on the job today and I hope I get a full 7.5 hours.
I'm having trouble (again) with my laptop as it's crashing on start up. I'm considering a system restore but I'd be losing all of my programs. I have a 1 Tb back up drive and I'm considering backing up my laptop and then reinstall and hope everything works from there.
One of Harper's recent pieces of legislation is immigration reform. Bill C-24. The bill makes dramatic improvements to the immigration act making it more difficult for people to immigrate here. The bill is aimed at preventing immigration fraud and improving wait times for a citizenship application backlog which, stood at 349,249 cases at the end of 2012. It takes just over 25 months to process a new immigration claim. First of all new Canadian prospects must be able to speak English. They must reside in Canada for a minimum of 4 years instead of the usual 3, and adults who apply for citizenship will also have to show they have filed Canadian income taxes. Canada spends way to much on immigration, over $20 billion annually. The proposed legislation would streamline the application process by allowing citizenship officers to make decisions on applications, something only citizenship judges can do now. Lots of these people use Canada as a soft place to land during challenging times in their own country. Recently about 11,000 people were deported for committing immigration fraud. The new bill would also,increase application fees for each adult to $300 from $100, effective immediately. Fees for minors would remain the same. The new bill also addresses "lost Canadians" as well.
So, I got my hours for the week ahead and I have just half days. They got me off for Sunday and Thursday. Yes, I have a Sunday off, which means I can try and "fix" my laptop Sunday. Or just get the new pc and reinstall everything. Komplete 8 is a 110Gb install and Maschine is about a 2Gb install. Then I've got my audio interface and midi keyboard, Cubase and FL Studio and a few other programs. Should be about 180 Gb but I have some decisions to make here. Anyway, that's all for now.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Everything turned out ok last night at lodge
as I got the bar and the pizza order came shortly after that We barely had enough guys to open lodge as we missed a good amount of the guys for one reason or another.
The City of Edmonton has awarded the Katz Group the contract to build a 27 storey office tower, which will be just across the street from the new downtown arena. It's all part of the downtown arena/district and revitalization plan. The office tower will take about 2 years to build. That should make the opening of that tower coincide with the arena opening itself.
I have work today from 5-9 and possibly Saturday, 10-6 but more likely it's going to go from 10-2. I don't know what next weeks schedule will be like until I go in for this evening, then the picture will come into focus a little clearer. This means that other then lodge, I'll be working Monday-Sunday until the end of April and sending my resume`s out there as I need full time work. I need 80 hours on my cheque. Then when Anne came home she said that after the family day week end, her management cut her down to 2 days/week. It's time to go look for another job. Anyway, that's all for now.
The City of Edmonton has awarded the Katz Group the contract to build a 27 storey office tower, which will be just across the street from the new downtown arena. It's all part of the downtown arena/district and revitalization plan. The office tower will take about 2 years to build. That should make the opening of that tower coincide with the arena opening itself.
I have work today from 5-9 and possibly Saturday, 10-6 but more likely it's going to go from 10-2. I don't know what next weeks schedule will be like until I go in for this evening, then the picture will come into focus a little clearer. This means that other then lodge, I'll be working Monday-Sunday until the end of April and sending my resume`s out there as I need full time work. I need 80 hours on my cheque. Then when Anne came home she said that after the family day week end, her management cut her down to 2 days/week. It's time to go look for another job. Anyway, that's all for now.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
My day yesterday was decent enough
as I had a good start to the shift. About 3pm we were asked if we'd like to go home at 5pm. It's complicated but I'm in 9-5 for today, as far as I know.
Four chapters into Warhammer 40K "Horus Rising" and I'm enjoying this book. It's not as action packed as the "Space Wolf 2nd Omnibus." It's still a good story so far.
Despite my JW having some health issues preventing him from attending Thursday night, he said he'd have his wife drop off the bar. Plan B is to have our previous JW use his Costco card and get some deli lasagna and in this emergency sub for our current JW. That's if I can reach him before tomorrow night. I can't just call my IPM's 2 days before: "Hey can I get you to take this chair for the meeting?" Response: "I've got some stuff going on Jim, sorry but I can't make it etc." Human nature, if you give people an out, they'll take it. If worse comes to worse, I'll order a couple of pizzas and we'll have pop, coffee and or juice. Almost every Lodge faces hurdles like this.
My wife had to postpone her Doctors appointment yesterday for today. Mainly because of inspectors coming into the premises doing a "inspections." They're saying she can't have the dishwasher. Something to do with water mains and pipes or something. What? We've had the dishwasher here for 16 years. The dishwasher hooks up to the kitchen sink tap and water comes from there for the dishwasher. As far as I know there was nothing in the original lease saying she couldn't have a dishwasher. Now they're saying its an issue? So Anne had to postpone her appointment for that.
Other then that I have a day off tomorrow and I'm looking forward to that. It's like having a Saturday night in the middle of the week. Anyway, that's all for today.
Four chapters into Warhammer 40K "Horus Rising" and I'm enjoying this book. It's not as action packed as the "Space Wolf 2nd Omnibus." It's still a good story so far.
