"In the company of others" with "Truth and Steel" an Everquest book. I started this on the 26th and I'm already beyond the halfway point, it's really good. Thomas M. Reid is an excellent writer.
other then that not a lot of things are going on. I've got today off and I'm just relaxing. Anne's home and about to head out to Walmart. I think they're open all night.
There's been some interesting discussion and development going on about the proposed downtown arena/complex. If it happens. If the katz group is going to do this, now is the time to get it done while construction costs are low before the economy turns around again. Construction costs were 30% lower here the same time last year but that window is slowly closing.
I have the day off today and there's an Eskimo/Hamilton game at Commonwealth. That's on at 5pm. I also want to finish the Everquest book this weekend. Or try to.
Finally I have enough cash to get the Ben Bova Omnibus book Sunday. Yes. That's the last of about 4 Omnibus books I had from the big order in the Spring.
At work we've had a tech guy from head office taking out our notepad and other programs because they were a security breech. We're not supposed to have pens or markers or anything at our dialer's. That makes sense. We are doing one of the worst campaigns our company has to offer and thank God it has a 3 weeks left to go. We might break it up with something else, hard to say. Super sent Darrel and Dave (sitting beside my right and left) home early because they couldn't get anything. I ended up with $145 and no cards.
However we had Calgary/Argos CFL game on and I had double or nothing riding on the Argos tenth strait loss at home. Once in a while you've got to go in on a long shot. I bet DC as well so I'm only out $2 and I paid Greg the rest of that $5 for the cable. The game was tied for most of the night and Calgary was leading 23-20. Toronto couldn't get in close enough for a field goal to tie the game.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now.
Jim
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Not a whole lot to report
today. I'm enjoying a coffee at the moment and relaxing. I've been going to bed late and sleeping late. Not good. Tonight I'm going to get to bed early. Yet I recall even in my 30's I'd go to bed about 1 am but I'd be up at 7am for work.
Just on CNN watching a timeline of Doctor administered meds for Michael Jackson. The last does of Propofol he took was about 10:40am June 25th but it was all the other little doses of other things before that. Doses that would knock out a horse. At 10:40 his Doctor gave him 25mg of Propofol and he never woke up from it. Elvis was big on medication as well and so was L Ron Hubbard when he was found dead in his mobile home but that's another story.
Still reading "In the company of others." It's slow going but its her first stand alone novel after all. Julie E. Czerneda is better known for her Trade pac series. I've still got to get the next 2 in that series if they're still in print.
I knew it was going to come to this eventually. BM is opening up the business room for the evening shift and they are going to flood 43 stations with trainees. Pull them in, use them spit them out. Keep the good ones, cycle people in and out of here. Sounds like a boiler room operation to me. The good news about this is more pop cans to take home. This week bm gets my payrol time line details and my payrol issue will be resolved. When that happens I'm going to apply at the other job. If I get it, I'll work 3 days a week there and continue my job here and see how low it can go before they kick me out.
Oh and last night's Raw was excellent. A lot better then Sunday's Summerslam. I'd rate Raw a 9 and Sunday's Summerslam a 7. Incidentally we got a credit on our bill for missing the first half hour of Summerslam, so we got to watch 90% of that for free. Anne's pretty good at wrangling out a deal.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now
Jim
Just on CNN watching a timeline of Doctor administered meds for Michael Jackson. The last does of Propofol he took was about 10:40am June 25th but it was all the other little doses of other things before that. Doses that would knock out a horse. At 10:40 his Doctor gave him 25mg of Propofol and he never woke up from it. Elvis was big on medication as well and so was L Ron Hubbard when he was found dead in his mobile home but that's another story.
Still reading "In the company of others." It's slow going but its her first stand alone novel after all. Julie E. Czerneda is better known for her Trade pac series. I've still got to get the next 2 in that series if they're still in print.
