At the moment I'm setting up a

work from home job (wfh). They just need to test my internet speeds. I'm getting 20 download milo-bits per second. Its not bytes its bits and 5 mbps upload speeds. I hope its enough to do the job.

If I would have known about this work from home job last year when Malatest cut my hours I would have done wfh when projects slowed down and balanced out the two. It would have saved me all kinds of grief last year and this year. I always for some reason, equated wfh jobs to be like where my wife works, based on 1-2% commission. This still might be like that but I'd be calling a tap source and I still don't know if its a guaranteed wage. My contact said it's minimum wage and performance bonus. I'm sure that's how it goes or if I meet my line hour then its wage etc. I'm sure that's the format. If its a straight minimum wage if I meet my line hour, I'd still do ok. I'll know more about this Tuesday.

Earlier I learn that ETS this weekend is shutting down the lrt (again). The city is getting ready for the Metro line handover from Thales Monday. Then its 4-6 weeks of training for the  operators. I'm thinking the Metro line could be up and running by the May long weekend. In theory.

Just as I was checking out a YouTube video about 10:40pm my computer went dead. Wtf? Other lights dimmed out. We were running on 50% power. Anne buzzes to get in and explained what happened: All power South (our side) of 137th went dark, and within the last 3 hours we got dumped with about 2 inches of snow! Our usual Spring snow storm. 
So lets recap: Lrt shut down this weekend, power outage, water shut off for today. Situation normal.

Still no word about my ei claim but its only been 3 weeks  now, My roe says a shortage of work, then vilified me in my notice of termination. The only thing that might save my ei claim is the shortage of work and the my roe start date claims April 2011 when I started and the fact that I haven't been on ei since the year 2000. I was at Xentel 2011 and I mentioned this to ei. If I get this work from home job, I might just abandon ei and keep the home job until pension kicks in and do both. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Apparently this was supposed to be a

4-6 hour back up to iCloud. When we got to the Apple store the guy took a look at our device and said something like" "Ok lets see how long the back up will take," Five hours? Anne was all pissed off. I thought the back up was going on Monday night. She said something about how we'll do the back up at home and they'll save our replacement iPad until Saturday. So Anne walked out on me. I lost her in the crowd so I figured I'd go to the office and check the screen to see on the screen if the new project is ready and of course use the bathroom. The supervisor said, "Good thing you showed up, here's your T4 we were going to put in the mail." That and the new project will apparently begin next week.

I caught the train home and there was Anne on the couch wondering where I went. She said what had happened with the back up was sometime last night, she took the device in her purse across the street (naturally it broke the internet connection. So she did the back up last night according to the tech's instructions. That whole thing was on her not on me or on tech support.

We also got our invoice for the iCloud upgrade on the iPad. It's $1 for 20Gb. That's a decent deal. I'm going to get another 20Gb on my iPod as well. Today I have a 4 hour shift in and out. Anyway, that's all for now.

We have 2 sources that will aid us in getting the

appliances out of our apartment and by Tuesday night at the latest. 

The bars were open at 5:30am yesterday morning all over the city. I was in bed sleeping. We owned that game and Sweden never stood a chance. We got the gold medal again. The 2nd time since 1952 (when I was born) we defended the gold back to back in men's ice hockey. My wife was up until 8:30am watching hockey! If I'm alive in 2018, I'm going to get into the winter Olympics a lot more. We came in 3rd place in the medal count and I think we tied the medal count in 2010. When it was all said and done the Sochi 2014 price tag was $51 billion!

I'm surprised local media or even for that matter the Edmonton Collectors Con wasn't mentioned in "Connect 2 Edmonton" forum or on local news media. With the Olympics and a lot of other things going on in the city it got buried.

The Clareview rec centre looks like it's going to open in April. I hope we're still living here but when it opens up, I'm going to go. It'd be even better if they have a Saturday night adult swim. We used to go to the pool a few blocks away from Rexall when Anne had the car back in 2002. 

