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.

this afternoon as I didn't sleep very well over night and my cold kept bugging me since Anne put the humidifyer on so I called in and said I'd be ready for the evening shift.

Then this morning I had this notion about my laptop being exposed to those that I don't get along with in the office that might tamper with it but then the guy that reformated it would keep it in his nap sack anyway (I hope). Then i got to thinking that my original Acer had my wifi settings set properly and would the new hard drive reformating take out my wifi? I think I  had 802.11g or something like that. Would that be gone?

As good as "A game of thrones" is, I didn't want to burn myself out so I decided to read something lighter. I went with Timothy Zahn's "The Domino pattern" book #4 in the Frank Compton series. I like this series. Book #5 is supposed to be out later this year, so I'll get to that latter.

Next week at the Lodge, I've got a lot on my plate: As JW I have to help open the Lodge, and then we have a candidate that's about to proove up so I'm doing the oral exam. I'm bringing in some hot food (something we haven't had in the last couple of years) plus we're having crib night so it's going to be busy, but I have a week to prepare.

I didn't know this before about earths Moon but apparently it's moving 1.5 inches away from the earth every year according to a show I watched on the "Discovery channel" last night. Nasa beams a laser light to a suitcase like receiver and the light transmited back gives the information about the Moon's position.

Sorry for any typos this afternoon. I compose this in the editor window and there's no spell checker unlike Blogger. Anyway, that's about all for now.

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 bronchitus. 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 retiering from making blockbuster films. That's kind of sad because I'd like to see another trilogy of the main original chracters (those still alive) as a kind of a last hurrah adventure. I'm sure Lucas has thought about this before but how many of the origional actors at their age would agree to do it? < Anyway, here's a link to the story.

This week I want to go hard and put in a full 38 hours as I want to save up some funds for that Korg SOS. That's my next project, anyway, that's about all for now.

on the job yesterday but got nothing last night, except my check and I was glad to get out of there to my bank and home. This morning, I'm heading into Tim's get some breakfast and I've got another 6 hours ahead of me. If I get my laptop today then I just might go ahad and get something at LM if not then it's straight home. At least I've got the Oiler game to look forward to this evening.

I found this interesting story in i09 this  morning: The most interesting mathematical mistake in the solar system Johann Elert Bode is the author of Bode's Law, one of the most contentious laws in astronomy. It's a ridiculous idea which juggles numbers, seemingly for no reason, and it ends up revealing the spacing of the planets in the solar system. Or does it? < You can read the rest of the story here.

 "A game of thrones" is progressing nicely as I'm just about ready to wrap this book up hopefully over the weekend. I don't know if I want to begin book #2 right away. I started reading this beast September 26th. Over 3.5 months! but its my official first book read for the year. Anyway, that's about all for now.

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 befoe 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 somethng.

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 ordinaraly 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 left the apartment and it was -30 with a -40 windchill but surprisingly it wasn't all that bad out there heading into the office or even coming home. 

down to -31 at noon tomorrow! It hasn't been this cold all season. Even all of last year.

If all goes well I should have my laptop up and running by this time tomorrow. If I'm having a decent week I might even Wednesday morning, go down to LM and buy Komplete 8. I'll get the laptop in the fall. 

I'm making some good gains in the book I'm currently reading and if all goes well, I hope to have my first book read by the end of this month. I dont know if I want to go on to the series right away with book 2 but the series is fun to read So, I think right on the heals of this, I'll get into book 2.

Monday night Raw wasn't bad. On a scale of 1-10, I'd rate it a 7.5 At least the show is getting some better wrestlers and some older ones returning.

As far as my cold goes, my cough has been raspy but less episodes of it. This has got to be the worst cold I've ever had in my life and I hope I nver get anything like this again. If it doesn't clear up by Saturday night, I'm heading to the medi centre. Anyway, that's all for now.

I can't seem to shake. I went into the office only one this week and that was for 4 hours but today, I'm going to try for 6.

Not a lot going on right now despite my cold and my laptop woes. I'm bringing my laptop into the office this morning and my back up hard drive to see if one of our tech people that helps me out occasionaly can restore my last Win7 session. I don't want to have to go back in and reinstall all of my programs and VST's. Maybe the guys can do a few simple key strokes and ten minues latter its done and I can take it home. Would be nice to have wifi working again on my Itouch.

With the dismail loss the Oiler's took last night at Rexall place, I'm in no hurry to get home on Sunday night and watch another "effort."

I made another Goodreads update on "A game of thrones." I'm tried of reading long books that take me months to read and I've got enough books here I've been "stocking up" on my shelves to last me awhile now. I also want to get back to Karen Traviss's City of pearl series and work n book 3. That's probably my next read. Anyway, that's about all for now.

