Ahh 2 days off the

job and what do I get? I'm out of bed at 8am, yeesh. Anne offered me a sleeping pill and I would have slept longer if I took it. I'll have one before bed tonight/tomorrow morning.

Yesterday was substantially warm on my commute. I got my book at Audrey's and got into the office for work on time. Ok why is this even note worthy? Shortly before my 6:45pm break I got the chills. Then I got the hot flashes and I began sweating. I kind of suspected this had to do with Diabetes. After a bit of checking when I got home I found out that I was having hot and cold flashes. One of each. Its common knowledge that hot flashes occur mostly in women. It seems men can get them to when there is a substantial drop in testosterone levels. That's what I believed happened to me last night.

The town of Hinton (just West of Edmonton) could become the first geo thermal community in Canada. What they are aiming at doing is taping into abandon oil wells for thermal energy 5 kilometers below ground. This energy is renewable as well as clean. Geo thermal is nothing new. Countries in Europe have been using it for a long time. Boise Idaho fore example, uses geo thermal water to melt snow off the streets. Alberta has thousands of end of life oil wells. If we can work this out how to get the hot water out of the ground that's mixed in with oil and heavy metals, it could be a real boon here. Hinton hopes it could have some buildings go geo thermal in 2019. There are complications like legal and regulatory issues involved. By 2030 the province could generate a few hundred megawatts (MW) of power in a year to help replace the 6.3 gigawatts (GW) of power currently being generated by coal from Keephills 1, 2, and 3. It's going to need a lot more then a few hundred MW to replace Keephills. About 55% of this Province's energy comes from coal. Now that the NDP are phasing out coal, the NDP has said that they need to replace coal by 2030. That's only 13 years away and the 3 Keephill plants are only 3 out of 18 the Province has. Earlier this last Spring the Province has said they hope to add 5,000 MW by 2030. Geo thermal looks like it could be Alberta's end game energy wise.

After lunch/dinner I'm going to get a iTunes card so I can get Beatmaker 3. Now that I think I can get specific amounts on iTunes card at the till, makes me happy about that. However if the till says, otherwise, so much for that idea. Anyway, that's all for now.

We're getting a bit of an

Indian summer here, up until about Monday. After that we're in for a single digit "cold spell" of sorts, followed by a mild recovery to double digits. We're not getting 25's or anything but 12's and 13's are ok by me. I'll take 'em.

I was never a reader/voyeur of Playboy magazine. When Hugh Hefner passed away yesterday, it was met with a kind of meh moment for me. Hefner/Playboy never really did anything for me as I was more into Penthouse because it ahem, revealed more. Not that I ever bought a Playboy/Penthouse magazine. Oh don't get me wrong, before the Internet, I bought more then a few porn mags in my day. I still have a few of them around here, somewhere. Penthouse was "more hardcore" then Playboy. Even up until maybe 2012 I recall when I was working for Xentel in the Baker centre, the barber shop on the main floor had these mags scattered around the coffee table. While waiting for an empty chair, I'd sift through an issue of Playboy and Penthouse every now and then. Every customer would go straight for the centerfold. So when I heard of Hefner's death, I really had no sense of nostalgia or anything, just meh. I get the same reaction to  this Kim Kardashian and Caitlyn Jenner thingy, meh.

I got my 5 hour shift for tonight but then I'm off Saturday and there's the Bombers/Eskimo game. I hope nobody takes a knee here. I don't like politics getting in the way of sports but mercifully TSN doesn't show that stuff and maybe the Oilers are in there someplace. Sunday is lodge practice and Star Trek Discovery. Monday, work/Wrestling, Tuesday is work, Wednesday, Work, Thursday night Lodge, Friday night work etc. So, yes. I have some stuff going in.

Work has been keeping me busy

for the most part over these last few days. I still need to fix up this Blogger widget code for the subscribe button. I hope to get somewhere on that over the weekend. I know it looks sloppy and its only temporary. I think I know what I need to do. For one the outside left and right sidebars need to be adjusted. That's easy to do, and I need a css editor. There's no clowning around and I'm not going to wait 27 years to get this done. (there are lots of free ones online) I'll try and figure it out soon enough.

I haven't been following the NHL preseason that much. The Edmonton Oilers are the hottest team of the preseason. Kailer Yamamoto is killing it in the preseason. In 4 games he has 5 goals! Sunday night was an off night but I'm sure they'll pick it up tonight. Oilers management is playing McDavid sparingly. We're on the road, so it should be a good game tonight. Anyway that's all for now. 

