around here. Monday I played telephone tag for 2 days with my other job. They had sent out a invite letter around early July to have me back for September coming up but somehow the letter was returned to sender. They apparently sent me another letter to the address where I received my pay stubs: Here. Don't they have my resume on file from last year? There was a expiry response date on the original letter dated for July 31st, and based on the over the phone conversation I'm invited back for September 1st. I still need to have the letter filled out, and returned but I can always return the letter by hand, when....it..gets..... here. Mail, the way its been lately is so..........slow.
I wasn't much of a fan of "Sesame street," when it premiered on November 10, 1969. I liked the frog, big bird, Fozzy the bear and the two old guys in the balcony would make me laugh. I was somewhat aware when the show came out but by 1969 I was a 17 years old teen, wearing a body cast living in Coquitlam BC here on Regan Ave most television escaped my attention at the time. I was just 3 months out of a 8 month back operation recovering from scoliosis. I had just discovered Avalon Hill wargaming. Back then, they produced board wargaming like "Blitzkrieg" "Jutland" "1914" and years later my favorite game Advanced Squad leader (ASL) That's what I was into in late 1969. Fast forward to the other day when I heard some of the original Sesame street people were let go from their jobs took me down memory lane. I don't know who Bob, Luis and Gordon are. I'm sure younger members of my family know of them. However learning of the termination of these people, and how said termination caused an uproar over Twitter prompted me to weigh in here. The "if it aint broke don't fix it department," has mentioned to me that this could come back to bite the owners of the show. Its as if the creative owner control system <huh? read my mind and said something like "but they could come back at a future date." Um its called "damage control." Kind of like when Trump said he was "joking" or being sarcastic when asking Russia/Putin to search for those missing emails. What can we learn here? Always make sure when you open your mouth, and something silly pops out always have your damage control team standing by with tools to repair the problem. Some tools are, "double talk," "passing the buck" and the ever poplar "I was just kidding." Or refer to the "Damage control for dummies" book if you have no damage control department, and or edit ones blog post for latter ;)
However, I digress. We are still waiting for the part for our oven. So much so that Anne got fed up and had to go to Walmart to buy a counter top oven:
This sucker cost us $130 out of our nickel and dime budget.
I called the boss at the other job, and he didn't know if there is anything coming up for work. No timeline for anything. I need to go into the office next Friday to pick up my cheque, and hopefully pop into the other place up the street before 4pm with the second letter they claimed they sent me. Anyway, That's about all for now.
tomorrow because of WWE's "Battleground" as we look forward to that for Sunday.
A bit of this and that: I was able to get about 14 hours worth of work this week but right now the office is closed over the weekend. I'm hoping for next week, and I'll be shoring things up for my other job for September as they are moving house. We are still without the part we need for our stove's oven. Unfortunately we don't have the resources to move but this has been over two weeks now. Anne thinks we should be receiving a discount for our rent at least and I agree. We probably could get the part for the oven ourselves, and charge the bill to management. It might even be faster. "Its on order from the gas company," management says. It takes 2 weeks? Don't they have a warehouse here in Edmonton? What do we do now, go to our MLA? There are a lot of empty suites now due to the economy. The last thing management here needs is another empty suite especially in an older building where there are a lot of other options around the city.
We have K-days underway here right now as the midway makes its annual summer rounds to Edmonton for 10 days. K-days was unique among summer midways because of its Klondike theme designed to celebrate the Klondike gold rush back in the day. K-days also had its popular Sunday Klondike promenade. Edmontonians had the chance to dress in period costume and meander around the downtown core. Jasper Ave was closed off from where the Shaw theatre is now to 109th street. The K in K-days meant Klondike. A few years back City council wanted to modernize k-days, so they dropped the K-days name and theme changing it instead to to Capital X. This didn't sit too well us Edmontonians. The name change received such a backlash, that council dropped it without debate, and changed the name back to K-days but the popular promenade was lost. It's just another midway now. This years parade began yesterday morning, and had parade watchers lined up early clogging up parts of the parade route. The city at the last minute had to change the route due to pedestrian volume. Lots of people we're put off by this. Our company for many years had the contract to do on site survey's on the Northland's grounds where the midway was held but we lost the contract this year. I used to think that on site survey's were always on ones feet but I got a different education from one of my colleagues the other day. I asked about working K-days, that's when I learned we lost the contract. That would have given me 10 days of work.
