is good for the Esks. As bad as we are this year, there's no time to panic.
I had a pretty good day on the job and a bit of training and I went home at 3pm. After I got out of the office I went and picked up a Horus Heresy novel: "Deliverance lost."
I'm not one for going to the bar but occasionally even I need to get out there once in awhile. Lately I've been going to Buds over there at Londonderry Mall as I can leave out of the back entrance beside "Sport Check" to the left in this photo and catch the bus where I'm standing. The bus lets me off in front of my place so I don't have to cross the street. I haven't tried a Guinness yet, I'm considering tomorrow or Thursday. There's a local establishment that has something like 300 varieties of beers. I'd like to try that place.
Another one of my hobbies is Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) and I like to visit their site too see what's coming out. So far nothing ASL wise.
It's a long weekend coming up and I get 3 days off! Can't complain about that at all. Anyway, that might be about it for me for a couple of days. Of course I'm on Twitter, anyway that's about all for now.
closing out the month of July. The Summer is going by too fast. Mostly because of our longer then usual winter. We had snow on the ground right up until the end of April, then almost like punching a time clock the 1st of May Summer starts. We should normally get for around here in Edmonton about 5 months of a warm Spring and Fall.
I added a new link to my left blog sidebar, "Claw's & Fists" The guy is a "Space Wolf" fan but I'm kind of interested in the Tau army as well. Need to do some more research on these guys. I'm also looking into sampling the US podcast "11th Company" and a few more Warhammer 40K podcasts. There's a lot of them out there I'm looking at. Of course, I can't listen to everything.
After work I'm coming home to watch the CFL game, Argo's/BC. It should be a good one.
Well, that's about all for me for now, I'll probably update this at halftime during the CFL game later. Anyway that's about all for now.
hours ago when the wife had a blow-up. What I don't go through with.
This is cool: Nasa has, since July 26th received 400 submissions to retrieve an asteroid as part of its asteroid-retrieval capture plan, which NASA unveiled in April, is known as the agency's Asteroid Initiative. The mission is to get underway in 2025. Here's a further link to the story a Space com.
I'm very close to buying a new laptop mostly for music production and a bit of gaming. I've got a couple of candidates about the price of a 512 ssd drive. I'm not doing anything with it at the moment until I get a Ram and a 7200 rpm upgrade, which will cost me about as much as a PS2 gaming system.That won't be until September. I could be picking up the laptop on Wednesday, but we'll see.
Another cool science development: Nasa Scientist to Scour Kepler Data in Search of Alien Technologies. You can read this from i09 here:
Tonight is Monday night Raw and Tuesday night its BC/Argo's for a rare Tuesday night CFL game. Friday it's the Esks with the worst record in the CFL against Hamilton. It should be a decent week ahead. Anyway, that's all for now.
despite no football or hockey.
For nearing the end of July it's not that warm of a day out there sitting at +15 showing a bit of rain.
I'm going to miss iGoogle when it's gone in November. I can still get similar "gadgets" on my Google Drive page without going Chrome. I'm too used to Firefox. Anyway a Science story appeared on my iGoogle page about a 15 meter "magnetic ring" transported to Fermilab in Wisconsin. It took 6 weeks to get to Fermilab. The story from the Science insider is here.
I almost bought a Intel quad Core i7 laptop today from Future shop but I checked and it seems that all locations don't even have this item in stock. Best buy has a AMD A10 in my price range and if they have it in stock at t heir West Edmonton Mall location, I might just pick it up Wednesday. I'm not buying this for gaming, maybe 10% or so for gaming. So, we'll see. I might just end up waiting until their labor Day sale.
The objective is to put a full week in for this week. I've got the hours and the work. Hopefully nothing will go wrong. Anyway, that's about all for now.
hours
were low and I'm kind of glad it worked out this way because I'm saving
up for my laptop upgrade. Instead I'm buying the Pizza so Anne doesn't
have to cook tonight.
Possibly Wednesday I'm thinking about going into Future shop and getting a 2.5" hard drive upgrade for my laptop. I'm going to go from. Most laptops hard drives run at 5400 rpm. I'm getting a hard drive running at 7200 rpm. I have a few programs that would take advantage of a faster hard drive. I
also want to see if they could change my os from 32 bit to 64 bit so I
can install more ram. I'll be doing this Wednesday after work. Thanks to
not going to K-Days, that alone will save me a lot of cash for this upgrade.