The idea was to try and complete "Horus Rising" this weekend. I have about 50 pages to go. 

I'm in for my 5-9 shift tonight. It's a quick and easy in and out. If I don't hear from my 2nd job (I know I said this before) by Wednesday, Thursday at noon I'm at AW before I leave for work. Anyway, that's all for now.

This is unbelievavle with 3

first round #1 draft picks within 5 years the Edmonton Oiler's are currently 4-14-2. If that's not enough, their last 5 games on home ice at Rexall place have been losses and they have been shut out in their last 3 games out of those 5 earning a franchise record. Sure they met a hot goal tender but DD kept Dallas within 1 goal for 99% of the game. Our goal tending was for the most part ok. The 3-0 score was due to 2 open net goals. The Oiler's were booed off the ice, again. I see a coaching change coming. 

I went into work no problem and I got a Visa gift card at the Baker Centre pharmacy for someone for providing me with a service. I couldn't get the gift card converted into euro's and I checked before hand on the Canada Post website that I could at 2.8% exchange rate I even said to the counter girl that it's part of the gift card service but the woman behind the counter had no clue as to what she was doing and I said pretty much let her know that as I left.

Other then that work went well so my night was not a total loss. The train was packed with Oiler jersey's up to Rexall. I had to walk home from Clareview because there were no buses there, and at 7:40pm I'd miss my wife's call but it was +3. Not to bad night to walk home. It was almost a Spring-like today. This weekend we're supposed to get a lot colder weather but it's not staying. I got home shortly before game time. What a waste of time that was. Next game is San Jose` at the Rex.

In case you missed it the big Nasa scary moment "announcement" had come and gone. Just about every conspiracy theory in the book was out there regarding what this big moment could be. I even heard that Nasa found copies of the "Ten commandments" on Mars! Yeesh. Then there were the asteroid colliding with earth speculations, and the massive solar flares heading towards the earth. Oh and then there was how Nasa had discovered a wormhole and a city on the moon. The other one was that a massive fissure underneath the earth was opening up letting out gasses that would wipe out all life on earth, and on and on it went. Finally it was over. The most surprising thing about all of this was Coast 2 Coast, never said anything about it. Usually this sort of thing would be right up their alley. In other words folks it was a ll a hoax (like what else is new?)

I think tomorrow night after work, I'm going to head out to Freemason Hall as there is a lodge happening. I'm not going to get dressed for it or attend or anything. Which means the bar is open. I just might stop in for a beer and see the bartender have a beer and head home. Anyway, that's about all for now.

It’s been a great weekend

I watched some football, Smackdown and Raw did some computer research and read some Space Wolf, good stuff. I go back this morning but its only 4 hours.

This was featured on last night’s National news about a burger grown out of cow stem cells. It was a 5 ounce meat patty which cost $300,000. It took years to make. Even animal rights activists were saying they had no problem with this. Now if we can mass produce these and bring the cost of a burger down to $5 I’d try one.

About 3 years ago when I was with Shaw cable using Outlook as my email client before Gmail, I was in contact with School District 43. I was just about closing in on getting my transcripts/student records for my time there 1960-1971. I’m trying to find out what schools I went to the years attended, my teachers, my marks and maybe some school yearbook photos as well. I had a email contact and it was a shot in the dark to pick up where I left off but the email bounced on me. I’ve got the phone number. I doubt any school staff are there during August but you never know. I can call Wednesday after Anne leaves for work as BC is an hour behind us.

From my Coast newsletter Monday morning: At the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home on today's date in 1962. While her death was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning," subsequent investigations/theories have suggested she may have been murdered.

After work today I’m off over to Audrey’s to pick up the last remaining Horus Heresy Warhammer 40K book from my last special order and then home.

The only thing I got to do this week is to go to my RBC get a DBD form and up to Canada Place service Centre. Other then that working 9am-1pm the rest of the week. It’s kind of like having time off during whats left of the Summer. Anyway that’s about all today.

