I left out of here yesterday afternoon at 4pm feeling pretty good almost thinking that bm is going to jump me over Friday but bm wasn’t even there. I collected my cans and bottles etc and got a pretty good haul. Super went and put me over to CPA taps. “Can I do $180 a l/h?” I’ll try. There were 5 of us and nobody did very well the first half but I had about $145 and that was enough to keep me. Plus I got all the cans and bottles during the 2nd half and went back to work. I did pretty good during the 2nd half and I got a CC sale. I learned a few tricks from other people saying that if they really feel uncomfortable I can call my supervisor over and the customer can give the number to my Super. That’s interesting.
After work I rode home with a Portuguese brother and sister team that‘s been working with us. We talked shop that kind of thing. I got home to find my wife not home and just in time for Monday night Raw. She came in saying she was sitting at the bus bench facing me watching me from the furthest intersection. She said she tried calling after me but I was oblivious. Anne made us a nice Angus beef burger supper and fries and we settled into watch a pretty good show of Monday night Raw, commercial free. And it was. What a great show. Especially the last man standing match. Near the end Vince and Trump were haggling for control of Raw. Vince bought back Raw “for double” what Trump paid for the show. Whatever the amount was, is undisclosed. I would have done the story line with a real jaw dropper. “I can’t sell Vince because I sold my share to somebody else.” Out comes Shane McMahon doing his little money dance thing. Now that would have been a better ending to the story line. At 63 Vince is still going strong and most likely will be doing this well into his 70’s.
One of these days, I’m going to get off at Belvedere station and poke around and ask what’s being built there. There are 3 construction sites where land is being cleared on my way into work, adjacent to Belvedere station, south of Belvedere station, and just before Rexall place. I know that Station Pointe is going in where all the digging is. I don’t know what’s being built in the other 2 locations.
The good folks at SF Signal have another Giveaway, season 5 of Stargate Atalantis DVD package. I’ve always liked Stargate Atlantis. I put my entry in.
I’m not a fan but apparently according to the Rexall Place website we’re having Fleetwood Mac here on Wednesday. My wife will like the Jonas brothers here July 2nd.………….12:50pm> my wife’s off today but most likely she’s going in on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At least we get enough to pay the rent.
I couldn’t help but gently admonish one of the posters at Pat’s Fantasy hotlist writing a comment. I wasn‘t trying to create controversy or a thread or anything like that. In the body of his text he writes about Fantasy saying that “Fantasy can get away without historical background.” Well I’m no expert but it seems to me that without historical background in any story makes a story kind of thin and lifeless. Real life just doesn’t happen in a vacuum. My response was not a put down or an insult but mealy a statement of fact in fiction. The thing about SFF is that it needs world building of some kind to give the story depth and credibility relevant to the story. Any story of fiction needs world building: A sense of time and place otherwise it doesn’t seem believable. It’s all about suspending disbelief by making the impossible seem possible. I’m not talking about reams of historical background but enough historical background to give the characters in a story depth and meaning.
I’m back in the office this afternoon. Nobody won the $9M over the weekend but it goes up to $15M. I’m buying a ticket but not the extra. Hopefully I’ll have a quiet night like last night but a good one.
Anyway gang, that’s all for now
Jim
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
I got up with my wife around noon Saturday. I decided I’d go later and I played Oblivion for awhile. Anne left me with
a bus ticket. I left out of here shortly before 2pm. It was a beautiful afternoon under clear skies. There was a nice breeze blowing while I was waiting for my bus. On the way to Clairview station, I didn’t know with 100% certainty that I had no kettle on the stove element at home. Usually I measure twice cut once kind of a thing. I got off the bus at Clairview station and onto an awaiting bus to go back the way I came and back into my apartment. The kettle was actually on an element but nothing was on. Whew. I left feeling good about that and on with my day. But I had a long wait until my next bus came by and the bus bench was all dirty to sit on so I was warming up in the bus shelter actually perspiring. Finally my bus came and I was on my way, for good this time.