After
Anne left for work I stumbled upon the closing scenes of "Ice station
Zebra." Talk about an All star cast: Rock Hudson Ernest Borgnine Patrick
McGoohan. This was probably released right after "The Prisoner." It's a classic movie.
I
had a good Saturday. For once I didn't go anywhere this weekend, just
stayed home and watched a couple of football games. Tomorrow, less the
football, its more of the same. Anyway that's all for now.
Last nights Esks/Al's game was slow to get underway but got going in the 2nd half. Esks 27 Al's 32. Either way if the Esks got that last rush to the end zone during the last 10 seconds, it would have been 34-32 still a Proline Tie. The Lions/Argo's game is on Tuesday kind of wrecking my 4 game weekend. Note to self, don't bet in favor for the Esks.
After work I'm over at Audrey's to get a Warhammer 40k CD and a Horus Heresy book. I'm into the 2nd book of the 3 book "Space Wolf" Omnibus. I liked the characters in the first book but they appear absent in this 2nd book but show up in the 3rd. Also in the 2nd book of this Omnibus the Chaos Space Marines make an appearance and so do the Night Lords. Interesting stuff.
After that it's over to Wendy's for a bite to eat and head home. There's no CFL double header this weekend because of Tuesday's game. So tonight it's Calgary/Winnipeg.
I decided against upgrading and or buying parts for a new PC. I tweaked Slayer for my "guitar" and it sounds pretty good. However I'm looking at getting a 512Gb SSD drive but it has a SATA connection. I think all SSD's but I've seen a SSD drive installed in my version of Acer on YouTube, so I know it can be done. Anyway, that's all for now.
as it's been difficult to cycle between pages or even to open a web page. Nothing worse then as slow internet connection.
I had a great night at home trying to build the pc I'm looking for.It's about the cost of a 27" iMac but I get 32Gb Ram and a i7 Quad core on a Gene VI mATX mb and a 512 SSD with a 3TB hard drive etc. It's a pretty good build but I probably wont be able to get it until about next Spring. If I still have the same job that is.
This was on the national news earlier about silver bars on a ship sunk by the Nazi's in WW2 An astounding $36 million in silver has been hauled from a WW2 wreck Here's the link to the i09 story...
Google has recently announced a interesting bit of tech to come out: Chromecast. It's a web TV dongle the size of a pen drive that fits in the HDMI slot of a flat screen TV. I caught a bit of this last night on Coast to Coast George was talking about it. Its a way to have YouTube and other content stream right into any TV. This is huge. The dongle is apparently going to cost about $35. It means web pages can now be streamed to any TV via wifi including ios devices. According to Yahoo news six billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube. Google must be the biggest television company in history, at least in terms of eyeball hours. Google has been showing off prototype browsers and apps built for TVs for years at tech shows - but has never quite got the hardware right. It's an old concept but it looks like this time, they got it right. When this will be available, I have no idea, here's the Yahoo article....
Baseball barely makes a blip on my radar screen but I'm a bit interested in our local baseball team The Edmonton Prospects. They lose more then they win but the tickets are priced right and it looks like a great way to spend a Summer afternoon at Telus field supporting the local teams
Speaking of which the Esks are in Montreal at a 5:30pm start and I'm going to miss the 1st quarter. Hopefully I can make most of the 2nd quarter but that's all for now.
Google should have their Google glass out in the market and other manufacturers will be right. I don't know if I'm going to get on board with something like this. Maybe after the 2nd or 3rd generation. It's not going to replace a desktop computer or even a iPad anytime soon.
Its going to be a regular day nothing fancy. It's tough getting home these days because of the K-days crowds. Anne and I are going Saturday night after she gets off work. I'm meeting her at her LRT stop and we're going in together. We usually stay until it closes and take the last train home and walk from there to our place.
The City the other day went and put up a big sign/billboard by the Baccarat Casino: "Future home of the Edmonton Oiler's." Shovels are going in the ground about next March or early April and hopefully if all goes well the Oiler's will be able to get out of Rexall Place and play their first season 2016 in their new arena. There's a lot of other buildings going up around it.
