The first bus that came along was the low floor buses, whoever designed these things, knew what they were doing. I love everything about them.  So I got there before Anne did and since the City is performing maintenance on the escalators Anne came right upstairs in the elevator right onto the last car. Perfect. Some snow developing but nice. When I got in, JT mentioned that if I want to get my pay cheaque see Bart because he does it twice a year. Part of our Company’s auditing procedure.  I got my hours missing and everything was fine. No payroll bonus or anything this round thanks due to OTH. Speaking of which we did this tonight and I had a great start. I was at $135 by break, Top total by break and I ended up with a total of $230. Nice. Anne wanted me to meet her at work and too possibly contact her walking up and down Jasper I met her outside on the corner where she works under the snow. She went to the bank I went down to Bay station to catch my train home and after a long wait and who should I see getting on at Central was my wife, cute how that worked out. So, I got home and proceeded to do some more writing. +1,500 for the day and my tooth went abscessed on me anyway and I’ve been popping the bubble on my gum above the affected tooth and felt a lot better.  I watched then news and had a nice lunch and so here I am, a pretty good day despite the toothache pain. I took a 222 earlier and that made my evening more comfortable.

So after I get my cheaque I go do the other part of my ritual: Hot water for coffee but the machine wasn’t dispensing out any. What the hell? Then I learned they put a price on hot water because through out three shifts during the day the staff kept on using the hot water and coffee and water gets trapped in this screen underneath which has to be replaced 6-8 times a day. So Rob or others figured they’d charge for water and raise the price of crappy machine coffee from .25 cents to .75 cents of all the nerve. Fat chance people are going to use that when there’s a Tim’s a block away. Besides I have my thermos and I can begin bringing my hot water today. Cheap buggers.

So, I had a pretty good day despite the coffee fiasco at work. I also ended up doing 1500 words and bringing the story to 63, 602. The thing is I’m less then 40 scenes into the story and 46k left to go and I should finish right at the end of March. The whole idea is to work on Sanctuary in March and I think I’ll have 80 scenes put together. I already have the beginning part of “S” rd’d (rough drafted’) out. I’m going to try for April 1at but if I’m having a busy month I could also start April 15^th.

e. Jim