to eat this afternoon but I can't justify that considering our expenses, and I'm running low on coffee as it is. I buy the brand bellow because its good bang for the buck. On the container it says something like, "makes 260 cups!" Yeah right maybe using a teaspoon, and without water. I usually have 1 table spoon cup a day. At that rate the container here usually lasts me about 3 months. For about $11 its a good deal.
Last night I reinstalled FL. Studio 10 producer edition, which I have a license for. I bought the program in 2011 but found that the more plugin's in use the more the cpu burns out and crashes the program but that's normal. I'm considering FL 12 but its a download only purchase, and I need a cd. Most likely I'll stick with this, and upgrade to Cubase Pro 9 when it comes out. My laptop still has half of its hard drive space intact but I'm leaning more on the hardware side of things instead of programing.
Still no word on the job front, and most likely none will happen until tomorrow, if that. I'm hoping I'll get the green light to come in Wednesday or Thursday. I got a job, just no work right now. It's a beautiful day out there. Anyway that's about all for now.
Monday heading into work under overcast skies but less wind. We've been getting a bit of light rain over the weekend. We get a few episodes of this every time this time of year. Reminds me of April 25th 1980. There was a change of #5 bus drivers by Audrey's, which slowed thing down. The bus was loaded until my stop at the job and I barely got in the office by 4pm.
Every time when one of us gets a "sale" we put our first name on a piece of company logo paper, drop it into this clear plastic box. The boss mixes them all up and pulls them out like a lottery. I seldom win. Drum roll.....the pick. "Jim" I won a $25 Canadian tire gift card. Nice. That was ok but when the first half rolled around and ended, I got nothing to put on my tally sheet. Not one sale and or 1 online. Work went by slow as we're closing out the last few weeks of the campaign. No "sales". With my new found luck I thought, lets go to the store at break. My intention was to get a 6/49 lottery ticket. I had a set group of numbers. The prize for Wednesday was $17M. Remember that number. In comes one of my coworkers. Dave has been pretty lucky with playing the scratch and win black jack cards. He's been winning a few dollars here and there. The cards are $2 each. He bought 2.
I bought 1. Inside the office I'm plying round #1 on the card. Nothing. Round 2, on the left I had 17, 17, 17, 17. I won $25. Remember that 17? I went next door to cash in on my winnings and got a big wu-who! from the machine. The lotto 6/49 draw for Wednesday is $17M! 17 was my lucky number for the day. Back to work, I ended up for the first time ever on this campaign with nothing on my tally sheet. Joyce drove Dave and I home and dropped me off at my place first. Quite the day.
I have better luck playing scratch and wins more then I do playing 6/49 or Proline. I probably should have picked up a few more black jack cards but I can do that later today and take a photo of the card. I'll update this post latter tonight with the image. Anyway, that's all for now.
and then try and get another hour or two sleep. That wasn't going to happen after I fed the cats this morning. I laid in bed for about an hour and a half. What the heck, I got up and fixed myself a coffee and I noticed a fresh blanket of snow out there. Its a snow day. We haven't had one here in the Capital region in a long time. These Spring snow showers however don't last long and the snow doesn't stay on the ground very long. By Thursday it should be all off the ground. It's back to wearing boots for a few days.
I'm back to my 2nd job today, leaving out of here at 3pm. I don't need to be in until 4pm as we start at 4:15pm. This gives me enough time to set things up, get my file etc. The good news is I'm off at 8:30pm and home by 9:30pm so I can comfortably watch Monday night Raw. Anyway, that's all for now.
campain is over over at last. We're voting for change but not the orange kind. Today I'm out of here at noon in the office for 1:30pm-6pm for a 5.5 hour shift doing reminder calls. I'm off at 6pm hopefully home around 7pm so Anne and I can go to the polls. After we vote, I'm settling in to watch the results. By 10pm it'll be all but over then we can settle in and watch the encore edition of Monday night Raw. Anyway, that's all for now.
(my favorite time of the week) I rode the #5 bus to Corona station with a colleague having a friendly chat. He's about the same age as me. I wasn't about to hang around downtown too much as there's nothing to do anyway after 6pm. Now that baseball season is here in Edmonton I might check out a Prospects game at Telus field. The tickets are $20 for the bbq area. A burger and a adult beverage on a hot Saturday after work, sounds like a good idea.
In my email when I got home last night shortly after 7pm our lodge secretary sent a email notice about practice, tonight. I called our WM and he opened with "sounds like you have the same cold my wife has." So I said I'll be at lodge. Sorry about missing tonight's practice.
Last night we got some badly needed rain. It was actually teaming rain about 3am. It felt good. With that and the sleeping pill I had a good 9.5 hours of sleep. I'm just working on my first coffee. Birds are chirping outside. Its a beautiful sunny day.
Tomorrow is very busy. I've got to run down to get a bank statement, meet with the caretaker to find out what's going on with us here and then I've got to head into work. I want to pop into Audrey's and pick up my book and into the job. Anyway, that's all for now.
we did PC reminder calls on the job last night. I screwed up a bit but it wasn't too bad of a screw up. I had a good day despite having a abscessed tooth going on for most of my shift. Then I get a call at the end of my shift (like I knew that wasn't going to happen) and again I missed my 9:40pm bus. I got home shortly before 11pm. Anne made me a nice baked pasta as I watched what was left of wrestling.
Earlier Monday before I left work, I ended up getting a hold of a ei agent and I have my claim on hold. So if there's any downtime this summer that will make up for any lack of work for a few months.
Today is election day as mentioned above. The NDP are way ahead in the polls and could form a majority Government by the looks of things. The good news is the Alberta NDP's are very supportive of LRT in the major cities. That could mean cap n' trade or a carbon tax to pay for it. The other good news is they will not introduce a provincial sales tax. Anne and I are voting Wild Rose. Hopefully either party will win a minority government. I'd favour a Wild Rose majority over a NDP one even though voting Wild Rose will split the conservative vote its better then nothing. We'll be going out after dinner since the office is closed today because of the election. Anyway, that's all for now.