My wife

Anne put the left over shepherds pie on a plate for me. It was good. I’ll be in bed in about half an hour checking out a bit of Coast.

My younger brother is getting married (again) in September. Good for him. It’s his 2nd time around but as for me, once is enough. I’m happy with my wife and all but if) lord forbid something happens to her and I find myself alone, I’m going to stay that way.

Yesterday at City Hall the big downtown arena vote never happened. City council decided they need another 2 weeks to see if they can find the missing $55M. My city has been down this road before. Back in 1970 the city of Edmonton had this idea to build what was called a Omniplex. It was a combination regulation CFL indoor stadium NHL arena and conference centre all in one at a cost of $30M! public money. It was a great idea but it was put to a vote November 25th 1970 by the people of Edmonton. 54% said no because at the end of the day after 25 years the entire project would have cost $97M. The Omniplex would have been situated where the old Edmonton Remand centre is now. I got a feeling the cit of Edmonton is going to go this way again. We'll know in about 2 weeks.

Tonight on Coast “UFOs, ETs and Abductions,” what with all of these abductions taking place, this topic on Coast could not have come at a worse time.

I didn’t win last night’s $12M lotto 6/49 but a guy in Okotoks won $15M from his girlfriends suggestion. She probably said as they pulled up for gas “Oh honey, don’t forget to buy a 6/49 ticket. Prior to that he probably never played in his life. I hate guys like that, not really but you just want to. Of course if I did win, I would never announce it except to immediate family. 

I’d like to attend Lodge tonight but I’m not known at this Lodge, so I think I’ll wait until Tuesday night and as they know me there. We’ll see. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

The game just over

Vancouver 2 Oiler’s 7! At least they went out on a high note with Yakapov scoring a hat trick for his 17th. And that was half a season! The Oiler’s finish with 45 points putting them at 11th. What did them in this short season was goal tending and losing those 6 games earlier this month. They needed 56 points would have got them in, or 11 Points. The Oiler's finished 12th with 45 points. If they get a better goaltender in the off season and make some minor changes with a full season, they will make the playoffs next year. The playoffs will begin next week. I’m looking forward to them. The first round in the West will be: Chicago/Wild, Ducks/Wings, Vancouver/SJ, LA/St.Louis. In the East: Pittsburgh/Sens, Habs/NYI, Washington/NYR, Boston/Toronto.

On the job front we now got the option of doing our own scheduling from any computer at any time. I tried doing this from my computer on my station Friday but for some reason it wouldn't work. My time schedule has to be in by Tuesday.
Speaking about my job, I've been kind of worried whether or not I'm going to have any work once this current study is done in 3 weeks (which is why I'm reluctant to buy those studio monitors) My boss said that more then likely we'll have something after this but it's going to be a combination of days/evenings. Since we don't do any cold calling, I'm ok with that. Also, it will gice me a chance to sleep in if we do a 5-9 thing. It wont get me much money but there is my CPP, which I haven't applied for yet but that takes 4 months to process.    

I'm generally feeling good about the Oiler's this past season and the way they played. Other then that 9 game road trip in February and losing those 6 games earlier this month, for a shorten season, they did ok. They escaped the cellar for the first time in years and ended on a high note for the fans.I'm looking forward to the 2013-14 NHL season. In the meantime bring on the playoffs, lets go Canucks.

We need another 400 points so each of us can see another free first run movie. Next month Star Trek "Into Darkness"comes out and I'm looking forward to this. I'd like to go to West Edmonton Mall on my own pick up the latest White Dwarf magazine

This week not much is going on other then Lodge night on Thursday. That in itself is going to be an easy night. Then Friday and it's the weekend,again. . 

I'll need a day off sometime this month soI can

apply for my CPP and get that stuff with my library card etc. If I were to lose my job at the end of the month, I'd be ok for 3 months and that's what I'll be doing after work Tuesday.

This from Coast: On this day in 648 BC, the first known record of a total solar eclipse was made by the Greeks.  Hostess Twinkies were created on this date in 1930. Is it true that this classic snack has a shelf life of years or even decades? Check out S nopes.com for the answer.

