Today is the official day that Darryl Katz becomes owner of the Edmonton Oiler’s. The Oiler’s were looking to acquire Marian Hossa a UFA from Pittsburgh. Kevin Lowe had a great offer for him as well: $10/season. A couple of hours ago he signed with Detroit for less money. Well, when you can go to a Stanley Cup contender why not? I can’t help but in the back of my mind (since last year’s off season’s Lowe/Penner deal) that somebody put a bug in Hossa’s head not to play in Canada. If not in Hossa’s head then in his agents head. Notice all the big name stars are in the US? It’s not that we can’t afford these players. Someone (ahem) wants to keep the star players in the US. (The better to sell NHL hockey to an American market.) Hey I’m just saying.
Another beautiful day here in Edmonton. Hard to believe it was 30 years ago I was in New Westminster BC slumming in a rooming house meant for homeless people. The rooming house was sanctioned by the Province I believe. I recall how (I think 5 of us) we’d get meal tickets from Welfare and we’d cash those in at the Pacific Café. (long gone) Most of my stuff was in storage at the Anderson house. I think I moved out of there about August 1st when I got this big UIC windfall of over $1,000. I barely stayed in the apartment block for 2 weeks, which was on the site of the current Douglas College. Of curse the apartment was old and drab like most of New West was back in those days. I stayed in that place about 2 weeks when I got a letter from my folks inviting me up to Edmonton. I picked up my mail at General delivery. Downtown post office. It’s now the location of the New Westminster downtown Police department. About the invitation however, Mike invited me to attend his wedding. Mom sent me a return Via rail ticket.
I don’t recall much of the trip but I left August 15th and got to Edmonton 2 days later. Jeff picked me up at the CN Via rail tower, when Via was still dropping passengers off right downtown. That weekend mom had tried to convince me to remain here in Edmonton. She would get me a job working with Wackenhut Canada as a security guard. I thought about it over the weekend. I figured why not? I’m only 25 and there was nothing left in New West for me at the time. I brought my UIC claim up to Edmonton, stayed with my parents in their Bellaire apartment and the rest is history.
I recall going back to the coast all but 5 times in those last 30 years. 1980: Was on SCA business. 1984. I remember hooking up with Dave Winfield my childhood best friend. 1991, 1997 and the last time 2000, which the last 2 times were in Victoria.
Anne’s out doing a bottle run. We’re kind of short on cash this week but at least we have July’s rent money and our bus passes. Anne gets paid a couple of times this month and that’s for August’s rent. My cheques cover everything else. I’ve got just under $5 and I need a quarter and I can get a half liter diet Coke and a 6/49 ticket. The bottle money will just keep us in pop and I get paid tomorrow.
I shouldn’t rag on Rob or the company. Sure it was a rotten thing they did, not having to come up to me and say something like “Well, Jim, if you miss a day without a Doctor’s note you don’t qualify for your CC’s bonus.” To be fair it wasn’t like I went up to Rob etc and said “Listen, I’m taking Monday off.” I just took it off and showed up the next day. How fair and honorable is that to them? Not much. So I shouldn’t complain to much how lousy I’m being treated there. I work the evening shift. During the morning and afternoon if you’re a tap shooter, you must be pulling in $200 line hour. The line hour is the money/sales you get on your recap in an hour. For the sources we have it’s almost impossible. Moe isn’t like that because mainly we have a shortage of workers for the evening shift. You get what you get as a tap shooter. So I shouldn’t complain. Yes I’m only getting $10/hr but I’m not limited to staying at Xl like the East Indian kids are. Due to immigration policies they can’t leave for a better paying job. Many of them are saying that this job is nothing more then “hand from mouth.” Basically all it means is that your just making a living to cover the basics. Making ends meet. The real good jobs are Union/trade and professional jobs. I’ve been going through these hand from mouth jobs all my life and making a career of them. Army & Navy Department store in the 1980’s has been that way. These types of jobs are at the low end of the employment food chain but in the 1980’s and mid 1990’s people were struggling just to get those kinds of jobs. I’ve been one of the lucky ones. I’ve been able to barely keep my nose above the waterline.
