm having the same kind of trouble in the New Year as I am I'm on my way out. I can read the writing on the wall anyway but I;m going to give the company a chance. If I'm having the same trouble in the New Year, then I'm paying the ccc upstairs a call and to put my name in. One of the people where I work said she will help me work on a resume and as soon as I get back, I'm going to take her up on the offer. She said all you do is "cut and paste" and take it from there. If I'm struggling for the rest of the week like I did the first couple of days, then I know my time is running out and I'll be dropping into the ccc with the resume and see what happens. If I don't get a call or an interview then I go to Pizza. At least there, I'll have work, more or less. Anyway, that's all for now.
Tomorrow, I'm relaxing taking it easy but I need to do a couple of things: First, work on my EA exam memory work as I'm doing the exam for the candidate upgrading to FC. I've done this a couple of times before so I know what to expect. Then I want to make some progress on my book.
Earlier I went and downloaded a demo of Sugarbytes "Turnado." It's got some possibilities. There's a lot you can do with it.
If this looks like my last year on my job (now that were doing this political stuff) I'm thinking about going to the call centre in the building. Its a credit card place of some kind and I'm thinking it pays a lot m ore money then where I'm working now.
I'm thinking about getting that Korg SOS but I also need a faster laptop for music production. I'm also looking at getting BPM from MOTU and Mach 5/3 but I need a fast laptop with more memory. When I go this 2 years ago, I didn't know I was going to get into music production.
I went to bed with a slight tickle to my throat. It's just a passing virus, nothing to worry about.
But if the job looks like its not going anywhere, then the credit card call centre is my next option. My last option is where my wife works at Pizza. At least its an in bound call centre. It has its moments but it can get kind of lax as well.I'd ask for Wednesday's and Thursdays off because this way I can go to Redwood Lodge Anne says that if I work full time the hours start at 11am. I can be off at 7pm. Actually Freemason's Hall is right behind where Anne works and I can go directly from there to Lodge. As long as I can get 38-40 hours/week.
What I like about Pizza is their hours are flexible. So say one day I want to work from 11-10 and go home with Anne and come in say on Lodge night and work from 11-6:00pm change get a bite to eat downtown and head out to my Lodge. But I'd arrange to have my 2 days off to be Wednesday and Thursdays, so this way that first week in the month I can go to Lodge normally. During the week because Freemason's Hall is right downtown, has it's advantages.
My current job looks like its going nowhere. I think a lot of people are are on their way out. But before it gets out of hand at my job and I they either let me go because the line hour isn't there or for example, I don't get my raise (promised last October 18 10 weeks ago) I think it's time to go.
So in the New Year, I'm going to check out the credit card company call centre (ccc). If I can get onto that and it looks good, then I'll give my company 3 weeks notice and leave. How I'll do this is work days at the ccc and work bare min part time at my current job for 3 weeks and leave under good terms. Assuming I can work at the ccc. If I can't get hired on, then there then I'm off to Pizza.
What I like about Pizza also is say after Lodge on a Saturday, I can go straight from there to the office. As long as I can get 8 hours/week, that's perfect. Also, there's no having to worry about when the boss is going to bring the checks on a Friday night because the checks are direct bank deposit into my account.
I don't mind at my job as long as I'm making line hour, then that's ok but I'm barely making that. To be fair to the company, this is the worst time of year to be asking people for money for political campaigns. But if I'm having the same kind of trouble in the New Year as I am I'm on my way out. I can read the writing on the wall anyway but I;m going to give the company a chance. If I'm having the same trouble in the New Year, then I'm paying the ccc upstairs a call and to put my name in. One of the people where I work said she will help me work on a resume and as soon as I get back, I'm going to take her up on the offer. She said all you do is "cut and paste" and take it from there. If I'm struggling for the rest of the week like I did the first couple of days, then I know my time is running out and I'll be dropping into the ccc with the resume and see what happens. If I don't get a call or an interview then I go to Pizza. At least there, I'll have work, more or less. Anyway, that's all for now.
Over the next 10 days I
plan on getting a lot of reading done on my book and working on the EA exam for January 6th.
At the moment I'm following about 103 on my Twitter account and I think 66 are following me.
If all works out ok I should have my Korg Sound on Sound about the middle of January.
On my song demo I've got the first 8 bars but I need a drum Chorus and I have a few ideas but I can get better dynamics playing drums on my midi keyboard controller by mapping the drums from my Addictive drums software then using GP6 drum notation editor.
The Oiler's are in Vancouver on Monday, which means another loss for the copper and blue but you never know. Anyway, that's all for now.
At the moment I'm following about 103 on my Twitter account and I think 66 are following me.
If all works out ok I should have my Korg Sound on Sound about the middle of January.
On my song demo I've got the first 8 bars but I need a drum Chorus and I have a few ideas but I can get better dynamics playing drums on my midi keyboard controller by mapping the drums from my Addictive drums software then using GP6 drum notation editor.
The Oiler's are in Vancouver on Monday, which means another loss for the copper and blue but you never know. Anyway, that's all for now.
Friday, December 23, 2011
After doing a bit of
research and checking on Mobilicity, the low end priced phones are crap while the higher end priced phones are too pricey. I can't see myself spending $300 on a phone. For that kind of money I'd rather get some Government ID andapply for an Iphone on a 3 year contract. At least I'd get some ID if I didn't get the phone. I like their laptop data plans though at $40/month, which is a good deal.
Today is my last working day for the year as I'm as of midnight for 10 days. Bring it on. That's all for now.
Today is my last working day for the year as I'm as of midnight for 10 days. Bring it on. That's all for now.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I had a decent day
today.
We began calling the political campaign today as we had a fellow from our parent office give a talk. Very nice guy and knows his stuff. We didn't get to do any calling until about 2:30pm. The pitch is a bit wordy but simple enough. I had a nice lunch break even though it was kind of crowded in there. Anne provided me with a nice "Fireside" type frozen entre. In the evening I didn't get anything until after break but I got (with help from the 'trainer") a $235 sale and a $30 one after that, then it was time to shut off our dialer's and head for home.
Just outside there it was very nice and mild with a gentle snowfall. No wind. I met one of the staff from Audrey's books at the corner and had a chat while my light was changing. I had a brief wait at Corona and got a train and road in, a seat to myself and got a bit of reading done at Clairview. At my bus stop just out front here the snow was coming down heavy but there was no wind. Temperature was about 0. Very nice out there, I love it.
I guess I forgot to give Markus this "pick up number" he needed to get the funds on the Western Union form or whatever the proper number is called. I emailed it to hi when I got his email.
I'm really enjoying this "A game of thrones" series by George RR Martin. It kind of takes me back to my SCA days, everything so Medieval-ish and all. It's not a Harry Potter/D&D thing at all. Not even close. So far there's no magic or sorcery of any kind but plenty of intrigue. Lots of stuff on Knights and Squires. Excellent stuff, and I have another 4 big books in the series yet to read.
Well, just when I thought Doctor Who is in hiatus, Space channel has another episode coming up and of course the Doctor Who Christmas special is Thursday. I got my pvr revved up and ready to go for some Doctor Who goodness. Anyway, that's about all for now.
We began calling the political campaign today as we had a fellow from our parent office give a talk. Very nice guy and knows his stuff. We didn't get to do any calling until about 2:30pm. The pitch is a bit wordy but simple enough. I had a nice lunch break even though it was kind of crowded in there. Anne provided me with a nice "Fireside" type frozen entre. In the evening I didn't get anything until after break but I got (with help from the 'trainer") a $235 sale and a $30 one after that, then it was time to shut off our dialer's and head for home.
Just outside there it was very nice and mild with a gentle snowfall. No wind. I met one of the staff from Audrey's books at the corner and had a chat while my light was changing. I had a brief wait at Corona and got a train and road in, a seat to myself and got a bit of reading done at Clairview. At my bus stop just out front here the snow was coming down heavy but there was no wind. Temperature was about 0. Very nice out there, I love it.
I guess I forgot to give Markus this "pick up number" he needed to get the funds on the Western Union form or whatever the proper number is called. I emailed it to hi when I got his email.
I'm really enjoying this "A game of thrones" series by George RR Martin. It kind of takes me back to my SCA days, everything so Medieval-ish and all. It's not a Harry Potter/D&D thing at all. Not even close. So far there's no magic or sorcery of any kind but plenty of intrigue. Lots of stuff on Knights and Squires. Excellent stuff, and I have another 4 big books in the series yet to read.
Well, just when I thought Doctor Who is in hiatus, Space channel has another episode coming up and of course the Doctor Who Christmas special is Thursday. I got my pvr revved up and ready to go for some Doctor Who goodness. Anyway, that's about all for now.
For some reason
unknown to me, my Blogger link was removed or replaced and it took me almost half an hour searching for it. Waste of time or what?
Ok, the Oiler's are back to their losing ways again. They'll be at the bottom of the conference by February. Why so negative Jim? Well, they've won only 2 games on their last 10 and they always get these long breaks in between games and they either get injured or a game suspension. It's not so much the team its just in general. Watch, in 2012, they will be last place again and will get another first round pick. They play again I think on Thursday (Wild) Boxing day.
At least the weather is nice. This time last year we had a foot of snow on the ground and around -20. Now we have a little snow and I can see grassy patches and its about +1 out there. Crazy.
The environmental movement in the US and in some cases here in Canada are trying to axe the Keystone pipeline. What I don't get is why do they want to stop a oil resource that's friendly to the US, will create jobs and a steady supply of oil, something they need anyway. The Republicans are in favour of it. It's good for Americans and us. Everyone wins in this. The US environmentalists think that by acquiring Alberta oil the process of researching alternate clean energy types will be suspended but what they don't seem to get (or maybe they do) is that until those alternate forms of energy can be found, they still need energy/oil. Talk about clueless. The other thing is this current movement is obviously orchestrated by the big oil companies because they'd lose revenue from middle east oil. One only has to follow the money but these environmentalists can't see the forest for the trees. When gas at the pump is like $5/gallon, then they'll want our oil. Meanwhile, we're in nogotiations with China to sell our oil and I think we got the green light to build a pipeline to Prince Rupert.
Well, at at it for another 8 hours. I've already got 5 in the bank and 32 on the way. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Ok, the Oiler's are back to their losing ways again. They'll be at the bottom of the conference by February. Why so negative Jim? Well, they've won only 2 games on their last 10 and they always get these long breaks in between games and they either get injured or a game suspension. It's not so much the team its just in general. Watch, in 2012, they will be last place again and will get another first round pick. They play again I think on Thursday (Wild) Boxing day.
At least the weather is nice. This time last year we had a foot of snow on the ground and around -20. Now we have a little snow and I can see grassy patches and its about +1 out there. Crazy.
