Some days are better then others

We retired for bed about 3am this morning listening to a bit of Coast. I certainly was ready for sleep but when 5am rolled around, I was still wide awake. By 7am, 8am, 10am, I was still just lying in bed. I might have got an hour or so of sleep but that’s about it. Too much sleep on the weekend is what did it. I think this evening after Raw, I’ll have no trouble falling to sleep.

I’m on my desktop typing this right now, as for some reason not entirely clear to me at the moment why I’m able to access Google Earth on my desktop but not on my laptop. I had it running on my laptop before but I can’t access Google earth/Google maps street view. I used a work around and was able to get at least Google maps/street view up and running. A Google earth globe icon is in my uninstall programs directory using Windows 7 but I can’t find A Google earth globe icon anywhere else in my laptop. I think running a laptop from a router could have something to do with it.

This week it’s back to work and the last week of the year and Anne is encouraging me to just stick 5-9 this week. It‘s next week I have to buckle down to get my website dues paid up. I‘ve got a bit of wiggle room for my Lodge dues but they are due now. I‘m seldom ever late with them.

I was going to chuck Science Fiction “The years best- 2006” and begin reading Elizabeth Bear’s “Dust.” I decided to make “Dust” my reading priority for January and the anthology as a filler. Maybe read 1-2 pages of that/day. That’s in between all the other stuff I want to do.

Its been busy here over the past few months

but then if you have been following me at my website you would have known this.

I'm still in the learning curve with Windows 7 and I've barely touched the surface of this amazing OS. Its starting to grow on me.

I'm about at the half way point reading Ben Bova's "The green trap." Its not half bad really. I hope to have it read Christmas weekend.

Avatar (the movie) looks really good and I hope to get a chance to see this film before the holidays are over.

Stephen King's "Under the dome" looks really good as well and after I read the Karen Travis "Wess'Har" series, I plan on delving into this book.

Also, in the new year I hope to get signed onto Xbox Live as I want to get playing Raw vs Smackdown 2010 and get another controller for Anne.

Sorry I've been absent around here but I'll be blogging more frequently from my website.

Monday wan't bad

Yesterday on the job was slow because we had limited numbers on WCS. Odd that there were very few empties around. Then again we had a low turnout as well for the afternoon shift. During the 2nd half we did some shuffling and some of us did WCS others like me did AES and I did a lot better on AES pulling in about $620 for the whole shift and just 1 credit card sale for $20.

I was glad to get out of there and on the train where I read a couple of pages of “Rainbows end” on the way home. If all goes well I should have this book read by Sunday night. If not earlier. I spent so far 25 days reading this. The best book I’ve read so far this year has been the first book in January, Eric Brown’s “Helix.” Speaking about books, I still haven’t received my contest wining book give away from Pat’s fantasy hot list. I’m sure it’s on it’s way.

They had their “Slammies” on Monday night Raw, so it was a 3 hour “award” show. On a scale from 1-10, I’d rate the show about a 7.5. Nothing special.

Anne’s watching “Star Trek academy” on the DVD we rented from last night. I’d like to see it again but it has to be in by this afternoon. I saw 2 first run movies this year: “GI Joe” and “Star Trek academy.” Both were fun movies.

Over there at Goodreads in my Sci-fi/fantasy book club the January book to read poll, has a nice list of the books to vote for the month of January. The theme for January is SFF books by a woman author. I polled Karen Travis’s “City of pearl” as I own the whole series but haven’t read them yet. So far Margrett Atwood’s (uggh) “Oryx and Crake” are in the lead with 10 votes. My sellection has only 5 votes.

I just checkd this on the Coast site and apparently there’s been another spiral light that’s been spotted in Norway. What the heck is really going on over there? Ok the first spiral being a Russian rocket out of control I can understand but 2? This is getting silly now.

According to SF Signal on Interzone, the magazine has some stories about Sky pirates, witches and other good stuff. I’ve been trying to locate a store that sells Interzone locally so I can pick up a copy once in a while. I mean you can’t go wrong with a story about sky Pirates, right?

And finally the Oiler‘s play host to the LA Kings coming to town tonight. I‘ve got a $5 bet on the Oiler‘s losing the game with one of the guys from work. Sadly, I think the Oiler’s luck has run out on that last 5 game winning streak. I believe that last 5 game road trip has run its course with the Copper and Blue. Anyway that‘s all from me for today.

For some reason I can'tpast in Blogger

Anne left me with the money for Pledges as I was just about ready to leave, when the man from “Loving pets” came by. We got a nice pewter urn for Pledges. When I get the mouse replacement from the one Anne accidentally broke off the other day from the desktop computer I’ll post a photo. Wal-Mart has some nice inexpensive USB mice for about $15 so I can access the older computer and transfer some files over.

I had a decent night on the job as about 10 of us went in the back to do Wheelchair sports. I had a slow start because of the monitor but once I got up and running it got better. I got a whack of empties as well pulling in a $710 total and 5 cards worth $155 but again no bonus money but we had fun. Hardly seemed like work at all and before we knew it there was 20 minutes left in the shift and home time. No bonus money for me. I was $100 short of just under l/h even though I had more then 20% on card. The thing that bothered me about the evening was trying to get started. The rest of the crew were like 20 minutes ahead and 3-5 sales ahead of me.

We’re going to have our office Christmas part this Saturday at a local pub not far away. I didn’t like the food the last time we held it there. I might just show up for a bit have a bite to eat and a beer and head home. The thing is we’re also working until 4:30pm so by the time I get home it’s 5pm and by the time I have a show and dress up it’s going to be 6pm by the time I even head out the door. Then I’ve got to find the place, so I doubt I’ll be able to make it.

I went and downloaded Google Earth 5 onto this laptop but without a regular mouse it’s hard to utilize the program. Without a regular mouse using the program is awkward so I might just buy another USB and forget about this touchpad. Even “street-view” is hard to use without a regular mouse.

Tonight on Coast George is going to talk with guest: Dr. Charles Tramont on past life regression and the US Federal reserve. By now most of you reading this have seen or heard about the spiral in the night sky in Norway. It seems this was a malfunctioning Russian ICBM, I hope it wasn’t armed. Tomorrow night on Coast they‘re going to talk about urology.

Well, the Oiler‘s in Tampa Bay have won 3-2. That makes it their 4th straight win and on the road no less. The copper and blue are 2 games away from 7th and 8th place. Friday they Oiler’s are in St. Louis on the game of their 5th game road trip. Thanks to the curling try outs here at Rexall. The Oil’s first game at Rexall will be next Tuesday hosting LA and they’ll lose that one.