My sleep overnight was not an easy one

but I think I got about 5 hours, even with that Malathion in me. I woke up about 9am, fed the cats and went back to bed, with the pill doing its work in my system. However, my restless leg syndrome (RLS) had other ideas and I kept tossing and turning. I think I get about an hour in after about 11:15am or so.

Before bed I discovered while looking for free video screen capture software (I uninstalled Camstudio as it wasn’t working for me) in Windows 10. After a brief search I was awarded a bunch of options. Hypercam 2 was one of the first ones I tried. Its similar to Camstudio and I was able to record my screen and it gave me the option to record in Windows Movie maker, slick. I’ll be fooling around with this later. Windows 10 has a Xbox button as part of its Windows Essentials and I learned there is something called Game DVR. It’ll record the screen after pressing the Windows key and G at the same time. Hard to do that with a mouse controlled on screen keyboard. Three things I need for my Lenova: micro sd card, Sony bluetooth speaker, and a mini keyboard/mouse setup. Probably a sequencer would be a good idea to record the screen and sync the audio. What I’d like to do is to screen record a visualization as the movie into win movie maker, then sync the audio and publish. I haven’t checked Hypercam 2 (hyp2) will record my voice from the voice recorder built into windows essentials. I’ll be doing all of this after lunch, latter today.  

I have a night off again but I hope by this time next week, I'll be at the job working out the last hour. Well that's the idea. if I have work over the next 2 weeks, I'm saving that cheque for July's rent. If I'm working the full month, the cheque for the end of June will be for August. And if I'm invited back for September we should be ok from there. Anyway, that's all for now.

Just before I left yesterday I thought I'd begin to download the

recent iOS 3.2.1 update, now that I had enough memory. I got about 2 minutes into the download and a message pops up saying my device didn't have enough memory. I was pissed off because this happened before. 

My commute into work was ok. We broke at 6:30pm and management ordered Pizza because we hit a milestone. I  had 3 slices of pepperoni something. We had a half hour break which was nice. I got 3 "sales" all night. It was a slow night for everybody. My co worker dropped me off across the street (its on her way home anyway) 

 

So I got into my apartment and decided to try and download the update again. This time I was successful! I really wanted to try the Garageband 2.0 and the new Live Loops but it wasn't working for me. Then I checked the details from the app store on the product and Live Loops only work with 4th Generation iPad's or greater. Mine's the iPad 2. At least iMovie works ok.

Anne came in and made me a chicken burger and fries as we watched the news and a bit of the Late show. Today I'm in at my market research job from 4-9:30pm. Anyway, that's all for now.

I've had Apple's

iOS 9 for a few days now. Its a little buggy. My screen jiggles once in awhile, resets itself, tricks like that. What I do like about the new update is I can now save any webpage or photo as a pdf file to my news stand for offline reading. This is a handy feature for reading emails etc. What I don't like about the new update is that it doesn't want to send a iPod Touch photo via my email like it used to do before. I'm still testing iOS9, and most likely will discover other things over the next few days. 

Tonight I'm following the Calgary/Oiler's pre season game at Rexall place. Its Live on Demand (meaning to say we have to pay for it). Also, I'll be watching my usual Monday night Raw. 

Job wise, I'm laying low over the next few days. If I don't get a call to report to work by Wednesday, I'm going to be cashing in on my assets but leave the door open to who ever wants me first. I got a feeling I'll get a call latter today or Wednesday at the latest.

In a few minutes I'm calling my old school district to enquirer what the process would be for obtaining my school transcripts from the 1960's. I'm curious how much if anything is on file. It'd be cool to see my report cards, my marks, my old teachers, schools I attended and what years. Now that I have a bit of time off, I'd be cool to find all that stuff out. I just contacted my old school district and they will be emailing me a transcript request form. I'm sure there is a small fee to release this info. So I got a pdf form in my email and its a simple form to fill out. There is a $10 fee. I'll get that out tomorrow. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm having trouble with some people

namely my wife accessing my email from my iPad she takes to work with her. I know there are folder lock apps that password protect folders and that's what I need. However with the recent iOS 7.0.4 update I can't jailbreak my iPad to get into the Cydia store where I can get this free app. At the moment however there is no jailbreak for 7.0.4. Most likely there will be one by the end of the year.

