I had a pretty

decent night last night. After Lodge, I went up to Bay station and after about 10 minutes, here comes Anne down the escalator and we talked while waiting for the train. At Clareview we walked home but the pavement was clean from any ice. I was still in my street shoes. At home Anne wanted to order Pizza and i insist not to go out for it. She checked on a lot of places but most of them after 11pm were closed,except Pizza73. I was hungry as I didn't stick around for festive board. Piazza was good and so were the chicken bites and curly fries. I was in by 1am. 

Today although now I could easily crawl back into bed for a few hours, I'm going to be busy. First of all I have an 8 hour day ahead of me. After work, it's over to Audrey's for another Warhammer book. Then down to LM and pick up Machine. Then home for the Oiler game. Anyway, that's about all for now.

A couple of days a go at the age of 77 a Canadian icon had died: Legendary Stompin' Tom Conners. He died of natural causes. He's best known for his "hockey Song" but in his career had put together over 60 studio recordings. Not my genre but I respected the man. Anyway, that's all for now    

Finally everything since the beginning

of the week has come to a head. Yesterday, I got the dinner figured out and my parts in the lodge figured out. Too  make matters worse Anne calls me just before break and makes a change of plans for me. I hope she said she wanted me to put my check (what I give her) in my account. Otherwise I would have brought cash. Up until they began handing out checks to everybody at 8:15pm, I was wondering if I had a check at all. And if so how much was it going to be? I’ve seen them dicker me out before and others. Ok, I got my check and opened the envelope, $325 Whew, almost a full check. Instant relief. I headed up to the bank cashed my check and left the $265 like I hope Anne wanted me to do. All of it the festive board, my part in the Lodge, my check all came out ok. Thank God. I even have $100 to play with as well which means I can get my RJS book and a bite to eat after work tomorrow. The only downside to all of this today was I had only $25 on sales but it was all on card. All I can say was, what a week! I even got my iTunes card fixed up. All in all, this week turned out great. It could have been a disaster.

Music over the years has changed so much not only in genres but how music has been produced. It used to be from the beginning a collection of musicians or one person with a flute or plcucked instrument of some kind. In the "modern era" the phonograph was introduced in the late 1800's. Music was then recorded in a control room on a 4 track device and then evolved to 100 banks console to digital music on the computer making the art of producing music open to anyone. So along comes the iPad, which is becoming a serious music production tool. It's going to be a long way off before the iPad will replace a 4 piece band or anything or even someone with an iPad on stage. But with Digital Audio Workstations (DAW's) so accessible for hobby musicians IPad's/Apple's Garageband Gb isn't quiet there yet. I'm a hobby musician. The only instrument I can play (barely) is the DAW, which is an instrument in itself. Gb isn't even like the same thing of it's Mac big brother. For example, I paid $500 for Cubase 6 2 months ago. Gb comes free with every Mac computer but for the iPad it's a $5 app on a $700 device. I haven't produced any music yet but I'm about to as soon as I get over this bout of laryngitis or what ever it is. Here's what the interface of Garageband looks like: 

I gave Anne another $50 to help cover the rent last night. We we're only $50 short of rent and I did want to get that RJS book. Looks like I'm going to have to wait another week

This weekend is a short weekend. I'm paying for it now because next Saturday I want off to go to Ye Old Craft. We start Monday at 2pm, which is ok. It will still give me 37.5 hours on my check next week and more importantly give me an opportunity to visit other Lodges. Me being one of the 3 principle officers of our Lodge I should be visiting m ore and that's what I'm about to do this month. 

Today however, I've got 6 hours ahead of me and I hope J will put me onto "Harper" and not OPC. At  least I can make money on "Harper." After work I'm considering going over to Audrey's to pick up something. It wont be an RJS book but something within my price range. 

The next project for my music is going to be Melodyne editor for my voice as I'm going to need an affect on my voice. I'm  not a singer but I want to "sing" or create noise with my mouth. I want to save up $450 but the product itself is about $350. I don't want to leave myself short. So $75 over the next 6 weeks will do it. So I hope by mid June I'll have it. Anyway, that's about all for now.