The environmental movement in the US and in some cases here in Canada are trying to axe the Keystone pipeline. What I don't get is why do they want to stop a oil resource that's friendly to the US, will create jobs and a steady supply of oil, something they need anyway. The Republicans are in favour of it. It's good for Americans and us. Everyone wins in this. The US environmentalists think that by acquiring Alberta oil the process of researching alternate clean energy types will be suspended but what they don't seem to get (or maybe they do) is that until those alternate forms of energy can be found, they still need energy/oil. Talk about clueless. The other thing is this current movement is obviously orchestrated by the big oil companies because they'd lose revenue from middle east oil. One only has to follow the money but these environmentalists can't see the forest for the trees. When gas at the pump is like $5/gallon, then they'll want our oil. Meanwhile, we're in nogotiations with China to sell our oil and I think we got the green light to build a pipeline to Prince Rupert.
Well, at at it for another 8 hours. I've already got 5 in the bank and 32 on the way. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Its 2am and i'm finifhing up a
can of beer before bed, waiting for Anne to return home from Walmart. During Christmas Walmart is opened 24/7.
At noon I'm up and out of here for that 12:20pm bus to Clairview and then down to my Scotia bank so I can pay on my website.Ok, I know Blogger and the website do pretty well much the same thing I need them to do. Websites are basically used for selling something. I don't have anything to sell but I like to have the website because most of my Twitter followers know me from that. Keeping it up and running costs me about $2 bucks/week. No big deal. If Anne knew that Blogger can do the same thing, it'd start a fight I'd hear for a week and I don't need that over the holidays. ng
I don't know if any of you have seenthis at all but on the news last there was this story about apples falling from the sky in Coventry UK. Some say its got to do with everything from freaky weather to a plane leaking out contents to witches. The whole story is here..
The only thing preventing me from going to bed is that Boots is around, so I'm going to have to bring him into our bedroom because it's his turn tonight. We alternate between him and the other cats so tonight, it's his turn.
So after my trip to the bank I'm having the afternoon off and I can relax tonight there's an Oiler game on TV. Also, I'm buying a Proline ticket tonight as well.
My next toy for my music is the Korg Sound on Sound. I can't wait to get it and play with it. Anyway, that's about all for now.
At noon I'm up and out of here for that 12:20pm bus to Clairview and then down to my Scotia bank so I can pay on my website.Ok, I know Blogger and the website do pretty well much the same thing I need them to do. Websites are basically used for selling something. I don't have anything to sell but I like to have the website because most of my Twitter followers know me from that. Keeping it up and running costs me about $2 bucks/week. No big deal. If Anne knew that Blogger can do the same thing, it'd start a fight I'd hear for a week and I don't need that over the holidays. ng
I don't know if any of you have seenthis at all but on the news last there was this story about apples falling from the sky in Coventry UK. Some say its got to do with everything from freaky weather to a plane leaking out contents to witches. The whole story is here..
The only thing preventing me from going to bed is that Boots is around, so I'm going to have to bring him into our bedroom because it's his turn tonight. We alternate between him and the other cats so tonight, it's his turn.
So after my trip to the bank I'm having the afternoon off and I can relax tonight there's an Oiler game on TV. Also, I'm buying a Proline ticket tonight as well.
My next toy for my music is the Korg Sound on Sound. I can't wait to get it and play with it. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
It was a bit of a scramble trying to get out of here
about 11am this morning. We had a bit of freezing rain/snow overnight but the Sun was shining and it was mild, really nice out there.
I got down to Tim's about 11:30am and didn't go inside but instead I went straight to the office. I waited for a bit and nobody showed up but James was inside and let me in. We had 6 of us there and ended up with 10. Lowest turnout on a Sunday I think we had. I had a good start and a better first half. I had my lunch Anne made for me and tried to call but she was more then likely out at "The Truck" as she likes to call it. We get discount food items like burritos potato patties sausage rolls that sort of thing.
I had a slow 2nd half but it went fast and I was ready and packed up when the F5 shout came on (station shutdown) I worked my way to Corona station and got a bus ticket because Anne needed the bus pass. I had about a 10 minute wait reading my copy of "A game of thrones." I'm slowly closing in on the half way mark.
I got home shortly before 6pm and Anne had dinner ready (perogies) very nice and I have whole evening and a day off tomorrow for myself.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm running down to pay my website fees at my bank and home to enjoy the Detroit/Oiler game and some Monday night Raw. This week for next week I have 38 hours in and on the 23rd of this week (Friday) I'll get a full check and 10 days including 2 stat days. Sweet. Anyway, that's all for today.
I got down to Tim's about 11:30am and didn't go inside but instead I went straight to the office. I waited for a bit and nobody showed up but James was inside and let me in. We had 6 of us there and ended up with 10. Lowest turnout on a Sunday I think we had. I had a good start and a better first half. I had my lunch Anne made for me and tried to call but she was more then likely out at "The Truck" as she likes to call it. We get discount food items like burritos potato patties sausage rolls that sort of thing.
I had a slow 2nd half but it went fast and I was ready and packed up when the F5 shout came on (station shutdown) I worked my way to Corona station and got a bus ticket because Anne needed the bus pass. I had about a 10 minute wait reading my copy of "A game of thrones." I'm slowly closing in on the half way mark.
I got home shortly before 6pm and Anne had dinner ready (perogies) very nice and I have whole evening and a day off tomorrow for myself.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm running down to pay my website fees at my bank and home to enjoy the Detroit/Oiler game and some Monday night Raw. This week for next week I have 38 hours in and on the 23rd of this week (Friday) I'll get a full check and 10 days including 2 stat days. Sweet. Anyway, that's all for today.
Friday, December 16, 2011
I first began to
compose my diary in electronic format when I had my first word processor and that was in 1996 but I wasn't comfortable with the experience. My first attempt at Blogging was in September 2005 when Anne read something I wrote that implied I was considering a relationship with another woman on the side. Of course I was thinking out loud at the time. She read and thought I was cheating on her and it started a 3 day fight that almost broke us up. I began blogging with another company, I can't recall the name. Then I found Blogspot and worked from there. I keep all of my personal things on my MS Works diary. Anne kind of knew the other woman who at the time lived next in the complex adjacent to us on the corner of 50th and 137th. Of course I would never cheat on Anne but that's what lead me to my electronic diary and eventually blogger. Six years since that incident, Anne and I are still together everything is fine. No one is cheating on anyone. I don't role that way.
This is my first week at the new office and I'm fairly comfortable learning the software. There's a lot of mouse movement. So far we're just making the sale and then calling over a supervisor to go through the payment process. The older system had the address right there on the screen. The new system does as well but the user has to first get a sale then moves into another page for payment options and then another page for the address. I'm not comfortable with this yet. But the main functions are ok. I like how I can hit the break key and it begins a countdown until I log in. No more will I need to log in with Family, EBXG and my initials.
Today is getting my first check at the new place, then I go to my bank this evening cash my check. Anne comes home at about 11am and I'm up until about 1am and up at about 8am for another 9 hours. I want to see if I got my bonus/raise.
The Oiler's lost last night but that was only because our goaltender let in a soft goal and they got an empty net. Hall got 2 goals. I think we're about 4 spots out of a playoff spot. Anyway, that's about all for now.
This is my first week at the new office and I'm fairly comfortable learning the software. There's a lot of mouse movement. So far we're just making the sale and then calling over a supervisor to go through the payment process. The older system had the address right there on the screen. The new system does as well but the user has to first get a sale then moves into another page for payment options and then another page for the address. I'm not comfortable with this yet. But the main functions are ok. I like how I can hit the break key and it begins a countdown until I log in. No more will I need to log in with Family, EBXG and my initials.
Today is getting my first check at the new place, then I go to my bank this evening cash my check. Anne comes home at about 11am and I'm up until about 1am and up at about 8am for another 9 hours. I want to see if I got my bonus/raise.
The Oiler's lost last night but that was only because our goaltender let in a soft goal and they got an empty net. Hall got 2 goals. I think we're about 4 spots out of a playoff spot. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
I like our new office
but its the software set up I don't like. I feel like I'm in a sweat shop. They've got 3 security cameras and each one has 4 lenses each. Not only that but it's live feed. The calls are all VOIP calls. Nothing dialed by phone. Other then that, I like the office but it's going to take me some time to get used to it.
If all works out well over the next few days, I hope to have my website fees paid off and my wife that Olive Garden gift card she wants for Christmas. Her sister sent us in the mail today a $100 Superstore gift card for groceries and 2 Tim's gift cards loaded for $20. very nice of her.
Tonight's Coast is an all paranormal show. It's got UFOs Bigfoot and haunted houses, the whole 9 yards. It's not my type of show but it's got a lot of paranormal topics.
I'm still trying to digest this big CFL Ricky Ray trade. Ray was for almost 9 years the face of the Eskimo's. I feel bad he was traded to the Argo's. The 100th Grey Cup game will be in Toronto next year. I'd like to see a Eskimo's/Argo's East/West match up next year. That'd be sweet.
In a press release last night on Coast, they were saying that they are closing in on the Higgs particle. Ok, what are they going to do with it when they find it? Probably study it to death is my guess. If by chance you've come across this by accident a 100 years (2111 assuming humanity is still around) from now, you might laugh at my comment. Anyway, that's about all for now.
If all works out well over the next few days, I hope to have my website fees paid off and my wife that Olive Garden gift card she wants for Christmas. Her sister sent us in the mail today a $100 Superstore gift card for groceries and 2 Tim's gift cards loaded for $20. very nice of her.
Tonight's Coast is an all paranormal show. It's got UFOs Bigfoot and haunted houses, the whole 9 yards. It's not my type of show but it's got a lot of paranormal topics.
I'm still trying to digest this big CFL Ricky Ray trade. Ray was for almost 9 years the face of the Eskimo's. I feel bad he was traded to the Argo's. The 100th Grey Cup game will be in Toronto next year. I'd like to see a Eskimo's/Argo's East/West match up next year. That'd be sweet.
In a press release last night on Coast, they were saying that they are closing in on the Higgs particle. Ok, what are they going to do with it when they find it? Probably study it to death is my guess. If by chance you've come across this by accident a 100 years (2111 assuming humanity is still around) from now, you might laugh at my comment. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Short on topics this morning
as I'm a little stressed out over the new office but in another 2 hours, I'll be in there.
I was going to go to my bank this morning but I can do this latter on. All I want to do is check out the office.
We're supposed to have an all new computer system. Since we got computers to do the calling and the management aspects our calls, we've been using something called "Anzio." I liked it as it was clean and simple. Almost everything was done using the option keys. F1 called up the invoice details, which included customer name and address and how much they were going to give and the sale type XD was always a ticket sponsorship, X for a ticket, CT (contribution) D for donation. M for mail and F1 again if they were going to do this by a Visa or Master Card. V for Visa etc.Then you'd hit F9 to print and wait for the next call. What I liked about this was we'd often be able to chat with the customer if we found a common bond. Quite often I would hear Mr. Smith say, "I support the Shriner's." I ask back: "Are you a Shriner yourself Sir?" If they say yes then I announce my Lodge/Rite etc and we'd have a nice talk. I'd get into these conversations if I wanted to kill some time off the clock and had a decent total. But this new system isn't anything like the above. Apparently according to our unofficial tech guy everything is supposed to be set up by pages and we use a mouse instead of just pressing a key. So this part of the process is supposed to be a bit different. Watch, when I get started this afternoon, we're going to be doing CFK and everything will be on Anzio. The only big changes are no eating at my dialler and sharing bathrooms with other offices.