I knew it was going to come to this eventually. BM is opening up the business room for the evening shift and they are going to flood 43 stations with trainees. Pull them in, use them spit them out. Keep the good ones, cycle people in and out of here. Sounds like a boiler room operation to me. The good news about this is more pop cans to take home. This week bm gets my payrol time line details and my payrol issue will be resolved. When that happens I'm going to apply at the other job. If I get it, I'll work 3 days a week there and continue my job here and see how low it can go before they kick me out.
Oh and last night's Raw was excellent. A lot better then Sunday's Summerslam. I'd rate Raw a 9 and Sunday's Summerslam a 7. Incidentally we got a credit on our bill for missing the first half hour of Summerslam, so we got to watch 90% of that for free. Anne's pretty good at wrangling out a deal.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now
Jim
Sunday, August 23, 2009
I had a great birthday weekend. Friday I got my book and Saturday Fort Edmonton Park and Sunday Summerslam. I can't complain too much.
despite Shaw short changing me with my Summerslam ppv, (we missed the first half hour and we paid for it in advance as well.) I still had a good weekend. Anne says I can go in for afternoon hours on Tuesday because that's when I need to talk with the boss about my vacation pay. I want this resolved before the end of this month.
Coast has a decent UFO show on this evening and I'd like to catch some of that while I can. Anne didn't have ribs for me but she had pork chops marinating in the fridge and they were tasty and after that I went out for a bit of a walk around the back here looking for Boots absent for a few days now.
Using the Google earth measuring tool in feet I discovered something interesting. Before I got married I'd go often to Bella foodland (a little corner store a few blocks away) to get my Coca Cola fix etc. Using the Google earth measuring tool from my place to Bella is about 745 feet. To get 5 miles by just walking around here, I'd be looking at making a circuit 5 times up to Victoria Drive head south to 136th street down to Sifton school head North behind our place out to the sidewalk. That 5 times is approximately 5 miles. The reason why I mention this is because if I can't get a guards license and when I get my vacation pay I'll join a health club. I like the part time guard job, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday's because it will give me exercise and more chance to read and listen to Coast and make some extra cash. If I don't get the guard job then I'll get the health club membership. I'd rather get the guard job from the same company I worked at 1978 and 1994. The benefits are obvious. The guard job would fit right in with getting a pedometer so I can keep track of how many steps I can take in a shift.
Yes, I had a great weekend. Now its back to the grind. BM gave a bit of a talk Friday saying how the tap shooters wont be the old guard anymore like myself and others. By this he means that if we don't do line hour we get moved to the back 20. There will be a constant flux of staff moving from one system to the other. I don't see them sticking to that with the source that we currently have. It's too much of a headache and sounds like a make work project. That's why I want my vacation pay and the guard job as a back up.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now.
Jim
Coast has a decent UFO show on this evening and I'd like to catch some of that while I can. Anne didn't have ribs for me but she had pork chops marinating in the fridge and they were tasty and after that I went out for a bit of a walk around the back here looking for Boots absent for a few days now.
Using the Google earth measuring tool in feet I discovered something interesting. Before I got married I'd go often to Bella foodland (a little corner store a few blocks away) to get my Coca Cola fix etc. Using the Google earth measuring tool from my place to Bella is about 745 feet. To get 5 miles by just walking around here, I'd be looking at making a circuit 5 times up to Victoria Drive head south to 136th street down to Sifton school head North behind our place out to the sidewalk. That 5 times is approximately 5 miles. The reason why I mention this is because if I can't get a guards license and when I get my vacation pay I'll join a health club. I like the part time guard job, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday's because it will give me exercise and more chance to read and listen to Coast and make some extra cash. If I don't get the guard job then I'll get the health club membership. I'd rather get the guard job from the same company I worked at 1978 and 1994. The benefits are obvious. The guard job would fit right in with getting a pedometer so I can keep track of how many steps I can take in a shift.
Yes, I had a great weekend. Now its back to the grind. BM gave a bit of a talk Friday saying how the tap shooters wont be the old guard anymore like myself and others. By this he means that if we don't do line hour we get moved to the back 20. There will be a constant flux of staff moving from one system to the other. I don't see them sticking to that with the source that we currently have. It's too much of a headache and sounds like a make work project. That's why I want my vacation pay and the guard job as a back up.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now.
