I had a busy couple of days

here, what with lodge and other stuff going on. Speaking of which, wereceived a dump of snow on the ground yesterday. Most of its melted. We're supposed to warm up so that will melt what posckets of snow are left on the ground. Right now we're at:

At the moment its Montreal in the East and underway its BC Lions in Regina to determine the teams in the 2025 Grey cup. Depends on which team wins the West will determine the teams for the Grey cup next Sunday on the 16th

Although I'm not joining another Masonic order, my intention is to finish what I started in Royal Arch. That means Cryptic, which includes Royal Ark Mariner as well. I'm possibly looking at the end of September next year. Anyway, that's all for now.

We're getting our first snowfall of the season

right now. It looks like wet snow coming down.

Should tapper off by 5pm when its dark out there. Even though this is autumn the Winter equinox is December 21st around here. 

Not a lot going on for today. It's a stay at home snow day. I got a Costco muffin waiting for me, diet cola sandwiches. So far its all good. 

Last night Oilers Connor McDavid got his 1001 point. 4th youngest player to get to 1000 points in League history. Oilers play in Toronto tomorrow. As for today, its Friday night Smackdown. I'm home all weekend. Anyway, that's all for now.   

It started Tuesday night with a slight soar

throat and developed into watery eyes. I felt a slight fever coming on as well. Then my sinuses began dripping. I didn't eat much of the lunch Anne made for me. I had to call one of my lodge brothers to cancel his pick-up for me today for tonight. I really wanted to go to lodge tonight, but my next opportunity will be November 23rd.

It began last night with our first snowfall of the season. About 3.5 inches. We're going to get -10 to 13* for the next 7 days. We're finally into winter. Anyway, that's all for now.

Canceling shifts at my job is

not recommended practice but I'd be working from Wednesday last week to Wednesday this week with no breaks in between. Anne suggested because of the nasty first snow, and the above Wednesday to Wednesday I'd be too worn out. So I called in and left a message on the answering machine. I'm not 35 years old anymore where I can work 8 days straight through. It's not like the old days. If I was single and 15 years younger maybe but I have a wife that needs to be with her husband once in awhile. I'm still taking Thursday off of course. 

At the moment I don't have enough room for new gear here in my office/studio. I'm thinking about various desks from Kijiji or even just get a counter top and set it down between two night stands or something like that. I can get a good desk for about $100 but then its getting it here safely and inside without damaging walls etc. If I can get a counter top for about $50 and some brackets, this might be an options. Or a couple of night stands for a counter top. I'm looking at a 6 foot 30 inches counter top.Getting it into my office might be a problem.

This morning is daylight savings where we turn our clocks back an hour and we lose about a minute each day until December 21st where we gain a minute of light. This the aftermath of our overnight snowfall. This should be the snow that supports more snow coming this winter:

I have a dilemma here. I can spend $1,000 or so and get the parts to build a new desktop pc and that means saving. Or I can invest in about $500 and get the Yamaha MX 49 keyboard. This makes more sense. I can get the sounds I need from the MX without breaking the bank. I'm not taking out a account for something like this. If it was for say the MOX6 or something like that, maybe. At least this lets me have a short term solution, and I'm still not out yet on the MoX6.

After work tomorrow it's visit Audrey's books as I'm looking at getting the Stuart Woods Stone Barrington series in Omnibus format. I think he has 6 Omnibus books. Woods is a author of the mystery genre. Other then my Warhammer 40K books I'm giving sf a break for awhile. Robert J Sawyer and anthology books are always on my radar. 

In the New Year, I'm reactivating my website for another couple of years. The first year just to keep it active then the yearly domain fee going. It's a Geeklog website and its pretty cool. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I got up out of

bed shortly after 9am a few minutes ago. Outside a new blanket of snow had fallen overnight. Hint: The skies are still overcast. It also looks pretty breezy out there as well for my late morning commute. Seems like the snow stopped falling awhile ago but we could see an encore latter today possibly again overnight.

I’m still looking at getting that Kingston mobile link. Most likely I’ll need to register the product read the instructions as part of the set up process. If it works, along with the last iOS update then it’s almost like having a new iPad. I’ll be doing this on my day off Tuesday.

At the moment, I’m enjoying a morning coffee but I still have time to go over my email and do some more “research” on this Kingston device.

As for today, I’m out of here about 10:45am for my morning commute. I had about 6 hours sleep so I’m ok for the day. My day at work is from noon-6pm today. I wish all my shifts were like that. At work I’m calling Audrey’s to let them know I’ll be picking up a special order this upcoming Friday and Anne. Then after work my train to Grandin and then home. Anne’s going to have our Sunday brunch ready and I should be home to watch the Oiler/Kings hockey game. The rest of the night is mine. Anyway, that’s about all for now.