management has had a roofing company out here as they've been replacing the shingles on the roof of this building. Its not a hardship for us because when they start work in the morning we wear our earplugs before bed. Every time I think of roofers lately I keep hearing the song "Barry the roofer" in my head by the Toy Dolls. Yes its on Youtube.
I've been watching a lot of Canadian Football League, cfl out of market games and of course our own. Thursday's game hosting Montreal was a 23-12 Eskimo Win. For the first half it was a 1 point game. The Esks had trouble holding onto the ball. There were challenge flags all over the place. Crazy. Last nights Winnipeg/Argo's game was 34-17 for the Visitors. Toronto had 5 turnovers and the Bombers scored 24 points off those turnovers.Today I'm watching Calgary/Riders game at 5pm. Chris Jones is in a bit of trouble being fined by the league. It's complicated to get into here but you can look into that on your own.
I haven't been using my new Ntendo 3ds as much as I was hoping to do this last Spring. I've been so busy with work, what with trying to get as much hours as possible and struggling here at home over the Summer with lack of work. I've had about 47 hours since early June. I'd be on the street right now if it wasn't for my wife's hours but I'm scheduled to go back to work September 1st so I hope to have more time to play. I know that sounds cart before the horse but even though I've had time off, the money hasn't been there either. I'm considering hacking my 3ds to play legacy games along my commute. I'm just not a computer video gamer. I can't see myself spending hours in front of a computer playing Warcraft or what have you. Last time I did anything like that was about 2002 when I was into this game: The Exile trilogy.
I really enjoyed playing this game for several reasons. It was free, I liked its simple interface and game play. We still have our Xbox 360 collecting dust but for some reason we haven't been able to get it to work since when Xbox made changes to its market place. I can't recall the game a few years back from Walmart but it crashed our system so we had to take the game back. It had nothing to do with Walmart. I think that was about 2009. I haven't done any gaming since. The new Ntendo 3ds is probably my last venture into video console gaming at my age.
Monday I have a job interview. Its customer service. Kind of a high end type of a opportunity. Its right downtown. Close to the old place. I've got that for 1pm. Its only for a 3 month appointment and its days. If I get the job, I'll do the full time job and the other job (nights) 3 days a week including a Saturday. We still haven't received our part for our oven and I have yet to receive my cpp form for rental subsidy. Its a one page document for crying out loud. I'll be heading over to Service Canada to find out its status. Its probably still in the slush pile somewhere and the guy handling them is on holidays (its August after all) I was being ahem, sarcastic. Its not a mail kind of a thing because I received a birthday card from my sister in law the other day from Winnipeg. I can't wait to get back to work and start paying some bills. Anyway, that's all for now.
tomorrow because of WWE's "Battleground" as we look forward to that for Sunday.
A bit of this and that: I was able to get about 14 hours worth of work this week but right now the office is closed over the weekend. I'm hoping for next week, and I'll be shoring things up for my other job for September as they are moving house. We are still without the part we need for our stove's oven. Unfortunately we don't have the resources to move but this has been over two weeks now. Anne thinks we should be receiving a discount for our rent at least and I agree. We probably could get the part for the oven ourselves, and charge the bill to management. It might even be faster. "Its on order from the gas company," management says. It takes 2 weeks? Don't they have a warehouse here in Edmonton? What do we do now, go to our MLA? There are a lot of empty suites now due to the economy. The last thing management here needs is another empty suite especially in an older building where there are a lot of other options around the city.
We have K-days underway here right now as the midway makes its annual summer rounds to Edmonton for 10 days. K-days was unique among summer midways because of its Klondike theme designed to celebrate the Klondike gold rush back in the day. K-days also had its popular Sunday Klondike promenade. Edmontonians had the chance to dress in period costume and meander around the downtown core. Jasper Ave was closed off from where the Shaw theatre is now to 109th street. The K in K-days meant Klondike. A few years back City council wanted to modernize k-days, so they dropped the K-days name and theme changing it instead to to Capital X. This didn't sit too well us Edmontonians. The name change received such a backlash, that council dropped it without debate, and changed the name back to K-days but the popular promenade was lost. It's just another midway now. This years parade began yesterday morning, and had parade watchers lined up early clogging up parts of the parade route. The city at the last minute had to change the route due to pedestrian volume. Lots of people we're put off by this. Our company for many years had the contract to do on site survey's on the Northland's grounds where the midway was held but we lost the contract this year. I used to think that on site survey's were always on ones feet but I got a different education from one of my colleagues the other day. I asked about working K-days, that's when I learned we lost the contract. That would have given me 10 days of work.
