Anne and I went out over here

to Cork & Barley Thursday. I had the fish and chips. Anne had the Roast beef in Yorkshire pudding. She loved it. Mine was ok. Since it's almost across the street, we'll go again. 

The Elks lost again last night at Commonwealth. Last night's loss indicates a record of 1,013 days without a win at Commonwealth. That win was against the BC Lions on October 13th, 2019. Keep in mind there is a pandemic underway. The good news is that our QB and one of our receivers are beginning to make a connection and seem to be in sync with each other. Just as we are heading into a bye week as well. 

I finished reading Crickets, in a record 17 days😂. I don't normally read military sci-fi but I enjoyed this. My next book is: 

Should be a good read since it's in 1st person, which is right up my street. The book above is ~ 450 pages in length so it's going to take me a bit longer to read.

Other than that, not much going on this weekend. The Pope is in town this weekend leaving Tuesday. I think I might put together another beat for my channel this weekend. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Not a lot going at the moment

Starting to get a little bored around here but I'm going in for Saturday. Its a brief training course on the new office work computers and I'll get my books and a bite to eat, go home and watch the hockey game. 

I've been getting some reading in, with Robin Hobb's . Assassins apprentice. Its a good read so far. I've got the other 2 in the trilogy and another trilogy of the authors at Audrey's. I'll get those Saturday afternoon on my way home.

Other then that today its cold but tomorrow the temperature is supposed to be about +2*C, which for us this time of year almost feels like Spring. Anyway, that's all for now.

I was dialing the

same numbers as everyone else last night, but last night I got mostly voice mail on the other end, or no answers. I didn't even get on the board yet others were doing better then me. I sucked big time. I still left the office feeling good. One of my colleagues that I rode home with last night got one complete. So I didn't feel that bad. I hope I don't get called in for Friday. 

I'm kind of under the weather myself right now so I think I might call in, saying I won't be able to make lodge. I've been going steady showing up at most practices, visitations and attending lodge, filling in here and there every month. I need a break. I've got a some challenges going on in my immediate periphery, that need my attention.

No spoiler alerts but I'm about to wrap up "Words of Radiance" this week. I don't want to read another series, until the New Year. I might read a Robert J Sawyer book from Audrey's. He's always good for an entertaining read. In the meantime, I'm chillin and taking it easy. I've got a couple of nights off maybe a long weekend. I need to get to a stationary bike at the Clareview rec centre, get some circulation back into my legs. Most likely I'll use that Saturday night if I'm not doing anything around here. Anyway, got to go, answer some email and shit. Happy Halloween everyone. 

My back was turned when

I was trying to align myself to the oncoming bus behind me to Clareview, which is why I only heard the collision between a pick up and a car at the intersection just out here yesterday. This was on my commute to work. My #5 was behind schedule but I managed to get to work, barely. I'm so looking forward to having a few days off.

Also I'm just about ready to wrap up book 2 of the Stormlight Archives: "Words of Radiance."  Looking forward to book 3 "Oathbringer" when it comes out in paperback. In the mean time I'm hoping to get to reading the Malazan series. I'm a slow reader so most likely book 1 "Gardens of the Moon" will keep me going until January.

I'm going to miss the Oilers game being at work tonight but the Supervisor usually keeps me up to date on the score.  We're off tomorrow night for Halloween, Lodge Thursday, Friday at 10am is WWE's Crown Jewel pay per view. I've got nothing planned for Saturday. Sunday is daylight savings time. To my way of thinking that's the real end of summer. I'm worried for my friend's buddy. She's going through some serious life changing health issues. It's not compromising our friendship or anything. It's my friend's birthday next weekend and I'd rather save some of that time for her birthday. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I’m trying to use YouTube Live Streaming but its not working for me on

my little Lenova PC stick. Actually I even lost audio from my sound card. Most likely its got to do with my OBS encoder as my Lenova can't keep up. Next up is to try and see how this would work with a VCL player iPod onto iPad. 

 

To expand on the above, I think the pc stick couldn't keep up with the YouTube live stream or the OBS encoder was too sluggish. I have the 32 bit one even

 

Switching gears here, after work Friday I picked up my Space marine Battles book at Audrey's last night. They were in the middle of a book signing and had a lot of people in line blocking the way in. "Pardon me, excuse me," type thing. There was Barry at the other station by the basement stairs. He went and got the book for me from below. I was going to order a few more books in that series that are about to be released this year but they looked pretty busy.

