I was a big fan of

the Warhammer 40k book franchize. I had allmost all of the "Horus Heresy" novels up until about book 50 of 64 books. The serries ended last year. I even have some audio books as well on CD around here someplace. Most of my "Horus Heresy" books were puged in the move here. Thanks to my crazy wife. I wanted to get into some of the related Warhammer 40k figures and table top gaming but my Edema/CVI won't let me stand for long periods of time. 

The "December 23 Enigma" points to the 23 Enigma, a belief that the number 23 holds unusual significance, appearing frequently in life and historical events, often linked to synchronicity, conspiracies (like the Mayans' 2012 prophecy ending on Dec 23rd), or pop culture. It stems from writers like William Burroughs noticing patterns (Captain Clark's plane crash, Flight 23) and was popularized by The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Jim Carrey's film The Number 23, highlighting how focused attention (selective perception) finds patterns everywhere, from DNA (23 chromosomes) to the I Ching. For further reading.

Last nights Flames/Oilers game @ Rogers Place arena, was a 5-1 Oilers blow out. The rubber match is Saturday. So far we're 1-1 in the series. Calgary won the last game in a shootout. The win last night, meant that the Oilers share 1st place in the Pacific division. Anyway, that's all for now.

I have yet to hear from my job as to when

the next project is. I'll be calling the office for an update this afternoon. Most likely even though we have work for the summer its going to be something like 1 week on 1 week off type thing. I've got a few options I'm going to call in on. My job is more or less steady but because its project based is unpredictable in the summer. If I didn't have ei, I'd be in trouble.

Update: I decided to check into the office about 5pm and the boss said there's nothing happening for the rest of the week. Something is coming up for after the long weekend. I have a couple of options including a few job leads. One option I might have and I'll be calling tomorrow is to see if this career upgrading school still has its 3 month customer service course. I think one might begin in September. It helps extend my ei claim and improves my existing customer service skills. Also, when where I work has more projects, I might be able to work 2-3 days/week for pocket money. I'll be calling the school tomorrow.

I put another post out there in the "I grew up  in Coquitlam" site. Asking the group if anyone remembers a Mrs. Wilson. I gave a description an address and years. Some people remember her and one member said she knew my siblings and our

family saying we lived around the corner from us on Hailey etc. She asked how Rick, Martha, Jeff etc were. Apparently though my Mrs. Wilson was Mrs Mitchell. The member corrected me from the description I gave her. She knew Jill and corrected me on the spelling of her last name. I got the name wrong but the description is bang on. The group member's madden name was Westover. She remembers when Hailey was a dirt road in1959. The Mrs. Mitchell thread is all but petered out but it was interesting and generated 35 replies. The Google map above shows the area I grew up from 1959-1971. The blue dot is about where our house (still standing) is. I got one more story to go in "Tales of Heresy" and I'm really enjoying this anthology. I've got 4 more anthologies in this series, "Legacies of betrayal" is the next book in the series, book 31. Also a Horus Heresy anthology. Great stuff. Anyway, that's all for now.

At least I'm sleeping a little better

over the last couple of nights. Saturday/Sunday night because I had that sleeping pill and this morning because I had that beer. Also, I backed off on the Coversyl because I feel it might have a side effect, which could be why my circulation in my lower right leg has been bothering me over the last week. Before I got married when this blog was just a hard copy diary in my own hand writing, (1997) I had a security guard job. It was then my sciatic nerve really acted up on me causing pain along my right side. I don't know how I was able to cope in doing that job. That was when I was in Amway at the time and I recall a trip down to Calgary. I felt every bump in the road there and back. I haven't felt body pain like that in a long time and that was way before the diagnosis of my diabetes was confirmed in 2004. So I'm also thinking this could be sciatic because I can feel it all along my right side but its not as severe as it was back in 1997.

Switching gears, I'm really enjoying this Horus Heresy series. "Mechanicum" is the 9th book in the series and the only one that I haven't read is "Decent of Angels" book #6. I just couldn't get into it. I can always come back to it. The book kind of strayed from the story line. Up next is "Tales of Heresy." Its a collection of 6 short stories.I hope to begin that one at the end of this month. 

