Tonight its

Friday night Smackdown. Speaking of sports, I'll watch the Oilers games but I'm not going to go out of my way. If the Oilers are going to have a slow start this year this could be the last year for Connor McDavid.

A few monts ago I contacted the Edmonton Valley of the Scottish Rite Masonry. Once I pay my Lodge and Chapter dues, I'm going to try and sneak $250 to the secratary and send my fees and a petition. This is to get my 32°. The only caveat to that is, its distance is all the way out in the West end. I don't need to go to every meeting but I will if I can get ride. Lots of brothers are involved in this. I can go one month to Strathconna 77 (Friday night) and SR the other month. Alternate them. Strathcona, I'm just a visitor.

Not much going on this weekend. I'm going to try and make a beat in Loopy Pro 2.0. I like this app better then the previous version, expecially the way it works with midi. 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.

Its a cold November

Monday but at least its sunny and feels like -24 with the wind chill. That's ok because after its starts warming up to single digit numbers.

It was interesting to hear the passing of Charles Manson this last weekend. His passing away is no love lost that's for sure. Even when Manson burst on the scene I was 17. We got the same news about what happened like everyone else did. At that age just recovering from my back operation, in a body cast, most teens of my generation were interested in Woodstock and the Hippy movement. Charles Manson was at the time a peripheral character to what was going on at the time in the broader sense of the term. To me the name Charles Manson barely registered into my daily life back then. I had other fish to fry.  

Despite the crappy Oilers and the bad decision making of the Eskimo's in the CFL Western finale, Survivor series made up for it. The trouble (I think) with the Oilers this year they have a target on their backs. What with making it to the 3rd round and nearly to the finale, plus all of the accolades of McDavid, the huge upcoming salaries, yeah I can see why the Oilers would have a target on their jerseys. As for the Eskimo's, we gave up 6 points on field goal attempts due to the wind, and add the lack of ball security (fumbles) and bad decision making by the head coach, is what cost the Esks the game. On the other hand, Survivor series made up for it. AJ Styles and Brock Lesnar, wow. Even the main event was a off the chart wow. Tonight is going to be interesting.

As for today, I had to call in and rebook a Doctors appointment for the 30th and its off to work back home for wrestling. I'm also trying to get Telus to walk me through how to set up my new Nintendo 3ds Xl since they replaced our modem a few months ago. I'll be doing that. Anyway, that's all for now.

That was a really long weekend

which means summer is almost over. For the kids they go back to school. I'm hoping I get some good news about going back myself. To work that is, We've got a huge bill to pay down, and I want to get the Xbox One X hopefully by Black Friday. Even though I'm on pension, I'm not yet retired.  

Lets see, over the weekend we watched the 2011 The Green Hornet. It started out slow and kind of juvenile in parts before the middle but then it built up and non stop action from there. I don't know why its taken producers five years later to work on a sequel. We also watched Monday night Raw, which was ok. Last night we watched Smackdown Live which is a lot better show in my opinion. Anne and I try to watch a movie we haven't seen every weekend. We get out the popcorn or other snacks. I haven't seen the recent man from UNCLE movie. Anne says she's seen it but I'd like to. I'm thinking about watching Doctor Strange instead as we're a fan of Marvel Studio movies. I remember reading Strange Tales as a teenager before my back operation even. I'm looking forward to Star Trek Discovery coming out on the 24th and the upcoming Star Wars "The Last Jedi" coming out in December.

This month the NHL goes back to work, as training camp begins soon. Most of the pieces from last year are in place. I think it was a mistake to let Jordan Eberle go. This guy scores 20+ goals a season. Sure his contract was to inflated but still he's a good player. Looks like Jerome Igninla is still up for grabs. We still have some positions open that Iggy could fill, but there are other players in the system that could be a good asset if they make camp. As for football, the Esks blew out another Labour Day Classic, 18-39! I'm not too impressed with John Chick. Mike Reilly's timing was off. The Eskimo's are the most penalized team in the cfl.

Up this week, I'm open for today. Tomorrow I've got some public speaking to do. I know my material so I think I'll be ok. Also Thursday I've got to call the boss to see what's happening for work. Friday is the Saturday is the Stamps/Esks rubber match. I'll be buckled in for that one. Anyway, that's all for now.  