Earlier I fixed up the welcome header above. It reads a lot cleaner I think. Anyway, that's all for now.
has been somewhat restored. I couldn't even hear sounds from the street, and we're about 20 steps from 137 Ave. Now I can hear traffic moving out there from my opened window. My hearing is still being compromised by wax buildup but its getting better.
One thing you will notice about the content of this blog is that there is no plagiarism involved. Its all written on the fly. I'll occasionally use excerpts from other sources but I'll always link to those sources under "fair use." Even though this blog may be somewhat banal its all original content written by me. It's in a diary format, what would you expect? I have no writers working on this blog. I don't hire a content manager nor do I have a microphone in my ear. This blog is my responses to my environment and the world around me. Nothing is scripted. Not even my wife comes in here to write material. She doesn't even read this blog. On occasion I'll do public speaking, not at a convention level mind you in front of a partisan crowd, nothing that large. Most of the time the public speaking I do is within my lodge in front of about 15-20 guys, and I'll have a shot of Drambuie or something if I know I'm going to be speaking later. Even then I get nervous after doing this for 15 years. And these are guys I break bread with after "the show" that I've known for years. I could never handle myself as a first time speaker in front of thousands of people even with a teleprompter. I'd be stammering all over the place. What you see is original from me.
I'm working on my noon coffee. I've got about an hour or so before I need to get ready to head out of here. I need to be on site by at least 4:15pm this afternoon. If I can get a couple of weeks of work here, we'll be ok. Even work up until 6pm Saturday is all I need. Anne has had some hours dropped from where she works, and she wont go into work until Thursday. I need as much hours as possible. Anyway that's all for now.
just posting a couple times a week instead of everyday. The idea is to help add greater value to my blog by posting less. People don't have the time to go through all the stuff out there. For example, when I'm working during the week I get about 4 hours a day online or at the computer. Even less if I had a full time job. If I had a cell phone I'd be online more often. On the weekends I have a bit more time at the computer. There's such a thing called life, and events of the world, like what happened in Nice and Turkey.
On Wednesday I went to Service Canada thinking I'd have to wait in a long line up. When I got there, no line up. I was pleasantly surprised, or maybe it was because of the time of day. I got the cpp form filled out, and it will be returned back to us. Then we can go ahead with the next phase of our rental subsidy. I also learned, while at Service Canada I should get a oas pension application in the mail the month after i turn 64. That's coming up in August. Thursday I learned where I work, we have some projects the week of the 18th. I worked on one of them last year. The pay period begins Monday anyway, and if I can get a couple weeks out of this round, that'd be good. We got the repair guy to see what was wrong with the stove's oven before the football game. I didn't learn what will be done next. Hopefully by next week, we'll have the oven fixed. Thursday's CFL Edmonton Eskimo's/Winnipeg Blue Bomber game during the first half was slow, 3-13 for the Home team. We won the game on a interception with seconds to spare 20-16. Friday in my email I received a request to come in for a interview at 3pm in the Nait area. Its a 60 minute interview. My wife used to work for this company in a different department before we got married. They pay very well. However, if there is a typing test component to this interview, I wont get the job. My keyboards skills are ok, but my typing speed and accuracy suck.
