cold but Sunny. Typical for Spring like conditions. I had a feeling this wouldn't last all day, something was up.
I went in feeling good and presented "my solution" to super. He seemed to be in agreement with that. There was some good energy in the room. I still did the Northlands project and still did the cell phone sample, getting the usual answering machines, wrong numbers, kids cell phone, "I don't live in Edmonton," dial tones etc. 8 hours of that and I got only 1 complete. The boss was happy with me and I kept the same condition all shift. I'm still not out of the woods yet (I think) because I still have tonight to go through. At break I went to the store and and got super a Coke and I got a diet one. The weather from the morning soured. It was angry kind of overcast mid afternoon with stinging winds. We had about 5 of us in the office working the phones. Super was cracking jokes made a cartoon that resembled me of someone spending 8 hours looked like after the above conditions on the phone. After leaving just me and a colleague in the bus shelter waiting for our #5. I got home about 6:45pm. Anne had a few things to take care of and she made our Sunday brunch as I was watching the finale installment of the NY Islanders/Oilers game at Rexall Place.
On her rounds this morning Anne came across this desk that was discarded. People moving out left it behind. She hauled it over by herself. "I said in this weather?" I still need to make some adjustments. The old monitor is going today as Anne is getting me a new one from across the street.
I'm in for my 4-9:30pm shift. Hopefully its a clean shift with no complications. The weather is improving and its the NHL trade deadline day. So far as of this hour, the Oilers haven't made any significant moves. So far. Anyway, that's all for now.
never on this one but early Friday morning ex Premier of Alberta Don Ghetty passed away. he was Premier from1985-1992. Ghetty was a Edmonton Eskimo and won a grey cup. His legacy was Family day and since then every Province in the country adapted this special holiday. He died at the age of 82 of heart failure.
There were just 2 of us working on the cell phone Northlands project yesterday. 95% of those calls were answering machines, busy, nis, no answers etc. Conditions were changing through out the day. At the end of the day we got new conditions updates and I misread them and screwed up that portion of project. With 3 days to go and a limited sample rate, there is no way we were going to get those last 11 completes anyway. With my mistake we ruined the chances of trying to get some of them but something from nothing is still nothing. If most of that sample were missed calls yesterday, we're going to get more of the same today anyway. Its fatiguing work coding answering machines, no answers etc. At least with fresh numbers to call my complete rate goes up and talking to the respondent makes the day go by faster. The only thing keeping my job I think is according to super, I'm a good interviewer. At least that's some positive reinforcement. I asked how do we resolve this? He didn't have a solution for me as there were other things he was juggling. Later I'm going to suggest to super next time new condition updates are given on the same sheet of paper, super should use a highlight (at least for me) marker on that whole condition update. That way, I'll enter the complete condition. Of course I didn't come to this realization at the time. I felt like shit with the last half hour left and I requested to leave early as my head was just not into doing the other project. My error took a lot of the wind out of my sails and sank my moral. I'm ok for today though. I'm sure I'm going to get shit for this one. I like doing market research and I'm good at but I make mistakes. With the cell phone sample rate we have left I doubt we'll get 11 completes out of that bunch regardless.
Its hard to tell from today's Rogers Place arena webcam Rink view but the seats are being installed along the right west side of lower bowl. There's still work to do near the "end zone" area. The concrete seat supports have yet to be installed. Anyway, that's all today.
is an interesting concept as they are
repurposing 3 of its major spaces. The first one is renovating Rexall
place. They want to include 7 sheets of ice on 2 levels for amateur sports like volley ball indoor soccer etc. Most likely they will remove some concourse and take out some
seats to accomplish this. The other proposal is to add a urban festival
park. Apparently Northlands is taking out the race track that's been there for decades and wants to
install a urban park where they can have midways, rodeo, summer concerts
etc. The 3rd concept is refurbishment of Hall D. They want to include a 5,000 seat arena and ice surface/concert space. These projects are all fine and well, but Northlands is a non profit organization. When opening up the study for comments, the most common response I get is, who is going to pay for this? If its private industry, ok. Taxpayers, no. A lot of people are still put off by the new Rogers Place arena.