The Metro LRT line is in testing mode. Posters on the Connect 2 Edmonton forum have uploaded some photos of cars on the track. Not that I'd use Metro much but it would take ridership pressure off the Capital line and make my commute more comfortable. I'll be able to find a seat easier on the way home at night and often Anne and I go out to the Ramada at Kingsway for brunch. It'll make it more convenient to get out to Kingsway mall.

Its a short work week this week because of Victoria day. July 1st falls on a Wednesday so our next long weekend wont be until August 3rd. Not that this was a long weekend because I was working Saturday. Two days off for me is a long weekend. As of this August I'll have 1 more year until I can apply for pension and as long as we keep things together here and I have my health, a year after that I'll be on full pension. Most likely I'll work 3-4 days a week. Anyway, that's all for now.

Again overnight I ended up

having about 2 hours sleep yesterday. I think this is because I'm going to bed to early. This morning I'm going to be in bed by 1:30am listen to a bit of Coast, read then go to bed.

I'm making some good progress in the "Battle for the Abyss" Horus Heresy book. The narrative is excellent and the pacing is first rate. I'm enjoying the story arc's and the action. This is solid space opera at its best. I've been looking for some models or drawings of Warhammer 40K ships but they're hard to come by.

Its day 3 of this project. I've been making a few mistakes but I recognize them and I know how to correct them. Hopefully I'll get enough sleep over night so I can get better at this. Anyway, that's all for now.

What with having

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. 

Yesterday while working my way through

Northgate mall I popped into Coles again to look at the Kobo Aura ebook reader. Its on my year end wish list. Most likely that's because by then, that's when I'll be able to afford it at the rate I'm going. Because between now and the end of the year, I have lodge dues to deal with. 

While in Coles, I also went to see if they have any new Warhammer books there. They had 6 Omnibus books, including the recent "Nightlords." Plus with a ereader, I can import pdf files, web pages etc, and this one has wifi and a non beveled screen. The Aura has I think a 4Gb memory card with it and I can load my Marvel comic books as well.

After I had a look around at Coles I went to my pcn and had that appointment. I got 2 boxes of insulin to last me until the end of November. Then I have to pay out of pocket for December. It's going to be a 2/1 kind of thing until I can re-apply for those benefits next Spring.

I've got 4 hours today, 4 hours tomorrow (Saturday night off) Sunday lodge practice. In other words, I have a busy weekend I'm going to enjoy my Saturday night off. Anyway, that's all for now.

The new job seems to be

running along ok. Its basic telemarketing but I'm not selling anything. It's easy enough to do and the hours are decent enough.

Sometime this month I'm supposed to know, one way or another, if I'm going to get on this extended medical benefits plan. It's from the Alberta Government and is similar to a company health care plan. It's different then Alberta Health care. It's set up for emergency situations and was strongly recommended in writing by my Doctor. My local PCN feels that there's no reason why I shouldn't be accepted. It even covers my wife as well. My PCN says I should get a card in the mail very soon. Maybe next week sometime. it's mostly to cover my diabetic needs but the plan covers beyond what Alberta Health care would cover. The plan covers my diabetic supplies, vision/optical, and most important right now, dental and dentures. If I get the card this week next time I see my Doctor (Monday) I'm going to ask about my dental and what we can do to get my teeth done. Pending of course when (and if) I get the card in the mail. I might some time off in the hospital until my gums heal but I'd do this about mid September. I'm sure my job will accommodate me. Getting my teeth done has been on my mind for sometime now.

Yesterday I went to Audrey's and picked up my Warhammer 40k book. "There is only war." It's a Warhammer anthology of 42 short stories published last year. I hope it sells well enough to bring out a 2nd volume sometime this year or next. 

Also on my commute I read a bit at Campus waiting for the #4 bus and then I had a bit of a wait at wem. ETS had this grey low floor bus. It's an electrical bus. Not a hybrid and apparently its wifi enabled and looks really cool. I'm going to try and see if the fellow I'm meeting with after coffee can drop me off at wem so I can get a photo and try out the new bus. This bus apparently is the only one of it's kind in all the 900+ buses in ETS's fleet of bus.   