Occasionally I like to check out the "Next blog" feature to see what other bloggers are doing. Its nice to see various widgets and layouts. A lot of bloggers haven't posted for long periods of time, I noticed. I'm constantly trying to make this blog better. I'm on it everyday, even if its to compose a Tweet, or to access a link to my email. One such tweak I made is to the "About me" page. Its now "About Jim". Also, I recently moved a few gadgets around and removed a few pages. I could do a lot more if I was comfortable using css. Anyway, I'll probably post again on Tuesday. Anyway, that's all for now.
gamer these days, I've been busy with other things. The world is catching on to Pokemon Go. Its "augmented reality." It seems media is more enamored with the hazards of playing the game then the game itself. I can't play this game because we don't have a smart phone. One of those is integral to game play. While I have a new Nintendo 3ds I haven't been able to get into it that much. I know people that have hacked into the device. I could see obtaining a video capture card as long as it doesn't violate my tos. Pokemon Go is very popular on Twitch TV.
The second part of Coast 2 Coast this morning is about the Knights Templar. These are not the same Knights Templar's as in De Molay's era. The Knights Templar's are associated with York Rite Masonry or the Royal Arch. I was initiated as a York Rite Mason in 2002. Any Master Mason York or Scottish Rite (Canadian Rite Masonry) can become a member of the Royal Arch. The Knights Templar's is part of the Royal Arch Masonry. George's guest tonight of course is trying to promote his book, and doesn't go into any of the Royal Arch as far as I could tell. Basically its laid out like this: Royal Arch Masons, Council of Royal and Select Masters (Cryptic Rite) Preceptory of Knights Templar. The Order of Knights Templar is the last degree of the Preceptory. All of this is common knowledge, so I'm not giving away any "secrets" here. I still plan on doing something with the Royal Arch probably in the fall. I'm going to enjoy the second half of the show this morning.
I'm up out of here this afternoon to get this CPP crhc form filled out after lunch. I'll be on the road before Anne heads out for work. That's on my plate for today. Thursday the Edmonton Eskimo's are in Winnipeg, and I'm looking out for that one before management here does something with our fridge, I mean oven. I may be out of action for a day or two. Anyway I'm outa here, that's all for now.
for example, last night Anne just turned the oven on for our dinner. Suddenly inside the oven it began to sparkle, and short out causing a small contained fire. We controlled that in half a minute. No smoke to set off the fire detectors. The oven isn't that old. Without warning it just shorted out. The digital display is gone off the front panel. Anne's working this out with management now. So because of this I've had to nuke my coffee. Microwave coffee isn't the best to drink first time around as it is. First time nuked coffee gets cold faster. Management said all the oven needs is a new oven element. Needs far more then that deary, the electronics on the front panel, the digital display is shorted out. We need a replacement oven. After a bit the front panel works. I turned on the stove element and that works. I'm drinking fresh coffee, at last. Management wrote up a notice saying they will be here to inspect oven on Thursday. In the meantime we have a hot plate in storage we broke out last night. I had bought this just before we got married and we have a bbq outside. Anything can be cooked on the barbie. We're ok for a couple of days.
Anne came back from her outing yesterday, and had papers she got from Capital Region Housing Corporation (crhc) and Taco Time for my lunch. Someone there at crhc reception told her based upon what Anne had said we would qualify for a rental subsidy. I have a CPP form I need to take to Service Canada, they need to fill it out. Since I could be off the whole week, its just a matter of standing in line there. Someone there needs to fill it out for me. I'll leave out of here at 1pm tomorrow. We went down this road with crhc a few years ago, when I was working full time hours at Xentel. It took crhc at that time 2 years to get back to us saying because of our income, we wouldn't qualify. Based on last years income, we would. I'm thinking this round once we have all our i and T's sorted out we'll be able to get a subsidy but I feel based on how slow the crhc is, I'll be on full pension by the time we actually get around to receiving anything from these guys. The crhc is very slow because of all the request's it gets for subsidy. Especially in this economy. In other words we're at t he top of the pile. "Now serving 5,922/1," type thing. Anne wants to try and have the paperwork in their office by the end of this week and most likely crhc will sight the Fort MacMurray fire 2 months ago as the main cause of the slowdown.
So Anne says its good that I'm home. Well in one way but I'd rather be at the office. I still think there's time for that this month and some shifts will be days. I'll be checking up on that on Thursday for next week. Anyway, that's enough out of me.
as I didn't have a lot I wanted to share. I've been blogging a lot lately because I've had time off to do it. A couple of posts a week ought to do it under normal conditions, one would think. I've got other stuff to do, then just Blogging.