I wanted to purchase a music app from the app store I noticed I had a $6 credit. Ok. So I tried purchasing an app from iTune. Then a window pops up saying I need to answer a few security questions. What? I've never had to answer any security questions before. So I cancelled that idea. After work last night I went to Shoppers across the street and bought a $15 iTunes card. I was more concerned about the numbers of the card being half torn off. When I got home the I pealed off the tape and the numbers on the back of the card were preserved. No problems. The apps store wanted to access my iPod's camera. I like this feature as it scans my iTunes card. Instant balance. Very happy. However when i went to order the app, I got the security questions again. I went to the manage security questions again and I keep getting trapped in a revolving door. I need to answer my security questions to edit the security questions. When you don't know the security questions your trapped. After so many times Apple locks you out.
After dinner, I stayed up to try and find a solution. I gave up resigning to call the Apple store Monday. If I can't get anywhere with Apple on this, then I might have to jailbreak my iPod. I don't want to do this but Apple might be forcing me if they can't fix my problem.
I'm out of here in about 2 hours for a 8 hour shift. Its mostly dialing on answering machines etc. Most likely I'll be doing cell phones again, uggh. At least the boss is ok with me working the other job. Its not related to what I'm doing here at all. There's no conflict of interest but at the same time there doesn't look like there is anything else on the immediate horizon, which kind of sucks. Anyway, that's about all for now.
camera the downtown Library Makerspace uses. I was "shopping around" for a Go pro video camera. Searching on the web, I came across a bit of a list of equipment, and software the studio uses. They have Wondershare and Blender? Nice. These are popular computer video editing and screen capture software tools. It means I can make a beat on a sequencer like FL. Studio and screen capture (with audio) and upload it to You Tube. I'm going to try and book some studio time over the next few days.
Connect 2 Edmonton is a forum I visit everyday. Its all things Edmonton. A popular thread is Station Pointe. Station Pointe is a designated lot located just South of the Belvedere lrt station or more appropriately 129th Ave 66 street and Fort Road. Its been a bit of a running joke as its been more or less a empty lot. The developer seems to like hole in the grounds as in Corners 1. The City built this long decorative retaining wall along the lrt tracks about 2011. That's about the last time anyone has seen or heard of Station Pointe (other then on the c2e forum) until I noticed a couple of backhoes on the site the other day on my commute into work.
The idea behind this concept was supposed to be a geothermal, totally green shovel ready project. Yet the developer has been dragging its feet for a long time on this something to do with a Government grant. Station Pointe was initially part of a Fort Road revitalization plan, which was original conceived in September of 1980. I'm not sure what the current status of this plan now. Is it ongoing or in hiatus or what? Station Pointe was to be the anchor of the Fort Road revitalization plan. Not that I could see anything from my vantage point on the train as in the above image but there has also been some hoarding done on Fort road, and maybe along 129th as well. I hope those backhoes I saw on site are the harbinger of things to come for this project
I have a day off but I'm going steady as of tomorrow. I've got Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday at my market research job. Tuesday, Wednesday I'm at my other job and Thursday I'm at lodge. Friday at the other job and Saturday and Sunday I'm at my market research job. The above will be going on like this until mid May, yeesh. As for tonight, I'm home watching the Oilers/kings game. We'll see how far I get with that but that's another story. Anyway, that's all for now.
lately as the wind is biting and bitter. Its almost toque type weather but its supposed to warm up later today. At least the days are getting longer.
Robert J Sawyer is coming to town after a year absence. His recent book, "Quantum night" will be out. I've been buying his books over the last 7 years that I've been a fan and I've got all of these books autographed:
He'll be at Audrey's books here in Edmonton Wednesday March 9th to give a reading of his recent book and to sign copies. For this event Audrey's usually gets about 30-50 people out. His books are the only hard cover books that I'll buy. Its a fun night. I might end up picking up not only his book but also the Space Marine Battles "Flesh Terrors" in Trade and maybe a Western as well.
