I had to reapply for Google Adsense as they wouldn’t accept my email using Gmail. So I got the idea why not utilize my Yahoo mail account? I mad another account submission request and went through the proper procedure. I was able to get the automated Adsense email verification code and I got that part excepted. All that remains now is to have Adsense approve my site and I see no reason why they won’t.

I had a pretty good night but Raw wasn’t to interesting this evening. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate it a 6. There were a few bright moments such as Davy boy Smiths younger brother making his wrestling debut. I thought that was good. Then there was the Umaga Triple H fiasco and something about Y2J Chris Jericho returning? Not a bad show. This week was Raw magazine’s 500th anniversary issue. Yeah I enjoyed Raw but there was too much Diva action. Nothing wrong against that of course.

Also we’ve been getting a bit of rain this evening and Ryan Smyth is in town. First time since leaving last February. The Av’s play the Oilers tomorrow and Smyth and the Av’s will be fired up about that. Another game the Oilers will most likely loose. They’ve got to get their team Captain on the ice. Ethan Morrow has been gone too long now. The official injury report says 2-3 weeks for a sprained ankle.

I did a search just now for “Army & Navy” the department store chain I used to work in during my hey day in the 1980’s. In 1982 I recall getting $4.50/hr! Seems they are opening another store but in this time Port Coquitlam of all places. A&N has the following store locations: Vancouver, New Westminster, Langley, Edmonton North, Edmonton South and Calgary. According to the article above they want a couple more stores, One in Calgary and one on Vancouver island. They had a store in Moose Jaw and Regina but closed those stores down in the late 1990’s. My job at the Army & Navy here in Edmonton lasted from mid October 1982-March 17th 1989.had been the longest steady job to date, My current employment began Sept 15th 2007 and as of September 15th 2007 this job has been the longest steady piece of employment I’ve ever had. A record of 7 years 1.5 months as opposed to the previous record of only 5.5 years at the Army & Navy. I’m just getting tied of Telemarketing and I’ve got 10 years left of what’s left of the real workforce before retirement. I don’t want to waste it doing Telemarketing. The thing I like about my job is I like working with people. I get a huge variety of people I work with and I like that. If I decide to go through the motions and atempt to get a security guard job, I’ll be for the most part working by myself. The thing is getting a guards license. That’s going to be the big snag in all this thing. It’s going to cost me $55 to find out. I can get hired onto a guard company, that’s no problem. The problem is the wait time it takes to do the job and getting the guards license. I’ve got to get the job first and then apply for the guards license. So I go into the gurd company and ask JT for the reference. The guard company hires me on say part time. I ask for part time hours maybe just for the weekends and still work Xl until I get the guards license. Then I can take a break from Xl and phase into the security guard moreor less full time.

I know I’ve been down this road before but what makes the guard job so attractive is I do one 15-20 minute patrol/hour and sit on my butt for the rest of the hour, so I’m always getting my exercise. And for the 40 min or so I have left in the hour, I can write read, listen to Coast and if I get that little portable piano, I can even practice my playing as well. The hours I’d like would be from 10-6am and preferably on an lrt run. No apartment buildings please. I’ve done that and it’s too much patroling and to many hastles trying to do the caretakers job of keeping the noise level down after hours and dealing with tenants. I did that in 1999 working with Innertech (InT). I really liked the Pacific Rim Mall (PRM) location. I thought that was the best security guard job of all. That’s what I thought I was getting myself into when I got hired onto InT in September 1999. I thought this would be like the PRM site. But I got bounced around so many times it was driving me nuts. I think I ended up in 5 different locations with the last one being Heratige Village site before they laid me off. I think what it was, had to do with me not getting a guards license. The PRM site was the best and this was the year just before the Internet. Based upon what Ahmed told me from before about the rate of pay etc, we’d still qualify for CRHC.

Ok back to the writing, I was reading in J’s blog earlier how he said he reached 40k/80k of his novel. It sounds like he’s running out of room. By that I mean having to insert scenes and going back and forth fleshing things out. The joy of writing an outline.

That’s all for now,

e. Jim