Prior to when my colleague was living at Westmount my drive home colleague and I would take the Yellowhead and run down 50th. I mentioned to her if she would be able to pull into the Wendy's drive through on my way home as it was on the way. Then I realized as we were heading towards the Canadian tire store off 129th to Fort Road, we were not anywhere near Wendy's. I almost said to cancel because my meeting ride this afternoon can always go to "Harvey's" on 170th there. She said it was no problem. So as we went over the Manning overpass it was just off in the right side lane by Pet Smart (Sparky) and a few minutes South on 50th. I got a Double Baconator and biggie fries for my lunch and watched Smackdown. That way Anne didn't have too cook anything.

I'm out here at 8:30am. One of my colleagues from my lodge said he'd be able to pick me up this morning and said he'd be out here at 8:30am. I emailed him and called so he doesn't swing by here thinking he's going to pick me up. I called him before Anne got in and left a message for him not to pick me up as I wouldn't be attending. I feel bad I can't make it but I need the hours as well. I am however going to meet with the fellow running the meeting after. If there's no snags. He's got the address to where I work and he said he could meet with me after 1:30pm for coffee today and to give me the details as to what happened. Also, if that electric bus is there I can get off at 95th ave/156th street and snap a photo of Sandy lane. I've been wanting to do that since last Octobers fire. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm in for my usual

5-9 this afternoon. I like the shift because it goes by fast and I can stay up late and sleep in late. Except for Saturday 10-6pm that is. It's a short week because of Family Day Monday. Even if we have another day project, I think I'll just work just 5 hours, from noon-5pm or something like that as I close in on my retiring years. 

About my 2nd job, which has been on hold for the month of February, starts Saturday March 1st. It doesn't look good that I'll be invited back. According to my super last night that works at my first job, she said the boss sent invitation letters out by mail last week. If I get a invitation to return, I'm making my 2nd job my primary job and work Saturdays at my current job, so at least I'm on the payroll of my first job. My 2nd job pays more but it's not steady and that's part of the problem. otherwise, I'd be there instead of where I'm working now. If I don't get a letter from my 2nd job, that's ok but it's going to have to be between today and Thursday of next week. I think the reason why I wouldn't be invited back would be because of that accusation made against me (unsupported) by one of the volunteers and that I was working just a few days/week. Those two things could go against me. As far as I know, I might even get a letter today from my 2nd job. I won't know until Anne comes back from work tonight.

Switching gears, I'm on the last 100 pages of "Horus Rising" of the Horus Heresy series and I should have the novel read by the weekend. I came across this one site which seems to be supported by the Black Library (BL) "Bolthole." I'm looking for fan fiction. The BL is publishing a Warhammer/Warhammer 40K short story on a weekly basis over the last few years. I have the first one. It makes sense to have a fan fiction site to get an idea of emerging writers that could advance to having their work go from armature to pro. I couldn't say, how many short stories BL has published so far and I get the email notices all the time. I'm enjoying this Horus Rising book though. 

This is the last weekend of the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. I haven't been able to enjoy much of this because of our current crisis with our washer and dishwasher. Also what with events on TV at odd hours due to Sochi being, what 11 hours difference? I've been following bits and pieces of the Olympics on the news and in the papers. We got 2 gold this week in women's Curling and Bobsled the other day and a gold today in women's speed skating. I think we have 7-8 gold medals. In mens ice hockey Canada beat USA in the semi finales today to go on and defend the gold Sunday! It's going to be Sweden/Canada. I'm going to have a front row seat watching this one.  

Our family Doctor's office reception called earlier to rebook Anne's appointment. I asked if I could book one as well March 5th. Mine's at 2:30pm. I want to get some blood work done and check for my diabetes. I haven't had that done since I became diabetic in 2004.

So far Anne's not doing anything about our washer/dryer crisis. She has (sort of) about our washer and we have that taken care of. We have until next Thursday to get our dishwasher out of our suite but they still have to give us written notice they are coming in to check and see both appliances are out of the premises. If not we will be faced with a eviction notice. Not an option what with a near zero % vacancy rate. One of the downfalls of have a strong economy. My wife knows what the options are but if nothing has been done by Wednesday about our dishwasher, then I'll be doing something about the it myself. I got a number of a guy with a hand dolly and a truck and I'll be calling him to have it hauled out Wednesday night. Anne has that number as well. If Anne hasn't done anything before, then she knows the consequences but keeping me in the dark like this wont do either. She says "I don't want to talk about this over the weekend." I have a couple of options as well and I'm sure she'll do the right thing. I'll be relieved when it's this time next week. Anyway, that's about all for now.

