I like this. My comment is #11. SF Signal: Books Received for July 2008, Week 1 (Pick Your Favorite Cover!)
Anyway Bloggers, that's all for now
e.Jim
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I had a headache
going into work yesterday afternoon but maybe something to eat and a coffee will cheer me up. I got in feeling very happy. Broke but happy. I found my end dialer and had a chat about music with Fran as she was ready to go home. Hey, the CC report is up, lets go check it for my bonuses. My 17 CC’s were displayed but what’s this? Did that Shithead Rob screw me around again? I got my $15 CC team bonus for Saturday but where were the $34 CC bonus? By this time my head was pounding. I was in a bad mood and I wasn’t going to ask for CC’s at all because of this and I was letting people know it. There was talk about GST cheques coming in. I went on that when mine comes in I’m taking the day off (alluding to the CC mishap.)
All that and I had a decent 7pm total as well when Anne called at break and we had a talk. I let her know what happened with my CC sales. I wasn’t very happy to say the least. I mentioned to Greg I had a huge headache and he offered me some Advil. Half an hour I was feeling a lot better and I cheered up.
Greg’s putting together an NFL office pool for the regular season and the playoffs. It’s a $20 fee. 15 people 30 teams. Should be fun. I hope I get San Francisco and Pittsburgh. This next time I’m keeping the $300 if I win.
I left and had a little talk with the Security guard who knows all about XL and says that Rob changed the rules on the CC (again) now it’s 20 to qualify. She said Cathy R was so disappointed about it she almost cried. I’m not playing the CC game at all unless there’s a team bonus on a Saturday but I’m going to keep Xl and hopefully get Pizza and I’m going to take Saturday’s off from Xl and Pizza and let Xl just up and send me a “Services are no longer required.” notice. This is how they fire people now. They send them a letter. Once and if I get on at Pizza and do well this is how I want to leave Xl.
All this and I ended up on a high note closing out at $650. Ha, and no CC’s on the night although I had 2-3 CC options I never even mentioned it. On the way out after the Security guard I met Moe and Tom and I asked Moe about the change in CC sales and why I didn’t get mine and he said he would look into it for me. I refuse to have anything more to do with Rob.
Over at Keith Graham’s Blog he’s been having a nifty little widget called “Bloggers Blog This.” By clicking on the icon it opens a link post of his Blog entry directly on ones Blogger Blog page. I tried this out and it posts automatically as a separate Blog post and allows you to add HTML and comment. I’m wondering if this is his own java invention or something Blogger has dreamed up. What ever it is, it’s pretty cool but Blogger has had something simmilar on their toobar for quite sometime now called "send to" but it sadly only works in Blogger. I did this July 1st and I got a ton of hits. Since my Blogger site went live a month ago, I’ve had 282 hits. My website has had a lot more then that of course. I put different things on each site. Blogger is great for photo’s so this is where you’ll see more of my day to day photo’s.
I’m really disappointed in my “Bloglines” widget. It keeps popping up like ever ten minutes and I have no idea why it’s doing this. It’s really beginning to annoy me. I like the service because when my website goes down I have all my Blogs on a separate location but now that I have my Blogger account up live and running again I don’t really see the use of having Bloglines. I’ll keep it running just in case but will delete this service if it’s bugging me to much.
I checked the LHC countdown clock again and seems they have reset this thing for another 30 days until activation. Now it won’t be until August. WTF? I apologize for harping on this thing way to much.
Anyway we got our GST cheque in $120/quarter. The next one won’t be in until October once every 4 months. That’s like 6.6 bus passes for us. Speaking about taxes and all, Liberal Leader Dion was in Edmonton today speaking to a youth conference on Climate change. The idea is to tax GHG polluters but we know where the “Green Shift” will end up hurting Albertans more then anyone else. His tax will take something like $14.5B out of our local economy and send us into an economic rescission because “Why should only Alberta be enjoying a boom right?” Spread the wealth around. What Dion and the rest of the have not Green’s don’t fail to understand is that indirectly we are spreading the wealth around. We’re spreading it around every time some yokel from Manitoba comes out West and gets a job here that pays $12/hour. There’s lots of work here but the boom won’t last for ever. Even more so when Shithead like Dion and Jack Layton get their way. And what about the auto industry in Ontario? Do you think they are going to toot Dion’s carbon tax horn? We can only hope that Dion won’t get elected Oct 19th 2009. That’s the next Federal election here in Canada. If he does watch for the carbon tax to be enforced almost immediate. A lot can happen over the next 16 months though.
