I'm not sure what the outcome of the game was but

late in the 4th quarter it was close.

About 8pm the checks were handed out and they asked everybody if they wanted to take off at 8:30pm. There were'nt many arguments.

Anway everything was ok on my check all my hours were fine. I was at my bank 8:45pm and on the tain by 9pm and home by 9:15pm. I got 4 days off. Great.

Warren was telling me that if ever I wanted to go out to an Eskimo game say on a Saturday afternoon or whatever, Boston Pizza is running a shuttle bus from their Jasper Ave location a block away where our office is. It's a $25 pass that comes with a hotdog and a beverage. BP's has a special section at Commenwealth. I mean, for $25? Might not be a bad idea.

Tim (our drummer) in our office was mentioning that because Long & McQuade wnet and bought out Mother's music if I wanted to get my Daw, I could just walk over a few blocks away from the office. I don't like going out over to their 101st location off of 107th ave.

I'm going to try and accomplish seveal things this weekend. Mainly to try and finish this Star Wars book.

Anne just came in and went right back out to order us a deli pizza from Superstore accross the street. Just in time for whats left of Smackdown. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I got up early this morning

having enough sleep and I didn't charge up my Ipod I use for my alarm.

Anyway, I have a 4 day weekend coming up but all that means is my hours will be short next

But I have 4 days off so I hope I can catch up on my reading and finish that Star Wars book and go onto the WWW trilogy. Anyway, that's all for now.

I have about half an hour here

before I take off to work enjoying a morning coffee. Its +20*out there at the moment. A beautiful day. We got The Works/Jazz festival going on right now and I'm thinking maybe Saturday just as Anne is going to work I might want to leave with her and get out at Churchill and bring my camera along and explore the sites and sounds of the festival. Should be a lot of fun.

Also going on this weekend (Sunday) is the Esks hosting game #1 of the 2011 campaign. I hope they have a better showing then they did last year. The Esks have 20 new faces in the line up this season.

The other day in Kelowna BC city residences were having their dogs attacked by over protective fawns. Video captured this one fawn using its hind legs to kick at a border collie under the fawns feet. The dog owner saved the dog but man talk about aggressive deer. Sure they're only protecting their young most people get that but wow.

SF Signal is asking their readership if they read short SFF. I normally don't only because if I'm going to read a larger work I like a but more character development over the course of a longer narrative. Most short SSF reads over the head of my reading level. I can get right into RA Salvador or Peter F. Hamilton, Robert J. Sawyer, Karen Traviss etc but short stories are hard to get into. There's not much pure sf anymore as it's mostly take over by fantasy these days I'm finding. More on this latter, I got to go to work. Anyway, that's all for now.

Is about Canada Day

which is Friday July 1st. So because its a stat holiday and I worked last Saturday I don't need to come in Saturday. This means I get a 3 day long weekend. Wu-who. The other part is, I don't get the hours, that's the bad news. Also, it gets even better as Monday is my regular shedualed day off. Because of that, I think I get 4 days because of Monday! Now if this is the case, then great. I'll get 24 hours + my stat pay.

Last night before bed I ended up doing a back up of my hard drive, which took about 6 hours to do! that's one heck of a back up.

It's not just a Warcraft convention in Aneheim anymore, it's anymore its "Blizzard Quest." Well, I can't make it down to that not that I'm a huge fan of WOW. I'd like to play it but It's a huge time waster. There's so much other stuff to play out there like Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 5 and of course Advanced Squad leader etc..

Anyway, work went by just fine and I think I even got some bonus money in the deal today. .

Tonight on Coast the topic is Astroids. Anne and I were watching this same topic on the Discovery channel the other night and the next big asteroid is Apophis to come within contact of earth 2036. Anyway that's all for now.    

I had a great weekend and a day off for Friday

I’m very close to obtaining a copy of my fathers birth records. This could also have parents information street address as well. Its out of the California department of vital stats. Or CDVS. They have birth records going back to 1905. I know Richard Warren Shannon’s name is in the database because of a search under one of these geneology companies that flagged it but in order to get the info, you have to join. It takes 10 weeks though to get a reply and if there isn’t any response then they send the funds back to you, I think. But I might be able to also find out death records as well and from there find out about my grandfather and if he died in California as I think he did, which is what brought him and my aun Evelyne out here. I know my dads brother is/was in San Diego. If I can find his birth certificate and it has listed my grandfather, then that validates my enquierey as the right one. I’ve just got to get the right forms and process together and away I go. It costs $16 for the birth certificate and $20 to get an acknowledment of parentry. I just need the right forms. If I can do it all online (except payment) that’s a check or money order, then fine. If I have everything in place, then I’ll get the process started this week.

Other then the great news about Ryan Smyth returning, Canada Post is back and mail will resume again this week. I was worried I’s be laid off it dragged out like the NDP wanted.

I hope I can get some family closer from the above this year on my dad‘s side. I‘d like to also know if my grand father was born in California (CA) If so, he‘d more then likely be born within 20-30 years of my father. Probably in the late 1890‘s. In that case the county (Imperial valley) would have that information. I even tried looking for a El Centro phone directory for around that time.

After I read this Star Wars book, I‘m going to delve right into RJS‘s WWW trilogy. I hope to have it read by the end of September. All but the 2nd book is signed by the author. If Sawyer comes to Edmonton next April, then I‘ll ask him to sign the 2nd one for me and his new book, he‘s calling Trigger. Then to round out a week book reading year, I‘m going to jump into another Warhammer 40k Omnibus book and if possible, book #4 of Timothy Zhan’s Quadrail series. This will make it for 8 books on the year. But because my reading time has been a bit compromised du to my work schedule bouncing back and fourth between and business and add a busy Lode year, my reading has taken a setback this year. After the WWW books, that makes 6. The Warhammer and Zhan books only goes to 8. If I take out the Warhammer book for next year, (Lodge work doesn’t get easier when I take the Jr. Warden chair.) but at least I can revisit the City of Pearl series, and another Star Wars series in there as well and if I‘m lucky I can get something small to carry me to 10 books on the year. All Science Fiction. The other series I‘d like to get into is the Star Trek Voyager and SCE series.

And if all that isn’t enough last night while surfing You Tube, I came across some more Advanced Squad Leader videos. I uploaded a few of them to Itunes. They’re good primer videos featuring the Starter packs. I don’t have the 2nd ed rules book because it’s out of print. They can be bought on Ebay for about $110. $80 at the MMP site when they get back into circulation.

