I had a nice trip into work yesterday and got inside the office about 4:45pm and I had a flat kind of a night on the job. Well it was a Wednesday so what else is new? I ended up with line hour and $115 worth of credit cards and a $5 bonus. Yawn. Anne called me just before my shift and I had an uneventful ride home. I’m glad top be home.

 Also, I asked Moe if he could download that Joe Strummer South Park song for me, as I can’t seem to get it out of the site and onto my media card. So he’s going to try and download a copy for me tonight. We’ll see.  I don’t know what I did but I managed to get the song after all.

since my wife has been struggling with this cold she’s been lashing out at me from time to time. Really putting a strain on our marriage. I’m not out of rough waters and gale force winds are keeping me company through the length of the ride.  I think the worst is over now.  I got up around 6 am and did the icb thing and went back to bed. I managed to get some sleep and I’m no worse for ware. My main trouble causing me to sleep was being itchy. I don’t know if this was this foam underneath the sheets my wife puts on top of the nice memory foam or me being diabetic or both. I think it’s this foam. Kind of looks like corrugated metal siding.  It’s damn tough to sleep on as it keeps pushing these thorns or some such thing out.

Last night I got into doing some downloading and I’m getting a lot of wma files I can’t play. So according to the form knowledge base answer to another poster complaining about the same thing the response provided the poster with a link for a tool. I’m going to fool around with this over the weekend.

I’m on my first coffee and I’ve got about an hour here before Anne gets lunch ready. Then it’s an hour left before I take off out of here for work. This way I can answer any last minute emails and work on a scene.

Also this date in history, August 16th 1977 is the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. I was 24 years old at the time and over at a friends place, that Tuesday afternoon. I was living at the Anderson house again in New Westminster BC that year and I had not been up to Calgary yet. I was still living off of my UIC claim from working at the Army & Navy store. I recall being laid off A&N late 1975. I can’t recall the friends name but he was a high school kid and an avid war gamer living up there in the Spanish banks area of North Vancouver well known for it being a wealthy area. I was on UIC at the time. The kid had befriended me probably from Burnaby Hobbies I think is where I met him. There weren’t a lot of war gamers in Vancouver at the time. Certainly no organized community of war gamers existed. We were going to play a game called Wellington’s Victory. A game suited for about 6 players rather then just 2. I think this was a rather ambitious project but like I said I had time to waste that summer. This was a one of SPI’s “Monster” games. Taking a break from setting the game up in his basement that hot Tuesday afternoon his mother put the BBQ on for us and made us burgers. The radio was playing by the poolside and that’s when we heard the news about Elvis. I wasn’t a big fan of Elvis or anything. Sure, I liked some of his songs and all.  He was born 1935 and at the time of his death he would have been 42. If he were still alive today he’d be 72 years old. Many people believe that Elvis is still around because of the controversy circumstances after his death, like the sealed envelope etc. Most people that lived through the 60’s and 70’s from my generation have historical footnotes. We remember certain events like the assassination weekend of JFK, the death of Elvis and the murder of John Lennon. These events trigger other memories as well. Every generation goes through these types of momentous historical events. But that’s where I was in 1977 when Elvis died. The event itself really didn’t register. Like many I watched news footage of the thousands of mourners heading to Graceland. It was January 1978 I went to Calgary and I worked there, January-April. By the end of April I was back in New Westminster at the Anderson House again waiting for my UIC claim to process. I had been back from Calgary April-August. My UIC claim had been activated mid August and I moved out of the Anderson house because of trouble with neighbors. That’s when I received a lot of money from my backlog unemployment. All my books and stuff were still over at the Anderson house pending me picking them up. It was that month I couldn’t get out of the Anderson house fast enough. I took a sleazy apartment (where Douglas College is now) located on the corner of Royal and 4th Ave. I think. Then it was 29 years ago this month I was invited up to Edmonton for my brothers wedding and I stayed ever since, pretty amazing how the time flies by.   

Seems like a pretty nice day out there. The job is going really well with BOB and I’m doing well on that big semi list. I’ve reached line hour for each day this week and doing great on the credit cards. This week, I’ve almost pulled in about $250 and it’s only Thursday but we’re losing our window fast for mailing tickets because the game is Sept 8th.  This run on BOB has been really good to me. But our tap section isn’t anything as good as it was in 2004. Of course the economy is better.

That’s all for now.