Anne went all the way out to the

airport to meet her sister in town for a couple of days but due to the weather fights have been delayed. It means she wont get in until about 8pm,so that ruins her day with her sister. Well one of her days.

By the end of this month we should be out of this cold snap. It means I'm during my commute tomorrow morning,I'm wearing my cleats.

I decided to change browsers and go with Chrome over Firefox because Google is retiring iGoogle after this November. I really liked iGoogle because everything was right there on the same page. I discovered the Google webpage similar to iGoogle where I have my email, Twitter, YouTube, Google maps, Docs and Drive on the same page and I can even put my blog header icon there as well. Google is also getting rid of it's news reader service. All I need now is a Facebook icon link on my Google page. My next step is to sync this with my mobile device and I'm good to go.

I was going to head out yesterday get my haircut, my book, some Tim's breakfast and over to LM and pay my bill and head for Lodge. That would have been a productive morning/afternoon but the weather kept me at bay. 

Nothing special going on this week. If the weather improves then I think I'll be able to get all the above done on this coming up Saturday anyway. 

In a couple of hours, it's Nashville at Edmonton. Should be a good one. Anyway that's about all for now.
  

I slept in late this morning

getting out of bed by about noon.

I wasn’t watching the news Friday night, kind of watching Smackdown instead. I heard about a shooting in the US but I didn’t hear any details. I heard nothing about it until the news  at 11pm. What a shocker in Newtown Connecticut for the whole world, 20 year old kid snaps gathers weapons his mother had in their house, kills her goes to nearby Sandy Hook elementary school bursts his way in and starts killing children, 20 kids and 6 teachers including the principle and himself and his mother. 28 homicides. Something like that could happen anywhere, tragic.
 
I was so wrapped up in my own world about losing my job running all over the place Friday the thing I was concerned about was what I was faced with. The shooting incident occurred about 9:30am Friday. What made the gunman go to the school and go on a killing rampage, only he and God know those answers and I don’t even think the killer knows. Unbelievable.

Earlier I was fooling around with FL Studio’s FPC. It’s a very powerful drum machine, which can be linked up to a midi controller and also linked up to the piano roll to lay down an easy drum beat. With this I don’t really need Machine. I’d rather have the studio monitors first but I’m more or less committed to buying Machine now.

Apparently the Doctor Who Christmas special wont be on today like I thought I heard. It’s apparently going to be aired Christmas Day and the episode is called “The Snowmen.”

Finally I have a label cloud on my site. I’ve always wanted one but never knew what it was called but it balances out my sidebars.

On my 6/49 I got 2 numbers but that wasn’t with the bonus number for a free ticket. I got 2 numbers right though!

I also added 2 new links to my blog: Cern, and the OTO phenomena, I just titled OTO, its a huge resource.

Anne was supposed to be home an hour ago but because Walmart is open 24/7 during the holidays and all she loses her track of time.
 
It’s -9 out there but there’s a bit of a wind chill. I’m working on a sample track in FL Studio putting together my drum sounds and I have a verse and chorus part. Trouble is I’m experiencing a lot of clipping and I can’t figure out how to eliminate it.

My first CPP cheque in February is going right for my Lodge dues unless I get a good job between then and now. None of this $10-$11 hour crap for me unless that's the only thing out there. If I don't come up with anything substantial then I might have to take anything.

I'm kind of sorry I missed seeing Dave Gross this afternoon but I don't want to spend anything major until I know what I'm dealing with by Friday. Anyway, that's all for now.  

   

Despite having been woken up to

an annoying stereo behind our bedroom wall where our bass board of our bed is at 9:30 this morning, I had a good day.

We had a real change in the weather as well as earlier this afternoon it was about +20 until the wind picked up.

Also, I found out how to remove photos/video off of my iPad, which gave me an extra 3 Gb of space on my iPad.

After the wind storm above Anne went to get us some Pizza from her staff discount and it was really nice. 

I've got a nice bag of "Crispers" chips here for Monday night Raw, which will get underway in about half an hour. That's one of the reasons why I don't like working Monday nights is because Raw now is a 3 hour show and I don't want to get the encore edition at 10pm and be up until 1am watching wrestling all night. 

