I headed into work just after 4pm yesterday and the first order of business was to check “Lotto Payday”, that’s where I buy a 3 dollar ticket for a chance to win $1000 week for life. I team up with one of the guys a work. He puts his $1.50 in and I put in mine. Of course, I didn’t win. But its fun to play. In the office still no bank report because Rob has been in Toronto for the last 2 weeks and he took his laptop computer with him. I had a good but quiet evening. I also did 2 credit cards. One for WCS and one for BB. We got out a bit (8:20pm) early and I hustled over to Carona station and made the University train connection with little waiting. I was waiting for the #6 bus just outside Hub mall at the University for my bus to Chapters books. So what do I do while waiting for a bus? Read.

It was just after 8:30pm when the bus arrived and took me out of the terminal and over to Chapters about 8:45pm. It was on the eve of Harry Potter mania for the 7th and last book. The book went on sale at midnight. Staff were in HP costumes awaiting the avalanche of HP fans. I totally support the HP craze, even more so as it’s about to come to an end. Chapters has a buy 3 mass market paperbacks and get the 4th one for free but I didn’t have that kind of money on me. So instead I found what I think was a stand alone novel. “Divergence” by Tony Ballentyne and “A fire upon the Deep.” By Vernor Vinge. I paid for them and asked about any “Buzzcocks” Cd’s but they didn’t have the one I wanted. “Product.” I called Anne from Chapters on my cell and looked around the magazine sections for science fiction magazines. They didn’t even carry Analog. I checked out the comic book rack to find the answer for a question long on my mind: How much for a new issue comic book these days. $4.25CND. Yikes. I think that was the price. At that price I don’t think they sell too many of them. I don’t even think the comics had even 20 pages between the covers. I could think of about a dozen Marvel comics I’d still enjoy reading. Twelve comics would cost me $54 including tax/month.

So I had a ten minute wait for my bus to the University and I called Anne. I bought a diet Coke at the Coke machine but someone had mixed up the labels and I got a regular Coke instead and the guy behind me got a diet Coke so we exchanged them. I had a brief wait for my Clairview train and before long I was underground and on my way home. At Stadium there were thousands of football fans letting out of the game boarding the train. I hoped I’d pass that but no such luck. I called Anne somewhere along the line home. It was a beautiful sunset out there. The end to a fairly nice day. It seemed the Eskimos won as well. There were lots of happy football fans on the train heading home.

I got home and checked my books, only “Divergence” was stand alone. The other one was part 2/2. Rats. It’s times like this I wish I had an Internet ready PDA in my pocket connect to a hot spot and I’d be able to go online to Fantastic Fiction right at the source. Anyway,

That’s all for now

e. Jim