We had a cooler and overcast

day yesterday. I didn't get a lot accomplished. I  had 7 hours of sleep and woke up about noon. I ended up with over 4500 steps. Anne ordered us Royal pizza. It was a good day. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I went back to London drugs

at Northgate yesterday to retrieve my camera tripod & mic. Tuesday when I was there, the lady at the kiosk said I need to have my external mic off the camera cage and the the tripod off the camera to do the screen lamination. While she did that I got distracted plus I was half awake from lack of sleep I got the screen laminated but I inadvertanly left my tripod and mic behind. Fortunatly I called and she said she would store them for me. That's what I went back for yesterday. 

After I got the camera items above I hobbled over to Wendys for a baconator burger to take home. That was about 4pm catching the school crowd on the way home. 

Good news is I got an email from the job saying that we're going to be starting back again October 4th 😃 It's a 4-8pm familar project. It's a short project but at least I've got a bitof hours. Plus I have days off before it begins. Anyway that's all for now.

Yesterday I got the energy

 to overwrite my 2Tb nvme ssd and install and change the drive letter in Bios. C now has 1.81 Tb of free space remaining. The 500Gb I bought in 2020 for 3 years. As long as I'm stingy about what to download, this should last me a long time

I'm up at 7am tomorrow morning to go to Healthcare Solutions leaving here at ~ 8:00 to get my compression stockings. After that, I might get some breakfast at McDonald's and head over to London Drugs across the street to get that screen protector for my Sony camera. It's only $10.

The Oilers and the NHL are in training camp mode. I'm not really interested in the NHL this year. I might wait until they make the playoffs. If that happens. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Friday night at Commonwealth

 the Elks were off to a slow start. I slept through the first Quarter and the score read 21 BC Lions, 7 Elks. We picked it up in the 2nd quarter and at one point it was a BC 3-point game. The final score was 29-37 BC. Good game though.

Saturday morning I went to our bi-weekly men's breakfast group a short walk away. I was up at 6am though for it.

It took me a while but I was able to get a track out to my channel. You can watch it here. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Anne and I never made

it out to our outing yesterday because Super had my work laptop he wanted to deliver to me. It's one of the newer ones and has a touch screen. Not that this means anything to me. Anne & I will be going out today

Since my job money doesn't affect my monthly spending I'm just going to save everything. I usually get about 180 hours, which is more than enough. Plus add my tax return might have a nice amount saved away in a few years.

Other than the above not a lot going on this week. I think Friday I'd like to go pick up my compression stockings and get my breakfast at Tim's in the Northgate food court to take with me to BoBs for Saturday morning. On my way out of Northgate, I can get some ice cream. Sounds like a plan. Also while at Northgate I can go to London Drugs Photography Department and get the screen laminated on my Sony ZV-e10 camera's flip-out screen. Anyway, that's all for now.

I never made it to

Highlands Tuesday or even Commercial today. Not that I was expected. Now that it doesn't seem like there won't be any work until November (guessing) I have more time on my hands than usual.

Yesterday's Elk/s/Riders contest at Mosiac was a special victory for the Visiting team. Elks won 36-29. Elks had been playing catch-up all night. When the Riders scored a major, we did when it was our ball. The difference was the safety we got for 2 points and it was all Edmonton from there. 

My recent video is posted on YouTube and you can watch it here if you like. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm not sure about

Highlands Hall today as my lodge has a Zoom meeting at 7pm tonight. So that means I can clear my calendar for Saturday at Freemason Hall. Commercial lodge tiles at 1 p.m. I know the SW there anyway. I'm sure my jacket will be left where it is. 

Yesterday this time last year my job began an ongoing project out of Fort Saskatchewan. It's been over a week now and still nothing about the laptop. I think the issue is just a battery replacement and from what I've seen online, they look easy enough to replace and install. I could do it myself. Looks pretty simple.

We've been getting some really nice mid-September weather here lately. It's going to be very comfortable heading out at noon Saturday to Commercial. Anyway, that's all for now.

Saturday the Elks

were able to secure a narrow victory at  Commonwealth 25-23 in an exciting come-from-behind game over Calgary, Stampeders. Tre Ford did his usual magic. Coming up next is Elks @ Saskatchewan.

Friday I got my video up on my channel for Saturday. So far 3 likes and 2 comments. Every one of them is like gold. You can watch the video here.

On Tuesday I'm off to Highlands Hall Highland's Unity Lodge and hang out with the brethren there to rescue my jacket I accidentally left behind Thursday. Elks and Riders are at it in Regina on Friday. Anyway, that's all for now.  

So far no word

on the laptop that Super picked up Tuesday. Basically, all it needs is a new battery. Unless they are waiting for the delivery of said item. I have a feeling we're going to start next week.

I'm almost ready for lodge tonight. I suspect lots of visitors. I'm looking forward too. I have the music set up on my iPad. Not sure if anyone will offer me a ride home but that's OK there's a bus to Coliseum station to Clareview and I can walk home from there. We'll see what happens. I plan on leaving out of here in about an hour. 

I had always thought that Blue Tooth (bt) and Wireless terms were interchangeable. Apparently not. Wireless means the devices are routed through Wi-Fi through a router much like my work laptop. Blue tooth has smaller range and is specific to individual devices, like iPads, cell phones that kind of thing. Anyway, that's all for now.

Labour day weekend is done

kids are back in school. IMO summer is over once Sunsets before 8pm. 

Today I'm watching Leela's Art & Chill YouTube show at 2pm. I'm waiting for tech support to figure out what to do with my laptop. Plus I'm getting some paperwork out for senior housing for Anne and I have lodge on Thursday plus I'm working on another video for this weekend.

Other than that and the Calgary/Elks game on Saturday, not much else is going on. Anyway, that's all for now.

Smoky days are here

again here in Edmonton and haze tomorrow and possibly Sunday. Great way to start September. The Sun is shining above the clouds somewhere although a bit diffused.

I was using my iPod Touch 6th gen (2015) when I first began tracking my steps in August 2019 to keep this CVI at bay. It worked well until last August 2022, when Anne was inspired by her sister's use of a Fitbit Versa smartwatch to keep track of Donna's steps. Anne bought me a Versa 3 to keep track of my steps when my iPod died. My Versa 3 is very dependable at tracking steps. I decided a few months back to let's see how good it does at tracking my sleep. I was wearing my Versa on my wrist to bed every night. Still do. Versa was doing a decent job for a while. I began tracking this in my daily journal. Then Versa's tracking sleep was hit and miss. Just this week this is what I got from Versa:

Versa is hit-and-miss with data like this and I doubt Apple is much better. And Fitbit encourages me to get a subscription? For a service like that? No way. I can't speak for Apple devices but if you own an iPhone chances are Apple still has an in-house health app. They did this for the iPod Touch. As for Versa 3, I can't recommend I give it a ***/***** Stay away.

It's the Labour Day weekend. Wuwho!. The Elks play on Monday in Calgary. Can we make it a trifecta and tie the Stamps' win-loss record?🤔 We have the rubber match on the following Friday here in Edmonton if we don't. Anyway, that's all for now.