Earlier I fixed up the welcome header above. It reads a lot cleaner I think. Anyway, that's all for now.
at the new job. It seems the Supervisor had a scheduled day off today and the un official acting super doesn't work weekends. Translation: I have a weekend off but instead of the 36 hours, I'll have 32 hours but I still get 18 hours from my other job and that'll be ok for rent.
So I come home and our kitchen sink is overflowing with water. WTF? There was about an eight of an inch of water all over the counter tops and the floor. Sink water was leaking all over the kitchen. I bailed about half a dozen buckets of water and managed to get everything under control. When Anne came home she was shaken by this but recovered. The sink backed up again later and we got that under control. Anne gave me a sleeping pill and I had a great rest of the evening heading to bed about 3:30am. About 9am Anne was in sheer panic mode. "Get the care taker we need a plumber. Its a emergency." I scrambled to put some cloths on. The acting caretaker was up and about in the hall way by our door and I got her attention explaining the situation. I invited her into the kitchen where Anne was crying bailing from our kitchen sink. After about half an hour of this I went down to get a status report on the ETA of the plumber. She didn't know. Anne figured something was going on between the taps from the people upstairs. Once everything was under control we went back to bed. The plumber knocked on the door sometime later. I stayed in bed. Anne came in later to try and get some sleep saying the crisis is over. He fixed the problem. We now have these 2 big heater fans in the kitchen blowing air drying out the carpeting in the living room. I tweeted a picture of the fans. What a mess but its all under control. I can adjust those fans for the Oilers/Ave's game tonight.
Speaking of which, Connor McDavid is skating with the team again. Its a start. They are taking small baby steps with his timeline to play with the club. Soon he'll be playing with the puck. The timeline is after the All Star break. Mid January. So its looking pretty good for him. Hopefully he'll be at pre injured game ability when he returns to play. Anyway, that's all for now.
is 7 degrees. That's as cold as its going to get today but it also makes it good for sleeping and I'm wiped out not having slept much over night last night. 
Anne's nephew Steven and his family came to visit my wife from Moose Jaw. Nice family, Steve and his wife, their teenage daughter and family friend arrived about 4:30pm. I never met them before. Steve works for a railway company and his wife works at Sask tell. Their daughter is into show horses. It was mostly talking about Anne's side of the family. They were more interested about Anne then me and catching up. Its all good. Anne made us a great roast beef dinner, which was well received by all. They stayed for a little over two hours. I'm glad they paid us a visit, nice people.
This morning I'm up at 8:30 to call in and cancel the x-ray I forgot. I had to fast and having Anne's company over put that on the back burner. Then I can go back to bed. I'm hoping after Anne leaves for work I can call about my school transcripts and get that ball rolling before the Esks/Lions game. No calls in yet from the job front but I'm going in tomorrow anyway to pick up my cheque. Anyway, that's all for now.
"coming out." Translation: Gender change. People have sex changes for various reasons. Maybe they identify themselves with the opposite gender. Personally I don't care what people do with their bodies. I don't necessarily condone it but for me I'm comfortable in the skin I was born with. I have 2 metal rods in my spine, I have reason to dislike my body but this is the hand I was dealt. I don't want to change that nor would I spend the thousands of dollars to do it. It seems celebs are into this "coming out" phenomena. They have the money.
Since last October our building complex has had our 100 stall parking lot out front here closed off. Its been under an upgrade but I don't see any evidence of this. Friday night after over 6 months of guests or people with cars etc to drop people off park and idle on the side walk the parkade is open. Its been a bit of a hassle for renters. Now if I get a ride back from lodge I can say our parkade is back.
Later this afternoon we're about to enjoy "Extreme rules." Its a WWE wrestling pay per view event. We're going to order our Maximus pizza and have a good time. Speaking of sporting events, I was following the Canucks/Flames series as this was game 6 last night. If the Canucks won the series gets transferred back to Vancouver for a game 7. It was really up and down Calgary finally won and sent the Canucks packing. I think I'm going to jump on the Flames bandwagon but I doubt they'll get past the 2nd round facing Anaheim, the top team in the West. Anyway, that's about all for now.
2:30pm this afternoon. I haven't been out of the apartment in over a week and I'm getting a little stir crazy.
Not much going on yesterday. Mostly in front of the computer answering email, that type of thing. I watched wrestling and the Oiler's/Denver game. We beat them 4-1, getting a couple empty net goals.
