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.  

My 2 minute iPod video with my

iPod I made Saturday night wasn't to badly handled. I even "synched" some of my own "music" to it. I just need to mix the audio better in Cubase. it could use some normalizing and some, and some compression. Also it could use some text. I'll be working on another video this weekend with different music. The iMovie format isn't bad and does the job but if I was going to do this more professionally, it would be with something like a Nikon d5100 on a tripod mount or take some gear and record it over in the sound booth. You can listen to it here.

The Stamps won on home turf 25-22. That last play the Al's had and they fumbled the ball. From the highlights the game was a good one. Thursday we're in BC and that's going to be a good one. 

Even though I'm more or less caught up with all 4 novels (I  haven't got the 5th one yet). I was over joyed to read in i09 that Ian McShane (sorry i couldn't resist) is getting a bit of love as a character in the "Game of thrones." I read one of the books and I found that I got a good idea how the series is going to play out. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm excited about the

Markerplace at the downtown library and the sound booth they have. Most importantly the production equipment they have. I can't tweak my hours for Saturday but I hope we have a short shift so I can head over and cheque it out. 

Last night was David Letterman's last Late Night with David Letterman broadcast. I'm not big on TV much less talk show TV, but I liked watching the occasional Letterman when he had "Stupid pet tricks." Letterman had a lot of great guests over the years: David Byrne, Alice Cooper etc. If I needed a laugh, Letterman was always there. The only other talk show I like other then Letterman, if I was to endorse any of them would be Craig Ferguson. After the news Anne hogs the TV for all of her shows and I have other things to do anyway after midnight then watch TV. I'll miss Dave. 

I still haven't gotten around to booking for that x-ray, but I hope to do that this morning. Other then that, its a full day today. Despite Victoria day I'm still going to have 65 hours, on my pay next week, which isn't bad. Anyway, that's all for today.

A slight change of plans for today

I'm getting my hair cut across the street in the morning and then a trip downtown and then Northgate, Friday. I'll do the unemployment thing possibly Monday. In the meantime I have a little shoe fly buzzing around here. I think that spray banished it.

Saturday I'm on the couch watching the Stamps/Esks for last weekends rubber match. Also, the Esks have unveiled their 3rd jersey and sporting new helmets. I'm Looking forward to having the Esks bring the Stamps to their own 8-2 record. 

When Anne called from work on her break I was able to catch a Doctor Who episode with the new Doctor Peter Capaldi: "Into the Dalek." I must admit, I like him and Jenna Coleman played along side him and they looked like they worked very well together. I thought the episode was very good. I didn't get all of it but the episode last night was right up there with anything Matt Smith could have done. Other then Wrestling, it's the only current thing on TV I can relate to.

Sunday I have a lodge practice at Highlands Hall at 7pm. Next Friday is lodge night. Four more meetings and I'm done. After that, I'm just a bum in a chair, and I'm looking forward to that in the new year. Anyway, that's all for now.

As you can see I began another

book to read. To be honest, I don't like prologue's or epilogue's. Just give me the story but in the case of a Omnibus, a prologue works. As boring as they are the good stuff is about to begin. 

I still need a few tools before I can begin working on my music tracks,which is why I haven't produced anything yet. The main thing holding me back is a faster computer with more then 2 usb slots and a larger hard drive and at least 8-12 Ram. I'm working on a couple of instrumentals and such at the moment. I work mostly in FL Studio and Cubase

I'm in my glory today. I've got Monday night Raw and the Oiler game,so in between wrestling I'll flip to the hockey game. Perfect.

I don't get the Twitter followers like Justin Bieber gets but for a hokey blog about my inane ramblings, I get about 20-30 views/day and I have just over 500 Twitter followers. Almost 8,000 visitors have taken a look at my blog I set up over 2 years ago. I have had other blogs as you can read my daily diatribe's going back to September 2005. The casual observer will also note there is no advertising associated with this blog, for now at least. That doesn't mean that there won't be any advertising if I get the right opportunity. Anyway,that's about all for now.
     