I called the Alberta (Adult ) Health Benefit program (ahb) as I was concerned about the postal strike. How would I be able to get the ahb program application form? The strike has been averted. Good news. Apparently as a couple we would be able to access the ahb program if we had a income of under $23,212 since January 2016, say what? That in itself is half our annual rent. Sure I haven't had a lot of work recently, and Anne works part time. Also, this program for me would last us up until I turn 65, next August 2017. From there its another program called Alberta seniors. Anne would still qualify to remain on the ahb program, even when I'm on the senior's program. So in the meantime, I'm unable to get my teeth fixed, and forget about eye ware until after I turn 65. We'd be really up against it if I didn't have access to my pcn for insulin. I can't even get test strips unless I pay out of pocket, and at $100 for a box of 100, so much for that idea. I'd get more respect if I was a new comer to this country or if we had kids or if I was a middle class Canadian. My contact at the ahb program is sending us out an application anyway but its not going to do us a lot of good. There are things that Alberta Health does cover for,and if it wasn't for them, I would not have been able to get into a hospital for my diabetes back in 2004. If I had access to social services (welfare), then I'd have access to all of the above. At the moment Anne and I are just waiting for the next 12 months to unravel and then I can go on pension. Until then I'm grateful she has her part time job, and I have casual work. I still think we're better off then some people. For what it is, we at least have an income coming in. Its not all that bad.
Tonight I'm strapping myself in for 3 hours of Monday night raw. Anne's out getting lab work done, and investigating the possibility of us getting some kind of rental subsidy. That's what she's doing now. The good news is we have a roof over our heads, the bills are paid and some groceries. If I don't get any work for the 2nd half of this month, well that's another conversation. Anyway, that's all for now.
as its mostly overcast out there at about 18. Not much going on today. No football. So I'm taking it easy, working on a track in my daw, checking my email, reading, that type of thing. Anne's making us her traditional Sunday brunch later. I'm sitting here with my first coffee. Pretty basic stuff.
I've had the Alberta Health benefits contact details on my iPod Touch for quite awhile now. This last Spring, I've been waiting for our notice of assessment (what the feds send at tax time) which is a summary of combined taxable income. The noa is a accurate account of income filed each year by revenue Canada. I was waiting for that, and time off before I began to file for Adult health benefits, and a year to date printout of our bank statements. Last year when I did this I was working, and my only way to get this to the program was to fax my bank statements. The fax machine I was using at employabilities was brand new, and I don't think they were comfortable working with it. Since I was getting insulin anyway from my pcn, I figured at the time I'd just wait until next Spring. No rush. Also, I didn't know prior to that I can access the program with bank statements year to date. The program is based on income and last year we certainly qualify. Now that I have time off, and rather then fax stuff to the program I can just drop it off in person to the reception counter. Once I have the location of course. My work schedule at the time prevented me from doing this. Next week I hope to have some full time hours for a few weeks anyway.
The other day on local news there was a story about the Valley line lrt. A "spokes person" from the program saying that they are on schedule. There's a lot of road closures due to preliminary work but they hope to have a work schedule posted within the next 4-6 weeks with a target date for 2020. Ahh, now the Sun is trying to come out. Boots seems to be enjoying himself. Anyway, that's all from me for now.