My blood sugar reading is way to high right now sitting at 13.4! Too be fair though, I had just eaten a small pizza and a small piece of cake

This is the last week of standard time as ext weekend we go back to daylight savings. Anyway that's about all I have for now. 

I answered a text

message from Donna (Anne’s sister) and decided to get some breakfast at Tim’s. Kingsley dropped by and we had a chat and I walked with him to the office. I had $75 by noon and did WR and got a couple of other sales. By noon I was at $100. At lunch I had my dinner and called Anne. After work I did WR Ret and ended up doing $175 on card and about maybe $600 for the week. Maybe $400 on card.

After that some of the guys went over to BP’s for drinks but all I wanted to do was to go get my “Fate of the Jedi” Star Wars book “Conviction.” I’m missing 2 others before it but they’re on order. I have the New Jedi Order series, which takes place before “Fate.” On the shelves as a cool boxed Dart Vader model but it didn’t say if there was a voice chip in it. It was a good deal for $25 and I would have picked it up.

It was overcast as a bit of rain began to fall and I went over to Tim’s and got a dish of lasagna and took advantage of their wifi and listened to some Ramone's while enjoying my lunch. I was exhausted waiting for the train and almost passed out on the 5:30pm train home. Sorry for my voice over audio quality:

I got home and got the phone and napped for a couple of hours and got up about 8:15pm. After the call I got from Anne I began working on the lyrics for my track.

While watching the news the biggest news story of the as most of you reading this would have known by now is the passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong. I was 16 on the amazing day July 1969. That was also an Amazing year, Woodstock, the Vietnam War, Charles Manson, First Concorde test flight is conducted In France, The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records, crazy.

Speaking about the Moon landing even though I believe astronauts went to the moon, there are some that believe that the moon landing was a hoax. There was no hoax. Some question that if there were only two astronauts on the lunar surface, who took the photographs? The astronauts had cameras mounted on the outside of their space suits. The critics who say Nasa never went to the moon are all blowing smoke. They fail to take into consideration that Nasa’s #1 critics were the Soviets and they didn’t buy into this moon hoax. I’m going to be putting the Moon hoax into my “For what it’s worth” section only because it’s a popular conspiracy theory.

Later today about 4pm I’m meeting Anne at Earl’s over here as I’m treating her to lunch but first she’s going to be heading over to the truck over here by the U-haul on 50th street and we’ll walk home from there. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

I was considering the

camera connection kit but I have a Internet bill coming up for my iPad tablet. I’m on this thing called a “Flex plan” and as long as I don’t use a lot of 3G like streaming video my bill will be around $5-10 month. I mostly use my iPad for music, Twitter, email and I’m just getting into iMessaging and playing the odd game on my commute home. I checked my ebill and at stage three of the billing month, my ebill shows something like $5.78 if I pay it before May 22nd which is after this upcoming long weekend but I don’t know where or how to pay this bill. I meant to ask when I got signed up about this, the day after the election.

I tried getting a hold of somebody in cell phones but they’re a little busy. I’d rather call the store where I signed up from and maybe I can pay my bill there.

Last night on Coast was very interesting. They were talking about Adolph Hitler’s last hours in his apartment/bunker in WW2. I was watching this well done documentary as a follow up to my own research and discovered some interesting things. First of all, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had for years claimed Hitler had escaped the bunker and may have used a double as a result of the attempted assassination on him in July 20th 1944. The Russians have claimed they have a portion of his burned skull and the couch used in the sitting room of where Hitler allegedly committed suicide they‘ve held in their archives for years. The Russians have also made it impossible from the West to examine the evidence until recently in the 1990‘s. DNA and blood samples were taking from the couch. Forensic DNA determined that the skull and blood samples were taken from a woman. The Soviets that have claimed for 60+ years that they have the skull of Adolph Hitler were in fact lying. It‘s a fascinating topic and there are a lot of resources on this topic. Here‘s the video I watched:


Also Anne said she’d give me the money for the RJS book as she might get her estate funds today. If so then I could get the RJS book tomorrow on my way in. Once I find out more details on my Flex bill for my iPad,

I’m not going in for this evening mainly because of the long weekend. This could be worth about $80 bucks of “free” money to me. If Commercial didn’t fall on a long weekend then I’d say sure, but I need to work the day before and the day after. The day before is that Saturday and the day after is my regular Tuesday getting back. But because I hadn’t taken a Saturday off since moving into the new office because I haven’t exactly been putting in the min of 35.5 hours for full time, I can’t guarantee HO will pay me my stat pay. Better safe then sorry. I’ll go to their last one in June. There’s no long weekend in June.

