I received my Amazon

order just as Anne was coming back from her trip to Clareview Costco. It was a birthday present for myself.

Anne hadn't face timed with her sister Pat in awhile, so it was good we were we're able to touch base and all. Anne used to do that with her on a weekly basis. We exchanged contact information, since we were unable to chat with her since our move from that fire trap Windham last year. 

I've been wanting to do some coloring book art projects/over head shots. I'd like to scan something in and use my iPad. I have Procreate.  Its very versityle.

I bought the book Tarot Archetect (Amazon order) by Lon Milo DuQuette. It has line drawings of his Tarot deck and coloring suggestions. He suggested we make this project our own and customize it anyway we want. Anyway, that's all for now.

A laid back day

today. The highlights of my day was watching BabaLon Facebook channel Monday night Raw earlier.  I also got my music ready for Lodge for Thursday.

Today is Star wars day. To me, Star Wars day was May 21st 1980 because it was such an important day, when I got my tax return in the mail and cashed it that afternoon. Richard Ellen and went through Edmonton Centre and I saw the last few seconds of the New York Islander beat the Flyers. First time an origional six team got beat by one of the "new kids." 

We were going to go to Hobbit's. To get Richard's comic file but we ran into some friends of Richards in the Star Wars line up. They let us in ahead of them. There were a few other things going on before and after that. I cant get into the details, but it was a magical time for me. I was still in my 20's. 

Anne returned from her Clareview Costco outing and gave me a progress report on Wyndham apartment building across the street. The first fire that took out the building by the church was last year.  Building B. When I was at BoB early April, there was a debri field 4 stories tall. Then there was a second fire in the remaining Wyndham building (faceing 137th Ave) April 20th. That was the building that we got out from when they had the fire shortly after that. Anne said every entrance was sealed and taped off in Building A. Our old building is empty. God was watching out for us when we got the call to move here, late February to move here. Anyway, that's all for now.

My lightning/hdmi cable should

 be arriving today between 5-9pm. Hopefully, it gets here before I start my shift at 4pm. I can always pause my dialer before I check my door.

I'm starting 4-9pm today. We need ~ 28 more completes. There's only 3 of us on the project. If we have 2 nights like last night, we'd need 4 more completes and we can finish this project by the end of the shift Saturday, which ends at 1pm. I thin we can do it, even though the source is oretty beat up. 

The inspector arrived earlier just after 9am. All she did was open the door, stuck her head in sniffed for dog urine, make a note and moved on. Anne was thinking it was a suite inspection. No big deal. Anyway, that's all for now.

Not a lot going at the moment

Starting to get a little bored around here but I'm going in for Saturday. Its a brief training course on the new office work computers and I'll get my books and a bite to eat, go home and watch the hockey game. 

I've been getting some reading in, with Robin Hobb's . Assassins apprentice. Its a good read so far. I've got the other 2 in the trilogy and another trilogy of the authors at Audrey's. I'll get those Saturday afternoon on my way home.

Other then that today its cold but tomorrow the temperature is supposed to be about +2*C, which for us this time of year almost feels like Spring. Anyway, that's all for now.

Not much going on

keeping busy coffee with friends chatting on messenger that sort of thing. Other then paying the odd bill, at least I'm saving money.

It was pointed out to be by an old friend that I have trust issues. Mainly not being honest with my wife about the people I go out with. The other thing is about being too emotionally attached to those closest too me. That's like one other person. Obsession. Excuse me, but I'm not in love with anyone. It was suggested I seek some counseling about the above and I was given a contact name for this. I composed a email and launched it earlier this afternoon. We'll see how that goes. In other words I'm in the doghouse again. Poor Jimmy.

At least I've been watching lots of hockey. Not much music production or reading. I hope to get a tack going this weekend. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

Not a bad day out there for late

October. I like quiet days like this. The wife is out shopping, I'm just doing maintenance answering forum emails that sort of thing. Just getting ready for the Oilers/Chicago game on at 4pm. I'll be watching that while we have brunch.