I got my lottery ticket for Saturday night’s draw and a diet coke and broke open my book to read on the train to Audrey’s. When I got to Corona and upstairs then inside the staff had the basement roped off. Another reading? But this time it wasn’t poetry. One of the staff escorted me to the basement special order and there waiting for me was Book one in Steven Erikson’s massive “Malazan series.” All the SFF book cases were moved around but I was able to sort my way through long enough to see C.S. Friedman’s latest “Feast of Souls” from the “magister trilogy.” This works. I paid for my books and headed over to Tim’s.
I bought a coffee and a blueberry fritter. Good stuff. Of course I never won anything in Roll Up. I enjoyed my treat and relaxed but figured time was running out on my bus transfer as Anne had my bus pass for work. I bought for the first time a ticket from the 12 foot tall ticket machine and punched it to validate it. I took the South train and read my book back home and a bit under blue skies back at Clairview. It was really nice out there.
Once inside I was waiting for my wife to call me on her 5 pm break while I was researching books I’d like to buy. She didn’t call until about 7:30pm and she ended up raging on me because I hadn’t had anything substantial to eat all day. So I decided to go over to Burger King and get a double bacon cheese burger. They looked pretty busy and 4 customers had ordered and received their order while I was waiting for mine. “Are you still waiting?” Someone said behind the counter. I was getting a bit peeved off. Finally the guy brought my order. At one time I was so discouraged I asked for my money back but he ignored me and brought the order. I was ok with it.
Once back home and inside I took my insulin and wolfed my meal down. It was really good but pricey. $7.45 for a burger the width of a SF novel, including large fries and drink. I really enjoyed this and I called back BK saying something like, “You’ll get my business again.” All this before the Oiler/Flames game.
Again no goals in the first period. The Oiler’s scored a wrap-around by Tom Gilbert. Then right after that the Flames scored. It was all Calgary after that. I felt bad for Coach Craig MacTavish, Charlie Huddy, Billy Moores as the players left the bench leaving a stunned Oiler staff under the red lights watching the Flames fans, then they move on. But that was indicative of the whole Oiler season. They take one step forward and 2 back. So what does coach MacT do now? Will he resign? I hope not, MacTavish, Huddy, Moores make a great combination. They also have a $23M D to get signed up as well and look to resign Roloson and Kotalik this summer. Kotalik says he likes what he sees and likes playing with Hemsky. But with half of the Oiler’s salary cap on their D, they don’t have a lot of wiggle room unless they clear payroll. I see them getting rid of Penner, Horcoff and Brodziak in a trade for a big name goal scorer during the off season. But the Oiler’s are done for this year. The Oiler’s ended up with 85 points on the season. March 20th the Oiler’s held 7th place but lost 7 of those 9 games that was the difference maker for them missing the playoffs this year. Now it’s time to cheer on any Canadian team in the playoff’s. That leaves only Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver and the playoffs begin Wednesday. I know Calgary will face Chicago in the first round.
Some interesting stats here. Calgary scored 254 goals and Edmonton scored 234 goals but goals against were identical at 248 each. The Oiler‘s needed to have scored 20 more goals and a big part of them not scoring those goals are players like Dustin Penner. The good things this year were the Oiler‘s great road record and Roloson who basically carried the team. If the playoffs began today, it would be Montreal (93) points in 8th spot vs. Boston Bruins (114) in 1st in the East. In the West it’s St. Louis (90) vs. SJ (117) for 1st in the West. In the middle of that is Vancouver (100) and Calgary (98) It’s going to be an interesting playoff race.
