Things worked out for (Friday)

me yesterday ok after all but next week is the real test of what could happen. I can't talk about anything but I have a couple of offers. 

So Friday the NHLPA approved to launch a disclaimer of of interest, which is a faster form of decertifying the union. Jan 14th is the deadline for when the rest of the season could officially be cancelled. January 2nd is the official day the of filing. I believe that something significant will happen between then and now. Personally, I'd like the idea of the season being cancelled. For the second time in just nine years since Garry Bettman took over as NHL Commissioner and 2 season lockouts later is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. This is an embarrassment. The NHL doesn't own the Stanley Cup but the Trustees of the Hockey Hall of Fame decide which league gets to challenge the cup. If the season is renewed why not an East/West 15 team round robin tournament to decide the Cup this season? Something to think about

Well the end of the world didn't happen. Yeah no kidding. There were some though that thought it would and took refuge in various remote locations around the world, like a mountain in Quebec,places in China etc. Some believe that the end of the world or they Mayan calendar would be around the 21st or within a few days of the 21st and this morning on Coast (underway now) George Noory will check in with various guests on the status of the post Mayan calendar world. 

On this date in 1970, (Yesterday) Elvis Presley paid a visit to the White House to suggest to Pres. Nixon that he be named "Federal Agent at Large" to help combat the drug problem. And Nixon's response? Ok, I wont say it.

Sometime later this morning I'm off to Audrey's to get another Warhammer 40K "Space marine battles book" and then a block West on the same side of the street to Rexall get a $10 iTunes gift card,my lotto/649 ticket and home but I might decide to sleep in instead because it's so cold out there but if I time my bus connections properly, this morning I'll be out there for about maybe 5 minutes. I'll be out of here at 10am as Tim's stops making breakfast at noon then home. I should be home before Anne gets up and out of bed.

Actually speaking of Pages and my diary, my current  "MS Work's" diary is 2 years old and has something like 725 pages or about 5Mb of text. Pages syncs automatically to iCloud where I'm going to store most of my diary. That's almost like 10 years of text documents! Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Saturday after work I went

and bought the full retail version of Cubase 6 and I'm having fun with it, except registering this software is a real pain. I had to send a support ticket to Steinberg, which could take up to 48 hours to answer.

Last night while listening to Coast, Dr. Sky was on talking about how in 2013 an asteroid is heading this way and could be within 16,000 miles of earth. That's way to close. They were saying that if it hits the planet it'd be like a nuke the size of Hiroshima and if it lands in the ocean the tsunami could take out a small coastal city. What if though the date of arrival of that asteroid is off and it hits in late 2012? They said February of 2013 but that could easily be December 2012, I'm just saying.

Unlike a lot of people that don't like Mondays, I love my Mondays because I have the day off of course. This afternoon, I'm playing around with Cubase 6, Anne's making me some lunch and then it's the Oiler game against the Ducks on at 8pm, then it's another Monday night Raw. I had a decent weekend what with playing around with Cubase.

This week is a full week, as I'm working Tuesday-Saturday, which will give me 37.5. I was considering making a Saturday morning trip to Ye Old Craft Lodge but I need the hours. Next week is going to be hectic on me, I have a Lodge practice on Sunday March 11th then a MM degree on the 15th (off that day) as it's a 5:30pm start then it's my wife's birthday that Friday and I want to take her out on Sunday for a birthday dinner. I'm going to miss Ye old craft on the 10th but maybe not. I'm taking that Saturday off. I wont be able to go to Commercial though but I'll get 36 hours in that week. There's an installation or something I want to go to on the 23rd of this month as well but I'll confirm that with one of my Lodge colleagues later on this afternoon.

I've got a busy week and a busy month ahead but I like being kept busy like this. Keeps things interesting. anyway, that's about all for today.

Not that I needed the

jacket this morning. It was nice all day. I got in feeling good and before break Dan taking over for Gerry said some of us had to move. I was kind of po’d about but I managed to sell some tickets all on card $80 worth. My only sale for the day. Dan moved me beside Carl and Don, (new guy) which I like both. I didn’t get the banner ad from Josh and I couldn’t connect to LM until later and they didn’t have “Beatstation” but they put the “Ez drummer” package back for me. Then I had the idea to call Axe music. They actually had “Addictive Drums” there and they would hold a copy for me as I’m an Axe customer. I asked if they had FL Studio 10 and the clerk asked me “Producer of Signature?” I thought Signature was going to be like $500 and he said its $317! Wow. I didn’t get any sales for the afternoon. I was the lowest total, again. We got out pay checks just before 4pm and out early. I walked with James over to the Scotia bank and cashed my check and then the train over to Rexall and then went to underneath the overpass at Rexall and caught the Montrose bus to the Axe. They had the program there for me and the clerk showed me the box for Fl Studio 10. Cool. This is my next project. I had a look around at the Synths and monitors. They had the M-audio axiom 25 for just under $125. After paying for my product I walked over to the LRT around Rexall and was met by the train announcing its about to pull in. I got home shortly before 5pm. Cool.

I’m going to go through the registration process tomorrow as I decided not to go to Lodge tomorrow. So, I’m going to register AD and install and have some fun. Anne’s got her $200, I’ve got enough diet cola and there’s dinner in the fridge and hockey on at 7pm. Plus I’ve got just under $100 here on me COH and 3 days off. Unless the “Rapture” takes over tomorrow. I’ feeling a sense of “Gloom” at the moment because this recent “end of the world” thing seems to be a world wide phenomena. I mean people aren’t jumping off buildings or anything and stocks aren’t crashing or anything like that. But the sense of trepidation is strong. The Metro paper even had a huge full page ad about this in the paper this morning. I’m pretty certain that the “end of the world” (version 2.0) isn’t going to happen. But I bet Coast will have a lot to say about it on their show tonight. When I wake up in the morning/noon-ish, the world will be pretty much the same. Cars will still parade up and down the street, people will still be going about their business, it’s kind of cute though. We were joking about it at work for awhile there. Anyway, that’s about all, for now…Or is this my last blog post? If so, it’s been fun and I’ve enjoyed my stay here. Hope you did to.