      

The Cannabis supply here in Edmonton is competing with demand. Most pot stores are running out of supply. So what's the Alberta Government going to do, obtain weed from the black market? 👀 It takes time to grow Cannabis. This is of course just "about," but it takes a lot of electricity and water to grow a Cannabis plant. It can take anywhere from 2-4 months to grow a Cannabis plant indoors. One plant could produce about 38 grams of smokable weed. Or 2-3 joints/3 grams of weed. So about 40 joints from one plant. Conditions vary of course. Not that I smoke weed I don't, but its interesting to see how the Alberta Government is going to handle this. In a related story on the news last night farmers in the Delta region of the lower mainland in BC said they might be re allocating some land to grow Cannabis because its a more lucrative crop then vegetables. A move like that could set a dangerous precedent because of less food grown. Importing food from other countries only increases the cost of that food. I can see a Cannabis type skyscraper where plants are gown per floor. A producer could have say a 40 floor Cannabis tower. Each floor might produce maybe 100 plants but the cost in electricity and water alone would be huge. Solar power on the roof and sides of the building might help reduce costs. Its an interesting story. 

I've got a short shift tomorrow and possibly Tuesday. Tuesday would depend where we are in the project Monday. I'm hoping beyond Monday I have this week off and into next week. It's not good for hours on the cheque but we're resigned to a limited week anyway. If we get the green light to go ahead on this next project, I could have 2 good cheques to close out the end of the year as we usually break for middle of December for Christmas. Anyway, that's all for now. 

I'm getting a bit ansty what with being off work for

almost six weeks now. Anne says, relax and enjoy the break. She's probably right but I have bills to pay. Things I need.

2017 has been one heck of a year for me. In January I was working some crazy hours. I got a small mixer from Long and McQuade. February I was working right after family day at the other job. March I had some terrible abdominal pain that took me into emergency for 15 hours. When I felt better I got that account for Novation Circuit. April I had difficulty setting up my pension back and fourth several times. May my other part time job ended as the Edmonton Oilers made the playoffs. I was surprised how fast I got on unemployment. June Orange Crush and Oiler fan frenzy. July I lost my job at the Heart and Stroke, my 20 year old cat Silky died, my computer died out on me as well. July had a lot of bad news. I also got my Roland Go Mixer. August I had my 65th birthday on a total solar eclipse, while volunteering at Fort Edmonton Park. Total cool. September, I officially became a senior citizen, collecting a small pension. October I got back to work at my current job and I went and got my Focusrite audio interface, paid my lodge dues and paid off on my Circuit account. Lots of hours. November, still lots of hours, I got my new iPad with i0s 11, work slowed down. December no work at all. I bought a Lav lapel mic for smartphones. Near the end of this month we're facing off severe cold snap. And that's the way it is for 2017.

The Oilers are hosting Winnipeg this afternoon at 5pm. Anne's getting me some Chinese take-a-way being delivered. We haven't tried Skip the dishes yet. Not that I'm too keen on that.

I'd like to thank anyone who has ever visited my blog in the past and this year. I hope there was some take away value for you. As long as Google keep s this service up and running, I'll keep blogging on Blogger. Happy New Year everyone. Anyway, that's all for now 

In a way I hope I have the rest of the

month off. Most of these seasonal call centres break just before Christmas. Heart & Stroke does that, Malatest and us. We're going to get really busy in the New Year though. I hope so because I want to get into Eurorack modular and get the Xbox before summer break.



Having the IOC ban Russia from the Winter Olympics is huge. Only the "clean" Russian athletes can compete. All this on a possible Trump impeachment vote. I wonder if the 2 are some how related? Its my conspiracy mind at work folks. Trust me, I am  not a crook. Hmm, where have we heard that before?

So tonight, I'm doing lodge work, watching the Oilers game and working on a beat this afternoon. I'd like to work with Blocks Wave and Novation Launch pad for the i0s. I've got a couple of ideas to work with. Anyway, that's all for now.

Ahh 2 days off the

job and what do I get? I'm out of bed at 8am, yeesh. Anne offered me a sleeping pill and I would have slept longer if I took it. I'll have one before bed tonight/tomorrow morning.