Anne’s not back yet from the bottle run and her banking and it’s getting kind of late as well. This afternoon at 4pm I’m going to Xl with a good attitude, grateful that Rob has kept me all these years. He’s still a weasel but one I can live with. After work it’s coming home. Nothing special tonight. I’m going to get some piano practice in and do my reading, watch the news. The usual.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I locked
everything up headed out into the thick humid air. I felt pretty good. I even put my sunglasses on. I got my 6/49 ticket and my diet Coke and caught the train into Corona station. I didn’t realize it then until later but I did go pick up the 3 “Warcraft” books. My three out of 4 books for July. I got to the front of the office where I met JT and Kingsley out having a smoke and had a brief chat with them. I found my dialer all right and I went straight for the CC’s sheet. Coincidently on my dialer. Sure enough my 12 CC‘s to qualify weren’t on it. I was really pissed off. I worked hard for those CC’s. Thing is I wouldn’t have minded so much if one of the managers had come up to me and said, “Oh Jim you weren’t here yesterday but Rob said that effective as of Monday if you miss a day without a Doctors note, then any CC’s that you have earned will be lost.”
I could live with that. But no, I have to hear about this from another employee. Second hand the following Tuesday. The day after the Rob changed the rules. Nobody had the guts to come up to me and said, “Jim…” Sure it wasn’t much. Just $24 involved but that’s 3 books. I was really pissed off. I resolved not to get any CC sales, of if I do, here’s my close, “Mrs. Jones your mailing address is….” “Now Mrs. Jones, would you prefer to make payment by credit card or would you prefer by the mail?” This way, I’m asking but in a discouraging way. And I don’t on every call either and I’m closing with the disclaimer so they know it’s a third party. Unfortunately I got one CC’s and the thing is, I don’t go up and put them on the board anymore. To top things off I got a “heat call.” Only my 2nd one, that I know of. Greg said I couldn’t pronounce the name of the customer so I tried and hung up. So she called back and complained.
So, this week Anne is going to get her Consumer resume out and I can use that as a template and I’m going to apply at Pizza. If I get on I’ll work until September at XL and after September 15th call it a career there and work Pizza full time. Once at Pizza I’m also looking at the SGJ hopefully from 5-9 and Pizza from 9:30-1am. Hopefully the SGJ will be right downtown and I can just walk to Pizza. That’d be excellent. Rob’s not going to pay me anymore here. After September 15th it would have been 8 years on the job.
As for now, it’s Canada Day and I have today off. Rob said that for anyone that wants to work Canada Day, will get paid time and a half. Most of this will go towards taxes anyway. If I can get both pizza and Xl going, I’m going to get a Doctor’s note that basically says no Weekends. “My Patient needs at least 2 days off.”
My wife and I still talk about poor Budgie. We miss him. It’s been a week now as of 2pm tomorrow. This summer hasn’t been going very well for us. Anne and I lose my wife’s allowance we’ve been getting and depending on for 8 years, getting news about our apartment, losing Budgie last week. About the only good thing this season so far is getting our TV.