 

The lrt Corona station North/West entrance a few short paces from Audrey's has a steep set of stairs leading down to the upper concourse below. This entrance is visible from street view. As I was about to come through this character was in my way coming towards me swearing and cursing at the 2 lrt security guys. His foul mouth was chirping at them as I worked my way down. I couldn't believe how big these guys were. They were like 2 feet above me. I shook my head at the guy cursing the 2 lrt security showing my bus pass. One of them said "At least we didn't get spit on." They were friendly people just doing their jobs but last thing I wanted trying to get to the sub concourse was to get in between something I didn't start.  

 

I'm enjoying my day off. Apparently Remembrance Day is a stat holiday here in Alberta. It works on the last 5 days it falls on. In this case, the last 5 Fridays, which doesn't apply to me because of the other place and my Friday/Saturday shift there but its a nice day off. Tomorrow I'm at the South side (ss)job at 10am-2:15pm because the market research (mr) job has had no work all week. I need to be working somewhere. In some cases the mr job is better then the ss job but the place where I'm at might pay me for today. I won't know until the end of the month. My ss job, I can work a minimum of 3 hours/day, 3 days a week. I like the lrt train ride going in for a Saturday as it gives me a chance to have my coffee and wake up along the way.

 

As for today I have some time off to myself. I slept in with a melatonin pill in me, which I took early this morning. I got up at 12:30pm today, which is going to make sleep overnight Saturday tough. This evening I'm watching the Oilers/Dallas game. Anyway, that's all for now.

When I first got into chat rooms

was about 1999. MSN had a lively chat room called A God(s) Fight. Or AGF (see side bar) AGF chat was really lively lots of politics and religious talk. That chat room fell by the way side when MSN brought a message board style kind of discussion forum to AGF. It was still really lively. Then MSN got out of the message board business for what ever reason, I can't recall, and the owner of AGF brought the message board to the Yuku platform. The Yuku AGF message board was developed in 2008, and since then AGF gets a few posts/year. I usually go under the name of sebek and post updates about me a few times/year. About 2008 I discovered a local message board/forum called Connect 2 Edmonton (c2e). It was is all things (mostly) about Edmonton. It started in 2003. I got on as envaneo. Envaneo was an old occult Fraternal name with some Latin meaning, which I don't want to get into now. What I like about c2e is how it was robust and current with topics not just Edmonton but the Oilers, Eskimo's etc. and I liked the "Must Try" for all the restaurants in the area. It ran on a vbuiltin platform. I especially like the NHL and Oilers off season threads, and all the various construction projects going around town. I never would have known what half of these projects were if not for c2e. C2e would be my first go to email after I woke up. Early yesterday afternoon when I went to answer my c2e subscription messages, and logged onto the threads I had subscribed I was shocked. Assaulting my visual senses up comes a splash page saying how c2e was a 10 year project, and the owner didn't know if c2e needs to be retired or reworked in some way because the interface was old. I didn't like where this was going. The other option was for the board to still be up and running because its such a huge resource with a lot of historic and current photos of Edmonton. Uh-oh. The owner of c2e said he had some decisions to make between now and the weekend. I hope he doesn't retire c2e. I'd hate this to be another AGF. C2e was to me like a family. We seldom ever got along but did agree with each other quite often. C2e was engaging, informative often humorous. I got to know some of these people. Some people used their real names, most had nic names, like Top Dawg who always referred to himself in the 3rd person. There was Moahunter, Sonic Death Monkee, IanO, The Cat, Noodle, Edmonton PTR, Legion, Drumbones, Edmonton Cowboy, EavB, KC, and many others. C2e has over 35,000 subscribers. There were always lots of photographs, links etc. I began a few threads myself. Posters could also receive private messages from other posters, and c2e I discovered to late would be a good place to do local networking. I felt really connected to the city with my time in c2e. If I liked someone's post without replying, I could hit the "Thanks" button. If the owner of c2e decides to retire this board I hope somebody else picks it up. Or at least keeps it up for people to say goodbye. One of the long time posters started a "Go fund me page." If I had the money, I'd make a contribution. I love c2e. I hope it doesn't go but gets better. 

