about an hour now after a full day, the campaign from hell. The afternoon, I got all of $40 but I did get my check. In the evening shift I didn't get 1 sale! There were only a few people that had over $100. Even JT had only 1 sale for $25 but i think he managed 1 more shortly before the shift ended at 8:30pm. That speaks to how tough this campaign is when eve JT can only get 2 sales.

When I got out of the building, wow what a rain, thunder/lightning storm going on! It wasn't lie a monsoon or anything like that but it was really dark and overcast.

The Esks were hosting the BC Lions and were leading at thehalf 6-3. That's not saying much for the two lowest teams in the league. Apparently there wass ome active weather at Commonwealth. Somelightning strikes drove the fans away and the game had to be delayed by 40 minutes. Esks finally won one, 28-25. Talk about close.Anyway, that's all for now.

like these, although I could do without going to the Doctor, not that it was a bad experience. I'm glad I have my Doctor now easier to get to. My blood pressure was a bit high at 140/80 but I attributed this to lack of having anything to eat since I got there. Anne went for a blood test and encouraged me to go get one as well but all I wanted to do was to just get through this. Next month about this time I've got to go in before work and get it done. I went for the whole examination except for the rectal thing. I wasn't ready to go there just yet. All I wanted was to get a bite to eat.

After the Doctor Anne and I went to Boston Pizza and I had a prime rib bacon cheeseburger/with fries. Anne went down the block to Tim's while I waited and returned with her Tim's and donut and took the odd french fry. Since she had to work this evening and I had the night off I went to Tim's as well and got a Boston cream donut to take home. My train was a few minutes away and I got home no worse for ware and without incident. I was a bit drained so I had a bit of a nap for an hour.

After my nap, I read a bit more and took a large chunk out of reading "Odd girl out" and according to my Goodreads page I'm 70% of the way through the book. I hope to have it done before the end of the month. Ordinarily I read faster then this but June and July had a lot of things going on.

I'm off tonight because of the company I work for is holding their baseball event and in all 10 years I've worked steady for this job, I don't think they have ever suspended the 5-9 shift in the phone room for a company event we promote. Otherwise after the Doctors appointment and my burger at BP's, I would have headed the block right into work for the full 4 hours. I'd only now be just coming through the door. Tomorrow, unless things change, I tend on going in for the full day. I might post a Twitter update when I get home though. Anyway, that's all for now.
 

It’s a bit cooler out there today after having +25 and above temperatures lately. I‘m going in for my 4 hours tonight and hopefully I can go in early for 3 tomorrow because management is shutting us down at 6pm because of the baseball game tomorrow night. Anne and I have our Doctors appointment for 1:30pm and I’ll ask if I can go in for at least 3 hours early tomorrow morning and meet Anne at Tim’s at 1pm then go to our Doctors appointment. Hopefully it wont rain at the game.

After ripping my wife’s Cd’s yesterday I got inspired to Rip mine and most of our music is from Cd’s we already own and a few from Audiogalaxy from 2001. I had some trouble opening those disks but then realized all I had to do was open the folder. Back then Audiogalaxy and Napster were resources where you could get free (literally free) music and download tunes onto your computer. It was quite a party the music flowed freely and Audiogalaxy and Napster were a lot easier back then, then the torrent or peer-to-peer sites like Limewire or Kazza are now. Today thanks to DRM’s and Copyright Laws ruining the party Audiogalaxy is a streaming service. Kind of like YouTube but with your own music. I ended up ripping about 12 of my wife’s Cd’s and about the same for mine. Ive got another 12 Cd’s to rip yet and those contain music I’m not a big fan of like “The Thompson Twins.” I bought the music because I recall when I saw “The Police” here the Twins played back up to them on their 1983 tour. I think today the best (and legal) way to get audio content onto an Itouch is via Itunes. I haven‘t used an Itunes gift card yet and I‘m not against using them. I have most of the music I need anyway except for a few Cd‘s, which I can get from Ebay.

Speaking audio content, I’m considering using a audio book service that specializes in audio books. Perhaps you have heard of them: Audiable.com. It’s $7.49 for the first 3 months and then its $15 for every other month. You get a free credit/month which is 1 book and you can buy other books as well at $7.49/book. The thing with Audible is its an Amazon company bit also works with the Kindle. I’ve been looking at the Kindle 2 lately as well and I like what I see. It’s got a cool text to speech feature that will let me hear the text and if it works with PDF files, then even better. Right now the Kindle 2 is under $200. Anyway, that’s all for now.

with a mix up. My wife said she needed the use of the bus pass and she'd put some bus tickets in my pouch. I was still waking up by this time trying to wash down my toaster waffles and I took her bus pass holder out the door with me. I got to the train and then something told me to check to see if she didn't put the bus pass in here. If I hadn't checked she would have been really pissed off and I only discovered this too late as the train I needed to get off was pulling out of Clairview station. I got off at the next stop, Belvedere and doubled back making all the right connections. I was trying to avoid Anne already up and got my bus pass holder, with the apartment keys and I realized I wasn't going to make the bus because I was crossing the path of the bus back at the cross walk waiting for me to cross. I would then have to walk all the way to Clairview station and it was a hot morning but better then waiting another 20 minutes for another bus. I broke out a heavy sweat walking to Clairview station but the real train downtown I was on was the newer trains and air conditioned. I got a half liter of diet Coke at Tim's and worked my way to the office. i got in and they hadn't even opened the tap dialer's yet as I made it just in time.