Getting to the office is a bit of an "obstacle course." previously in the Baker Centre, I'd get off at Corona station and then take the covered walkway beside the street sidewalk to the steps to the sidewalk further on up ahead of the block (helps to avoid pedestrians all heading to Tim's during lunch break on the sidewalk) cross the street up there by Jasper and 106th, turn right at the bank and walk down to the Baker Centre and through the doors. This new way, at the corner instead of turning right, I turn left and wait for the light too change and cross another street. It'll be ok at night.
Also, I want to scope out the place, find out where the lunchroom is, where the TVs are get a good seat so I can see everything or as much as possible. I'll need to find the bathroom, check out the store/kiosk there, find the cordless phone all of this should take like about 10 minutes. It'll be different. Anyway, a full report when I come back tonight. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I was going to go to my bank this morning but I can do this latter on. All I want to do is check out the office.
We're supposed to have an all new computer system. Since we got computers to do the calling and the management aspects our calls, we've been using something called "Anzio." I liked it as it was clean and simple. Almost everything was done using the option keys. F1 called up the invoice details, which included customer name and address and how much they were going to give and the sale type XD was always a ticket sponsorship, X for a ticket, CT (contribution) D for donation. M for mail and F1 again if they were going to do this by a Visa or Master Card. V for Visa etc.Then you'd hit F9 to print and wait for the next call. What I liked about this was we'd often be able to chat with the customer if we found a common bond. Quite often I would hear Mr. Smith say, "I support the Shriner's." I ask back: "Are you a Shriner yourself Sir?" If they say yes then I announce my Lodge/Rite etc and we'd have a nice talk. I'd get into these conversations if I wanted to kill some time off the clock and had a decent total. But this new system isn't anything like the above. Apparently according to our unofficial tech guy everything is supposed to be set up by pages and we use a mouse instead of just pressing a key. So this part of the process is supposed to be a bit different. Watch, when I get started this afternoon, we're going to be doing CFK and everything will be on Anzio. The only big changes are no eating at my dialler and sharing bathrooms with other offices.
Getting to the office is a bit of an "obstacle course." previously in the Baker Centre, I'd get off at Corona station and then take the covered walkway beside the street sidewalk to the steps to the sidewalk further on up ahead of the block (helps to avoid pedestrians all heading to Tim's during lunch break on the sidewalk) cross the street up there by Jasper and 106th, turn right at the bank and walk down to the Baker Centre and through the doors. This new way, at the corner instead of turning right, I turn left and wait for the light too change and cross another street. It'll be ok at night.
Also, I want to scope out the place, find out where the lunchroom is, where the TVs are get a good seat so I can see everything or as much as possible. I'll need to find the bathroom, check out the store/kiosk there, find the cordless phone all of this should take like about 10 minutes. It'll be different. Anyway, a full report when I come back tonight. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday was my last shift
in the good old Baker Centre. My place of employment moved in there the first week of January 2006. The building itself was built in 1969 42 years ago, 9 years before I moved to Edmonton. Jack (the barber) is the original tenant of the building. I had a lot of good times in the Baker Centre but this new place might not be all that bad. I'm going to have an odd sense of melancholy tomorrow morning.
Tonight is another episode of Monday night Raw. Lately it's been stagnant, same wrestlers all the time. Wrestling was at its best in the Hulk Hogan era and Stampede wrestling. Anyway, that's all for now.
Tonight is another episode of Monday night Raw. Lately it's been stagnant, same wrestlers all the time. Wrestling was at its best in the Hulk Hogan era and Stampede wrestling. Anyway, that's all for now.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
I could have slept for another hour
but Anne woke me up because I was snoring.
I emailed Markus Friday morning and I'm surprised with it being Sunday he hasn't got back to me yet about my website fees. I have Blogger, so I don't really need the website, especially if (Lord forbid) something happened to the guy but I'll try to keep it going as best I can. If not, that's ok. I'd hate to lose it because he's not checking his email. I put a lot of time and energy into that and so did he by making the new logo for me earlier this year.
I got the guitars sounding good in GP6. Especially it makes a difference when you use chords instead of individual notes but I can't find the pitch bend and I'm wondering if that's because I'm missing an update.
The next thing I'm getting music wise is that Korg SOS and that will be in January. Then I go on to save up for the computer. I'll need $1,700 when I'm ready to buy, which probably wont be until September. 2012. I'm going to have bonus money but the best I'll be able to do is about get $85/week for me or $50/bank. If I can get 43 hours/week, no problem but best I can do (if I want to go into Scottish Rite) but I think I'm going to join in September (if I get my pension). I have 1 week in January where I can put in 43 hours. One week in March. The only way I can put in 43 hours is if I do the Sunday-Saturday. Most weekends, I'll be lucky if I can claim $80 for myself and put away $50. So, I'm thinking about joining SR only when I'm done my IPM. I'll visit when I can. I'll go in January, maybe in April, that type of thing. I'm trying to juggle it where I can alternate so on my Sunday's I have to work, that week I'll have 43 hours which it looks like will be once or twice/month. I'm hoping this year with the new campaigns and all the bonus money will be better but even if I can have 2 43 hour weeks, best I can do is save up $350/month. I should have the new laptop within 5 months. January is a wash out more or less because I want to get that Korg SOS. So, I'm looking at about the end of June. Then I'll get BPM and Mach Five 3.
I emailed Markus Friday morning and I'm surprised with it being Sunday he hasn't got back to me yet about my website fees. I have Blogger, so I don't really need the website, especially if (Lord forbid) something happened to the guy but I'll try to keep it going as best I can. If not, that's ok. I'd hate to lose it because he's not checking his email. I put a lot of time and energy into that and so did he by making the new logo for me earlier this year.
I got the guitars sounding good in GP6. Especially it makes a difference when you use chords instead of individual notes but I can't find the pitch bend and I'm wondering if that's because I'm missing an update.
The next thing I'm getting music wise is that Korg SOS and that will be in January. Then I go on to save up for the computer. I'll need $1,700 when I'm ready to buy, which probably wont be until September. 2012. I'm going to have bonus money but the best I'll be able to do is about get $85/week for me or $50/bank. If I can get 43 hours/week, no problem but best I can do (if I want to go into Scottish Rite) but I think I'm going to join in September (if I get my pension). I have 1 week in January where I can put in 43 hours. One week in March. The only way I can put in 43 hours is if I do the Sunday-Saturday. Most weekends, I'll be lucky if I can claim $80 for myself and put away $50. So, I'm thinking about joining SR only when I'm done my IPM. I'll visit when I can. I'll go in January, maybe in April, that type of thing. I'm trying to juggle it where I can alternate so on my Sunday's I have to work, that week I'll have 43 hours which it looks like will be once or twice/month. I'm hoping this year with the new campaigns and all the bonus money will be better but even if I can have 2 43 hour weeks, best I can do is save up $350/month. I should have the new laptop within 5 months. January is a wash out more or less because I want to get that Korg SOS. So, I'm looking at about the end of June. Then I'll get BPM and Mach Five 3.
This is the start of a new week and we're in a new building. The Baker Centre is in the past. I had 6 good years there and had a lot of fun. Here's the photo Kingsley in haste Kingsley took of me. Notice the clock in the background above Fran's head. Anyway, that's all for now
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The worst in all of
The worst of all this is I probably could have gone to Lodge this afternoon but right up until yesterday I didn't know we were only going to work just half the day, I would have worked last Sunday if I would have known this. That would have given me 37 hours in the bank on my next check and still have Sunday off because of the move and a 3 day weekend. Anne had the right idea, to start in the New Year and on the 17th, that’s what I’ll do.
At the moment we’re just about out of a full lunar eclipse. Anne said she was out there about 6am observing part it. It’s probably coming out of the penumbra part of the eclipse now.
This is the last time for me in the Baker Centre this morning. I had a lot of good times in that building. Our first Spring in the Baker Centre the Oiler’s we’re going on to win the Stanley Cup. I recall Moe putting little James up on the Coke machine and he couldn't get down. I've been hit on by a couple of people that were “after me.” Pledges was put down while we were in that building. I had a lot of laughs some good memories some not so good like the manager dragging me in to his office threatening to fire me and then a year later he was fired himself. Tuesday we’re in the Energy Square building but I’ll be going back and fourth to the Baker Centre to get Proline tickets, hair cuts and credit cards.
In yesterdays metro there was an interesting article on eBooks, so I thought I’d share some stats. Ebooks in our public library came on stream in June 2009. In June 2009 there were 5000 books checked out for ever eBook. In June 2010, there were 500 books selected for every eBook and this year there were 50 books checked out for every eBook at the Edmonton Public Library. Ebooks are really gaining in popularity. The thing about ebooks is the older titles aren't as accessible as the new ones obviously.
Today my last Tim’s breakfast at station 8. My last shift. Then at 2pm I’m heading down firstly on the way, on the same street, the 7-11 to get myself a 6/49 ticket and a bag of chips and then a Proline ticket for this evenings games, then over to LM to get my GP6 and from there over to Harvey’s to get a bit to eat and catch the #2 about 100 feet away there from Harvey’s to Corona station and then home. I should be home by 4pm, have a little nap and then download GP6. I’m going to upload $20 bucks to Pay pal as well today so I can order 3 sound banks. There’s 2 guitars and a bass sound bank I want.
Update: I got my Tim's breakfast and headed to the Baker Centre one last time (well for the job part). The first half of the shift wasn't bad. Tim showed me what the Korg Sound on Sound unit looked like. I was a but interested. The shift was going only until 2pm today but J got me the release form for my vacation pay (finlay). Management had a crew of helpers this afternoon pulling out furniture and and other stuff into a U haul out on the street. I don't know what I did sales wise, and to be honest I didn't care. I got Kingsley to take a photo of me (he was chancing it with management around of me with the clock behind me showing the time about 1:45pm. After work I headed out to Audrey's and took a look around. They didn't have anything for me. So I walked over to the 7-11 on 109th street. It wasn't bad at all. hardly feels like winter. I got a Proline ticket and a bag of lays BBQ chips for the game tonight and headed to Harvey's at the end of the block. Their West End location is bigger. I got what I wanted. I still think Wendy's is better. After lunch I worked my way over to the street to my bus stop and there was the #2 a few car lengths ahead of me. I got off at Corona and went into Tim's for a blueberry fritter but all they had was apple. No thanks. I caught my train to Clairview and the 3:35pm #183 came by right away. I was home about 3:50pm.
So now I have a couple of days off. Great. I could have (if I would have known) could have easily come in for 2 hours (34 hours on my next check) As it is I have 36. So, everything is set up for my vacation pay and my vacation, which I begin, December 24th.
Also, while at LM I asked about the Korg SOS and this is the next piece of hardware I want. It can even accept keyboards as well and record them automatically and load into any DAW but I probably wont be able to get this until the new year. Imagine this working with any VST! it has a lot of potential. Here's a vid on it:
Also what's cool about this is I can speak into it and capture that sound in an infinite number of ways and make loops of any sound. It's priced at $199. If I would have known about this over Sibelius 6, I would have take this.