For most of last night

 I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to get Anne an email and then it dawned on me that since I already had Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts on my desktop, I was without a yahoo email account on my laptop. I got that set up for Anne but I’m having a hell of a time with Apple ID but I’m closing in on it. I’ll get her up and running shortly.

Just as an after thought actor Jack Klugman died Christmas Eve from throat cancer. Klugman played Oscar Madison next to Tony Randal as Felix in the Odd couple. I remember seeing the Broadway production of the first episode as it was on tour and I saw them on stage. That would have been 1976, a few months after that I migrated to Calgary to find work. But the show didn't feature Klugman as Oscar, I believe that was with Walter Matthau. Walter Matthau died 12 years ago. The Odd Couple, Mash, All in the family, we don't have shows like that today. With all of this politically correct bs a show like All in the family would never get by the sensors. I don't think I never heard Archie used the N word for (Jefferson). The Odd Couple never went that direction but Hollywood and they're politically correct obsession would probably (if the show were produced today) have made one of the roommates Asian or something. My only beef when it comes to Hollywood casting like this is the show was conceived as it was, if Hollywood made a remake of The odd Couple by tinkering with it to appease this political correct climate nobody cares about, would ruin the show. That's one thing I didn't like when Marvel changed the character of Nick Fury agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hate to break the news to you kids, but Nick Fury originally in the Marvel comics was "Sargent Fury and his Howling Commandos." Look it up. Nick Fury was a white man not a black man. When David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury (1998) last time I checked I don't think Mr. Hasselhoff went from white to black in a decade. No disrespect to Samuel L. Jackson. He played an excellent version of Nick Fury and I think he did a great job in that role but casting of the movie Iron Man in 2008 was an obvious move to appease the politically correct climate plaguing us to this day. I'm happy when I was watching sitcoms back in the 1970's we didn't have this politically correct bs. Partially why these days I don't watch that much TV. How about this pc scenario: James Bond after Daniel Craig will be a Jamaican Bond with a British accent. I'm just sayin.   

Coast 2 Coast this morning is about Christmas movies but the next half of the show is about the Urantia. I did a brief study about this curiosity some 20 years ago. With about 2000 pages and going through a bit of it myself, kind of went over my head. At least Ched is back to normal. Tonight the show on Coast is about “Planet X.”

We just came off of watching the latest Doctor Who Christmas special “The Snowmen.” This was a great special. I liked this one better then last years and I hope they keep the supporting cast. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate this a 9.

Earlier before I got into getting Anne an Apple ID I set myself up a Sound cloud account. I even set up a mobile app for it but it doesn’t look like the app is that well received.

Today being Boxing day is going to be a madhouse out there. If I had any Boxing day funds I’d wait until Friday for the end of Boxing day week.

As for me, I’m relaxing over the next couple of days as I don’t think I’ll be heading out anywhere until Saturday. Anyway, that’s all for now.

We had a nice thunder storm

go through here over the last few hours. Lots of rain and boom, booms, good stuff.

I went into the evening shift and stopped into Tim’s for an iced coffee. I should have got one of those iced caps/slurppe kind of things instead. It was very warm this afternoon when I tweeted earlier it was +31 out there. Hence the storm:

 Wow, Mars rover Curiosity is going on a bit of a trip today. It’s going to move forward for a bit and then back. Very significant early steps.

I had a slow evening on the job but I was more or less on par with everything else but I’m glad I wasn’t there the whole day like a few other‘s were having a hard time all day. 
 
Once in awhile I get asked, “Jim, what are you watching on TV these days?” I watch, local/international news, Monday night Raw the odd CFL/NHL game, reruns of the original Batman TV show and The Rifleman and the occasional episode of “Reviews on the Run” or “Attack of the Show.” That‘s it. I don’t watch a lot of TV maybe 5 hours, week. If that. Anyway, that‘s about all for now.