last night at Commonwealth stadium Edmonton, Game #2 with the return of Chris Jones and the Riders. Our fans do it as well but its been the "In" thing to do is to bring some food for the food bank to any cfl game. Our fans do this in Calgary, and I'm sure Calgary fans do this here. I watched pre game footage of Rider fans drop off non perishable food items for our local food bank. Thanks guys. CFL fans are a class act. That wasn't the main take away I got from last nights game. Up until the last play of the first half our Esks were behind but went into the half with a 4 point lead. At one point it was 19-33 Esks. Esks fumbled the ball Riders recovered gathering momentum. Riders scored 26-33. Uh-oh. They took the lead 36-33. We tied the game with a field goal with 3 seconds on the clock. It was 36-36 in overtime (ot) That's rare but its not unusual. In ot we scored first with a field goal, 36-39 Eskimos. Then they had the ball. If they scored a field goal they could tie the game, and play would continue. If they scored a 6 point major they'd win. They got a first down, another completion, then 3rd down and inches. The ball needs to break the plane of the paint on the turf for play to continue for a fresh set of downs. Eskimo defense earned their money last night preventing the ball to break the plane. The chains were moved to make the decision. The ball was under six inches from the paint. The Riders gave it their best shot but we won (barely) 36-39 in an exciting finish. There were 34,196 in attendance. Next week we're in Winnipeg to face the Blue Bombers at Investors Group field. Can't wait. Last night there were 2 tied football games in the CFL. There were 2 tied football games last night ours before ot, and Calgary at Ottawa 26-26.
I've been exchanging a lot of emails with my sister lately as we're talking about my mother's side of the family, which until just recently I knew very little about. I recall an incident in 1968 while I was confined to bed recovering from my back operation at home. It was in the summer of 1968, I was 15 years old. I should have been hanging out at the Grooveyard in New Westminster Friday & Saturday's as the end of that era in music history was closing out. Instead there I was flat on my back in a body cast confined to a bed with 2 metal rods in my spine. So, now back to the incident: We had some house guests over that summer. I didn't know who they were. All I saw were these 2 blond haired twin boys about my age. They stuck their heads in the threshold of my bedroom doorway and said Hi. That was it. For years I've always thought they were from dad's side of the family. In these emails from my sister I learned, the twins were from my mom's side. My uncles children/cousins. I never saw them again after that.
Not much on my plate today. Anne gave me a malathion pill this morning. I read from "Rage of Eagles" before bed and in bed I listened to a bit of Coast "open lines." I enjoy that part of the show listening to peoples weird stories. One caller had a "message from beyond the grave," another one where George and a caller shared horror movie likes and dislikes. I passed out from there. I woke up to feed the cats about 10am and and back to bed until about 11:30 this morning. Once Anne leaves, I'm going to work on another FL studio song, only this one will have more substance. I'm hoping to get it ready for the end of the month. No rush. Other then that, its reading, YouTube receive Anne's call about 8pm. Should be a good night. Anyway, that's all for now.
some video editing software, and observing all the shit going on in this world. I'm in a sour mood today folks but I'll snap out of it. I've got a lousy cheque to pick up this afternoon, and I have to tell Audrey's I'll be late picking up the 2 Space Marine Battles books they've graciously held for me for the past 3 weeks, again. "Please hold them for me until the end of the month." The books are about $20 each. So the highlight of my Friday afternoon is to pick up a small cheque, a bag of cheese doodles, into Audrey's on the way home, and the Eskimo CFL game tonight. The
timeline for work will probably be after next weekend, if at all for
the month of July. It sucks being broke for the summer especially. I've
got pension to look forward to in about a year from now. How pathetic. Profile of a loser: This Blogger. I'm feeling sorry for myself, I don't want no sympathy.