Its not very often that I give up on a

book I'm reading but "Back to the moon" wasn't doing anything for me, sorry. After a couple of years of reading "Horus Heresy", what can I say? I was spoiled. I'll return to the book "Back to the moon", eventually. Its just not on my reading radar at the moment. For that matter, I'm a little burned out from reading Warhammer 40K. I'll still buy the books. So, I thought I'd try for something a little different: A John Scalzi book. I've got a few of his books on my shelf. I thought I'd try his first novel "Agent to the Stars." I'm reading along and its got a few good things going for it already; first person point of view. That's always a plus for me. Its got some comedy :) Moving forward it looks like a good yarn. It'll keep me going far into January. He's got a few more books in the first person point of view. "Old mans war" looks interesting as well. There's also a few Robert J. Sawyer books I need to get to for 2016. So, I can take a break for a few years from reading Warhammer 40K. Like I said, I'll still buy the books and all.

Switching gears here, I've watched a few episodes of "Ring of Honor" (RoH) wrestling lately. I was really impressed with what I saw in last weeks recorded to pvr show. I really liked the fast pace of the "Television championship" match. It was really good and fun to watch. I'll be watching RoH on a more regular basis. I like how the announcer table is right up against the ring. Very old school and reminds me of the old Stampede wrestling in the '80's. Anne's recording this for me every week so I can watch it Sunday nights. 

I sent out a resume last night. I'm not trying to replace my job. I just need something that will keep me going during times like this. I've been without a income for the 3rd week this month and its bugging me. I got one cheque last Friday. I don't want to be caught without any income for summer 2016. When I get something part time I'd like to go 3 days at the new job and 3 at my current job type of a situation. If there's a month without work at my current job I'd like to have the option of pick up hours at the other job. Most people in the market research industry, working in a call centre do this. 

Tonight its wrestling and Oilers road hockey. Tomorrow I'm out at lodge for the evening as our lodge and another lodge are holding a joint degree. Wednesday night is another Oiler game. To decide the CFL West yesterday, we hosted the Calgary Stampeders at Commonwealth stadium to a 31-45 decision. In other words we're going to meet Ottawa at Winnipeg for the Grey Cup. First time since 2005. 

One thing about this downturn in the economy is we're getting a lot more faces out to lodge. Brothers I haven't seen in awhile are showing up, which is good for us bad for them I'm sorry to say. Thursday (where I work) we're having a staff Christmas party early because the office is expected to get busy from here on in. I'm hoping at the Christmas party we're going to get news of the upcoming project. Other then that, not a lot going on. Anyway, that's all for now.

I've had Apple's

iOS 9 for a few days now. Its a little buggy. My screen jiggles once in awhile, resets itself, tricks like that. What I do like about the new update is I can now save any webpage or photo as a pdf file to my news stand for offline reading. This is a handy feature for reading emails etc. What I don't like about the new update is that it doesn't want to send a iPod Touch photo via my email like it used to do before. I'm still testing iOS9, and most likely will discover other things over the next few days. 

Tonight I'm following the Calgary/Oiler's pre season game at Rexall place. Its Live on Demand (meaning to say we have to pay for it). Also, I'll be watching my usual Monday night Raw. 

Job wise, I'm laying low over the next few days. If I don't get a call to report to work by Wednesday, I'm going to be cashing in on my assets but leave the door open to who ever wants me first. I got a feeling I'll get a call latter today or Wednesday at the latest.

In a few minutes I'm calling my old school district to enquirer what the process would be for obtaining my school transcripts from the 1960's. I'm curious how much if anything is on file. It'd be cool to see my report cards, my marks, my old teachers, schools I attended and what years. Now that I have a bit of time off, I'd be cool to find all that stuff out. I just contacted my old school district and they will be emailing me a transcript request form. I'm sure there is a small fee to release this info. So I got a pdf form in my email and its a simple form to fill out. There is a $10 fee. I'll get that out tomorrow. Anyway, that's all for now.

Since January of this year

I've had 2 colds and I've got something that just activated over night Friday. If this gets developed then this will make 3 for the year. Ordinarily I just get 1 cold a year. The blood test I took a few weeks ago yield up nothing. I'm at a loss here for an explanation as to why I've got 3 colds.