I can't seem to shake. I went into the office only one this week and that was for 4 hours but today, I'm going to try for 6.

Not a lot going on right now despite my cold and my laptop woes. I'm bringing my laptop into the office this morning and my back up hard drive to see if one of our tech people that helps me out occasionaly can restore my last Win7 session. I don't want to have to go back in and reinstall them all. Maybe the guys can do a few simple key strokes and ten minues latter its done and I can take it home. Would be nice to have wifi working again on my Itouch.

With the dismail loss the Oiler's took last night at Rexall place, I'm in no hurry to get home on Sunday night and watch another "effort."

I made another Goodreads update on "A game of thrones." I'm tried of reading long books that take me months to read and I've got enough books here I've been "stocking up" on my shelves to last me awhile now. I also want to get back to Karen Traviss's City of pearl series and work n book 3. That's probably my next read. Anyway, that's about all for now.

on Twitter recently you'd know I've had a rough week what with this cold returning and being locked out of my laptop. That was my own mistake. I thought Linux wasn't in the New Volume partition and I don't think it was until when I rebooted the laptop to get the grub recovery command line. I can't even reboot to Windows because I don't have a Windows recovery Cd. I read where as of 2007 Acer stopped the practice of not including a back up Cd. But you could build one. Fortunately I did a Windows back up of my C drive awhile back. When I'm at work today, I'm going to enquier about it and what my options are.

Some interesting things about cell phones lately and 911 calls. Seems that a huge majority of the 911 calls operators have been receiving are "pocket calls" from cell phones. These are cell phone users that don't have their phnes locked. The Blackberrys (phones) are the main offenders here because of the 911 feature button on the phone. It ties up a lot of resources as well because thes misdialed calls have to be called back compromising the service. I don't know what the answer is short of locking up that feature or have the service provider charge the user an additional fee for miss use;

Anne suggested that if I cant do a whole day tomorrow, do a half a day. one of the guys from my Lodge emailed me an invitation to go out to Wetaskiwin Lodge but I can;t justify the hours and I don;t know what time i'd be back. I doubt it would be before 11pm. Anyway, sorry for any misspells here. That's all for now.

new laptop, for 90% music production a little bit of Blogging and YouTube and email. I didn't get out of bed until 1pm and I wasn't quite sure what exactly I wanted. The new laptop has to be quad cor, at least an i5, 15" screen, 6-8 Ram and a minimum of 750 Gb hard drive for around $700-800. That's the price point. I saw a few candidates at Best Buy and I was ready to go but Anne pointed out that we hadn't received our GST check yet even though it was mailed Thursday. The other thing is my job isn't in the same condition as it was last year. So, it was those two factors that prevented me from heading out this afternoon.

Monday night Raw wasn't bad. On a scale of 1-10 I'd rate it a 6. it had its moments but I don't know what all of this Chris Jerhico story line is all about?

One good thing though about the job and the new company name, is we might not have to do OTH all the time but I'd take OTH over the things we're doing now. I'm lucky if I can get a sale once a shift. Being a tap shooter, even on a TD run, I'm used to 6-8 sales an hour and at least $25-$50 a week in bonuses.

Yesterday while trying to delete a "New Volume" partition on my C Drive to gain extra space I had taken out Linux Ubuntu. That ordinaraly would have been a good thing but by deleting Linux without a prompt brought up this thing called Grub recovery. I'm sure My Windows stuff is ok its just that I can't get to it. So I've got to ask one of the "East Indian kids" for some advice see if I can get some verbal insructions. Anyway, that's all for now.  

for a bit. I did a lot better sales wise yesterday. I was beginning to think I couldn't sell anymore.

At first I thought well this is my Sunday in but upon looking at my calendar, my last Sunday was last December 18th. On the 25th and New Years (Sunday's) I was on holidays. Technically this is my Sunday off but next Sunday I go in for the 15th because I have Lodge on the 21st (3rd Sunday) So I'm ok for a couple of days off.

I'm still thinking about that laptop. It's a quad core i7, which is about the best out there. The version I was looking at is has 8 Ram and a 750Gb hard drive for just over $600. It's a sweet deal but I'm sure something better is out there just around the corner like the 6/8 cor with 2.27 transistor count.

Now I'm not entirely on board with this story (considering where it came from ) but this week it was mentioned that as a young man in his early 20's Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future President apparently was teleported there, along with the future head of DARPA in 1981-1983 and he went twice. US President Obama with help from the CIA was of all things, teleported to Mars! However the Whitehouse denies the story. Question: Why would the Whitehouse even deny the story? Read more>>

Anyway, I hope to get a lot of reading done this weekend on A game of thrones. Anyway, that's all for now. 

for me to say the least. I just got back from a 10 day leave and hadn't even put in a full day except my first day (Tuesday), so it's been hard to gather momentum. Wednesday and Thursday we're also half days and yesterday my 2nd full day getting back was bad for everyone yesterday for the firrst half and then 6 of us are doing another campaign with WW2 Veterans. So this week was hard for me to get things going sales wise. Yesterday I had no sales but the boss wasn;t expecting any of us on the new campaign to actually get anything as this was just the learning curve part of it thought it was kind of disheartening because out of us six I was the only one with nothing on "the board" at the end of the day. I'm sure it's going to pick up today. I like the new campaign.