Actually I'm kind of excited about moving into the new office and doing new campaigns, eventually. Anyway, that’s all for now.
At the moment we’re just about out of a full lunar eclipse. Anne said she was out there about 6am observing part it. It’s probably coming out of the penumbra part of the eclipse now.
This is the last time for me in the Baker Centre this morning. I had a lot of good times in that building. Our first Spring in the Baker Centre the Oiler’s we’re going on to win the Stanley Cup. I recall Moe putting little James up on the Coke machine and he couldn't get down. I've been hit on by a couple of people that were “after me.” Pledges was put down while we were in that building. I had a lot of laughs some good memories some not so good like the manager dragging me in to his office threatening to fire me and then a year later he was fired himself. Tuesday we’re in the Energy Square building but I’ll be going back and fourth to the Baker Centre to get Proline tickets, hair cuts and credit cards.
In yesterdays metro there was an interesting article on eBooks, so I thought I’d share some stats. Ebooks in our public library came on stream in June 2009. In June 2009 there were 5000 books checked out for ever eBook. In June 2010, there were 500 books selected for every eBook and this year there were 50 books checked out for every eBook at the Edmonton Public Library. Ebooks are really gaining in popularity. The thing about ebooks is the older titles aren't as accessible as the new ones obviously.
Today my last Tim’s breakfast at station 8. My last shift. Then at 2pm I’m heading down firstly on the way, on the same street, the 7-11 to get myself a 6/49 ticket and a bag of chips and then a Proline ticket for this evenings games, then over to LM to get my GP6 and from there over to Harvey’s to get a bit to eat and catch the #2 about 100 feet away there from Harvey’s to Corona station and then home. I should be home by 4pm, have a little nap and then download GP6. I’m going to upload $20 bucks to Pay pal as well today so I can order 3 sound banks. There’s 2 guitars and a bass sound bank I want.
Update: I got my Tim's breakfast and headed to the Baker Centre one last time (well for the job part). The first half of the shift wasn't bad. Tim showed me what the Korg Sound on Sound unit looked like. I was a but interested. The shift was going only until 2pm today but J got me the release form for my vacation pay (finlay). Management had a crew of helpers this afternoon pulling out furniture and and other stuff into a U haul out on the street. I don't know what I did sales wise, and to be honest I didn't care. I got Kingsley to take a photo of me (he was chancing it with management around of me with the clock behind me showing the time about 1:45pm. After work I headed out to Audrey's and took a look around. They didn't have anything for me. So I walked over to the 7-11 on 109th street. It wasn't bad at all. hardly feels like winter. I got a Proline ticket and a bag of lays BBQ chips for the game tonight and headed to Harvey's at the end of the block. Their West End location is bigger. I got what I wanted. I still think Wendy's is better. After lunch I worked my way over to the street to my bus stop and there was the #2 a few car lengths ahead of me. I got off at Corona and went into Tim's for a blueberry fritter but all they had was apple. No thanks. I caught my train to Clairview and the 3:35pm #183 came by right away. I was home about 3:50pm.
So now I have a couple of days off. Great. I could have (if I would have known) could have easily come in for 2 hours (34 hours on my next check) As it is I have 36. So, everything is set up for my vacation pay and my vacation, which I begin, December 24th.
Also, while at LM I asked about the Korg SOS and this is the next piece of hardware I want. It can even accept keyboards as well and record them automatically and load into any DAW but I probably wont be able to get this until the new year. Imagine this working with any VST! it has a lot of potential. Here's a vid on it:
Also what's cool about this is I can speak into it and capture that sound in an infinite number of ways and make loops of any sound. It's priced at $199. If I would have known about this over Sibelius 6, I would have take this.
Actually I'm kind of excited about moving into the new office and doing new campaigns, eventually. Anyway, that’s all for now.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Hey, hey
my GP6 is at LM. I tried to leave early this morning to pick it up but no such luck but I'm picking it up on Saturday after work.
Not that I'm ever the one that needs to always look at himself but Kingsley caught me reading my book while there was a break in the calls and he emailed this for me. I could stand to loose a few pounds in the middle, I know.
So, I'm working, Friday 8 hours, Saturday 6 hours and thankfully Sunday 5 hours, then I'm taking 2 days off. During my break I hope to have time to finish my book I'm reading, which if I can finish reading this one, will give me a total of 6 books read this year. I'm looking at my "friends" list on Goodreads and I see them reading like 20-30 books/year. This tells me that either these people are in prison or security guards. Nobody can read that many books and get something out of them.
So, Saturday afternoon, I'm going to run down to LM and get my GP6 program. I'm working Sunday for 5 hours and then I'm off for 2 days, yeaa! That's 2 days. I'm going to fool around with GP6 and get to know the program a bit and then cut song with it. Anyway, that's about allfor now.
So, I'm working, Friday 8 hours, Saturday 6 hours and thankfully Sunday 5 hours, then I'm taking 2 days off. During my break I hope to have time to finish my book I'm reading, which if I can finish reading this one, will give me a total of 6 books read this year. I'm looking at my "friends" list on Goodreads and I see them reading like 20-30 books/year. This tells me that either these people are in prison or security guards. Nobody can read that many books and get something out of them.
So, Saturday afternoon, I'm going to run down to LM and get my GP6 program. I'm working Sunday for 5 hours and then I'm off for 2 days, yeaa! That's 2 days. I'm going to fool around with GP6 and get to know the program a bit and then cut song with it. Anyway, that's about allfor now.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
We're having
some nice weather here in Northern Alberta lately. Right now it's about -2 with a bit of a windchill but it could just as easily be -25! This nice weather trend is supposed to last until about Christmas. It'd be great if it lasts until the end of the year.
I had a decent first start to the shift but the evening was slow and I wasn't alone. Word has it we]re supposed to be in the new office by about the 21st, which is ok with me. It's supposed to be a smaller office but we were lucky if we had 12 tap shooters this evening and 2 of them were "on loan."
So the NHL is trying to re-invent itself again with 4 Conferences instead of a "Division." The out come for the playoffs, pretty well mean the same thing. There were not many Proline games to choose from that interested me this evening so I opted out.
Tonight on Coast is another bang on episode: Wartime UFO's and Dr. Michio Kaku. Michio Kaku is a physicist and a wonder speaker. He talks about the "Multiverse." He's one of my favorite speakers on Coast.
Announced recently, Kepler part of Nasa's "Planet finder" mission has located another earth like planet apparently twice as large as Earth and is 600 light years away. I read that if the space shuttle were to travel to this planet would take something like 22 million years to get there! Also this planet is in the Goldilocks region, not to hot and not to cold. Anyway, that's all for now.
I had a decent first start to the shift but the evening was slow and I wasn't alone. Word has it we]re supposed to be in the new office by about the 21st, which is ok with me. It's supposed to be a smaller office but we were lucky if we had 12 tap shooters this evening and 2 of them were "on loan."
So the NHL is trying to re-invent itself again with 4 Conferences instead of a "Division." The out come for the playoffs, pretty well mean the same thing. There were not many Proline games to choose from that interested me this evening so I opted out.
Tonight on Coast is another bang on episode: Wartime UFO's and Dr. Michio Kaku. Michio Kaku is a physicist and a wonder speaker. He talks about the "Multiverse." He's one of my favorite speakers on Coast.
Announced recently, Kepler part of Nasa's "Planet finder" mission has located another earth like planet apparently twice as large as Earth and is 600 light years away. I read that if the space shuttle were to travel to this planet would take something like 22 million years to get there! Also this planet is in the Goldilocks region, not to hot and not to cold. Anyway, that's all for now.
Not a lot of time today
to compose a post this morning, not that there's a lot going on for today.
So why bother?
Well, firstly I haven't been in here since Sunday and I've got about 15 minutes to ramble on before I get on with my day and reading is too much for me to grasp right now just waking up and all.
I've got my first coffee here this morning and I had about 6 hours of sleep. Although I could use another 3 hours but I also need to put in some hours this week at work but at the same time I want to go in for Saturday at Commercial Lodge at Freemason's Hall. They Tyle at 1pm and it's their Installation and my friend Neil and (our Lodge WM) will be the organist. Not just that but if I put in the full week, this is my Sunday shift week. Sunday afternoon would mean I'd put in 43 hours and I'd be wiped out. Taking Saturday off only gives me 32 hours but next week I'll be doing a 43 hour shift, which will show up on the 23rd. That's when I break for 10 days. But then because we lost our regional manager I'm wondering if the RM has to sign it. In, which case I might not be able to take my vacation this year. I should talk about this with J. Our RM resigning might conflict with with me taking my week off like it did with my raise, which I didn't get yet. So, I need to bring this to J's attention today.
Yesterday while checking on YouTube for VSts and drum machines, I came across a cool piece of kit called BPM by Mark of the Unicorn. Other wise known as MOTU. I wanted to check at our 2 most popular music stores and their online sites to see if it's available here, instead i found Cakewalks reissue of their Z3ta synth priced at $103! I'll most likely pick this up in the new year as well as BPM. I don;t think they have the new version, that has the larger sound library. I'm also looking at Akai's Mpd32 drum and sound bank pad. It complements the BPM. Here's what the BPM looks like:
Anyway, that's all for today.
So why bother?
Well, firstly I haven't been in here since Sunday and I've got about 15 minutes to ramble on before I get on with my day and reading is too much for me to grasp right now just waking up and all.
I've got my first coffee here this morning and I had about 6 hours of sleep. Although I could use another 3 hours but I also need to put in some hours this week at work but at the same time I want to go in for Saturday at Commercial Lodge at Freemason's Hall. They Tyle at 1pm and it's their Installation and my friend Neil and (our Lodge WM) will be the organist. Not just that but if I put in the full week, this is my Sunday shift week. Sunday afternoon would mean I'd put in 43 hours and I'd be wiped out. Taking Saturday off only gives me 32 hours but next week I'll be doing a 43 hour shift, which will show up on the 23rd. That's when I break for 10 days. But then because we lost our regional manager I'm wondering if the RM has to sign it. In, which case I might not be able to take my vacation this year. I should talk about this with J. Our RM resigning might conflict with with me taking my week off like it did with my raise, which I didn't get yet. So, I need to bring this to J's attention today.
Yesterday while checking on YouTube for VSts and drum machines, I came across a cool piece of kit called BPM by Mark of the Unicorn. Other wise known as MOTU. I wanted to check at our 2 most popular music stores and their online sites to see if it's available here, instead i found Cakewalks reissue of their Z3ta synth priced at $103! I'll most likely pick this up in the new year as well as BPM. I don;t think they have the new version, that has the larger sound library. I'm also looking at Akai's Mpd32 drum and sound bank pad. It complements the BPM. Here's what the BPM looks like:
Anyway, that's all for today.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
I took a sleeping pill
about 2am this morning and I was ready to hit the sack at 1am. By 3am I was listening to a bit of Coast and I passed out. Nine hours latter I’m up having my 1st coffee.
This afternoon, the plan is to walk down to Swiss Chalet for a bite to eat. I usually get my traditional cheeseburger and fries free refills of diet Coke. The burger is about $12 and so is the chicken. The whole thing should cost me about $30.