Jim
Saturday, August 22, 2009
I had a terrific day out there at Fort Edmonton Park
and I posted photos of my day over there at my website but despite not having any sleep the night before I still had a good time. I also discovered they have Coke in glass bottles. Coke zero that is but they charged like $3 for a bottle. I wanted the bottle. I want to do this again next year.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now.
Jim
Anyway gang, that's about all for now.
Jim
Thursday, August 20, 2009
I get called into the back compter office with a co worker by
bm and I'm thinking, ok now what? So he says that my bank is phenomenal I just need to pick up my low totals is all. I didn't ask what my bank rate was at but that certainly put me in a good mood. It was a nice birthday present to say the least.
I also finished "The Wilding" early yesterday and there is a short review of it on my web site. I really enjoyed this book.
I've got today and I'm off for a few days even though I have some Lodge duty to do at Fort Edmonton Park Saturday. I'll have all day Sunday to sleep in as Anne is ordering Summerslam.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now...
Jim
I also finished "The Wilding" early yesterday and there is a short review of it on my web site. I really enjoyed this book.
I've got today and I'm off for a few days even though I have some Lodge duty to do at Fort Edmonton Park Saturday. I'll have all day Sunday to sleep in as Anne is ordering Summerslam.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now...
Jim
Monday, August 17, 2009
No real high points from Monday.......
With this being my 8th novel I've read so far this year, I’ve got about 128 pages left to go in “The Wilding.” I should have the book read before the end of the week. The I can start on “In the Company of others.”
This Saturday I’m performing curator duty with Dale at Fort Edmonton park Lodge. I’ve never been to Fort Edmonton park before although I’ve seen the pictures uploaded from Google Earth of the grounds but I have no clue as to where the Lodge is located. I don’t know if we’re in suit and full Masonic regalia, or how long we’re there for or if we’re there for or if we have to bring our own food or are we going to have a meal or what. Dale is a nice guy and all but we haven’t exactly resonated with each other. I’ll be calling people up today to find out what’s going on. I’ll bring my camera along and have Dale take a few photos of me.
Today the big guys are in the office, yawn. I’m there business as usual and to put my 4 hours in. Greg doesn’t know it yet but I won’t be in on Sunday because for my birthday Anne’s ordering me Pizza and we’ve got Summerslam all ordered. $39.99 + tax isn’t bad. Usually comes to about $45. I order 2 WWE pay per views each year from my “meager discretionary” income.
The other thing I’m observing this up coming weekend is Calgary’s Con Version-25. Now that I know when it’s on I can plan for next year. But I’d like to meet Tanya Huff and Terry Brooks. Get my photo taken with both, all 3 of us together. Next year I’m going to plan for a 1 day trip and head down there. Most likely there’s some from Edmonton venturing down but that’s for 3 days most likely. This year at our own Pure Speculation we’re having Spider Robinson join us and I’m definitely down with that in October…….12:20am> The above was from yesterday afternoon. Anne sat with me while I waited for my bus and I headed into work picking up my 6/49 ticket on the way in. The big bosses didn’t appear to be in but bm seemed pissed that I wasn’t in on Saturday and I had to remind him we made an arrangement I could trade Saturdays for Sundays and that I was in yesterday. We did BOB all night. Yeesh, what a disaster. I got a good haul of empties and no card sales this evening. I came close but the customer was away from her purse. I was glad to get out of there with a $220 total. I got “mugged” by some people I work with on the train crowding around me annoying me. So at the next stop I got off and took the last car and read on the way home.
I watched a pretty good Monday night Raw. DX made a brief comeback but they got ambushed by Legacy. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate last nights show about a 6. DX needs to be Evolution with another wrestler in their ranks. Four would be better or at least 1 other wrestler with them. It was a good show but I’m sure this DX/Legacy storyline is just beginning to develop.
Anyway gang, that’s about all for now.
