This should be a universal truth

that 2020 was disastrous. On that note, this my last post for 2020. The year had a lot of firsts, some good and bad. I never thought I'd be working part time from home, with my wife. I did some open heart surgery on my computer installing my first ever m.2 ssd hard drive. That was a great experience. The Stanley Cup finale between Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas for the Stanley Cup, held in Edmonton with no fans due to the pandemic. ETS had free bus service for a couple of months. My Nintendo Switch works great playing Zelda. The great planetary alignment.

I don't know what I'm doing for New Years eve tonight, probably playing Zelda working on getting that buffer rate down on my new Cubase Pro 11 and playing with Cloud Supply the new vst I bought for Kontakt yesterday. I'm ordering us pizza for tonight and maybe a glass of wine to ring in the new year. Hopefully within the next few months we can get that Covid vaccine. Thank God 2020 is over with, At least NHL hockey resumes January 13th with an all Canadian Division. Anyway, that's all for now. Happy new Year everybody. 

Because I am a previous owner of

Cubase 6.5 before bed this morning, I was able to get Cubase pro 11, not got the current price of $800 but for cad $240. Deal expired at the end of the month. Why such a low price? Because I haven't upgrade my original version and ad holiday pricing, I got the deal. Without holiday pricing, the upgrade would have cost me about $550. I bought Cubase because I couldn't get my Reason 10 dvd to install. I gave up on Reason. Cubase was so easy to install. I just had to upgrade my iLock elicense and follow the easy prompts.

I've learned a lot this year from having Facebook friends and family block me and unfriend me. I've learned never to lose respect for anyone. Especially close friends. They may have lost respect for me for one reason or another but I'll never lose respect for anyone of my friends. If they lost respect for me, were we real friends? I'd like to think so.  Not everyone has to like me or be my friend. One of "my friends" recently lost respect for me. Mostly because I called him out on a truth that held him in chains of denial. Now he's running away by unfriending me on Facebook. Talk about cowardly. Yet I still like and respect him, even when he broke trust with me several times. Then there's family blocking me because they choose politics over family. Sad.

Tomorrow begins the last week of the year. Thanks to God, I prospered ok but only because I'm on full pension and my part time job working from home. Now if Anne and I can survive the next months ahead until we get the Covid-19 vaccination, we will have at least the tools to survive. Best practices moving forward. Anyway, that's all for now.

Its Christmas eve

and I hope everyone has a merry Christmas. That was sure nice to receive that $1000 deposited into my account Tuesday. Talk about unexpected cash coming from no where.

Finally, Health Canada approves the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. Now we have 2 Covid vaccines to work with as new strains of the virus seem to be popping up all over the place.

I uploaded another video earlier this week and I hope to be have another one up this weekend to Shannon on Sounds.

Also announced earlier this week, the NHL has approved the NHL will resume with a 56 game season starting January 13 2021. The Oilers will be playing Vancouver in an all Canadian division. This is going to be great. Plus the CFL will be playing about the same time end of June. Hopefully I'll be able to watch some of it. Anyway once again, Merry Christmas everyone.

I uploaded another video to my

 You Tube channel the other day. I'm currently working on my first UK style drill beat. Its really amature in nature. Nothing pro about this.  I hope to have this uploaded by Friday.

The NHL has announced a working agreement for a 56 game season starting January 3rd. No training camp or exhibition games. There will be four divisions. Having an all Canadian division is uncertain but it seems to make sense due to the closure of the border. What with the world juniors underway here in Edmonton soon, I don't think we will have any games at Rogers place arena until the "juniors" are completed.

It looks like we're weeks away before we're going to get a 2nd Covid vaccine. Is health Canada going to wait to see what side affects are going to happen due to the Moderna vaccine in the US first? At the risk of risking Canadian lives in the balance? That doesn't sound right to me. Lets see what happens here before now and the end of the year. Anyway, that's all for now. 

There's not much going on

 this week. We got a nice weather wise day happening today then a bit of a cool down for a day and milder weather. The forecast for next week has Christmas day at +2

We got the initial Covid vaccine doses from Pfizer Tuesday. More doses by the end of the week. Here in Alberta we're prioritizing frontline health care workers, seniors in long term care centres and hopefully the rest of us in the summer. 

