What a crazy week

its been. My portion of the Covid-19 project ended Wednesday. I have a bit of a break for awhile just when I got the software side of things sorted out on the work laptop.

Due to the racial tensions south of the border the Vegas Golden Knights and the Vancouver Canucks have suspended a couple of games in protest but will be back tomorrow. Its the right response to make Anyway, that's all for now.

The new laptop for work arrived the other

   day. I was struggling to figure out how to insert my Ethernet cable in the slot. At first it didn't seem to fit and I would need to have it returned. I was still able to do my job "manually" so to speak. I'm not the one to give up easily. The answer lies in You Tube. After searching a bit I found my answer: I need to have the tip of the insert cable, force it into the port guiding it with a bit of pressure on the latch. Presto, it worked. All I need do in the morning is to have my higher ups help me to install the VPN and softphone. Its not a bad system for an i3. I haven't heard anyone say that I cant use the computer for personal use.

What a mess with the ballot counting machine at the Conservative leadership race. Hundreds of ballots were ripped to shreds by the machine. It was after 11pm when CTV news had announced that Peter O' tool is the new leader for the Conservative party. Not that its going to make much difference because the NDP are in bed with the Liberals anyway.

So this week, i got 3 shifts, tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday. I have Thursday off and Friday and Saturday are scheduled but i think we're going to finish the project anyway before Thursday. Anyway, that's all for now.

Anne went on a massive cleaning

  campaign yesterday, scrubbing walls from last Spring 2019 flooding from the top floor. My job was to get out of her way. So finally its quiet around here. Despite the pandemic, Anne and I have been existing. Sure we have good days and bad days, all couples have fights. At the end of it all, we're still here. We believe in each other. We 2 old people living out our lives with as little drama as possible.

My Doctors office downtown was not only easy to get to but since Covid 19 and most people working from home, the Provincial Government closed the seniors office below my Doctors. Vacancy rate for office space downtown is pretty high rate now and that closure only increases the glut in vacant office space. That seniors office had been there for a long time.

I posted another video on my "Shannon on sounds" You Tube channel. I've already got 2 likes and 8 views. I got another idea for another video to upload over the next few days. Anyway, that's all for now.   

I got a work related email that arrived to my

  inbox this last Tuesday. My fingers are crossed. of course for privacy reasons I can't divulge anything but it looks good. Jimmy "needs" another computer upgrade. I got my eye on that LGA 1200 B460 motherboard that has 2 m.2 drive slots and Bluetooth. I can pull the trigger on that now, but I need the hours just to cushion the blow of such a large investment.

I've been wanting to call Aids to daily living for awhile now. Would they be open today? Shure enough. So I got to make a Doctors appointment and I haven't been to my Doctor since before Covid. I'm a little paranoid about seeing him. He needs to send out an adl form so I can be assessed for compression stockings again, which is usually followed up with ultrasound. I got a few other errands to do that day as well.

This weekend I'm working on my upcoming track. I almost got it together, overlaying some motion graphics to help spice things up a bit. I bought a plugin from Plugin Boutique but for some reason its not showing up in my daw. Not sure what the problem is. Sometimes it could be a firewall thing as well. I'll most likely need a support ticket. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Because of all the walking

  I did yesterday I developed a slight sprain in my right ankle. Chances of getting 2600 steps in today doesn't look good at just under 1000 steps.

When I got the m.2 ssd, I had enough funds for a larger ssd. I hadn't realized how easy it was to get to Memory Express, West End. Using Google maps and ETS, I discovered that the #137 from Clareview West, heads right by the store. Its a block away off of 170th street NW and 109th Ave. Its a block away from the Wendy's there. When I'm ready to get my upgrade in around Halloween, I'll take Anne along with me and we can get a bite to eat at iHop. That's the idea anyway. We'll see what happens.

The idea today was to make some phone calls but I got off on a tangent. Anne went on a bottle run and returned with Taco time. I can still make those calls tomorrow. Anyway, that's all for now.

The Oilers have got one last kick at the can

 and that will be Friday After that its any Canadian team except the Flames. I'd even cheer for Columbus if it came down to that. Nothing against Calgary, its the Flames. I believe the oilers will come out with both guns blazing Friday. Penalties is what did the Oilers in yesterday.

Ottawa went and made a deal with Phrizer and Moderna for millions of doses. When these doses will be made available remains unclear to me. I heard delivery will be in October, initial trials will be held early 2021 but I have no proof of this. We'll have to wait and see how this unfolds but if I can get access to it, I'll take it. Why not?.

So the other day, I'm finding out a good Fantasy role playing game for the computer. I still had ~ $30 in my Steam wallet. I wanted a game like the old Ultima series. I found Icewind Dale. I had heard about this before so I picked it up last night, and began playing it on my new m.2 ssd. It plays pretty fast. At the moment after I save the game, I can't figure out how to exit the game. 

As I draft this its 3:30 in the morning and I'm drinking a a cold bottle of Sleeman Honey larger, delicious. I don't always drink larger but this is an exception. I have a beer maybe once a month and we already went through 4 bottles, so this will last me for awhile. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Its been one of those weeks and in an effort to

keep myself busy, I got my m.2 drive installed.  It was a challenge. Also, the other day, I did the data migration thing. Also a bit of a challenge but after playing around for a bit between disk manager/Device manager and the Bios boot order, I got everything working. All the above was easier then I thought. My original ssd went from 120Gb for C to now 357Gb (including OS a Windows 10 update later. Everything just works. Next up is to format the 129Gb drive so I can use that to store games on.

The We charity scandal just wont go away and I for one hope the opposition continues to turn up the heat. The only thing saving the Liberal

party's butt right now is the NDP Jagmeet Singh. Trudeau even went to call out finance Minister Bill Morneau about the $41k. I expect a Liberal cabinet shuffle soon. At the moment I'm not confident with any Conservative leadership candidate hopeful. The only one I liked was Leslyn Lewis but she dropped out last week.

This week, its going to be watching hockey, some game play, making beats and keeping my daily 2k walks going. Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of the Black Friday tornado weekend. Right now, its a scorcher at +29. That's 84.2 for my American friends. Anne is hard at work on her last of 3 days, we got all the fans on. otherwise, we're holding out ok here. Anyway, that's all for now.