Switching gears here: This completely escaped me Saturday as I was leaving the office. Friday is Canada Day July 1st. I have another day off with stat pay. Sweet. I took today off which is my regular scheduled day off little realizing, wait now I’m only going to get 24 hours, +4 for Saturday for a total of 28 hours. My stat pay will make up the difference but not by much. If all goes well I should have the funds for Cubase 6 by the end of July. Anyway, that’s all for now

That was a nice little outing.

Breakfast at Rickies is always good but they didn't brown the hash browns as much as I like them. We got out that was the main thing. Rickies closes at 4pm on a Sunday

Ryan Smyth is back as an Edmonton Oiler. God love him. It's official, Ryan Smyth is back and I'm a happy man. Now if we can get rid of NK our "#1 goaltender" we might make the playoffs. Maybe with Ryan Smyth back and NK's off ice escapades behind him we might have a shot at making the playoffs next year.

On our way out I and at The Source I got a chance to have the clerk show me the Kindle. It's only the wifi version. He said he didn't like it because when the reader turns a page it flashes white before the page loads. They also have sold the 3g version but it sells out quickly. But for $160 plus tax, its not a bad deal.

I'm glad Anne and I got out earlier. The Source had a nice stero that I'd like to get. The sounds generated by this sound card is getting old. When I can hear over my Ipod fellow train passengers carry on a normal conversation over my Ipod sound at full blast, somethings wrong. I don't think its my hearing either. Anyway that's all for now.

Its just after midnight and I got

2 days off.

Today it being Sunday I'm taking my wife out to Rickies downtown for our Sunday brucn at 3pm. They serve up some nice breakfast dishes but we always have our 3 sausages 2 eggs toast and hash browns with coffee. Also, on our way home, I want to check in at The Source to see their Kindle. I'm not going to buy it.

On the immediate horrizon this Summer, I'm looking at getting the recent Sony gaming handheld NGP (Next generation Portable) and apparently it's supposed to run on 3g. Now that's cool. I don;t know when Sony plans on releasing the NGP but my guess will be around the Christmas holidays. Super went and brought his Ipad2 into work yesterday and I had a chance to play around with it for a bit. My first hands on experience with this device and I like it. I really don't see myself buying one of these though. I mean where or the time to use it? During the week, when I work I have a 10 minute break at 2:30pm and half an hour to eat lunch at 4:30pm and a 10 minute break at 7pm. I;m out by 9pm home by 10pm. Any free time I have, I'd rather read a book. I also have my commute time but I don't need a computer that badly 24/7 I can see having the NGP device because I can listen to Oiler games on Ched raiso to catch the scores type thing and on my commute I can play games. I was also thinking about getting the Ntendo 3DS after I get Cubase 6 but I can see using the NGP and If I have the money, I'll pick one up over the Christmas holidays.
I can see getting the Kindle but that's latter on in the year. I'm in no hurry. 

Whats this? A cloaking device that can shield objects from sound? Cool. There's all kinds of neat things going on in sience.

This is what I love about Blogger over my website: I can hang around for a long time and Blogger unlike my website doesn't "Time out " on me.

I think tonight I'm going to have a nice cold beer. It's in the fridge now and a beer always helps me sleep. I don;t want a pill when I wake up at 1pm and feeling groggy as Anne and I are going out to breakfast.

On the news while having my dinner there was a story about how Nasa is trying to deal with Space junk out there in orbit. There is something like 600,000 objects ranging from the size of a paint chip to larger pieces the size of a car engine floating around up there. I wonder how much of that debris is interfereing with ground based astronomy?

I got a 6/49 ticket Friday afternoon and I checked on my numbers. I got 4, 23 and they pulled 48 and I picked 47. I was 1 number away from $10! Oh so close. 

Cubase 5 is a cool program but for some reason the "version" I have doesnt have "Loopmash." Its a step kind of stutter loop program much like dbglitch. This will keep me busy until I get Cubase 6. I'm 4 weeks away from getting it as long as I don;t order any more books from Audrey's.

I was going to tighten this whole thing up but you know what? I'm lazy this morning. I'm going to have my insulin, drink my beer and ina couple of hours, go to bed I'm wiped  out. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm having a great day today

and lots of fun with Cubase 5. I'm saving some cash for Cubase 6, which will give me some more plug-ins missing from this version. I should have that by the middle of July.

Were getting some rain out there at the moment, which we need. Other parts of the country don't need it but we do.

Is it just me or does anyone else find how fast summer is going by? Feels like only a month ago I was at the Robert J. Sawyer book signing. Summer's going by too fast for  my liking.

My wife is home and making her perogies for lunch. More latter. I'll edit this latter. Anyway, that's all for now. .

Its been one of those weeks

this week, Most of this was posted on my website just before bed after midnight. Sorry if it sounds a little confusing..


This week was the Postal strike, as it's in debate in the House of Commons. Apparently they're going into their 2nd all night er for tonight and later today. Hopefully, they'll be done and get those people back to work.

This evening was the NHL entry draft. We got our #1 pick again in Ryan Nugent Hopkins and a big D. Both don't look like they'll play this year.

I managed to get the audio in Cubase 5 worked out ok yesterday and after a nap today when I get home I'm going to play around with it some more.

The Esks hosted the Stamps at Commonwealth last night. The score was 37-22. The Esks got a shalackin. I got my 6/49 lotto ticket last night as well. Overnight, I go some gas buildup and I've been cuttin them all night. Rule of thumb, never eat pork n' beans before bed. It's an easy 2 hours this morning and then another 2 this afternoon and my weekend is here. Yeaaa! So, this morning its a Tim's breakfast but with this gas I have, I might not get one this morning. Anyways it's been a long week and I need some sleep as I'm up early this morning but home by 3pm. Round 2 of the NHL draft is today. On the Coast website: Astronauts to Mars on a one way trip? WTF? Anyway, that's all for now.

Very happy camper

this morning thanks to the Cubase knowledge base forums, I was able to get full left right volume from my vocals.I get the full wave form and everything. Works great. Love it.

I had a nice day yesterday. I didn't know what I did for the morning but I know I did a substantial amount in credit cards. I can't figure out for the life of me how Tasa gets all the cards.I keep trying and I'm lucky if I get half of what he gets. I keep listening and I pick up a little.