While watching the Oiler's lose in LA I was installing my Komplete 8 again. It was a long install but wasn't that bad as the first one. Through that effort I got one of my K8 instruments (Battery 3) to integrate with Maschine but I was getting frustrated again because nothing else loaded into Maschine except Battery. then while searching in my C drive, there was this folder called "VST plugins." Back to Maschine, Preferences and plugins,rescan and the K8 plugins began to show up! Finally. I've got everything loaded into Maschine despite the Oiler's losing. 

It's snowing again! Unbelievable. With the 2nd week of April approaching and it's winter all over again. Usually most of the snow is gone by this time of year 

Not much happening this weekend, which is ok. I've got some heavy duty lodge memory work coming up for the 18th. Also, I'm trying to reinstall Komplete as I'll be doing that tomorrow night. Anyway, that's about all for today.

The best part about

wrestling last night was the Rock/Cena panel near the end that had Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes,Booker T and Mick Foley.

With this being the 130th year of the typewriter, not much has changed in the standard qwerty style keyboard. Especially when one is trying to text message on a cell phone. Along comes something new called Minuum. Minuum condenses all the keys on a traditional keyboard down to one line at the bottom of a touchscreen device, leaving acres of precious space left to view apps. This is pretty cool:

What's on my plate today? I'm getting a 6/49 ticket this morning as it's a $20M draw Wednesday night. I'm in the office from 9-5 for another long day. After that it's home I'm working on some Lodge and some music stuff. Anne's doing laundry all night, Anyway, that's about all for now.

It's a near white out

weather system we got coming in right now. I haven't seen it snow with such intensity since last October. 

I didn't sleep well after 5am so I lost 2 hours of sleep. Today isn't going to be that good of a day but we'll see.

In io9 this morning they've got this cool article: When the nerds go to war with the geeks, who will survive?  i09 sets the stage up like this: Well, first we’re going to have to agree on what “nerds” and “geeks” actually are. I personally believe nerds are people who are obsessed with anything, be it math, science, Star Wars or He-Man, while geeks are those who have no basic social skills in a benign but massively uncomfortable way. I love the definition of a Geek. Not that I agree with it but it's an interesting article. Check the link to read more.

Monday my wife went out with her sister to see the Princess Dianne dress collection. They were not allowed to take pictures inside for obvious reasons. 

Sloppy defense work about 5 minutes into the 3rd period, SJ scored making it 3-2. They got another marker shortly after that. The Oil couldn't get it done in OT and SJ won in the shootout. Anyway, that's all for now.

The weather wasn't as

bad as I thought yesterday morning. The only parts that were slippery was heading up the stairs at Corona station and South along 107th there heading towards the Matrix hotel. Coming back wasn't that bad and the intersection was hardly worth wearing cleats over. So in the morning, I should be OK. 

Planet X & Prophecy Mon 03-18  Author and publisher Marshall Masters specializes in Planet X and ancient civilizations. He'll discuss Edgar Cayce's visions of a pole shift, as well as evidence for an object on the other side of the sun, which could be Planet X, and how it ties in with Hopi prophecy. I love shows like this. I wish though they were on a Friday/Saturday night! 

Not much on my plate over the next couple of days. I’m considering a VST from Twisted tunes called S-layer. It’s pretty decent. It means getting a gift card and purchasing it as a download into my laptop. Should be a lot of fun and something I can use with my Machine. 

So after I get about 6 hours of sleep,I'm up and out of here over to the Baker Center. I also want to try Subway's breakfast sausage sandwich in the morning, so I might leave out of here a bit early Anyway, that’s about all for now.

A couple of things going on

this month. First off it's the Edmonton public library's main branch Centennial year, nice. Too celebrate the City of Edmonton is handing out free library cards to any city resident. It's a good deal. I haven't used the library in years but it's free right. why not?  