This week's forecast is in the 30's. It's not official or anything as far as I know but I'd say we're in a drought here in Alberta. Especially if farmers have to get hay from other provinces. Here in Edmonton, we've had under 40mm of rain since July 1st. Hopefully we'll get some rain soon.  

Update: I had a decent sleep overnight and I'm feeling better. Still having episodes of phlegm through out the night. My scratchy throat is less scratchy and I'm about to have my first coffee for the day on this. The downside is my voice is rough and hoarse. Other wise, no worse for wear. 

My 10 year old Xp computer as pictured here life cycle is almost at an end. I'm looking at a refurbished system for about $200. It's an Intel pc with 4Gb and whopping 160Gb!
 
  Friday I walked into the office and the super said the boss has the cheques. They had a small crew doing clean up The boss said if I call Wednesday he'll know with more surety what the week of the 18th will be like. August usually slows down. They will be back in September with more frequency. 

Since last Thursday I've been I've watching a lot of CFL football. Three games so far and one more today. I also watched Smackdown (wrestling) I've been watching a lot of sports over the last 3 days. Anyway, that's all for now.

We're on the cooler side of mid June

but the air is still nice. We usually get most of our rain in June but its been dry lately. This June holds a special moment for me because it was 35 years ago today Sherwood Park Medieval days was underway. It would almost be this hour that the SCA awards were about to be decreed to members for various deeds within their respective SCA bodies. Everyone was in full costume. Since the SCA was the main attraction and I led the two groups (Edmonton and Calgary) the day before in the parade. I thought I'd get an award. I was a bit naive at the time. I recall that weekend was rain free but raining in my heart. I had a lot on my mind for a 28 year old. It's in my diary. Unfortunately there is no more medieval days but it went from 1964-1967 and then the Kinsmen Club. At one time it even had a midway. The last Medieval Days was held May 2002, 13 years ago.

For the most part Anne and I are night owls. On a Saturday night we're up until about 5am. Around 4am that's when we  had a power outage this morning. It lasted for about 40 minutes. Power was out from 50th street to Victoria trail South of 137th ave. I was concerned if it went on all day we could miss our WWE wrestling pay-per-view and miss out on "Money in the bank." Next to Wrestlemania its the wrestling pay-per- view we like the most. Now that we can get all 12 of them on the WWE network. Money in the bank starts at 5pm. Last night both my sports teams won: Chicago won in Tampa Bay 2-1  (game #6 Monday) as the Esks/Riders game was under way in Fort McMurray in a pre season game 31-25 Esks. I have tonight.

I need to get that form from the resident manager tomorrow. The form cancels out having us to uproot 15 years of living   (the inspection) We did this twice already and each time the inspector comes in he finds no bed bugs. If he finds evidence of bed bugs, then we have to comply since the inspection (3rd time this year) is on a Friday it would give us some time over the weekend. I can see 1 or 2 bed bug inspections/year but 3-4? That stresses people out and people will move out. We may as well live out of a suitcase. That's not living. I see advantages of having a condo. No need to worry about crap like this but we can't afford a condo. We can barely afford rent here. We're not the only tenants that got the inspection notice. They were handed out all across the complex. Its going to be a busy week for me. Anyway, that's all for now.

Friday morning

and things are moving along nicely. Not a lot going on over the last few days. Just working the job thing. It's a half shift today but a full one tomorrow. I'm going into Tim's for breakfast tomorrow.

Yesterday shortly after I left for my commute Anne says that's when the office downstairs slipped another bed bug inspection notice under our door. This makes the 3rd inspection notice this year. It seems they do this every time a tenant moves out. Its the usual drill: dry all clothes and bedding, drapes and pack them away move everything out from the cupboards and all furniture out from the baseboards etc. The notice comes with 3 pages of instructions. What we've been doing previously is to get a form from the office which waives the inspection and all that work and allows the guy to come in shine his light in small nook and crannies. He says all clear and sets a few traps and comes back ten minutes later. "No bed bugs here." I need to check with the landlord and tenant and find out if this is legal. I can see once a year but this is the 3rd time now. We might as well just haul our belongings off to storage and live out of a suitcase. I'm getting the form on Monday after I call landlord and tenant. Right now its only June. The next inspection notice could be anytime.
  
