Tonight is the last day of the project before

going into Canada day long weekend. For my co-workers and I it means we get a 4 day weekend :) Also, Friday night its the season Home opener at Commonwealth Al's/Esk. I think that's when the fireworks show should go off not just for football but in general. And if that's not enough its "free agent frenzy" Saturday in the NHL. Lots of trade rumors etc. July 1st Connor McDavid is about to sign a 8 year deal worth something like $13.7 million/season. I'm going to relax do my stuff. I think Friday night is also Chinese food night as well.

Some important events for our family coming up. Anne's sister is about to pay us a visit while she's in her official job Tonight is the last day of the project before capacity. it might be the last time we see her because she plans on retiring next year. Her job takes all over North America and this year she's been in Anchorage, Vancouver, Toronto, San Jose, Florida, she just came off of a 10 day pacific Cruise. Her job is in the medical field. When she comes out to visit us, she's here mainly for work but she can squeeze in a bit of time a couple of times/year. She's been doing this since Anne and I have been married. Either this week or next week when she gets out here she's taking Anne out to her favorite place to eat and me out to mine across the street. That will be nice and sad for us at the same time. Anne always uses face time on a weekly bases to chat with her and her other sister Monday and Tuesdays. Next year though Anne and her sister plan on going on a Alaska cruise. 

The other event coming up is my place of work has a draw for 2 Eskimo football tickets for Friday nights game. Warren isn't a Eskimo fan but depending on what his plans are and if I win tonight, I'll message him to see if he wants to go. If Warren can't make it, then I'll give them to somebody else in the office. Also coming up is "WWE Great Balls of fire"and I believe I still have a episode of Smackdown from Tuesday to watch reordered on our pvr.

If all goes well when we get out gst cheque in a few weeks, Anne said I can have it to not just get my Zoom h1 audio recorder but also to get my haircut. The audio recorder will help me get my music from Circuit etc out to You Tube, Facebook, Twitter etc. The haircut will keep me going until my next one, which should be about October. Anyway that's about all for now.

That was a good

10 days off and I'm happy I have work over the next few days. They're shutting it down Thursday for the long weekend, Canada day Saturday. 

I'm making some good progress on my Everquest book. I don't think I'll have it read by the end of the month. 

We had a huge wind storm that went through here about 11pm last night. The wind was so heavy Anne thought it was a Tornado. It lasted about half an hour and brought down a lot of branches. Anne went out there and removed the branches from the affected area, worried that with the many branches left on the ground might inspire management to have the trees cut down, "safety concerns." They do that and I'm leaving out of here. 

This works out great having Friday off because of the Esks season home opener. I have a front row seat on my couch. Plus its our nation's 150th B-day. So, other then the 3 days of work 5 hours/shift, my long weekend begins. Anyway, that's all for now.

Most of the memory consumed on

our iPad is photos and videos. Video takes up more room then photos. When I tried to use Garageband and Gadget together, there was no room to make a video. All I need is to have about 1Gb of the 11Gb of video off the iPad temporarily to iDrive. That's easy enough. Its restoring the video back to its original date. 

In last Saturdays traffic fatality where the woman and her dog was hit, the city made some intersection improvements, like removing shrubs apparently obstructing the view and other modifications. Earlier Friday while 2 kindergarten age boys were playing on the grass outside the family home at the end of their culdesac, one of the boys chases after a out of control ball between 2 parked cars. Meanwhile another vehicle was making a right hand turn and collided with the child. The child was killed instantly. It wasn't anyone's fault per se but another family left devastated. This happens all to frequently in this City. When will this stop? I know how it can stop in a heartbeat. I know how pedestrian collisions involving death can end. Autonomous vehicles. They don't have to be any single brand name. The City could manufacture their own and even lease them to individualizes like a bus pass. No need for buses for that matter. The collision rate causing fatalities would cease almost immediately. Autonomous vehicles are coming. Maybe not in my lifetime, but they are just around the corner. 

I fell asleep on the couch watching the 2nd quarter of last nights Eskimo/BC game. Mostly I dozed off here and there. The game got interesting in the 3rd quarter. We got the go ahead score but they came back to tie it at 27-27. They had a 2 & out. We got the ball within seconds on the clock. With 2 seconds left we were in goal and the field goal over the uprights to score 30-3. We play our first Home game at Commonwealth on Friday before Canada day, cool.

If we get the green light for this project, it'll most likely be Tuesday. There's usually a small crew testing the project opening day of the project. It means I could be working Wednesday/Thursday. We're off the weekend because its Canada day. Most likely I'll be working it next week. I'd like to do just 3 days next week. The hours isn't going to help us all that much. The rent is paid for July and the bills to follow. As long as Anne has these hours we should be ok for July. My last July before I officially become a senior, sigh. Anyway, that's all for now.

This is a bit old

(Wednesday) but wow, Connor McDavid stole the show at the NHL awards/draft expansion. We knew McDavid would win the Art Ross trophy, but he also won the Ted Lindsay, and the Hart trophy.  And if that's not enough, McDavid, got his face in full Oilers Orange Crush gear on the cover of EA's NHL 2018 and named Captain of the All star for 2018, cool.

