Dallas Stars go on to force a game 6.

That means we'll have NHL Playoff hockey, in late September, again! Last nights game was won in double OT. Game 6 Monday night. This series will be the only time we'll see two NHL teams and one of them hoist the Stanley cup in Rogers Place Arena Edmonton. At least in my life time.

The issue I had with my Nintendo Switch, wasn't HDMI, DRM's or anything like that, it was an old power bar that was disconnected from the outlet. 🙄 Now I have Elgato working with Switch, but I'm going over to Stream elements. I opened an account with them the other day for Jim Shannon gaming. I got some serious cable management, issues to take care of. I did a short stream test this morning with my Nintendo Switch, Elgato capture card, works great. Now all I need to do is set up and adjust Stream elements. I hope to stream Live next weekend. For how long I don't know. 

Well, last week my sister unfriend me on Facebook over politics no less. Talk about shallow and week. I thought she was smarter and more mature then that. Most of my family are centre left while I'm centre right. To disagree on politics is all fine and well. Lets argue, lets debate opinions, and move on. I don't want to change the political or religious beliefs of others. We all come from different places, culture and geography. Too unfriend family over politics and unwilling to hear someone else's world view different then your own is petty, and lacks character development. Not everyone needs to agree with me or even needs to be my friend. I stopped caring what people think of me when I was a teenage. Even more so now that I'm a senior. If my sister sends me another friend request, then fine I'll accept it. For all I know, she might have unfriended me for 30 days. You got to let them go so they can grow I guess. Anyway, on that note, stay sassy & classy people. 

I got 3 fillings to take care of

today at 3pm. I'm going to walk up to Eb games and get myself that Zelda game for my Nintendo Switch, and then get ready for the Lightning/Stars game 3. I don't care which team is in it. This is great hockey. And a special shout out to Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl earns 2020 Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award. The Stanley Cup finale should be awarded i heard October 3rd here in Edmonton. 

Finally, I got a game console to run on my computer monitor. I got my Nintendo Switch docked connected to my Elgato HD60 S connected to my computer monitor to record gameplay. What was holding me back was I have multiple hdmi slots. I didn't have hdmi 1 "entered in" on the input menu's for the monitor. Most likely my Xbox 360 will work the same way. Hdmi from the 360 to the input on the HD60 S and another hdmi cable to the monitor.

Other then my dental appointment today, not much else that I can talk about is going on. I'm still reading The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn. Other then that, not a lot going on. That I can talk about now anyway. And on that note, that's all for now.

Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas

Stars are duking it out at Rogers Place Arena here in Edmonton. Its the best of 7 games and Dallas took game 1. One game every other day for the 1st 4 games. All I know is the Stanley Cup game will be played here.

C lovers fish n Chips has been here for awhile now. Its about a block away, so we thought we'd treat ourselves and I'm getting a cold beer. It's kind of pricy but we haven't been out since last November before the apocalypses. Looking forward to this, leaving out of here about 4:30pm.

I'm playing Mario Rabbids on my Nintendo Switch. I still haven't got the console connected to my computer, or my external Elgato capture card. I was messing around earlier with Nivdia Shadow play, and yes I can screen record for long then 20 minutes. Actually for half an hour. Next up for the Switch is to connect the console to my laptop. Anyway, that's all for now.

We're having a nice late September

 weather-wise. Due to the BLM Antifa arsonists setting fires South of the boarder we're supposed to get a bit of a hazy late afternoon.

Yesterday, on my way to my 3pm dental appointment ~ 1.5k up the street, and on my way, I popped into Eb games to see if they had any Nintendo Switch consoles. They did. So I bought that and a used game and continued on my way. I got 1 of 4 teeth done. The other teeth are smaller jobs. All along the way, my step counter was working. It was a beautiful warm September afternoon. I walked back and got a haircut from across the street. My mouth was still swollen up to about 7pm. 

