Yeesh what a night overnight

Anyway it got so bad there I got Anne to call me an ambulance. I felt terrible. I was reeling, feeling things closing in around me. I began to feel a little better when they got here and asked Anne to turn them away. Before they left I was coherent enough and able to talk to someone on the phone that Anne handed to me but this was a $300 bill we could face if we went through with this all the way. I was feeling terrible and Anne said we should go to the medical clinic over here in Clairview. After about a 15 minute wait for the bus the #11 pulled right up to the parking lot of the medical center. There were several other people there most of them were parents with children. We waited there for about 2 hours before we finally got up to the intake window. Then another 2 hours before we finally were able to see a Doctor Fisher. A young Doctor. He was interested in the headache I had if it cameo suddenly or gradually. I said the latter. He shone a light in my eyes. The intake took my pulse which read 160/40 something. The Doctor said I might have had what he called a mini stroke or a TIA but the headache was gradual and not sudden. Or it could have just been a sudden migraine headache.

I’m fully coherent and I was while I was seeing the Doctor. My speech wasn’t slurred there were no other signs of a stroke. I thought it was food poisoning from the shepherds pie Anne had made but I was able to walk home under my own power. Once inside I felt a lot better. Anne wants me to have a couple of days off here and not to worry we’ll go to the bank.

Anyway it was quite a scare. We got into the apartment at 4am. I took my oatmeal and insulin. At the intake window they took a blood sugar level reading and I was 10.2 or something. I listened to a bit of Coast and was passed out by 4:30am.

I slept well in the morning and feeling better but these TIA’s have been known to return in some people. The good news is I have a couple of days off. Personally I think what I had was a migraine headache. I’ve never had one before so it was a new experience.

OK onto other things. Over there at Pat’s fantasy hotlist, they are talking about Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” Omnibus. Now I haven‘t read any of Gaiman’s work yet but plan on getting to them soon. Also at Pat’s there are winners from the Carrie Vaughn book give-a-way contest. I didn’t win L

Over there at SF Signal they have a great video by Vernon Vinge talking about Superhuman intelligence. There is also a discussion about favourite Anime films of all Time. I’m not big on Anime not that there’s anything wrong with it.

Anyway tonight I’m home while Anne is at work. At 8pm there’s an Oiler’s/Vancouver game on TV I can watch. See if the Oiler’s can lose their 16th straight loss. Poor guys.

That was a good Sunday

Anne made some of her homemade lasagne and it was surprisingly good. We watched “The Honeymooners,” the one about the hypnotist and an episode of “The three Stooges.” Lots of fun.

About 9pm last night (Sunday night) I composed a post in HTML using font tags in Blogger and the post loaded perfectly. Blogger works good in HTML because the paste button isn’t even available in “Compose” mode.

George Knapp has a great show on Coast overnight: Replicating alien technology. It’s under way right now

I checked my blood sugar level about 10:15pm and it was 6.8. Not bad. That was after I had taken out the trash. Now it reads 10.8. Not good but it will come down over the next few hours before bed.

I’m writing this post before bed because I might not get a chance later today what with it being Monday and all. Monday is “Monday night Raw.”
Anne and I will be going to bed about 3am and listen to Coast for half an hour. I’m working from 5-9 tonight.

Anne said she’s going to give me the funds for my Lodge dues because my vacation money came through for my website. This week and next week are going to be full weeks but the week after that, Lodge week I’m going to the Wednesday night Lodge and my own Lodge. I want to save up enough money for the Archos 5. Anyway that’s about all for now.

Having a decent Sunday off

I barely got out the door shortly before 9 yesterday morning for my commute into work. I met little James at Tim’s and I bought my breakfast. Sure enough as we were walking towards the office there was Jattan running the room this morning with a key to the elevator. I sat up there by James and the other James from business. There was 3 of us. I had a slow start and that and answering machines was the theme for the day. I was at $120 including a $20 card by the noon break. All my sales were $20. Both James’s were running away with it total wise and credit cards. My only consolation was JT was only a little further ahead then me but in the 3rd part he got a $75 sale and a few large sales to get the bonus line hour. In 6 hours I couldn’t get $360. Best I could muster was $180 for the whole day and I bet JT $2 on the Oiler’s/SJ game. The Oiler’s played ok but SJ was by far the better team. I later learned that the Oiler’s lost 14/15 games. Pitiful. That’s consecutive losses.

I did manage to get a lot of cans and empties and at about 4:35pm I was deciding what to do as far as getting a bite to eat goes. BP’s looked good but last Saturday’s experience kind of soured me. I decided the can of pasta Anne had for me at home was the better deal. I got to the upper concourse at Corona station only to hear the train announcing in. I wasn’t going to make it so I headed back up to Tim’s and took a look at their sandwich menus. I got a small turkey bacon club/donut/diet Cola and enjoyed that. Very nice.