Sunday is WWE "Money in the bank." Anne has a nice rack of baby back ribs. Yesterday Dusty Rhodes (American Dream) Hall of Fame wrestler passed away at the age of 69. Most likely, that'll be mentioned. Dusty is survived by his two sons Cody and Gold Dust still active on the Roster. anyway, that's all for now.

Miami is where my sister in law called from last night

in their Sunday night chat with my wife. as they are on the beginning of a Caribbean/Panama cruise for a couple of weeks. I thought getting out of the house is a big deal! 

The Oiler's had a 2 goal lead on Dallas last night at the end of the 2nd period. Wow. Then in the 3rd Dallas scored to tie the game at 5! They went into ot and into the shootout. We lost a heart breaker in a shootout. That 2nd period was the best I've seen the Oiler's play this year. They entertain Phoenix on Tuesday, the last game of the year. Hopefully they can improve their 7-20-7 record. I've got a feeling the Oiler's are going to unload Hall and maybe someone else in a deal with Buffalo to secure the 1st and 2nd pick in the off season I hope I'm wrong. I like Hall. 

Yesterday I put together 4 $2 50/50 games for fd. The games are for tonight and I'll be following the results while watching Raw. 

I've got to call the boss to see if there's any work next week. There are still 5 days left in the pay period. Every bit helps. Anyway, that's all for now.

Were having a snow day out there today and its coming down

pretty good. Hopefully we don't get the snow they had in Buffalo the other day. 

I'm thinking about what to get my wife for Christmas. Since she doesn't read this blog or even know it exists, I'm safe. I'd like to get her a digital photo frame and Staples has a nice one for about $50 and I'd like to get her a Tim's card and the iPod Nano. When I get the xbmc system set up hopefully we can reduce our cable down to something more manageable. At least that's the idea, in theory. 

This afternoon I'm putting a Fan Duel (fd) fantasy nfl football team together. Under the salary cap of course. For some reason fd deposited $10 into my fd account and my pp account shows normal. Strange. Anyway, that's all for now.

I have a day off

today, which is ok because I can make some phone calls tonight and watch the Oiler's game on TV. If the game looks bad I can always switch the channel. 

We got a note under our door from management saying how Friday they're going to be installing new windows. It means we have to remove drapes, clear stuff away from the walls as work will begin 8:30am-5pm. I'm not sure if the window frames will need to be removed but it seems likely. Anne's going to read the note and she'll go ballistic. I'm not removing my computer desk. I can move the hutch and remove my laptop and Maschine and a few other things. We can move stuff on the balcony and leave it on the balcony. So the bedroom window gets done first and the office window we can move stuff at the other end to the bedroom window area. I'll be here before that. It depends on what they want to do first and if they'll need to come inside. At any event that ruins our Friday. I'll be leaving out of here at noon, Anne out of here by 3pm. Hopefully by the time she leaves out of here most of the work will be done. 

When Anne leaves I'm going to research Fan Duel a little bit. I signed up a few weeks ago and uploaded some funds to play. I'll be doing that later today. Depend on the sport I'll need to fill out a roster and try out a game or two. I'm not going to go crazy, maybe $20 month. Its mostly for fun.

I'm still thinking about a cell phone as I can keep track of my fan dual (fd) games and sports scores in general. Getting a cell phone has been on my mind for awhile now. There are lots of different plans out there but I'm not going with Telus and I'm not sure about a iPhone. Average plan that I've been looking at has been about $90 for 2 Gb/month. Most likely its going to be a android phone, something that can fit in my pocket. With a cell phone I'm never away from my email and there have been many times where I needed to get to my email when I was away from my email. A cell phone makes sense, I'm just not sure I can afford $100 month at this point.

Anne took that well. She doesn't like it but she took it well, which is ok. So, we'll be working on that Thursday night. The bedroom drapes will be the last to come down I suppose.

Not much going on other then that. The weather is holding out ok as we're into +13's and +15's, which is pretty nice for this time of year. We'll be in low single digits by the end of the month. Anyway, that's all for now.