Korg recently released its Gadget 2 for all i0S devices that have i0S 8 or higher. I've got the space for it on iPod Touch but not on the iPad and the iPad hasn't been updated because Anne has it loaded with cat video and photos and she doesn't want to have them removed. I'm going to have to take at least 2Gb off and transfer onto a usb stick. Gadget 2 is at half price right now and is a good time to buy.
I have a day off Thursday and a chance to watch the Oilers lose, again. Then its Friday 4-9:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10-6pm and I'm working (or hope to) 7 straight days except Good Friday and East Monday and of course Wrestlemania. Anyway that's all for now.
but Anne wanted me to cancel for today. Too back-to-back mornings are rather tough on me. All next week is 4-9:30pm. I'll need the hours. We have a serious bill we're trying to pay down. I didn't mind going into work Saturday morning though.
The above photo is from yesterday morning shortly before 9am waiting for my bus to Clareview station. Saturday morning drunks from across the street. Those panes of glass are very expensive. Its not a city bus shelter so most likely it'll be like that for a few more days. At this hour, the scene above would be covered in snow from the blizzard earlier this afternoon.
I got in about 7:30pm. Anne had a frozen entre`for me to heat up in the mic just before the Avs/Oilers game got under way. Anne called from her place of work just to touch base with me. I had a nap on the couch during the 2nd period. It was a good game despite the Oilers losing, again. That loss makes us tied in points with the Leafs for last place, but the Oilers are still the worst team in the league due to their win loss record. This (mercifully) doesn't give the Oilers a exclusive lottery win if the team finishes last. All the teams that don't make the playoffs have a chance to get the first round draft pick. Anyway, that's all for now.
cup of coffee. I think if I get to pension I'm opting out Saturday's. Not that I don't mind going in. I end up very little sleep from having going into work all the previous week from 4-9:30pm, nudges my internal clock. Its like hitting a speed hump in a residential neighborhood.
To wrap up yesterdays Pope rant some people are saying due to the Pope being seized by the well wisher the other day, he kind of "lost it." That's all fine and well but by the same token Trump should not have said "disgraceful." Don't get me wrong, I have more respect for the pope then I do for Trump. I like Trump as well, he makes me laugh. That being said I think I'll just cruze out of this one.
Due to our local warm recent weather mother nature's cycle is also out of whack. Yesterday Anne went to do some business at the office of our building caretaker on the main floor. The caretaker was outside having a smoke and a field mouse ran up her leg Anne told me.Anne said it was funny.
I hope I'm not going to get any flack from the boss in taking tomorrow off today. I'll be in all next week Monday-Saturday as it is. If I get to pension, I'll be at least 4 days in and 3 off. Anyway, that's all for now.
religion here but hearing the Pope talk about Trump and saying that he is not a good Christian because he want's to put up walls instead of building bridges. First of all Pope boy, no Christian has the right to tell another Christian how strong his faith is or if he's a good Christian or a bad Christian. That's between man and God. You of all religious leaders should know better. Second, if you want to talk about building walls the Vatican is all about walls. We call that hypocrisy. I'm not a fan of Trump or the Pope, but I can almost smell the Vatican damage control team wheels working overtime.
Blog update:
What with our very unseasonably warm weather this year (since November 2015) we've been having it pretty well off temperature wise. Normally though for this late in the month we should be about where we are at this hour. Since January we've been holding steady at 0 - 5 more or less. This has been one of the coldest starts to the day for this time of day in a long time:
By now the world has seen the baby Dolphin selfie shot taken on a beach in Argentina. Beachgoers the other day crowded around a baby Dolphin passing the poor thing from one of beachgoer to the other. Too stupid to see the Dolphin in distress that needed to get back into the water to breath, these idiots continued to think it was a joke. These turds crowded for selfies on the beach not thinking of the animals needs and eventually the baby Dolphin died. The carcass left to rot. What a despicable bunch of turds on the planet, stupid people. I hope Argentina gets world wide condemnation.