I'm really enjoying this "Eagles of Talons" Jamie MacCallister saga. There's lots history in these books. If this is historical fiction, its now one of my favorite genres. I like reading these Westerns because they read so fast. The only trouble with Audrey's is they have no Western section. If it wasn't for Fantastic Fiction, and in my email "Any new books" I would not know what new books are up and coming. One of the guys that works at Audrey's that I directed to Goodreads, talked about a series of books from a local Edmonton author Janice MacDonald. She writes the Randy Craig mysteries. My colleague said its set in Edmonton and many of the books include reviews of local restaurants. This would be a good post for c2e's "must try." I hope I can still post this there.  

The other day I discovered Twitch, live broadcasting for players that like to play video games. Now, I'm not big on video games. From my initial look at Twitch its hard to pick out what broadcasts are in English, and which ones aren't. Some of the real popular new games have audiences of up to 300,000 subscribers. Of course depending on what time of day it is and what time zone it is. Streaming live where the broadcaster is shown inside a picture in a picture small window at the corner of the screen is appealing to me. Twitch also looks like it could have a live chat feature in the broadcast in real time as well but I'm not sure. I'm not sure if Twitch is just for pc, console or hand held devices. This would be so cool for i0S devices and other hand held devices. Ntendo 3ds has a forward camera. So does i0S devices. Anyway, that's all for now.

Finally I have a day off

today. Seems every time I have a day off, I'm doing something. Or I have an event of some kind to go to. Tonight I'm heading out to a reading and book signing event at Audrey's books at 7pm. Canadian Science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer is coming out with his new book "Quantum Night."
 
                       

While I was at work last night, Anne was investigating the new channel rules advanced by the CRTC. By March first cable and satellite providers must provide a basic cable package for $25. In addition to the basic package providers must offer a pick and pay package model. Or offer small bundles of channels. the basic package must include, CBC, CTV, Global, and aboriginal and minority English or French language channels. In addition a group of U.S. channels could be included, usually CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and non-commercial channel PBS. At least 10 of the channels must be local or regional, including the community channel and the proceedings of the provincial legislature, if available. TV viewers will then be able to supplement this with either individual channels or small bundled channel packages. The CRTC also ruled last year that consumers should have access to more choice in their cable and satellite packages as well as cheaper basic packages. So after a bit of tinkering, and keeping my WWE network, Space TV, Sports channels, TCM, AMC, our total package including Internet and phone is down to $140. It was $170. We lose some movie channels she wasn't watching anyway, and we got a $10/month credit off of our home phone. Plus we got a preview package the above for about $130 for 6 months. Sweet. With so many options out there like online streaming from computer to the TV, Netflex or VPN, there are many choices out there for the consumer. Our free trial offer takes into affect on the 16th.  

We're getting some fog out there at this hour, and Saturday night Sunday morning we set our clocks to daylight savings time hours. We gain an extra hour of light making the days longer. Anyway, that's about all.

Now if I could just

work these hours the rest of my life I'd be a happy camper. I'd work 4 days/week even while on pension. Its nice getting home at 9:30pm, rather then 10:30pm.The only problem with this job is, its not steady. Last day for calling is on Wednesday and they break for February resuming in March. My main concern now is what if my market research job fires me due to what happened Saturday and I've got no work in February?

I started reading this book "Eyes of Eagles" by William W. Johnstone Jan 6 and I've got a 100 pages left to go. I'll have it read by the weekend at the rate I'm going. Whats unusual here is that this book is a genre away from what I normally read (science fiction). And I've never read a western before. Also the book is a hefty one clocking in at 488 pages and I'm just breezing through it. That's a big book for a western, but the writing is so good. I  haven't given up on "Horus Heresy" but if this book is any indication, I'm beginning to like this genre. "Eyes of Eagles" is book 1 of 18. I've got about 12 of them here. I'd also like to read his "Ashes" series but no doubt a lot of them are out of print but there's always Ebay. This is my next read:
 
                                               
I'm out of here again at 3pm. Its a easy 4 hour shift and  home at 9:30pm. Not much other then that going on. I've got a couple of parts I'm memorizing for a upcoming degree next month but that's minor. Tomorrow I have a early appointment with the foot doctor at my pcn. Before that I'll get some breakfast at Tim's and keep my appointment, then home. I  haven't heard anything yet from the other job lead. I hope within the next few days I'll hear something from them  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 always seem to be blogging yesterdays

events but its all good. 

In just 365 days I'll be 64. OMG, I can't believe it. Who would have thought back in 1969 I'd get this far? 