Yesterday I found out my job isn't permanent. It's on a project by project bases. I have these hours for at least the middle of June. After that I don't know. If near that time, I have no conformation of anything, say like a week or 2 off, I can live with that. If however things are shut down for a couple of months, then I have a few other options. If all we have is evening work, I can live with that. I'd rather work part time where I am now then full time out out on 124th street with the gang. Maybe I'd do it next year when the Nait line opens up. In that case it'd be a train to Churchill and connect to the Nait line out to Kingsway board the #12 out to the job site. That might be easier, but we'll see. I don't want to give up on my present job for just a few dollars more an hour.

This caught my attention from i09 earlier: Should we put criminals under surveillance instead of in prison? The thing is putting criminals under surveillance wont prevent crimes. And how are we going to apprehend these criminals once they figure out that resources are so stretched it's going to be very hard to catch them? Read more here:

The other thing I want to do one of these Saturday's this month is head out to the Telus World of Science for the Star War's "Identities" show before it leaves by the end of the month so maybe next Saturday night. I really want to see this before it leaves. I can get a bite to eat at Westmount and take the #5 to Corona station from Westmount and the train home before Anne calls.

The other thing is our local landmark, the High level bridge, has a built in attraction called the "High level bridge waterfall."  It's normally an event for the summer, usually around Summer long weekends. There are lights that shine from behind the waterfall hooked up from just under the bridge. It's nice at night but the event has been shut down over the past couple of years. Forces at City Hall want to bring it back but with Redford's cutbacks and all that affect the City, it's hard to come up with the funds to justify opening it again. What's odd about this project is the water wasn't pumped from the river below and recycled. It was treated water. Now City councilors want to use the water from the river. They should have done that years ago.  

On Coast this morning the topic is about how scientists have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. Cool. Looking forward to listening in on this for a bit. Anyway, that's about all for now.
 

Well a Yesterday on the job

had it’s moments but I did about 8 completions. Usually by about 4pm most business owners have left for the day meaning for the most part my day is spent leaving messages. That part makes for a slow afternoon.

The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space.  Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through the atmosphere that was picked up by the Goce satellite. On Coast last night they said that magnitude of the earthquake was so powerful it even set the planet off it’s axis by a few degrees.

With all of the Catholic Cardinals in the Vatican getting ready to elect a new Pope, many of the faithful believe the Papacy should begin dialogue on women as Priests and or admitting women as Cardinals. Make’s sense. At least to begin a dialogue.  

Slight change of plans for Anne’s birthday. Instead of going out Saturday night, she’s going to feel to wiped out to go out with me and her sister Sunday. So, I’m going to Lodge Saturday and home Saturday night. Makes sense.

Now this is interesting: Drugs that could combat aging and help people to live to 150-years-old may be available within five years, following landmark research. The rest of the article is here.

No change of plans for me this week. Nothing could go off the rails. So it’s pretty well, business as usual. Anyway, that’s all for now.

Last night I was kind of watching this

program called "Fact or faked paranormal files" on Space. It wasn't bad. Once an investigation is underway, the team will talk to witnesses, carry out experiments using the latest in high tech detection devices, collect physical samples, and determine whether a case should be debunked, or whether it's a baffling paranormal mystery that might even put the team in danger. It's all in a day's work for the dogged investigators of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. It's a decent show I have marked for Tuesday nights.

Tonight I have absolutely nothing planned but I'm considering sneaking out of here for Lodge. If I can get out of there by 9:45pm I might be able to get home before Anne. If I miss her call at 8pm I can always site I was having a nap or something like that. We'll see

 On Coast tonight the topic is about ETs & Human Heritage, with Jim Marrs. I'm up at 7:30 this morning so I can listen in for a bit. Another reason why I want to subscribe to "Coast to Coast insider." 

I'm still working through my Space Wolf Warhammer 40K book. It's a slow read but intriguing enough to maintain interest. It's actually pretty good and I see another Omnibus in this series coming out. Anyway,that's about all for now.

Lots going on this week.