This morning I'm starting the day off fresh with a bite to eat at Tims and I'm taking my insulin along with me.

Last night I got my first check with my back pay and vacation pay. I don't have my vacation pay on my check like most of the staff do. If it wasn't for the uncertainty of my job I would have gone out after work to get he new laptop but because of my job situation, I'm kind of holding off that for the time being. I'm considering quad core 1Tb situation with 6-8 Ram. But I can't justify the laptop at the moment. If the job situation was ok, then sure but as it stands now I'm on a bit of a tight rope.

Today I've got 6 hours ahead of me and I'm making the most of it. This morning it's down to Tim's for some breakfast and then I'm going hard on the job today. After work if i had a decent day, I'm going out with the guys across the street to BP's I'm buying a picture of beer and after that it's home have a nap and watch the Oiler's game as I'm back at it for 5 hours Sunday. Anyway, that's all for now. 

drained and tired I could sleep until all day but I'm off all day tomorrow. Anne suggested I take yesterday off. I need at least 30 hours on my check even though I have stat pay coming. I should say, fuck it take at least half the day off and go back to bed. Sounds like a good idea to me. 

sure go by in a hurry. I’m back at it today in the office at noon, uggh.

This week I’ve got lodge and I’m going to set up a time to have one of the people at work, work with me over a resume, something I can just copy and past in an email. If things don’t improve with the job, then I could be forced out to look for something else. I’m going to wait until they through me out, I’m not going to quit.

Other then that, it’s going to be a lame week folks. Not a great way to start off the New Year. Today I’m at the office from noon-9pm same thing with Wednesday. Thursday I’m off due to Lodge night and pay off my Lodge dues and that‘s going to be a huge chunk of coin but at the same time its going to be the best part of the week. Then I’m working noon-9pm Friday and Saturday 10am-4:30pm. That’s going to be a long 30 hours, but I’ll have stat pay in there as well.

Well, finally the Oiler’s won one on this road trip. About time. The boys head into Buffalo tonight and I won’t be able to catch that. The game probably starts at 6pm and I could run over to BP’s and catch the score. Because Anne is working Wednesday night I think after work I’m going to pop in for about 40 minutes and have a beer and head out in time to be able meet Anne on the way home. Sounds like a plan. Do that once a week will never hurt me. Anyway, that’s about all for now.

Happy New Year to all my blog readers, family, coworkers and colleagues. Oh and even my few friends This is the first time I had to ring in the New Year, without Anne since t day we got married 11 years ago. Nothing serious, Anne is working at her call centre job taking Pizza orders. She’s working from 7:30pm last night until 4am this morning. There’s some perks that come along with the hours: Firstly, she gets paid double time from Midnight to Four am and the company will pay for her cab home, which is Ok. Bus service is running until 3am this morning and its free all day.

Usually local TV networks here show the last 5 minutes of the year and we see the last of Edmonton’s “First Night” especially the showcase being the fireworks but out of the 5 local networks, CFRN and CBC were absent. Channel 7 was showing a feed from Calgary of all places and Global was in Niagara falls. WTF? So we see no fireworks this year, nice to be on the ball guys. Thanks for the insult.

This year wasn’t a good year for me book reading wise: I read 5 books this year. “A game of thrones” will be for net year. But here are the books I read last year, taken from my laptop webcam:

This year, I plan on reading 1 book/month, well that’s the plan/ I’m going to read a lot more then this though. The best book I read this year was A. Lee Martinez “Automatic Detective.” The next book I plan on reading is “Space Vulture” Wolf/Meyers. But that’s after I’m done reading “A game of thrones.”

Hard to believe that if dad was alive today, he’d be 89 years old. He died at the age of 72 born January 1^st 1922. I never met my grandfather. Mom or dad and one thing I’m going to do before I pass on is to do some genealogy since my family wont help me.

So it looks like I‘ll be able to pay off my Lodge dues for 2012 after all. At first I wasn’t because I figured, I’d be looking at about $60 and Anne said she’d give me $10 to help cover the cost of the dinner last night. It wasn’t necessary but it means I’ll be able to do that and have $20 left over to get me by until Friday. Also, WM emailed everyone and said how the EA candidate wont be able to make it for Thursday. I’m going to have an easy night Thursday, good stuff. Anyway, that’s about all for now.