Speaking about our apartment and the “inspection” after I got off my bus here at about 9:30pm I took a little walk out by our apartment and saw balcony’s worse then ours. The apartment down the back of ours in #208 down the hall has plant pots knee deep from end to end. People still have thatching boarding up half of their balcony and the Avon woman upstairs still has her balcony loaded with junk. We have out rent money here for this month but if this place takes our rent money and gives us a 14 day notice, then I’m going to take some photos and go to our MLA and complain.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I could live with that. But no, I have to hear about this from another employee. Second hand the following Tuesday. The day after the Rob changed the rules. Nobody had the guts to come up to me and said, “Jim…” Sure it wasn’t much. Just $24 involved but that’s 3 books. I was really pissed off. I resolved not to get any CC sales, of if I do, here’s my close, “Mrs. Jones your mailing address is….” “Now Mrs. Jones, would you prefer to make payment by credit card or would you prefer by the mail?” This way, I’m asking but in a discouraging way. And I don’t on every call either and I’m closing with the disclaimer so they know it’s a third party. Unfortunately I got one CC’s and the thing is, I don’t go up and put them on the board anymore. To top things off I got a “heat call.” Only my 2nd one, that I know of. Greg said I couldn’t pronounce the name of the customer so I tried and hung up. So she called back and complained.
So, this week Anne is going to get her Consumer resume out and I can use that as a template and I’m going to apply at Pizza. If I get on I’ll work until September at XL and after September 15th call it a career there and work Pizza full time. Once at Pizza I’m also looking at the SGJ hopefully from 5-9 and Pizza from 9:30-1am. Hopefully the SGJ will be right downtown and I can just walk to Pizza. That’d be excellent. Rob’s not going to pay me anymore here. After September 15th it would have been 8 years on the job.
As for now, it’s Canada Day and I have today off. Rob said that for anyone that wants to work Canada Day, will get paid time and a half. Most of this will go towards taxes anyway. If I can get both pizza and Xl going, I’m going to get a Doctor’s note that basically says no Weekends. “My Patient needs at least 2 days off.”
My wife and I still talk about poor Budgie. We miss him. It’s been a week now as of 2pm tomorrow. This summer hasn’t been going very well for us. Anne and I lose my wife’s allowance we’ve been getting and depending on for 8 years, getting news about our apartment, losing Budgie last week. About the only good thing this season so far is getting our TV.
Speaking about our apartment and the “inspection” after I got off my bus here at about 9:30pm I took a little walk out by our apartment and saw balcony’s worse then ours. The apartment down the back of ours in #208 down the hall has plant pots knee deep from end to end. People still have thatching boarding up half of their balcony and the Avon woman upstairs still has her balcony loaded with junk. We have out rent money here for this month but if this place takes our rent money and gives us a 14 day notice, then I’m going to take some photos and go to our MLA and complain.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Monday, June 30, 2008
On the eve of Canada Day
I had a nice day off Sunday getting up at noon. Anne made us a great brunch about 3pm. Surprisingly I only had just one coffee and that was our brunch coffee. Too hot to drink coffee. I had a great afternoon researching Kyoto. I have a better understanding of the protocol then I did earlier. I still don’t agree with it because it’s a sham this cap and trade thing. This whole “global warming” thing is nothing more then junk science. The only thing I do like about it is the carbon tax credits, for stock portfolio’s.
I did my blogging today and a lot of reading on “Pandora’s Star.”
Well, CERN’s LHC is just 7 days away from activation. Next Sunday to be exact. Will they find the Higgs Boson particle? Will they find wormholes? I hope so. I’ve been watching various YouTube videos on the LHC and the scientists are very excited about it. The LHC is 7 times more powerful then Fermi lab (FL) At FL particles for the most part were only able to glance off each other. With the LHC scientists will be able to direct particles more heard on all the time. They claim that the LHC will take them to within seconds of the Big bang revealing particles they’ve never seen before. Maybe the LHC will even create wormholes. It’s quite an exciting time for particle physics.
Anne and I are sharing the last beer. Half a can each is all I need as a mild sedative to get me to sleep. I had the sleeping pill last night and that worked fabulously on me. I had my much needed 8 hours sleep and I even had an hour snooze around 7pm as well Sunday night.