My sister in law is on a 7 day

Caribbean cruse on the "Oasis of the sea." Anne's been following her sister on her cruise with our iPad and the ship's web cam. Right now Anne's sister is in Mexico and before that Hatti. Then they sail back to Fort Lauderdale Saturday morning and back to, shudder...Manitoba. My wife's sister is a close friend of our family and is always sending me birthday and Christmas cash. Anne was invited to go on the cruise with her sister and Anne would only need a few hundred dollars spending money. She said she couldn't leave me and the cats alone for 7 days. Yeesh. I said go. I'd even give here the cash but she turned it down. Seven days on the "Oasis of the sea" no less and everything paid for. Mostly my wife is afraid of flying and has nothing to do with me. 

Somewhat related to the above on my afternoon commute yesterday we had a bit of snow but it was wet Spring type snow. We're supposed to get back into a cold snap but it's going to get around -15, -18 in that area. Nothing serious. Last year in the middle of March, we had about 14 inches of snow on the ground that left us about late April.

I'm closing in on the end of "Horus Rising", Warhammer 40k. I want to read a bit more before bed. Hopefully I'll have it finished before the end of this month. Up next, book #2: "False Gods" but that's my March read. Or I might just read a Western instead, I don't know yet.

Inspired by the potential of what the iPad can do for music creation (which is why I bought the iPad. (about 2 years ago) Earlier last night before supper, I bought a program from the app store called “Audiobus,” for $5 bucks. This program is kind of like a DAW Rewire but for the iPad. Audiobus lets iPad music programs "talk" to each other through a signal chain. I might end up getting “Sample tank” Pro ($40) for the iPad. Sample tank isn’t a full daw but it can talk to Cubasis. I already own Sample tank, which has a ton of midi and acoustic instruments for the PC. Cubasis is a daw for the iPad, a version of it’s bigger brother Cubase, which I already own on my laptop. Sample tank is from IK media that makes products like iRig midi (plus many others), which I already own as well. Also, there is a competitor to Native Instruments Guitar Rig that works with the iPad: Amplitube and they have a ton of virtual stomp boxes that work well with Sample tank. For example, (in theory) I can open Sample tank in Audiobus with Cubasis with my midi controller keyboard. It’s all in the signal chain. Cubasis is a $50 program and Sample tank is $40 and both can do mix downs and share to social media sites. The only problem is, Anne uses the iPad more then I do. She takes it with her to work and if I need to work on a beat on the train or home early before she does, I’m sol. For music production I think I’m still better off with the pc for about the same price as a 32 Gb iPad. Also with the PC I can still use Maschine and Komplete 8 etc. Still the iPad is yet another option.

Normally by now, I'd have my pay stub from my employer in my email. This way, I know how much I'm getting on Friday and what to work with. The delay might be because of the Family Day long weekend but I should have had the pdf pay stub in my email by now. Anyway, that's about all for now.

For now at least

I have a weekend off. 

Last night I worked 3 hours as they pulled the plug on thee finale minutes of what we needed to do. I left at 7pm. I popped into Audrey's too see if there were any Warhammer 40k for me, nothing in. Maybe Rexall drugs is open at the end of the block. I bought a 6/49 ticket. They close at 9pm, which is good to know because I'm usually there a few minutes before closing if I'm off work at the 2nd job. I bought a small order of fries to munch on during my commute and got home about 7pm. I had a great night to myself. 

At the moment I'm watching the Oiler's playing decent hockey in Winnipeg against the jets. I'm enjoying a 1-0 Oiler lead but the Jets are going to open the 3rd period with a power play. Most likely they'll tie the game.

