Our cat Sparky hasn‘t

been feeling well lately and Anne is just salivating over putting the cat down. I suspect her real motive in all of this is because we have 4 cats and she‘s having trouble keeping up with all of the cat litter cleaning. She went and bought this special kind of cat litter that helps keep “dust down.” We take turns feeding them. I feed them in the morning before I  leave and she feeds them during the day. She wants to take Sparky to the vet and I know what the outcome is going to be, put him down so I can spend what little savings I have and she says, “I‘ll pay you back”, yeah right. 

Our previous boss had this dog named Gus. A bulldog type of a dog. I liked Gus he was friendly and loved people. My boss would always bring him around in our old office. The dog had trouble with his rectal area over the past few months and the talk in the lunchroom was Gus had died over the weekend. Staff that knew my boss and the dog circulated a card of condolences.   

I had a slow typical day on the job. I got line hour for half a day. I didn’t feel all that tired at the end of the day getting home shortly before 10pm.    

At least some good news, is, the Oiler’s won this evening and the Flames lost. Anyway, that’s all for now. 

Yesterday I left out of here about 8:50am feeling

feeling pretty good. I went to get my breakfast at Tim's and this time I brought my insulin. I had a slow start to the morning but got a few sales and a card and did great sales wise after lunch. Then in the 2nd half, nothing. That was the  longest 2 hours I've had and I was certainly relieved to get out of there. It was overcast but mild. I didn't want to go out any where to spend any serious money except I indulged a little to get a coffee and a blueberry fritter at Tim's and caught the train for Clairview station and then home. I was inside by 5:30pm. 

Before I left Anne had asked me to call at 10am just before I began my shift to give her a wake up call. I'd forgotten 40 minutes later and I scrambled to the reception desk to use the phone. No answer. I called Donna (my wife's sister because she was to meet her at the airport and she needed to take the airport shuttle bus. Oops. I called Donna and she wasn't answering her phone. Anne had suggested I call I call at 3pm and I called earlier no answer. I called again and no answer. I wasn't feeling very good about the situation when I left kind of hoping they'd be outside as I left the front way. I could see Kyle and Warren by the front entrance to BP's but I don't think they noticed me, so I headed the other way. I probably could have used a beer.

I had a decent night though and the phone rang a lot while I was on YouTube and I thought it could be Ankit wanting to install those programs but I wasn't in the mood to deal with that sort of thing at that time. Then I picked the phone up and it was Anne worried about me. 

I was going to work Sunday because Anne wants me to gout with her and her sister over to Royal Pizza on the South side. Works for me then I noticed our Lodge WM in an email to me about Sunday's practice and he'd pick me up. Sunday at 6:30pm. I'll be having dinner with Anne and Donna. We haven't seen Donna in over a year and she usually pays our dinner on her company's expense account but I can afford my own. So I sent off an email to WM saying I wouldn't be at practice but I knew my part in the exam, I'd see him Thursday. I hope he got my message. 

Other then that, I'm going to have a nice weekend as I oped out for our last Sunday shift. I'm still going to have 33.5 hours in on my next check for next week anyways, so I'm ok with that. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I got my laptop back Wednesday night

and I haven't had much of a chance to get into it but I'm sure it's ok. We've got to install a few more programs in the partition before I can begin to download FL Studio, etc.
Other then that, I've been working all week. 

This morning when I went in for my morning commute I was surprised to see City Police checking for tickets? Where were ETS police? I learned latter that it's part of a City Police community initiative. Huh?

Yeaa, payday today and a full 8 hour day. When we go back to our regular Monday-Saturday shift February 1st Monday will be from 2-9pm, so in the morning of that day, I'm going to be looking for something else that pays better. Anyway, that's about all for now.

Finally I got my

Itouch fixed. It's working perfectly, almost. The only problem with it now is the Apple game centre. I'm not having much luck with the registration part.

Also, I got a call earlier this afternoon from Keith saying he's going to work on it tonight and I could either meet him at Clairview or he can bring it in. I should have asked him what's easiest for him but I suggested bring it into the office Tuesday and I can take it home with me after work. 