The big 6/49 draw was won last night for a total of $15,267,589.50. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean that 1 person won the jackpot. It sure wasn’t me but it could mean that a group of people shared the winnings. 2nd place was won by 2, for a total of $207,645.50. I’d settle for that. That would mean 5 numbers plus the bonus number. So Wednesday’s draw is an estimated $3.5M. Anne gets the quick pick for that. This time I didn’t get any of those numbers but the spread of those numbers is interesting: 5,6,7,11,17, 34, 48. The bonus number was 48. Now, I’ve picked spreads like that before. I usually do a random pick. Same as a quick pick but I like to have some control over the numbers.
By now most of you have heard the news about Dungeons & Dragons Co creator Dave Arneson passing away. I first played D&D in the early 1980’s. I’m playing it now in another incarnation called “Oblivion.” Oblivion isn’t the same as D&D of course. Strange how last year Gary Gygax passed away and now Dave Arneson.
Well, my Easter weekend is almost over. I think what I’m going to do is to see about working Monday 5-9 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1-9pm and Friday morning for 29 hours and skip Saturdays. This kind of like gives me 3 days off. Providing there aren’t any more cuts to shifts. As for the security guard job, I decided to milk what I have right now and wait for the bottom fall out of this company. I think the next set of cuts (if there are any) will most likely be in the summer some time, around the end of June or there a-bouts and in which case I think head office will have just “Business” and the evening shift. I might still survive off of that until the economy is improved. A sure sign of this around here is when oil is about $60/barrel and it looks like this might happen before the summer. In 1997 oil was around $25 at the beginning of that year and the economy was just picking up. It’s predicted that Alberta will lose about 15,000 jobs during this recession.
In other local economic news in the Provincial budget last week, The province is going to increase a carton of cigarettes up to $3 a carton, which range in from $60-$80 depending on the brand is a lot of money for smokers. A case of beer will cost an extra $1.30 more. A case of beer in bottles is usually more then in cans but I’m not much of a beer drinker. But a case usually costs about $25 for a doz. My favorite beer is Stella Artois. A case of this will cost about $30! My wife wanted to go out and buy me a case of beer but it’s hard to get a beer down when I take my insulin so early.
And finally Sci-fi chick is actually talking about science fiction. Gasp, What no Urban Fantasy? Seriously though, the site is posting some new Stargate Universe trailers on the website. The show looks good. Links to Sci-fi chick are in my link section.
Anyway gang, that’s all for now
e. Jim
I got my lottery ticket for Saturday night’s draw and a diet coke and broke open my book to read on the train to Audrey’s. When I got to Corona and upstairs then inside the staff had the basement roped off. Another reading? But this time it wasn’t poetry. One of the staff escorted me to the basement special order and there waiting for me was Book one in Steven Erikson’s massive “Malazan series.” All the SFF book cases were moved around but I was able to sort my way through long enough to see C.S. Friedman’s latest “Feast of Souls” from the “magister trilogy.” This works. I paid for my books and headed over to Tim’s.
I bought a coffee and a blueberry fritter. Good stuff. Of course I never won anything in Roll Up. I enjoyed my treat and relaxed but figured time was running out on my bus transfer as Anne had my bus pass for work. I bought for the first time a ticket from the 12 foot tall ticket machine and punched it to validate it. I took the South train and read my book back home and a bit under blue skies back at Clairview. It was really nice out there.
Once inside I was waiting for my wife to call me on her 5 pm break while I was researching books I’d like to buy. She didn’t call until about 7:30pm and she ended up raging on me because I hadn’t had anything substantial to eat all day. So I decided to go over to Burger King and get a double bacon cheese burger. They looked pretty busy and 4 customers had ordered and received their order while I was waiting for mine. “Are you still waiting?” Someone said behind the counter. I was getting a bit peeved off. Finally the guy brought my order. At one time I was so discouraged I asked for my money back but he ignored me and brought the order. I was ok with it.
Once back home and inside I took my insulin and wolfed my meal down. It was really good but pricey. $7.45 for a burger the width of a SF novel, including large fries and drink. I really enjoyed this and I called back BK saying something like, “You’ll get my business again.” All this before the Oiler/Flames game.
