From last night: I went into the pharmacy to grab a candy bar and upstairs to the back where the guys were. They got more pop cans for me. Super gave us tap shooters about 8 of us a lecture pep talk wanting $1,000 each from all of us. He’s right we’re not using our rebottles. I ended up getting $110 and he called Dave and I in and gave us each an admonishing talking to. Super was right though about a lot of things I wasn’t doing. But in the 2nd half he moved me over to small taps and I was doing a lot better. I got 1 CC sale and $465. I was spinning my wheels doing Ontario. We all were. I’d say about 80% of my calls were not home. The few calls that I actually received that is. If Super would have left me with the small taps I would have done a lot better. But were they ever piling on the stress last night. I felt better leaving out of there then I started and I got a whack of empties. I was joined by a whole bunch of the new tap shooters at Corona station but I got the other train separating myself from them. I wasn’t trying to be anti social, I was just exhausted. Anne was doing her vacuuming and I got a glass of cola and did my stuff until the news. We had a nice BBQ pork chop dinner and after that I’m on the computer unwinding. LCROSS is into its 2nd phase of its lunar mission to probe the moon and to eventually crash land onto the lunar surface in October. When it crash lands on the moon it’s supposed to create a crater about 5 miles long and a plum of dust almost 6 miles tall. A second probe will fly through the dust plum to scan for water. They were talking about this on Coast to Coast in the first hour of the show. It’s an interesting mission. There’s a lot of theories about the moon. Some would suggest because the moon is almost perfectly round (except for craters) it could be an artificial stellar body. Others might suggest like Richard C. Hoagland the moon was once inhabited by an alien civilization still there. Others believe a human civilization abandoned a base still there on the moon from an earlier civilization on earth long before our own that existed millions of years ago. Since the earth is over 4 Billion years old, anything is possible. The previous human civilization might have occurred around a million years ago. Since humanity (depending on who you talk with) began some 250,000 years ago long after the age of the dinosaurs its interlay possible that other human civilizations could have evolved without a record of them here o n earth a dozen times over since the last of the dinosaurs which became extinct some 65 million years ago. Yes I know it reads like cheesy science fiction. But consider 500,000 years can be divided about 426 times into 65 million years. Consider that our own civilization began some 250,000 years ago. Will our own civilization as we know it come to an end somehow? Hard to say. But when LCROSS completes its mission we may find crystallized water under the lunar surface. Will we find something else? I didn’t win the 6/49 $15M but it was split up by 2 winners each winning $7,532,978.00. Nice. And again #19 had been drawn. This makes it 4 times in a row. From now on I’m buying only 1 ticket/week every Saturday at Superstore…………….1:15pm> It’s back to the job thing today. The DOW climbed by 172 points closing at just under 8,500 from losing about 500 points from last week. The Dow is fluctuating from 8.2-8.8 and I think will be like this until the end of the year. Oil is back up to $70. I’m just glad I have 2 more days left and I’m off Saturday. SF Signal is showing off 2 covers and highlights from the new issue of Analog and Asimov. Both are in digest forms but I think there’s more bang for your buck if you like short stories. Analog has only 2 while Asimov has 5. At about $3 an issue, I’d rather read SFF anthologies or online. But Asimov seems at a glance to be the better of the 2.…………..10:20pm> I was just finishing dinner about 3:30pm when the news broke about Michael Jackson being rushed to the hospital having a heart attack. Anne and I had an explosion earlier as everyone was trying to get out at the same time. I left feeling stressed out and I got to the office. Not many empties there for me. When I got inside there was a CNN report that Michael Jackson died of a heart attack. WTF? Did I read that right? That was a shocker. I’m still trying to process the news. I was never a huge fan of Michael Jackson but I admired his talent and the fact that in the face of the band wagon rap jumping, Jackson never sold out and did a rap album. He kept true to his music. Good for him. But hearing this, wow. It’s amazing how some of us remember the important events of history and we remember where we were when certain events happened. For example, I was in a classroom at Miller Park school when JFK was assassinated. I was in North Vancouver at a poolside home that summer when Elvis died. I was in Riverdale flats near the low level bridge in the living room alone when I heard the news about John Lennon. I was watching the Oiler’s first ever Stanley Cup win in Trudy’s rental house in a basement room and at work when Wayne Gretzky was traded. I was coming into the office when I heard people talk about 9/11 at our 115th street and Jasper Ave. location. I recall where I was when princess Diana died in 1997. And I’ll always will remember where I was when I heard the news about Joe Strummer of the Clash. He also died from heart failure at the age of 50 December 2002 and now even though you can’t compare Joe Strummer and Michael Jackson but I’ll always remember hearing about the passing of Michael Jackson and where I was. I had dialer #15 watching the news on Michael Jackson and then Super asked me to take #14. I did and I had I think about $110 and a $50 CC. Then I got moved to the back end doing Ontario CPA taps. Lucky me. I had a CC sale and was about to be moved and it was the 2nd CC sale that saved me. I ended up doing $565 and my last sale was $100. I got the last of the empties and headed over to my train and read and got a seat to myself and came home to have Anne cooking dinner. Not only that but this week the world lost Ed McMahon and also today Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer. It's been a rough week in the entertainmanet world. What a day Jim
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