That's tax time set up and done

for another year. Our tax person even got our NOA. previously, we'd have to wait for it to come in by mail, which would take until ~ mid April

Other then Chapter Thursday night, not a lot is going on this week.

Next week Al Shamal for 2 nights. AASR on the 10th. No other outings this month other then Thursday. Thank God I'm not working.

Looks like we're in for another snow event this week. I need to make sure my BT speaker is  pwered on as it cut out on me during Sundays practice. Anyway, that's all for now. 

Today I'm out of here at noon to Clareview station

to obtain my CFL Proline picks for the weekend and get my business done at the employment centre. I've got a lot of faxing to do and a few phone calls to make. Then head to the office to pick my cheque. If there's no schedule for next week then I'm cashing in on my assets, moving forward. I'll leave the door open.

While getting a Face book update I noticed a colleague from my old Xentel days tagged his current location. He was at Bo'diddly's Pub & Grill (Bo's) across the street, posted minutes before 6pm. I got dressed and decided to see if he was still there. Sure enough, there he was by himself at a table cell phone in hand. He ordered me a draft. We basically played catch up. He was the official telephone committee organizing a gathering for a colleague of ours moving to Calgary to retire at the end of next month. Time to get the gang together for this guy one last time. I said count me in. My colleague at Bo's lives in the area a few blocks away. He said it was all you can eat Thursday shrimp night and unlimited beer. I think that's what he said. We had a nice chat. I posted a photo tweet about it here under Tweets in the right sidebar. I left out of there at about 7:15pm.  

Tomorrow, I'm at the employment agency doing some heavy duty faxing, doing a bit of a job search as well before heading out to pick up my cheque etc. I'll leave the door open at my current job but not for long. Then its off to Audrey's to pick up my Space marine Battles book and a bite to eat, then to my bank. I've got a $50 I'm going to have to break. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'm heading out of here at noon to go to Commercial lodge. I'll have another cold one there and a bite to eat and home to watch whatever is left of any CFL football. Sunday is wwe's "Night  of Champions," so I'm going to have a nice weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.

I've got another day off

today as I need to go downtown to do some personal business and then to get a couple of beer for the weekend. I've got some other business to take care of at home its over the phone stuff.

Hard to believe it was 28 days ago today in 1987 that we here in Edmonton experienced Black Friday. It was a massive tornado that caused the deaths of 28 people. When it touched down about 3pm I was working downtown at the Army & Navy just where the Ultima highrise is being built. I was 34 years old at the time.  

One of my favorite YouTube channels is sillySUPERPOP It's all things WWE wrestling. Mostly action figures and he uses some colorful expletive language. Very entertaining comedy. Even if your not a wrestling fan, its hilarious stuff

There's so many but one of my favorite comic books has always been the Fantastic four. I'm very happy that Marvel Studios is releasing a reboot. I'm very happy that another 
 
movie is coming out. My favorite artists drawing the Fantastic Four. His attention to detail always amazed me. Every time I think of the Fantastic Four I think of George Perez. He has a Facebook page as well.                                                 

Other then that, tonight its Riders visiting Esks at Commonwealth. I'm looking forward to this one. Eventually the Riders have got to win one and I think our luck has run out. We don't fare to well when "Rider nation" comes to town but we're just as banged up as they are. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Yes we know BC

starter quarterback was on the CFL sidelines but still it's a week #1 win for Eskimo fans. Esks 27/BC 20. The difference was 5 turnovers for BC and 1 for the Esks. 

Curious to see where the next Star Wars movie Episode 7 is at in production I was surprised to discover that Harrison Ford has a leg injury for 8 weeks. The good news is that the movie is slated for a December 18 2015 release. We're still 18 months away from showtime. I'm looking forward to see how Disney will handle this movie.

Hopefully tomorrow my bank is open so I can get my bank form for the job and deposit our rent money. Then I can go across the street to Audrey's and get my Eagles book and home for Monday night Raw. 

This afternoon Anne and I are going to try and watch "Money in the bank." I got 3 more sleep in's before Wednesday. I can still sleep in until about 10:30am as I don't have to leave out of here until 1pm to get there by 3pm. The only tough day is Saturday but then I got 2 days off and a chance to go to Monday night lodge. There's 2 of them, one at Freemason's Hall and the other one at Highlands Hall, the first Monday and the 2nd Monday and then mine on that Friday. I'd rather we go on a Sunday night but that's almost sacrilege. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I sent out one resume earlier today and so far it has

yet to bounce back. I hope I get a interview, even though it's in the West end I don't care.

Nasa has been hard at work developing the James Webb Space Telescope. It's slated to be launched in 2018 taking up position a million miles away from Earth. It's supposed to be a 100 times more powerful then the Hubble. Apparently it has the potential to even image planets orbiting their parent stars. 2018 is just 4 years away.

Yesterday afternoon I sat out on the balcony enjoying my first coffee of the day watching the parade of people go by. Even though it was a bit breezy it was still a nice warm sunny day. I love this time of year.

I'm not much one for Soccer but the World Cup has captured a lot of interest in this city. My brother likes it. I'm more of a CFL fan. Incidentally the Esks made all of their finale pre season cuts. Their first game is next Saturday facing the BC lions.

I've got some more business today making a few phone calls. I've got about 3-4 advertising type jobs I can try for but I'm not in a rush for those,yet. I don't mind doing outside sales as long as there is an hourly rate of pay attached to it and I can sit down every so often. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

My wife thinks I was suffering from

dehydration but thirst was not an issue and I'm not even sure dehydration was what this is. Maybe it was caffeine overload. It's still there but I slept for about an hour after Monday night Raw and I have a cup of "sleepy time tea"for over night.