I'm just about to wrap up The Space Wolf, Warhammer 40k hopefully this weekend then I can get into the Horus Heresy (HH) series. After collecting almost the whole series the Black Library now decides to release them in Trade format. Trade is my favorite format for reading books but the Black Library has some HH stories in ebook format. I'd like to get into some of them, eventually.  

This week, I'm in from 1-9, as I like these hours because it still gives me time to stay up late and sleep in and if I have any personal business I can (in advance) say book on from 5-9, if I don't need to save up for anything. As long as I can get about 60 hours, I'm good. Anyway, that's about all for now.

heading into work yesterday at noon wasn't so bad despite the snow coming down

and it certainly wasn't cold at all. I got to Subway for my  morning coffee and buzzed to get upstairs. Besides the supervisor, I was the only one there at 12;45pm. Alright. By 1pm I proceeded to log in and work went well. It was about 1:15pm and I was still the only one there. When 3pm rolled around I asked if we should go the whole shift. The boss called the supervisor and suggested we close the day out at 4pm. Worked for me. 

After work I went over to Audrey's to order the Warhammer 40K books but the 3 "Horus Heresy" books in my format for this series wouldn't be in my format until late 1st quarter next year. I placed the order anyway. I also ordered "Path of the Elder" and Molodrax Space Marine Battles book #13. I'll get these in January. At least that part was successful. 

I had a bit of a wait for the train but I was reading my book "Space Wolf." I got home by about 5:15pm. It was a tough day.

Anne wasn't home when I got in. Probably out shopping. Two hours latter she still wasn't in and when 8pm rolled around she finally came in saying she was at the medi centre up the street over there by Sobe's. She said the Tim's store there still had lasagna. Some Tim's have it some don't.

Today I'm in from 6-10pm. So it's going to be a short week there but this week is also Lodge week. It's my first month as Lodge master. Anyway, that's all for now.

We're getting a little bit of rain out there last night and this morning

which is nice.

I had a slow start to the shift and didn't get my first complete until about 7:30pm but rallied at the end. I hurried out the of the building and ran for the train. Good thing I did otherwise I would have missed the train but I think I should not  have ran because I ended up walking home. If I caught the 10:20pm train i might have a Northgate bus there but I barely caught the train but had to walk from Clareview to the set of lights here anyway. 

At work I was tracking the Jet's/Oiler home opener and and when I left the Oiler's in the 3rd had a commanding 5-2 lead. I thought the win was in the bag. When I got home checking the sports highlights, the outcome ended up 5-4 Jets. I'm still standing by my original prediction earlier. 

With Washington shut down over "Obama care" it's going to have some devastating effects the longer it lasts. If it drags on longer say a couple of months, Canada could lose about $700 million/week. This is serious stuff. Both sides wont budge but something's got to give.  

Yesterday was actually decent day. First of all I got a chair filled in my lodge, which I'm happy about. I need 2 more including a replacement. Elections are Thursday and it looks like I'm going to have my year. The other bit of good news is my CPP has been approved. It's enough to pay for my cable bill and my insulin. I should get my first cheque in December. Some good news for a change. 

So because of this good news Saturday before work I'm going to get my Horus Rising audio book. Its a 5 CD set and it's going to give my Audry's book club points a shot in the arm. Anyway, that's all for now.

Sun is shinning looks like a nice day for

closing out the month of July. The Summer is going by too fast. Mostly because of our longer then usual winter. We had snow on the ground right up until the end of April, then almost like punching a time clock the 1st of May Summer starts. We should normally get for around here in Edmonton about 5 months of a warm Spring and Fall.

I added a new link to my left blog sidebar, "Claw's & Fists" The guy is a "Space Wolf" fan but I'm kind of interested in the Tau army as well. Need to do some more research on these guys.  I'm also looking into sampling the US podcast "11th Company" and a few more Warhammer 40K podcasts. There's a lot of them out there I'm looking at. Of course, I can't listen to everything.

After work I'm coming home to watch the CFL game, Argo's/BC. It should be a good one.

Well, that's about all for me for now, I'll probably update this at halftime during the CFL game later. Anyway that's about all for now.