The Esks are taking their 1-3 record into Montreal Thursday facing off the Al's 1-3 record. I think this could either be a blowout either way. Both teams need a win. Other then that, well that's about all from me today.
but unless I win the 6/49 lottery between now and the next one, its not going to happen. Even "Dolph Ziggler" from WWE was there over the weekend!
Finally the big baby moment arrived yesterday as Kate had the Royal baby of the decade. It's a boy. They haven't named the baby yet but they can't go wrong with a name like James, right?
I'm still kind of waffling with what to do with my pc upgrade issues. I think I'm just going to leave things alone right now. There's no rush.
There's some exciting research out of the UK about blindness using stem cells. This could be a revolutionary breakthrough but before it's widely available might be before my life time but you never know.
Anyway, I have a full day ahead. Yesterday I put in my hours for the next 3 weeks. It doesn't mean to say I have work, it just means my hours are in. We'll see what happens. That's all for now.
options open to me here. I can upgrade from the two pc cases I have mATX and ATX and build a pc from within those two chassis or buy a pre-built system. A pre-built system is a lot more expensive then a custom built i7 quad core,1-2 TB 32 bit Ram system. Or I can buy a laptop and put in a ssd drive but that limits my Ram to 16 Gb. A custom built mATX system means I can add 32 Ram. There are a few places in town that will do it for about the cost of a 25 inch iMac, that's my budget. Then iMac fans will say buy a Mac. Well that's fine and well but the local Apple store can't do upgrades you either have to buy it configured and it gets shipped to the customer not an option and too much of a headache.
Some people think I live in a shell that I don't have a life outside of going to work and come home watch TV. First of all, I watch very little TV maybe 13 hours a week. I read a lot of books, about 6 per year and these are not comic books or graphic novels. Other then July and August, I'm in volved in my Mason Lodge and out visiting other Lodges. When I'm not doing that I'm working on my music production and take my wife out to dinner once every other week. This weekend we're going to K-days after she gets off work Saturday night plus I have my job and those hours always change some weeks I'm working 9-5 while others I'm working from 1-9
Coast last night was pretty good (from what little I listened of it) and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK is just around the corner. Whether you believe in the Warren Commission's report of a lone gunman or there was a cover up its a case that still echos even today 50 years since the incident. The FBI has thousands of pages of unclassified information they wont release until 2017 or even 2029. What are they afraid of?
Late yesterday afternoon I was watching a bit of the Hamilton/Riders game. I had Hamilton to win on my Proline, the finale score was 0/37 Riders! What was I thinking! Anyway, that's all for now.
I didn’t even hear my iTouch alarm go off this morning and looking at the clock it was 7:55am! I had a shave, showered, dressed, got my cash together and my things and caught a 8:15am bus to Clareview got my CFL Proline picks and got a by hand 6/49 ticket and my coffee at Subway and at my desk 2 minutes before my shift at 9am!
I had a great start as well for the day pulling in about 7 completions in a 4 hour shift. At 1pm I booked off and headed over to Jack (the barber) and got a nice haircut. I didn’t know about this but Jack is a decent harmonica player and pulled it out of his pocket and played a few brief numbers. I walked up to my RBC and made my deposit. I wish I would have brought my Government ID along. I caught the train to Belvedere station on the tail end of the K-days parade and after a brief wait got the #11 over to Londonderry Mall. I looked around Coles etc, and found “Game on Sports.” I got a exchange for a XXL Esks t-shirt with no name on the back and I even got a $4 refund because the shirt was a bit cheaper. They added it onto my RBC account. After trying to find Albert’s I came across the Bell store. I explained what was going on with my Telus account and why I had to close it down. Bell had the same kind of Flex package for tablets and if I had my Government ID and my Ipad I would have internet on it right now. After that I found Albert’s and Bud’s lounge. A little side lounge attached to Albert’s. I ordered a Molson Dry and relaxed at the bar. On my way out I popped into “The Source” (Radio Shack) and asked if they had any i7’s in that order they were unpacking on the floor. Sadly no I found Dollarama and bought a bag of chips for the weekend and then into another store called “Champs.” They had a Edmonton Oiler‘s hoodie but it was in medium. Then into “Sport check.” I asked if they had any windbreakers or Oiler‘s hoodies/jerseys. I licked out almost everywhere and the clerk at Sport check suggested I try “The Oiler‘s Store” in Kingsway. I had a brief wait for my #11 and then home.