Well that was my day off yesterday. Lodge was good. I got a ride home after it was over, and home shortly after 10pm. I'm in the office today from 4-9:30pm, all day Saturday but I want to leave out of there by 3:30pm Sunday for Fastlane. Anyway, that's all for now.
heading into work yesterday afternoon. I could have worn a lighter jacket but I felt a bit of a scratchy throat coming on. It was a mild partially cloudy day but very warm.
Since last night as most nights the temperature falls but at this hour when our temperature should be around 0 or 2 this is where we are now:
It seems there is another Warhammer 40K Space Marine Battles book out, which is good news. I ordered a copy from Audrey's and now Black Library is about to release its first Horus Heresy Omnibus book with the first 3 novels and 2 short stories following their Horus Heresy recommended reading order list. A lot of sort stories and novellas came out independently of the books in ebook format I didn't get because I didn't think they followed the original narrative. It seems they and some of those short stories might be out in other Horus Heresy anthologies. I'll be ordering the Omnibus books as I'm only 10 books into the series or 3 Omnibus books.
I met a colleague out front and we went to the store 107th Ave/124th street as I felt something coming on but the guy closed at 9pm.Strange. So we rode to Rexall as Oiler fans we're spilling out to the train.That was his stop. I got the score at at Clareview 5-2 Oilers. Anne made me a nice lasagna and we watched the news. Anyway, that's all for now.
pretty decent. Anne and I went across the street to Cora's as mentioned below. We'll be back maybe in the Spring. I left out of here for lodge for a few hours. We did our practice and I got a ride home. I was home before 9pm, sweet. Anne made me a burger and fries for supper. We watched the news and that leads me to today: Family day.
The last fantasy role playing game I played was Elder Scrolls Oblivion on the Xbox 360. I had a great time with the game and my player character leveled up quite high until I got bogged down. Then our Xbox got some kind of a bug and we couldn't use it any more. I was burned out playing it and at that time got into music production. So the other day, my Super at work an online gamer and I were talking about World of Warcraft. I was wondering if that's still as popular as ever. He said its still $15 month to play. That's $180 a year! Yikes, to rich for me. I'm not really into gaming that much anymore but if I was I'd be interested in getting a Ntendo DS because I can use that for music production, and gaming. Eventually within the next 2 years I'll be getting iMac anyway, but I like the allure of hand held on the go gaming. Especially when I'm waiting for a bus or on my commute. I can see a Ntendo 3DS in my immediate future. Would I get another Xbox again? Hard to say but the good news about a console gaming system is it can be hooked up to the iMac display.
I'm sleeping in late today taking it easy and enjoying my day off. Tonight its Monday night Raw. Life is good. Anyway, that's all for now.
cleaning up a project. The other half on our recent project. Both are pretty good. This current project should go until about mid March, which doesn't sound right because its such a big project. Its ok either way because I go back to my other job March 1st.
Blog update:
We went to Cora's and I just got in (3:50pm). Anne took this photo of me finishing my coffee:
On Coast tonight currently under way the topic is about alien abductions. More specifically about a couple of campers out in the Mojave desert that claim they were abducted by aliens in 1989. Recent history has no shortage of these kinds of tales. The alien abduction tales that fascinate me the most are the ones where the abductees are under hypnosis. I'm not that familiar with the Hess brothers case. There are certain steps in the case against hypnotherapy in this regard. Some of them include; A person is predisposed to accept the idea that certain puzzling or inexplicable experiences might be telltale signs of UFO abduction. Or Alternative explanations of the experiences are not explored. There are others as explained here. The other tests that could be used would be a polygraph such as the Thomas Walton UFO polygraph test. There;s also the Betty & Barny Hill case, which is fascinating in its own right. There are other ways to uncover the truth such as voice stress analysis, or VSA test. I'd like to put all of these recent Cosby casses under a VSA test to see how well they stand up against VSA results. Years after the JFK assassination researchers took the Oswald interrogation tapes over to a VSA specialist and apparently Oswald passed a VSA test but would he would have taken a VSA test if such a test were available in 1963? Even VSA tests has its critics as well. Getting back to the Hess story, would their story hold up under hypnotherapy or a VSA test or both? The results might be interesting to find out.