Its been a quiet week around here

but yesterday got a bit active. We  got a couple of nibbles on the job front as Anne is up for a interview this afternoon and its all the way out in the West End in the industrial park area about 8 blocks north of West Edmonton Mall (WEM). Or West Ed as locals call it. Its for 4pm and I'm going out with her upon her request. We're leaving out of here at 2:30pm. This time of day we can take 1 bus and its a one way 40 minute bus ride. We're going to have a look at the operation anyway. 

Waterfalls are a splendor to behold no doubt about it. We have Niagara Falls in Eastern Canada. There's Victoria Falls bordering Zambia and Zimbabwe and yes we have our own waterfall here in Edmonton! Yes, you heard that right. It's not that well known but water comes from the North Saskatchewan river. It's recycled water that is pumped up to our high level bridge 156 feet from the river below. Its only turned on a couple of times/year but this year there has been a project called "Light the bridge." It's a privately funded project to raise $2,560,385, from nearly 12,000 people. The light-the-bridge project will feature 1,120 luminaires (fixtures) containing almost 60,000 light emitting diodes (LEDs). Each luminaire will be fastened in such as way as to achieve a 3G vibration rating to maintain the integrity of the presentation through the natural rattles and vibrations of the working bridge.The lights can be individually controlled and dim, flash, glow and glitter in one or every imaginable colour. In other words the lights can be programmed. Its an interesting project. I don't know if the led's will be on year round or at (obviously at night) what times I'm not sure. I can almost see it coming where this will turn out to be an advertising opportunity. "Shop at Acme 50% off on all housewares tonight only from 1-9pm."  Yeesh.

Sunday afternoon Anne and I are going to Horseshoe lounge just over here to watch "Money in the bank." That's our favorite WWE event next to Wrestlemania. I like Horseshoe's pizza and we're having that and watching it on their big screen. I'm having a beer as well. It's not like going to WEM or anything but we don't have enough Scene points for that and as far as I know the WWE network isn't available here in Canada yet. 

I'm actually enjoying this week off even though there's been no income coming in, until tomorrow. I'll get my Eagles book and hopefully a nice weekend. Also, there's a CFL game on for tonight Toronto/Winnipeg and the Esks are playing Saturday and a game on Sunday. Looking forward to this CFL season: Bring it on. Also, there's the NHL free agent frenzy coming up. Good times for sports fans. Other then that not much is going on. Anyway, that's all for now.

At the moment I'm concerned about a email pdf

payroll stub that comes into my email usually sometime Tuesday. This tells me what to expect in my pay cheque for Friday. I know I input my time for Friday and Saturday. Its only for 11.5 hours. Those hours are going to help us pay the rest of the rent for June, so I'm holding my breath so to speak waiting for the pay stub to come in. I just hope there's no complications.

I had a nice day off yesterday and I worked on a song I'm calling "sit in a chair." It's a little rap style number. It's in the rough draft stages for now. I have no time line for getting it out either. it's a fun project.

I didn't go out at all today. I got up about noon. Anne went down to drop off a resume downtown and went to Walmart and got me some "cheese pleasers" (cheesies) and brought us each a couple McDonald's quarter pounders/cheese as I was bouncing back and fourth between the LA/Rangers game and Monday night Raw. Raw was lame and I was hoping for Rangers to win. Anyway, that's all for now.

That was a decisive victory for

the Seahawks but what was Denver thinking? Still I'm happy Seattle won. That was a blow out and then some! 

I was doing computer research for most of my Sunday afternoon. The Intel Next Unit Computer or NUC, isn't bad but for something that can't get above 2 Ghz cpu speed and has only 16 Gb Ram, isn't something I'm interested in at the moment. 

The new Captain America winter soldier and The Amazing Spiderman-2 looks awesome. I'm especially interested in seeing Captain America when it comes out later this Spring.

After the game I figured out how to upload pdf files to my Itouch. I needed to download iBooks and then I found a site that takes any url from a webpage and turns that page into a pdf. I need to open the pdf in the Firefox folder and upload  it from my desktop to iTunes. Check on the pdf and sync and there it is in iBooks. Works really nice. Anyway, that's all for now.

Summer is officially

over and it's been a short one arriving about mid May. Our summer usually runs mid April to the end of September but we still haven't had our "Indian Summer" yet. 