All last week I was looking forward to last nights big game between Hamilton/Edmonton. Two teams 5-2, East vs West. I didn't have a Proline ticket but I would have picked a tie game. What was I thinking? The T-cats kicked our ass 49-20. Two many turnovers and points based upon them and ball security did us in. All I can hope for is for the Riders to beat the Stamps at Mosaic. That way it still keeps the Esks tied for first in the West if the Riders win today.

I'm progressing further into "The Descent of Angels" the Horus Heresy book I skipped over due to spoilers a few years ago. It kind of reads young adult but I'm still enjoying it. I'll be reading more before the game today. Note to self: Don't read reviews of a book before reading it as the reviews may contain spoilers. Other then Robert J Sawyer or if there's something that strikes my attention, Horus Heresy,  Space Marine Battles and Warhammer 40K Omnibus books are about the only books I'm buying lately. The Black Library publishes about 3-4 Horus Heresy mass market paperbacks a year and about the same for Space Marine Battles. I buy 1 hard cover book a year and that's only Robert J Sawyer's book and the matching RJS ebook. The Space Marine Battles books are trade and cost $18 a book. I pop into Audrey's or Coles at least once a month. I'm waiting for the next Horus Heresy book "Legacy's of Betrayal," it should be out next month in mass market paperback.   

The Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo (Sept. 25-27, 2015) Special guest will be Stan Lee. At 92 this might be the one and only time he'll ever come to Edmonton. A Saturday pass is $30, which isn't that bad. I'd book off work to see Stan Lee. There's a lot comic book artists as well. More guests will be announced in the next few weeks leading up to the event.

Not much going on for today. I'm hoping sometime after labour day weekend I'll be back to work. Anyway, that's all for now.

Our 78 day Federal election

is heating up. Harper has been playing stupid over this Netflix tax thing. Its been making the media rounds all over the place and is sort of a running joke. You can read about it here.

Lon Milo DuQuette will be on Coast 2 Coast later this morning. While I have a luke warm interest in ceremonial magick and the occult these days, I still consider myself sympathetic to Thelema but in no way active. This "interest" is kept at arms length as a casual observer, mostly brought about through nostalgia. It's always interesting listening to Lon discuss Ceremonial magick, Crowley and the Tarot.

It's been somewhat of a annual tradition. Every Spring Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer would release a new novel and take it on tour across Canada and arrive every April to Audrey's books to do a reading from his recent novel. He is the only author I'd ever buy a hard cover book from. His last visit was April 2nd 2013 at Audrey's. I always get a autograph copy. His last novel was Red Planet Blues. That was 2 years ago. He announced recently on his blog that his upcoming 23rd novel will be Quantum night. Of course, I'll order a copy and I hope to get it autographed again.

Yesterday morning I called the x-ray to cancel. I called my pcn to confirm my next appointment on the 13th at 10:15am. I'll be calling ei after I wake up to find out when I can report again. I'm joining Anne on her 3pm commute riding partway in with her parting ways at Bay Station. I'll be heading into the office to pick up my whopping 4.5 hour cheque and to get an update (if any) for work for next week. If all I get is a non committal response, then I'll be looking for something part time. I need something steady. I'll be doing the job search thing at the employment agency Monday if there's nothing forth coming. After I pick up my cheque today, I'm off to get a bite to eat at the food court. Anyway, that's all for now.

For the most part the

cold virus I've been struggling with has almost come to an end. I was on the job last night holding out better then I expected. For the most part the cold is out of my system.

Anne bought me some new running shoes Sunday and I'm phasing out the Spring cloths for summer ones. The weather has been up and down a lot. We've had 1 near plus 20 day this month. More on the way I'm sure of it. Anne's doing laundry tonight I'm at work.

Yesterday I was able to pick up my Space Marine Battles book at Audrey's and I ordered another Horus Heresy novel book #30. Other then that, not much else going on. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Lots of snow coming down

right now along some parts of the East coast. So much so that Monday night Raw cancelled its live show. They're going to get about 3 feet of snow in places like New York City, Boston etc. In contrast, because of the nice mild weather we're getting here now. We might have an inch of snow and most of it has melted. It feels like spring around here but it's going to get "colder" to about -7. Yeah right. This could be the warmest February in a long time.