For most people their long weekend began Friday. They had 4 days off. I’d love to have a good 2 weeks off with nothing to do. And to get paid for it as well. If I got my vacation pay today and my pay cheque after taxes I’d have about $500. Anne wants to get that $300 she says “She owes me” from my income tax and with that get myself a nice laptop. I want to save up some money for the Yamaha PSR-S900 keyboard but it’s going to require me to work those extra pizza hours for about 4 months. I’ll be putting my resume in this week anyway. Anne doesn’t mind the hours and I’m going to get my Doctors note to give to Rob I don’t need to work Saturdays and give that to Pizza so I can have my weekends off.
So today it’s off into work for my 4 hours. After that it’s wrestling and I get another day off. I love Canada Day. Then there’s the long hot days of July ahead. I love this warm weather. We only have it for such a short time.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I did my blogging today and a lot of reading on “Pandora’s Star.”
Well, CERN’s LHC is just 7 days away from activation. Next Sunday to be exact. Will they find the Higgs Boson particle? Will they find wormholes? I hope so. I’ve been watching various YouTube videos on the LHC and the scientists are very excited about it. The LHC is 7 times more powerful then Fermi lab (FL) At FL particles for the most part were only able to glance off each other. With the LHC scientists will be able to direct particles more heard on all the time. They claim that the LHC will take them to within seconds of the Big bang revealing particles they’ve never seen before. Maybe the LHC will even create wormholes. It’s quite an exciting time for particle physics.
Anne and I are sharing the last beer. Half a can each is all I need as a mild sedative to get me to sleep. I had the sleeping pill last night and that worked fabulously on me. I had my much needed 8 hours sleep and I even had an hour snooze around 7pm as well Sunday night.
For most people their long weekend began Friday. They had 4 days off. I’d love to have a good 2 weeks off with nothing to do. And to get paid for it as well. If I got my vacation pay today and my pay cheque after taxes I’d have about $500. Anne wants to get that $300 she says “She owes me” from my income tax and with that get myself a nice laptop. I want to save up some money for the Yamaha PSR-S900 keyboard but it’s going to require me to work those extra pizza hours for about 4 months. I’ll be putting my resume in this week anyway. Anne doesn’t mind the hours and I’m going to get my Doctors note to give to Rob I don’t need to work Saturdays and give that to Pizza so I can have my weekends off.
So today it’s off into work for my 4 hours. After that it’s wrestling and I get another day off. I love Canada Day. Then there’s the long hot days of July ahead. I love this warm weather. We only have it for such a short time.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Saturday, June 28, 2008
I had a 5
minute wait for my bus and I took a few photos. The first one ws my view as I waited for my bus to come over the manning bridge in the background there. I got on the train and read more from Ps. It was up the escalator and into Tim’s for double order of hash browns and the breakfast sausage sandwich. My favorite. The parkade was surprisingly full for a Saturday morning. I got my dialer and took my insulin and had s delightful breakfast. It’s 4:20pm as I write this and Chirpy is chirping away in the hot +29C. The photos taken this morning are all before the office photo. Anything else this afternoon is later.
I took this photo of the building on the other side of the parking lot. If you click on the image and enlarge the photo you can see all of the white thatching that the manager says needs to come down when they do their walk around. These are old buildings but there nice inside.
We had a full row of tap shooters as "Team India" returned as you can see from this photo. Fran sat beside me. She's the blonde. We had about 7 people on the other system. Sigh, CPA again. It was tough going for the first half hour but I gradually ended up with $565 by break. Don Brown showed up and had a chat with Fran and I. I didn't realize until after he'd left I should have taken a picture. The 2nd half was a little slower of course. Anne called and said how she’s going to go to the SPCA and see if Budgie is there. If not and there is another budgie bird there. I ended up with my 12 CC’s for the week anyway and if Rob is going to play these games because I miss a day he can go to hell. Some people there think he’ll honor them for me. I ended up with $840 and most likely that was top total again for the day. That red pouch there isn't mine.It belongs to Wanda who sits there during the day. That's Fran clowning around with one of the mini DVD's we're trying to pawn off:
I didn’t bring any extra cash with me to get those “Warcraft” books. I’ll wait until Wednesday. I got my train and Anne called me at Stadium saying she was just leaving, Personally I think the SPCA is closed on the weekend and won’t re-open until Wednesday. I hope I’m wrong. Not much going on for tonight. I’m going to try and get some piano practicing done.