Monday night Raw, Tuesday Oiler game, Wednesday Lodge, Thursday valentines day, Friday the beginning of a long weekend.

I’ve been having a bit of a problem with my right heal. It seems to dry up with crackling skin. We think it’s diabetes so I’m putting some Vaseline on it and covering it up with a sock. Hopefully that will help out.

My favorite board game Advance Squad leader seems to have a active presence on YouTube. Multi Man Publications most recent ASL offering has been one of their Historical modules called “Festung Budapest.” There is an un-boxing of this game and it’s a huge game. The only thing I don’t like about it is that MMP went and changed the SS counters from their traditional white on black to like every other counter in the German OOB. I don’t know why they did this and some of the comments about the SS counters not being their traditional colors put some players off. Even 3rd party ASL treatments keep their SS counters in their traditional color. The other thing about the game it’s like a $130 price tag. I’m thinking about buying this because it might have a limited print one.

Finally the Oiler’s won on the road. They are still in 9th place but I think this is where they will be all season. Roughly between 10 and 9th. Dubnyk was in net and he stole the show. Hall was called for goal tender interface and with his speed propelled him up onto the net and over. Made me laugh. 

I’ve got a full day ahead today as I’m up at 7am and out the door at 8am. I should be home about 5:45pm. Next week I’ll be able to pencil in my own hours. 34 hours is full time. I’m used to 37.5 at my last job but that was including Saturdays. I’m glad I don’t have to do them anymore. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

It's all quiet

as there's not a lot going on at the moment. 

The other day I cashed in on my big $5 win and got a bingo scratch n' win for $3. Anne played it and won another ticket. She cashed her's in for yet another Bingo scratch n' win and won on that for another $3 for $6. She was1 square away or something from winning $50,000! That would probably give give me what my last job paid me, for over about 3 years. Yeah, I'd take 3 years off with pay.         

I read in today's i09 that the DNA match of Richard the 3rd might not be an open and shut case. The article firstly goes on to say that the story has yet to have been peer reviewed and that the DNA found might have (with over 500 years of history) been contaminated. Some are suggesting that the location matches the historical evidence of where Richard was buried. The cause of death was consistent with how Richard died etc. You can read more about this update here. 

I'm considering Lodge tomorrow night and of course my own Lodge Thursday night. I have yet to visit the Wednesday night Lodge before ours before but 2 Lodge's in the same week might be a bit much, I don't yet

Ok this is not earth shattering or anything but on Saturday I'm about to make an announcement. This announcement has nothing to do with my blog or anything like that. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Christmas, I love it

Anne loves her new iPod touch. It's the 4th Gen but I thought it was the white one but it's the black one. Still she's got face time iM and wifi and I'm working at getting her an Apple ID so she can get some free games and iM photos etc. It can do all my iPad can do but smaller.

I normally do a year in review just before NewYears and it's something I don't usually share. However in the case of books I've read only 3 this year. Actually make that 2 because I read most of the "Game of thorns" book in 2011. normally I can read 8-10 books in one year, but here's a photo of the books I finished this year:

Before I got married I was an avid Advanced Squad Leader game player (ASL) I had a few opponents but I got married and that languished. I had most of the games and modules. Then the original owner Avalon Hill sold the game to Multi Man Publishing (MMP) went and the rest is history. There aren't a lot of people playing ASL now, I'd say maybe 5,000-10,000 players world wide but new people come into the hobby all the time. A YouTube search can offer a nice buffet of ASL goodness. Most of the players I hung out with have kind of vanished from my radar screen but only recently a few of them have surfaced and still want to play but since I bought my games (last one 1992-ish) MMP revamped the rules book and the counters, just about the whole ASL hobby and come up with new games every couple of years. Lately one of my gaming buddies from the old days surfaced thanks to Facebook and I've been trying to get his phone number but he always forgets to respond back. He wants to play New Years day, which would be perfect for me because Anne is at work. I doubt my friend will provide his number but if he does, I'm game. I don't know about purchasing all of the modules all over again and some are out of print. Even some of the ones I've missed as MMP. That's why we  have Ebay. 