I‘m currently watching the Argo‘s/Bomber‘s game. 21-6 at the half. Yikes. It doesn‘t look that good. So basically that‘s been my, not bad. Anyway, that's all for now.
today.
I got into the office ready to tackle the day having on my mind how and where is this place I'm supposed to meet up with a couple of colleagues after work from the old place. The afternoon went along just fine. The desk in one of the offices was being moved out to the dumpster out back as the drawers were broken. It looked like a kind of desk I would have liked to use here at home but the top was about 4 feet wide. Way to big for my little office here. Also the desk was up for who ever wanted to cart it away but it was so short notice, also it would have to be disassembled and put back together here in my office. I called Anne for a chat on my break and worked out the rest of the day.
After work I worked my way along 100th Ave passing by the old General apartment building. I don't think I've been down that way since 1981, over 31 years ago! The later afternoon Sun was warm my friends and I was sweating. I had no idea what the name of this place was PQ's or something. The place I stepped into about 5:30pm was 02's but it used to be called Black Sheep Ale House. No sign of my friends. I asked if anyone fit the description I got a nod indicating no. I waited around for awhile and decided to head West to the big shiny blue building, then Bistro 112 and a few places along that little "strip mall," then back to 02's or whatever it was called. I asked the guy at the bar if he had wi-fi and since I had my iPad with me he helped me log on. I left a couple of posts on FB where my friend says he visits it every night but when I left the place after a 10 minute wait I headed up Tim's and accessed their wi-fi to see if my friend updated his status but no such luck. I bought a bottle of diet cola and caught the train home.
I've got have a day of it tomorrow and then it's off to get a haircut and over to "Game on Sports" Londonderry to get a refund or another hat or something maybe shop in Army & Navy and get a bite to eat and have a beer I missed having this evening catch the #182 which drops me right off at my place.
I've got a 10-6pm shift Saturday and home to watch the football game. A day of Sunday and back at it for the week. Anyway, that's about all from me today.
from all the rain we had over the weekend and Monday's heavy rain. Yesterday was recovering from Monday, today's looking good.
Still working 9am-5pm and I'm going in Saturday 10-6pm. I used to like going in for my breakfast at Tim's.
*Last night on local news it was the 25th anniversary of Wayne Gretzky's wedding July 16th 1988. The event created quite the buzz around the City. I felt that this somehow was a turning point that would involve the Oiler's in a big way I couldn't explain. Sure enough 2 weeks later Gretzky was traded to LA Kings. I was 35 years old at the time working for the Army & Navy Cobogo warehouse.
At the moment I'm posting a quick update and a coffee before I head on out of here.
Friday is about my busiest day of the week as I'm in the office from 9-1 and over to get my book at Audrey's and then over to see Jack as I'm getting a haircut. Ordinarily when I get a haircut like I did in April, this usually lasts me until at least September but yeah it's about time, again. After Audrey's I'm running over to my RBC and then the LRT home.
Other then that, not much going on. It's the dog days of summer. Tonight I'm going over to Future shop asking some questions about installing about installing a ssd drive in a laptop and if their service department could copy my laptop or image the current drive and transfer it over to the ssd. I'm looking at this Toshiba P50 laptop.
Well that's about it for now. On the weekend I'm going to make a few Lodge related calls plant some seeds type thing, watch the Esks/BC game and of course work all day Saturday. Friday and Saturday are my 2 busiest days this week. Anyway, that's all for now.
I love my wife, I was in bed by 2am! I had a good 8 hours of sleep but by the last 6 hours or so my back was getting soar. That’s my body saying “Ok Jimmy, get out of bed.”