My buddy Byron paid us a visit today and tried getting his job back. Super wont hire him back because he sits on calls to long (I do that a bit but I get good totals as well) and he's not doing it right.

Anyway, I'm ready for bed. That's all for now

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What a tiring day it was

Wednesday.


The afternoon clipped by ok and the first half of the evening. By the evening break I was "watching the clock." I felt ok about 8:30pm not drained at all and when 9pm came around I flew out of there with Warren and the rest.

The rest of the evening I was "watching" a bit of the Montreal/Hamilton CFL game 20/57. I like Hamilton's CFL team. I'm glad they won. Then I watched a little bit of the BC/Rider game. I couldn't exactly watch the whole game but in between calls I looked up from my station to catch a glimpse of the plays. Friday its Calgary here against the Esks. Should be a good one.

I finally found where my Rosegarden DAW download was in Ubuntu: Applications. I haven't explored explored the whole DAW yet. I'm trying to get a a program called Jack for Linux. They want me to register and open an account and they'd send me a password but I gave them my Windows gmail and obviously the field wouldn't take the password. I have to set up my linux email. Uggh.

On Coast tonight they are talking about MIB (men in black) and Thursday the topic will be the Mayan calendar. Cool.

I discovered this article on the Coast website about these physicists that conclude space is anything but empty. Its cool stuff. Anyway, that's about all for now .

Not a lot going on

around here.


I put in a full 8 hours on the job, doing semies. Uggh. I got home to route my Ethernet cable before booting up Ubuntu and got the browser to work. I downloaded Rosegarden but haven't had the time to play around with it yet.

Canada post has yet to obey the Federal back-to-work order but it should be passed into Law by Thursday. I don't have any problem with Unions striking but when it's an essential service, then I draw the line. The way the "opposition" is carrying on you'd make it think that Union Workers are the only people working in this country when in fact they are a minority. As of 2007 according to Wikipedia, Canada Post has 72,000 workers making an average of $27/hour. Meanwhile many times more people in this country could lose their jobs (including me) if the mail doesn't start flowing soon. Funny though the NDP didn't do much if anything when Air Canada went on strike.

Tonight (Tuesday) Coast has another lame show on-skin cancer and diet. Boring. though last nights show was on Space news. So Coast can be forgiven for their lousy show tonight.

SF Signal in their "Mind Meld" department is asking "What cultures has been neglected as inspiration in Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Good question. I never really gave this much thought. Some on the SF Signal panel are suggesting India is often overlooked. I'd even suggest some micro cultures such as cults are largely ignored. I wouldn't call them a cult but when was the last time Scientology was mentioned in SFF other then L Ron Hubbard? Or how about Amway, Christianity? There are other examples like Freemasonry just to name a few. These groups don't have to be mentioned by name but they provide fertile ground for the SFF genre. Some risk bordering on the line of fanfic and conspiracy theories.

SF Signal also mentions the Stoker award. Now I've never been a fan of the Vampire craze that's been all the rage lately. Everywhere you look there's enough Vampires in this gene. Way to many but I got to give respect where it's do. My favorite vampire of all time wold have to be Barnabous Collins from Dark Shadows and of course from SCTV's Count Floyd. Valley scalley kids.

I've been wanting to play Heroclick for sometime now and over there at Happy Harbour comics they are hosting a Heroclick tournament and run Heroclick Friday game nights at the downtown store. Hopefully I'll be back at work business before to long. James thinks somewhere around the middle of July. Works good for me. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I've got about half an hour here

before I head out to work for an 8 hour shift. Uggh, The first par goes by ok but it's the 5-9 that kind of drags on. I like the hours though from 12:20pm-9 in the summer because there's no hockey and I get a little sleep in and stay up late and Saturday is my favorite day of the week because I'm there from 10-2 and my weekend begins at 2pm, so it's kind of like a long weekend.
At the moment, I'm charging up my Ipod. I'm investigating the possibility of getting some Government ID because I need that and my birth certificate to get the Iphone. By and large its believed Apple will bring out version 5 in September.
Last night before Anne went to her movie she bought me a new "golf" type shirt with the pocket (which I like and some new runners.) Anyway, that's all for now. 

Its very Vancouver

type weather out there. Overcast with intermittent rain showers.

Anne's still in bed sleeping as I'm up at my laptop Boots curled up beside me.

I know this is my 3rd entry for today but I'm not feeling ambitious to get into a big project here at the moment. I'm just reading and drinking my coffee.

There's a lot of good players coming up in the 2011 NHL entry level draft. About 20% of the entry level draft prospects this year are from the WHL. Other then the top goal scorers we're going to see a lot of clubs introducing new players not only to keep salaries/costs down but because there is so much talent out there. I mean nothing like a Taylor Hall or anything like that.

Sure enough its teaming rain out there at this hour 2:05pm.
I've been having trouble with Google Earth lately. It keeps disappearing on me. When I try yo install after giving the pop up blocker permission to install the file I can't find it anywhere on my system. Since I noticed it missing this weekend I must have tried 3 times to download and install and each time it's failing to show up in my computer.

Lately I've been musing about the future. In August I'll be 59 years old and while most men die in their mid 70's (So I've seen) I figure I've got maybe 15 years left. What with diabetes against me etc, I'd say 10-15. That's not a good prospect but it is what it is I guess. Of course there is medical science that might make progress to increase ones chances of living longer. The thing with the Future I've always brooded over what will this area be like say in a hundred years from now in 2111? Most likely Capital Place apartments (where I live now) will be long gone. What will be here in it's place? Maybe another apartment complex with the same name? If I could live for another hundred years and read this, I'd be amazed. Will society as we know it now even exist? Is don't see Edmonton (world) being involved in another world war. If anything that will wipe us out within the next 100 years will be natural disasters like Solar flare activity, (2012) maybe an asteroid. The other thing I was thinking about seems kind of far fetched but what if all the people here went somewhere else. I'm not talking about Science Fiction but what if physicists have discovered an aspect of the time space continuum. A dimensional rift anyone can walk through.