Anne made us a nice chicken dinner oven baked potatoes and I'm in bed by 3am up about 11am this morning. Anyway, that's about all for today.
Sunday night! I've got no plans to go anywhere today either but I'm going to try for that lodge gathering at our WM residence Sunday. Its a bit of a planning session for the upcoming year. It's way out West of the city in a private home. Maybe I can get a ride out there from one of the guys at Southgate. Its a (early for me) 11am Sunday morning gathering. It's not our regular business meeting.
I'm not much of a gambler. I don't play vlt's or go to Casino's or to the race track or play online poker. I even gave up plying the lottery. However I like to play Proline CFL and I've won small amounts here and there over the years to buy a hard cover book, that type a thing. When I tried Fan Duel (fd) a month ago, I played some NFL and I won about $8. My 2nd time playing NFL I lost what I won but it was my own fault for not studying my picks. I've been thinking about playing fd this week, only again this time nhl. This afternoon I picked 1 game: Dallas/Calgary and I added a player from another game just to meet the players from 3 team rule requirement. That same rule is in football as well. So I picked 3 $2 contests and 1 $1 contest and thought no way am I going to win just into game time. Half hour in I was in the $ game! My $2 bets were winning me $3.60! Even my $1 game was winning me $1.80. By the end of the night, I won $12.60. A net return of $5.60. It's not going to pay my rent or anything but I had fun. Once fd adjusts my new balance, I might play that way again, see what happens. The $2 entry's were in 40 player "leagues." I ended up in 5th, 4th and 3rd place respectively in the prize pool and 9th in the $1 contest. Lots of fun.
So now it was North Korean hackers that hacked into Sony pictures. President Obama was saying Sony made a mistake by not releasing the movie. Imagine some dictator telling Hollywood what to do. At the time though and in hindsight I think Sony over reacted. Now the decision not to release "The Interview" movie is going to cost Sony hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue because of a dictator.
Today I'm working on my track as I want to use a Reactor ensemble called "Rollodeck Pro." I bought this little plug in for about $70 a year ago and haven't used it that much but its a cool glitch type vst perfect for Maschine. There's videos on this plug in on YouTube. I might not be able to afford a Octatrack yet but this will do in the meantime. Anyway, that's all for now.
and I'm relaxing listening to some Chill-Out ambient music.
Not much going on yesterday. I'm worried about my my 1st job with no hours next week and my 2nd job dangling by a thread. The "good news is" I've got a couple of weeks before the end of the month and options. I've got resumes out everyday. The first job that looks have decent is going to be my only job. I'm tired of my hours dropping. I can't depend on that. Basically I was taking stock of things in my life yesterday. My worst fear is that I wont have an income at the end of the month and the "safety net" isn't there I've got 2 more days off as part of this long weekend. I was hoping I'd be able to work Saturday but so much for that. I'm considering a part time security guard job but I have a few places I want to try first .
I went and removed and downloaded the open source The Gimp 2 for 2.8 a photo shop clone. It's pretty good software that I've been using a lot of as I want to redesign my blog banner.
One nice thing about having a couple of days off this time of year I can watch hockey tonight and Monday night Raw. I'm sure things will work out ok. Anyway, that's about all for now.
spending hours working on my track, "This is Jim saying Hello." It's a stupid 2 minute track but I'm having fun. I might publish it to my YouTube channel.
The idea Saturday was to go to the South side and give my 2009 laptop a bit of love by way of a sshd upgrade. The last thing I did before I left for work Friday was to call and they said I'd have to bring my laptop into the shop wait 10 days then 24 hours from there, someone would "take a look" at it. Then it'd cost me $100 to clone my hard drive and another $50 for labor, what? This even doesn't include the cost of the sshd! So I'm instead going to get one of those $200 hard drive duplicators pop them in and install the new drive in myself. It's not so much the price it's leaving my laptop in foreign hands for 2 weeks. If I get any income tax refund back, I'll probably get the new pc anyway. Cloning the laptop drive to the new drive will be something I'm going to be faced with anyway.
Speaking of tax time, after Anne and I are done having dinner we're taking all of our forms to one of Anne's colleagues to her place of work. The guy will be there and we're going to bring everything in and let him do his thing. I have a feeling I'm going to end up owing the Feds anyway. I should know next weekend if I'll be owing the Feds anything/ Anyway, that's all for now.
OMG, we're all going to die!