Over this last weekend Jessie Marcel Jr passed away. For those that don't know Marcel Jr. was the son of Jessie Marcel who was one of the surviving witnesses of the Roswell case apparently Jessie's father had brought into his house artifacts that a young Marcel Jr. was able to touch and examine. He said there was a piece of metal with hieroglyphs of unknown origin but the case is well documented all over the net.

Today I'm out of here about 11pm and take the LRT down to Churchill Square for Canada Place I've got some business to take care of there. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Not much was acomplished this weekend

I watched the Esks defeat the Lions and Chicago defeating the Bruins for a game #5. Chicago (I hope) wins tonight so we can end this disastrous season. 

I didn't make it to the BBQ because I'm as far as the opposite end of the street (the other end of the city) I was more or less stranded and the LRT wasn't running so there was no way to ask for a on the way pick up from at Southgate from one of my colleagues. I did leave a message and will try to place a call tonight before wrestling and the hockey game.

Some residents in Calgary have been able to get back into their homes yesterday as they clean up the downtown core. Now it's Medicine Hat's turn. It's not looking good for them.

This afternoon, I'm running over to my bank to see why I got a NSF cheque against me from a pre authorized payment account that was a stop payment 3 days ago. I only found this out Friday night. Tuesday nothing much is going on. Wednesday I'm either at my ISP store to find out how my account was compromised. Now if it was compromised by someone other then myself, I'm not paying it but if I did something wrong, I'll ask what can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again and pay the bill Anyway, that's what my week looks like, that's all for now.
 

This post is basically a recap from yesterday and what's

going on for the weekend. 

Thursday was great. I did some banking, got my Warhammer 40K book. At home a bite to eat a hour and a half power nap get ready for Lodge. Part of being a Mason is visiting other Lodges. Especially in Cities it's easier as here in Edmonton we have about 30 Lodges between 3 buildings. A couple of weeks ago I paid another trip to a Saturday Lodge, where I made an announcement we were going to confer a degree. I met some great people at that Lodge and befriended an older Scottish fellow  and invited him out to our degree. I learned a few weeks latter ours was cancelled. I screwed up my lines and made an embarasment of myself near the end, which nobody seemed to mind. This is the good part, the fellow I befriended was one of a district brethren and at the festive board he introduced himself and mentioned how I invited him to Lodge (even though we were suposed to confer a degree which didn't happen) so that felt good now that the guys in my Lodge know I'm out visiting. I had a beer some sandwiches. I was home by 10pm. 

This weekend I'm going to take it easy. There's an Oiler game on at noon Saturday but I'll be sleeping until about 1pm 

Anyway I have a full day today. Lots of stuff going on. I'll elaborate later, anyway that's all for now.   
  

It felt kind of

strange watching Smackdown on a Saturday night. My Saturday night was relaxing.

I got some business done though. LM said I can come in and pick up Machine at anytime. Since I'm a few months ahead of my other lay-a-way. I'm about 6 months away from paying it off. This package came with 12 DVD's and it took me hours to install it. It's a big package:

  Apparently the NHLPA is supposed to respond to one of the latest offers of the league today. I don't know if they'll accept it but the players are losing a lot of money and this is their last chance to salvage the 2012-13 season. I'm waiting for a bit of good news to cap off a difficult year.

I love comics and graphic novels, although I haven't read many in the last few years. One that I've been following for awhile is Spindrift. The artwork is amazing and so is the story, so far. 

Several things are happening this week:1st, its the start of a new year, 2nd, I'm applying for my CPP. 3rd, for the first time in like 12 years I'm out looking for a job. 4th, It's Lodge week and I have a new chair and if all works out ok, I'll have a new job by the end of the week. That's a big if but it's the start of a new week a new month and a new year.

 I didn't get out at all this weekend but I will through out the week. We're having a bit of a warm spell right now as we're having a bit of a break. It's the humidity that helps to keep things warm. 

Not much going on for me today. There's a Doctor Who on TV I'm mostly reading and hastily preparing a "Happy New Year 2012" track from my FL Studio DAW so I can upload this to my Sound cloud account it's not a perfect product or anything. I'm just messing around. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm just about ready to wrap

up Stardoc #1. I found out from Fantastic Fiction, there are 3 more out of the 7 books I  have left in the Stardoc series. I hope to get the last 3 next month. 

I had every intention of heading out to Canada Place to get my CPP under way for next month but Canada Place has abbreviated hours this week. Today, Thursday and Friday they are open 8:30-10am and closed January 1st, naturally. It means I can't do anything until next week.  

Today marks the first day that we have had -20 as a high for the winter season since our first snow. It's not bad if you don't have to be out in it for a long period of time. My sister -in-law is getting ready to go on a 10 day cruise over the holidays that begins today. She's going on a Disney cruise and she says that Micky, Donald Duck etc are going to wish her nieces etc a Merry Christmas from the ship. They'll be in +25 we'll be in -25.  

Tonight is Christmas eve and we usually open our gifts tonight. We got a new budgie to replace poor Sugar #1.

Anne is getting us a little holiday Christmas platter from Safeway and I've got Monday night Raw (unless they're going to do one of their pre-recorded shows for the troops) which doesn't mean anything for me not being an American but I appreciate the effort WWE does for this but I hope its they're regular show.

It seems that The Black Library could be offering something for they're newsletter subscribers tomorrow. I'm going to check my inbox and see what it is. Maybe a free story? That's be nice.

Anyway it's time to finish the last 30 pages or so of this my 3rd novel I've read this year. Usually I read between 8-12 books/year but with all that's been going on over the last year It's been tough to find time to do much reading. Anyway, that's all for now.