Physicist Michio Kaku talks about a multi verse where just a hairs width behind a veil we can't see is another dimension in space. This isn't time travel because I'm talking about space travel. Not out to the stars but right in front of our noses. I'm advancing the concept not alien to Science Fiction of the quantum universe one step beyond. Will that universe be exactly the same as this one? If say I begin my hypothetical journey and begin my step would I see another Jim Shannon in front of me typing what I'm typing right now on the screen? If I could stretch that veil would I see dozens of Jim Shannon's all lined up in a linear fashion? Or would the harmonics be slightly different in each universe? I would argue they wouldn't be because every universe would be the same relative to the person observing it. I'd be the same Jim Shannon in the same spot indefinitely. Time and space would be the same. But that doesn't mean that the first Jim Shannon ahead of me has the same advantage as I do. What if that Jim Shannon turned to see me standing there if I lingered there long enough? That's one of the properties of a quantum universe I'm musing. The other is by changing the harmonics of the universe or their value. Maybe we can find an earth that say existed 1000 years before the time of Christ and people or whole cultures stepped through into that universe.

Anyway, these are just some of the things I've been pondering about lately.Anyway, that's about all for now.

Ordinarily at midnight I’d

be in bed on a Sunday night but since with these adjusted hours today is my regular scheduled day off. The boss is back from his 10 day break and most likely posting up bonuses.

We got a lot of rain over night and there seems to be a break in the weather. I’m not surprised if we don’t get some more today.

Also on the news the government is going to force Canada Post to go back to work this week so that’s good.

On the news last night this weekend City Police are recording their 26th homicide. Now I don’t know what time of day the last one was but the guy was just going to the store and got jumped by three guys and one pulled out a knife. This is a few blocks from the “Avenue of Nations.” the dreaded 107th Ave. This strip mostly associated with hookers and drugs. The part of this area that hits close to home for me is, this is where Long & McQuade have set up shop and have been there since the early 70’s. The fellow according to the file film looked native. Chances are he knew these people. But 26 murders and its not even the end of June. But this is as nowhere bad as some of the major cities in the US such as San Francisco where its not uncommon to have 2-4 murders on a nightly basis. The death penalty here in Canada was abolished in 1976. I can see the death penalty for first degree murder. I wonder how many first degree murders have their been in Canada since 1976? As of 2001 the cost to keep a prisoner in jail was about $200/day or 70k/year. Currently (according to Yahoo answers/stats Can) there are 2500 inmates in Canada’s prison system serving life sentences. Between 1859-1976, 711 inmates have been hanged.

Anne and I keep seeing the ads for Netflick. It’s streaming movies. TV content for $8/month. According to (Yahoo ansswers Canada) the service is OK but the content is old. Lots of old documentaries childrens shows etc. Unlike in the US your not going to see last years hotest sit com or recently run movies. Its still pretty archaic here in Canada. Not worth spending $8/month on. Sorry Anne but its not going to replace our cable provider anytime soon.

So tomorrow I’m heading out of here at 11am so I can drop $100 in my Scotia account and get to work for an 8 hour day.

The only thing I‘m having issues with in Cubase 5 is my vocals. Other then that, it‘s a great program. Leaps and bounds better then FL Studio 9. I haven’t tried FL 10 yet so I can’t compare it with 10. I‘d like to get FL 10 signature bundle as a cc and Cubase 6and compare the 2. Cubase has that midi note expression which is pretty cool. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.

Fathers day weekend

was nice. I had fun playing around with Cubase 5.

I watched the Esks/Riders pre season game Friday night and a bit of the US open Saturday and today. Since there was no Doctor Who Sunday we watched Reviews on the Run. It was an all things Green Lantern show. They didn't rate the movie very well. I'll wait for it when it comes to video on demand and pay $5 bucks for it.

This week is the NHL entry level draft. I hope the Oiler's get a Chris Pronger/Chara type player. I like this D guy Jamie Olekssiak but I think Tampa Bay has him. If anything, again, we get the #1 pick which most likely willbe Ryan Hopkins. He scored 31 goals in Red Deer last season.

Not much on my plate today other then messing around with Cubase 5 and reading Star Wars. Monday night Raw is a 3 hour show. I don't think I'll watch all of it. Anne wants to go out to a movie with her free movie pass we got when we went to see Tron around late February. I'm thinking of cashing in on my free movie pass on a Saturday after work I'll go and then over to Wendy's on the way home. There's an idea. Anyway, that's all for now

It was raining

pretty heavily on my way out this morning waiting for my bus. I paid to board ($2.85) leaving Anne with the pass because she had some shopping to do before hand. I bought a Tim’s but their oven was down but the sandwich was still warm even though I had to heat up the hash browns in the microwave. It was a disappointing breakfast but it was ok to take my insulin with. The first half of my shift went by fast. I think we had half of our crew missing. Normally we have maybe 35 people working on a Saturday. I’ll have to collect the $20 he owes me on Tuesday. Super usually comes around with a clipboard in hand asking who wants to remain for the extra 2 hours but that didn’t happen. I was glad 2pm rolled around. Apparently I also earned a bonus. Super didn’t know how much but it’ll be posted Monday.

After work with a break in the rain I went over to Audrey’s and bought the last in the Star Wars trilogy “Coruscant Nights”. I wanted to go out for a bite to eat but I didn’t want a burger because Anne will be making me one tonight when she gets home. I went over to Burger Baron for an order of fries. “Mayfair Place” or what ever it’s going to be called on 109th and Jasper is starting to shape up as it looks like about 6 stories are up with the crane in the middle. If I decide to go over next weekend to Audrey’s I’ll take a picture. The fries were good and I took the stairs down to the lower concourse to catch the train but I called Anne saying I was coming home. About Bay Station I realized I didn’t a bus pass nor transfer/proof of payment. I had a feeling the ticket police were out there. Sure enough at Central their they were collecting around one guy writing him out a ticket. At Stadium I got out of the train and decided I’d better find a ticket machine. I went to the lower concourse under the platform and got my money only too find the coin slot inside was jammed. WTF? And that’s both machines. Some guy came up to use bills and I said these things wont take coins. Oh well. I went upstairs and waited for the train looking for the ticket police to avoid them. They were no where in sight at Rexall. I was ready to get out at Belvedere looking for them. I think I was going to be home free. I got to Clairview and made it. Close call.
On the Clairview train platform I looked around for Anne but couldn’t find her at 3:15pm. I paid for my fair boarding the #11 bus that just pulled in but no Anne. I got a transfer just out of habit. I spotted her walking towards the transit station and met her half way for a chat as she was heading off to work where she is now.

I was relaxing watching a bit of the golf US Open kind of dozing off here and there, watching Garcia, Yang, McIlroy going at it. I think this McIlroy fellow is the next Tiger Woods but without all of the off topic controversy.

