Just working out the week

so there is not a lot going on for me personally. 

I have a new video scheduled to go public tomorrow at 1pm. "Roll 'em." It's a cinematic piece of music.

This weekend is the "Truth & Reconciliation" long weekend. I don't mean to be disrespectful but for me, it means a day off and I can watch all of the Al's/Elks game Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Apparently we have this week and up to October

 7th for the work project. If the days ahead are anything like yesterday I suspect we may have days left in this. We're into 3rd pass calling. 

Not much going on this week. I've got no outings planned. I'm just working on my "Cinematic" track upload for Saturday. At least the weather is good.

I thought this was cute on Twitter

Speaking of the weekend, Friday the Oilers are hosting Calgary in a preseason game🥱 It's not a free game to watch like most of the regular season games are. Then I've got BoB to attend on Saturday morning before shift if we have one. I'll be missing the 1st half of the Al's/Elks game but I'll catch the 2nd half. So lots going on. Anyway, that's all for now.

I had a good

shift from 10-3pm. The project called for 6 completes, which is flow. I ended up with 9 😲 Plus it looks like we're going to go until October 7th. That doesn't mean I'll be dialing until then. 

Anne wanted to try Swiss Chalet again because of their new roast beef menu. We might go out tomorrow but we're not sure. Money is tight until the end of the month. So maybe next weekend. If we elect to stay home, I might be able to catch the Oiler's pre-season opener as we're hosting Winnipeg. 

Apparently, Artemis 1 is ready to launch Tuesday. I'll believe it when I see it. Anyway, other than the above not much else is going on. Just working out the week. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Still working through the

 week. Not a lot going on right now. I uploaded a new video "Mumbai fusion." It's World electronic music. I set the video on YouTube to go public on Saturday at 1pm. 

While I was working last night, Anne went to Northgate to get my compression stockings. She said she had breakfast at Smitty's, which was much better than the one we had at the Manning crossing location a few weeks ago. Her breakfast (brunch) was fresh, while at the Manning location was tasted like everything but the eggs were left since the previous morning. I think next time I'm at Northgate, I might pop in myself since I haven't been at that Smitty's location since 2018. 

I received a work schedule this morning for a few days next week. We're almost nearing the end of the project as it is. I'll be lucky if I get 1 shift out of that. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Working through the project

and barely halfway through, I had a decent day. I hadn't received any flack from the respondent about the Queen's funeral. Earlier before my shift, I made a couple crucial phone calls. One of those calls has potentially life-changing implications for Anne and me. I have my doubts we'll benefit from that call anytime soon.

Yesterday was a bit on the cooler side of late September as we're in the high temp teens, weather-wise🙏 This is more my kind of weather.

The other call I made had to do with Anne picking up compression stockings since I'm working now and she has the time off tomorrow. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

After a few snags

(my end) and my 3rd shift, in I, have one more loose-end the Super and I are going over at 4pm in a video chat. Voxco is a good system but I somehow logged into the test project and not the real project. Anyway, performance-wise for my 2nd shift yesterday I was doing well. Not sure if I will make the Saturday breakfast but we'll see. I'm going to call a lodge brother that lives nearby to see if he'd be interested in coming out. Being an independent contractor he might not want to come out. We'll see how that goes.  

I've got another track uploaded to YouTube but it's on a timer going from Private to Public. I set it up when I uploaded it that way. So let's see if during my shift Saturday, it works out that way. 

Yesterday Anne had her iPad stolen from her shopping cart. The screen was cracked anyway but she had a lot of stuff on that iPad and she used it for price checks. So today she is going to get another iPad. We still have our original iPad from 2011, so I told her to ask the folks at the Apple Genious bar to help her set up the new iPad with her own Apple I.d. Hopefully to preserve the apps I have on the old one. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I had a rough start

to my shift last night. I had trouble signing in so we got that sorted out. Then I had problems with the app as it was slow going. The typing wasn't smooth at all. Anne thought it was my keyboard but I can type normally in Teams on that laptop with this keyboard. I had to end my shift early trying to restart but that didn't make a difference. Tech support wants me to power up my laptop 2 hours before my shift. None of my other colleagues had trouble. Not even Telus tech support could help after my shift.

This morning I was able to complete our GEF application and tax information. I just need a contact phone number. Anne suggested a work colleague. Good idea. Anyway, that's all for now. 

While I never met

Queen Elizabeth, she was here in Edmonton the week before I arrived to open the Commonwealth games. The same week my brother got married. I got a job here and stayed after that leaving everything else behind. I was vaguely aware the Queen was even here in this city at the time. The arrival of the Queen (I seem to recall) made almost as much excitement as the games themselves. As I look back on that moment in history it was a special time in my life. Was it really 44 years ago? Wow. 

Yesterday (after fasting for 12 hours) I headed out to Northgate mall, to see if I can get my compression stockings a week early and to Dynalife. It was a beautiful sunny day. I had lots of water with me. On my way, I cashed in a Blackjack ticket at the Clareview Redimart. I won $10 playing on Wednesday. I bought 5 more tickets to play for later. As for the stockings I'm on a program that covers 50% of those stockings. When I got to where I pick-up my stockings the girl at the counter said they don't even have them in stock to give them to me. So they placed an order for me. Then upstairs to Dynalife to get that blood sample to my Doctor. They didn't have the form on file. Which was odd because they usually do hold it for a few days. I think next time I'm going to make an appointment so there is no waiting. I heard in the line up there was a 40-minute wait time. So shot down twice. I bought some breakfast at Tim's, sat in the food court playing my scratch and win tickets, having a great time anyway. I won another $15 😲 That partially covered my Tim's breakfast. After I ate, I headed to the lottery booth and bought 5 more blackjack tickets to play when I get home. So I took a long way around inside the mall instead of just heading out the back way under the parkade. Northgate mall finally have the benches installed, which made navigating out of the mall easier. On my way out I noticed something called "Game City." I never knew this story existed before. It's basically a comic book card game store. They have a lot of Magic the Gathering cards. Some of them  (under a glass counter) have a price of $50+ Wow. 