Oh and Monday night Raw was pretty good last night.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
All that and I had a decent 7pm total as well when Anne called at break and we had a talk. I let her know what happened with my CC sales. I wasn’t very happy to say the least. I mentioned to Greg I had a huge headache and he offered me some Advil. Half an hour I was feeling a lot better and I cheered up.
Greg’s putting together an NFL office pool for the regular season and the playoffs. It’s a $20 fee. 15 people 30 teams. Should be fun. I hope I get San Francisco and Pittsburgh. This next time I’m keeping the $300 if I win.
I left and had a little talk with the Security guard who knows all about XL and says that Rob changed the rules on the CC (again) now it’s 20 to qualify. She said Cathy R was so disappointed about it she almost cried. I’m not playing the CC game at all unless there’s a team bonus on a Saturday but I’m going to keep Xl and hopefully get Pizza and I’m going to take Saturday’s off from Xl and Pizza and let Xl just up and send me a “Services are no longer required.” notice. This is how they fire people now. They send them a letter. Once and if I get on at Pizza and do well this is how I want to leave Xl.
All this and I ended up on a high note closing out at $650. Ha, and no CC’s on the night although I had 2-3 CC options I never even mentioned it. On the way out after the Security guard I met Moe and Tom and I asked Moe about the change in CC sales and why I didn’t get mine and he said he would look into it for me. I refuse to have anything more to do with Rob.
Over at Keith Graham’s Blog he’s been having a nifty little widget called “Bloggers Blog This.” By clicking on the icon it opens a link post of his Blog entry directly on ones Blogger Blog page. I tried this out and it posts automatically as a separate Blog post and allows you to add HTML and comment. I’m wondering if this is his own java invention or something Blogger has dreamed up. What ever it is, it’s pretty cool but Blogger has had something simmilar on their toobar for quite sometime now called "send to" but it sadly only works in Blogger. I did this July 1st and I got a ton of hits. Since my Blogger site went live a month ago, I’ve had 282 hits. My website has had a lot more then that of course. I put different things on each site. Blogger is great for photo’s so this is where you’ll see more of my day to day photo’s.
I’m really disappointed in my “Bloglines” widget. It keeps popping up like ever ten minutes and I have no idea why it’s doing this. It’s really beginning to annoy me. I like the service because when my website goes down I have all my Blogs on a separate location but now that I have my Blogger account up live and running again I don’t really see the use of having Bloglines. I’ll keep it running just in case but will delete this service if it’s bugging me to much.
I checked the LHC countdown clock again and seems they have reset this thing for another 30 days until activation. Now it won’t be until August. WTF? I apologize for harping on this thing way to much.
Anyway we got our GST cheque in $120/quarter. The next one won’t be in until October once every 4 months. That’s like 6.6 bus passes for us. Speaking about taxes and all, Liberal Leader Dion was in Edmonton today speaking to a youth conference on Climate change. The idea is to tax GHG polluters but we know where the “Green Shift” will end up hurting Albertans more then anyone else. His tax will take something like $14.5B out of our local economy and send us into an economic rescission because “Why should only Alberta be enjoying a boom right?” Spread the wealth around. What Dion and the rest of the have not Green’s don’t fail to understand is that indirectly we are spreading the wealth around. We’re spreading it around every time some yokel from Manitoba comes out West and gets a job here that pays $12/hour. There’s lots of work here but the boom won’t last for ever. Even more so when Shithead like Dion and Jack Layton get their way. And what about the auto industry in Ontario? Do you think they are going to toot Dion’s carbon tax horn? We can only hope that Dion won’t get elected Oct 19th 2009. That’s the next Federal election here in Canada. If he does watch for the carbon tax to be enforced almost immediate. A lot can happen over the next 16 months though.
Oh and Monday night Raw was pretty good last night.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Monday, July 7, 2008
It's a beautiful
Monday out there. As for me it’s the same old Monday routine: Into work come home watch Raw. I woke up with a headache this morning and went to bed with another soar tooth in my lower right side of my mouth. At the moment I’m working on my first coffee feeling pretty good.