I’m not sure what’s on my plate this weekend but I‘d like to work Monday-next Saturday and next Saturday feel good about putting 44 hours in. Maybe 46 if they are running the extra 2 hours. What I have now and what‘s in my bank will give me enough cash to get FL Studio X Signature edition. But it won‘t be for the weekend and most likely I‘ll have to work Saturday to get paid for Friday but it‘s only for 4 hours and then I can go on m y way home and pick it up and Saturday night have some fun. Anyway, that's all for now.

Last nights rioting in

Vancouver only soured my taste for Canuck playoff hockey. Sure even as of a few years ago, 2006 Oiler ”fans” took to the streets smashed windows and on a smaller scale did the same thing. After seeing what transpired last in Vancouver I don’t think Oiler fans would do that even if they lost. But as far as I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less about the Vancouver Canucks and I hope they never go to the finale again.

Special book order at Audrey‘s I have waiting for me is book #3 of the Star Wars “Coruscant Nights”. I’m still trudging through this current Star Wars book but enjoying it.

For those of us that have had enough of Arnie’s love child escapades, on Coast tonight is another lame shows Gulf toxins and GM foods. On Monday thought, they’re having a show on Space news. I still have yet to resolve my Linux Ubuntu wifi issues. I wanted to go to the last Lodge meeting at Commercial but I‘ll be working and even if I get off at 2pm and head over to Commercial I won’t get there until just about 2:45pm. I might swing over though for the festive board and have a beer.

It’s the first game of training camp for the Edmonton Eskimos today. Last night Montreal was in Winnipeg for a pre season game. I missed it. I‘m off at 7pm tonight but the only thing I want to do is go cash my check and head home. I‘ll watch whatever‘s left on TV.

I’m currently listening to on “Those old radio shows” LUX radio theatre “So Big.” Oh well,

I put a full 8 hours yesterday and it was a long shift. I didn’t do very well as far as cards but I was in a zone yesterday getting top room total. Today is another 8 hour long day uggh. Anyway, that‘s that’s all for now.

Yesterday was good

today even better. This post was put together about midnight this morning but this info is more current. I had a decent day today at work pulling in top total but my credit card sales were low. I got a $100 sale and bumped it up to $200. I was glad to get out of there at 7pm and I got home shortly ahead of 7:30pm.As of Monday, I'm back 12:30-9 unless Jerrys says I can come back to business

The weather out there is awesome tonight. I love unsettled weather. I can hear distant thunder, we have spotted showers. We got it all. 

This morning a little earlier then I needed to. I was concerned if we were going to be laid off due to this current postal strike. My place of employment relies on the mail as we do about 90% of our business with Canada Post. Super basically said we are to ask for credit cards more then ever but if the client doesn't have a card we can still hold them an invoice and ship it out when the strike is over. The list we were working on was beat up enough as it was but I did the best I could with what I had to work with. I was grateful when 6pm rolled around.


The only thing on my mind was to get back home to watch the hockey game. I bet one of the guys $20 Boston to win and he thought I was crazy. My buddy is always good paying off his debts to me. I also bet the boss (at the game in Vancouver) $20 Boston to win. I'll get $20 and $20 from the boss. Sweet. I got home at the half way part of the first period. Not bad. Before the first period was over Boston scored 1-0. I knew that was the game breaker. I checked back and fourth doing other things through-out the game. Boston 2-0, 3-0 in the 3rd, then 4-0 with a few minutes left in the game. I knew Vancouver wasn't going to come back from that. Boston was just to much for Vancouver them to handle but that wasn't the big story out of the game. After the game the fans watching the game outside (numbering in the thousands) on the big screen decided to riot. Cars were torched, businesses had windows smashed, riot police on the streets. It looked like something out of a G8 summit gathering and at this hour it's still going on. The downtown core is in a real mess as Police had to use tear gas. As far as I'm concerned anybody not heading Police loud speaker warnings to get out of the Core and go home should have been arrested and charged just for even loitering around watching, obstructing justice is what its called. That was anything but a peaceful assembly. What an embarrassment to the city of vancouver. This happened to us here in Edmonton in 2006 but not to that degree. Even back then I thought that "fan reaction" was despicable. Yet in Boston, the fans there were much more agreeable and peaceful. For that reason (my feelings at this moment) Canadian hockey cities don't deserve to win the Stanley Cup and I hope they don't get to the finale again because of that crap. For that reason (and the fact I get $40 bucks out of the deal. I The other thing about NHL hockey is that there hasn't been a Canadian Stanley Cup winner since the 1993 Montreal Canadians and with American hockey teams winning all the time and these post game "celebrations" in Canadian cities that are in the finale kind of leaves a bitter taste in my mouth about the whole NHL playoffs.)

About the Postal strike, the federal Government is looking at legislating the postal union back to work and it looks like the back to work order might be within the next few days. I'd say next week sometime. Anyway, that's about all for now .

It was raining while

waiting for the bus this morning to take me to Clairview station. Though trying to get downtown was difficult. There was some kind of emergency at Churchill station which caused a long delay. The train started and stopped and dragged all the way to Churchill. On the lower concourse at Churchill a small crowd of people had gathered over somebody lying down by the escalators. I got to Beans and bought a coffee and headed upstairs. When I came off the elevator the place was empty, except for James. Apparently Super decided to have everyone start at 10-7pm so I wasn’t late by the delay after all. I made arrangements with Super to get off at 6pm for today and tomorrow and he agreed. Two short nights but I’ll make up for it Thursday and Saturday, so I’ll have 34 hours in by the end of Saturday. I had some time to waste so I went and got a 6/49 ticket read the paper and waited for the shift to come in. This means that I can stay up late and sleep in for an extra hour. I had a slow start to the morning but we were doing small taps. Lunch hour was the same as always although there was nobody to play foosball with, which kind of sucked. The second half after lunch was even slower then the first half. I was glad to get out of there by 6pm and it had stopped raining sometime during the day so on the way home was nice and dry about +16. Anne had supper waiting for me as she was doing the laundry. It was a nice easy day today even though it was a bit long. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

Yesterday was really nice

what it being Sunday and all. I finally got my program installed. Well almost. I'm just learning how to navigate around the program.