On Coast tonight: Future of the Mind/ UFOs. First Half: Dr. Michio Kaku will discuss the astonishing scientific research being done in top laboratories, all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and
physics. Kaku will detail how one day we might have a "smart pill" that can
enhance our cognition, be able to upload our brain to a computer, and
perhaps even send our consciousness across the universe. Old science fiction concepts but quite plausible the way technology is going.
Mayor Iveson will be heading for Ottawa soon. Mainly to meet with the powers that be that dispenses funds and try to get more funding for our LRT SE valley line. We need another $500M. If BC can get $2B for a useless "Evergreen" line that connects Port Coquitlam to their Sky train system, we should be able to get more funding for the fastest growing city in Canada. I believe he's going to make it happen.
Probably Thursday afternoon I'm out of here to AW. I still want to keep my main job. I just want something to do during the afternoons. Preferably something along the LRT. If I can get a full time job that pays better, no problem. I wouldn't even mind a small stock room job as long as I can sit down once in awhile.
We got the dishwasher out of here. The 2nd guy got it out of here about 8pm and charged us $80. I felt bad for Anne because this was something her mother got for her 16 years ago They still have to give us a 48 hour notice, they are going to check our suite to see that we complied but if they are going to physically push my wife around I'll come in with the iPad and (if it happens, which I don't think it will) tape it. If anyone physically harms my wife, they'll answer to me. Anyway, that's all for now.
so I had a bit of time to get a Tim's decaf and read up on some JFK assassination research.
The more I study the case the more I'm leaning to a conspiracy. I still think Oswald fired some of the shots but they all missed! Shot #1 hit the curb near bystander James Tague. Shot #2 hit the manhole cover left of the limo. Then there's the smoking gun shot, FMJ round fired by accident in the followup car. Then there's the fatal shot fired from the Dal-Tex building. Many witnesses said they heard 4 shots. Oswald fired 2 shots because there was a round still in left in his MC chamber. These rounds were non military issue. Only ce399 was a FMJ military round. That was the so called "magic bullet." Only a FMJ round could come out the way it did.
My shift at work yesterday was ok. I think I got 6 completions. I got home shortly before Monday night Raw. What a show and that's where I am now and after the show ended.
Anne scheduled the "junk to the landfill" guy to come by and pick up the appliances for 7:30-8pm tonight. I hope when I come home, the dishwasher will be gone. I'll rest easy after the "inspectors" give us the green light Thursday.
I'm thinking Saturday after work, just to unwind is to take $20 with me to Century casino by Belvedere station, have a beer and play the penny slots for a couple of hours. I never could before because my wife would always like to call me but that was when she had a half hour break. She gets 10 minutes ans says she doesn't have enough time to call me. Its just a chance to unwind a bit. I'd only go a couple times/month. if I can cash out ahead, all the better. I've never been in a casino before.
I got a busy week next week what with our lodge EC meeting Sunday then I have a Doctors appointment Wednesday and my Lodge meeting Thursday and I'm going to try and follow the NHL free agency trade March 5th. Anyway, that's all for now.
5-9 this afternoon. I like the shift because it goes by fast and I can stay up late and sleep in late. Except for Saturday 10-6pm that is. It's a short week because of Family Day Monday. Even if we have another day project, I think I'll just work just 5 hours, from noon-5pm or something like that as I close in on my retiring years.
About my 2nd job, which has been on hold for the month of February, starts Saturday March 1st. It doesn't look good that I'll be invited back. According to my super last night that works at my first job, she said the boss sent invitation letters out by mail last week. If I get a invitation to return, I'm making my 2nd job my primary job and work Saturdays at my current job, so at least I'm on the payroll of my first job. My 2nd job pays more but it's not steady and that's part of the problem. otherwise, I'd be there instead of where I'm working now. If I don't get a letter from my 2nd job, that's ok but it's going to have to be between today and Thursday of next week. I think the reason why I wouldn't be invited back would be because of that accusation made against me (unsupported) by one of the volunteers and that I was working just a few days/week. Those two things could go against me. As far as I know, I might even get a letter today from my 2nd job. I won't know until Anne comes back from work tonight.
Switching gears, I'm on the last 100 pages of "Horus Rising" of the Horus Heresy series and I should have the novel read by the weekend. I came across this one site which seems to be supported by the Black Library (BL) "Bolthole." I'm looking for fan fiction. The BL is publishing a Warhammer/Warhammer 40K short story on a weekly basis over the last few years. I have the first one. It makes sense to have a fan fiction site to get an idea of emerging writers that could advance to having their work go from armature to pro. I couldn't say, how many short stories BL has published so far and I get the email notices all the time. I'm enjoying this Horus Rising book though.