In about 10 minutes, I’m about to watch some, probably not all of the New York/NJ game. This should be a great series. Anyway, that’s all for now.

Even though yesterday my

sales were low, I had a 100% bank. Next week is going to be a great check because I’m getting some nice bonus money and a full check. And the RJS book after Lodge.

Me and my colleagues from the office were out having some drinks at out local watering hole. I had a nice bacon cheese burger and a pint of beer watching the first part of the Rangers/Caps game. I headed home with a slight buzz feeling alright and in by 7pm to watch what was left of the 2nd and in the 3rd was a real disaster for Washington because “OV” had coughed up the puck and turned it over making a tie game into a 2-1 lead for the Rangers. Ovechkin has made game difference turnovers before but to do this on a game #7 was a disaster. I’m sure nobody feels as bad about it as “OV.”

 I had a bit of a nap after the game for about an hour or so after Anne had called. I checked my 6/49 tickets and I got 2 numbers from a quick pick. #5 and #37 and if one of those numbers had been the bonus number I would have given me $5. Somebody though did win the $21M prize last night. Nobody as of yet, had claimed the $50M on the Max. It’s still up for grabs.

After I get out of bed around noon and after I call, I‘m going to see if they have the iPad “camera connection kit.” With this I can plug my midi controller and play Garageband (GB) instruments from my controller, which will have a different dimension to GB.

Anne said she‘ll lend me the cash for the RJS book and before I head into the office Friday afternoon, I‘ll get the book and head into the office and after work take the train up to my bank cash my check wait for Anne in 2nd Cup and head home for 3 days off. That way Saturday when I go to Lodge I‘ll just go in enjoy the afternoon and fellowship later.

Also, I‘m thinking when I go in, I‘m going to see if I can get Frank and if Reg is there get my affiliation petition in so I‘ll have that ready for June when I go in. I‘m not going to become a member but I will be affiliated with them. This way I can do parts in their Lodge, without having to take chairs in the Lodge. I have no interest in taking on any chairs in that Lodge but I‘m interested in becoming a member to get the degrees in the Canadian Rite Concordant bodies.. I have a petition here for affiliation I was going to do in October but being JW in my Lodge is keeping me pretty busy. I wont take any chairs in Commercial until after I become IPM in my Lodge, then I‘ll take chairs.

This afternoon I‘m calling to see if FS has any camera connection kits in stock. If so I‘m running down to see if they do and then pick one up and home to try it out and work on my track. Then it‘s brunch and after that the NHL LA Kings/Phoenix game #1 then do my stuff and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

I‘m also following the Oil Kings as they‘re having game #7 between Edmonton/Portland at Rexall tomorrow night, so I‘ll be following both games this evening. Life is good. Anyway, that‘s about all for now. 

I decided having 2 days off

was more important then YOC Lodge next Saturday anyway. I’ll take next Saturday off because I like Commercial Lodge. I’m right downtown and I can go to Audrey’s before I visit the Lodge.

I was trying to figure out how I can get the “guitar sound” out from Garageband and export it as a Wav file and apparently it can be done but I need to have my apps synced to iTunes. So I got music on my iPad, my apps synced and now my photos. This gives me about 6Gb free. Eventually I’m going to upload my music to iCloud anyway. At the moment I’m downloading my photos and my download session is 240/922 files. There’s lots of cat photos.

Next cheque is when I begin saving up for Melodyne editor. I’m saving up $400 ($365) of that is for Med. I’ll be able to pick it up at LM about mid June.

