So the fellow from the

job called me earlier about 5pm yesterday and asked me to come in for 4pm Tuesday. I need to know what project I'm doing. 

I think its tomorrow but the Alberta Government is supposed to release the budget. For decades the Alberta Tories relied on oil royalties to balance the Provincial budget. Its not going to be quick fix but the Premier has a 10 year plan moving forward that will reduce the Province reliancy on oil royalties and the high cost of oil to balance the budget, in the year to come. Some of these measures will mean a return to health care premiums. Its a step in the right direction. It also means that if the price of oil remains at its current levels, we wont be going into debt.

Over the weekend I've been doing some html coding to clean up my link list. I hope it looks a bit better and I have a bit more to do yet

In the wake of yesterdays Airbus A320 aircraft crash in Europe, there are no shortage of theories. This is the same aircraft that disappeared last December. M370 and The miracle on the Hudson. Its a strange case for sure. Anyway, I have almost a week off, that's all for now.

For the most part

the header above is looking good. I could have centered my name over a bit to the right, other wise I like the look of the header. The photo of me was taken December 2013 from our iPad pulling into Belvedere station.

On Coast tonight, the topic is past lives, which is an intriguing topic bordering on reincarnation. I'm not sure if I believe in past life regression or not but it is compelling stuff. I wrote a bunch of junk earlier on this post about it so I'm rephrasing this post. Sorry about that. According to Wikipedia:Scientific consensus is that the memories are the result of cryptomnesia, narratives created by the subconscious mind using imagination, forgotten information and suggestions from the therapist. 

On a sad not actor James Garner passed away at the age of 83. I always liked him in "Maverick" and  "The Rockford files." Garner was also a huge L.A. Raiders NFL supporter. He was also an avid golfer. I miss TV from the 60's and 70's. The TV landscape of today is littered with reality based TV shows like Survivor, and stuff like Amazing Race, and America's got talent. The only good thing about CSI was their theme song. Now if there was ever a new Star Trek TV show, I'd be tuning in. We used to watch Doctor Who but we never know when it's on. That's why other then news and sports, I don't watch TV anymore. The other thing I don't like about TV are the many car commercials. With the millions of vehicle recalls I wouldn't buy a car today. It's sad to see great actors like Garner leaving us but he looked like he had a good long life. Mr. Garner died of natural causes yesterday. R.I.P. James.  

About MA flight 17 as tragic enough as it was this is my statement on the tragedy: Somebody needs to be held accountable. I wont name any names but that's my 2 cents I'll Put in. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

I tweeked this blog here

a few days ago. The big changes were mostly cosmetic. The header was changed and so were the pages. Where it read My favorite Topics, is now Topics. Gallery is now Flikr photo stream and I took out "On politics." I'm not big on politics anyway and where it read Conventions, etc is now just SFF Cons. I also put a bit of a disclaimer in my header about grammar and spelling. Hopefully its just cleaned up a little. 

The new project is very interesting and it gives me hours from 2-9 and we're braking an extra 15min early, which is nice. 

At Audrey's the other day I checked on my western novels book order. I ordered the first 5 in William Johnstone's Eagle series.
 

Apparently the whole series is available so I got the 1st out of 5 and the others are on their way. Good stuff.

I've been playing with my new gaming device I got Sunday afternoon: My new Nintendo 3ds. Since it came with a game, I have yet to buy a new game. They're about $40 each at Future shop. I want to get the latest Zelda and the Lego games. I can also get them used as well.

I'm off to attend a Masonic funeral tomorrow. I've got some speaking parts in front of strangers in a setting I'm not at all comfortable with. At least the speaking parts can be read, so that's a good thing. There's also a turkey supper latter. I might not attend this part. Anyway, that's all for today.

Finally its now Christmas eve

and I'm about to have a bit of down time for myself. Anne is watching her shows. We got Christmas snacks and 3 days off! I'm back Friday, Saturday.

Anne's going to check it out of course but we're going to try and go to our local Swiss Chalet just down the block. I'm having a burger and a beer. Then we're coming home having a relaxing night and open presents.

I09 has a great video response to Michio Kaku's surprisingly weak critique of Alcor's life extension foundation, cryonics. I'm no expert on this but I find it a fascinating topic. Kaku thinks that cryonics is mainly for the rich that want to live forever. According to Alcor's spokes person, it doesn't work like that. The idea is that after a doctor has tried everything to treat a patient and failed as part of said patient's life insurance policy at just a few dollars/day can have their body frozen. The idea is when the science is there at a future date say 2-3 decades out that person can be revived or thawed. The problem now is that we can't as far as I know actually freeze much less thaw a human body. It hasn't been done, yet. Or even if it can be done. Then there's brain and cell damage in the meantime. However, science has been able to clone a sheep. There are some interesting questions about freezing a human being for future thawing out. Where do we keep the hundreds, perhaps millions of bodies? There are lot of unknowns and conditionals, like cell ice expansion. Yet these are problems of today, not 2-3 decades away. Also, what if companies like Alcor fall victim to economic downturns and file for bankruptcy? Also, how much power would it cost to keep one individual frozen for a day, month or decades? Where are they going to be stored? What happens if there is some kind of natural l disaster?

Work yesterday went by ok I fucked up on the job a couple of times but nothing serious. On my way out by Starbucks I slipped on some black ice and skinned my knee as we were receiving a bit of freezing rain downtown on my way home about 10pm. 

I fixed my blog intro above and I want to make a better banner to reflect what I'm currently into. If I covered everything in the intro just  below the banner it would take almost a whole page by itself. Anyway that's about all for now.