Yesterday was substantially warm on my commute. I got my book at Audrey's and got into the office for work on time. Ok why is this even note worthy? Shortly before my 6:45pm break I got the chills. Then I got the hot flashes and I began sweating. I kind of suspected this had to do with Diabetes. After a bit of checking when I got home I found out that I was having hot and cold flashes. One of each. Its common knowledge that hot flashes occur mostly in women. It seems men can get them to when there is a substantial drop in testosterone levels. That's what I believed happened to me last night.

The town of Hinton (just West of Edmonton) could become the first geo thermal community in Canada. What they are aiming at doing is taping into abandon oil wells for thermal energy 5 kilometers below ground. This energy is renewable as well as clean. Geo thermal is nothing new. Countries in Europe have been using it for a long time. Boise Idaho fore example, uses geo thermal water to melt snow off the streets. Alberta has thousands of end of life oil wells. If we can work this out how to get the hot water out of the ground that's mixed in with oil and heavy metals, it could be a real boon here. Hinton hopes it could have some buildings go geo thermal in 2019. There are complications like legal and regulatory issues involved. By 2030 the province could generate a few hundred megawatts (MW) of power in a year to help replace the 6.3 gigawatts (GW) of power currently being generated by coal from Keephills 1, 2, and 3. It's going to need a lot more then a few hundred MW to replace Keephills. About 55% of this Province's energy comes from coal. Now that the NDP are phasing out coal, the NDP has said that they need to replace coal by 2030. That's only 13 years away and the 3 Keephill plants are only 3 out of 18 the Province has. Earlier this last Spring the Province has said they hope to add 5,000 MW by 2030. Geo thermal looks like it could be Alberta's end game energy wise.

After lunch/dinner I'm going to get a iTunes card so I can get Beatmaker 3. Now that I think I can get specific amounts on iTunes card at the till, makes me happy about that. However if the till says, otherwise, so much for that idea. Anyway, that's all for now.

Taking a break from doing some

memory work for the lodge June 1st. I do a bit each time. Its a small passage of a prayer I'm doing for a special night in lodge.

I got upon the late side of things this afternoon doing some diary writing, email stuff. Jakob Haq of "Haq attack" updated a video he posted the other day as he was a bit out of sync. The video was a 2 hour long walkthrough of a video he did with a app. That was most of my afternoon. Anne made our late brunch and I watched some of the Preds/Ducks game #2 and watched a bit of Hogan's Heroes. Mostly on You Tube all night. I think other then sports and the news, I'd rather just have You Tube. So it was a lazy kind of day today for Mothers day. Anne was out and about doing her stuff. It's been overcast all day, on the cold side of about 8* if that. I went out on the balcony to get a bit of air around dusk.

This is my last week if my Southside job. I'm not sure if there is a extension. We only met our goal last year because there was an extension. We're not even 50% of our goal. Heads could roll between campaigns when we resume again in September. I'm back at the market research job Tuesday, to see where this is headed and what we're doing next, if anything. I'm back, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (last day of my Southside job) One thing is for certain with my market research job: I'm not going to be playing this "call Friday for an update, (nothing over the weekend, call Monday) kind of a thing. As soon as that happens, I'm requesting my roe. I have more then enough hours for ei from what ei has on file from the Southside job and when this is done for a ei claim. It takes 4-6 weeks before I get anything from the claim. I'm kind of hoping things will slow to a halt with my market research job.

We're getting a bit of over night rain. Our local weather has been on the cooler side this month so far. We had a few warm days last week. Anyway, that's all for now.

My other job has yet to call me

saying they have work. My last contact was Good Friday week and I said I'd go into the office to pick up a small cheque. Its only for 4.5 hours. When I called the boss last week he said one of the projects they are hoping for are currently in negotiations with. So far I haven't been called back. I don't want them to think I quit or anything. So I've got to call them today.

I felt bad for Calgary Flames fans because they got swept playing Anaheim 4-0 last night after an amazing run down the regular season home stretch. The score in last nights contest was 3-0 Anaheim. Don't worry Flames fans, the way we're playing lately we're not that far behind. The only differences is we finished better then you did in the regular standings and our team Captain Connor McDavid won the Art Ross award. And we lasted a bit longer then you guys did. Its not do or die for us just yet. No need to panic. Our series is tied but the visitors this evening have momentum.