That's 2 pieces of good news. Wait, there's more. I was watching The Sharks/Oiler's game at Rexall and the Oiler's scored first. Usually when they don't score the first goal, they're something like 4-16-something. Sure enough they scored the first goal with good ol' Dubnyck. The Oiler's won in a shootout 2-1. If Khabibulin was in goal, the Oiler's would have lost for sure 3-1. 3 pieces of good news today.

The reason why I went with something SF then book #2 of the "Song of ice and fire" is because I don't want to get burned out reading this series and lose interest, so I went with another series and something in first person. I'll read it in March or when I'm done with this, anyway that's all for now.
 

No laptop

so far today but I think I'll have it Tuesday night.

I'm just about ready to wrap up "A game of thrones." and I'm ready to begin book #2.

My wife went to the Clairview medi centre earlier (something I should) and they gave her some kind of pills to take. The Doctor told her she had bronchitis. That's probably what I have and if I don't get any better, then I'll be heading there as well.

This kind of old news but according to Science fiction today, George Lucas said he is retiring from making blockbuster films. That's kind of sad because I'd like to see another trilogy of the main original characters (those still alive) as a kind of a last hurrah's adventure. I'm sure Lucas has thought about this before but how many of the original actors at their age would agree to do it? < Anyway, here's a link to the story.

This week I want to go in hard and put in a full 38 hour work week to save some funds for the Korg SOS, my next project. Anyway, that's about all for now.

My afternoon was slow

but in the evening I had a fantastic night. My best day ever since we came over to the new office.

I called LM yesterday morning before I left out of here and yes they have K8 I might end up getting it regardless after work on Saturday and head over to Wendy's for a burger or something.

After work I went to catch the #5 bus after a wait and I needed to use the bathroom bad. I got to my bank to take out $20 and to check my balance so I'll have enough to get K8 if I decide to get it. Keith wasn't feeling well so I doubt he did anything to my laptop I'll probably get it back on the weekend, we'll see.

Well the Oiler's dropped another one last night in St Louis. It was a 1-0 Sl win so the Oiler's just before the Allstar break have 38 points 7 points ahead of lowly CBJ. The way things are going this season the Oiler's could be in last place again as I think that's the direction they are headed, again.

Seems some Ipad customers pulled a prank at Future shop, best Buy and London drug stores over the Christmas holidays and took out the Ipads and stuffed th boxes with clay. I got the link from i09. It's cute story but for some reason escaped my attention. < so here's the link to the story.

 

I don't ordinarily watch US politics but this year I'm looking over my shoulder. On one hand I'd like to see Obama get in because he could be the only thing that stands between SOPA yet I'd also like to see the Republicans get in because they'd put the Keystone pipeline through. They don't want our oil heading to China. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I've been hearing smatterings and bits of

rumors but when I went to Wikipedia yesterday, imagine my surprise when I discovered SOPA and its consequences. After reading up some more about it I'm  more fearful about the demise an armageddon of the internet then ever before I hope it doesn't pass.

The other thing: I watched the news last night and Obama turned down the Keystone pipeline. It can reapply again and another attempt will be made in 2014. The thing that bugs me is that the pipeline was stopped at Nebraska. I'm asking if there was no opposition to the pipeline beyond that, why don't we just stop there why don't we build the pipeline just before Nebraska ship the oil out from there? Seems like Americans would rather have conflict oil then oil from Canada. So I'm asking myself, why do we need to ship any of our oil to them at all, ever!

I'm calling LM in the morning and if they don't have Komplete 8 I'm getting the Korg SOS and the Vita game system. They might not have both but Future shop will have Vita and the Itouch 4th gen.

I went in for 4 hours last night and I had a decent night. It was cold going in but I bought a 6/49 ticket at the Redimart I brought my power supply and cable to Vinny so hopefully I'll have have my laptop Friday or Saturday morning and if LM has K8 I might just get it or the SOS and then go to Future shop and get the Vita. Anyway, that's about all for now.