A brief wait latter and I headed home. It was almost Spring like out there. I got inside about 5:50pm and had the pasta and took my insulin. I had the hockey game on as I passed out for a bit waiting for Anne to come home

Anne gave me a sleeping pill for over night about 2:20am and we went to bed about 3 after I’d taken my insulin shot. I had no trouble sleeping after that and I woke up shortly after 1pm. Back in the day getting up past 11am on a Sunday morning was a “sin.” But I work 6 days a week.

Not much on my plate today. Mostly today is a reading day and my other project.

One thing I’m seriously looking at is the Archos 5 Internet tablet. Not the Media tablet. These Internet Tablets are just over half an inch thin. They can run over a wi-fi or 3G network. This means that Bell, Rogers, Telus will support them. I’m looking at the 160Gb version priced at $329. The screen size is about the size of an Ipod touch. The device not the screen size. The Archos 5 runs on the Android market place and has a Flash memory card slot as well. Nokia and others make these tablets but the Arcos 5 is the one I like. I’m thinking about getting this in June or even earlier. I’m not really into cell phones so I can see myself using this on my commute or when I’m out and about. I can Blog from this device, receive sports scores anything a smart phone can do except make phone calls and or take video. That’s the only thing missing from this device is a camera but taking video isn't that important to me.

Other then that not a lot going on. That’s all for now.

Having a slow

couple of days around here. There hasn't been a lot going on except eating, sleeping and going to work.

Speaking about work and such half the office did OTH last night. We had nothing but cold calls and I ended up doing not to badly. I got 3 credit card sales for a total making line hour of $260. $70 of that was on cards. I'm glad about this because most likely I'll be doing this source tonight and tomorrow morning.

I met my book ordering guy just near Tim's there as he was going home I was heading to Corona LRT. We stopped and had a brief chat. He said some of my Mercedes Lackey books I ordered were in. Great I'll be able to pick up one Friday afternoon.

The Oiler's are hosting the Penguins tonight here at Rexall. The other night the Home team had their straight 12th loss. Anyway that's about all for now.

Its been slow around here

Its been a busy kind of a week

I went upstairs to Money mart right off the train this morning. Some character was at the only open teller. I didn’t think I had enough time to get my business done. I asked if they had any Euros and yes they did. I went to Tim’s and got my breakfast. I got to the office and sure enough the lobby was full of company staff. We had to wait for a manager for an elevator key to let us upstairs. My breakfast was getting cold. Finally after a ten minute wait one of the managers came by to lest us upstairs. I had only a few minutes to eat. That’s the only thing I don’t like about coming in on Saturday mornings.

I had a terrific shift pulling in 6 cards for a $320 top credit card total for a $10 bonus and I got the $15 line hour bonus for a total of $1,1 65. This week I got $30. Not bad. It was worth going in today and after work I went to Money mart and sent Markus my annual fees for my website. So I decided why not celebrate? I walked up to Boston Pizza asked for seating for one. Ten minutes later in a busy area they had one server. I had my bag of empties with me and tucked away by my feet. I got ignored so I left and went down to Corona station missing my train. I was kind of feeling sullen and a little ticked off. I made a mental note not to go into that BP’s again. I finally took my train home. Since the city had no event they had only 2 cars and that was crowded. All I wanted to do was to get home and I hoped Anne had something for me.

Anne left me with a can of strew and I ate that with a bun and took my insulin shot. I watched the Pens /Leafs game. Leafs were playing alright but things quickly broke down. I gave up on that and, dozed off a little on the couch.

I feel good about paying off one bill. Now all I need is to have my Lodge dues covered and that’d be great. I’ll be working towards that this week.

Happy New Year everyone!

Last night Anne and I rang in the New Year feeling pretty good. At this moment she's probably boarding the train after putting in a 5 hour shift. I had a great sleep over night. That red wine felt really good and I had no trouble passing out waking up at about 1:30pm this afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon at my bank I was able to talk to a teller to get some numbers to open up a Pay Pal account. Pay Pal has been around for a long time but I've never had any reason to take advantage of this service. So I'm going to try an experiment and order a book from Amazon.ca. If it's a decent experience then I might use Pay Pal more frequently for things like this.

So not much is going on this afternoon. I got a chance to look over the specs of my little Acer laptop I'm using right now to type this post on. The only problem I'm having with the laptop is I'm not able to download programs like Google Earth. Most likely this is due to the router I have blocking download activity. I can always link my modem directly of course with no trouble.

I mentioned to management yesterday just before leaving the office that I wont be on in on Saturday. I begin full time hours next week.

I think though next week I'll go in for the morning shift on a Tuesday instead of the Friday so Anne and I can go see Avatar if it's playing at the Empire down here. It's a bit of a walk but after that we can go over to the new Swiss Chalet for dinner or Boston. We could go for dinner first and then go to the 9:30pm show. It's a good 3 hour movie. might be something we could do as an outing together. First outing for the New Year. Anyway, that's all for now.