It seems like when ever I buy something like hardware, shortly after that the company makes a better version. This happened when I bought Native instruments Maschine Mk2 about 5 years ago. Shortly after that NI went and brought out Maschine Studio just as I was making my last payment on Maschine Mk2. Now its happening again with Novation's Circuit. Now they are about to release Circuit mono. Its kind of like a modified bass station with Circuit pads as an after thought. I don't know if Circuit mono is better, its not even  in stores yet.  

After I call the boss this morning, I'm out of here to get some bank forms for my 2 pension supplements, then off to work. The good news is the lady that drives my buddy and I home after work will be in tonight, so I can make it back in time for what's left of the 1st period and we'll have the game on in the car radio. Anyway, that's all for now.

When I got my shift for this afternoon

adjusted last night, I thought 4-8 is a good shift and a nice break to the weekend. It also means I don't have to get up at 8am and I can sleep until noon. Anne's got a melatonin pill for me and I can pass out listening to Coast 2 Coast. Pre Columbian Americans. Saturday nights show looks good: Werewolf sightings/Who killed Bob Crane?

I'm not a fancy dresser. Winter its just a sweater and jeans and my winter coat. In the summer its a t-shirt with front left pocket, jeans and a windbreaker. Most of the time I'm in sneakers unless we have a heavy snow day. Once a month I'll dress in my suit and tie for lodge. So, with that in mind this 65 year old fat guy isn't going to shop for a clothing line from Ivana Trump. Not even for my lovely wife. We're strictly Walmart or Value Village. Sorry Nordstrom and I don't need to be counselled by this.

Staples called us and that means Anne has her photo frame waiting for pick up. She's going to try and pick this up before work. This way I can free up a few gig of photos/video off the iPad so I can use it again and upload a better Launchpad 2 iPad video. Still no word from my other job. I'll call again next week before the Family day long weekend. Anyway that's all for now. 

I made one of my

appointments with the pcn, so that at least is ok. I got my pay cheque and my shift was ok until a "uh-oh" on my part near the end of the shift. I only did this study once on the first day and that was about 3 weeks ago. I'll correct it today. So, other then the oops, I had a good day. 

Anne finally did it. She ordered a $7/month subscription to Netflix. That's a pretty good deal actually. It really expands our television viewing palate a lot more. So on her night off she's been Netflix binging all last night and even now into the morning. 

Poor Mariah Carey. She can't catch a break. If the bad sound at her New Years eve event wasn't enough now she's being vilified as a lip sync fraud, in the same camp as an auto tune cheap shot artist. Excuse me but almost every artist live on stage lip syncs to a track, to be heard above the din. Yet because some people wanted to create a viral moment about this, its now a trending hot topic. Hashtag, lip sync. I'm not a fan of Carey but I respect what she does. Putting Mariah Carey down like what they are doing is a taint to all musical artists.

I got my Space Marine Battles book after work, "Plagues of Orath" and headed home. Anne didn't want to cook so she ordered us a Maximus pizza. We watched the news about Russian hackers, whacky terrorists, something about a dog in Denmark? Yeesh. Anyway, that's all from me.

Well we're back to winter at long last

which could be good or bad, depends on your point of view as a resident here. At the moment its -7 and if I was on pension, I'd call in sick. I'm not yet, so I can't. Next week we're supposed to go into the -15's. It's been a rough month for us what with losing Boots.

The Oilers went from 2nd place in the West just a few days ago down to 5th in the standings. This team's main problem is they have only one line that can score goals: Connor McDavid's line. The rest of the guys aren't scoring. I knew this would happen to us eventually. Its my feeling that the Oilers will be hovering around 9th in the West in March, in and out per game. The last game of the 2016-17 season will be a back to back weekend pair of games with the Canucks. Just a gut feeling but the Oilers will squeak into a playoff position but just by 1 game and 1 goal down to a shoot out. 