I had a 2 minute instrumental with a B3 organ solo, but the “song” was just a bunch of organized noise. I’m working on a shorter instrumental of about a minute and 10 seconds or something, anyway more later…..
That was nice. We had a nice walk to Swiss Chalet (SC‘s), leaving out of here about 3:45pm. I had my bacon cheeseburger and their fries are nice. I prefer their bacon cheeseburgers over BP’s any day. BP’s are too spicy and cost to much. Anne had the chicken and fries for $11.99. It was a good deal. After dinner we walked up to the Tim Horton’s Express, in the same “mall.” I need a new thermos for work and they have a n ice small one with a spout for about $12 and their China mugs are red this year. Just giving her some Christmas gift ideas. I think for myself this year, I want to get this Oiler hoodie I saw in a local add at “Game on Sports.” Kingsley said they are upstairs from the skating rink. I think I know exactly where they are. I can probably get my Eskimo’s hoodie there as well. I bought Anne and I a medium coffee and I bought a blueberry fritter. We were home shortly after 5pm. I’d be waiting for my bus at Clairview if I was working right about now, and I have the whole evening here too myself. Anne’s right, I think I’ll have that nap.
I’m thinking if we have that big TV mounted above the offices where everyone can see it, then fine. Or the other ones we currently have so I can at least catch the sports scores. I think this office is going to be good, if I have access to a TV and or wifi.
I worked on another brief instrumental last night and this afternoon using GP6‘s drum notation and put together a basic beat and had it exported as a Wav file format so Edison in FL Studio could pick it up, which it did. I fixed it up a bit and got 32 measures. What I like about this is the drum notation, etc is all on one file. No splitting verse and chorus parts up. The only problem is the fade in and fade out parts. There‘s no vocals or anything. It‘s about a minute long I just need another guitar and a bass. I already have the organ solo. I hope to put it up this weekend as a test. Anyway, that's all for now.
This afternoon, the plan is to walk down to Swiss Chalet for a bite to eat. I usually get my traditional cheeseburger and fries free refills of diet Coke. The burger is about $12 and so is the chicken. The whole thing should cost me about $30.
I had a 2 minute instrumental with a B3 organ solo, but the “song” was just a bunch of organized noise. I’m working on a shorter instrumental of about a minute and 10 seconds or something, anyway more later…..
That was nice. We had a nice walk to Swiss Chalet (SC‘s), leaving out of here about 3:45pm. I had my bacon cheeseburger and their fries are nice. I prefer their bacon cheeseburgers over BP’s any day. BP’s are too spicy and cost to much. Anne had the chicken and fries for $11.99. It was a good deal. After dinner we walked up to the Tim Horton’s Express, in the same “mall.” I need a new thermos for work and they have a n ice small one with a spout for about $12 and their China mugs are red this year. Just giving her some Christmas gift ideas. I think for myself this year, I want to get this Oiler hoodie I saw in a local add at “Game on Sports.” Kingsley said they are upstairs from the skating rink. I think I know exactly where they are. I can probably get my Eskimo’s hoodie there as well. I bought Anne and I a medium coffee and I bought a blueberry fritter. We were home shortly after 5pm. I’d be waiting for my bus at Clairview if I was working right about now, and I have the whole evening here too myself. Anne’s right, I think I’ll have that nap.
I’m thinking if we have that big TV mounted above the offices where everyone can see it, then fine. Or the other ones we currently have so I can at least catch the sports scores. I think this office is going to be good, if I have access to a TV and or wifi.
I worked on another brief instrumental last night and this afternoon using GP6‘s drum notation and put together a basic beat and had it exported as a Wav file format so Edison in FL Studio could pick it up, which it did. I fixed it up a bit and got 32 measures. What I like about this is the drum notation, etc is all on one file. No splitting verse and chorus parts up. The only problem is the fade in and fade out parts. There‘s no vocals or anything. It‘s about a minute long I just need another guitar and a bass. I already have the organ solo. I hope to put it up this weekend as a test. Anyway, that's all for now.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
I've been home for
about 3 hours now.
The idea was for Anne to meet me at work and then we go to the Oliver Square location Sawmill after that but Danny told me that the Sawmill is closed down. So much for this idea. I'm feeling kind of wiped out anyway. She called about ten minutes ago on her break and we tossed a few ideas around and I suggested Swiss Chalet. It's just down the block. She likes that. We don't have to get on a train and run all over town. I decided not to go to the installation only because I'm wiped out. Besides, I'm going to go in the New Year and put my affiliation in.
Kingsley brought in his new Iphone 4S. It's got new features like "Face Time" and "Icloud" and has an 8Mp camera in it. I was wiped out this morning but I asked him to take this photo of me in the office. It's hat day Saturday and that's my friend Warren with the Montreal Canadians took on. I was feeling ok, I think I just look a little worn out in this photo.
That's the TV in the corner we watch. You can see I'm slightly away from it so I got to leave my station to check on the sports scores.
Yes, I have 2 beautiful days back to back. I'm going to miss this office in the Baker Centre. Apparently we're out of here Tuesday December 13th, next week. I learned that we're going to have security cameras but not at every station but apparently we're not having the monitors anymore. Maybe we'll have the big screen 70" TV mounted for everyone to see. Apparently it's going to be in the lunch room, which doesn't make sense. It's like you buy a new car and you drive it only when it's sunny. Anyway, that's all for now.
The idea was for Anne to meet me at work and then we go to the Oliver Square location Sawmill after that but Danny told me that the Sawmill is closed down. So much for this idea. I'm feeling kind of wiped out anyway. She called about ten minutes ago on her break and we tossed a few ideas around and I suggested Swiss Chalet. It's just down the block. She likes that. We don't have to get on a train and run all over town. I decided not to go to the installation only because I'm wiped out. Besides, I'm going to go in the New Year and put my affiliation in.
Kingsley brought in his new Iphone 4S. It's got new features like "Face Time" and "Icloud" and has an 8Mp camera in it. I was wiped out this morning but I asked him to take this photo of me in the office. It's hat day Saturday and that's my friend Warren with the Montreal Canadians took on. I was feeling ok, I think I just look a little worn out in this photo.
Yes, I have 2 beautiful days back to back. I'm going to miss this office in the Baker Centre. Apparently we're out of here Tuesday December 13th, next week. I learned that we're going to have security cameras but not at every station but apparently we're not having the monitors anymore. Maybe we'll have the big screen 70" TV mounted for everyone to see. Apparently it's going to be in the lunch room, which doesn't make sense. It's like you buy a new car and you drive it only when it's sunny. Anyway, that's all for now.
For some reason
I find it hard to sleep during that last hour.
So I'm up having a coffee here before I get cleaned up and ready for work. When exactly we're moving, I'm in the dark. all I know is, we are just working with a local event and a national one that seems to be on its last legs. For all I know I could be laid off for a couple of weeks until we get into the new place. I still got 3 weeks to go before my holidays. So if we're laid off for awhile, let it be from December 23rd to January 3rd. At least I'll get my stat pay in there and a full week and a weeks pay when I come back.
One thing I do like about "Magic" this current campaign we come back and fourth to this time of year, is when I can I get to talk to some interesting people. One fellow I talked with last night for example said he supports the Shriner's. My response is: "Are you a Shriner yourself?" The fellow said without hesitation, "Yes" and I said I'm a Mason in my Lodge as well, and announced my Lodge # and we had a good talk. I mentioned about Commercial Lodge installation and he said he'll try and be there. He said he knows Neil and had a talk with him the other night. Probably at Redwood. I asked if he knew Eugene Plawuik (He was lodge master at Nepthyse Lodge before it went under in 1995 but he took a demit, my caller made some reference to "Satanism," which most would equate the OTO as being a part of. I'm not an OTO member anymore, since about 1993. My caller also said something about Eugene passing away. He knew Eugene because he was in his Lodge when he was master at Norwood in the early 1990's. My caller knew what Lodge he was in by making a reference to Norwood. My caller even knew another colleague of mine. Well, his father because his father was a Mason as well and would only know him because my caller and I knew the same information. So it was a very interesting. My caller said something about my friends father being an Anglican priest and he was, or is. That's my family's religion. Or at least my mother's family was Anglican. If it wasn't for working every other Sunday, I'd be going to Sunday service as well. Neil is Anglican.
Not much going on, which is why I've been making tweets here and there in between blog posts.
At the moment, I'm enjoying a coffee. I'm cleaned up and ready to go. I'm going to make my proline picks for this evening before I head out of here and get some breakfast to begin my 6 hours. Anyway, that's all for now.
So I'm up having a coffee here before I get cleaned up and ready for work. When exactly we're moving, I'm in the dark. all I know is, we are just working with a local event and a national one that seems to be on its last legs. For all I know I could be laid off for a couple of weeks until we get into the new place. I still got 3 weeks to go before my holidays. So if we're laid off for awhile, let it be from December 23rd to January 3rd. At least I'll get my stat pay in there and a full week and a weeks pay when I come back.
One thing I do like about "Magic" this current campaign we come back and fourth to this time of year, is when I can I get to talk to some interesting people. One fellow I talked with last night for example said he supports the Shriner's. My response is: "Are you a Shriner yourself?" The fellow said without hesitation, "Yes" and I said I'm a Mason in my Lodge as well, and announced my Lodge # and we had a good talk. I mentioned about Commercial Lodge installation and he said he'll try and be there. He said he knows Neil and had a talk with him the other night. Probably at Redwood. I asked if he knew Eugene Plawuik (He was lodge master at Nepthyse Lodge before it went under in 1995 but he took a demit, my caller made some reference to "Satanism," which most would equate the OTO as being a part of. I'm not an OTO member anymore, since about 1993. My caller also said something about Eugene passing away. He knew Eugene because he was in his Lodge when he was master at Norwood in the early 1990's. My caller knew what Lodge he was in by making a reference to Norwood. My caller even knew another colleague of mine. Well, his father because his father was a Mason as well and would only know him because my caller and I knew the same information. So it was a very interesting. My caller said something about my friends father being an Anglican priest and he was, or is. That's my family's religion. Or at least my mother's family was Anglican. If it wasn't for working every other Sunday, I'd be going to Sunday service as well. Neil is Anglican.
Not much going on, which is why I've been making tweets here and there in between blog posts.
At the moment, I'm enjoying a coffee. I'm cleaned up and ready to go. I'm going to make my proline picks for this evening before I head out of here and get some breakfast to begin my 6 hours. Anyway, that's all for now.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Its a new month
today.
My Lodge brother Neil is picking me up at my place tonight at 6pm and we're off to our installation. I'm being installed as Junior Warden. If our Lodge can survive and I can keep my health, I should be Lodge Master 2014 at the age of 61. IPM at the age of 62. anyway, that's all for now.
Local news has been covering this story about "Jetman." This is not like the James Bond jet pack thing but a real jet where the man is flying horizontal. Yves Rossay is our flyer here. I don't know if he's the inventor or what but here's the video:
Coast is about Mars, with Richard Hoagland. This is going to be an awesome show. I'm going to listen in on this one.