I got up late so I missed the markets this morning. I think Oil is still at around $145/barrel. I recall back in 1995 Oil was at $17/barrel and we were in the heart of a recession here. My father was still alive in 1995 and I was still living in my bachelor apartment. Despite all that the 1990’s were good to me. I liked everything about the ‘90’s except the music. I was working most of the time from 1990-1994. I had to use welfare the odd time in between unemployment cheques to get that started. 1995-1999 I had about half a dozen different jobs and did some post secondary education while on UIC. I went on a weekend Amway trip to Minneapolis in 1997 and that was fun. I was working with Royal Oak furniture at the time but it was only a temporary project. I could have got on with my current place of employment right after that but I thought they had nothing but part time hours. I got Pledges and Silky in the 1990’s. I had Veronica as my girlfriend. I should have kept her longer then I did. The Oiler’s won their last Stanley Cup in the 1990’s as well.
Coast has another boring show on tonight. A medium and “healer.” Oh brother. The LHC will be activated today. The most anticipated scientific event in the world and Coast has a flakey medium on? Maybe they might preempt the show for this important occasion but I doubt it. Maybe George will have something about it the first hour.
Even despite the challenges of the 2000’s I’m doing a lot better then I did in the 1990’s or at any other time of my life. The local economy is a lot better. I got married and joined the Lodge, I’m even learning how to play piano. I’ve got a better computer then I’ve ever had before. We got Sparky and Sporty within the last 8 years and I published a short story last year as well. The down parts of the 2,000’s have been my vision loss. We didn’t know what was going to happen until last June when the laser surgery worked. Before that I had learned I have diabetes and I was in the Royal Alex hospital for a week. I’m taking 2 shots of 18 units of insulin everyday. Sure I miss living in the 1970’s and 1980’s and who wouldn’t want to live at a time when they were younger but for what it’s worth life in the 1990’s and in this decade have been a lot better.
I think we all have had events in our lives where we wish we could go back and maybe change something. But by changing the past (even if we could) we could miss out on the good things that have happened as well. I need a connection with my past but not to dwell on it. My past helps me appreciate what I have now. If that makes any sense. The only things I miss about the 1990’s is gaming with my friends over “Starfleet Battles” and playing “Advanced Squad Leader.” I’m missing one ASL rule book change and about 8 modules. The last ASL module I bought was Croix de Guerre and that was in 1995. Alright enough of that.
I’ve been checking the LHC countdown clock on their website over the last few days but it’s been down lately. Today is ground zero anyway for the activation of the LHC. It’s not going to be the end of the world. The real-world spin-off application of the LHC will be “The Grid” and that excites me more then the remote possibility of finding the Higgs particle. I’m not suggesting that they won’t find the Higgs or even find traversable wormholes but I’m not going to hold my breath expecting any big news like: “We have found wormholes and are finding ways to keep them open for longer then a billionths of a second.” They’ll be turning the LHC on today but we’ll never be updated about it until the make an important discover, whenever that’ll be. So don’t hold your breath waiting. “Bring on the Grid for the rest of us,” is all I can say. I’m still trying to find a site that says “We’re activating the LHC in one minute.” But so far nobody’s saying anything about it.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I got up late so I missed the markets this morning. I think Oil is still at around $145/barrel. I recall back in 1995 Oil was at $17/barrel and we were in the heart of a recession here. My father was still alive in 1995 and I was still living in my bachelor apartment. Despite all that the 1990’s were good to me. I liked everything about the ‘90’s except the music. I was working most of the time from 1990-1994. I had to use welfare the odd time in between unemployment cheques to get that started. 1995-1999 I had about half a dozen different jobs and did some post secondary education while on UIC. I went on a weekend Amway trip to Minneapolis in 1997 and that was fun. I was working with Royal Oak furniture at the time but it was only a temporary project. I could have got on with my current place of employment right after that but I thought they had nothing but part time hours. I got Pledges and Silky in the 1990’s. I had Veronica as my girlfriend. I should have kept her longer then I did. The Oiler’s won their last Stanley Cup in the 1990’s as well.