So, apparently our lack of sound on our iPad is because Anne dropped the iPad and cracked the glass. This was some months ago. This compromised our battery, so Apple backed everything up for us and all we need to do now is go back today and they're giving us a new iPad (same model) but we don't have to repair the cracked glass, which would otherwise cost us about $250. We also had to buy some extra cloud space as they backed our iPad up there. The cloud space is $1/month, which is pretty good and we get the new new OS8 operating system and they're going to show us how to access the cloud etc. So its a good deal.

I was also able to get 2 Warhammer 40K books out of a store gift card from last December. I got the recent Horus Heresy novel "Vengeful Spirit," and the "Bastion Wars" Omnibus. Plus we had a bite to eat at the food court. We're out of here about 2:30pm to pickup our "new" iPad and I'm home to watch some Wild/Oiler hockey tonight. Anyway, that's all for now.

I got a lot of sweaters and garments

and diabetic chocolates and an Oiler cup. I bought Anne our traditional Shriner calendar, a perfume set and a large double box of chocolates and a photo frame, which she's going to get during Boxing day week. Also, I took her out to a Swiss Chalet, and a breaky and Sunday a Sawmill as part of her Christmass as well over the last 2 weeks.

In my email yesterday Audrey's books reminded me that I received the recent "Space marine Battles" (Warhammer 40K) book. That's another Christmas present I'm picking up Boxing day as I can go in with Anne as she heads into work. They only published 1 Space marine Battles book for 2014 but I think they published a some short stories and special editions.

For a few days over the holidays Superstore hours were around the clock. Anne got some last minute goodies for us and was in the lineup when somebody in front of her was in a hurry and gave his Superstore points left over to Anne. That bought her about $30 worth of groceries because some shopper wanted to "pay it forward." That was a nice gesture. 

I discovered a company called Drumdrops and wow, they have some nice sample libraries. I'm interested in a couple Kontakt 5 sample libraries they have like the Ludwig Super classic Kit that has almost 5,000 samples plus a ton of mixing and mastering instruments to go wit it. There's another sample library in the Kontakt 5 format (which I have) They also have a Gretsch kit with something like 18,000 samples. I'm not a drummer but these will go great in my productions. They are reasonably priced as well and don't take up a lot of room on my hard drive. 

Anne and I are in bed all morning sleeping. I have 8 more days off. Sunday we're going out to the Saw Mill for a Sunday dinner. Sounds good. Merry Christmas everyone, that's all for now.

In the dog house again

it seems. Anne says leaving out of here for work "dinner is in the pan, and on low heat. If its smoking, then attend it but it should be ok until I come home." So she gets home and dinner is all dried out. She lays into me calling me names running me down, "Christmas is cancelled." Holy crap. I replied, "like you never burned dinner when you were even home!" Obviously it went over her head. "If it wasn't for the cats I'd have left a  long time ago," It went on like this for awhile. Things will be back to normal Saturday. In the meantime I'm in the dog house. When she called me at 8pm she said she tried to face time  me from work. I was away from my iPod not hearing that she would attempt a face time. After a lull in the fighting I said "You tried calling me 5 times?" Then she says maybe it was your girlfriend.

Now this scandal over Sony pictures is being called a National security breach in the US. North Korea, which sees "The Interview" as part of a propaganda war by the West, has been condemning the film since the summer — at one point an official called it "an act of war" and vowed revenge. What are they going to make their own movie with original actors of this movie? The plot thickens. 

I thought the Oiler's played pretty good up until the score was tied at 3. The Oiler's took 2 selfish penalties by Yakapov and Perron that cost us the game. The game ended 4-3 Sharks. The Oiler's actually out played the Sharks in the 1st and 2nd period. Our goaltender let in 2 soft goals as well. It almost looked like we lost by design. Next up is Dallas at Rexall Sunday at 4pm.

In my email Goodreads sent me a link showing me the covers of books I've read for 2014 beginning right to left. Most of these were Horus Heresy Warhammer 40K books. The other book was a omnibus Space Wolf of 3 Warhammer 40K books, so basically this is 8 books instead of 6, not including the current book I'm reading in the Horus Heresy series "Legion." With running lodge, monthly pcn visits to my pharmacists and Doctors appointments, keeping odd hours at work, bouncing between 4 different jobs, I'm surprised I got any reading done at all for this year, and Anne accuses me of having a girlfriend? How and where do I find the time for one? Anyway, that's all for now.

