I barely got out of the apartment before 8:50am and my bus came along shortly after. It wasn’t that cold outside and I had my coat opened up and headphones on. My bus was a tad late but the train was parked waiting. I no sooner got on as if the train was waiting just for me it pulled out of Clairview station. I was downtown about 9:20am and getting my breakfast sandwich and in the office prepared to sit by Bud and enjoying my sandwich. I had a chat with Rob (in on a rare Saturday to run the room) and he separated the night vs. day staff on both sides just to play a little game. I sat at the other dialer across from Bus on the end. Rob was doing this to get everyone pumped for OTH. I made some good bonus money with OTH last year. Rob commented on me getting a phone hooked p for Cw. So we had a talk about that and he introduced me to Bendan new Business room manager helping Mo to run the night room. So every $100 is a point and every credit card is a point. Most points per team wins $20 each (if at line hour. I was not only at line hour I had top total on my side (and using the disclaimer) I had $710 and x2 credit cards. I did pretty good. But no bonus for our side. We had I think 28 points as opposed to the nights 36 I think but only JT was able to tie me total wise. I had 9 points on the board.

Rob worked us right until 2pm as well. Anne called at 1:30pm as she was on her way to that discount out of the truck meats place. So I had her on cell periodically throughout the afternoon. I went to catch a bus up to City Center mall I realized I didn’t need to catch the #2 that the #1 goes right up that way as well. A brief wait. I had Anne on the phone as I was crossing the lights in the mall and looking at the keyboards. All of them come with headphone adaptors but I really want one that has a usb port.

After that I went upstairs to see if there was a book that caught my interest to buy. They had a James P Hogan novel: “The legend that was Earth” and I wanted to pick this up. Coles however, a National chain unlike Audrey’s an independent store still is clinging to the Canadian price. Shame on them. Audrey’s is taking the lead and as a result of this, I’m no longer going to shop at Coles books. Chapters is (same franchise.) the same way, I think. It takes a couple of months to get books ordered but they’ll get them in for me. Without at deposit as well I might add. At par pricing. This means at the American cover price, for now until if and when our dollar dips under the US dollar. I can understand why Coles and Chapters continue to keep the status quo because the US dollar is more stable then ours. Even though for now our dollar is higher it could easily drop down again. I’m sure over time if our dollar continues to be above par over the course of the next several months/years, the major chains will come around, but I wont hold my breath waiting.

I got home with Anne in my ear for a bit. She’s quite excited about her new shopping discovery. What she pays for the same thing there, at $30 would easily cost her $50-60 at Superstore. I’ll share this with my local friends here in the City if they read this blog. I don’t know what the quality of the product is yet,

I went to the “Dollarramma” after I got off the bus out here and bought a single blank Cd so I can burn a copy and have Charles or Mo (I’ll supply the paper) print me out a hard copy. Of course this will be double spaced. Hopefully I can get F’s 2nd rewrite done today.

When I got home I had a bit of a nap. I think maybe an hour if that. I got p and Anne was puttering around. She showed me her shopping goodies. I did my stuff and went to watch the Oiler/Chicago game here. It was a fan tribute to our troops in Afghanistan. God love ‘em. Thousands of fans donated their seats so the troops could come and have a game on the fans. Rexall place brought out a brass band honor guard in khaki uniforms same with the soldiers in the crowd. They did the American Anthem then Ours. Very nicely done. The Oilers won in a shootout (again) and after the game the team came on ice raising their sticks in the air for the troops. It was a nice gesture. Made me proud. Sure there is a combat mission over there but the are also trying to bring democracy into a tyrannical country. Obviously I support our troops and their mission.

Today is Grey Cup Sunday. Canada’s answer to the American Superbowl. This will be the 95th addition. That mean the CFL has been around for almost 100 years folks. It actually began back in 1956 but the CFL can trace it’s roots that far back in history. The prime differences is that the NFL arguably is an older league but has way to many teams/cities. I think 31 teams where the CFL has only 8. The CFL expanded into the US market but that collapsed in 1995. So far now there are 8 teams. Ottawa had the Renegades but poor attendance figures forced them to shut down. I’d love to see 10 CFL teams. So with that in mind today will be a busy day. No Cw but I’m going to go over my pitch a bit and I’m asking Rob if I could borrow a headset from the office so Anne and I can use at home. I also want to complete F’s 2nd rewrite and put it on disk and see if Charles or Mo can get me a hard copy.

Anyway, that’s all for now

e. Jim