Jim
This Saturday I’m performing curator duty with Dale at Fort Edmonton park Lodge. I’ve never been to Fort Edmonton park before although I’ve seen the pictures uploaded from Google Earth of the grounds but I have no clue as to where the Lodge is located. I don’t know if we’re in suit and full Masonic regalia, or how long we’re there for or if we’re there for or if we have to bring our own food or are we going to have a meal or what. Dale is a nice guy and all but we haven’t exactly resonated with each other. I’ll be calling people up today to find out what’s going on. I’ll bring my camera along and have Dale take a few photos of me.
Today the big guys are in the office, yawn. I’m there business as usual and to put my 4 hours in. Greg doesn’t know it yet but I won’t be in on Sunday because for my birthday Anne’s ordering me Pizza and we’ve got Summerslam all ordered. $39.99 + tax isn’t bad. Usually comes to about $45. I order 2 WWE pay per views each year from my “meager discretionary” income.
The other thing I’m observing this up coming weekend is Calgary’s Con Version-25. Now that I know when it’s on I can plan for next year. But I’d like to meet Tanya Huff and Terry Brooks. Get my photo taken with both, all 3 of us together. Next year I’m going to plan for a 1 day trip and head down there. Most likely there’s some from Edmonton venturing down but that’s for 3 days most likely. This year at our own Pure Speculation we’re having Spider Robinson join us and I’m definitely down with that in October…….12:20am> The above was from yesterday afternoon. Anne sat with me while I waited for my bus and I headed into work picking up my 6/49 ticket on the way in. The big bosses didn’t appear to be in but bm seemed pissed that I wasn’t in on Saturday and I had to remind him we made an arrangement I could trade Saturdays for Sundays and that I was in yesterday. We did BOB all night. Yeesh, what a disaster. I got a good haul of empties and no card sales this evening. I came close but the customer was away from her purse. I was glad to get out of there with a $220 total. I got “mugged” by some people I work with on the train crowding around me annoying me. So at the next stop I got off and took the last car and read on the way home.
I watched a pretty good Monday night Raw. DX made a brief comeback but they got ambushed by Legacy. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate last nights show about a 6. DX needs to be Evolution with another wrestler in their ranks. Four would be better or at least 1 other wrestler with them. It was a good show but I’m sure this DX/Legacy storyline is just beginning to develop.
Anyway gang, that’s about all for now.
Jim
Saturday, August 15, 2009
I've been having quite a week lately and I forgot to post in here......
....so I'm about to correct this tonight.
We went to bed about 4am this morning and woke up about 1pm. We felt great. Anne went out to do her shopping and I did a lot of reading out of "The Wilding." Anne's out there now getting potatoes.
Last night however I went to get my book over there at Audrey's. The New Jedi Order "Behind enemy lines 2." I also got a 6/49 ticket for the big $16M draw this evening. other then that not a lot going on. I'm still struggling with getting rid of this cold. I've got lots of pfhlem in my throat and sinuses.
Earlier when Anne came in I was watching WWE Vintage showing some of the older matches from Summerslam's from the mid 1990's. Anne made me a soup and sandwich for supper. I'm good with that. I thought Jerry Lawler and Vince McMahon made a great announce team. It was fun to watch. I recall those years especially the last match from 1996 with my first year at Villa Maria apartments. I didn't have pay per view back then or even cable.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now
Jim
We went to bed about 4am this morning and woke up about 1pm. We felt great. Anne went out to do her shopping and I did a lot of reading out of "The Wilding." Anne's out there now getting potatoes.
Last night however I went to get my book over there at Audrey's. The New Jedi Order "Behind enemy lines 2." I also got a 6/49 ticket for the big $16M draw this evening. other then that not a lot going on. I'm still struggling with getting rid of this cold. I've got lots of pfhlem in my throat and sinuses.
Earlier when Anne came in I was watching WWE Vintage showing some of the older matches from Summerslam's from the mid 1990's. Anne made me a soup and sandwich for supper. I'm good with that. I thought Jerry Lawler and Vince McMahon made a great announce team. It was fun to watch. I recall those years especially the last match from 1996 with my first year at Villa Maria apartments. I didn't have pay per view back then or even cable.
Anyway gang, that's about all for now
Jim
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