I'm more or less happy with the PM's decision yesterday that saw approval for a couple of pipelines. It was the right decision to pull out of the Northern Gateway. He gave the green light for the Burnaby Trans Mountain pipeline, and the Edmonton/Wisconsin pipeline. There are a lot of hoops to go through first and I'm not holding my breath the 2 pipelines will get underway, anytime soon. Its good news for Alberta though. 

Ok, my schedule for the rest of this week, is looking good. my last day today at the South side job for this week. I got my 3 days in. Then I got lodge tomorrow as its our installation. Then I'm working at the West end job Friday and Saturday, and that is confirmed. Hopefully I can get a full day out of Saturday. I've got possibly 3 weeks to go for December. Anyway, that's all for now.  

Overcast skies around here usually signify

warmer weather in the winter. At the moment its -3 degrees C. Tomorrow is looking very similar as it is now. However we're warming up a bit to -2 or +1C for much of next week. Its still sneaker weather as there's no snow on the ground but its cold enough where it could. I could wake up tomorrow morning and there could be 2 inches of snow on the ground. It could go either way.

Both of my places of work could be taking a Christmas break around the same time. My South side job (where I'm heading to later this afternoon and for tomorrow 10am-2pm) could be done by December 22nd. Some of us speculate we could be done by the 15th. My West end job could be done by the 15th as well, but I'll have decent cheque for the end of the month from both places. Plus, even though both jobs could be done by Christmas, the South side job takes a break January and February. My West end job resumes in January but there could be some spotty work for both months but I'll have enough for a ei claim I can open and put on pause. My South side job resumes March 1st and I hope to have at least 12 weeks of ei on pause before my South side and West end jobs ends mid May, end of June. Then activate my ei for over the summer, and slide right into pension at the end of September. By that time, I hope to be at my South side job. This way, my wife has my pension money, and I have my money from my jobs. Well that's the plan.

This weekend is the Eastern CFL finale Eskimos/Ottawa. Whoever wins this is in the Grey Cup finale. For the West, its BC/Calgary. The 104th Grey Cup game is next weekend and apparently no CFL crossover team has ever made it to the finale in CFL history since 1986. So, I'll be watching this. Its win and your in the finale. So should be a good one. Anyway, that's all for now.   

I'm out of here at 1:30pm this afternoon

on my way to pick up a couple of small pay cheques. Its enough to pay the balance of a bill, get a haircut Saturday and my book on my way to work this afternoon. I'll have a bit left over for breakfast tomorrow morning. 

From the "Yeesh department:" The Clinton campaign is ramping up. Mud slinging at its finest. This whole smear campaign against Trump is Hillary grasping at straws. Kind of reminds me of the Bill Cosby women coming out of the wood work years latter. Those women wouldn't come out before the Cosby case became public. Now the case has eased off a bit. So the Clinton campaign is using the Cosby approach against Trump. Its high stakes political theatre. Mrs. Obama comes on camera to vilify Trump as some ogre out to grope every woman in his circle for some events that happened 10 years ago (notice they are not saying that) People are not that gullible. I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago. People grow and change adapt new beliefs new points of view and react to the world around them in different ways. Also, I'm sure these women coming forward are paid to come out to "testify" against Trump. The Clinton campaign would want their audience to think that these women are some kind of victims. By using this approach shows that Clinton is talking down to her audience, yeesh. I'd hope most people are savvy enough to see this current Clinton tactic for what it is: Political theatre and its going to backfire on her.  

The Oilers won their first regulation game Wednesday, opening night at Rogers place arena 7-4. McDavid scored 2 goals. Its not like Auston Mathews scoring 4 goals in his opening night in regulation play. His team (the Leafs) lost the game in Ottawa the same night. But those 4 goals Mathew's scored were on the road. This is going to be a interesting year watching the Mathews and McDavid show. Tonight its payback time for the Flames in Calgary. I'll be at work as that's going down, and it'll be all but over by the time I get home. At least I'll catch the scores on my evening commute home. The Flames aren't going to lose tonight, that's for sure. I'm expecting different results from the Oilers tonight. I'd love to see both Edmonton and Toronto in the Stanley Cup finale with a healthy McDavid/Mathews on the ice playing in early June. From Bill Ross FB page:  


              