This morning I watched the LA/St. Louis game and LA won the series in 4. They beat out the 2 top seeded teams in the West. Tonight I’m watching Phoenix and Nashville. There’s lots of hockey to watch. Anyway, that’s all I have for today.   

It was on this date 32 years ago I discovered Thelema. I never at that time ever thought I’d be married at 59 a few months away from 60 and ready to collect my CPP.
 
1 week 3 times a year is enough. I'm not big on traveling, I have to go downtown to the office Friday to cash my cheque and head over to Audrey's to pick up the RJS book. The furthest I went anywhere substantial was to the Edmonton International in January when Donna was here to drop off her rental car and we took the Airporter bus home.

Not much on my plate today. I think at 5:30pm there's the Boston/Washington game on this evening. Lets go Caps! The big news this week is Vancouver goal tender Luongo wouldn't mind being traded. We could use a goal tender like that maybe we can make a 2 for 1 trade for NK. Any takers?

The NLRT line is coming along fine. Workers are tunneling under the Epcore tower right now and are busy upgrading the escalator and preparing the break out part where the train breaks off from the main line. Phase 1 of the Churchill station begins this Sunday The line should be open for business April 2014, 2 years away.

I added another think to this site (Audrey's books) I thought I had them here before but I must have accidentally removed them. Next up is a link to my You tube page. Anyway, that's all for now

9:35pm The Washington/Boston game #7 went  into overtime as I knew it would and Anne called right at OT but five minutes into our conversation I watched with delight, Washington on the rush shoot the puck and in the net upsetting the defending Stanley Cup Champions. Wow. Two big upsets from last place playoff teams. Vancouver/LA and Boston/Washington. Poetic justice for Vancouver in a way. There are 2 games in the East to be resolved: NJ/Florida and Ottawa/NY, Washington and Philly are resting. In the West it’s LA, St. Louis, Phoenix, Nashville. The 2 games in the East get underway tomorrow. Then they take a week off for round 2.

I’m having a great night discovering more of what my Ipad can do. There’s even a dictation device but it doesn’t handle some words that well. My name Jim they spell gym. Anyway, that's about all for now.

It was on a day like today

32 years ago (Friday) with a light rain as I became worried about where Ellen was on a dark rainy night. I was hearing stories about Richard how he was some kind of “Satanist.” At the time I had no idea what that meant. I think I heard those stories from some of the people from within our local SCA chapter. We always met at the Central academic building on the university Campus every week. Richard had begun coming around to our weekly Wednesday night meetings. I recall on one of them he kind of gravitated towards Ellen and I picked up on this right away. I recall how on a couple of those meetings the two of them had walked out together during a lull in the meetings and how one time Ellen and I rode back with Richard on the bus back to his place. I seem to recall we were coming from an Eastward direction along Jasper Ave heading West. That whole bus ride to JP terminal Ellen was quiet towards me and I think it was April 16th. Richard had probably set it up for her to visit with him on a Friday.

I wish I would have kept a diary of those times from my whole stay here in Edmonton Wednesday August 16th 1978 on. I remember thinking about this on the train from New Westminster, this would have given me something to do along the way.  

The day Richard had Ellen over at his place was her turn. The following week was my turn (being introduced into Thelema)

I often think back to those days on days like today. I mean I’m happy in my life, being diabetic and what little time I have left. I have a job (for now) I have my Lodge (for now) I have goals hobbies and aspirations (music)

Ok so now, I’m going to call Apple and see if they can redeem my gift card from the torn numbers. Finally I have somebody from. After finally being able to talk with an Apple rep he said I go to Express Lane and fill out some forms provide a brief description of the problem and an email will be sent back to me. It takes about 24 hours of turnaround time to get a response. Hopefully I can get a response and my iTunes gift card redeemed as soon as possible. Anyway, that's about all I have for today. 

I'm not sure what the outcome of the game was but

late in the 4th quarter it was close.

About 8pm the checks were handed out and they asked everybody if they wanted to take off at 8:30pm. There were'nt many arguments.

Anway everything was ok on my check all my hours were fine. I was at my bank 8:45pm and on the tain by 9pm and home by 9:15pm. I got 4 days off. Great.