Early this afternoon Anne and I are going across the street to try out Cora. Its a restaurant cafe chain that's popular here in Edmonton. We have a location right across the street.
as its been there for a couple of years now. Anne's sister in Winnipeg says its good and so do the people on the Connect 2 Edmonton forum. They close by 3pm but even if we arrive late they wont turn us away. After that later that evening, I've got our finale lodge practice for our degree coming up on Thursday and we're going to rent the last James Bond movie "Spectre" when I come back from lodge practice.
This week after holiday Monday, I'm in the office 4-9:30pm, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday off for Lodge and in Friday, Saturday and I hope Sunday. I missed checking the schedule on the way out of the office. I'll know when I get back to work Tuesday. Anyway, that's all for now.
sleep overnight, so I don't feel to bad. I slept for about 2 hours and rested for about 2. I'm ok for the rest of the day. Anne made me a fried egg sandwich and I have a coffee I'm working on.
Most likely the word is out that physicists have discovered the elusive gravitational waves. The announcement this week that gravity waves have been detected adds another key to Einsteins theory of relativity. I'm not sure what the implications of this mean but its a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Apparently this discovery will allow researchers to understand more about space-time.
I'm in the office for the full day from 10-6pm cleaning up on a project. Its going to be a long day but for the most part its a afternoon shift. I should be home around 7pm, have a bite to eat and watch the jets/Oilers game. Anyway, that's all for now.
ago it was snowing and a blanket of snow began collecting on the sidewalks. It was kind of nice in a way. I missed my bus but that was ok. A colleague of mine I get along with joined me. We're of the same age and we talked about The Beatles, as he is of the fake Paul conspiracy. Its one of his favorite topics.
If there was a wtf msn emoticon, I'd insert it right about here. Why Jim, you may ask? Because once again Hollywood wants to make another Battlestar Galactica but this time on the big screen. There are not many details about this but if
Hollywood wants to do a reboot of this movie, I'd like to see it as long as that stupid camera doesn't float around all over the place like in the last Syfy TV series and Hollywood doesn't pc the crap out of the movie. I like the original Cylons and not these you never know who is a Cylon and who isn't bs. The original BSG was in response to Star Wars but I don't see another BSG film for perhaps another 2-4 years away. Probably after or during the next Star Wars film. Thanks i09 for the image above.
Another 4-9:30pm shift has come and gone. Even though its snowing now and will be over night the weekend forecast is calling for +5 and +6 temps. Other then work Saturday and Lodge practice Sunday night I'm going to have a nice weekend. .
a "cold trend" so to speak at 0 degrees. For this time of year, nobody is complaining. During a normal February we'd have at least 18 inches of snow on the ground, and it'd be about -15 about now and a -20 wind chill.
