On Monday I went out to

the West end for my Community Care assessment appointment. West Lawn school. I haven't been out to the West end in a long time. After my assessment they booked a case worker for me for home care. Home care is  going to do some leg compression, so I can get my Aids to Daily Living account renewed to get my compression stockings at discount prices. First phase is to ask the Covid pre screening questions. Then they come to my place and apply a special kind of stocking to get some initial leg swelling down before I can get the real stockings.

Finally I was able to get my Groove Agent 5 plugin, registered/activated/installed. I'm still learning how to use it. Also, I was able to get Cubase pro 11 to screen record with sound by using Reastream. I was doing it all wrong. So now its working with OBS Studio perfectly. One instance goes to the master bus (the E on the "channel strip") in Cubase, the other to OBS Studio. in Fl. Studio, Reastream goes into the Fx rack in the mixer. One scene in OBS, for any one daw at a time. Just switch daw's not scenes. I use 27.1.1 as the streaming address in Reastream. Works great. I now need to figure out how use Output Arcade in Cubase. 

I thought 💭Holy moly, the Oilers won 4 straight games. Am I dreaming?💭 Then last night they won their 5th straight win. They haven't done that good on the road since 1987! Is their luck about to run out tomorrow when they meat Toronto? Can they go for 6 wins? Of the 4 games Oilers played these guys we won 2. Anything can happen so stay tuned. Anyway, that's all for now.

Finally its warming up out there as

it was -2 around noon. We got a nice weekend in the plus side of the temperature and next weekend -7 and under. Its pretty windy out there at the moment. If March can turn out to be like November, then great. Winter 2021 is done. 

Last nights Winnipeg/Oilers contest was significant because Connor McDavid got his 500th point in less games then Crosby at 369 games. Plus the Oilers won that game 3-2 and move past Winnipeg in the standings but just by 1 point. Its going to be a real dog fight all season. Anyway, that's all for now.

Not much of an update

for today. Anne and I are enjoying our Valentines/family day weekend, even though she had to work Saturday and Sunday. Saturday normal day and Valentines day is mandatory. Heart shaped pizza and all. Today being family day weekend is just a normal day for me. Other then the Jets/Oilers game. Oilers can win 3 in a row but not 4. I'd be surprised if we get a W tonight. 

On tap for me today as I'm trying to get Elgato screen link to record into OBS studio from my iPad pro, and I'm almost there with my Elgato game capture device I bought last year. I just need the multi port Apple adapter. Most of these you tube video's leave stuff out, so with each YT video, I'm discovering more things  missing from the process. Plus at 7pm, Winnipeg Jets/Edmonton Oilers. The highlights of my day. And Subway later this afternoon.

Yesterday my Amazon order came in about 3pm. I ordered a cheep usb coffee cup warmer. Barely works. No indicator light. Its from China, what should I expect? The USB hub works and powers up my iPad and connects my full sized USB keyboard alright. I'm going to get a proper Bluetooth keyboard/mouse set up with a dongle. The coffee cup warmer: 1/5. USB Hub 4/5. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I'm enjoying my time off

but to be honest I'm missing the action as I'm sure so are my colleagues. That and I haven't been out of the apartment in over a month. I got too much to do to be board.

At the moment we're in the middle of the annual (it seems) artic vortex. Our local temperature is -29C with a -39 wind chill. We just got a few more days of this as we're supposed to warm up at the end of the month to low minus single digits.

Other then that, I'm watching lots of Oilers hockey. The boys were in Ottawa last night taking on the Sens. We barely won that 3-2. Koski took 42 shots. Up next Thursday Montreal. On that note, we're still hanging in there. I'm uploading another video for this weekend, doing a "tutorial." Look out for that one. Anyway, that's all for now.

We went and subscribed to

our isp's home security service, which gives my wife some peace of mind when we're out in case somebody breaches our suite. We  set the camera up in a hidden place. We can access the camera via our iPad as well, when we're out and about. This morning I was on the phone with our isp tech support, and we have everything working. I just need to have the app set up on my wife's iPad, so say whenever we get lodge going again and she's out shopping, she can check into our suite. The only problem with the camera that comes with the system is its frame rate. Its giving us an fps of something like 5. I'm sure we can do better then that with another camera from the same company.

Later tonight, its Oilers/Flames. This is going to be fun. I might not have steady work but at least I have Oilers hockey. On a cold winter night like right now at -29 with a wind chill of -35, there's no other place I'd like to be. Other then on a beach somewhere like in Southern Spain when its the NHL off season. 

Finally, after days of sorting out how to get Cubase pro 11 to communicate system audio to OBS Studio, I got it working. I tried Reastream, all other kinds of screen recording  shenanigan's, Cubase just doesn't like Asio drivers. I had it working once before with Screen rec but that failed. My expectations for Asio link pro, were like smoldering embers. I followed a video by Mr. Different, and after a few tweaks at OBS, it works. My audio is a bit garbled but that's a tweak fix in OBS advance tab features. When I get my Mac mini M1, later this Spring, I'm going to use Cubase Pro 11 and Logic as my 2 daw's of choice and my windows computer for gaming. Anyway, that's all for now.

It took me awhile but I think I found

a solution to getting Cubase pro 11 to output sound to OBS Studio. Its a program called Reastream, that works on a local area network sending audio out to the other part in OBS through its receiving counterpart. I'm a few steps away from making it work. 

Finally Sunday night the Oilers won one 8-5 against Ottawa. That's 2 back-to-back. Vancouver lost as well, which helps the Oilers win loss record. Oilers are hosting Ottawa again tonight at 8pm. I doubt the game will be similar to the last one. 

This morning on Coast-to-Coast the topic is on Astrology and hauntings. Too scary for me 😀 I like shows last night on UFO, and the conspiracy/occult topics are fun. 

Other then that, Not much else is going this week. I haven't been playing any Zelda Links awakening much over the last few weeks, just enjoying my time off. Anyway, that's all for now.