The worst part of the shift last night was

from about 8pm to time sheet. I was calling appointments. Most were no answers or voice mail. We don't leave messages. I think I had a pretty decent evening. At the light we saw our bus approaching on the other side of the crosswalk as the light was changing in our favour. One of the guys made face contact with the driver as my co worker ran for the bus to hold it for us 2 seniors in tow. otherwise I would have been half an hour latter getting home. That worked out good.

The more this Nafta reboot develops the more I don't care about it. Now Mike Pence "blasts" Canada over our health care, calling it failings. If this was designed to annoy me and my fellow Canadians then it has succeeded. Now I'm no '00 Disney kid but, I kind of agree with Justin Trudeau that maybe we should be thinking Canada first. I don't know what these "failings" are or the details are but they can't be good. I'm at the point that Canada should pull out of Nafta. By pulling out of Nafta won't stop trade from happening between the US and Canada. What we should be doing is focus more on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). There are some winners and loser in this for Canada but at least it protects our sovereignty and our natural resources. At the same time I feel we should also take another look at the Keystone pipeline and put it and Alberta oil exports on hold.

My You Tube is really slowing me down since I signed up for Tube buddy. I'm going to cancel it as soon as I can. It's getting in the way of my you tube enjoyment. These guys have got to go. Anyway, that's all for now.

Later this morning I've got to

re book a Doctors appointment I made Friday for a prostrate issue. I need to make another appointment but I'll do it when my Doctor returns from a conference he's in. No thanks to Trudeau and his tax reforms.

Yesterday afternoon, I enjoyed WWE's "No Mercy." Anne ordered us our favorite Maximus pizza from just up the street. We usually have it during at least one pay per view and its not like the pizza will guess my weight and height. I already know that thanks. The only match I didn't like was the Fin Balor match. The tag team match was awesome. Poor Cesaro getting his front teeth knocked out in a match with Dean Ambrose. All in all, I'd rate "No Mercy" 4.5-5 stars. It was lots of fun. After the news and dinner "Start Trek Discovery." I don't know where I got the idea that the pilot was going to be a 2 hour film. I can watch tv in small doses, like a hockey/football game or a 1 hour show, that type of thing. Four and a half hours of tv is a bit too much. I'm going to be Star Trek Discovery next weekend.

I'm in for my 5 hour shift today from 4-9. Hopefully we're done on Thursday night and I can have a 3 day weekend. I know I've had enough of a time off. oh, I'm trying to work on a better subscribe button. It's not quite there yet. Anyway, that's all for now.

My wrestling kick

off show should be about underway or will shortly. When Anne comes back, we're ordering pizza with that.

It was ok heading out yesterday for my morning shift. I had a really good start to the morning. By my 2:30 lunch break my I felt my sugars dropping. The getting up early like that was getting to me. Time to go out and get a real bottle of Coke. I needed the air. I bought 2 more blackjack tickets but came up empty. The large bottle of Coke was a god send. It helped me get through my shift. I missed my just after 6pm bus and I missed my train at Corona moved as slow as a giant turtle  on  a Spanish beach getting out of the LRT tunnel. Because of my slow train I didn't get in until 7:15, yikes.

What? The end of the world as we know it (again) prophesy hadn't happened? I suspended my whole life on Planet X colliding with earth over night! Not really. Now if astronomers new something armature and pro, we would have known about this weeks ago. If I believed in every conspiracy out there, I'd have used more Mason jars. Hey wait, I am a Mason. So I guess its ok.

Anyway, it looks like I got a full week of work ahead of me. I'm basically working for the iPad pro. Anyway that's all for now.

My shift last night was

good. The project easy. Our last day of calling is September 30. We usually finish a project (in most cases) before that. At first I didn't know if I was going to go in for today but Like my friend James said "go get the money."

So Rocket man wants to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the pacific ocean. At first I thought rocket man was whacked but if he proceeds with something like this, that only confirms it. I'm not sure what the environmental impact of this would be, but I'm sure its not good. These 2 "hot heads" need to calm down take a deep breath. Someone has to take out this guy. Doesn't he get the message? This whole mess makes me just want to shut the world off and play Leggo or Minecraft on my new 3DS.

Last night the Oilers were in Vancouver and again even without McDavid in the line up. Oilers new guy Kailer Yamamoto is lightening it up scoring twice last night. I think that's his 4th goal of the preseason. There's an Oilers game on tonight, again at Rogers Place Arena. That's on at 7pm, in which case, I'll just be getting back. Anyway, that's all for now.