As much as I love Warhammer 40K and all as I'm collecting all 13 (so far but I have only the first 2) "Space Marine Battles"I also want to get the Horus Heresy series and there's 22 books (and counting) plus I want to read all of the short stories The Black Library has out. Warhammer 40k daily!  

Our local Coast 2 Coast affiliate is off for a couple of days because of Christmas, so they've been playing canned Christmas music and I'm missing my Coast 2 Coast not that tonight's show matters too much but Wednesday night's show is on Planet X. I was thinking about joining Coast's "Insider Club" when I get back to work and that way I'll have all shows streamed to my computer for latter listening. 1 Year is US $54.95, which isn't bad.

Every month I get my Lodge Newsletter and I enjoy reading the "Alberta Freemason" but lately it hasn't been included lately. I think its because its going online. I'll find a link to it. Anyway that's about all for now, Merry Christmas everyone.

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Ok so the big

“End of the World” even is supposed to be tomorrow: 12-21-12 the day of the winter Solstice. Or just about anytime give or take a couple of days. A caller on Coast called in last night claiming how he was working with a quasi government organization collecting solar data suggesting that major solar activity 100 times more in magnitude of the Carrington Event of 1859. Now I‘m no expert on this but according to Wikipedia on the Carrington Event from August 28, 1859, until September 2, for 6 days the soar storm was active, shorting out Telegraph lines etc. At one point Gold miners up North began to prepare breakfast because they thought it was daylight. The caller said that major coronal mass ejection will take place within the next couple of days. The caller said that a cme 100 times more powerful could wipe us out. Sunspot activity has been very active lately. According to Wiki we get about 2 every 100 years. We had 1 in about 1921 but nothing like in 1859.

On this date December 20th the world got its first look at the Zodiac murders, December 20th 1968. Lots of crazy things going on huh?

On Coast tonight Expert in theology, Biblical languages, and world civilizations, Mike Heiser will discuss the history of apocalyptic beliefs, why for millennia we have predicted "end times," and which ideas have some validity. I’ll listen in on this for tonight.

Anne said, she’d run down to the ban for me to deposit that $40 in my Scotia bank for my Telus account. The last of the plan 35 for awhile. I’m still considering Ivanhoe Lodge’s installation but nobody knows me there or can vouch for me. But it depends on how Friday turns out as far as my severance pay goes and if my direct bank deposit form went through without complications. So if My Friday turns out ok, then I might just head over to Ivanhoe. We’ll see.

This weekend depending on how My Friday goes I hope to go down to Audrey’s for another Warhammer Space Marine Battles book. I’m hoping to do this maybe Saturday morning and get some breakfast at Tim’s and head home. My LM monthly payment is ok up until the end of march. I was hoping to have it paid off by this weekend or at least by the end of the month.

I’m not doing anything with my CPP until the New Year. There’s no point on doing anything right now. I’m more concerned how My Friday is going to go tomorrow. If my severance forms were sent out as J said they were last week, then I should get something in tomorrow. If there was a complication on my Direct Bank Deposit form (DPD) then the cheque would have been cut and mailed out Monday meaning I won’t know anything for a couple of weeks yet. If I don’t get my cheque in my account Friday, then I know it’s in the mail this Monday/now. Meaning to say, I might get it next week. If by 4pm Friday there’s no indication that nothing is in my bank, then I’ll know that it was mailed and J didn’t get the form out or there were complications. But I’ll be checking and I should know by this time tomorrow. For all I know, it might even be in today but I’m not going to hold my breath. Christmas mail is notorious for being slow like this.

On Coast last night as they were talking about the electrical grid and how a massive CME would take it out, I began to do some research and the first street lights that went up here in Edmonton were in 1891 along Jasper Avenue and were turned off at 1am. They were turned on 24/7 in 1902. In 1905, Edmonton Light Department had 53 customers! In 1982, work began on the Genesee Generating Station, 50 km southwest of Edmonton.  The project cost was $1.2 Billion. Recently the Alberta Government went ahead with the Heartland transmission project but that’s a whole other topic.