My outing yesterday morning was longer then it needed to be. Instead of the bus directions Anne gave me, I didn't know where to catch her suggested #99 bus at Belvedere station. The whole bus station is being torn up for repaving. I didn't know where at Rexall either said #99 bus would be. I had a vague idea but I didn't want to be caught missing this brief window Anne kept talking about. However I did know where at Corona station to catch the #1 Capilino. It was just a ride East along Jasper Ave to Alex Taylor school and run down to the bridge, and a hop and a skip to Capilino mall, right? Oh no. The bus turned left on 101 street behind Subway, and went to 95th Ave. Oh right the construction. I'm early and its about 8:15. I didn't need to be at my appointment until 10am. Lots of time. Sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery. So here's my familiar turn down to Riverdale, Alex Taylor Road. I hadn't been in this area since John Lennon was shot. Passing by the old duplex, brought back a lot of memories before crossing the Rowland road bridge. Almost there. No way. The bus went through some of Forest Heights, Capilino, some of Gold bar. From Corona station to Capilino was a 40 minute bus ride. I was at Capilino transit centre by about 8:40. I had just missed the #80 bus. While waiting there at Capilino, at 8:45 (next bus 9:05) under threatening skies I got to thinking I could have saved myself all this grief and remained on the lrt to Southgate mall and caught the #80 from there to Capilino mall where my destination was about halfway in between. Or so I thought. Far from it. I could have saved about 45 minutes, if I took the time to find that #99 bus at Rexall. Instead I had to take the #1 scenic route, yeash. Southgate would have been even longer. I was at the corner of 48th Street and 93rd Ave for my 10am meeting at about 9:15 at the end of 93rd Ave. Lots of time so I remained in the bus shelter, put my iPod Touch's timer on for 15 minutes and dozed off for a bit. It was a short walk to my appointment that last 40 minutes. The bus driver that let me off paused the bus in the industrial park, and caught my attention. I went up to his window. "I'm the same bus going to Southgate but to Capilino, if you want to come aboard. I'll be another 20 minutes before I get back here." Right nice of him. Sure. I didn't have my Capilino/Southgate bearings anyway as I don't go to the South side very often. At Capilino mall the driver said something like my best bet would be to take that #85 to downtown. After awhile I thought about it,sure. That bus meandered as much as the #1 before it. I finally got downtown before the Westin hotel there and omg, 11:30. I caught the lrt to Clareview and home by noon. If I would have trusted Anne's instruction instead of my instinct a 5 and a half hour outing would have been an hour either way not including the interview.
My meeting though turned out really well. The interview was promising but I'm not going to hold my breath anything will develop out of that. What a crazy world we live in, Police killing innocent people in Dallas, psycho terrorists out to set society back to the middle ages. I feel sorry for kids today that will endure the fall out of this crap 30-50 years after I'm long gone. Being a type 2 diabetic I might have another 10-15 years left on this psycho planet before all of the above unravels itself out to its conclusion. When its my turn to cash out, I'll be glad to get off this planet, and don't worry, I wont let the door hit my butt on the way out of here either. Sorry for the rant, no work, pissed off $6 bucks in my pocket to last me until who knows when. Maybe an Eskimo win at Commonwealth might cheer me up a bit for a few moments. Oh the humanity. Anyway, that's enough for now.
usual this morning as I need to leave out of here about 7:30am to meet with a client at 10am. I've got a bus, a train, a bus and another bus to get to an industrial part of the city. My appointment is in the Eastgate business park area. I'm working on my first coffee of the day.
Last night I put together a brief video using a program called Hypercam 2. Its ok for now. This video screen captures the work I did in FL Studio composing "a beat." The video editing is done in a program called Windows Movie Maker. Once the initial video was made, I mixed down the audio to a wav file and uploaded it to the desktop, and dragged it to sync with the video. I had to tweak the settings in the screen capture software a bit and after about 25 attempts, I have the process configured to work despite some latency issues in the screen recording software. Free is what it is. I'll be doing a few more of these beats using this process. At least until I get some hardware, as most if not all of my productions will be hardware based in the near future. I'll be using something like a Go Pro to record the performance, and sync the audio the same way. For now though, these will get a lot better. I'm not a singer so there wont be any (thank god) elaborate voice-overs except maybe using a vocoder once in awhile. This video upload is about .32 seconds and is located here if you want to watch it.
In about an hour I'll be on the road, out of here for my appointment. I need a shower and pack a few things. I should be back by about 12-12:30 or so this afternoon. I don't know if my market research job I have will have any more work for the balance of the summer. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting. I don't mind 3 nights/week or something like that. Anyway, that's all for now.
and something more stable, and beyond. Now I'm getting same day responses to my resume's. At least that's promising. The first response didn't get my resume. The contact emailed me right back. I sent it out to said contact. Ten minutes later in a email contact asked me to call cell. I had a over the phone interview. Contact said just has to set up the calendar and asked if Thursday is a good time for a interview? Sure. "I'll email you tonight or in the morning with a time, ok" Great. So far nothing has come in. When I had the interview with Cititel a few weeks ago, after the interview she said I was part of a selection process. Its nice these internet job banks like Kijiji let you know how many views the ad received. We'll see what happens.
