Initially I thought I was just having the 2 days

this week, then Tuesday night Super asked me if I wanted to come in last night, sure. Then last night, if I could come in tonight, ok. There could be a shift Friday but I doubt there will be one Saturday. If there's nothing next week, then I'm going for plan B.

We applied for our low income rec centre pass, that would have been early April. We have yet to hear back from the city for Approval. We're expecting something in the mail at any time. When it arrives we need to go get our photo id at the rec centre etc. I'm looking forward to using the hot tub, work out equipment. I've got a feeling we're going to hear from the city this month.  

In my email I got a notice of a Audrey's book arrival: Space marine Battles "Damos." There's a few more in this series I missed: "World Engine", "Sanctus Reach" ,"Blades of Damocles" (April 2016) "The Plagues of Orath" July 2016 and "Crusaders of Dorn" in September. That's 5 of these between now and September. As if I don't have enough on my shelf.

I'm looking forward to the first CFL exhibition game. The Eskimos (Esks) are in Calgary on Saturday at 7pm. I'm hoping Pittsburgh can wrap up this Stanley Cup series tonight so I won't need to go channel surfing Saturday night. 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.

My last day off today

and my football game Bombers/Riders was almost a tied game up to the half. Then today I got the Esks/Calgary game and Monday night Raw to wrap up my evening and my 5 days off

Last night about 10pm the city paving crew decides to turn the street out here into a construction paving zone. It was bumper to bumper traffic out there as the city decides to bring in te heavy equipment. I got a bit of sleep but then about 4am it was beep-beep all night. It was giving me a headache. Finally the beeping stopped about 7am. Maybe someone complained. I slept on the couch and feel a bit better.
 
I've got my first day back to work having tomorrow after having almost a week off. Thursday I'm off because of Lodge night. Friday is a short shift and I'm working on a rare Saturday, then I'm taking 2 days off after that. Its not that busy a week but I got some stuff going on. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I'm having a nice weekend

other then helping Anne with the new box spring mattress's she got in this afternoon. If she thinks with my back I'm moving that hide-a-bed sofa, to make room for the new sofa, it ain't gonna happen:

Ok this week looks pretty good. I'll know Tuesday if I got a new job, so far the signs are right. How the job offer came about was from a previous colleague that befriended me at the old place in the Baker Centre where we worked. We had maintained a off-and-on-dialogue on Facebook since he left and a couple times a year he'd say hi, that sort of thing. When I mentioned on Facebook from an older post he discovered while playing catch up awhile ago, how I was looking for work after 12 years. That's when he sent me a PM about the job offer. If that doesn't pan out then I'm going to apply for unemployment and take some time off on a medical. I've done it before that way. I've got enough hours on EI where I could take 6 months off and with my CPP (when it comes in) I'll be in good shape. Most likely I'll get the job though.

Tomorrow night is Monday night Raw and the Nashville/Oiler game,I'm going to be playing channel surfing all night.

But since Anne is going to go out for beer and then out to Walmart where she'll be an hour or so doing that,which means I'm going to take the box spring out myself and wait for Henry a friend of mine out here that said he'd take them off my hands for $20 as he's heading out to the landfill himself in the morning. I paid him $30 as I helped him load it in his truck. All before Anne got home. Anyway,that's about all for now.

Anne went all the way out to the

airport to meet her sister in town for a couple of days but due to the weather fights have been delayed. It means she wont get in until about 8pm,so that ruins her day with her sister. Well one of her days.

By the end of this month we should be out of this cold snap. It means I'm during my commute tomorrow morning,I'm wearing my cleats.

I decided to change browsers and go with Chrome over Firefox because Google is retiring iGoogle after this November. I really liked iGoogle because everything was right there on the same page. I discovered the Google webpage similar to iGoogle where I have my email, Twitter, YouTube, Google maps, Docs and Drive on the same page and I can even put my blog header icon there as well. Google is also getting rid of it's news reader service. All I need now is a Facebook icon link on my Google page. My next step is to sync this with my mobile device and I'm good to go.

I was going to head out yesterday get my haircut, my book, some Tim's breakfast and over to LM and pay my bill and head for Lodge. That would have been a productive morning/afternoon but the weather kept me at bay. 

Nothing special going on this week. If the weather improves then I think I'll be able to get all the above done on this coming up Saturday anyway. 

In a couple of hours, it's Nashville at Edmonton. Should be a good one. Anyway that's about all for now.
  

This morning I opted out of going

to the preparing to be an officer course. I've held various chairs in my Lodge since 2007, and I've seen how the Lodge opens and closes and I have the work, I think I know how it's done after all these years. Based on that I opted out. I wish I knew about this Last week as I would have made it out to Commercial Lodge yesterday. March's meeting is penciled into my calendar. 

If Happy Harbor is open tomorrow, I'm considering heading over to pick up that Marvel Legends Iron Man action figure as I'm trying to build a Avengers assemble roll call of heroes. The 6 and 8" are to big for my display. Also, I can get some Chinese food from the place a few doors down from Happy Harbor. Sounds like a good plan. So I'm glad I didn't go to that officer's training thing this morning. Check out this guys set up:

Today is Random act's of kindness day. If you know this and have opportunity try and take advantage of this today. The world could use as much positive energy as possible. 

I'm not sure if Anne wants to go out today to Capital Pizza or do this tomorrow. If we go tomorrow ETS is running on Holiday scheduled. If we're going out later this afternoon then great. I prefer "Rose Bowl" Pizza but I'm not up to taking a bus a train and another bus on my Sunday afternoon. I think we go down to Clareview catch the #10 and out to 144th Ave. I can get myself a hamburger platter and a beer. In this strip mall, they also have Dairy Queen and "Giant Tiger." Giant Tiger is like a small department store but they have odd selections. I think they close at 6pm on Sunday's.

Hey, the Oiler's won a game last night! Wow. The best part about it was the game was a 6-4 comeback win. This win puts the Oiler's within striking range of the last playoff spot. If they can float around this area and near the end of the season and go on a wining streak and play meaningful games the 2nd half of April, they have a chance of making the playoffs. Anyway's that's all from me for today. 

Not much going on at the moment for a Tuesday

evening. I updated my Blog friends page and finally got that organized and included some "Likes" on Facebook and added another page on my blog On politics. I consider myself to be slightly left of Centre. I tend to stay out of Federal and Provincial politics but more focused on. I vote every civic election not the National or Provincial elections.

On Coast tonight UFO Researcher known as the "Crypto Hunter," John Rhodes will discuss the reptilian humanoids and the secret underworld empire which consists of alien cultures, lost civilizations and secret government facilities which are networked across the United States.

We're about to go into a bit of a cold snap over the weekend, which will last between now and about the end of the year. I think because of this I'm going to remain inbound and get out Thursday to do the CPP thing. Anyway, that's about all for now.