Coast has another boring show on tonight. A medium and “healer.” Oh brother. The LHC will be activated today. The most anticipated scientific event in the world and Coast has a flakey medium on? Maybe they might preempt the show for this important occasion but I doubt it. Maybe George will have something about it the first hour.
Even despite the challenges of the 2000’s I’m doing a lot better then I did in the 1990’s or at any other time of my life. The local economy is a lot better. I got married and joined the Lodge, I’m even learning how to play piano. I’ve got a better computer then I’ve ever had before. We got Sparky and Sporty within the last 8 years and I published a short story last year as well. The down parts of the 2,000’s have been my vision loss. We didn’t know what was going to happen until last June when the laser surgery worked. Before that I had learned I have diabetes and I was in the Royal Alex hospital for a week. I’m taking 2 shots of 18 units of insulin everyday. Sure I miss living in the 1970’s and 1980’s and who wouldn’t want to live at a time when they were younger but for what it’s worth life in the 1990’s and in this decade have been a lot better.
I think we all have had events in our lives where we wish we could go back and maybe change something. But by changing the past (even if we could) we could miss out on the good things that have happened as well. I need a connection with my past but not to dwell on it. My past helps me appreciate what I have now. If that makes any sense. The only things I miss about the 1990’s is gaming with my friends over “Starfleet Battles” and playing “Advanced Squad Leader.” I’m missing one ASL rule book change and about 8 modules. The last ASL module I bought was Croix de Guerre and that was in 1995. Alright enough of that.
I’ve been checking the LHC countdown clock on their website over the last few days but it’s been down lately. Today is ground zero anyway for the activation of the LHC. It’s not going to be the end of the world. The real-world spin-off application of the LHC will be “The Grid” and that excites me more then the remote possibility of finding the Higgs particle. I’m not suggesting that they won’t find the Higgs or even find traversable wormholes but I’m not going to hold my breath expecting any big news like: “We have found wormholes and are finding ways to keep them open for longer then a billionths of a second.” They’ll be turning the LHC on today but we’ll never be updated about it until the make an important discover, whenever that’ll be. So don’t hold your breath waiting. “Bring on the Grid for the rest of us,” is all I can say. I’m still trying to find a site that says “We’re activating the LHC in one minute.” But so far nobody’s saying anything about it.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Home and rituals
I’ve no aspirations on becoming a world traveler. My life is dull, quiet and uninteresting. You know that’s the way I like it. A big travel adventure for me is going across town for something like I did a few weekends at WEM.
I like staying at home or at best heading into work. I like stability. When I come me I’m in my shorts, underwear. I know more info then you need to know. Right now I’m unshaven since yesterday morning and sitting in fornt of the screen in my gonch. My week for the most part is Monday at 4pm I’m out there at the bus shelter in my genes running shoes and a T-shirt when it’s warm and my back pack waiting for a bus to Clairview. A pouch on a chain is draped around my neck is where I keep some cash, my bus pass and cell phone. Twice a week I like to pick up a lottery ticket and a Diet Coke and by 4:20pm I’m at Corona station heading up 2 escalators for the ramp just outside Tim Horton’s. The ramp takes me up to the parkade emptying out and to 106th st across the street from the Baker Center building. I go through 2 sets of doors or to the pharmacy for some cheese pleasers and then to the elevator. A friendly hi to the security guard then to the 2nd floor and I’m finding my end dialer, From there I’m collecting pop cans and after I’ve gotten a good haul it’s wash my hands and get a recap and have a coffee. Then the night room manager gives a kick off and we work. By 7pm Anne is calling to chat and I’m back at it until 9pm. At 9pm I’ve everything packed up and ready to go for my train at 9:20pm. There’s my #183 and that gives me a brief five minutes where I can read and then the bus pulls out by 9:45pm and I’m home and fire up the computer and or catch an Oiler game or wrestling. Anne is in by about 10:15pm and starts supper an hour later. At 11pm I’m watching the news to midnight. A bit of “Entertainment tonight” and by 12:30am I’m on the computer. Most often on the computer blogging or reading until 3am. We put on Coast and by 4:00am I’m doing the cbi thing and back to bed for 8 hours. I’m up at noon to catch the markets and then back to the computer to check on my blogs etc. By 2pm Anne’s up and about doing her thing. Sometimes she goes out to get some things for an hour. About 2:30pm the computer is shut off and I’m having a shower cleaning up getting into my jeans and Anne’s making us a lunch and my sandwiches etc. At 2pm I’m taking my insulin and watching Star Trek or something. Anne’s out the door by 3:30pm and I’m cleaning up, getting my thermos ready for coffee my 2 cans of pop etc. By 4pm I’m outside waiting for the bus and the whole procedure starts like that Monday through Friday.