Again no goals in the first period. The Oiler’s scored a wrap-around by Tom Gilbert. Then right after that the Flames scored. It was all Calgary after that. I felt bad for Coach Craig MacTavish, Charlie Huddy, Billy Moores as the players left the bench leaving a stunned Oiler staff under the red lights watching the Flames fans, then they move on. But that was indicative of the whole Oiler season. They take one step forward and 2 back. So what does coach MacT do now? Will he resign? I hope not, MacTavish, Huddy, Moores make a great combination. They also have a $23M D to get signed up as well and look to resign Roloson and Kotalik this summer. Kotalik says he likes what he sees and likes playing with Hemsky. But with half of the Oiler’s salary cap on their D, they don’t have a lot of wiggle room unless they clear payroll. I see them getting rid of Penner, Horcoff and Brodziak in a trade for a big name goal scorer during the off season. But the Oiler’s are done for this year. The Oiler’s ended up with 85 points on the season. March 20th the Oiler’s held 7th place but lost 7 of those 9 games that was the difference maker for them missing the playoffs this year. Now it’s time to cheer on any Canadian team in the playoff’s. That leaves only Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver and the playoffs begin Wednesday. I know Calgary will face Chicago in the first round.
Some interesting stats here. Calgary scored 254 goals and Edmonton scored 234 goals but goals against were identical at 248 each. The Oiler‘s needed to have scored 20 more goals and a big part of them not scoring those goals are players like Dustin Penner. The good things this year were the Oiler‘s great road record and Roloson who basically carried the team. If the playoffs began today, it would be Montreal (93) points in 8th spot vs. Boston Bruins (114) in 1st in the East. In the West it’s St. Louis (90) vs. SJ (117) for 1st in the West. In the middle of that is Vancouver (100) and Calgary (98) It’s going to be an interesting playoff race.
The big 6/49 draw was won last night for a total of $15,267,589.50. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean that 1 person won the jackpot. It sure wasn’t me but it could mean that a group of people shared the winnings. 2nd place was won by 2, for a total of $207,645.50. I’d settle for that. That would mean 5 numbers plus the bonus number. So Wednesday’s draw is an estimated $3.5M. Anne gets the quick pick for that. This time I didn’t get any of those numbers but the spread of those numbers is interesting: 5,6,7,11,17, 34, 48. The bonus number was 48. Now, I’ve picked spreads like that before. I usually do a random pick. Same as a quick pick but I like to have some control over the numbers.
By now most of you have heard the news about Dungeons & Dragons Co creator Dave Arneson passing away. I first played D&D in the early 1980’s. I’m playing it now in another incarnation called “Oblivion.” Oblivion isn’t the same as D&D of course. Strange how last year Gary Gygax passed away and now Dave Arneson.
Well, my Easter weekend is almost over. I think what I’m going to do is to see about working Monday 5-9 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1-9pm and Friday morning for 29 hours and skip Saturdays. This kind of like gives me 3 days off. Providing there aren’t any more cuts to shifts. As for the security guard job, I decided to milk what I have right now and wait for the bottom fall out of this company. I think the next set of cuts (if there are any) will most likely be in the summer some time, around the end of June or there a-bouts and in which case I think head office will have just “Business” and the evening shift. I might still survive off of that until the economy is improved. A sure sign of this around here is when oil is about $60/barrel and it looks like this might happen before the summer. In 1997 oil was around $25 at the beginning of that year and the economy was just picking up. It’s predicted that Alberta will lose about 15,000 jobs during this recession.
In other local economic news in the Provincial budget last week, The province is going to increase a carton of cigarettes up to $3 a carton, which range in from $60-$80 depending on the brand is a lot of money for smokers. A case of beer will cost an extra $1.30 more. A case of beer in bottles is usually more then in cans but I’m not much of a beer drinker. But a case usually costs about $25 for a doz. My favorite beer is Stella Artois. A case of this will cost about $30! My wife wanted to go out and buy me a case of beer but it’s hard to get a beer down when I take my insulin so early.