  

My cold is causing me some grief

on this my week off but I'd rather have it now then when I'm on the job affecting my performance.

Though I am feeling better even though my voice is rough and scrappy.

I wonder if this blog will even exist in say 100 years from now. I often wonder what this world will look like. Not the world at large but just my little corner of it. What I see every day. This building is already close to 50 years old so in another 25/50 years this building will have a date with the wrecking ball. What will be here in it's place? Most likely a newer apartment building reflecting the design and needs of our time. The owner of this building is an old man and when he goes his kids will take it over. His grandchildren are (if he has any) probably will take it over. He might have a clause in his estate something to the affect that they will only get money if they have Capital Place. Something like a newer version of Capital, which probably would cost around half a $B in a 100 years from now. A 2 bedroom suit would probably cost around $5,000/month. Minimum wage will be around $45/hour. Assuming even if the economy will be based on the dollar. More then likely people will be driving around in "Smart cars." Meaning no biodiesel, everything will be electric. There are prototypes that the Big 3 are beginning to introduce even now. Before I pass away (72? Which is in another 13 years from now) there will be electric cars on the road. More then likely everything here will be the same except more modern. People might have computers embedded in their brains with a portal on the brain stem of the neck so they have Internet access wherever they go but people will still need a place to sleep and food to eat. As long as Google will be up and running so will this blog and Google Earth, as long as these 2 things will be around so will my Blog and my writing and music. I may be long gone but there will be a part of me that will still carry on into the future.

The thing that makes me realize there won't be a lot of cosmetic changes made around here. 35 years ago, other then to the land just North of us across the street was empty from 50th street up to Victoria trail is now. Even those new apartments behind Superstore didn't go up until about 2007. This area will most likely be as it is 50 years from now with the idea Capital place will be up for a building renewal.

As far as planets in other solar systems go, I don't know anything about that. I can speculate though that the star system known as Alpha Centauri (4.5 light years away from Earth) has a yellow Sun similar to our own. Its possible there is a civilization there similar to our own. There may be other star systems out there that are like those above, hard to say. I hope though that science will be able to find away where we might be able to discover such a thing. Physics is our best hope if we're not taken over by the Taliban or crap like that.

I got a birthday card in the mail from Donna (Anne's sister in Winnipeg.) Very nice of her and so was the gift in the card. Donna thinks more about me then even my own family does. So tonight I've got to call Dan about Fort Edmonton Park and our volunteer time there this Sunday (My birthday) I'm sending Anne to Olive Garden restaurant, she'll like that and I'm going to get Music Maker 17 and Rock edition 4 on Friday. Hopefully I'll feel a lot better by then. Also, Saturday afternoon (Still a bi week for the CFL) I'm going to go out for drinks with the guys. I want to go to Audrey's first get my book and 2 free books then have a couple of drinks and out of there by 6pm home by 7pm fool around with MM 17 get my call from Anne and then get ready for Fort Edmonton Park and get the details about our Lodge BBQ. I'll have Monday off before I go back to work a week from now. The other good thing about this, is I'm going to be able to afford Melodyne editor in September. Anyway, that's all for now. 

It's been a great week

I‘ve been having a nice couple of days at work this week. The other day I got a Facebook message reply from an old friend I hadn’t seen since before I got married. We used to play Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) but even though I hadn‘t played the game in like over 10 years I‘d still like to get into it, so hopefully he got my message reply and my phone number to call me back but it took him forever to even find my message to him, it could take me just as long for him to reply back. I‘d like to game over the next long weekend.

So far I haven’t heard any new information on the proposed upcoming Star Wars live action TV show. What I know is they are looking for writers and plan for 100 hours. The series is supposed to take place between “Revenge of the Syth“ and “A new hope."

We got a lot of snow today as it started coming down about 8am this morning. I think we got 6 inches of it so far and its still coming down. The boots come back on tomorrow morning. Anyway, that’s all for now