The only times that changes is when I go to my lodge nights every other Thursday and Saturday. Saturdays I get up early at 6:30am wake up do my blogging etc and get ready to leave to catch the 9am bus. You can almost set your clock by me during the week half the time.
This exercise is basically to show how much my life has settled down over the last 8 years. Sure I’ve had my ups and downs, like getting married in 2000, joining my lodge in 2002 writing several books that never got anywhere. I recall in 2004 acquiring diabetes. That was a real downer. I also recall obtaining Sparky and Sporty. Other then Anne and I fighting from time to time things have been really ho hum. One of the more happier moments I’ve had was getting in contact with my family only to learn that my brother Rick had died. More recently I’ve taken up an interest in playing the piano and I wish I would have done so in 1972. I think my life is better then it ever ha been. Tonight Anne and I are having a couple of steaks and watching “The Honeymooners” before bed. If all goes well and Anne is working still I’ll be getting myself an Xbox 360 Elite and a 160Gb IPod, a nice Ramada Inn dinner Summerslam. Other then being settled, I like my life the way it is now.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I like staying at home or at best heading into work. I like stability. When I come me I’m in my shorts, underwear. I know more info then you need to know. Right now I’m unshaven since yesterday morning and sitting in fornt of the screen in my gonch. My week for the most part is Monday at 4pm I’m out there at the bus shelter in my genes running shoes and a T-shirt when it’s warm and my back pack waiting for a bus to Clairview. A pouch on a chain is draped around my neck is where I keep some cash, my bus pass and cell phone. Twice a week I like to pick up a lottery ticket and a Diet Coke and by 4:20pm I’m at Corona station heading up 2 escalators for the ramp just outside Tim Horton’s. The ramp takes me up to the parkade emptying out and to 106th st across the street from the Baker Center building. I go through 2 sets of doors or to the pharmacy for some cheese pleasers and then to the elevator. A friendly hi to the security guard then to the 2nd floor and I’m finding my end dialer, From there I’m collecting pop cans and after I’ve gotten a good haul it’s wash my hands and get a recap and have a coffee. Then the night room manager gives a kick off and we work. By 7pm Anne is calling to chat and I’m back at it until 9pm. At 9pm I’ve everything packed up and ready to go for my train at 9:20pm. There’s my #183 and that gives me a brief five minutes where I can read and then the bus pulls out by 9:45pm and I’m home and fire up the computer and or catch an Oiler game or wrestling. Anne is in by about 10:15pm and starts supper an hour later. At 11pm I’m watching the news to midnight. A bit of “Entertainment tonight” and by 12:30am I’m on the computer. Most often on the computer blogging or reading until 3am. We put on Coast and by 4:00am I’m doing the cbi thing and back to bed for 8 hours. I’m up at noon to catch the markets and then back to the computer to check on my blogs etc. By 2pm Anne’s up and about doing her thing. Sometimes she goes out to get some things for an hour. About 2:30pm the computer is shut off and I’m having a shower cleaning up getting into my jeans and Anne’s making us a lunch and my sandwiches etc. At 2pm I’m taking my insulin and watching Star Trek or something. Anne’s out the door by 3:30pm and I’m cleaning up, getting my thermos ready for coffee my 2 cans of pop etc. By 4pm I’m outside waiting for the bus and the whole procedure starts like that Monday through Friday.
The only times that changes is when I go to my lodge nights every other Thursday and Saturday. Saturdays I get up early at 6:30am wake up do my blogging etc and get ready to leave to catch the 9am bus. You can almost set your clock by me during the week half the time.