Later about 2:30pm Anne and I want to be on the road Clareview LRT to downtown/Corona/ #1 bus to WEM. It’s a long trip on a Sunday. Might take 45 minutes to get out there. Anne wants to get off at the bus terminal at WEM and work our way over to Silver City theater and order our tickets for WWE “Money in the bank” (6pm we can actually reserve our seats) and then get a bite to eat at the food court. Then after that we should have a few hours it’s work our way East (in the mall) towards “Target.” They took over Zeller’s as their store opened up this last Spring. While she’s doing that I’m going to visit “Game on sports.” (At gos) It’s right beside Target. I’m not going into Target but Anne is, and as she’s in Target I’m going to my store. I’m hoping to get a Oiler’s Esk’s hoodie or a wind breaker and an Esks hat or maybe both.
After that it’s hook up with each other outside of Target and work our way through to the theaters. I’d like to be there by 5:30pm because there’s the pre “Money in the bank” match. It’s three hours long! We should be on a #1 bus about 10pm and home before 11pm. With any luck.
This week I have a full week ahead of me as my hours are from 9-5 Monday-Thursday. Friday it’s a little easier 9-1 but then Saturday I’m in from 10-6pm and it’s a full day of cold calling, uggh. I’m going to ask for a revision on that as I’d rather work 9-5 Friday then cold calling all day Saturday for the same hours. Anyway, that’s all for today.
as I'm in for 1pm-9pm but there's some training in there so it's going to be a bit easier. I'm up a bit latter this morning and even if I'm in bed by 3 this morning, I can still get 7.5 hours of sleep. Good deal.
On local news earlier they had a spot on a activity called Parkour. For those not in the know it is a historic activity In Western Europe, a forerunner of Parkour was French naval officer Georges Hébert, who before World War I promoted athletic skill based on the models of indigenous tribes he had met in Africa. Some of the moves you might have sene are: Running towards a high wall and then jumping and pushing off the wall with a foot to reach the top of the wall.using a rolling motion to help absorb large impacts to name a few out of Wikipedia. There is a training "school" of sorts here in Edmonton but it's mostly for young people. I admire the athleticism and skill involved.
The train derailment in Lac-Megantic in Quebec over last weekend is taking a tragic turn for the worse. Investigators in the red "zone" are pulling out more bodies. I heard on the news that there are 20 dead. It's now a criminal investigation.
I never did win on that Star Trek scratch n' win ticket and the Riders beat out the Argo's in this evenings CFL outing. I've got my 3 games on the ticket so I can still put another $2 to win for the double header on Saturday. Odds for those games are 7.5 x $3 would still be $22.50 to win. That's are dinner at the food court Sunday!Anyway, that's about all for now.
9:30pm I began having these stomach cramps Anne gave me some Tum's or something like them and that didn't help much. I went to bed. Of course it was a warm day about +27 out there. I slept until midnight up again feeling a bit better. Anne had some pepto and put about a table spoon in a shot glass for me. I had that and went back to bed and about 2am I got up feeling a lot better. I did some reading from my Space Wolf book and read a chapter in that and then went back to bed.
Sometime over night we had a extensive thunderstorm roll through here over night. It was due to the warm weather buildup during the day. I didn't catch much of it because I had other things on my mind ^ but this is what Anne told me. It's overcast now.
I've got a brief shift today off at 3pm. Next week, I'm on from 5-9 plus Sunday's. My hours are slightly reduced but my bottom line is ok and I get a bit as well.
I'm thinking about going into Audrey's and LM after work to get a book and a device called iRig midi, if they have any in stock. It's going to hook up to my Maschine.
The above was my blog post this morning.
* Update: I felt a little better going into work but I didn’t know how long I’d last the day. I was still feeling queasy.
I left the office at 1pm and back at it at 9am-5pm. After work I went to Audrey’s and got the 2 remaining Horus Heresy books. I’ve got 17 more to get for a total of 31 in the series. I also cashed in on my Audrey’s club points to get the books for free which is a good deal. After that I went down to LM and noticed they have a for lease sign on the building. Uh-oh. I picked up my iRig midi and paid for it from that Visa gift card Big Fish Audio wouldn’t take. Also, LM has the new Yamaha and said for $120 I can open an account on them and take them home. They’re the 7“ woofer‘s and are going to be a great complement to my Cubase 6. I was told that LM is pulling up stakes at their 109th location and are moving in August. All the way out to 149th and 137th street. Yikes! That’s a few blocks away from the Shrine club. With all the opportunities couldn’t they have built it closer to downtown? Even Northgate. They’re not going to get a lot of walk by traffic out there.