I got out of bed with the usual aches and pains about 10am this morning. We're getting a blizzard out there now. Its not that cold at -1 degree. However I have to go out in this take a bus to Clareview, then the train to Central and get up to street level to get a bus to 107th &124th street. Spend some time in the office then cross the street to get the #5 back towards downtown Corona station, into Scotia hoping I can cash the cheques at Scotia without them putting a hold on them. I have my bank card and ID. That's plan A. Otherwise plan B: If they need to hold it for 7 days, then I'm back to Corona station, underground to get any train to Central and go to my street level RBC branch, then the lrt back to Corona station upstairs to Audrey's downstairs to Corona and the train to Southgate. After all that its the #6 bus to 51st Ave and Gateway Blvd. All in this weather. Sigh its not easy being me. I'll compose a Tweet later to let you know what option I took A or B. Anyway, that's all for now. 

September's weather is usually on the cooler side as at the moment its overcast

with some patchy clear breaks and a few dark clouds. Sunsets at 8:17pm I like this time of year. It's not to hot or cold. Nice mix of Sun and rain. Gone are the +30's. Thank god.

Friday I had a few things to take care of like my Doctors office first. I arranged this over the phone with the reception a few days ago. I needed to pick up some sample meds over the counter in and out. I left out of the apartment under threatening skies and rising humidity to my Doctors office about 1:45pm. So far so good. I had 3 items to take care of yesterday afternoon: Doctor, bank, Service Canada in a small 2 hour window. Travel time would eat up a lot of that window. The reception at the Doctors office said something like "Oh the Doctor wants to take your blood pressure before he gives out the samples," "I don't have time for this now. I thought this was a just over the counter pick up like in our phone conversation a few days ago. I have less then a 2 hour window and its already 2:10pm, alright." I was becoming anxious. Experience has taught me that seeing a Doctor on a Friday afternoon (especially on the start of a long weekend) is going be awkward and could compromise my window. I spent more then a few times waiting up to an hour in his office. After the 2nd blood pressure reading, I had enough of this and unhooked myself off the blood pressure machine and headed out of the waiting room to the reception counter. "I don't mean to be rude, but I don't have time for this, can I re-book this for next week?" All they had were morning openings until the week of the 12th so I got a 1:30pm on the 15th. I can go without for 2 weeks. It's not like I need penicillin or anything like that and I have a bit left over. Its not life or death. At first they wanted to send it over to my pcn but that's another appointment and something about email? Don't they know that C means confidential :) The 15th will do. Its entered in my calendar. I walked East along the South side of Jasper Ave up to my RBC and got the form I needed. Then I worked my way up past the renovated Alberta Hotel. I thought about ducking in for a beer, maybe later. At Service Canada there was a line up but I had my iPod touch and some offline reading I could do in the mean time. Very little waiting and I was able to see somebody right away. All my details were in order for my oas, bank form etc. I didn't know I could apply for my GIS in the Spring when our Notice of Assessment's came in. That's pretty cool. I was out of there at 3pm and I thought maybe I should try the Doctor's office again but I was sweating like a pig and all I wanted to do was to get home.

I was able to buy the Filmora Go remove watermark license for just a few bucks (My gopro alternative) for my iPod Touch from the app store the other day. Works great. Then I discovered Pinnacle Studio for the iPad. It's like iMovie but more robust, more options. iMovie won't work that well on my iPod Touch 5 Gen and barely on our iPad 2. Pinnacle is pricey but I'm seriously thinking about picking it up. 

Learning Pinterest is a bit of a struggle. There's lots on you tube but its old and out of date. I've got a blog board and I'm going to pin a couple of other items to my wall soon. I don't know how I was able to get over 390 page views (Pintrest) and 16 followers last week but maybe that was a fluke. Since on my blog I have 1 follower. It'd be cool to have some of those Pinterest followers as blogger followers. Anyway, that's all for now.

Still plugging away here

as its mostly overcast out there at about 18. Not much going on today. No football. So I'm taking it easy, working on a track in my daw, checking my email, reading, that type of thing. Anne's making us her traditional Sunday brunch later. I'm sitting here with my first coffee. Pretty basic stuff.