This exercise is basically to show how much my life has settled down over the last 8 years. Sure I’ve had my ups and downs, like getting married in 2000, joining my lodge in 2002 writing several books that never got anywhere. I recall in 2004 acquiring diabetes. That was a real downer. I also recall obtaining Sparky and Sporty. Other then Anne and I fighting from time to time things have been really ho hum. One of the more happier moments I’ve had was getting in contact with my family only to learn that my brother Rick had died. More recently I’ve taken up an interest in playing the piano and I wish I would have done so in 1972. I think my life is better then it ever ha been. Tonight Anne and I are having a couple of steaks and watching “The Honeymooners” before bed. If all goes well and Anne is working still I’ll be getting myself an Xbox 360 Elite and a 160Gb IPod, a nice Ramada Inn dinner Summerslam. Other then being settled, I like my life the way it is now.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Mostly from last night
Yesterday was a bit of a washout for me. I wasn’t having a very good go of things as Friday’s go. I took my $20 with me and got a diet Pepsi and a 6/49 ticket. The draw this time around is for a “measly” $9 Million. What happened to the $20’s and $30 Millions? I read a bit more on Pandora’s Star on the train going in. The weather was humid crossing the parkade. I got to my dialer and met Fran getting the day bottles and cans and I got a few she couldn’t carry. Full parking lots at Rexall place. What was going on? Extra cars on the trains tonight.
We had 10 tap shooters, most of Team India. I got a paper ball almost in the eye and that put me in a bad mood. I got a CC my first sale for $50 and I got 3 more by break. Anne called and said she was going to go to Superstore to get me those nice chicken fingers I like. And the real macaroni for my lunch tonight. She wasn‘t doing to well at her job. I’d hate to work for her company. I wasn‘t in a very good mood all night and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Low and behold I ended up with 6 CC’s and I made my qualifying bonus "CC quota."
After work Shank )one of the East Indian kids walked with me to where I needed to cross at Audrey’s in the light rainfall we were receiving. Trevor said how he ordered the next 3 Stardoc books and the first 3 in the “Star Wars X-wing books.” Good stuff. Nothing had come in for me yet. I had a brief look around and I ended up getting the L. Ron Hubbard “Black Genesis” book. “Mission Earth” is still on back order. I don’t know what’s going on with those. They also have the Star Wars “Legacy” books in and I’m eyeing those among others. I paid for my book and caught the train home. What 2 cars only? The parking lot at Rexall was empty. I wonder what was going on? To early for a concert. I had a wait in my bus. While reading I overheard a guy and his date were talking about possibly Warcraft or a game like that. She was really into the game as well. Lucky guy.
I got home and opened all windows and fired up the AC did my admin stuff and settled into watch “Smackdown.” That was fun. Anne came in at 11pm and made me my lunch. That was much better. I enjoyed Smackdown and then on the heels of that, ECW. Good times. I went to bed after that and listened to a bit of Coast. Sleep came really hard as it was really warm in our apartment overnight. I rested and managed to get a bit of sleep. Otherwise I feel alright.
Not much going on today. It’s into work for my Tim’s breakfast and I’ll bring my insulin in. If all goes well and I get all my hours and my stat pay for this coming up Friday I should have an extra $50. I’m looking at this JFK book “The radical right and the murder of JFK.” Trevor said they’d need a deposit because it’s another POD book. $5 down and $55 when it’s in. Usually these POD books are pretty good deliver time wise.
Just 2 days 14 hours until CERN brings their LHC online. I don’t know if that’s when they’ll be conducting their first experiment or anything. We’ll see. I’m not expecting anything soon.
As for me, I’ve got to get ready, post this and get the heck out of here.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
We had 10 tap shooters, most of Team India. I got a paper ball almost in the eye and that put me in a bad mood. I got a CC my first sale for $50 and I got 3 more by break. Anne called and said she was going to go to Superstore to get me those nice chicken fingers I like. And the real macaroni for my lunch tonight. She wasn‘t doing to well at her job. I’d hate to work for her company. I wasn‘t in a very good mood all night and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Low and behold I ended up with 6 CC’s and I made my qualifying bonus "CC quota."