An interesting story out of "Cosmic Log" about Stonehenge. Researchers using radar have found 2 long pits near the site. Each pit measures about 16 feet long. This excerpt from the original story: Positioned within the Cursus pathway, the pits are on alignment towards midsummer sunrise and sunset when viewed from the Heel Stone, the enigmatic stone standing just outside the entrance to Stonehenge. For the first time, this discovery may directly link the rituals and celestial phenomena at Stonehenge to activities within the Cursus.
My Lodge brother Neil is picking me up at my place tonight at 6pm and we're off to our installation. I'm being installed as Junior Warden. If our Lodge can survive and I can keep my health, I should be Lodge Master 2014 at the age of 61. IPM at the age of 62. anyway, that's all for now.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
From Tuesday
Tuesday went by at a decent enough clip. The calls were slow and I had a chance to read for a bit. It was in the 2nd half that things were slow.
Tonight on Coast, the topics are on The Middle East/Sound healing. The 2nd part of the show should be pretty good and I might listen in for awhile.
I got my Lodge newsletter yesterday when I came in as Anne was off work last night.
In the sports news local media was congratulating themselves over the BC Lions win over Hamilton. Trouble with that being is it was Winnipeg losing to BC. Ooops!
The Royal Canadian mint encouraged Canadians to invest in Gold bullion. They said that gold can be bought for as little as $20 for 0.0109 or a handful of grains about the size of a golf ball. They're called ETR's and Canada mint began selling these yesterday making it possible for anyone to own gold. An ounce of gold today is worth about $1,787.27/ounce. The full story can be found here. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Tonight on Coast, the topics are on The Middle East/Sound healing. The 2nd part of the show should be pretty good and I might listen in for awhile.
I got my Lodge newsletter yesterday when I came in as Anne was off work last night.
In the sports news local media was congratulating themselves over the BC Lions win over Hamilton. Trouble with that being is it was Winnipeg losing to BC. Ooops!
The Royal Canadian mint encouraged Canadians to invest in Gold bullion. They said that gold can be bought for as little as $20 for 0.0109 or a handful of grains about the size of a golf ball. They're called ETR's and Canada mint began selling these yesterday making it possible for anyone to own gold. An ounce of gold today is worth about $1,787.27/ounce. The full story can be found here. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday and another working day
not much going on today, just the job thing today.
I'm there at the job so much I live there and visit here. It seems that way.
I've got my first coffee for the day. This Thursday would be the 1/2 weeks since I ordered GP6. Or since they said at LM it'd take to arrive in the store from their warehouse.
This would have been back in 1976. I recall when I was living at the Anderson house (uptown New Westminster) and I was living in this boarding house with these 2 shady characters. I forget their names. One guy punched me in the nose and broke my glasses at my door, I don't remember why but the next morning he apologized. Anyway, these two guys hatched an idea since all 3 of us were hard up for cash at the time that if I went out and used my checking account and bought this CB radio (hot items in the 70's), on rent to own they'd pawn it off for me using their "connections." I was a little naive at the time and since I needed cash as well, I said ok. I got the Cb radio and let them pawn it for me. We split the cash 3 ways. I recall though how I was in the car with them, driving somewhere, and it was winter out there. Everything was a haunting grey white. After I left the Anderson house in 1978 that was the last time I saw those two characters. The Cb radio and the consequences of that didn't amount to anything since that year in 1976 I moved to Calgary, back to the Anderson house for a year and then when my unemployment came in, I paid my last rent at the Anderson place and got my first ever apartment. It was a dive of a place situated on the West side of where Douglas College is now in New Westminster. I remember I bought a stereo turntable a bunch of SPI games some books and left it all behind when in that August I called Edmonton home, but that's another story.
I'm slowly working though "A game of Thorns." I'm about on page 260/807. I'll probably do another update before the end of the year if I reach to the half way point of the book. Anyway, that's all for now.
I'm there at the job so much I live there and visit here. It seems that way.
I've got my first coffee for the day. This Thursday would be the 1/2 weeks since I ordered GP6. Or since they said at LM it'd take to arrive in the store from their warehouse.
This would have been back in 1976. I recall when I was living at the Anderson house (uptown New Westminster) and I was living in this boarding house with these 2 shady characters. I forget their names. One guy punched me in the nose and broke my glasses at my door, I don't remember why but the next morning he apologized. Anyway, these two guys hatched an idea since all 3 of us were hard up for cash at the time that if I went out and used my checking account and bought this CB radio (hot items in the 70's), on rent to own they'd pawn it off for me using their "connections." I was a little naive at the time and since I needed cash as well, I said ok. I got the Cb radio and let them pawn it for me. We split the cash 3 ways. I recall though how I was in the car with them, driving somewhere, and it was winter out there. Everything was a haunting grey white. After I left the Anderson house in 1978 that was the last time I saw those two characters. The Cb radio and the consequences of that didn't amount to anything since that year in 1976 I moved to Calgary, back to the Anderson house for a year and then when my unemployment came in, I paid my last rent at the Anderson place and got my first ever apartment. It was a dive of a place situated on the West side of where Douglas College is now in New Westminster. I remember I bought a stereo turntable a bunch of SPI games some books and left it all behind when in that August I called Edmonton home, but that's another story.
I'm slowly working though "A game of Thorns." I'm about on page 260/807. I'll probably do another update before the end of the year if I reach to the half way point of the book. Anyway, that's all for now.
Monday, November 28, 2011
It was called East Side Mario's
as of a few years ago but now it's Chaniti's. I recall that was where Ellen and I used to like to go over there on their Whyte Ave location in the early 1990's. Today was their "half priced Monday's." I had their lasagna and Anne had some noodle thing. It was pretty good. After dinner she walked over to Superstore and I walked home.
I've been home for about an hour now. The Nashville/Edmonton game is on at 6pm. I hope it's on TV tonight. After that, I'm going to watch a bit of wrestling and wind down my evening.
This week, (yesterday) I put in 5 hours. Tuesday and Wednesday 8 hours each. Thursday I'm off as it's our Lodge installation. Friday I'm in for 8 hours and Saturday for 6 and that puts me in for 35 hours on the week and my check Friday night because I worked yesterday.
Nasa last week went and launched "Curiosity" yet another probe to Mars. How many more "toasters" are they going to send up there? Personally I don't care if there's microbial life on Mars. I'm more interested in how Cern is doing with the Large Haydron collider then microscopic life on Mars. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I've been home for about an hour now. The Nashville/Edmonton game is on at 6pm. I hope it's on TV tonight. After that, I'm going to watch a bit of wrestling and wind down my evening.
This week, (yesterday) I put in 5 hours. Tuesday and Wednesday 8 hours each. Thursday I'm off as it's our Lodge installation. Friday I'm in for 8 hours and Saturday for 6 and that puts me in for 35 hours on the week and my check Friday night because I worked yesterday.
Nasa last week went and launched "Curiosity" yet another probe to Mars. How many more "toasters" are they going to send up there? Personally I don't care if there's microbial life on Mars. I'm more interested in how Cern is doing with the Large Haydron collider then microscopic life on Mars. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Yesterday I called LM
and the card was accepted so I have GP6 on its way. I should have it ready to play with about December 9th. I hope.
I had a great first part to the shift pulling in top total and a card bonus as well but in the 2nd part, I barely pulled out half of the first part of the shift’s total. Needless to say I was happy to get out of there at 9pm. I had a relaxing ride home.
Coast has a “Bigfoot” show on this morning. Thanks but no thanks. I have zero interest in “Bigfoot” or ghost stories.
I checked my email for any notifications, nothing. The weather is still holding out to about -3/+1, which I can’t complain. If we can get this right through until the end of December, half of winter is almost over. Fat chance, that’s going to happen.
The Oiler game is on at 1pm (WTF?) this afternoon because of the US Thanksgiving holiday. Yeesh. But I still have 8 hours ahead of me today and I told J that I won’t be coming in Sunday so I have “a weekend off,” kind of.
I had a good sleep overnight and ready to take on the rest of the day. If I get my check tonight, fine, if not Saturday is ok as well. Anne doesn’t think there is a Wendy’s in the Jasper Ave location, I’ll most likely take train home and catch the #2 West/Clairview and go to the Wendy’s out by my place tomorrow afternoon. Take advantage of the weather before t drops to -25! Anyway, that’s all for now
I had a great first part to the shift pulling in top total and a card bonus as well but in the 2nd part, I barely pulled out half of the first part of the shift’s total. Needless to say I was happy to get out of there at 9pm. I had a relaxing ride home.
Coast has a “Bigfoot” show on this morning. Thanks but no thanks. I have zero interest in “Bigfoot” or ghost stories.
I checked my email for any notifications, nothing. The weather is still holding out to about -3/+1, which I can’t complain. If we can get this right through until the end of December, half of winter is almost over. Fat chance, that’s going to happen.
The Oiler game is on at 1pm (WTF?) this afternoon because of the US Thanksgiving holiday. Yeesh. But I still have 8 hours ahead of me today and I told J that I won’t be coming in Sunday so I have “a weekend off,” kind of.
I had a good sleep overnight and ready to take on the rest of the day. If I get my check tonight, fine, if not Saturday is ok as well. Anne doesn’t think there is a Wendy’s in the Jasper Ave location, I’ll most likely take train home and catch the #2 West/Clairview and go to the Wendy’s out by my place tomorrow afternoon. Take advantage of the weather before t drops to -25! Anyway, that’s all for now
Thursday, November 24, 2011
I got access to my
pay pal account and I think I can add funds with a credit card. I’m going to call pp and see if I can add funds using the gift card. I’ll need them in US funds. If so I might be able to get this taken care of via pp. There is a way how I can link to cc in my pp profile but I don’t know if I can upload funds to pp through this way. It’s no big deal to wait 8 days but I’m going to call pp in the morning and ask if by linking to cc I’ll be able to upload funs and how long would it take? But I'm half inclined to just call LM in the morning and order GP6 over the phone. At least I'd get the hard copy.
On Coast tonight from their site: Longtime researcher and explorer in alternative realities, John Michael Greer, will discuss his new work demonstrating how history has proven that apocalyptic and revolutionary notions such as the Rapture and Singularity will never happen, but are used to control the masses. Sounds like an interesting show. Anyway, that's about all for now.
On Coast tonight from their site: Longtime researcher and explorer in alternative realities, John Michael Greer, will discuss his new work demonstrating how history has proven that apocalyptic and revolutionary notions such as the Rapture and Singularity will never happen, but are used to control the masses. Sounds like an interesting show. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Must be a Wednesday thing
After settling into my dialler yesterday at noon I went down to the pharmacy to get a Proline (Oiler’s) were playing Nashville. I got myself a $60 Canada post gift card and carried on with the shift. They were playing this “line hour too keep your spot” game. I couldn’t care less. But I had a good afternoon shift. Anne had kept a couple burritos for me and I had a nice lunch. I called Anne at lunch and had a brief chat. In the evening it was kind of slow except for the great start the Oiler’s were having in Nashville. They ended up winning 6-2 even though I lost on my Pro-line, all three games.