Despite my JW having some health issues preventing him from attending Thursday night, he said he'd have his wife drop off the bar. Plan B is to have our previous JW use his Costco card and get some deli lasagna and in this emergency sub for our current JW. That's if I can reach him before tomorrow night. I can't just call my IPM's 2 days before: "Hey can I get you to take this chair for the meeting?" Response: "I've got some stuff going on Jim, sorry but I can't make it etc." Human nature, if you give people an out, they'll take it. If worse comes to worse, I'll order a couple of pizzas and we'll have pop, coffee and or juice. Almost every Lodge faces hurdles like this.
My wife had to postpone her Doctors appointment yesterday for today. Mainly because of inspectors coming into the premises doing a "inspections." They're saying she can't have the dishwasher. Something to do with water mains and pipes or something. What? We've had the dishwasher here for 16 years. The dishwasher hooks up to the kitchen sink tap and water comes from there for the dishwasher. As far as I know there was nothing in the original lease saying she couldn't have a dishwasher. Now they're saying its an issue? So Anne had to postpone her appointment for that.
Other then that I have a day off tomorrow and I'm looking forward to that. It's like having a Saturday night in the middle of the week. Anyway, that's all for today.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Cleats were not necessary on my way into work yesterday
afternoon, even though I wore them. There were a few icy patches here and there but nothing major. Nothing I couldn't handle.
The 1st part of my day was slow going. I wanted to have my half hour about 6:30pm to make the rest of the shift go by faster but we had some down time. The 2nd half went by a bit better then the first for my first time doing a new project. On my 10 i went to Subway to get some air and a package of dark chocolate chip cookies and a diet cola for my commute home. While waiting for the train at Corona I had a cookie and it went down the wrong way burning my throat. I had a weird reaction I couldn't get rid of no matter how much cola. I was hacking and coughing all the way home. Anne gave my some ice creme which helped a bit. I can still feel it 4 hours later.
I got my email during breaks in the show and my JW wont be able to make it, so I somehow got to make arrangements to get the bar and or maybe just get a case of beer and work the bar from there. I've also got to find someone to take his place and the SD's place, so I've got to make some phone calls this morning when I get up. Yeesh, there's always something.
Coast right now they're talking about giants that roamed North America some 400 years ago. Then if that's not enough they're going to talk about auras and parallel dimensions. Should be a good show.
Anne made her perogies and I watched a pretty decent 3 hour Monday night Raw which ended half an hour ago. Anyway, that's all for now.
The 1st part of my day was slow going. I wanted to have my half hour about 6:30pm to make the rest of the shift go by faster but we had some down time. The 2nd half went by a bit better then the first for my first time doing a new project. On my 10 i went to Subway to get some air and a package of dark chocolate chip cookies and a diet cola for my commute home. While waiting for the train at Corona I had a cookie and it went down the wrong way burning my throat. I had a weird reaction I couldn't get rid of no matter how much cola. I was hacking and coughing all the way home. Anne gave my some ice creme which helped a bit. I can still feel it 4 hours later.
I got my email during breaks in the show and my JW wont be able to make it, so I somehow got to make arrangements to get the bar and or maybe just get a case of beer and work the bar from there. I've also got to find someone to take his place and the SD's place, so I've got to make some phone calls this morning when I get up. Yeesh, there's always something.
Coast right now they're talking about giants that roamed North America some 400 years ago. Then if that's not enough they're going to talk about auras and parallel dimensions. Should be a good show.
Anne made her perogies and I watched a pretty decent 3 hour Monday night Raw which ended half an hour ago. Anyway, that's all for now.
Monday, February 3, 2014
That was a decisive victory for
the Seahawks but what was Denver thinking? Still I'm happy Seattle won. That was a blow out and then some!
I was doing computer research for most of my Sunday afternoon. The Intel Next Unit Computer or NUC, isn't bad but for something that can't get above 2 Ghz cpu speed and has only 16 Gb Ram, isn't something I'm interested in at the moment.
The new Captain America winter soldier and The Amazing Spiderman-2 looks awesome. I'm especially interested in seeing Captain America when it comes out later this Spring.
After the game I figured out how to upload pdf files to my Itouch. I needed to download iBooks and then I found a site that takes any url from a webpage and turns that page into a pdf. I need to open the pdf in the Firefox folder and upload it from my desktop to iTunes. Check on the pdf and sync and there it is in iBooks. Works really nice. Anyway, that's all for now.
I was doing computer research for most of my Sunday afternoon. The Intel Next Unit Computer or NUC, isn't bad but for something that can't get above 2 Ghz cpu speed and has only 16 Gb Ram, isn't something I'm interested in at the moment.
The new Captain America winter soldier and The Amazing Spiderman-2 looks awesome. I'm especially interested in seeing Captain America when it comes out later this Spring.
After the game I figured out how to upload pdf files to my Itouch. I needed to download iBooks and then I found a site that takes any url from a webpage and turns that page into a pdf. I need to open the pdf in the Firefox folder and upload it from my desktop to iTunes. Check on the pdf and sync and there it is in iBooks. Works really nice. Anyway, that's all for now.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
A couple of things going on this week
I've got a full week ahead this week and it's Lodge night Thursday, my only day off in the week. At least I have the hours, for now.
