That's two times

now the Elks had a 0 to the score. ELks 0 Lions 27. Was that an egregious move by Jones to get the ELks into the record books under his watch? Sure looks that way.

The good news the Elks go into a bye week. Hopefully, rational heads can prevail and end this madness. Bring up the assistant coach, and put Jones on the sidelines for the remainder of the season. 

The other day I received something new in my bank account: The Canada Workers Benefit (cwb). This is something that comes out 3 times a year. The next one will be in October. The benefit paid for 3 of my meds yesterday.

The beat I posted on my channel yesterday has so far 4 comments 6 Likes, and 20 views. I hope it gets more of all categories above. Here's a link to the video if you want to listen. I'm even on the mic this time 😃 Anyway, that's all for now.

Next month we're going to apply

again to GEF housing as we have our cat licenses and Anne and I are now both on full pension. If we can get the process started again and pick out 3 places like they suggested, that will shave time off their 2-year waiting list. We should have done this when I turned 65. Anyway, that's all for now.

We've been taking

our female cat Skippy to the vet down the block once a month for her shot. Skippy had an eye removed so the vet there said this is what she needs.

As of this writing, I got 3 new subscribers on my YouTube channel. now situated at 192. How long I can keep that number going is hard to say. As in life people come, people go. Will I get to 200 Subscribers before the end of the year? IDK?

I'm working on a video for my channel for Saturday. Plus there's CFL football BC Lions/Elks. Will this break the streak or will the Elks have a new record: The most home loss streak in Professional sports of any league. This could be history in the making. Anyway, that's all for now.

We just had a

nice thunder lightning storm that rolled through here about an hour ago. The last bits of it are hanging around. I love a good thunderstorm but it doesn't do any good for the wildfires causing smoke in the area.  

Not a lot going on around here. A work colleague and I over-chat were discussing the Ottawa Rd Blacks/BC Lions CFL game earlier. I knew my friend is a baseball fan. I'm not per se but I asked him if he ever saw a Reiver hawk's game? It's our local Pacific West Coast baseball team. They have such a short season. I'd like to go before the season closes but he hasn't been very well lately but he's into going with me. 

Believe it or not, I have nothing going on this week. No appointments, no getting up early. Nothing. My calendar is empty. Anyway, that's all for now.

Going into the

halftime break last night the Elks and Bombers were tied at 6. After that, it was all Winnipeg. The home team had ball possession for most of the game. Four times we got to the red zone and we failed and got nothing. Finale score was 14-29 Winnipeg. Cornelius threw some pretty good passes. 1 resulted in a major. Next up Saturday, July 29th hosting the BC Lions. Our record is now 7-0. 

Wyndham Crossing has another make-work project: installing siding on the outside. There are 3 self-propelled crane lifters on this property. We got one behind us installing siding on our section facing Capital Place. They began work about 9am Thursday morning. The crane lifter is connected to a compress(I think) and when that came on it vibrated our bed. Hopefully, they will have this done within the next week or so.

Today is day 1 of Klondike days (k-days). Our local Midway. Also in tandem with K-days is The Taste of Edmonton. Both events are running until July 30th. Taste of Edmonton is being held in Churchill Square, right downtown. Anyway, that's all for now.

So far my out of pocket

off the rack compression stockings are holding up. These compression stockings (as far as I know) come in 2 flavors: Cotton and Nylon. I think the cotton ones are better because they are all made with one kind of material. The nylon ones have cottoned on the heel. It's been my experience that the cotton on-the-heel stockings stretch the heel cotton somehow and holes appear in the fabric. Thus losing compression. The cotton stockings are all made from one material. Plus the cotton stockings 'breath" easier.  I don't mind if at $25 a pair of nylon stockings after a month I get holes in them. Anne can patch these to last until my next pair. I'm a low-income senior so $100 is a bitter pill to swallow. Especially when the vendor lied to me. Every day when I put these stockings on is a day I cross my fingers and hope there are no holes in them. I check before putting them on at the heel to see if a hole appeared when Anne takes them off.

Apparently, at the moment we're getting heavy rain. Well somewhere in the area. Just not here. We had a lot of rain over night, which was nice

to help get rid of the smoke we've had over this last weekend. Right now the Air Quality Index is @ 4 which means it's a moderate health risk.

Not much is happening right now. I'm trying to get my Sony ZV-e10 camera calibrated to work in OBS. I've got a lot of noise issues and my screen recording using Camlink is coming out brownish. I have one key light and that could be the cause. ISO/aperture settings could also be an issue, idk. Anyway, that's all for now.

I have absolutely nothing going on

this week at all. Except for the Elks@Winnipeg CFL football game Thursday my calendar is clear. Wow. 

My sister-in-law and my wife's niece are out on a 10-day European cruise. They were in Venice yesterday as Anne got a Face time call from her sister. Europe is having a massive heat dome but Donna was saying it's bearable. Meanwhile, we're dealing with smokey conditions like we had earlier this summer. We had a bit of rain early this morning, and now the Air Quality Index is a 7 from 11 previously. I think today Donna is in Greece. 