Friday is finally here

Last nights Esks/Al's game was slow to get underway but got going in the 2nd half. Esks 27 Al's 32. Either way if the Esks got that last rush to the end zone during the last 10 seconds, it would have been 34-32 still a Proline Tie. The Lions/Argo's game is on Tuesday kind of wrecking my 4 game weekend. Note to self, don't bet in favor for the Esks.

After work I'm over at Audrey's to get a Warhammer 40k CD  and a Horus Heresy book. I'm into the 2nd book of the 3 book "Space Wolf" Omnibus. I liked the characters in the first book but they appear absent in this 2nd book but show up in the 3rd. Also in the 2nd book of this Omnibus the Chaos Space Marines make an appearance and so do the Night Lords. Interesting stuff.

After that it's over to Wendy's for a bite to eat and head home. There's no CFL double header this weekend because of Tuesday's game. So tonight it's Calgary/Winnipeg.

I decided against upgrading and or buying parts for a new PC. I tweaked Slayer for my "guitar" and it sounds pretty good. However I'm looking at getting a 512Gb SSD drive but it has a SATA connection. I think all SSD's but I've seen a SSD drive installed in my version of Acer on YouTube, so I know it can be done. Anyway, that's all for now.

Having a great day although the only

sour spot as the Riders gave us another beating.

I read some more out  of Warhammer 40K and making some good progress. One of the characters in this book is named Gabriel and aparently if it's the same one shoes up in other Warhammer 40k novels. I've got 2 Warhammer 40K audio books and I'm picking them up after work Tuesday. 

Ok, it's beginning to sink and there isn't a week that doesn't go by where one of the caller's on the phone or a colleague nice comments how I have a voice for broadcasting. Maybe I should apply for some voice over work. I wonder if I'd get a job. Anyway, that's about all for now.

My afternoon commute

 towards the office was easy going. I got inside the office by 12:30pm and had a chat with the staff. The first part went by ok ending up with 3 TCOB completions and a nice comment by one of the respondents. I called Anne and worked out the shift. I had my lunch break asked super if I could leave at 8pm. No problem. I have enough hours working a full week. I went from working mornings afternoon, to working 2 new campaigns, having trouble with my ISP, it was a hard week.

After work I went and picked up the 8th Horus Heresy Warhammer 40k book: “Battle for the Abyss.” I asked if Audrey’s could order me a few of the Horus Heresy audio dramas as I want to try some of them. There are a few YouTube videos with excerpt’s of said audio dramas. The good thing about these is that they account towards my Audrey’s book club membership. I’m looking forward to my first CD.

After Audrey’s I went to Queen Donair and got a order of fries to munch on the train. I keep the bag in my bag and eat from there because if the LRT police catch you eating on the train it’s a fine. Seems they are looking for any excuse to look for fines. It wouldn’t surprise me if next they are going to fine riders for using their cell phones or hand held devices! 

On my commute approaching Stadium I noticed the crowd in the stands in the new green and gold seats. I got home to watch the end of the 2nd half as the Eskimo’s in the 1st preseason game had the game in hand and I saw the last TD. Then close to the end a “Pick 6” The Riders took it to the end zone for a TD and the point after. Score was 33/24 Riders. Good thing it was just pre season contest. I’m not sure if the games this week were on Proline. I’ll look for them next week. After that I watched “Smackdown” Anne had rotisserie chicken from Superstore. I didn’t eat much.

Friday was a great day. Today, I’m working on my music and watching the 2nd game of the Stanley Cup finale. This is rare that we’re seeing a CFL game during the same time as the NHL playoffs. Sunday (fathers day) I’m taking Anne out for Pizza at Capital Pizza as we like to get a Dairy Queen ice cream for desert and shop at Giant Tiger. Then its back to the work week.Anyway, that's about all for now.

Even though it was a short week, it felt a bit longer then

it should have been. Just today and 2 days off.

Yesterday after work (Thursday) I went over to Audrey's and bought another "Horus Heresy" novel. I've got the 1st 8 and I ordered another 4. I get 4 at a time but I buy 1 of them a  week.

My contacts around the city are saying some good thins about the new Star Trek movie they saw. Some of the guys at work were raving about it as well. One of the girls at Audrey's said she saw it twice. I might see it Wednesday night and book off work an hour early as the movie starts at 5:20pm.