There air was just what I needed to be out in the Sun and I felt better. After LM I went over to 7-11 and I got a bottle of diet Cola and saw a raisin tart. I thought about using the 2 Visa gift cards. There were 2 line ups and this lady smiled beside me as I was trying to see how much I had on each card and she said, “Excuse me but could I pay that for you?” “Oh, that’s ok, I have enough cash on and these 2 cards have only small enough amounts on them. I’m just trying to exhaust what’s ever left on them.” I think she was s bit put off when I declined her help but I would have embarrassed if I said, “Sure.” Something like that would be un ethical. I think the 1 I used for LM had maybe $3 left on it and the other one had maybe a buck or less as it was declined. I had to pay out of the $5 bill and I had one of the cards in my hand to rip up and got distracted helping a child move her bike out the doors and when I returned the credit card was gone. There was this black woman that took my spot and my Visa card was gone. I think she took it but the guy at the counter said no. I wasn‘t about to make a scene over a credit card that had a couple of bucks on it and embarrassing myself and the suspect. I had a bit of time on my hands and sat on the bench and enjoyed my little tart treat in the warm afternoon Sun before heading East along 102nd towards NorQuest there and moving along 108th street to Audrey‘s. I asked about ordering the next 4 in the Horus Heresy series but apparently the next one “Dark King / Lightning Tower” is out of print. Audrey’s online is offline so I can’t check right now. In a email this afternoon they said they will see what books in this series remaining are still in print. Maybe I can get them at Games Workshop in WEM.
I caught the train home and thought now that it‘s 3:10pm I may was well wait for Anne as she should be on her way but after about 20 minutes in the hot Sun (I didn’t mind). Finally I could see her walking from our place and explained I worked until 1pm and she seemed happy to see me. I said I was getting the Yamaha monitors and I gave her the bus pass she gave me her keys and I walked the rest of the way home. I thought about going into Bo didley‘s across the street for a beer but I realized I didn‘t have any card/cash on me.
When I got in I had a shower and cleaned up and felt a lot better getting that sweat off me.
That actually sounds like a good idea after I get the monitors and a shower I‘m going to head over to get a beer across the street and watch the football game or parts of it. Sounds like a fun time. That way I can meet with the guys tomorrow at BP‘s and watch some football on the big screen TV‘s and head home. I still will have enough to take Anne out to the movies Sunday, nice. Anyway, that's all from me for today.
called "I grew up in Coquitlam." I have a vague memory of a paper route job I had in the early 1960's around my place but my mom said it was too much for me to do and handle. I think it was either for "The Province" or "The Columbian" newspaper. I'm pretty sure it was The Province. My first real job was working at "Burger Chef." This was in 1970 and I was still going to Banting in 1970 but this was I recall a summer job and Burger Chef was on it's way out by this time. For the longest time I always thought it was on the corner of Austin Ave and Blue Mountain road. But on this Facebook group, in a conversation I had last night it was brought to my attention that Burger Chef was West of Blue Mountain but on Brunette Ave but Burger Chef was on Lougheed Highway just around the corner and West. In my conversation on FB it was actually on the site of where Canada Post is now. I recall how the manager/owner didn't like the way I left streaks on the windows. Flipping burgers was only have the job as clean up and prep was the other half. I had to clean up around the lot, made sure all the fixings for the burgers were in place before the counter ladies came in. I liked the job because I got to to eat for free and and all the cola I could drink. I think I also got 1 paycheck out of that place.
Not much going on this week until Friday. My hours change because on Friday I go in from 1-9, subject to change. I'm in Saturday morning for 4 hours as well but I think on Thursday I might just go in from 9-1 because of Friday and I have a reunion with the gang at at my last job, so I want to go in for a few hours Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now.
and it's +16* out there making it nice for sleeping.