My ride home was ok and I got inside the apartment about 9:30pm. Anne went to the store and I prepared to go ahead and try to buy GP6. The only problem was my card was declined and I couldn’t figure out why? I had some options first one is to wait for a day or two (Thursday) and try again. If its declined, it’s probably due to the card itself. Failing that, I’ll try and upload the cash to Pay Pal and see what happens or even wait until Thursday and if that doesn’t work I’ll try and buy it at LM and give the number over the phone and see what happens.
After a cup of warm milk I went to bed about 2:15am. GP6’s tech support people replied to my email after our 11pm-midnight lunch. I answered the email back. So I think I’ll wait until this evening when I come home and try it again (after 24 hours) If it doesn’t take, then the following morning, I’ll order the hard copy from LM, failing that if the card is still declined, I’ll go to my bank the following morning and try to deposit the money from the card (if the bank will let me do this) and put the funds into my account and then I’ll upload them to Pay Pal. I’ll need to convert them to Euros’.
About 5am I woke up to some lower back pain. I think what it could be is arthritis in my back. If it was my sciatic nerve, I would have felt it all down my leg. I haven’t had a bout of that in over a few years so I’m about due. I managed to sleep for a few hours after that until the alarm went off.
I think they announced it for October of next year but Edmonton is one of only 2 North American cities to host Star Wars “Identities” to open October 2012. I don’t think this means that other cities in North America won’t have the event, more will obviously TBA.
Last nights Coast wasn’t a topic that held any special appeal for me. “Orange Sphere’s.” They were linking this to cattle mutilations and that sort of thing. Kind of gory and dry stuff.
Today is another 8 hours and I hope when I come home I get this GP6/card thing a step closer to completion. Anyway that’s all for now.
My ride home was ok and I got inside the apartment about 9:30pm. Anne went to the store and I prepared to go ahead and try to buy GP6. The only problem was my card was declined and I couldn’t figure out why? I had some options first one is to wait for a day or two (Thursday) and try again. If its declined, it’s probably due to the card itself. Failing that, I’ll try and upload the cash to Pay Pal and see what happens or even wait until Thursday and if that doesn’t work I’ll try and buy it at LM and give the number over the phone and see what happens.
After a cup of warm milk I went to bed about 2:15am. GP6’s tech support people replied to my email after our 11pm-midnight lunch. I answered the email back. So I think I’ll wait until this evening when I come home and try it again (after 24 hours) If it doesn’t take, then the following morning, I’ll order the hard copy from LM, failing that if the card is still declined, I’ll go to my bank the following morning and try to deposit the money from the card (if the bank will let me do this) and put the funds into my account and then I’ll upload them to Pay Pal. I’ll need to convert them to Euros’.
About 5am I woke up to some lower back pain. I think what it could be is arthritis in my back. If it was my sciatic nerve, I would have felt it all down my leg. I haven’t had a bout of that in over a few years so I’m about due. I managed to sleep for a few hours after that until the alarm went off.
I think they announced it for October of next year but Edmonton is one of only 2 North American cities to host Star Wars “Identities” to open October 2012. I don’t think this means that other cities in North America won’t have the event, more will obviously TBA.
Last nights Coast wasn’t a topic that held any special appeal for me. “Orange Sphere’s.” They were linking this to cattle mutilations and that sort of thing. Kind of gory and dry stuff.
Today is another 8 hours and I hope when I come home I get this GP6/card thing a step closer to completion. Anyway that’s all for now.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Added to pages
is Conventions, Expos, Festivals. I had this going on my website for quite a while now. New are the 2 Calgary Comic Book and toy expos and the Vancouver Comic con. I'd like to be able to go to all of them but I don't have the way's or means.
I don't know what the heck the topic on Coast was last night. I was in bed by 2:30pm as I had a bit of a soar tooth nagging at me.
Our inside window is frosted and iced over so you know it's cold outside but the good news is temperatures are supposed to warm up this week and we should be (I hope) sitting around -1 0 +1 there abouts until the end of the month.
Tonight it's Oiler's/Dallas as the Oiler's are neck and neck for that last play off spot. If I had a proline ticket for today, I'd bet Dallas to win and of course another lame episode of Monday night Raw.
Well, yesterday the Edmonton 11-7 record came to a halt. BC was the better team. The Esks have nothing to be ashamed of. They had a great start, floundered a bit, I won some money and even went to one of the games. I would have loved to see the Esks win it this year in the 99th edition of the Grey Cup but with the Esks giving up so many turnovers to a team like that something had to give but when you get plays featured like above Esks chance of mounting a come back were slim to none.
Also, last night I was thinking about saving up for a new laptop this Spring starting in the New Year. I've been looking at some of the MSI products and this could be about a $2k pc. The one featured above is about what I want but there is a dxr model that precedes this and by the time I'm ready to buy, MSI may have something else. But this PC will be dedicated to music and gaming. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I don't know what the heck the topic on Coast was last night. I was in bed by 2:30pm as I had a bit of a soar tooth nagging at me.
Our inside window is frosted and iced over so you know it's cold outside but the good news is temperatures are supposed to warm up this week and we should be (I hope) sitting around -1 0 +1 there abouts until the end of the month.
Tonight it's Oiler's/Dallas as the Oiler's are neck and neck for that last play off spot. If I had a proline ticket for today, I'd bet Dallas to win and of course another lame episode of Monday night Raw.
Well, yesterday the Edmonton 11-7 record came to a halt. BC was the better team. The Esks have nothing to be ashamed of. They had a great start, floundered a bit, I won some money and even went to one of the games. I would have loved to see the Esks win it this year in the 99th edition of the Grey Cup but with the Esks giving up so many turnovers to a team like that something had to give but when you get plays featured like above Esks chance of mounting a come back were slim to none.
Also, last night I was thinking about saving up for a new laptop this Spring starting in the New Year. I've been looking at some of the MSI products and this could be about a $2k pc. The one featured above is about what I want but there is a dxr model that precedes this and by the time I'm ready to buy, MSI may have something else. But this PC will be dedicated to music and gaming. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Pure speculation
is currently underway and I'd love to be there but a $35 hit and the weather kind of keeps me away. If they did this in early November, sure but they need to have it beginning Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. At least the venue is good.
So the people at Occupy Edmonton have until what Monday to vacate or face criminal charges. I mean I could somewhat sympathize if they had some cohesive agenda but they're all "over the place" and so much for that threat by Anonymous!
Well I'm in the office again for another 5 hours and I'll be hard at it in another 12. Then I'm going to have Monday and part of Tuesday going in for Tuesday evening 5-9. This way, I'll have 39 hours for next week.
Kenn Thomas conspiracy investigator, archivist, and editor & publisher of Steamshovel Press, joins Ian Punnett on Coast to Coast to connect the dots between the Maury Island UFO Incident and the JFK assassination. Should be a great show.
Over there on Robert J Sawyer's newsgroup, they are having an interesting discussion on ebook readers. I'm still not quite ready to take the plunge just yet. Thing is with a paperback book I can read it in between calls at work. Friday the calls were so slow, I got to read 4 pagers on the job. Because of the nature of the job, I can't have any electronic devices at my station. Although if I'd get any kind of an ebook reader, it'd be the Kindle 3.
Speaking of tech toys and things, the play station 3 is reduced in price down to $245 from $300. This is probably due to Sony releasing a new version of that game platform. Not that I've heard anything about a new version but my guess one is coming. Anyway, that's about all for now.
So the people at Occupy Edmonton have until what Monday to vacate or face criminal charges. I mean I could somewhat sympathize if they had some cohesive agenda but they're all "over the place" and so much for that threat by Anonymous!
Well I'm in the office again for another 5 hours and I'll be hard at it in another 12. Then I'm going to have Monday and part of Tuesday going in for Tuesday evening 5-9. This way, I'll have 39 hours for next week.
Kenn Thomas conspiracy investigator, archivist, and editor & publisher of Steamshovel Press, joins Ian Punnett on Coast to Coast to connect the dots between the Maury Island UFO Incident and the JFK assassination. Should be a great show.
Over there on Robert J Sawyer's newsgroup, they are having an interesting discussion on ebook readers. I'm still not quite ready to take the plunge just yet. Thing is with a paperback book I can read it in between calls at work. Friday the calls were so slow, I got to read 4 pagers on the job. Because of the nature of the job, I can't have any electronic devices at my station. Although if I'd get any kind of an ebook reader, it'd be the Kindle 3.
Speaking of tech toys and things, the play station 3 is reduced in price down to $245 from $300. This is probably due to Sony releasing a new version of that game platform. Not that I've heard anything about a new version but my guess one is coming. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Despite the snow storm
that came in about 9am yesterday and lasting throughout the day, we still had about 12 people including guests. We had 2 from Eastgate and one from Southgate. That wasn’t one of the worst storms we had here but it was the first for November and it kept a lot of guys that didn’t have anything to do with the degree home. Normally at the festive board, we’d have 3 full tables because of the snow storm, we only had 2 and we‘d barely be able to open Lodge if it wasn’t for our guests. The work I did wasn’t bad, I’d 85% ok. There were a few things I slipped up on. I had pizza and beer last night, it was good. Next up is our installation December 1st.
Today I’ve got another 8 hours ahead of me. Because I missed Sunday, I probably wont get my check. I’m missing this Sunday as well but, for the week of Commercial Lodge, I’ll work the Sunday to make up for that Saturday. And because I worked that Sunday, I’ll get my check Friday anyway and I’d be off for 3 days and still get 37 hours for that week for 38 hours. Tonight, most likely I won’t get my pay check but that’s ok my wife gets hers and I’ve got some spare cash lying around.
I’ve been keeping a watch on Apple’s 3Gb 4th gen Itouch lately. The price would be $315 after tax and this is an item I can make use of. I think this would be the last major item for me for the year as I have my Lodge dues and website fee coming up Dec/Jan. Anyway, that’s all for now.
Today I’ve got another 8 hours ahead of me. Because I missed Sunday, I probably wont get my check. I’m missing this Sunday as well but, for the week of Commercial Lodge, I’ll work the Sunday to make up for that Saturday. And because I worked that Sunday, I’ll get my check Friday anyway and I’d be off for 3 days and still get 37 hours for that week for 38 hours. Tonight, most likely I won’t get my pay check but that’s ok my wife gets hers and I’ve got some spare cash lying around.
I’ve been keeping a watch on Apple’s 3Gb 4th gen Itouch lately. The price would be $315 after tax and this is an item I can make use of. I think this would be the last major item for me for the year as I have my Lodge dues and website fee coming up Dec/Jan. Anyway, that’s all for now.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
its overcast and
blowing snow out there. I slept well until about when Anne came into bed and I tossed and turned after that dozing off here and there but at lest I wasn’t woken up by a loud stereo.
I’ve got that Lodge thing to do tonight, I hope I can get a ride out. I’m in for 4 hours today and then 8 hours tomorrow and 6 on Saturday. As for now, I could sleep for another 4 hours.
I didn’t win the $30M 6/49 draw from last night but I got 1 number and the right idea. There were a group of numbers from 1 number set between 20-39. On Saturday its $3.5M. I won’t play until it reaches $10M and that could be awhile.