After work I'm heading home, probably to watch some of the NHL playoffs and watch Smackdown. Anyway, that's all for now.

With the go ahead for

 the upcoming downtown arena district, over the next 5 years, about $5B worth of development will occur in the area. Plus the LRT tracks will going along 102nd ave, it’s going to be an exciting time for the city. Also, the old Greyhound bus station will be turned into a huge condo tower. Over 20 years the arena district will provide an annual $160M into City tax coffers. That can fix up a lot of pot holes.


I had a pretty good day yesterday on the job and am wondering what’s going to happen next after this current project?
 
Star Trek “Into Darkness” was released yesterday and uggh, it’s in 3D. I watched GI Joe in 3D and didn’t like it at all. The story was, Meh and predictable although I did like the mountain Kung Fu scenes. I’ll watch the new Star Trek movie and as much as I’m a Star Trek fan as anyone else but I’m not going to go out of my way to see it. I‘ll wait until it comes on video on demand or something. 

On the news ETS is utilizing shuttle buses from Clareview to Rexall but I’ll probably take the #2 bus down to Lodge Saturday morning.

 After work tomorrow I’m going to get another “Horus Heresy” Warhammer 40K novel as I’m trying to get them all while they are  still in print. I know The Black library has them in Ebook format but I prefer the hard copy. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Yesterday we got up to

+30 and I'm glad I got out of lifting that hide-a-bed out of here because I had a heat stroke in the morning that lasted pretty well much all afternoon. It was brought about by my sinus condition bit I feel a bit better although we could have used the AC unit on. I was in bed before midnight. 

Still working on my Warhammer 40K Space Wolf summer read and wondering if I should get the online or print version of What dwarf magazine. I'll probably get the online version because I own an iPad anyway.

Currently on my mind is a major decision city council is going to vote on Wednesday. It's to decide to borrow the money for a new downtown arena. People don't realize that Rexall place was built with public money. At the moment it wont be the end of the world or anything if city council votes "No." The Oiler's will still be at Rexall. It means the Oiler's will still have the oldest arena in the league and about 2-3 billion dollars worth of projects in the area that would not be developed if the arena does not go through. Plus if we don't build it now, it's going to cost a lot more a year or even 2 from now. Also, the tax benefits to city coffers is huge, like about $160 million/year. 

Anyway, it's a regular back to work day for me. I wish we could start at 8:30am and leave at 4:30pm but I'd lose an extra half hour. Anyway, it's a long day ahead for me. That's all for now.

Ordinarily apartment living

 is ok if the building is managed well. In all our 12 years of living here, it’s been pretty good but last night the people below us have been not good neighbors. They’ve been slamming that door with their stereo blaring. Good news is, they won’t last long. If they are still when the snow melts, I‘ll be surprised.

I‘m up at about 9:00am this morning to get a shower clean up dress in my suit and tie. Then it’s leave out of here by 10am get my bus to Clareview and the train to Corona station across the street to Audrey’s get my Warhammer 40k book cross the street to Tim’s and get my breakfast hang around for a bit until noon and work my way to Freemason’s Hall to get there by noon as they start at 1:00pm. That way I can meet with the guys, enjoy my beer I should be out of there by 5pm. It’ll be good.

Speaking of Warhammer 40K in my Black Library Newsletter the library released a new hardcover novella. It’s part of the Imperial Guard series. There are 2 Omnibus books in this series I still need to get and hopefully this Spring a subscription to Hammer and Bolter. Here’s a cool video as a tribute to the Imperial Guard:

Last night about 8pm I get a call from our Internet service provider. We tried to arrange for a service call earlier in the week about the trouble we we’re having with our television’s aspect ration. We cancelled the request and I guess they wanted to do a friendly customer service follow up call and offered us 2 free video on demand movies. Great, with Anne out Sunday and no Oiler TV hockey, why not? They have “Looper” on VOD Anne mentioned something about Pizza. Sounds like a good time.

This Monday is called Blue Monday and not because Oprah is coming to Edmonton at Rexall place. Especially hot on the heels of her revealing interview with Lance Armstrong. Somebody is making money. Otherwise, not a lot is going on this weekend. Anyway, that‘s all for now.