Still, on my outing from yesterday, I hobbled over to Northtown Transit and waited for the #123 Coliseum. From there the plan was to get the #104 and head home. It was such a nice day. While on the home I figured let's stop here at the Highlands Long & McQuade store. it used to be the old Safeway. I wanted to get the Arturia MiniFuse 2 audio interface since my Focusrite "died" on me about a week ago. I took $100 from my savings and $100 on my visa. I'll pay ~ 80% of my bills at the end of the month including my Arturia interface. Even Tim Waterson on staff was there my old work colleague from iMark. It was great chatting it up with him. Also, the good news in all of the above, I even ended up with over 4,000 steps. Despite not getting my compression stockings and bloodwork, I had a good day. 

As for today, I'll be watching the Stampeders at Edmonton. Can the Elks finally win at Commonwealth? That game is on at 6pm.

Work will resume on Monday. I'm looking forward to getting back so I can pay my bills. I'll be posting in here once a week. Most likely on Sundays. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I went out across the street

yesterday for my Covid booster. It takes 2 weeks for it to kick in. It didn't cost me anything so why not? 

So it looks like we're good to go for Monday. Finally, work at last. I can pay off a major bill. As long as I get 10 days in I'm good. Hopefully, we'll be busy until Christmas break. I need the Camlink 4K Pro and the 4Tb SSD and the teleprompter. I read scripts at work so I'm no stranger to this.

I was considering going to the lodge BBQ and I still might go ahead, I'm not sure yet. I haven't been to the BBQ in a few years. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, that's all for now.  

My Jimmy Jazz video on Jazz fusion

was easier to put together than I thought. I used some motion graphics from Luma Fusion Story Blocks. For what I need, I can get the same or even better from Zgame editor. Free in Fl. Studio. So I canceled Story Block's subscription. I just have Splice and Launchpad. 

The last (I hope) of our recent heat spell ended overnight Sunday. We're at 20* C at the moment. We're supposed to get to 22 as a high today. That's perfect for me. 🙏🏻

Work will finally pick up next Monday. Not only was I getting bored after not working for 6 months, but I have big bills to pay. Two cheques and I'll owe nothing 👀

I was going to go out to Dynalife today and get some bloodwork done but Anne had me babysit her Amazon order, while she was sleeping. It's a walk-in anyway. Apparently, her product is out for delivery. Good because I have my 2nd Booster shot for the pharmacy across the street tomorrow afternoon. Anyway, that's all for now.

Even though it was +34

when I headed out yesterday, it wasn't that bad in the breeze. I didn't have long to wait for the bus to Clareview station. I had lots of water and some diet cola. I had a bit of a wait at Central station. I hadn't been at Central station at that time of day since the call center in 2019 on the way home. 

So I hobbled over to Sherlock Holmes. It was busy. My party hadn't arrived yet. Gradually they filed in. We had about 7 of us including the supervisor. It was a good time. I can't say much for the food. My burger was dried out. It was nice meeting everyone there.

I left about 8pm after one of my colleagues placed a call to my place. The line was busy. So I left and hobbled back to Central. My train came and at Clareview my #104 shut down at 8:30pm. On a Saturday night? That's criminal in a city like this. I decided to walk home, and that was really hard o me. With my CVI, my legs were almost like jelly. Like I can walk ok around here and all, no problem. I almost lost my balance a couple times while walking back.

Sure I could have caught a cab home and it would have cost me about $6. I had that on me and my Visa anyway. Next time I'll take a cab. 

As I close out here, this week is going to be busy. I have a Tuesday walk-in Dynalife for blood work. Wednesday my 2nd Covid Booster across the street at 3pm, Saturday, the lodge BBQ. Not sure about the BBQ yet though. As for this week, I'm hunkering down at home taking it easy as work starts next week. Anyway, that's all for now.

I really wanted

wanted to go to lodge last night but Anne suggested against it. Mainly due to the heat. Not that there was a heat warning or anything. I didn't want to go because my CVI is causing me issues and it's hard for me to stand. Plus there was floor work going on and I would have been hard-pressed to participate. Standing for long periods of time is problematic for me these days.

My "Dancehall Jimmy" video is posted and ready to go public tomorrow. I even got a visualizer from Zgame editor (Fl. Studio) in the video. It's almost an essential item for a YouTube content creator but the next item for my "studio" will be a teleprompter. This will make me sound a bit more professional. The teleprompter is so I can write a script for my videos. My camera sits behind the teleprompter. The iPad or i0s device with appropriate software sits flat and the screen reflects the iPad screen to scroll the script (at one's own pace) I'd be talking into the teleprompter and my camera with my Rode mic on a boom arm is out of the camera shot. Here's what I mean:

Other than the above tomorrow I have the "end-of-summer" work event right behind Central Station. I'll bring water to stay hydrated. The LRT will take me there. Climbing the stairs might be an issue. Next week I have a Dynalife walking thing I need to get to. It's a fasting overnight thing. I go to the Northgate branch because with me being diabetic after fasting I'll need a bite to eat almost immediately after. I'll take the walker with me. Other than that, it's labor day weekend. No Elk's football except for Monday. other than the heat should be a nice weekend. Anyway, that's all I got for now.