I had forgotten about this but Anne and I were supposed to be seeing on video on demand, "The Green Hornet." The 2010 release one. I wanted to see this but we have this services it's going to be around awhile. For $5 it's not bad.

SF Signal Podcast #57 today is asking "What is your favorite Historical Fantasy or Science Fiction novel?" Good question. I don't think I've ever read one Although I did like Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the earth" but that was more Scientific Romance or proto science fiction. I also liked "War of the Worlds" butI only watched the movies I didn't read the books. But it's a good question and I'll have to listen to the podcast later today.

Sundays "Doctor Who" was really tough to follow. The scene near the end, Anne and I thought River and the Doctor were coming to the realization or rather the Doctor was that River was His mother, not Amy's daughter. It didn't make sense because the Doctor basically "killed the baby" who was made out of the doppelganger material. I need to watch this episode a few more times.

Tonight could be an elimination game #6 Canucks in Boston. The Canucks have never won a Stanley Cup game in Boston and Boston hasn't won the Cup what since 1972? The Canucks have never won it. But I don't think tonight is Vancouver's night. Game #7 in Vancouver, possibly. I hope Vancouver brings their "A: game to play tonight. Anyway that's about all for now.

Yesterday was

the first Saturday I worked I think since last August. I did only 4 hours but for the week I got 36 hours in, so that's not to bad. I got a Tim's breakfast and coffee and settled into the office and worked CFK. Before long it was break. From noon until 2pm kind of dragged on a bit, when 2pm rolled around I was glad to get out intthe first Saturdayo the Sunshine and on my way home.

Anne got me a Wendy's bacon/cheeseburger for my lunch, which was nice. I tried to have a little bit of a nap but that didn't pan out.

One of the guys at the office was supposed to help me this last night install a piece of software for me but he failed to call me. I've been trying to get this thing installed for a couple of weeks now. It's kind of like "Musescore" but more robust. I also played around with the demo of Sugar Bytes guitarist. The demo isn't bad but times out after an hour and doesn't save etc.

I like these hours because after Saturday at 2pm I have almost all of Saturday afternoon/evening and 2days off after that. Plus I have my evenings off. But that won't last for long. This upcoming week is our last week doing this 9-6pm shift. This time next Monday we're back to our 12:30-9pm shift. It basically gives me enough time to get home have a bite to eat and a few hours for myself. When I'm doing this shift, I'm in bed from 2-10am. It gives me a couple of hours to work on whatever I need to do on the computer etc and still gives me 8 hours of potential sleep. It gets me 35.5 hours/week and if I want to work the late afternoon shift, no problem. Plus I get Sunday Monday off. Except for when it's Lodge week.

Coast Saturday night is about "Vatican Secrets." It's kind of a lame show but Sunday night is a Roswell/UFO show. I like these ones. I've got a couple of days off here to work on my music and read. Monday is a 3 hour "Monday night Raw" but my attention will be drawn to Game #6 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Go Canucks Go!

While browsing through some flyers at work yesterday I came upon one from "The Source" (Radio Shack) and they are selling the Kindle at retail. About time. Now I can't afford a Tablet like the Ipad and I can't see myself not buying books but for short stories and such the Kindle might be worthwhile. Finally I'd like to mention my Blogger Blog. Yes, I'm still over there on Blogger. Firstly, if I miss days here, chances are I'm posting over there when I am. Second, I don't know how much longer I can keep this site up. Blogger is more or less permanent. If I close this site down for whatever reason the content here in will be gone but Blogger (Google) will most likely still be up and running inside of 10-20 years, if not longer. That's why, even when I'm long gone, 15-20 years from now, Blogger will most likely still be here. So just a heads up. Anyway, that's all for now.

Today had its ups and downs

Yesterday when I got home and opened up the laptop I got the inspiration to checkout a piece of software I’ve been looking at for a long time. “Absynth.” What if this is available on “4 Shared. Absynth is kind of like Nexus it has a ton of presets. I opened 4 shared and typed in Absynth keeping my fingers crossed. It came up! So, I went through the motions and had it installed, opened FL Studio and refreshed the VST list and there it was. Now would it work. I opened up Absynth and there it was! I got the full working deal as well. Beauty. I tried for some other things that didn’t work out so well as this. “Real strat” did but I‘m kind of disappointed with it. I thought for sure I saw a key for sugar bytes guitarist. At work this morning I thought I saw the key on 4 shared for guitarist. Maybe I could even get Nexus 2. I downloaded the demo for guitarist but I haven’t had time to set up the midi part of this. The sounds from YouTube tutorials are the exact guitar sounds I need for my music. I need something like the rhythm guitar sounds of “The Clash,” “The Ramones” something with about half gain type thing where I can control chords and pitch bend from keyboard controller. The problem for me being on so low income and all, most of these programs I‘d have to save up months for. $250 for Sugar Bytes guitarist is a lot of money for me. Sugar bytes has some nice VST‘s so does Native Instruments but like I said, way to much money, which is why I have 4 share and Keith.

I set my alarm for 8:15am this morning and slowly got ready and headed out the door for work. I got to Tim’s (first time I’ve been in there on a Saturday morning since I think last June. I got a breakfast sausage egg on a biscuit and 2 hash browns and a medium size coffee. It was really good. Anne had wanted me to call her so she could go to Wendy‘s for me to get me a double bacon cheese burger and fries but I was so focused at work at 2pm when I got out of there I forgot to call her. I met Warren out there working his way up to Jasper and I asked him if I could use his cell phone but he was going to get some minutes on it. So much for that. So I hurried over to Corona LRT and was met by Tim. Tim is a drummer in his 50‘s and we had a nice chat on the train to Belvedere. He was drumming in 1978 but on the road so he never did play at the Embers. He knew of it though. Today he gives drum lessons and the odd gig. I was thinking of sampling his drums, Bryon‘s bass, Brent‘s guitar so I could put some names and faces to my virtual “band.” All 3 have totally different musical styles but Bryon‘s is close to what I need.