I've had the Alberta Health benefits contact details on my iPod Touch for quite awhile now. This last Spring, I've been waiting for our notice of assessment (what the feds send at tax time) which is a summary of combined taxable income. The noa is a accurate account of income filed each year by revenue Canada. I was waiting for that, and time off before I began to file for Adult health benefits, and a year to date printout of our bank statements. Last year when I did this I was working, and my only way to get this to the program was to fax my bank statements. The fax machine I was using at employabilities was brand new, and I don't think they were  comfortable working with it. Since I was getting insulin anyway from my pcn, I figured at the time I'd just wait until next Spring. No rush. Also, I didn't know prior to that I can access the program with bank statements year to date. The program is based on income and last year we certainly qualify. Now that I have time off, and rather then fax stuff to the program I can just drop it off in person to the reception counter. Once I have the location of course. My work schedule at the time prevented me from doing this. Next week I hope to have some full time hours for a few weeks anyway.

The other day on local news there was a story about the Valley line lrt. A "spokes person" from the program saying that they are on schedule. There's a lot of road closures due to preliminary work but they hope to have a work schedule posted within the next 4-6 weeks with a target date for 2020. Ahh, now the Sun is trying to come out. Boots seems to be enjoying himself. Anyway, that's all from me for now.

I slept ok up until about 9:30 this morning but after that

my rls got in the way. I think I got 5 hours of sleep, and I'm ok with that. At 9:30 it was time to feed the cats anyway. When rls gets in the way, sleep comes slow. I have my first coffee and I'm ready to take on the day. I got out of bed by 11:30.

I didn't think it would happen but the impossible, did. I'm referring to the UK referendum this week, leave or remain part of the EU. The decision was made: Leave. David Cameron resigns to take over the duties of phasing out of the EU. The markets reacted of course. Cameron will remain as Prime Minister, until the fall. I'm still in shock.

Its slightly overcast out there. C2e is still struggling with some real old vB code for the new upgrade. I've got week 1 of the Red black/Esks game tomorrow. I missed the Argo's game as that was on last night. I'm out of here in a couple of hours to go get my cheque. Not much going on. Anyway, that's all for now.

Lets see, with 4 hours of

wrestling Sunday with "Money in the bank" and 3 hours of Monday night Raw, last night-I'm a bit burned out with TV wrestling. So much so, I've been missing out on some major stories and events to report my impressions on.

When I heard Sunday night that actor Anton Yelchin (Star trek's Chekov) died Sunday, while watching the news Sunday night after wrestling, I couldn't believe it. His own suv vehicle killed him at his home. He was 27. Brian Jones, Hendrix and Morrison each died at the same age. The suv he was driving was one of the vehicles that had been set up for recall. The actor was getting out of his suv in his parking lot at home. He was behind the vehicle when the suv rolled and pinned him against a brick pillar. It was the trauma of the incident that killed him. Another celebrity dead at the age of 27.

I began "Scream of Eagles" 5 days ago and I reached the half way point of the book, yesterday. It took me 4 days to read half a book? I'm wondering why? Is it the genre maybe? I'm thinking that's the case because a lot of science fiction stories are slow. Fantasy, even slower. I'm going to have this book read by the end of the month.

I've been sending out 2 resume's/day, and so far the fish aren't biting. I'm thinking summer will be over by the time I find a part time summer job. We're not quite at rock bottom but I can see the wolves through my "field glasses" as it were. They're bivouacking on the horizon. It looks like my market research job is about to shut down for the summer. I'm hoping my other evening job will hire me back in September but after this month, its going to make July and August seem very long. At least we have July's obligations more or less taken care of. August is going to be tricky. I tried to remind Anne that my family and I aren't that close. Except for my parents, we lost contact with each other in the 1980's and 90's until Facebook. They are in no position to help us out. We just have (for the most part) August to worry about and mid September. In early August I have to get my other job set up. They are off for the summer as well. The day of my birthday, I'll be applying for my oas. I'll get that at 65. I could still get a couple of weeks of work at my market research job but I'm not holding my breath it'll happen. I'll be in on Friday to pick up my cheque. Anyway, that's all for now.