This is the last weekend of the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. I haven't been able to enjoy much of this because of our current crisis with our washer and dishwasher. Also what with events on TV at odd hours due to Sochi being, what 11 hours difference? I've been following bits and pieces of the Olympics on the news and in the papers. We got 2 gold this week in women's Curling and Bobsled the other day and a gold today in women's speed skating. I think we have 7-8 gold medals. In mens ice hockey Canada beat USA in the semi finales today to go on and defend the gold Sunday! It's going to be Sweden/Canada. I'm going to have a front row seat watching this one.
Our family Doctor's office reception called earlier to rebook Anne's appointment. I asked if I could book one as well March 5th. Mine's at 2:30pm. I want to get some blood work done and check for my diabetes. I haven't had that done since I became diabetic in 2004.
So far Anne's not doing anything about our washer/dryer crisis. She has (sort of) about our washer and we have that taken care of. We have until next Thursday to get our dishwasher out of our suite but they still have to give us written notice they are coming in to check and see both appliances are out of the premises. If not we will be faced with a eviction notice. Not
an option what with a near zero % vacancy rate. One of the downfalls of
have a strong economy. My wife knows what the options are but if
nothing has been done by Wednesday about our dishwasher, then I'll be
doing something about the it myself. I got a number of a guy with a hand
dolly and a truck and I'll be calling him to have it hauled out
Wednesday night. Anne has that number as well. If Anne hasn't done anything before, then she
knows the consequences but keeping me in the dark like this wont do
either. She says "I don't want to talk about this over the weekend." I
have a couple of options as well and I'm sure she'll do the right thing.
I'll be relieved when it's this time next week. Anyway, that's about all for now.
morning commute and in at Tim's by about 9:20am. I had a nice breakfast feeling good about my day ahead.
I got a bad feeling that due to the amount of new people they hired last week, my hours are going to be reduced. In other words, I'm expendable. I'm taking steps while I have the time and going out tomorrow afternoon and set some things up, before the inevitable happens. I'm not saying 100% it's going to happen but I just have a feeling it will. At least the economy is good and that's in my favour. I've got 3.5 years left in the work force anyway before I retire. .
At least our local weather will begin to improve about by Wednesday. We should be in a warming trend until the end of the month. In another 5 weeks, it's going to be daylight savings time again.
I'm relaxing today and out tomorrow around noon to get downtown for 1pm. Not that I have a appoint but I'm going to set some things up. Anyway, that's about all for now.
we're having management inspectors knocking on our door to come in to check our "suite for repairs" and see what has to be done. Its a little more then that but at this point that's all I'm going to say. It's mostly preventative. I don't think they'll be here at exactly 9am sharp.
If it holds according to the forecasts for the next 10 days we're supposed to have temperatures like +0's and +1's, some 2's etc are in there as well. We could be in for a unusual mild November.
Canada sent a response team to the recent typhoon disaster in the Philippines. It was sent to the hardest hit areas. The US and Nations around the world are responding with relief aid. I feel bad for the Filipino people there but also here as well.
Tomorrow Nasa is supposed to make this huge announcement about a earth shaking discovery. They're probably going to announce that they're bankrupt and need more money. Most likely it's a big hoax, which is why Nasa isn't responding. The armageddon nut casses are having a field day with this one. We'll know tomorrow sometime I guess. If at all.
A couple of days ago I've been fooling around with Cam Studio. It's a free open video/audio screen capturing device. I'm still tinkering around with the settings. The video works ok but I'm not getting audio. It's got to do with my computer's sound card as I need "Realtek HD audio manager." From some of the "YouTube fixes" for this I need the above HD item for my laptop. Otherwise I can't use Cam Studio. Microsoft's movie magic maker isn't too bad either. Anyway, that's all for now.
and my football game Bombers/Riders was almost a tied game up to the half. Then today I got the Esks/Calgary game and Monday night Raw to wrap up my evening and my 5 days off
Last night about 10pm the city paving crew decides to turn the street out here into a construction paving zone. It was bumper to bumper traffic out there as the city decides to bring in te heavy equipment. I got a bit of sleep but then about 4am it was beep-beep all night. It was giving me a headache. Finally the beeping stopped about 7am. Maybe someone complained. I slept on the couch and feel a bit better.
