Yesterday afternoon Anne was having a tough go of it and of course I’m on the receiving end of things. What with dealing with my cold and sciatic nerve back pain and her flipping out on me I wasn’t in that good of shape as she headed out to get me some cough drops over there at the Dollarama. I met her at the door heading out and she handed me the cough drops. By then my back pain had subsided and I could move around a lot easier.

So as I headed out the door to wait for my bus the weather was a mild +16! Wow. Very unusual for this time of year. Today we’re to get +14. Temps should taper off to about +1 or +2 over the weekend. Still for this time of year? I love it. We could have it one of the warmest Novembers in recent memory. It’s all part of global warming. Now, I don’t believe in the anthropogenic global warming. Or AGW but that’s another issue. Still if we can get by with +1 or +2 in that 5* range, would be excellent. It means winter is reduced from 5 months to 4. And it warms up in March.
I had a slow start to the shift. I began to wonder why we were doing CFK. But it was a TD run. I had a slow start I think just under about $285 by break and 2 cards. We had the Oiler’s/Columbus game on. Someone took my lucky dialer #13 but I took #24 instead doing small taps. NS and Ontario we killing us. I ended up with a nice bag full of empties and 4 cards for a total of $520 and $90 on cards when it was all said and done. At 8:30pm I took a pill for my back pain and by 9pm it felt better and I was able to walk to Corona station with no problems. The Oiler’s ended up taking the game to OT and lost in the shootout for 1 point. Hemsky got his 2nd and Visnovsky for his 3rd. The best they could do for bonus money last night was $5 for a $100 credit card sale. On a TD run? Yeah right.

I got in about 9:50pm and Anne felt bad she blew up at me earlier. She got me some Tylenol for back pain and made me some nice fish and chips for supper. We settled in to watch a pretty good show of Monday night Raw from Madison Square Gardens. It’s always a good Raw from MSG. On a scale from 1-10 I’d rate it an 8. Lots of fun.

Thanks to the folks at SF Signal for renewing my interest in Escape pod. I listened to a 2005 SF story called “The trouble with death traps.” The whole story was about 30 minutes. I used to listen to about 1 of these/week. I think I’ll continue now that there are other pod cast stories out there. There’s a sequel to this story and I’m going to try and get to this later this week. This story was by Marjorie James. Read by Stephen Eley. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate it an 8.……"overnight".....…..Anne’s been having the dehumidifier on over the past couple of days. Helps me sleep as the moisture in the room at night aggravates this cold or whatever it is that’s been causing me some grief since the day after we had to put Pledges down. I still miss the little guy. Keith Graham is having difficulties with his cat Max now in the Vet. But I’ve been having this cold since the day after Pledges died. I’m more or less ok on the job, it’s just lingering around the house is when it kicks in.

We were in bed by 4am but I couldn’t sleep so I got up to watch a bit of TV, this was at 6am. This was when I had another attack of back pain. I took my second Tylenol. TNC had a 1933 Dick Powel movie on. I watched a bit of it until my back felt better. I went back to bed and tried to sleep. I felt a little better and I think I got 5 hours. Anne had the dehumidifier off and then I began episodes of hacking and coughing. I got up and that’s when my back pain started up on me. I hobbled out to the kitchen to fix a coffee and fired up the computer. This is where I am now.

I wanted to go in for today to put some extra hours in and all Anne needs to do is to make my lunch the night before and have an entre out for me so I can take my insulin and pack my things out to be out of here by noon. That’s the idea. I want to go in for Wed/Fri.

Last night when I went to bed I listened to a bit of Coast with George’s guest Steve Qual. He talked about the global implications of the pneumonic plague in Ukraine and possibly that the H1N1 is a bio weapon. Who would gain from something like this? Lets round up the usual suspects. The most obvious would be Al Qaeda but what about The World Health Organization themselves? Why not invent H1N1 from a lab in say for instance the Ukraine and put together a vaccine, heighten the scare that this flue strain is going to kill millions so everyone will want to take the flue shot and they make billions. I don’t know if WHO is behind this but if anyone is behind this and it is a bio weapon, I’d be pointing fingers at Al Qaeda. But this was what they were (among other things) talking aobut last night. It was a good show.

So for tonight it’s into work for my usual 5-9. Most likely doing CFK again since we’ve done the taps for Magic. same old same old but I'm grateful I still have a job.