Rant time: I share my commute with people I see all the time. I don't make friends with anyone on my evening commute, especially at night. Most people after 9pm just want to get home, without incident. I'm much the same way. Occasionally if I had a good shift and I'm in a good mood I'll smile and nod to somebody sharing my booth on the train. I see this one guy, middle eastern looking all the time and he gets off at the same stop as me every night. One night at Clareview station, I smile and nod and I thought that was the end of it. Only recently as of this autumn I've been taking the 3pm bus out here to Clareview station. The same guy shows up. He lives somewhere in our building complex, apparently. While waiting for the bus I begin to engage in conversation. He works as a custodian at WCB downtown, married etc. How does he like the weather here etc. He never asks me anything. So, I thought that was the end of it. When he shows up out here he makes eye contact with me, and now I feel obligated to say something to the guy. Like now he's my shadow. Gees mister, I'm not trying to make friends here. Not just that but he follows me around now. Yesterday while I'm getting off the bus at Clareview to catch the elevator to the upper concourse to catch the train he's in the elevator. There are usually 2 trains at Clareview station and its hard to tell, which one pulled in last. I'm deciding which one to take, and I see out of the corner of my eye, he's doing the same thing. So I make a decision and he follows me. I get up and leave one train for the other on track 2. He follows me. He doesn't sit with me but he's up ahead of me by a few booths. The train I was on pulled out and left us waiting there for 10 minutes. I was ok with that because I can catch the #3 or #5 from Central. I realized this morning that the call boards should have shown which train to catch. It wold have said, "just arrived" while the other one should have read Century park, 2 minutes or something like that. The other thing to shake this guy off my back is to leave a few minutes earlier, but I shouldn't have to do that. Its not like he seems to be a bad guy or anything but now I have a unwanted guest. Unless there's a way I can shake him off by making him feel uncomfortable to be around me. I've got a few ideas.
What I liked about Xentel was I'd go in and I didn't need to sign in and or sign out. I didn't need to fill out a time sheet. We have 2 supervisors and one is 4 days the other 2 days. The 4 day super always announces what time to pack up and through your time sheet in. Its all done on computer screen by project number, hours etc. I almost forgot to fill out my time sheet last night because the 2 day super doesn't announce when to do that. My #5 bus was heading towards the 124th/107th street intersection. The light was green, traffic both ways light so I looked both ways and crossed before the cross walk. As soon as I got to my stop, the lights went amber and then red. If I miss that one, I'd be home at 11pm. Anyway, that's all for now.
job and all but its so unpredictable, you can't depend on it as a source of income. Unless of course your on pension. I was happy when my other job sent me a invitation to return March 1st-May15th. I'll do 3 shifts at one job and 3 at the other. The object of the exercise is to work as much as I can until work stops and then open up a ei claim. It takes 6-8 weeks to get the first cheque in but once its in I can put the claim to sleep, so to speak (September) and reactivate it in the Spring next year (no waiting) until my pension is activated. That's why receiving the the invitation yesterday is so important.
I began Book #2 "Dreams if Eagles"/Eagles series by William W. Johnstone January 20th and I'm going to finish reading the book in the next 2-3 days. Just about 3 weeks. I don't know whats going on here. Normally when I read a science fiction book, it can take me 2-3 months to finish. At any rate, I like reading westerns.
It felt like a Spring time day, late March heading into work yesterday. We're getting some crazy good weather lately. Anyway, that's all today.
was one of the most boring in NFL history. I didn't watch much of it but I enjoyed the half time show, my pizza was good.
I like Justin Trudeau, don't get me wrong, however he has made some (imo) bonehead moves since becoming PM. I don't like the idea of pulling our aircraft out of the combat roll in the middle east. I'm not a big fan of having 25,000 Syrian refugees coming to Canada. I don't mind some but that's way to many. I don't like his position on the Trans pacific partnership. And I definitely don't like the $1B being spent to bail out Bombardier because some of that money most certainly go towards subsidizing jobs in the US. Thanks Bill for the share:
I don't have a problem with going into debt for a few years. Having the infrastructure spending is good but we here in Edmonton wont see any of it for at least another 2 years yet. While I appreciate JT's International presence, I'd like to see more job creation here in Alberta and more money invested in opening pipelines.