I left out of here about 2pm for Provincial, since I've been putting it off for the last few days. I called before I left to pick up my pay cheque after I finished my business with Provincial. Apparently we might have something else coming up next week and I'm to call Tuesday. I got home about 4:30pm. Other then that, not a lot going on. Tomorrow night is the first Eskimo CFL game in BC, so that should be a good one. Anyway, that's all for now.

We had a storm blow by here

about 7pm yesterday. All we got out here were a few branches on the grass, some medium rain and gusty winds. They got it worse off in Red Deer, where shingles were torn off roofs, trees downing power lines where 20,000 people are without power over night. 

By now the news is out about the 75 Nazi artifacts uncovered in Argentina. What's cool about this is that the find was in a secret room behind a bookcase. Apparently there was a silver plated Ouija board, mugs, and a bunch of other stiff. There were also some photographs as well.

This is interesting: On August the 21st, there is a Total solar eclipse. Unfortunately for yours truly, I wont be able to see  it, since its path is way to the South of me in the US. Why is this interesting? My 65th birthday is August 21st. How cool is that? This might be a good omen to play some black jack.

I was going to go down to Provincial pension to submit a form the other day but since I need to pick up my pay cheque on the way, I might aw well do both at the same  time. I hope not but because the way I've been going this might be my curtain call for this company. Anyway, that's all for now.

I'm having a great weekend just

the wife and me. I was in bed listening to a bit of Coast this morning, the topic "Kurt Cobain's death." I wasn't a fan of the band Nirvana and while their appeal ran deep within the grunge music scene, really didn't do anything for me. Twenty three years ago, I was 41 just surviving day to day. If You Tube was around at that time, I might have took a listen to and left the music under the Meh file, (by the same token, my music isn't even meh worthy) so this Coast topic wasn't of much interest for me. Not my generation. Now if this was about Brian Jones or Prince or even John Lennon, then yes of course. Tonight's show will be on UFO disclosure.

Well the Oilers didn't do anything or say anything over the weekend, other then sign Khaira. On Wednesday, they'll release the names of players they are obligated to put up for the expansion draft. Some un-official lists have cropped up but I wouldn't trust the source. It would come of no surprise to me if Jordan Eberle's name was on our list. He's an asset for the team but his contract makes him a liability as well. I'd be surprised if Kassian and Caggiula's name is on that list. Now if it was left up to me to make the expansion team's decision on which players my team needs, I'd want to pick names that are salary cap friendly, and players that have some Stanley cup experience. Preferably recent Stanley cup experience like guys that were in the 3 round and the finale. Hopefully the Oilers will come out of this relatively unscathed. Each team is allowed to protect a number of players. I'd imagine the teams the hardest hit are going to be Pittsburgh, Nashville, Anaheim, and Ottawa. We'll know more on Wednesday. I imagine Khaira will be protected because they just signed the guy.

Around town there are 2 more towers in the early building stages. The MacLaren (124th/102nd Ave) a 25 story residential tower has more or less wrapped up its excavation phase, and a construction crane is apparently supposed to go up today, or already up now. Other then the Groat rd bridge fiasco, nothing of the MacLaren's scale has been developed in the area since the High Street condo project. The other condo tower just getting under way is the Encore project:

                              

The image above from JSkye's post Connect to Edmonton

The above image is just a few days old. This  residential tower apparently is supposed to be about 43 floors. Substantially taller then the two white Fox towers in the background behind the brown Boardwalk buildings in this image behind those 3 trees. The Valley line lrt 2nd phase will be going right between the Encore and the Boardwalk. That's going to be very interesting to see that.

On tap for today? I'm going to try and make a short video for my music channel using Korg Gadget either today or this week. Then its brunch watching WWE's "money in the bank" pay per view latter this afternoon. I'm calling Brian Corbin or Shinsuke Nakamura to win it. Money in the bank is one of our favorite WWE ppv's. That will take me to about 9pm. As for this week, Super never called me yesterday for a Monday shift. A Monday shift on this project was just to wrap the project up anyway. There was no projects posted when I logged in Friday night, and I don't see my higher ups with a new project this late in June. Its even unusual to have work at all this late in June. Then, I'm anticipating no work this week. Other then running down to Provincial to get them that oas automatic enrollment form and Anne's I.D, photo copied and picking up my pay Friday, I've got a easy week ahead of me. I'll be doing a bit of a daily job search to satisfy my ei obligations but yeah other then that nothing just 2 quick outings. Anyway, that's all for now.

This week has been a long week

too say the least. Monday I had that stuff to do with Provincial and on the phone with oas Tuesday before work. Work in itself has been a series of mishaps on my end. Wednesday I covered 2 payments on Circuit. Yesterday all kinds of errors on the job from my part.

                            

Kori John Truckers wall of shame.

Yesterday I got called into the office and just about got fired. Too many details to get into but I feel my job is on thin ice. The "good news" this time, is I'm on ei to get me through the summer and (hopefully) I can go back to my other job after labour day. Right after that is my oas but I need another to go along with my pension. My pension wont do it alone.

The Eskimo's were playing their last pre season game in Winnipeg. We took them to a tie game 38-38. I didn't think in CFL a tie game was possible during the pre season. Our first regulation game is against the BC Lions next Saturday afternoon. I'm looking forward to that..

I got some urgent ei business later this morning then after a bite to eat, its off to the job. No more Saturdays for me and on that note, that's all for now.