And finally Sci-fi chick is actually talking about science fiction. Gasp, What no Urban Fantasy? Seriously though, the site is posting some new Stargate Universe trailers on the website. The show looks good. Links to Sci-fi chick are in my link section.
Anyway gang, that’s all for now
e. Jim
Sunday, March 8, 2009
I'm tinkering around with this site again
I've added a Tweet this to the bottom of each post and took advantage of Adsense monetizing option.
I'm having a pretty good day.
Over the last several weeks my wife has been mentioning her birthday. The original idea was for me to take the day off and go out for dinner Saturday for her birthday on Monday. But I mentioned how one of the Lodges here in Edmonton is holding a EA degree night this up coming Friday. I'd love to go to that and dinner out with my wife but I can;t justify both days off work. Friday night and Saturday. I could have done this if I went in this afternoon to make up for Friday, sleep in for Saturday and go out for our dinner.
The other thing I could do is go to the Lodge, by working Friday morning. Or any one morning this week or a combination of afternoons. That way I could go to the Lodge. The other thing I'm thinking is if (This is what Anne most likely would do,) Go to her job run over and get us a Rose bowl pizza (She's been thinking about this as well.) after work and then Sunday we go to the late night movie and home. We might end up just going to The Ramada anyway.
I've always wanted a caricature done of me in pencil, 3/4 right frontal shot. I thought maybe at Capital Ex or the Agracom but when we went to the Ex a few years ago, and I was looking, they didn't have anything like that. I stumbled upon by accident a site that does this. $89 bucks isn't
isn't a bad deal.
Sorry about the book cover images. I'm going to fix those by using Library thing. I haven't been using this site as much as I'd hoped but that's going to change. LJ isn't bad but not as feature rich as Blogger and Blogger is free.
I spent about 3 hours playing Oblivion earlier this afternoon. I love this game. Yesterday I discovered the value of The Arena. Today I've discovered the use of the bribe wheel. I'm on a quest in one of the Northern towns but the bad guy is a bit to strong for me to take right now and my armor is broken. Going up to fight this guy with an armor class of 9 just doesn't cut it. I decided to do something else and I found killed off a goblin and found a battle axe of some kind with lots of "life" left in it. The newly "acquired" axe has a damage value of 3. Most of my weapons have a damage value of 2. It seems the less life a weapon has the less damage value it has.
I'm also looking at getting a space opera kind of game for the 360. Something like "Galactic Empires." This was an in house, pen and paper computer assist game that Adventure gaming supplies had here in Edmonton. How the game worked was there would be 6-8 players. You got a home planet and resource points to build ships and other things. Players mostly built Fleets send them out to explore and whoever got the most space and killed off his rival won. However there was an intangible: The dreaded NPC. Moves had to be by Saturday as the game master (gm) needed to input the moves into his computer program. Scouts got the skinny on how strong a fleet was. Odds were calculated. You won, you'd advance. Moves were done on Order sheets. It cost $2/order sheet. The game was simple wide open lots of room for alliances back stabbing. Great fun. It wasn't complex at all. When the store closed unfortunately so did the game. Too bad because this was a great game. I don't know if the Xbox has anything close to that. There probably is, somewhere.
I'm slowly reading through the "The Third link" and I'm enjoying the read. I hope to have a review of sorts by the end of this month.
Anyway gang, that's all for now
e. Jim
I'm having a pretty good day.
Over the last several weeks my wife has been mentioning her birthday. The original idea was for me to take the day off and go out for dinner Saturday for her birthday on Monday. But I mentioned how one of the Lodges here in Edmonton is holding a EA degree night this up coming Friday. I'd love to go to that and dinner out with my wife but I can;t justify both days off work. Friday night and Saturday. I could have done this if I went in this afternoon to make up for Friday, sleep in for Saturday and go out for our dinner.