It looks like I have most of my officers for my year in the East. I'm missing the 2 Stewards and the SD, that I can't (so it seems) depend on but I can get someone to fill in those spots if I need them. Things are getting interesting.

I didn't get a chance to get out to Freemason's Hall for that drink after work like I wanted but there's always next time.

My only big activity is going to be Sunday night at our Lodge practice. Our Secretary is printing the invitations and it looks like I get top billing. Fingers crossed.

I feel so bad for those people that got hit by Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines last weekend. Especially the aid workers driving past starving people lining the streets because the aid workers had to get relief to the hardest hit areas. Sure Katrina and Sandy were bad but nothing like this. I thank God every day I live here in Edmonton. This the worst natural disaster to hit in our times. And the least of my problems is, do I have my Lodge officers for the year and my slow computer.

I've got 4 hours today and I'm going over to Audrey's after work to see if there are any new "Space Marine Battle's" or Horus Heresy books available in my formats. Then home to watch the Oiler's lose to San Jose sharks. Anyway that's all for now.

For me the mark of a good book is when I can

finish it in 2 weeks, like I did with Timothy Zahn's "Domino Pattern." I'm no in the early stages of James P' Hogan's last novel "Moon Flower." I'll probably have this finished about the end of March what with all my Lodge work and everything.

Today I'm going to swing down to LM in the morning and get Komplete 8. It's going to cost me nearly $600. Normally I like to use a demo of the product before I buy the whole thing but because this has 27 different instruments and I've done a lot of research on this product, I'm just going to buy it outright.

Speaking of software and such, Keith said he'd call me at noon today and install the finale pieces of software he said I'd need before I can install. I'd like to reinstall FL studio and when I get Komplete 8 install that and have some fun but I can't do that until Keith does his bit. He has Team viewer a popular remote desktop application that lets users from other locations take control of your desktop (with your permission of course) to work on your computer. 

Tonight, I'm buying Anne and myself Pizza and I'm off for tomorrow running down to LM early in the afternoon and pick up the program and head home. 

I watched the first quarter of the Super Bowl and lost interest in it. I had a $5 bet on NY and I guess I won, whu who. Anyway that's all for now.

Four days may not seem like a lot

but at 8 hour days doing this kind of work, is. Plus I have another 4 today for a total of 36 hours on the week. I had a good afternoon. I got my 6/49 ticket and at the 2nd half got to watch some of the Montreal/Hamilton game. T-Cats won that one, so that meant 2/4 on my ticket. The Argos/Edmonton game was in progress and it looked like at the late stages in the first half the Argos were going to take it. I went to my bank and hurried home. About 8 minutes left and the Argos challenged a touch down play that was in their favour but the Esks won by 1 point. 3/4 games in but I don;t think I won because the games need to be won by 3 points. I'm not 100% sure on this. Now all that remains is just 1 game and it's a huge upset if the Riders (even at Home) can win. I might be able to win $58 bucks, Maybe.

Another old building in the downtown core is about to meet the wrecking ball: It's the 1963 Montreal bank building. It's not a historical building but the scaffolding was up this evening and workers were hard at work on it taking advantage of extra daylight.

Ok, maybe maybe this wont be so bad this evening. All I just need to do is to pay my way and Anne's way in ($12 each) and buy her a piece of pizza or something. I could be looking at $40-50 in which case if I save what I can, I could be in a position to get MM17 next weekend. Well, August 8th. The post office had the visa gift cards out. So if I can save $30 and put $100 on, I might be in business. I'll need at least $160 so I wont be there yet. Best I could do is get the funds August 15th, I'm still at least 20 days away from purchasing MM17. Anyway, that's all for now.