After work Shank )one of the East Indian kids walked with me to where I needed to cross at Audrey’s in the light rainfall we were receiving. Trevor said how he ordered the next 3 Stardoc books and the first 3 in the “Star Wars X-wing books.” Good stuff. Nothing had come in for me yet. I had a brief look around and I ended up getting the L. Ron Hubbard “Black Genesis” book. “Mission Earth” is still on back order. I don’t know what’s going on with those. They also have the Star Wars “Legacy” books in and I’m eyeing those among others. I paid for my book and caught the train home. What 2 cars only? The parking lot at Rexall was empty. I wonder what was going on? To early for a concert. I had a wait in my bus. While reading I overheard a guy and his date were talking about possibly Warcraft or a game like that. She was really into the game as well. Lucky guy.
I got home and opened all windows and fired up the AC did my admin stuff and settled into watch “Smackdown.” That was fun. Anne came in at 11pm and made me my lunch. That was much better. I enjoyed Smackdown and then on the heels of that, ECW. Good times. I went to bed after that and listened to a bit of Coast. Sleep came really hard as it was really warm in our apartment overnight. I rested and managed to get a bit of sleep. Otherwise I feel alright.
Not much going on today. It’s into work for my Tim’s breakfast and I’ll bring my insulin in. If all goes well and I get all my hours and my stat pay for this coming up Friday I should have an extra $50. I’m looking at this JFK book “The radical right and the murder of JFK.” Trevor said they’d need a deposit because it’s another POD book. $5 down and $55 when it’s in. Usually these POD books are pretty good deliver time wise.
Just 2 days 14 hours until CERN brings their LHC online. I don’t know if that’s when they’ll be conducting their first experiment or anything. We’ll see. I’m not expecting anything soon.
As for me, I’ve got to get ready, post this and get the heck out of here.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Friday, July 4, 2008
Going into work
was good even though there was a bit of a delay. Weather wise out there it was +32C. Very warm. I got in and found my chair and began looking for bottles/cans. I had a good evening I think about $350 by break and a couple of CC’s. Anne had given me my bank card to save her a trip to the bank. She called at break. I called my book ordering guy at Audrey’s to see if he could order some of the “Dragonlance” and early “Stargate” books. I’d call back in an hour. I got 4 credit card sales and $615. I had a pretty good evening although Audrey’s had bad news for me. The Dragonlance and Stargate books are out of print. I could look for them on EBay but paperback books have spine damage and are not always in the best of condition. I left out of there at 9pm in the very warm humid air. I walked up half a block finding a place to sit down and tie my shoe at the Sun life building. Ah the bus stop. People waiting. Bus coming in. I took that up the block to the bank and did my banking without a hook. Easy. No trouble. I bought a diet Coke for on the way home next door and a ten minute wait for the Clairview train home.
The Eskimo game was still underway seeing all the fans in the stands underneath the lights. Even my bus was there waiting. It was a beautiful night. I got in to try and catch the Eskimo football game on the radio. Late in the 3rd quarter 22 something to 14 favoring the Esks. Good stuff. Anne came in and got my bank card and over to Superstore. Anne made me a simple lunch. Some stuffed finger food or whatever they were and Mexie fries and her fried tortia chip thingies and a bit of pasta.
I watched the evening Global News. Wow, Oil at $145/barrel. That’s another record breaking high for Oil. This time last year I think it was pushing $72/barrel.
Current temperature is +24C and it’s going to be a warm one overnight. Fortunately we have our air conditioner on cooling down the bedroom. Add the fan and so it’s going to be comfortable sleeping.
I’m kind of disappointed that I can’t get the early “Dragonlance” books brand new. I don’t want to get them second hand. There are some pretty god Ebay items and some of those book are said to be in good condition with very little if any spine increases. One Ebay seller has the nerve to sell the first 6 Dragonlance books and the condition of these items are so poor they look like they could fall apart just in the handling. Speaking of reading, I’ve got another 200 pages in “Pandora’s Star” and I’m done. I need to get into some good old Fantasy next.
Anne gave me my $20 allowance and this weekend I’m definitely going to get my resume up for Pizza. Some of those Ebay books look pretty good.
Well, it’s another Friday and after work I’m heading over to Audrey’s to pick up one of the “Vanguard” Star Trek books and catch Smackdown and ECW.