The other thing I could do is go to the Lodge, by working Friday morning. Or any one morning this week or a combination of afternoons. That way I could go to the Lodge. The other thing I'm thinking is if (This is what Anne most likely would do,) Go to her job run over and get us a Rose bowl pizza (She's been thinking about this as well.) after work and then Sunday we go to the late night movie and home. We might end up just going to The Ramada anyway.
I've always wanted a caricature done of me in pencil, 3/4 right frontal shot. I thought maybe at Capital Ex or the Agracom but when we went to the Ex a few years ago, and I was looking, they didn't have anything like that. I stumbled upon by accident a site that does this. $89 bucks isn't
isn't a bad deal.
Sorry about the book cover images. I'm going to fix those by using Library thing. I haven't been using this site as much as I'd hoped but that's going to change. LJ isn't bad but not as feature rich as Blogger and Blogger is free.
I spent about 3 hours playing Oblivion earlier this afternoon. I love this game. Yesterday I discovered the value of The Arena. Today I've discovered the use of the bribe wheel. I'm on a quest in one of the Northern towns but the bad guy is a bit to strong for me to take right now and my armor is broken. Going up to fight this guy with an armor class of 9 just doesn't cut it. I decided to do something else and I found killed off a goblin and found a battle axe of some kind with lots of "life" left in it. The newly "acquired" axe has a damage value of 3. Most of my weapons have a damage value of 2. It seems the less life a weapon has the less damage value it has.
I'm also looking at getting a space opera kind of game for the 360. Something like "Galactic Empires." This was an in house, pen and paper computer assist game that Adventure gaming supplies had here in Edmonton. How the game worked was there would be 6-8 players. You got a home planet and resource points to build ships and other things. Players mostly built Fleets send them out to explore and whoever got the most space and killed off his rival won. However there was an intangible: The dreaded NPC. Moves had to be by Saturday as the game master (gm) needed to input the moves into his computer program. Scouts got the skinny on how strong a fleet was. Odds were calculated. You won, you'd advance. Moves were done on Order sheets. It cost $2/order sheet. The game was simple wide open lots of room for alliances back stabbing. Great fun. It wasn't complex at all. When the store closed unfortunately so did the game. Too bad because this was a great game. I don't know if the Xbox has anything close to that. There probably is, somewhere.
I'm slowly reading through the "The Third link" and I'm enjoying the read. I hope to have a review of sorts by the end of this month.
Anyway gang, that's all for now
e. Jim
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Work, weekends and stuff
My wife left out of here at about 1:30pm yesterday and for a few hours I had the place to myself until I shut things down and locked up. I was able to play a bit of Oblivion, gaining a level and having some fun with that. Weather wise it was nice going in and I read a bit of “Logos run” on my way into the office. Brad Paisley at Rexall place last night. Inside, Rob was there (the boss) with other employees and Rob looked at me, “You know, if it wasn’t for the lack of you not getting CC sales, you’d be the perfect employee.” That was a very nice compliment. Made my night. I sat with JT and some new people at the back and JT and I had a nice talk as it was a slow evening. DC and I bet double or nothing on the Oiler/Flames game happening latter tonight. I’m looking forward to this. I was mulling over the possibility of getting a bite to eat at Burger King across the street on the way home. About the Oiler game tonight, it’s on home ice. Should be a good one. I ended up being 2nd from the top total with the new kid beating me by $25 but I’d been there all week and beating this CFK campaign up for along time. I got a $100 CC sale which was a nice bone they tossed me. I discovered that I lost my reading glasses as well which kind of upset me. The only casualty on the day.
