Up and out of here

about 7:45 this morning for emergency to continue the iV treatment. I got a prescription for some steroid type creme to remove the redness on my skin, more saline and anti biotics. They removed the iV but another one will be added tomorrow. Then more of the saline/anti biotics. That might be enough but I've got to go get to my pcn and they love to play telephone tag. I didn't get a chance to get in contact with my pcn today.

After that was said and done, we walked to the bus stop by the Manning Crossing apartments, waited inside drafty ETS bus shelter under cold windy skies. Its not a arctic type cold but there was certainly a noticeable hint of Spring in the air. After about a 15 minute wait our bus came by and we headed over to Clareview station boarded a train for downtown Central station Anne had us go up the wrong exit instead of the one across the street from Service Canada. My walking isn't the greatest lately.

I got Anne's cpp form and I got my gis form and I filled it out as best I could. Anne was over by the phone near the entrance. It wasn't too busy in Service Canada but it was early yet. After about ten minutes I got a worker and she said my Notice of Assessment didn't show my cpp income. That was strange to her and me. I got a t1 General (CPP) form and submitted this to CRA. This means tomorrow morning after emergency, Anne's heading home and I'm going back down to Service Canada with a copy of the original form, then process it and head for home. The good news since I can apply for gis upon getting my notice of assessment even 6 months before I turn 65 as it takes a good 12 months to get it and the household has to apply for it every year if they want to claim it. Most Canadian households don't claim the gis because there's so little involved. This year it makes sense, next year when Anne gets her cpp, it might not. 

Anne bought us a cheep pizza at the food court as I had forgot there was one there and a coffee, which I didn't finish leaving it behind at Churchill. I had some pizza at noon and then we went to bed for a cat nap. Four hours latter for me, Anne went to Walmart to get the prescription filled. Hopefully this will be the last day of this emergency visit. Anyway, that's all for today

About 9am this morning I was able to leave a

voice mail message on the phone to the lady that does our payroll at my current job. I need a record of employment from the last campaign to this one. That way all my hours are together. I'll know exactly how many I have from here for ei. She returned my call and I was able to complete my business feed the cats and back bed for about an hour or so of sleep. 

I'm aware of bluetooth selfie sticks. The good ones are about $40 cnd. Since I don't have any budget to produce the type of music I want to make, I have this clear plastic foot long  ruler and my iPod touch sits on that. Our iPad sits under that and I can work from there. The software sits in Audioshare, and I'm able to make my beats from there, while the iPod camera is running. Then in Audioshare I can upload the file to Dropbox. I need to find a way how I can get the file to iCloud Drive. Audioshare's iTune's file sharing doesn't seem to work for me or I haven't figured out how to get it there. One time I tried to export a midi file but that didn't work too well. Once I figure out a A, B, C workflow, I'll be able to produce more music video's. This is my project for the weekend. Life would be so much easier with a field recorder.

I'm in for today for 4 hours and my last day (until September) then I  have 4 days off. Back to work Tuesday. I'm hoping I can work right up to June with both roe's, for ei. Once this summer is over with, our house hold should be ok moving forward from here. Anyway, that's all for now.

This is old news by now

but Target is abandoning Canada. All 133 stores will be closed.  This has got nothing to do with oil. Target will lose $5.4 Billion dollars. Target's demise was not understanding the Canadian retail market and moving in to fast. They boasted low prices and a great selection but their sloppy management, and near empty shelves isn't just a Canadian thing. Canadian parent American stores are just the same there. Target's 17,600 Canadian employees will be getting a 16 week severance package. Liquidation of Target stock will be happening soon. I've been through a Target store a few times but I never shopped in one. Also, Sony is closing 19 Canadian stores but not as many jobs will be affected.

Today I'm going to go visit the caretaker and ask what our options are. I'm going to ask if we can do this at the end of the month because our hours are fixed for next week (which mine are) and we can figure out what our options are. Or and if we can have the empty suite across the hall or something else just to stay for ourselves and our cats. We're off all day Saturday and we can make some headway there. 

Also, I'm going to be re booking my Doctor's appointment today for next week, once we're done with this. Crisis. Then after that it's off for another 4 hours. I booked for a full availability for next week from Sunday to Saturday. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Usually I sleep over my 8

on Sundays but today I over slept from 4am this morning until about 10 minutes ago. If Anne had a day off, I'd still be sleeping until about 2pm.

The only downside about this 2nd job is that there is no bus out of Clareview after 1am. The last bus out is about 1am and I'm on the train. When I get to Corona station at 9pm and if I miss the first train at about 9:10pm, there's always another train. If I miss this train at 1:20am I'm stranded downtown until 5am. I should have went from 6-12:30 but I'm locked into these hours for three months. If I pass the 3 month probation period then in the new year I'll go for the 6:12:30am shift. If our lodge goes back to Thursday nights that'd be great because after my WM chair I'm considering Royal Arch (also meets on a Thursday). RA is a concordant body of York Rite Masonry. With this new job I might even affiliate with Commercial. The nice thing for me after January is I don't need to take a chair. With Commercial its a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon before I walk to my job a block away. With my job if my calls are slow I can check out my Sports scores on my work monitor and get my proline at the 7-11 next door. 

As for Lodge, this Friday is going to be a busy night, what with receiving GL officers official visits, balloting. Once the balloting has been completed I'll breathe sigh of relief and the close out is easy. Then it's retire to the festive board have a beer and relax. My position is almost like a part time job in itself but the pay off means after next year I'll get a IPM certificate and lay claim to the prefix wm James Shannon. That's what my prefix is now but then I'll I wont have the duties as a wm. I still have after Friday, its our elections and the district meeting but that's in October on a Saturday afternoon. After that in November we have Remembrance day and then installation. After Installation in December, is when I can really breath a sigh of relief

Tonight, I have a easy 4 hours 5-9 and if all goes well, I hope to have Sunday off. Gives me a chance to recharge the batteries after that long day Saturday. Sunday, I might be able to even watch some Doctor who and some football as well. Anyway that's all for now.