So for the most part this week its leave out of here at 3pm for my 4-9:30pm shift And home to watch whats left of wrestling. After this week I'm taking off at 9pm just on Monday nights. Anne says she's ok with that. I've got no where to go after work this week anyway so its just 3pm commute 4-9:30pm commute home by 10:30pm do my stuff until 4am sleep until noon. Basically rinse and repeat from there until Friday. Now that could change if my other job sends me a letter asking me to come back for March. In that case, I'll work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (we get off at 8:30pm) at the other place. Other then a couple Oiler games I'll be following not much is going on this week. Anyway, that's all for now.
watch the Oilers/Islanders game? Goal tending on our part was atrocious. The only 2 players that actually showed up during this afternoons debacle was McD and Kassian. I could have slept in and I would have at least a bit more sleep instead of watching that train wreck. I'd give the Oilers a -3 out of 10.
My pizza came at 4pm so I ate half of that and I'll have the other half in a couple of hours. At least the pizza was good.
I included a stat counter to this site, so I can see where my visitors are coming from. Most of the visitors from Edmonton are me access the links on this blog.
My week ahead is looking good. I'm working from 4-9:30pm all week and Saturday 10-6pm and I have the family day long weekend off, other then lodge practice on the Sunday for the upcoming degree on the 18th. I'm going to miss about 4 Oiler games. Wait now, is that a bad thing? Anyway, that's all for now.
cola with me but there just wasn't time yesterday to get anything. I met one of the new guys that befriended me and I had my bank card. It came up empty, so Wayne said he'd cover me. Thanks Way, I have cash pay back now for later this morning.
I'm going to try and get 5.5 hours of sleep overnight. I've got a full day of it today and because its Super bowl, we're having that off. This week, I'm 4-9:30 and Saturday so I should get 35 hours in plus 2 days off. Lots of work is good. Anyway, that's all for now.
Connor McDavid. The kid got a goal and 2 assists, his first night back. His goal stripped the puck and split the D. There's quite a buzz around town about the 1-5 Oiler win last night. To be fair, the Oilers were on home ice and playing the worst team next to ours and returning after a long All Star break. Still it was nice to see game highlights last night. The Oilers are about to go on a 4 game road trip beginning in Ottawa. Lets see how McD does with the boys on the road.
Speaking about oil but in a different vein, oil priced out at just under $30 yesterday. Industry experts are saying oil prices have yet to bottom out, and nobody knows where the bottom is. I'm no expert but I've lived around enough to see the cycles over the years. I think we're going to see oil priced around $30 for the rest of the year. This doesn't affect me to much at the moment because my colleagues were suggesting the worse off the economy the more work we usually get. I'd rather be going to work then looking for work. As for oil prices reaching the bottom? I got a gut feeling that oil could bottom out at about $21. Oil prices wont reach rock bottom but I feel they could bottom out at about $21. It could be 3-5 years before we ever see $70 oil again but you never know.
We're in a bit of a cold snap (-2/-8 wind chill) and that's not too bad. Locally, we're climbing back up to about +2- +4, later this week, which is always a good sign for this time of year. February has a lot going on especially this February because its a leap year. 29 days instead of 28 days. Yesterday was Ground Hog day and the ground Hog did not see his shadow and as the story goes, that means Spring is just a few weeks around the corner, March 21st or there abouts anyway. Also, Valentines day is on the Family day long weekend, 14th - 15th. I'm out of here at 3pm today and home about 10:30pm tonight. I got to make some adjustments on my calendar availability, when I get into the office. Anyway, that's all for now.
routine 4-9:30pm hours but I'm going to go to 9pm Monday because I miss the 1st half hour of Monday night Raw. I was fortunate enough to catch that #11 and when I get the 9:40pm bus that #11 at Clareview always like clockwork pulls out on me at 10pm. I was lucky to catch the bus waiting, which is unusual.
Happy days, Connor McDavid is back tonight at Rexall playing full contact hockey with the Oilers. My expectations are not very high. At least he's back, which if anything he makes the team better.
I'm back to my regular weekday hours 4-9:30pm and Thursday off because of Lodge. So I'm happy about that. Anyway, that's all for now.