Yesterday was a good 6 hour shift and as I was heading out towards Corona station after work shortly after 4pm figuring out what to do, there was the #2 Clareview bus adjacent to Audrey's. At the time I thought Wendy's. I took the #2 bus outside Tim's. I got a fast look at the Corner's tower 1 pit in the projects early stages. Then up the road there was The Edgewater twin tower project in it's early stages and if that's not enough, then there's the downtown arena breaking ground next month, and the Nait line about to open in June. Lots of stuff going around Edmonton.
At Stadium, I was deciding should I get off here and catch the train back to Clareview, or go to Wendy's or get off by the church on 50th and 136 and enjoy the walk home. I already had a A&W burger this week. I pressed the button by the church and noticed the #183 coming towards me on 136th street. I'll catch that and it's a 2 minute ride from just outside my place, sweet. I was home by 4:40pm. At that time I was tired of burgers and not hungry anyway.
Last night I was looking at a non gaming pc on a local website and I think this is the pc I want. The price is right for just over $500 but no os. I don't need the os now. The only thing I need to do is clone my laptop drive and add the 1Tb SSHD drive. If all goes well and my hours hold, I should be able to get this by the 1st week in March. I was looking at gaming pc's and I don't do much gaming (gaming pc's are more expensive because of the graphics card) but this pc has a cpu speed of 3.6 Ghz. I'm also looking at a NUC 4th gen i5 but only if I can get cpu speeds of over 2 Ghz. I like the NUC's form factor.
This afternoon Anne and I are going to have our nice brunch and watch the Superbowl and wind out the rest of the night. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Yesterday was a good 6 hour shift and as I was heading out towards Corona station after work shortly after 4pm figuring out what to do, there was the #2 Clareview bus adjacent to Audrey's. At the time I thought Wendy's. I took the #2 bus outside Tim's. I got a fast look at the Corner's tower 1 pit in the projects early stages. Then up the road there was The Edgewater twin tower project in it's early stages and if that's not enough, then there's the downtown arena breaking ground next month, and the Nait line about to open in June. Lots of stuff going around Edmonton.
At Stadium, I was deciding should I get off here and catch the train back to Clareview, or go to Wendy's or get off by the church on 50th and 136 and enjoy the walk home. I already had a A&W burger this week. I pressed the button by the church and noticed the #183 coming towards me on 136th street. I'll catch that and it's a 2 minute ride from just outside my place, sweet. I was home by 4:40pm. At that time I was tired of burgers and not hungry anyway.
Last night I was looking at a non gaming pc on a local website and I think this is the pc I want. The price is right for just over $500 but no os. I don't need the os now. The only thing I need to do is clone my laptop drive and add the 1Tb SSHD drive. If all goes well and my hours hold, I should be able to get this by the 1st week in March. I was looking at gaming pc's and I don't do much gaming (gaming pc's are more expensive because of the graphics card) but this pc has a cpu speed of 3.6 Ghz. I'm also looking at a NUC 4th gen i5 but only if I can get cpu speeds of over 2 Ghz. I like the NUC's form factor.
This afternoon Anne and I are going to have our nice brunch and watch the Superbowl and wind out the rest of the night. Anyway, that's about all for now.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
LRT service from Stadium-Corona is shut down
again this weekend as the City is doing more work on the Nait line, which opens sometime in June.
Yesterday after work at 7pm I went to Audrey's and asked if anyone of them could get my book in the back downstairs because I'm having trouble with my knees. I got the Warhammer 40K "Path of the Eldar Omnibus." The good news is thanks to my Audrey's book club membership I got the book for free because I have $20 in rewards bucks. Good deal. I brought my list of books with me and my book ordering guy began to fill them out for me. After that I went 2 doors down to Burger Baron and bought a order of fries to munch on the train on my commute home.
Today I'm out of here about 8:30 to get to Stadium replacement bus and downtown to Corona station, get some breakfast and head into work for a full day. I'm going to miss the Oiler/Boston game at 11am. I wont get home until 7pm.
It looks good that Anne and I are having Sunday the off together to watch the Superbowl. Anyway, that's all for now.
Yesterday after work at 7pm I went to Audrey's and asked if anyone of them could get my book in the back downstairs because I'm having trouble with my knees. I got the Warhammer 40K "Path of the Eldar Omnibus." The good news is thanks to my Audrey's book club membership I got the book for free because I have $20 in rewards bucks. Good deal. I brought my list of books with me and my book ordering guy began to fill them out for me. After that I went 2 doors down to Burger Baron and bought a order of fries to munch on the train on my commute home.
Today I'm out of here about 8:30 to get to Stadium replacement bus and downtown to Corona station, get some breakfast and head into work for a full day. I'm going to miss the Oiler/Boston game at 11am. I wont get home until 7pm.
It looks good that Anne and I are having Sunday the off together to watch the Superbowl. Anyway, that's all for now.
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