I also collected a huge amount of bottles and cans when I left out of the office. It was off over to Audrey’s with my empties. When I got to Audrey’s they had a crowd of people milling about. A couple of poets had a book signing. Trevor said none of my orders came in. There were a lot of new SFF books to choose from. Most of them were in Trade paperback. I settled on “Space Vulture,” Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J Myers. Looks like it’s going to be a fun read. It’s even got a nice kudos from Stan Lee on the cover. I paid and left with my purchase and my train came by with a few minutes wait. I read a bit on the way to Clairview and decided to walk over to Burger King but they were closed. At 9pm on a Friday night? But one car was in the drive through and the counter clerk when the car left let me order a chicken sandwich and fries. That was my lunch for the night. Next time and I’m not in a hurry I’m going to take the #2 bus home and get off on 50th street and get a Wendy’s something.
After I was inside our place I stashed the cans away and hung up my coat, cleaned up, had my snack and watched some of Smackdown. I enjoyed my snack and Smackdown wasn’t too bad. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate it maybe a 6 surfing back between the local news and wrestling. My lunch was good. I watched some news and Anne was just coming in at 11:30pm. No need to make me any dinner. I watched the last of the news and then went to bed.
I had a good hour or so sleep and maybe 2-3 hours of rest but by 5:30am I needed to get up and play some Oblivion for an hour and then go back for a nap. I was able to join the “Fighters Guild” and get a contract to wipe out some rats in a house. After dispatching the rats in the basement I went back to the guild and got rewarded to “Apprentice.”
I don’t know if I want to go out to the West end this afternoon with Chris. I’m going to be feeling too wiped out and I want a good nap and some more Oblivion game time in before my Oiler game. The other NHL game I’m “watching” is Toronto/Vancouver. All I can say is “Lets go Leafs!” Anne said she has a plate of something in the fridge for me to nuke up. Just as well since my cash flow is dwindling. I’ve got to pick up another pair of reading glasses anyway from the dollar store across the street.
Anyway, gang that’s all for now.
e. Jim
I also collected a huge amount of bottles and cans when I left out of the office. It was off over to Audrey’s with my empties. When I got to Audrey’s they had a crowd of people milling about. A couple of poets had a book signing. Trevor said none of my orders came in. There were a lot of new SFF books to choose from. Most of them were in Trade paperback. I settled on “Space Vulture,” Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J Myers. Looks like it’s going to be a fun read. It’s even got a nice kudos from Stan Lee on the cover. I paid and left with my purchase and my train came by with a few minutes wait. I read a bit on the way to Clairview and decided to walk over to Burger King but they were closed. At 9pm on a Friday night? But one car was in the drive through and the counter clerk when the car left let me order a chicken sandwich and fries. That was my lunch for the night. Next time and I’m not in a hurry I’m going to take the #2 bus home and get off on 50th street and get a Wendy’s something.
After I was inside our place I stashed the cans away and hung up my coat, cleaned up, had my snack and watched some of Smackdown. I enjoyed my snack and Smackdown wasn’t too bad. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate it maybe a 6 surfing back between the local news and wrestling. My lunch was good. I watched some news and Anne was just coming in at 11:30pm. No need to make me any dinner. I watched the last of the news and then went to bed.
I had a good hour or so sleep and maybe 2-3 hours of rest but by 5:30am I needed to get up and play some Oblivion for an hour and then go back for a nap. I was able to join the “Fighters Guild” and get a contract to wipe out some rats in a house. After dispatching the rats in the basement I went back to the guild and got rewarded to “Apprentice.”
I don’t know if I want to go out to the West end this afternoon with Chris. I’m going to be feeling too wiped out and I want a good nap and some more Oblivion game time in before my Oiler game. The other NHL game I’m “watching” is Toronto/Vancouver. All I can say is “Lets go Leafs!” Anne said she has a plate of something in the fridge for me to nuke up. Just as well since my cash flow is dwindling. I’ve got to pick up another pair of reading glasses anyway from the dollar store across the street.
Anyway, gang that’s all for now.
e. Jim
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