I took this photo of the building on the other side of the parking lot. If you click on the image and enlarge the photo you can see all of the white thatching that the manager says needs to come down when they do their walk around. These are old buildings but there nice inside.
I took this photo of a condo unit right by where my bus drops me off. hard to believe they want a quarter of a million bucks for these places. When their done that is:
We had a full row of tap shooters as "Team India" returned as you can see from this photo. Fran sat beside me. She's the blonde. We had about 7 people on the other system. Sigh, CPA again. It was tough going for the first half hour but I gradually ended up with $565 by break. Don Brown showed up and had a chat with Fran and I. I didn't realize until after he'd left I should have taken a picture. The 2nd half was a little slower of course. Anne called and said how she’s going to go to the SPCA and see if Budgie is there. If not and there is another budgie bird there. I ended up with my 12 CC’s for the week anyway and if Rob is going to play these games because I miss a day he can go to hell. Some people there think he’ll honor them for me. I ended up with $840 and most likely that was top total again for the day. That red pouch there isn't mine.It belongs to Wanda who sits there during the day. That's Fran clowning around with one of the mini DVD's we're trying to pawn off:
One of the newer ETS buses to replace the aging "Jimmie's." These are the low floor busses. Very nice. They cost about a Million a piece and I think the City has something like 300 of them. The other shot is one I took inside at the back of an empty bus. I like riding the side seat on my way home facing the back door. Most major Cities have these types of buses. I had only moments to take the shot before some girl came on:
It was really warm out there today. I think the warmest I've seen it yet this season. I love this time of year. Look at the temperature on the clock at Clairview station:
Anne had called saying she is bringing home a companion for Chirpy. She’s called Sugar. My eyes lit up. She spent $15 on her and had to go through a lengthy interviewing process for all their adoptions. To adapt a cat is $100 because they want to make sure they get long term homes. So because Gl is so finicky at handling Photo’s I’m displaying some of today’s photos on my Blogger blog where the photos are better displayed
Meet the newest member of the Shannon family: Sugar. She's got pretty yellow feathers. They are a bit shy Chirpy the green bird left and Sugar right. Sparky is looking on. He's very interested:
And finally some of my Aleister Crowley books. Hard to believe some of them are at least 30 years old. I had a lot more then this at the end of the 1980's. That blue book on Astrology? I think it's very rare. I picked it up for $6 in the used book bin:
I didn’t bring any extra cash with me to get those “Warcraft” books. I’ll wait until Wednesday. I got my train and Anne called me at Stadium saying she was just leaving, Personally I think the SPCA is closed on the weekend and won’t re-open until Wednesday. I hope I’m wrong. Not much going on for tonight. I’m going to try and get some piano practicing done.
I checked on my 6/49 numbers and out of 2 tickets I got 1 number and it was a bonus round. For the most part I had a nice day and I’m happy I got somebody for Chirpy even though I miss Budgie. I hope he’s ok.
Tonight on Coast is about Aleister Crowley. Should be a good show. hence the phot of the books.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
At 4pm I'm
I’m on my way into work and there’s Dianne on the bus. She’s nice but she’s always in disagreement with me when I talk with her. I told her how Anne and I lost Budgie and she said one of her neighbors had found a Budgie bird and had turned it into the SPCA. At this point I thought Dianne would be on her way and I’d go down to the Redimart store and get my July bus pass and I diet Coke and a lotto ticket. I try now to get 2 quick pick tickets twice/week. I shelled out $71 over the counter in one go. I also brought an additional $30 in case Audrey’s had more books for me.