So I realized I needed to call Anne but I had no small change on me. I had to get some change from the Redi mart out of a scratch n‘ win ticket that didn’t pay anything for me. I called Anne who sounded frantic I didn’t call. I mean why do I need to call to go down and get me my dinner when I told her I‘d work until 2pm and was coming home by 3pm anyway? She hung up on me and I got the #183 bus which was a milk run all the way to my stop. Anne apparently had left but she had her work bags at the ready so I knew she was coming back. Sure enough she did and not very happy. She stormed out of here all pissed off and all saying how she was going to be late. Called me names and cursed at me and left. I enjoyed my lunch and she called shortly before 4 saying that her schedule was changed so (again) she was early. I was frustrated with this bus pass on Saturdays and tickets and “don’t spend $6 to work and back and her dictating to me, controlling my time. So what if I wanted to go get a bite to eat after work Friday. “Your working to 6pm, there lots a time on a Friday. She’s not listening to me. I’ve been saying these hours 9-6pm are not permanent hours so when do I get to go out and spend some of my money? So Saturdays I’ll leave the bus pass behind and pay my way in.

SoI gave Keith $30/50 as we kind f said something about this morning about meeting up his place taking over my laptop so he could install Finale/Notepad 2011 but when I called he wasn’t there. Most likely out drinking. I’d be doing the same if I was 20 something and not diabetic. He probably won’t call me tonight but I gave him $30 bucks for the job this morning for later.

So far I have a COH of $32. That was as of Friday‘s $100. God, where does it all go? I gave Anne $220 for her weekly household allowance and an extra $40. I think I spent $5 on my breakfast out of all of that and invested the $30 for my music. The idea was to put $100 of that in my Scotia bank and live off of the $20 for the week. Then Anne begins to complain about how expensive everything is and all. So I give her the $40 last night and when I saw or thought I saw the key on 4 shared for Sugar Bytes guitarist I thought, hey at least I can get my guitars. I still need my Vox Continental.

Yesterday I tried Tim‘s non ear bud headphones, and at full volume, they sound real nice and they of the are low end quality. My floaters were bad this morning due to the Sunlight and all. Not bad as in I couldn’t see or Cataracts bad. I could see good distances and all through the spotty floaters in my way. I‘m not blind or anything but my vision is compromised Anyway, that‘s about all for today.

I admit I got up on

the tired side of bed this morning and I brought my laptop with me because Keith said at lunch he said he's help me with some software but I didn't have this program called "ISO magic." He also suggest I download something called "Team viewer." I remember using this before when my ISP asked if they could take control of my desktop via remote with this software. Hopefully we'll get this done before the weekend. I'm also trying to install on Linux, "Rosegarden" which is a combination DAW score editor. The major DAW's need this kind of tool and I wish FL Studio would incorporate a musical score editor like "Finale" in its package. That's be cool.

I had a rough day today. My performance wasn't on par with anything even though I got a good report from yesterday. In the morning my report wont be so good. I wish I was back in the business room.

My wife enjoys watching on TV "America's got talent." Its co hosted by Howie Mandel. The audience knows Howie's Canadian right? So is William Shatner and most of the crew from Star Trek TOS.

At SF Signal, they have had this feature called "What is an e-book anyway?" Its been getting a lot of responses. Will the paper book ever go away? Personally, I don't know but I kind of doubt it will go away anytime soon. Maybe 10-20 years. But look at the growth of the "tablet." It took the cell phone about 30 years before they caught on and became as ubiquitous as they are today. The tablet by the same token was introduced by Microsoft in 2011. Then when Apple launched it's Ipad last year tablets appear to be out selling laptops in by 2015 and it seems that Apple is leading the pack. So the paper back book seems to be going the same way as the cell phone 30 years ago.

Speaking about things that are slow to be accepted, we here in Canada are currently experiencing a nation wide postal strike. Reason for this is, Canada post is losing a lot of ground to things like email, Twitter, Facebook, texting etc. The postal service is almost an endangered species. The only ones that really need conventional mail are charities and maybe at Christmas. I can't recall when it was the last time I ever used a stamp. My place of employment relies on the post office. Without Canada post my job would vanish. No money, no Internet. No Internet, no blog. So, the Canada post employees union are striking because their jobs are in jeopardy as well. They want of course more money. Everyone does. This strike though is what's called a rotating strike, meaning that one major City service would be suspended one day and active the next. Both sides, the postal workers and Canada Post aren't budging. Courier companies like Fed ex etc, are having a field day. Is this going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back? It could be a long summer.

It's twilight out there at the moment and not even dark. I love this time of year. Sorry I don't have a graphic for this post. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm slightly drained this evening.

I got into the office about 8:30am as it was a bit rainy this morning. The boss aid I wasn't out of line for missing yesterday. It was ok. I ended up with I think about $1,000 raised and about $300 in card.

I had a break at 11:30am and an hour break at 2-3pm and my last break at 4:50pm which ended the last hour closing out at 5pm. I like this shift actually but we're only doing it for another 10 days. For me its so I can watch the playoffs.

The nice thing about it is I get that break for an hour so I can read, go out for some air, a change of venue that type of thing. Anyway, that's about all for now.  

I had a

scheduled day off. Or at least I think it was. I mean the boss said because he wanted me to work res, I should take Sunday and Monday off. Then 2 days later he said a bunch of us are working taps 9-6. Ok so then that's a long week for me Monday through Saturday, or 46 hours when the max one can earn at my place of work is 41, no more then that. Now because I'm working Monday/Saturday that in itself is 38 hours even with having today off. It was not made abundantly clear to me about today.


Anyway I did complete a project I've been meaning to do for a few months now. That is to open up a "My Service Canada account" which basically lets me see where I am if I applied for CCP today (which I'll be ready to take early retirement at 60) and its not a huge amount about the equivalent of 3 video games not including early retirement penalty and income tax. What it will mean when I'm 60 (God hard to believe) I'll be able to work less hours for the same money. Right now, I'm putting in 35 hours/week full time. Even at 25.5 hours it will still get me the same amount of money in less time.

I watched the Canucks/Bruins game and the Bruins gave the Canucks a shellacking. I had the Bruins to win anyway. No way were the Bruins or any team in the Stanley Cup finale going down 3 games to 0. This is going to go 7 games. Game #4 Wednesday in Vancouver. Game #5 Boston Friday. Game #6 Sunday in Vancouver and Game #7 Boston. If home teams are the only winning teams and the series follows this pattern and as long as it follows this pattern Vancouver could win it in Vancouver Game #6. But I doubt it. I'm still calling it Bruins win in 7 in Boston.

This is pretty cool. On Coast tonight George has guest Richard DeWolf talking about how on 11/11/11/ at 4 Corners USA a energy vortex is going to open up. The last one was 26,000 years ago. Apparently this Vortex is supposed to be able to release negative energy that the earth has been harbouring of its own making. It's apparently going to be held open for a year or 2 hailing the way for planet X. Cool, do I might listen for half an hour or so.