I've been following with much interest the Jupiter Juno probe. Its been a five year journey just to get there. The next big space mission I'm looking forward to the James Webb space telescope (JWST) to be launched in 2018. There's even a JWST web cam located here but it doesn't look like a lot is going on.
Other then looking for work I'm reading, working on my music track. I'll be heading into the job to pick up my cheque Friday unless of course I have a job to go to Friday. O I can ask if I can start Monday? I can then go into the job pick up my cheque, and enjoy the weekend. I get call centre job alerts in my email every day. And I'm responding to them but I'm pretty sure there wont be any work from where I'm currently working until about the 19th. Anyway, that's all for now.
to eat this afternoon but I can't justify that considering our expenses, and I'm running low on coffee as it is. I buy the brand bellow because its good bang for the buck. On the container it says something like, "makes 260 cups!" Yeah right maybe using a teaspoon, and without water. I usually have 1 table spoon cup a day. At that rate the container here usually lasts me about 3 months. For about $11 its a good deal.
Last night I reinstalled FL. Studio 10 producer edition, which I have a license for. I bought the program in 2011 but found that the more plugin's in use the more the cpu burns out and crashes the program but that's normal. I'm considering FL 12 but its a download only purchase, and I need a cd. Most likely I'll stick with this, and upgrade to Cubase Pro 9 when it comes out. My laptop still has half of its hard drive space intact but I'm leaning more on the hardware side of things instead of programing.
Still no word on the job front, and most likely none will happen until tomorrow, if that. I'm hoping I'll get the green light to come in Wednesday or Thursday. I got a job, just no work right now. It's a beautiful day out there. Anyway that's about all for now.
in 2014, some of those resume's I sent out last month would have bore fruit by now. At that time the economy was above water. Now 2 years later, its 1 resume for about 200. The competition for jobs is very high. I have a job, just no work. I wanted to work where my wife works but they have this test as part of the initial training. I needed 80% passing grade before they would hire me, and I got roughly 45%. That job would have been good for me about now. Its steady and I'd always have hours.
I'm currently doing some family genealogy, and that's been keeping me busy this weekend. Its odd that a distant cousin from the 1880s was a Mayor of New Westminster and my uncle was a Mayor of New West as well. Civic engagement runs in the family. My mom was the youngest of 3 children. My uncle Ed was a ship master on a BC ferry, they had 2 boys (twins) and they went on to become pilots for Air Canada. My mom received her pilots license at a very young age, and my father flew bomber aircraft over the Atlantic ocean for use in the European theatre of operations. Aviation was an important factor in my family. When I was 15 before I learned I had scoliosis I wanted to join the navy. We know how that story developed. My aunt married a high ranking figure in the CBC's LA bureau. And then there's me. I've done a lot in my 63 years and even had my picture on the front page of the Edmonton Sun in 1998. I had my 15 minutes of fame. Now the only thing I'm waiting for is my pension. How pathetic.
Its common knowledge that the Oilers signed Milan Lucic Friday. Oiler nation was going nuts. Lucic said the main contributing factor for signing a $6M/year salary with the Oilers, wasn't the money. It's a chance to play with Connor McDavid. He sees the Oilers going on to great things with McDavid and he wants to be a part of it. Last season CMD played 45 games and got 16 goals. How far will the Oilers get with a healthy CMD? Hard to say.
Anyway, not much more then that is going on...its a Sunday. I'm beginning to feel a bit anxious about getting back to work. I've had enough time off already. When I'm on pension, I'll work 3-4 days a week just to prevent myself from going nuts like this. Anyway, that's all for now.