Friday the Esks won and there's a slim chance they could still make the play offs or cross over to the Eastern conference based on their points at the end of the regular season. Also last night the Oiler's were facing a Vancouver Canuck team that had most of their training camp roster. Their big stars were out of the line up. Still it was a nice 5-2 win for the Oiler's. 

Looks like I'm not going to be putting any serious music together except for instrumentals until I get a better computer that can actually handle the programs I have. A computer for music production. My little Acer laptop with 4 Ram keeps crashing. I bought it before I wanted to get into music production. I obviously need a desktop computer and I hope to get one mainly for music production, soon. I'm looking at a aTMX mother board with a quad core i5/7 processor, 32 Gb ram, 4Tb internal hard drive. I'm buying it locally and I'm getting my laptop hard drive cloned for the new PC. I'm hoping to get it before the end of the year or in early January, depending on what's going on with my Lodge.

Not much going on today. I've got a couple of Lodge calls to make and I'm watching Thursday's Impact wrestling and some football. Anyway, that's about all for now.

My hours for next week are a little

choppy. Not 1 day is the same but at least I'm getting the hours in. I'm off today as I can sleep in and watch football, hockey and wrestling. Sweet.

Speaking of football on my $2 Proline ticket, I had Edmonton/Winnipeg to tie. I was tracking the scores all night in between calls. A tie in Proline is a 3 point game. There was 2 minutes left in the last quarter. The score was 24-27 Bombers. I stuck around until the last minute but the supervisor wanted to leave. I got home and the score was 27-35 Eskimo's! That means the Esks got 11 points in 2 minutes. Unbelievable.

I had a pretty good night on the job last night and if the schedule holds up I'll have Wednesday off a more or less full cheque. It means I'll have some cash for myself for a change. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Its been a hot one this afternoon

evening.

The topic on for Coast overnight is survival. Not one of my favorite topics but I like to catch any of the "other" news they have on just at the beginning of the first hour but Wells unlike Noory doesn't cover a lot of this sort of thing.

The BC/Al's game Friday night, I never thought it would be a tie game because the Al's were so hungry for a win at home and they got it 38-39 for a Proline tie. Then last night Stamps/Argo's. It would have been an Argo's win except Ricky Ray got injured and had to be put on the sidelines. That was the momentum shift Calgary needed. This game was hyped as a Grey Cup rematch from last year. Calgary won 35-14. I forgot about the significance of the game. Then the double header today. Winnipeg/Hamilton. 14-37 for the home team. I called that one right. Then the Riders/Esks game and the Esks held the lead twice on the 1 yard line Esks football to take us into the lead late in the fourth quarter. The coach took our young quarterback Mike Riley out of play thinking back up Qb had this. Then after the ball is snapped the ball is fumbled then recovered. They should have gone for a field goal to tie the game at 30. Instead of going for the field goal they take the replacement Qb out insert Mike Riley and he spots his man in the end zone, the ball is tossed and it's picked off! Riders have possession and wind the clock down. Another Proline tie! Riders 30-27. Up next is the labor day classic and we got Friday Hamilton/BC. Sunday Winnipeg is at Saskatchewan, Monday its Edmonton/Calgary. Tuesday Montreal/Toronto. I'll be working up until 7pm so I'll miss that game. The labor day classic is the unofficial mid way part of the season. 

This summer was so short and NHL training camp for the Edmonton Oilers is right around the corner. September 14th. 

That's enough of sports.

I'm not a great fan of the Batman franchise. I liked the first 4 movies. I didn't see the Christopher Nolan series yet. So now Ben Affleck has been selected as the new Batman in the 2015 Batman/Superman movie. There's a lot of buzz about this, to which I say...meh. My response to the hoopla of Ben Affleck.

Seems that Obama is going to make a decision about Syria and about their use of chemical weapons on their own people. Obama wont do anything because Syria has Russia in they hip pocket. Syria can basically do what ever it wants. if Russia backed Iraq to the extent it does Syria then the war in Iraq never would have happened. Just my opinion

Fan expo in Toronto's last day is tomorrow and it looked like a good one. We get our own fan expo here in Edmonton September 28-29. It's not as big as the one we had last year. This year, Garrett Wang of Star Trek Voyager will be there. Christopher Lloyd. and a bunch of others I'm not familiar with. It's a stripped down version of last years event but for $20 bucks it's not a bad deal but there's nothing special for yours truly. I probably wont be going.