So far the $100 pair of stockings I bought 4 weeks ago this Tuesday are holding up. No holes in each stocking so far.  If I can have these last for 4 weeks, Anne can patch them up to last until I can get a pair at $25. Maybe. I might have a post midweek, not sure. You can always reach me via Facebook. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Anne left out of here

almost immediately after her shift was over. She took the walker. Destination: Out for pizza. She took a chance because some local buses and at 8pm on a Saturday. She got the pizza because the purchase showed up online in my bank account. She's on her way home. Hopefully, she's not stranded out there. If she does, she can always take a cab home. 

At the moment the AQI is 11 very high. This really puts a damper on local festivals. However, the Animethon held this weekend is inside the Edmonton Convention Centre. Other than Covid, Animethon has an attendance of about 10,000 fans over the 3-day event. It's more than just Anime. It's sci-fi, etc. This event isn't like the Edmonton Expo held in September. Anyway, that's all for now.

The losses keep mounting

for our Edmonton Elks CFL football club. Last night at Commonwealth was no exception as we entertained the Hamilton Tiger cats. We got off to a good start with a turnover on a kickoff for 3 points. Both teams traded the usual 2/outs in the first half and the visitors managed to get 4 points on the board. 4-3 Hamilton at the end of the half. Keep in mind the Elks have lost 19 straight home games closing in on Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Browns record for 20 straight Home game losses in 1953 before becoming the Baltimore Orioles the next season. A loss last night and we'd tie that record. In the 2nd half, things went from bad to worse until we had a quarterback change. Out with Cornelious in with Doego. I'm not sure what Doego's completion rate was but the receivers were catching just about everything Doego threw at them. In the end, Hamilton won 37-29. We tied the Orioles. Next week, if we don't start with Doego, we're going to beat Oriole's record.

We're back with the smoke. More out-of-control forest fires in the region. It's not like New Westminster's fog but it is noticeable and just out on the balcony for a minute and I found it difficult to breathe. our Air Quality Index (AQI) reads moderate to severe. apparently, we have today and tomorrow of this and it should clear up Sunday? IDK.

These compression stockings are holding up. For $100, they better. The most vulnerable part of these stockings is in the heal because the heal is made out of cloth. 90% of these are made out of nylon. Cotton socks "breath" better and I even had a pair of them on before the vendor said I exceeded my year allotment. I have to hope these last at least in the middle of August when Anne can patch them to last until September 20th. Anyway, that's all for now.

Yesterday Anne and I headed out

to the West end memory express store to see if we could get diagnostic work done on my computer and what is causing the computer to go blue screen. Sunday night we had the computer tower packed up and ready to go and it occurred to me what if the blue screen is specific to the disk and not the Bios? I could get into the Bios so that right there should have told me that I didn't want to put the backup m.2 disk in where the current disk is in case the issue was the Bios and infected my backup disk. We didn't know this at the time. I brought the backup disk with me, just in case. Sure enough at the shop, after the current disk was removed I asked to put the backup disk in and start the computer. Sure enough, it came on. No blue screen. We saved hundreds of $ doing diagnostic work. I asked the guy if the store had any 2Tb Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives. Yes. Price is $200. I bought one. 

So this was the culprit all along: 

The guy in the back said it was these exposed contact points (blue arrow) causing the issue. The tech guy had put the disk in the store's scanner and the scanner began to smoke. 

Anyway, we paid for our purchase and went over to the iHop on 170th not far away, and had a nice brunch and home. 

We ended up having a great day for a Monday. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm in bed by

4:30 this morning, as I'm doing some prep work on this week's video. 

Tonight it's the Elks at Mosiac Stadium in Regina. We beat the Riders in Mosiac last time, we can do it again tonight. 

This weekend is the International Street performers festival. The event will be at Sir Winston Churchill Square downtown. I might go Saturday afternoon for a bit before Anne starts her shift. The festival is from July 7th-16th Should be fun. Anyway, that's all for now.

Tech support is

busy at the moment remotely working on my laptop. I need the laptop screen open on the space where I usually have my mic set up so I can't set up my mic for an Fl. Studio screen recording. The laptop is normally stored away when not working. Takes up a lot of space on my desk. The laptop work should be done by 3pm. 

The console gaming community is buzzing about a Nintendo Switch 2. First of all, knowing the company's history, when they bring out new hardware consoles, they almost never repeat the console naming convention. It's usually something like Nintendo DS as in DS XL, that sort of thing. It's going to be a brand-new system. There's no development kit because nobody has an official Nintendo nondisclosure agreement. And to the best of my knowledge (not that I'm an insider) but there are no NDA's out there. Up to now, it's all BS speculation. 

Until the above laptop work is accomplished, I'm not motivated to do much of anything right now. I'm just chilling my beans taking it easy. The work should be done by 3pm. Anyway, that's all for now.

Not a lot going on

this week. Tomorrow, tech support is doing some maintenance on my work laptop. I won't need to be present for that. 

I'm looking at buying a pre-owned iPhone, plus a $25/month plan under my current Apple id. This has unlimited texting. I'm looking at the iPhone SE. It means shelling out ~ $350 if I decide to go for this and, depends on the capacity and how old the phone is.

Thursday is the Elks/Mosiac facing the Riders CFL game. Elks won at Mosiac last year. Will history repeat itself? I hope so.

I'm slowly feeling better. I still have some congestion. This congestion gets worse the more I talk. Anyway, that's all for now. 

My hearing is mor or less

back to normal but I still have throat congestion. I'm feeling much better and my voice is slowly returning

I'm still keeping my steps, watching football. Taking it easy. Anyway, that's all for now.