I'm using my iPad pro camera for my video introduction intro. The Lav mic I bought about 3 years ago is gong head to head quality wise with my AT 2035 condenser mic. I'm stepping  up my intro game here a bit I should have this video up to my You Tube channel within the next couple of days.

Also, I'm maintaining my step count. Saturday, almost 7k in steps. Not to bad. Anyway, that's all for now.

Our local weather forecast

this weekend is going to be on the cooler side  of the thermometer but not arctic like conditions. One day of -17 ish. Next week is mid single digits. Its been quite the year weather wise for sure.

I changed my Apple ID on my iPad pro, back to match our 2017 iPad. This way I can Air drop my apps over onto the new device. I retired the old iPad into Anne's hands. I'm happy I bought the new one. I'm still learning the ropes and all of its features.

Wayne Gretzky's 1979 rookie card went up for auction and fetched a price of $1.29 million! The card is graded a Gem Mint 10 by PSA and there’s only two of its kind in the world. Nice chunk of change. Anyway, that's all for now. 

If all goes well we could have

NHL hockey returning to play mid January, with some fans in the building. I hope I can skirt passed this virus too watch it. Some players are being recalled to their host cities. Right now the world Juniors (hockey) is getting organized in Red deer for Edmonton. Well see how that goes.

Monday night I picked up what might have been the only iPad 11" pro in this city. Not even the Apple store had them in stock. Our local within walking distance, Staples even reserved it for me as Anne went to pay for it with my bank card. I'm still learning some of its basic features. This is an investment in my music creation hobby. I got the 128Gb version. The passcode is 6 characters long!

Our Prime minister said the other day that the first shipment of the Corona virus vaccine from Pfizer, could be here by next week and distributed before the end of this month. In Alberta we're expected to get about 4,500 doses. Mostly given to the elderly in care centres and frontline health care workers. Makes perfect sense. If Health Canada gives approval of course. In the meantime our premier just announced province wide mandatory mask wearing and lock down measures for a month. I agree with this. Anyway, that's all for now.

I got so distracted

during my last post I forgot to finish my post title. Yeesh.

Our project finished Wednesday night. I'm officially off work until January. By that time, I'll be ready to go hard at it. Also by that time I will be extremely board enough to really want to go back.

Not sure if I heard this correctly but Health Canada is about to make a decision to approve the vaccine's the Feds have made purchasing agreements with. I heard within 9-11 days. If the vaccines get approved the first phase of distribution could begin early January. Not sure how much of the above is correct.

At the moment, I need more software then hardware. I need Halftime, Omnisphere, and others. I also need that 2Tb Samsung drive as well. Anyway, that's all for now.  

My original Facebook page

began 2007 but because of some people, I decided to deactivate it. I kept messenger open but I got a new Facebook page. It was very easy to do. I don't know why my friend Frances is having so much trouble I helped her out for about 2 hours and she's just waiting for them to send me the conformation code. Maybe I should give her my email to send it to me, see if that works.

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I'm not sure if I'm going to get the camera or the iPad pro. I need a camera. Its not that the Zoom q2n is a bad camera but it runs on batteries and its zoom feature isn't that great. The Sony Zv-1 so far has the best recording time of any camera at 74 minutes. My budget for the camera is about $1200-1500. The thing that bugs me about the Sony is the the small iso. Its going to be no different then the last Sony camera I tried buying last year. 

Deactivating my Facebook account was the highlight of my day. That and 5 hours on the job. I have another Facebook page I created but not under my name. Its basically for my Facebook groups and a few friends. I left my original Facebook page with 76 friends.  I have no friends on this Fb page. Anyway, that's all for now.

If I did this correctly

I went and deactivated my Facebook account this morning. My reasoning for this are several. First, all the political crap, and then there's all the Corona Virus BS and, then some people I thought were friends still are in denial what they did to me. I don't need the aggravation. I'm tried of all the blocking, unfriending of week minded shallow people. This excludes some real friends, and Lodge people. Messenger is still open and I can go back to Facebook at any time and reactivate it. 

So it looks like Friday is the last day on the job for me for the year. I'm hoping I get a month off. All I want to do is to make music, play video games on my Nintendo Switch, read and keep up with my steps. Also, I'll be spending more time blogging here. Anyway, that's all for now.