Its on the cool side of Spring/Summer. I called 8pm Keith and he suggested I bring my laptop into the office and on our lunch hour Wednesday, he'll bring his Pen drive and I'll bring mine as well. Just in case. Actually, this is a good thing. I'm rather wiped out. TIme for some music. Anyway, that's about all for now.

It's been a chiller

weekend then usual but the Sun is out and it looks like a good day.

I managed to watch the 3rd period of the Bruins/Canucks, game last night well some of it. Especially the OT goal, 11 seconds off of a turnover at the Boston blue line. What an amazing goal. Also, it looks like Winnipeg managed to sell out the 13,000 seats it needed for the Board of Governors meeting approval, within minutes. The MTS centre will be sold out every night for a couple of years. Getting back though to the Stanley Cup finales, Vancouver leads the series, 2-0 but game 3 is tomorrow night and its going to be a completely different kind of a game. I'm watching for Boston to win this one. I'd even lay some money down on it. Matter of fact, I'm going to suggest to Gerry, $5 Bruins to win.

Ok, I'm thinking maybe I'll call Keith up in about an hour and see if we can get this software downloaded today so I can start working on my track tonight. I was looking around the web for other notation software. There is something called Harmony assistant which even has a virtual singer "on stage" that will "sing" my lyrics. There's a few of these virtual singers around, "Vocaloid" is about the best one I've seen. Harmony assistant is about $85 US or $70 Euros. I'm thinking about getting it. I'm only going to use the virtual singer just as a pre demo. I still want to get FL Studio 10 even though critics have been saying FL Studio is mostly a "Dance music" kind of a DAW. I'd like to work with Rosegarden and I managed to get a copy of it on my pen drive and it recognizes it but I cant find the install file. I did it this way because my Ubuntu cant connect to the server. Even though I put the Internet cable right into my laptop. Most likely the install file is under a different designation, rather the .exe.

I took a sleeping pill about 3:30am this morning and nursing the remains of a coffee here.

I just read this facinating article that physicists at Cern have managed to trap antimatter for 16 minutes long enough to study it briefly. Further along in the article it said..."When a particle meets its antiparticle pair, the resulting annihilation turns their masses into pure energy, as determined by Albert Einstein's equation, E=mc². If 1kg of antimatter came into contact with 1kg of matter, the resulting explosion would be the equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT – about 3,000 times more powerful than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima." Wow. 1 Kg is about the size of a pineapple.

If 1kg of antimatter came into contact with 1kg of matter, the resulting explosion would be the equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT – about 3,000 times more powerful than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima....

It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get that software installed today. The best way to do this is we bring our laptops and a pendrive and install from there. Anyway, that's about all for now.

A few of us

at work later this afternoon are heading out to Kelley's. It's a pub I've never been in before, a block away from our old office. I don't have a Canuck Jersey but the idea is to have a couple of cold ones and cheer on the team. It's game #2 tonight. So, I'll be there having a good time. Hopefully it'll be done by 9:30pm and I can scoot home before Anne even knows I'm gone. That's the plan.

I had a decent week this week but nothing that will keep me in the business room. So management hired about 3 new people and brought them in to "replace" James and I, because our line our over the last few weeks hasn't been very good. Thing is with these kinds of things we've been doing the line hour (lh) hasn't been very good except for the 2 tap shooters. With 4 weeks doing ad space etc for a baseball game few people care about in a NDP economy barely on life support. We have on a good day about 12 of us. So 10 of us are doing cold calling. After sifting out all the Government's, Head Offices, non for profits, not in services, "Gate keepers"(reception) "out of the office," voice mails, we might get someone we can actually pitch to. "We don't have a budget for that sort of thing." Occasionally we can luck out and get an ad or a sponsorship. And then there's the competition out there as well, so Winnipeg isn't very good and it's Winnipeg, basically responsible for my line hour. So now the new people have avoided Winnipeg. We have about about 4-6 people that are returns but rarely put in a full week. I think there are maybe 6 of us that are steady, there all the time and the boss wants to move us over to res. The trend I see in all this is that show up for three days and put in 2 good days and that will keep you there in the business room.

So I think it was Thursday the boss said I'm working 9am-6pm for 2 weeks. So I'm back days. James, who is joining me said something about how if you work to 7pm, you can buy an extra day and have like a day off. I don't know what's up with that. This is a two week campaign. Now I don't have a problem working those hours especially when then game is not a West coast game. I'd be very interested to see how many of the new people can put up the numbers James and I can on a good day. One of the new people after 3 days on the campaign managed to get his first sale. This guy is like a dead fish. The two women are ok but I don't see lasting two weeks little alone the month. I think what the boss is trying to do is to see how many summer time people he can hire He might find a couple "winner-winner chicken dinner's" to replace us but at minimum wage, most of these people won't last long when a block up the street some companies doing exactly the same thing we're doing, pay twice as much but for double the work as well Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm having good day today

With the Sun shining nicely little wind it was about 13 on the corner of jasper and 106th this morning. I got in and we’re doing a new campaign. More baseball in Calgary no less. I got a $100 on a card. That was my only sale for the day. At noon I went over to Tim’s for a coffee to support Camp day. This evening is an encore version of the U2 concert that was supposed to be last year, which never happened. Two of the guys work the event and I got the idea maybe this could be something I could do, to volunteer as they do at Commonwealth. They get a little money but it’s like 5 hours of being on your feet. I don’t know if I could handle it. But it’s a chance to see some of the Eskimo games and this summer Paul McCartney and Black eyed pees are supposed to be coming out. It’s not going to be a lot of fun to be out in the cold in November. But I’d like to try it.

Speaking about the U2 show, apparently there is supposed to be something like 52,000 fans. The show itself is huge. It’s being transported by 50 semi trailer trucks.

At the moment, I’m watching the BOS/Van game #1. No score in the 3rd. Crazy. I napped on the couch in the 3rd and opened my eyes to check in on the game and watched Vancouver score late in the 3rd to win 1-0! I knew they were going to win. Same thing on Saturday. Then the series shifts to Boston and Boston will win those 2 and evening the series up game #5 Vancouver, game #6 Boston and Vancouver for a game #7 which will be on fathers day June 19th. Anyway, that‘s all for now.