I had a decent shift listening to Clarksworld magazine for most of my first hour. The featured audio story was "The Association of the dead," by Rahul Kanakia. One headphone speaker was in one ear and my headset listening to the customer in the other. I got the gist of the story in between calls and from what little I got of the audio story I enjoyed it. Not to worry there's a print copy in the latest online issue and I can always listen to the story again. I really enjoyed this piece. Good stuff.

I had a decent shift having limited sleep hours before by the time 2pm rolled around I was feeling fatigued. We had 6 of us for a late afternoon crew for the 2:30Pm-4:30pm shift and I don't think I did that badly on it. There were only a few empties to take home so I left them there. I barely made my Clairview train just in time and met with one of my wife's co workers on the connector bus to my place at Clairview. Anne had something frozen ready for me to heat up as I tried finding the Esks/Winnipeg game on TV. I had $2 riding on that and $2 on the Riders/Calgary game. The Esks lost (again) and are now 0-4. First time this has happened since 1965. Winnipeg stomped all over them 47-20. Pathetic. And I lost last night with the Argos's hosting BC. Now midway in the 4th quarter at McMahon Stadium the Riders are losing big time, 10-33. I've got the can of pop covered because one of the guys owes me a can of pop, I'll get that Monday to give to Leo. But I owe $2 that goes to Warren and $2 that goes to JT, it seems. One rule of thumb, don't bet on the CFL, especially with the Esks. I now confirmed it the Riders lost 20-40. Owe.   

At least I'll have part 2 of the season finally of Doctor Who to look forward to Sunday. This was a costly weekend for me. Its not going to break me or anything but I learned a lesson, don't bet on the CFL. Anyway, that's about all for now. 

kind of a week with not a lot going on.

On the job in between calls Leo and I bet a can of pop on the Lions/Argo's in Toronto CFL game that was on earlier. With less then 2 minutes with game well in hand 20-17 for a Lions victory the QB snaps the ball and the Argo's safety intercepts taking it to the End zone! 24-20. The Lions had the ball with 1 second on the clock, time for one play even as the clock ran down with no time the Lions could have won that game but their receiver was something like 3 yards from the end zone. I had the won can of pop in my hands! Friggin lucky Leo! LoL.  

Earlier Anne had recorded TNA Impact wrestling and I was able to get caught up in several of the matches. I like them all. I haven't quite figured out how to navigate around the PVR though.

Capital X is in its 2nd day and the fair grounds are buzzing. I wanted to go this year but we just don't have the funds. Its very pricey and there's too much walking around for me and way to noisy for my comfort level

I'm only now at the half way point in Timothy Zahn's "Odd girl out." Its not like its boring or anything, it's just that I've been doing too many other things lately. I hope to have it finished by the end of this month. Up next is L.E Modesitt, jr's "The Eternity artifact." Should be a good read. Anyway, that's about all for now.

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I had the makings  of a great blog post until the frigging cat jumps right on the keyboard, pawed on the start button and shut me down. Its the way this laptop is positioned, which is an open invitation, saying "get in dads way, I want to be noticed." pissed me right off. Friggin cats, Having the cats locked up in here with me isn't their fault.

Last nigt I abandoned Windows 7 to have Firefox installed on the laptop. I like FF better the Windows, although I liked Windows XP out of all the OS Windows has had. nothing wrong with Windows 7, its just that FF has some plugins that I like to use all the time.

Yesterdays double shift wasn't that bad but it does compromise things when I need to take my insulin, when I'm used to having it at a certain time of day. Anyway that's all for now.

moving cables around setting up connections and waiting for 3 hours we have cable and Internet, working together. We got a pvr out of the deal a lower rate and 10 HD channels as well. We're saving on the first year the ammount it would cost for my insulin each month. My wifi works with my laptop (first time in 3 months) my Itouch works, even though were not getting a router/modem all-in-one. The back end of Telus works on fiber optics. I don't know if that's faster then cable but we're happy with this. I have my G4 tech tv and sports channels for my Monday night Raw even though the channels we're used to have moved. We now have a remote for both TV. We havn't worked out the PVR yet though. It was worth taking the night off for even though I have to go in for Wednesday for the whole day. Still that's one headahce out of the way. Anyway, that's all for now.