I've got my first day back to work having tomorrow after having almost a week off. Thursday I'm off because of Lodge night. Friday is a short shift and I'm working on a rare Saturday, then I'm taking 2 days off after that. Its not that busy a week but I got some stuff going on. Anyway, that's about all for now.
despite this crappy weather.
Finally, it took a game away from the Rex but the Oiler's won in Denver 4-1 Oiler's. Even though the Oiler's are out of the playoffs they can still play for conference position. If they can finish 9th and a point away from a playoff spot,I'd say that was a good but short season. Hall and Eberle could get 20 goals.
Not being all that well,I booked off for the rest of the afternoon and headed for home. Anne had something similar to what I got and after she called in she stayed home with me this evening.
I was going to go to Commercial but I'm still not well and I was out the other night besides, I really want to go to their 100th celebration. That's the big one.
It looks like state officials and the FBI caught the younger brother of the 2 brothers responsible for Monday's Bombings of the Boston marathon. But the I think it was the mother of the brothers that said, they had no motive. But their behavoir up to this point doesn't exactly bode well to support that notion.
In doing some BC transit research history this morning I came across a huge LRT project that's going on called the Evergreen line which when completed in 2016 will connect to the existing Millennium line. It's all automated but it's on the outskirts of Coquitlam. It doesn't pass through the heart of Coquitlam By that I'm referring to Blue Mountain Road/Austin/Como Lake road. Most of the Evergreen line is serviced by bus anyway If they had this as a kid in the 1960's I might not even know it existed as we never got out to downtown New Westminster that much except maybe twice when they had a bicycle museum there and when dad paid a visit to the union hall now known as local UFCW 1518. I have a fragment memory in the car waiting on a sunny day as dad gave me a bag of bbq chips. I recognized the back end of the building from Google maps. When that memory came to me I used to think that there was a bar there and there might have been one on that location in those days. I thought dad was going in to have a drink but in all reality if that had been a union hall at that time, dad might have been going there to check up on a job. I have no idea how old I was. So those were about the only 2 times I can remember ever being in downtown New Westminster as a child. At the corner of Como lake/Clarke road there was Super Value food chain. Similar to Safeway. Mom used to get groceries there and if this Evergreen line was there in 1964 I would have been slightly aware of it. I'm sure this new line will help some people but for the majority of folks in Coquitlam this doesn't help much because you still need a bus to get from central Coquitlam to the Millennium line. In looking at this now, it reminds me of a make work project and it's going to be an eye soar in some places. If the train was at grade fine but it's on a pillar type system similar to what Calgary has to their west end. Anyway, that's all for now.
I went out and got my free library card. What I like about it is that it gives me access to the Edmonton Public Library’s data base. I got it mostly for Anne to download music and stuff.
I09 is asking: What's the absolute worst space movie ever made? What is the very worst movie about space adventures? Weigh in below! Please make sure to include a picture of your choice. Read here. Personally the worst space movie ever made was “Starship Troopers,” and I thought “Saturn 5” was bad. Some think that. “Ice Pirates” pretty bad:
But I kind of liked it. I also liked “Buck Rogers in the 23rd Century.”
By now almost everyone has heard of “Bitcoin” the virtual currency. It’s a cashless system not controlled by any bank. This last week Bitcoin made the news because it was hacked by speculators trying to drive down Bitcoin’s value and fearing a “Bitcoin bubble” as a result. Some interesting points though about Bitcoin: Is it legal? Can it be enforced in any jurisdiction? Bitcoin on the other hand are not issued by any Government or Central bank and Bitcoin transactions do not go through banks or clearing houses. Bitcoin is an encrypted currency and now has a worldwide circulation worth of $1.4B. But Bitcoin’s book is still in chapter 1 and bitcoin has it’s challenges, such as disputes etc. I don’t know enough about Bitcoin to invest in them but they are interesting.
Will we ever have Spring? Even now we’re expecting to have about 10cm of snow on the ground by this time tomorrow as it’s snowing right now all day today and all day Sunday. In all my 35 years here in Edmonton I’ve never seen April like this before.
Tonight I’m watching the Flames/Oiler’s game and having a cold beer and being a couch potato for most of tomorrow night. Then I have Lodge practice Sunday night.
One of my favorite comedians of the 60's Johnathan Winters has passed away. He was in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and recorded many comedy records. He died at the age of 87 of natural causes.
Not a lot going on this weekend and that’s just the way I want it. I’ve got some memory work to tackle for my Lodge this up coming week and I’ll be glad when its this time next week. I’ll be focusing on my lodge stuff this week. Anyway that's all for now.