My picks for Proline didn’t turn out. New Jersey showed up last night to but Buffalo. I’ll probably wont get a ticket for today but most likely on the weekend because there are 2 CFL games going on and an Oiler game Saturday night.
I’m contemplating if I just want to buy GP6 by getting the gift card this afternoon but that would leave me short of funds for the week. I’m thinking that maybe I should get the gift card and order over the phone to LM and get GP6 as a hard copy. Or maybe even order Newtone from Image Line. Hard to say and we’ll see what’s on my check this weekend. Anyway, that’s al for now.
I’ve got that Lodge thing to do tonight, I hope I can get a ride out. I’m in for 4 hours today and then 8 hours tomorrow and 6 on Saturday. As for now, I could sleep for another 4 hours.
I didn’t win the $30M 6/49 draw from last night but I got 1 number and the right idea. There were a group of numbers from 1 number set between 20-39. On Saturday its $3.5M. I won’t play until it reaches $10M and that could be awhile.
My picks for Proline didn’t turn out. New Jersey showed up last night to but Buffalo. I’ll probably wont get a ticket for today but most likely on the weekend because there are 2 CFL games going on and an Oiler game Saturday night.
I’m contemplating if I just want to buy GP6 by getting the gift card this afternoon but that would leave me short of funds for the week. I’m thinking that maybe I should get the gift card and order over the phone to LM and get GP6 as a hard copy. Or maybe even order Newtone from Image Line. Hard to say and we’ll see what’s on my check this weekend. Anyway, that’s al for now.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
This should be a good week
as I have my parts memorized for Thursday. Tonight I'm going to try and download the full version of Guitar Pro 6 when I get home. Wednesday is a full day, Thursday I'm in for half a day and rush home and off to Lodge for the emergent meeting. Friday is a full day, Saturday is 6 hours and I'm taking 2 days off, again.
I'll either have 38/34 hours in and if I want to affiliate with another Lodge then let it be for Commercial.
It seems now that Trans Canada wants to move the pipeline away from Nebraska's Sand Hills area by another 65 kilometers. The environmental study is still expect to go ahead for another 15 months. So forget the US, lets go for Plan B: China.
Lost cities found in Libya? The ancient Romans new about the "Garamantes" as Nomads and barbarians. The area has been cut off during Gadaffi's dictatorship but since Gadaffi is no longer in power perhaps archaeologists can now go in and study this area. I got the story from Coast's site and you can read more about it here
Progress on "A game of Thorns" is going slowly. I'm reading about 6 pages/day At this rate, I'll have the book read by about the middle of February by the pace I'm reading this thing. I love the writing.
Monday night Raw was a 3 hour show last night. It wasn't too bad. I'd rate this on a scale from 1-10 a 7. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I'll either have 38/34 hours in and if I want to affiliate with another Lodge then let it be for Commercial.
It seems now that Trans Canada wants to move the pipeline away from Nebraska's Sand Hills area by another 65 kilometers. The environmental study is still expect to go ahead for another 15 months. So forget the US, lets go for Plan B: China.
Lost cities found in Libya? The ancient Romans new about the "Garamantes" as Nomads and barbarians. The area has been cut off during Gadaffi's dictatorship but since Gadaffi is no longer in power perhaps archaeologists can now go in and study this area. I got the story from Coast's site and you can read more about it here
Progress on "A game of Thorns" is going slowly. I'm reading about 6 pages/day At this rate, I'll have the book read by about the middle of February by the pace I'm reading this thing. I love the writing.
Monday night Raw was a 3 hour show last night. It wasn't too bad. I'd rate this on a scale from 1-10 a 7. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Monday, November 14, 2011
It's coming down now, our first
blast of winter, well heavy snow flurries. This will keep up for the night and this will stay until April.
I took a sleeping pill over night and I woke up around noon and went back to bed. Tonight it's another Monday night Raw. hopefully its a better show then last week. The Oiler's don't play until Thursday.
So US President Obama has decided to bow under pressure from the environmentalists and put a pause on the Keystone XL pipeline.The rational for doing this is to study any environmental impacts on the project. The environmentalists in the US would rather acquire their oil from the middle east/conflict. They say it all has to do with researching alternate green fuel sources but in reality that's a smoke screen for the oil companies that stand to lose billions if Keystone goes through and provide a lot of badly needed jobs in the US. So meanwhile our Premier of Alberta is in Washington trying to figure (More likely a junket get-a-way) out what went wrong. Redford knows what went wrong: The environmentalists put pressure on Obama. End of story. However all is not lost. Harper is even now negotiating to have China buy our oil but with this Asian free trade pact in negotiations, if Harper isn't careful we could lose out on that too. But all we need is to sign on with China and China doesn't look like they're any more warmer to this then we are. Its all politics. So lets see how Americans react when gasoline becomes $7! I hope they choke on it. They don't want our oil why should we cow tow to them when there are other markets?
The other thing going on is this 99% movement. Remember Anonymous a few years ago who's agenda was based on the Scientology ticket? Well in Toronto the other day Anonymous surfaced again saying that if anything happens to the 99% Occupy Toronto squaters that Anonymous will cause cyber havoc in the city They say they are all set up and could take down Toronto's website immediately. I'm wondering if it wasn't Anonymous that took down Sony's PS3 site during the summer?
Last night's practice went reasonably well even though we had only 4 of us. It lasted for about 2 hours and I was home by 8:30pm. Anyway, that's about all for now.
I took a sleeping pill over night and I woke up around noon and went back to bed. Tonight it's another Monday night Raw. hopefully its a better show then last week. The Oiler's don't play until Thursday.
So US President Obama has decided to bow under pressure from the environmentalists and put a pause on the Keystone XL pipeline.The rational for doing this is to study any environmental impacts on the project. The environmentalists in the US would rather acquire their oil from the middle east/conflict. They say it all has to do with researching alternate green fuel sources but in reality that's a smoke screen for the oil companies that stand to lose billions if Keystone goes through and provide a lot of badly needed jobs in the US. So meanwhile our Premier of Alberta is in Washington trying to figure (More likely a junket get-a-way) out what went wrong. Redford knows what went wrong: The environmentalists put pressure on Obama. End of story. However all is not lost. Harper is even now negotiating to have China buy our oil but with this Asian free trade pact in negotiations, if Harper isn't careful we could lose out on that too. But all we need is to sign on with China and China doesn't look like they're any more warmer to this then we are. Its all politics. So lets see how Americans react when gasoline becomes $7! I hope they choke on it. They don't want our oil why should we cow tow to them when there are other markets?
The other thing going on is this 99% movement. Remember Anonymous a few years ago who's agenda was based on the Scientology ticket? Well in Toronto the other day Anonymous surfaced again saying that if anything happens to the 99% Occupy Toronto squaters that Anonymous will cause cyber havoc in the city They say they are all set up and could take down Toronto's website immediately. I'm wondering if it wasn't Anonymous that took down Sony's PS3 site during the summer?
Last night's practice went reasonably well even though we had only 4 of us. It lasted for about 2 hours and I was home by 8:30pm. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Today its 11.11.11!
This day holds a special significance and not just because its remembrance day, as if that isn’t enough. Thanks guys. Not only is it a day off for Jimmy here but a stat pay and the weird numbers this day falls on. 11th Day 11th month of the 11th year. This day wont come around again for a 100 years. The last time we had this date was in 1911. This form of matching numerology is called Apophenia. It was coined in 1958 by a Klaus Conrad who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections." (From Wiki) it’s the way we see patterns in numbers like matching dates. The next big number event is 12.12.12. (2012)
The lodge wants me over for a practice Sunday night at 7pm, which is ok because I’ll be working Sunday until 5pm, home by 6pm have a bite to eat get a ride (Nathan said he’d pick me up.) On the 17th of this month is when we have our emergent meeting. November 27th we’ll have an installation practice on Sunday and then our Installation December 1st. Then on top of that its our wedding anniversary is December 6th on that Tuesday. I‘ll be off Monday and Anne and I should go out to dinner Monday night. So I have 5 events going on from now until December 6th and then its our Company staff Christmas party and I’m taking a week off (10 days) in which case I can relax a little bit.
But today I have a night to myself and I have the Oiler‘s/NYR tonight and in early tomorrow at 10-4:30pm and I‘m running up to Clairview pharmacy to get a Canada post Visa gift card before they close and home for a nap and order GP6 and have some fun. Anyway, that‘s all for now.
The lodge wants me over for a practice Sunday night at 7pm, which is ok because I’ll be working Sunday until 5pm, home by 6pm have a bite to eat get a ride (Nathan said he’d pick me up.) On the 17th of this month is when we have our emergent meeting. November 27th we’ll have an installation practice on Sunday and then our Installation December 1st. Then on top of that its our wedding anniversary is December 6th on that Tuesday. I‘ll be off Monday and Anne and I should go out to dinner Monday night. So I have 5 events going on from now until December 6th and then its our Company staff Christmas party and I’m taking a week off (10 days) in which case I can relax a little bit.
But today I have a night to myself and I have the Oiler‘s/NYR tonight and in early tomorrow at 10-4:30pm and I‘m running up to Clairview pharmacy to get a Canada post Visa gift card before they close and home for a nap and order GP6 and have some fun. Anyway, that‘s all for now.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Its Thursday already?
Yeesh, what a week!
The thing with telemarketing is your only as good as your last line hour and any monkey and his dog can fire you in the world of higher-ups. I'm not fired but today was a wake up call to show how fragile the thin ice I'm on. We're doing what I call a ghetto campaign that most of the public has no interest in. Our line hour has dropped to $40 in a 4 hour shift that's $160. Doing taps I used to get that in one sale and even then our line hour was $180 or $720 in a 4 hour shift. All the taps that for this current campaign have been eaten up by 1 person over the course of about a month. This was decision by management. I would have put together a mixed file and called our source evenings only.
Anyway, this evening is budget Lodge night. Hopefully I can get my check after work and head home to change and get a ride to the meeting. Then I get Friday off and I work Saturday and Sunday. Then I've got a decision to make, more on that later
I'm still working my way through "A game of thorns" and its pretty good. I'm on page 226 but you can go to my Goodreads page to see my updates. Anyway, that's about all for now.
The thing with telemarketing is your only as good as your last line hour and any monkey and his dog can fire you in the world of higher-ups. I'm not fired but today was a wake up call to show how fragile the thin ice I'm on. We're doing what I call a ghetto campaign that most of the public has no interest in. Our line hour has dropped to $40 in a 4 hour shift that's $160. Doing taps I used to get that in one sale and even then our line hour was $180 or $720 in a 4 hour shift. All the taps that for this current campaign have been eaten up by 1 person over the course of about a month. This was decision by management. I would have put together a mixed file and called our source evenings only.
Anyway, this evening is budget Lodge night. Hopefully I can get my check after work and head home to change and get a ride to the meeting. Then I get Friday off and I work Saturday and Sunday. Then I've got a decision to make, more on that later
I'm still working my way through "A game of thorns" and its pretty good. I'm on page 226 but you can go to my Goodreads page to see my updates. Anyway, that's about all for now.
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