important figures in American music history, Prince. My post today is dedicated to the Genius that was Prince. While I've never been a hard core fan,his music resonated with me throughout his career. I learned about his passing through the Connect 2 Edmonton message board. The first time I heard Prince was "Little red Corvette." Right away I was captivated by this artist. I knew there was something special here but I didn't know what. When I heard "When Doves cry" boom! That was magic. I enjoyed "Thieves in the Temple" and many more. I last watched Prince perform live at the Superbowl half time show IN 2007 and loved it. Prince is right up there with David Bowie and others. There won't be another like Prince. I can't believe this, David Bowie and now Prince, in the same year. My heart is broken.
Today The City of Edmonton will be having a ground breaking event for the upcoming Valley line lrt. This is the biggest project in the city at $1.8B. The Cloverdale footbridge is expected to be removed soon and work on the Valley line will soon be underway.
After Joyce dropped me off out here I went into the new Shoppers Drug Mart (sdm) I wanted to go in and have my blood pressure checked out they have these all in one chairs, touch screens and blood pressure pumps. I just stick my left arm in hit the start button and up pops a graphic. I was at 145/84 right in the middle. Apparently this machine is supposed to generate out a printout without the "smart card" insert. Its a free card but the pharmacist was busy and I wanted to get home. I don't mind doing this once a week, say on a Saturday after work. Its a free and convenient service. The sdm across the street is open until midnight.
I'm having a great week here what with going in for 4 hours and getting home most nights at 9pm. Until I get full pension, I'll be working as much as possible. Then on cpp and oas it'll be 4 days and on cpp, oas. gis, 3 days/week. What with losing David Bowie and now Prince, its been a tough week. RIP Prince, you will be missed. Sigh, anyway, that's about all for now.
so much time off, even though its Christmas week, it doesn't look like I'm going to get any work next week with only 1 day off next week, it doesn't look like I'll get a schedule until that first week in January. We're doing ok though.
While Joe Cocker was a legendary British rocker from my generation I wasn't really a fan. I vaguely recall him doing that song "Up where we belong" in 1982 and he had other hits as well. Most of my generation recall him from Woodstock. Cocker died at the age of 70 from lung cancer.
My 4 fd picks were good, except the results were not very good. I barely got 16.3 as most fd players picked the Ottawa/Washington game. First position's score was 45.2 against the last in the top 10 was 37.8. I had 2 decent players in my line up. I just picked the wrong game.
In the Horus Heresy series I began to wonder how many Horus short stories do I have. BL publishes a lot of them. In one of the Horus series I have "Tales of treachery" and that has a good bunch, and about 5 other Horus books have others as well. I have 33 short stories including some pulled from the audio books I currently have. Coming out in April is "Legacies of Betrayal" and that anthology has 20 short stories in it. Of course that's not all of the shorts BL has published. Anyway, not much going on today that's all for now.