I haven’t forgotten about my own novel “Fiber.” it’s in storage mode right now. Hopefully I’ll get to it this fall. It needs work. Entry
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
The Eskimo game was still underway seeing all the fans in the stands underneath the lights. Even my bus was there waiting. It was a beautiful night. I got in to try and catch the Eskimo football game on the radio. Late in the 3rd quarter 22 something to 14 favoring the Esks. Good stuff. Anne came in and got my bank card and over to Superstore. Anne made me a simple lunch. Some stuffed finger food or whatever they were and Mexie fries and her fried tortia chip thingies and a bit of pasta.
I watched the evening Global News. Wow, Oil at $145/barrel. That’s another record breaking high for Oil. This time last year I think it was pushing $72/barrel.
Current temperature is +24C and it’s going to be a warm one overnight. Fortunately we have our air conditioner on cooling down the bedroom. Add the fan and so it’s going to be comfortable sleeping.
I’m kind of disappointed that I can’t get the early “Dragonlance” books brand new. I don’t want to get them second hand. There are some pretty god Ebay items and some of those book are said to be in good condition with very little if any spine increases. One Ebay seller has the nerve to sell the first 6 Dragonlance books and the condition of these items are so poor they look like they could fall apart just in the handling. Speaking of reading, I’ve got another 200 pages in “Pandora’s Star” and I’m done. I need to get into some good old Fantasy next.
Anne gave me my $20 allowance and this weekend I’m definitely going to get my resume up for Pizza. Some of those Ebay books look pretty good.
Well, it’s another Friday and after work I’m heading over to Audrey’s to pick up one of the “Vanguard” Star Trek books and catch Smackdown and ECW.
I haven’t forgotten about my own novel “Fiber.” it’s in storage mode right now. Hopefully I’ll get to it this fall. It needs work. Entry
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Canada Day hangover
I got into the office right on time. And with a better attitude then I’ve had before. I collected some bottles and cans and I got my stat pay as well. Work wise once JT, Kingsley and Bud left at break we had 4 tap shooters including me. Nobody wants to work evenings. With the nice weather out there, who could blame them? I was beginning to wonder if Rob would cut back our evening shift because we’re not pulling in line hour. Anne called me at break and we had a chat. In the 2nd half I almost got my 2nd CC’s but the card expired in May. I ended up with $510, which was top total for the room.
I got out of there at 9pm and I took the train South this time to read and relax. I got to Clairview at 9:35pm and there was the #183 bus waiting for me and with my bottles and cans I ended up going in the back way. Getting off at Sifton school. I took a look at the sidewalk stamp and saw the year 1975. That’s when the infrastructure and this area was put together.
Coast has a pretty good show tonight about the “Inner Earth.” inspired by the movie coming out by the same name no doubt. I don’t think it has anything to do with the “Hollow earth.” Tomorrow Coast has their open lines show to celebrate the US 4th of July.
I got home to no, inspection notice but I’m not holding my breath yet that management wont find an excuse not to hand one out to us. We paid our rent today and we’re ok for another month but this month, I want to try and get out of Xl. Of it’s only just part time.
I checked on my lotto tickets and, nope I didn’t win “the big one.” I got one number and that was the bonus number. According to 6/49 website nobody won the grand prize draw this evening. $3,930, Somebody won: $280,784.20. The prize gets carried over for Saturdays draw. I’m getting my 2 tickets. I only bought one this round although I could have bought one but decided not to.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I got out of there at 9pm and I took the train South this time to read and relax. I got to Clairview at 9:35pm and there was the #183 bus waiting for me and with my bottles and cans I ended up going in the back way. Getting off at Sifton school. I took a look at the sidewalk stamp and saw the year 1975. That’s when the infrastructure and this area was put together.
Coast has a pretty good show tonight about the “Inner Earth.” inspired by the movie coming out by the same name no doubt. I don’t think it has anything to do with the “Hollow earth.” Tomorrow Coast has their open lines show to celebrate the US 4th of July.
I got home to no, inspection notice but I’m not holding my breath yet that management wont find an excuse not to hand one out to us. We paid our rent today and we’re ok for another month but this month, I want to try and get out of Xl. Of it’s only just part time.
I checked on my lotto tickets and, nope I didn’t win “the big one.” I got one number and that was the bonus number. According to 6/49 website nobody won the grand prize draw this evening. $3,930, Somebody won: $280,784.20. The prize gets carried over for Saturdays draw. I’m getting my 2 tickets. I only bought one this round although I could have bought one but decided not to.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
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