Warren was telling me that if ever I wanted to go out to an Eskimo game say on a Saturday afternoon or whatever, Boston Pizza is running a shuttle bus from their Jasper Ave location a block away where our office is. It's a $25 pass that comes with a hotdog and a beverage. BP's has a special section at Commenwealth. I mean, for $25? Might not be a bad idea.

Tim (our drummer) in our office was mentioning that because Long & McQuade wnet and bought out Mother's music if I wanted to get my Daw, I could just walk over a few blocks away from the office. I don't like going out over to their 101st location off of 107th ave.

I'm going to try and accomplish seveal things this weekend. Mainly to try and finish this Star Wars book.

Anne just came in and went right back out to order us a deli pizza from Superstore accross the street. Just in time for whats left of Smackdown. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I had a

scheduled day off. Or at least I think it was. I mean the boss said because he wanted me to work res, I should take Sunday and Monday off. Then 2 days later he said a bunch of us are working taps 9-6. Ok so then that's a long week for me Monday through Saturday, or 46 hours when the max one can earn at my place of work is 41, no more then that. Now because I'm working Monday/Saturday that in itself is 38 hours even with having today off. It was not made abundantly clear to me about today.


Anyway I did complete a project I've been meaning to do for a few months now. That is to open up a "My Service Canada account" which basically lets me see where I am if I applied for CCP today (which I'll be ready to take early retirement at 60) and its not a huge amount about the equivalent of 3 video games not including early retirement penalty and income tax. What it will mean when I'm 60 (God hard to believe) I'll be able to work less hours for the same money. Right now, I'm putting in 35 hours/week full time. Even at 25.5 hours it will still get me the same amount of money in less time.

I watched the Canucks/Bruins game and the Bruins gave the Canucks a shellacking. I had the Bruins to win anyway. No way were the Bruins or any team in the Stanley Cup finale going down 3 games to 0. This is going to go 7 games. Game #4 Wednesday in Vancouver. Game #5 Boston Friday. Game #6 Sunday in Vancouver and Game #7 Boston. If home teams are the only winning teams and the series follows this pattern and as long as it follows this pattern Vancouver could win it in Vancouver Game #6. But I doubt it. I'm still calling it Bruins win in 7 in Boston.

This is pretty cool. On Coast tonight George has guest Richard DeWolf talking about how on 11/11/11/ at 4 Corners USA a energy vortex is going to open up. The last one was 26,000 years ago. Apparently this Vortex is supposed to be able to release negative energy that the earth has been harbouring of its own making. It's apparently going to be held open for a year or 2 hailing the way for planet X. Cool, do I might listen for half an hour or so.

Its on the cool side of Spring/Summer. I called 8pm Keith and he suggested I bring my laptop into the office and on our lunch hour Wednesday, he'll bring his Pen drive and I'll bring mine as well. Just in case. Actually, this is a good thing. I'm rather wiped out. TIme for some music. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I had a decent night on the job

last night even though it was starting out slow. I got inside and there was nobody around. Maybe they all went for their break. So I went to collect my cans and I turned around and they all came out. I thought maybe they were all called away to give a talking to by the boss. Nope. I asked Said and he said it was because Rob had got fired. Maybe because there was a rumor going around and management had wanted to make sure that everyone got the full story. Too bad though but Rob brought it upon himself. He took the top sales staff out of the office for his own call center operation. Not good, it's the end of a era.

I got off the train and there was Anne waiting for me. She asked if I could take a bag home as she was going to Superstore for some more pop etc. I got in and tried to do a follow up on any NHL Oiler UFA moves. The frenzy begins at noon today.

Anne made me a hot hamburger on toast and mashed potato, peas.

Anyway I was able to create a 4th Blogger Blog and I discovered the new Templates. I overlooked the Template design link on the dashboard and I found my old blog layout and I changed the blog title omitting Clareview. It's now just called "Baby boomer sci-fi geek with a laptop." I've got a bit of work left to do to move a lot of things over but at least now the name wont have to be changed.

My 6/49 lotto numbers didn't come in. I got 1 number including the bonus number. I needed 2 and I would have won $5.Anyway, that's all for now.