Sunday, January 31, 2016

Its my Saytuday night Sunday morning which is my

favorite time of the week. I get a whole day off and other then going to lodge tonight I'm able to just relax. 

This morning on Coast the 2 topics are Robots and psychedelic research and lost ten tribes. Sunday's show is on ufo mysteries. I've never seen a ufo before but historical like the one pictures from Independent.co.uk, here give me pause.

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This last show especially intriguing to me because not only is it George Knapp, but about the case of a young girl that digs up a human looking skull that has no human DNA ,and a Mount Shasta California ufo encounter of a black triangle caught on film. This weekend is closing out the month with some great Coast shows. Love it. 

Anne ordered us some Chinese food not just to celebrate Chinese New Years, year of the monkey. She ordered it for a 10pm drop off. I paid for it at the door. It was really good. Anyway, that's all for now.    

Saturday, January 30, 2016

I barely caught that

#5 bus at Central if not for the lady that caught the bus drivers attention just as the bus front right wheel was about a foot away from the curb waiting on a red light that just turned red. The driver said by rights he didn't have to open the door to let us on. I would have been late other wise, thanks lady. Thanks for nothing scumbag bus driver

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I met one of my colleagues that rode in beside me to work. It was a beautiful sunny day and about +6 heading in. All in all I had a great night on the new project.

               Today I'm up about 8am for a bit of breakfast and out the door at 9am for the job. I'm back to more consistent hours on the job and about to get busy. I'm in from 10-6pm today and off Sunday but out of here to lodge for a practice. Then home. All next week I'm 4-9:30pm. So in other words I'm going to be busy. I'm about to post this and shut it down as I want to read for a bit, and listen to Coast open lines. I'm up at 8am and out the door at 9am for 10am. Anyway, that's all for now.

Friday, January 29, 2016

There is still a lot of work to be done on the

Rogers place downtown arena. The winter garden itself looks like its going to be challenging to be on time. They've got 7 months left and I don't think they can get it all done this year. They still have to get the skin up and the interior. If Rogers Place arena is on time, then they better start running shifts 24/7. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think they will be ready for another year yet. Even now there is no work going on inside.

It was 30 years ago yesterday the date of the Challenger disaster. I was working at the Cobogo warehouse when a

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Colleague heard it on the radio. I couldn't believe it. Four days prior to this L. Ron Hubbard passed away. Hubbard was associate for a time with Jack Parsons who helped found JPL. My office was right behind the white vertical sign on the street lamp there there in the 1980's. The building is called Cobogo lofts and a block away from Rogers Place arena.

We were woken up by the inspectors this morning. They came back to replace the fire alarm. I headed into work at my usual time. It was a beautiful day at +7, only to find the office working on running lights. There was just the manager and he was interviewing somebody. He said we start tomorrow. That meant no shift for today. So I went home and I got off at Michale's craft shop and headed to Bo'diddly's Pub & Grill. I wanted to buy a Sleemans but the closest they had was a Molson Dry. I sat there for half an hour and headed home and inside the apartment by about 5:30pm. I probably could have had a snooze. So I'll be in the office at 4pm today, regardless and hopefully for a full day Saturday. Anyway, that's all for now.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

I left out of here at 3pm yesterday and

headed out to Century park on the lrt and doubled back. I got home about 4:40pm. The good news is I received no calls. Which meant if I got a call, chances would be today's shift would have been cancelled. Since I got no call from Super, I'm good to go in for today. 

I'm thinking back to how many computers I've had over the years. My first computer was the Atari 130Xe in November of 1987. Monitor sold separately. I came across this image of a 1959 computer from Cory Doctorow Tweet earlier. Wow, that's some computer:


Not quite as noteworthy as the image above, my 2nd computer was a Atari 130ST computer 1988. Still no Monitor. Then I graduated to a Pentium in 1990 and I had a monochrome monitor. My first real computer was a Pentium and I had Windows 95. My 5th computer was a white tower running Windows me and that would have been about 2001 running Windows me. Then in 2005 I got the Compaq Presario running Windows Xp. That's what I'm using now. My last computer is a Acer laptop. That's 7 computers, plus a iPad and 2 iPod Touch devices. That's 7 computers in almost 30 years. My media centre Compaq is working with a CRT monitor. It was given to me for $50! I had a heck of a time trying to carry it from the Edmonton motors area onto the lrt and out to Clareview. Next computer I'm going to get will be a iMac. Oh and in case you think I'm not a Cory Doctorow and just a troll, here's another image I captured of some of his books in my library: 


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If indeed I have work over the next 3 days then great and if that big project begins there could be a Sunday in there. That means I'll be busy for awhile. I'll still be blogging just as much as ever. Anyway, that's all for now.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I managed to get my haircut

yesterday afternoon. No waiting. Anne made me a bit of lunch before I got ready cleaned and dressed up. I wasn't in any hurry but as soon as I left out of here it was a warm +6 and spitting rain.