Sometime around next August or so (2013) I’m looking at getting a new digital camera. In researching wifi cameras from the main brands I’m liking the new Kodak Easy Share M70 but I don’t think Walmart has the new wifi easy share versions yet, maybe they do but once. Future shop and Best Buy as far as I know I don’t think they carry them in stock. 

Seems that our Mayer Mandel and NDP leader Brian Mason are in a war of words here as Mandel claims that Mason doesn’t seem to support Edmonton very much when it comes to gaining funding on the proposed downtown arena. Mason said that while Mandel was making his money he had spent 12 years on City council. He doesn’t care about Edmonton? Sorry Mandel as much as I think you’re the best City Mayor we’ve ever had here in Edmonton in all my 35 years here, while I don’t like his politics I have to give this one to Brian Mason.

Doesn't look like

drinks are going to happen at BP's today but we can do this anytime. Just because we may work at different locations doesn't mean we can't still hang out and all. Warren and I are still going to that Oil Kings game next month.

Audrey's has another book signing this month: Forgotten Realms writer Dave Gross will be here. I'd like to go but Anne is bugging me now about spending money. She's just tired. 

I’m just wondering if I have a bug in my Battery 3 install disk? Some kits load ok, others respond to one cell and take over. I’m sure I’m not doing something right. I got onto Native Instruments Forums and into the Battery area. But that’s something I can do for later tonight.
 

 Good thing I checked Commercial's calendar for 2012, they had their Installation, Last Saturday! Bummer so I'm going to leave with Anne as she goes to work, I get off at Corona and head up to Audrey's about 4pm and get my Warhammer 40K book I couldn't get yesterday as they had a book signing. But after my book I can walk up the block and get a pint at BP's and see who comes by. I'll hang out for an hour and if nobody comes by, I'll take the train home.  

All is not lost though because Ivanhoe is having their installation next Friday on the 21st but I'll need to be there at 6pm and its a late lodge having a $15 banquette but I doubt I'll stick around for that. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Anne and I got out of the house yesterday and

I didn’t get a chance to begin my diary, working a lot with Cubase. I think I’m going to work in FL Studio as my DAW by choice because I have only 2 usb outlets and I’m not about to buy a usb hub just yet, although I’m thinking about getting Ableton Live 8 but 9 might be in development.

Anne and I went to Royal Pizza but she was tired and kind of in a grumpy mood for most of the trip but while we were eating our meat lovers pizza she brightened up a bit. After our dinner we went  over to Tim’s as it began to snow ever so lightly. We got ourselves a coffee and jay walked in between traffic breaks for the bus stop across the street. I had about 4 pieces of pizza left over. The train home at University station for a Sunday night was packed, which is unusual. We were home about 7:15pm.

Well. It looks like Google Earth gave us an update. I was surprised to learn that the old Shannon “ancestral home” after the landscaping the current owners had taken on, finally is completed and it looks really nice. The big shocker was Mr. Wilson’s house is gone. Something must have happened within the last 3 years. It’s nothing more then an empty lot. This is the same house I grew up in from 1959-71. A kind of before/after shot.  The photos didn;t turn out that great. I'll work on this later.

While at Audrey’s after my LM trip I bought the first book in the “Space Marine Battles” series. There’s a dozen books in the series so far and a 13th one coming in January. The top right hand corner got a bit damaged in transport.

 The idea was to head into work today for 6 hours and take Saturday off but I had a tough week. I wanted Saturday off to take in Commercial‘s installation. I might just go in for 2 hours Saturday and at noon. I‘ll still get 35.5 hours and I can always change in the mens room at the office.

Today I‘m messing around with Reaktor. There‘s a cool program I‘m trying to get up and running called Lazerbass. Anyway, that‘s all for now.