I took a sleeping pill before bed early this morning and other then waking up to pee the odd time, the pill really zonked me out. I remember up about 8:30am to use the bathroom and I passed out right after that and woke up at about 12:40pm. I like to wake up about 10am on a Saturday. Anyway that's all for now.

At 7:55 this morning

I didn’t even hear my iTouch alarm go off this morning and looking at the clock it was 7:55am! I had a shave, showered, dressed, got my cash together and my things and caught a 8:15am bus to Clareview got my CFL Proline picks and got a by hand 6/49 ticket and my coffee at Subway and at my desk 2 minutes before my shift at 9am!

I had a great start as well for the day pulling in about 7 completions in a 4 hour shift. At 1pm I booked off and headed over to Jack (the barber) and got a nice haircut. I didn’t know about this but Jack is a decent harmonica player and pulled it out of his pocket and played a few brief numbers. I walked up to my RBC and made my deposit. I wish I would have brought my Government ID along. I caught the train to Belvedere station on the tail end of the K-days parade and after a brief wait got the #11 over to Londonderry Mall. I looked around Coles etc, and found “Game on Sports.” I got a exchange for a XXL Esks t-shirt with no name on the back and I even got a $4 refund because the shirt was a bit cheaper. They added it onto my RBC account. After trying to find Albert’s I came across the Bell store. I explained what was going on with my Telus account and why I had to close it down. Bell had the same kind of Flex package for tablets and if I had my Government ID and my Ipad I would have internet on it right now. After that I found Albert’s and Bud’s lounge. A little side lounge attached to Albert’s. I ordered a Molson Dry and relaxed at the bar. On my way out I popped into “The Source” (Radio Shack) and asked if they had any i7’s in that order they were unpacking on the floor. Sadly no I found Dollarama and bought a bag of chips for the weekend and then into another store called “Champs.” They had a Edmonton Oiler‘s hoodie but it was in medium. Then into “Sport check.” I asked if they had any windbreakers or Oiler‘s hoodies/jerseys. I licked out almost everywhere and the clerk at  Sport check suggested I try “The Oiler‘s Store” in Kingsway. I had a brief wait for my #11 and then home.

I‘m currently watching the Argo‘s/Bomber‘s game. 21-6 at the half. Yikes. It doesn‘t look that good. So basically that‘s been my, not bad. Anyway, that's all for now.

As much as

I love my wife, I was in bed by 2am! I had a good 8 hours of sleep but by the last 6 hours or so my back was getting soar. That’s my body saying “Ok Jimmy, get out of bed.”

Later about 2:30pm Anne and I want to be on the road Clareview LRT to downtown/Corona/ #1 bus to WEM. It’s a long trip on a Sunday. Might take 45 minutes to get out there. Anne wants to get off at the bus terminal at WEM and work our way over to Silver City theater and order our tickets for WWE “Money in the bank” (6pm we can actually reserve our seats) and then get a bite to eat at the food court. Then after that we should have a few hours it’s work our way East (in the mall) towards “Target.” They took over Zeller’s as their store opened up this last Spring. While she’s doing that I’m going to visit “Game on sports.” (At gos) It’s right beside Target. I’m not going into Target but Anne is, and as she’s in Target I’m going to my store. I’m hoping to get a Oiler’s Esk’s hoodie or a wind breaker and an Esks hat or maybe both.

After that it’s hook up with each other outside of Target and work our way through to the theaters. I’d like to be there by 5:30pm because there’s the pre “Money in the bank” match. It’s three hours long! We should be on a #1 bus about 10pm and home before 11pm. With any luck.

This week I have a full week ahead of me as my hours are from 9-5 Monday-Thursday. Friday it’s a little easier 9-1 but then Saturday I’m in from 10-6pm and it’s a full day of cold calling, uggh. I’m going to ask for a revision on that as I’d rather work 9-5 Friday then cold calling all day Saturday for the same hours. Anyway, that’s all for today.