Management here had a notice the other day that yesteday they were going to shut

off the water for badly needed repairs. It wasn't much of a hardship because water was back online when I got out of bed. I learned this by accident. I had water for my coffee in the kettle anyway.

My afternoon commute was trouble free. After I settled my stuff at my station, I went to the store for a black jack ticket. Back to the office. I won a free ticket. Back to the store, back to the office. I scratched again. I won $2! Back to the store, back to the office. Could this go on all night? I lucked out after that as the dealer's table drew two 20's. I got 1 online sale before break and about 150 calls later. Raj gave me a file with 1 warm on it, and I got that. So that was 1 online and 1 warm for the night. Rather sad after work because Joyce said this was her last night. She wont be back until the fall. The ride home is nice and I save half an hour but with the nice weather the commute doesn't bother me that much. If I go back when I'm on pension, its going to be 4-7:30pm  four days/week. Anne completed the Canada census. She did this on our iPad after dinner. 

 

^ From James Neufeld's Facebook page

 

I'm up at 9am because I want to be on the road by 10am to get to my pcn. I should be home by 1pm. This way I get a chance to relax a bit before heading into work. Its my last shift there this week. Last year I heard they were working up to the end of May. Wouldn't that be nice if history repeated itself? Anyway, that's all for now.

I got 2 more days off

here before I go back to work. That's ok, at least I'm getting  (for now) steady hours. 

It was built in 1978 but satellite ISEE-3 is staying alive. Thanks to band of space enthusiasts that located the spacecraft and have managed to "talk to it" and to resurrect some of its instruments that can still provide useful data. The project is mostly a labour of love for the 75 team of scientists working on their own time, from the people (some in there 80's) that originally worked on the satellite to younger scientists in their 20's-30's. They raised about $140,000 to be able to work on this project. You can read more about it here.

Anne and I opted out of "Money in the bank" mainly because it would have cost us more money, which we don't have. We'll probably get the WWE network soon. That and my blood sugar readings were very unstable all day and by the time we would have come back, it would have been about 9pm and Anne needed to do Face Time with her sister.    

I'm heading out of here about noon today so I can get to my bank get the form for work and then across the street to get  my Eagles book. The only tough part about the job is the long distance getting there. It's not like I catch a train and walk a block and I'm there within 30 minutes. At least though, its steady. Anyway, that's all for now.