Tonight its game 6 of the New York Islander/Tampa Bay Lightning NHL Eastern Conference playoff game. If the Islanders can win this game, they force a game #7, here in Edmonton. So, I'll have that on my agenda tonight and connect my game console. Also, I ended up with 8100 steps on the day, which is a personal best since I've been keeping records. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Sunday already?

 Its been a quiet week not very productive, but some weeks are like that. On tap for this week, I've got to call the Doctors office tomorrow. I should have some pay coming in this week, and a dentist appointment for some fillings.

At the moment, I'm watching game 4 of the Tampa Bay Lightning/New York Rangers. Tb is in in the lead by 1 goal. Some great hockey. Thanks Bilasport and NBC. I'm having fun with the NBC broadcast. Third period to come. Best hockey I've seen in a long time. 

I'm enjoying my Sunday afternoon. Great game and Anne has to ruin it to do some vacuuming. Oh well. Anyway, that's all for now.

 that was. I gave up after the Islanders were down 5-1. I hope their fortunes will take a turn for the better, next game. Having the Stanley cup finale with the Islanders in Edmonton, shades of the 1980's. I had to smile when I saw during intermission an Islander player guarding the door of the dressing room with the Edmonton Oilers logo behind him. You don't see something like that everyday. 

About 3am I went out for my walk around out back here. We get homeless people between the two doors, like the person this morning all the time. What with management repairing shingles on the roof and rain ducts, all the time why can't they just put security bars up on the inside of the front glass and a keypad or an atm like device to let residence in? Just insert card and, click. A City Police sign on the door "its not rude its safety," won't stop a crackhead from breaching the building and who knows what? There's always the cost factor involved for sure. We have 4 buildings here, the cost of security doesn't come cheap.

For some reason the labour day weekend seemed longer then usual. Its been unseasonably cold here for this time of year about 16 degrees. Add to the change in weather and with no CFL labour day classic playoff hockey in September, feels weird. Not much going on this week for Jimmy, just watching hockey, reading and working on an idea for my track. Anyway that's all for now. 

If Vancouver Canucks wins game 7 tonight

I will be one happy camper. As of today my hopes for a NY Islanders/Canucks Stanley cup final are alive. If the Canucks can get out of this series alive and advance, wow. If Vancouver is out but NY Islanders is still in, I'm rooting for NY. It would be cool to see Jordan Eberle hoist the cup. 

I missed my virtual lodge meeting last night. I got so caught up in the hockey game, it escaped my mind. Normally if Lodge was open I'd be there. Highlands Hall hasn't made anything for future lodge meetings official or anything yet. In light of this stupid pandemic, I wonder how many current members we will be retaining because of this shit?

This morning I had trouble sleeping so I read a bit, and that helped. I was out like a light. I had a good 5 hours of sleep after that waking up around 11:30 this morning. This weekend, I'll be following a few hockey games, playing Ice Wind Dale. "My crew" hasn't even been outfitted yet. I still need to download and install that new plugin by "The Cable guys." My firewall seems to get in the way, but my wife's workplace VPN takes over when she's on shift and is a bit more friendly when it comes to downloading vst's. Also, I'd like to make a beat in my Maschine software. Plus reading my book "The Icarus Hunt" there is no shortage of things to do this weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.

Watching lots of hockey

  lately. I'm interested in the Islanders/Flyers series, and Vegas/Vancouver games. Vancouver forced a game 6 last night. That game will be tomorrow night. I'd love to see an Islanders/Vancouver match up in the finale. 

I made a minor adjustment too my Blog title by moving my photo circle over to the left side. Makes more sense that way. I also put that image above so it makes the dashboard of blog posts more appealing as well I think. 

Not much going on around here lately. I'm in between job projects. I got a virtual lodge meeting over Zoom tonight. When I'm not watching hockey I'm on the computer and still getting my 3-4k steps/day in. We've been eating take out way too much lately, so we're cutting back on that. Anyway, that's all for now.