Mostly today I've been doing music production research. My Reallpc guitar vst plugin when using Guitar Rig for instance crashes as soon as I launch the program (GR). Reallpc works ok in stand-a-lone, which is kind of lame. It even works ok in my DAW but as soon as I open up an amp simulator lake GR I get heavy cpu spikes and crash! It's disappointing. I'm not about to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on a new PC. I heard about IK media's guitar rig and guitar rig midi for the iPad. I can use the vst guitars in Sample Tank through a third party iPad program called Audio bus. In a YouTube video about iRig midi I asked if I can plug iRig into my laptop and get the signal chain out of Reallpc through iRig midi into my iPad and use Amplitube and the Reallpc signal chain in iPad. IRig midi is about a $60 program so if I go down to LM after work this week and pick it up, it's not going to break me if it doesn't work and I might go get this next weekend. Just some of the fun stuff I'm working on.
Tomorrow is the Esks/Hamilton game so I'll be following that a bit. This is the first road game for Edmonton in this years CFL campaign.
Still on a sports theme, the Oiler's cut lose Sean Horcoff and Nikolai Khabibulin this week. Khabibulin didn't do a damn thing for the Oiler's except cost the Oiler's more money. Horcoff's shelf life as a hockey player and as an Oiler were on the verge of expiring anyway. We got a new coach and got rid of some excess baggage and saved some cap room. We just need a couple of big power forwards and out of Rexall place but out of the Rex won't happen for about another 3 years. But at least a new arena and a funding model is in the works. Things are looking good for the Oiler's
I'm still trying to find a way to get my Twitter feed on my Facebook (FB) site. I don't have a fan page up yet because I have no music up and I think you can only get a Twitter feed up and running only on a fan/business page. There's a lot of info about this but it's obsolete since FB has changed everything lately. I have my Twitter feed on this blog but not on my website. Anyway, that's all for now.
and I got a full day ahead.
I don't know what I'll be doing next week or even if I have any work at all. That's one of the realities of doing research work. So far I've been working a full work week since I started. Even if I get 25 hours a week (part time) I can live with that. It'll give me a chance to explore other options, something more stable.
I'm seriously considering either a new Facebook page or opting out of FB all together because of this bar called "people you may know." It's been a real pain for FB page fans even though there are lots of FB hacks out there FB keeps changing and it's hard to find the hacks. Twitter is better and I'm thinking of putting a Twitter feed on my FB page so my FB friends can see my activity and what's going on. At the same time keep my FB page still going on.
Other then that, tomorrow is "NHL's Free agent frenzy" and it's going to be interesting to see if the Oiler's are going to do anything or remain quiet like they always do. Since I don't have internet on my iPad anymore and Anne uses it I don't have my internet on the go. Anyway, that's all for now.
After work the temperature was +33! Warmest it’s been in a couple of years.
After work I went over to Audrey’s I bought book #10 of the Horus Heresy and a Warhammer 40K audio CD. I also ordered Hammer & Bolter Vol. 1 & 2. I thought about going out for a bite to eat but wasn’t that hungry. I bought a bottle of diet Coke at Tim’s and on a humid LRT to Clareview and a even more humid wait on the #183
When 8pm rolled around Anne was at the door with Donna paying us a visit. She stayed for about 40 minutes and I more or less had the place to myself.
It’s very dark clouds out there as it looks like some kind of a system is coming in.
I still don’t know what‘s going on with the Phoenix Coyote‘s yet on the big vote. I‘ll know by the time I post this. Ok the city of Glendale ratafied a new lease agreement to save the Phoenix Coyote's from moving, in principle. Up next is the "Free agent frenzy" Friday.
The big system that came in took out part of a beautiful tree just out here. Mind you it's only a branch but a significant part of the tree's landscape. Branches and tree bit's are littered all over the place.
Looks like Edward Snowden is running out of countries Seems everyone is turning him down. Anyway that's about all for now.
long weekend but at least this week is a short week, so that's a bit of a bonus.
In the news is about the heat wave that's in Death Valley. Temperatures are 130F never mind the humidex.
I'm in for a full day today and after work I'm picking up a Horus Heresy novel and a audio cd. I'm watching to see what's going on with the NHL Phoenix Coyote's to see if the city council of Glendale is going to keep them, or cut their losses and my guess, to delay again. Friday is the NHL free agent day and Sunday the Eskimo's are playing but Anne want's to go out and see a movie. I'd rather wait until next weekend for that. That's basically my week ahead.
On Coast tonight the topic is about Magic & Ancient Egypt. Should be a good one. I like shows like this. Most likely they are going to make reference to Crowley. Anyway, that's about all for now.