I don't know how I missed this one but there was a major story about Adolf Hitler and Eve Braun in the bunker at the end of April 1945. The story unfolded last June. The "official version" has it that Hitler/Braun committed suicide. He shot himself in the head and she took cyanide in the bunker. But there is no physical evidence to link that scenario in any basis to reality. The Russians say they have a skull fragment complete with bullet hole confirmed the cause of death to be suicide with subsequent DNA testing in 2009 backing these findings, apparently. However DNA testing proved the skull the Russians had been claiming was Hitler's since the end of the war was actually that of a forty year-old woman. The Russian government is still refusing any access to the "body parts." Even the FBI was looking for Hitler months and even years after their so called deaths, and don't believe he died in the Chancellery bunker. Also Joseph Stalin told U.S.President Truman that Hitler escaped and believed so until his passing. Eye witnesses inside Hitlers bunker said he saw Hitler and Eva go into their apartment but didn't see anyone come out. This recent expose assumes that two prisoners would pose as Hitler and Eve, were executed and placed in a shallow grave and burned. Hitler often used look-a-likes or substitutes. Hitler and Braun's bodies were never found. Exactly what happened to them on 30 April 1945, has long remained a mystery. The truth is that no one saw Hitler and Eva Braun die in the Bunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945. No photographs were taken to document claims Hitler and Evan Braun committed suicide. Hitler's body was never recovered. No definitive physical evidence exists proving Hitler died in the Bunker in Berlin. So if Hitler did escape how did he do it? He might have gotten out by a nearby Ju-52 float plane to Sweden and then to Argentina. Its all part of the..unexplained.

Last night Reg drove me home after lodge. It was a great evening and I had a nice day off yesterday. Anyway, that's all for now.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Monday afternoon I got out of the house to

check in at the job hung around for a bit and left out of there about 5:30pm for home. It was a drive by basically. I'll be getting my haircut before lodge after I get up.

Planet X. Does it exist? Planet X isn't the 10th planet but the X stands for another planet. Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun. Through mathematical modeling and computer simulations the Caltech researchers have made this discovery. Astronomers have been looking for planet X for a long time. So what do we all this 9th planet? Pluto 2? Interesting stuff. The other theory is from Zecharia Sitchin and the "Anunnaki" in Sumerian mythology. The differences between the two theories/planets are their orbits are vastly different. The Caltech people believe the 9th planet is on a orbital trajectory 10-20,000 years out and could be part of a binary star system or a brown dwarf. Sitchin believes that the planet "Nibiru" is on a 3,600 year old journey. Sitchin wrote a series of books called "Earth Chronicles volumes." There's also, Nancy Lieder, David Icke, among others that are all over the place on the topic. Personally I believe the Caltech theory over Sitchin's work but for entertainment value Lieder and Icke are most amusing and at the same time thought provoking. I wont dismiss Sitchin's work because he has some great stuff. I have a lot of it on cd, cool stuff. 
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.
- See more at: https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523#sthash.k8JTOujz.dpuf
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.
- See more at: https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523#sthash.k8JTOujz.dpuf

I'm hoping to get my haircut across the street before I head out to lodge this afternoon. They are serving cocktails are at 6pm, dinner at 6:30pm (free for me because I'm a guest) we tyle at 7:30pm. Should be a good night. Anyway, that's all for now.

Monday, January 25, 2016

Last nights

wrestling pay per view "Royal Rumble" was surprising in many ways. Seeing A.J.Styles debut at the WWE was a shocker. He was mostly with Impact wrestling for years. Anne and I ate our pizza and enjoyed the show but near the end, totally out of left field who comes out? Triple H! What? And for the 14th time, Triple H wins the WWE title. Shocker. Also in keeping with sports, the Oilers Sunday had their annual inter squad skills competition. What made it such a historic event was they used a rainbow colored tape on the blade of their hockey sticks. This gesture is to help observe gay pride and to make the Oilers a more inclusive hockey club. Its a good idea. From Bill Ross's FB page:

                    

I'm going to go get my haircut today and then at Corona station do a follow up call on that job. See if I can get them a real resume and maybe even go their in person. I'd have to use the Nait line to get there. That's if I get the ok to do that. They might even call me tonight while I'm out. Outside of that if that doesn't happen, I'd like to go out to Dairy Queen for an ice cream/Southgate and then home. "We ran out of numbers at 6pm and no shift Tuesday but back Wednesday," type thing. Tuesday I plan on visiting Edmonton #7 as they are conferring the same degree we are in February. It'll give me a chance to see how this is done as spectator and watch my counterpart do his work. I an get a bite to eat there and have a beer as well. Sounds like a good idea. Anyway, that's all for now.