Obesity has never been in our family

and even though I've put on a "few "pounds over the years, I'm not fat. Chubby maybe but not fat as in this photo taken of me at work at my station earlier today. 

I might be losing hair above but I'm not obese by any stretch of the imagination. 

I've had slow days on the job before but Monday, the first project is winding down and so is the other project. I think on both projects I got nothing but no answers. During the 2nd half I took my lunch break I might have spoken with 3 people from 6-9 all night. We had tech trouble several times and I'm not the only one that had a poor show of things last night as well. Plus we have more of the same today. I just hope I'm working for most of next week. I'm going to try and take the 16th off. If I can work 6 days including 4 of which are Saturday and Sunday's over the holidays and have stat pay I should be ok early in the new year. The only major bill I'll have is lodge dues in January.

in my email Monday I got a offer from native Instruments, I'd be a fool to turn down. 9 Mashcine expansion packs about $60 each for $100. I'm going to buy them Thursday night when I get home. I don't have any of the Maschine expansion packs. This is a offer too good to pass up. It's called Cloud 9. Order countdown is Friday. 

Also in my email was a Warhammer 40K. All Horus Heresy novels in ebook format in one bundle. Its 45 novels and stories including all 31 of the novels. I have 28/31 of the novels. The most recent Horus Heresy in the mass market format I have is Scars. The bundle is $450! If I had the money. 

Today it's another slow 6.5 hours. I don't mean to complain. At least I'm making money. Anyhow 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.

About 5am this morning was when I finally climbed

into bed after finishing the last few pages of "Galaxy in Flames."

Last night when I came home before getting off the bus, I could feel my blood sugar dropping. I get lightheaded. If I had eaten those sandwiches at break, I might have been fine. My glucometer readings dropped from 13.4 about 7pm to 5.8 at 9:30pm. My pharmacist wanted me to go from 24 units to a dosage of 28. Normally a vial of insulin can last me about a week dialing up to 18 dosage. Now with up to 28 dosage it's going to be interesting to see how much a vial will last at 28. The pharmacist was also suggesting yesterday that we increase the dosage even further to up to 30 or even 40! 

Looks like there's no work available for this weekend. This current project is about to wind down. We have a new project coming up within the next couple of weeks or sooner and I don't know if its days or evenings. 

My commute is overcast out there with a bit of showers here and there. At least I have a rain gear poncho. Anyway, that's about all for now.  

The funeral service

yesterday was billed a "celebration of life" and not a funeral service with clergy etc. I had some speaking parts and I was really nervous getting up behind the podium. I didn't stick around for the turkey dinner later. There are some pictures on my Facebook/Flikr photo stream. 

Speaking about my Flikr account I've got it synced to my iPad so any photo taken from my iPad can automatically be  uploaded to my Flikr account. What I'd like to see is a wifi digital camera that has Flikr/Twitter social media features.   

I had a couple of Lodge calls to make earlier and I re-booked my appointment at the PCN and it's now just a walk in drop off materials at the counter type thing. Anne can do this for us on Monday while I'm at work.

Today I'm going to pick up my 1st Eagles book and then head into work for a 6.5 hour shift and a 7.5 hour shift for Saturday. Sunday is just 4 hours. Anyway, that's all for now.

I tweeked this blog here

a few days ago. The big changes were mostly cosmetic. The header was changed and so were the pages. Where it read My favorite Topics, is now Topics. Gallery is now Flikr photo stream and I took out "On politics." I'm not big on politics anyway and where it read Conventions, etc is now just SFF Cons. I also put a bit of a disclaimer in my header about grammar and spelling. Hopefully its just cleaned up a little. 

The new project is very interesting and it gives me hours from 2-9 and we're braking an extra 15min early, which is nice. 

At Audrey's the other day I checked on my western novels book order. I ordered the first 5 in William Johnstone's Eagle series.
 

Apparently the whole series is available so I got the 1st out of 5 and the others are on their way. Good stuff.

I've been playing with my new gaming device I got Sunday afternoon: My new Nintendo 3ds. Since it came with a game, I have yet to buy a new game. They're about $40 each at Future shop. I want to get the latest Zelda and the Lego games. I can also get them used as well.

I'm off to attend a Masonic funeral tomorrow. I've got some speaking parts in front of strangers in a setting I'm not at all comfortable with. At least the speaking parts can be read, so that's a good thing. There's also a turkey supper latter. I might not attend this part. Anyway, that's all for today.