I took the escalator up to the upper concourse for the train and saw Dianne at the front of the train so I thought I’d ride with her. She’d get off at Bay station for her job at Pizza. Where she’s been and other’s have “been trying to get me” to work there lately. Now that I have a cell phone and all makes things easier. Of course having a conversation with Dianne is like trying to get out of quicksand. I try and stay non political/controversial but that evaporated in a hurry. If I do work at Pizza it’s going to be from 9:30pm-1am. Apparently for workers after midnight there is something called differential hours and they drive you home. Besides it’s only going to be for 3.5 hours for 3 night’s a week.
I got out at my usual LRT stop downtown and feeling pretty good knowing we’ve got a chance to get Budgie back. I got in the office and settled down. JT wasn’t working this Friday night so I took his dialer. I tried calling the SPCA number and they are obviously gone for the day and I had Lucianne sit beside me and he was having a lousy night. Anne called after I had my left over Pizza at break and I gave her the skinny on what Dianne told me earlier about a Budgie bird being taken in She’s got the phone number and will be trying today. I was to but I pulled in 3 CC’s and ended up with a $500 recap on a slow Friday night. We did get a couple of the East India kids back. Girsh asked me if I’d like to come back with him to get those beer bottles but I said today. That’s ok.
I headed out of there at 8:30pm with the rest. Next week, I’m using Anne’s resume from Consumer as a template and I’m going to build my resume in this weekend. After the Canada Day, I’m submitting my application into Pizza. I figured even at 3 days/week, that will get me about $175/2 weeks. Just part time hours. That’s 10.5 hours week. That’s if they’ll take me at that. People that worked there said so. Sure, I’m tired after Xl but the other job is inbound calling. Some fresh air and a slight walk up the street and for 4.5 hours just 3 days/week won’t kill me. That’s an extra $350/month. I’d use $200/month for what I need it for. By next Spring if I can put $200/month away by next Spring I’d have enough for the PSR-S900 keyboard I want. Id’ suggest to Anne, she keep my Xl cheques and I’ll keep the ones from Pizza. I can live off of $150/month. They might even want me to work some afternoons from 1-4:30pm. I won’t mind that say Mondays and Fridays. I’d get a Doctor’s notice saying I need weekends off from both places. This way, I’d have 16.5 hours week in. Or 33 hours. This would give me an extra $265/2 weeks. After taxes. This way I would be able to put $400/month and get the keyboard around the end of November then go back to 3 days week. It has possibilities. But I’m just thinking out loud here.
Anyways I walked through the parking lot heading towards Audrey’s. The store was virtually vacant. Downstairs I asked at the order desk if anything had come in for me. I saw a stack of books with invoice forms inside. Holy shit! All the books were off to one side and I thought as the clerk was finding her way around “That stack looks like mine.” Sure enough all the 3 “Warcraft” books came in including the 3 S.L. Veigh “Stardoc” books came in. Large special order books like that make Audrey’s nervous. The only thing they find some comfort in is that, I claim my special orders immediately but I bought my 4 books for last month and then some. So I picked up the 3 “Stardoc” books. I’ll get the 3 “Warcraft” books after Canada Day July 2nd because that’d be well on my way for my 4 books/month plan. I’ve got $60 COH anyway.
You might be asking yourself, “Why is he buying so many new books?” For one thing, American pricing. Those 3 books I bought last night used to cost me $10.95. Add GST would come out to $11.50/book. Since our dollar is more or less at par with the American dollar, now’s a good time to buy. Also, I like to read and other then buying 6/49 lottery tickets I don’t have a heck of a lot of things I can buy with my $20/week.
So I got those 3 books and headed home feeling pretty good. When I got home I did my admin. I only need 2 more CC’s for today to qualify. I don’t know what we have left to do with CPA. That’s pretty well picked over. AES is also picked over. If I get onto Pizza, I might end up leaving Xl for good.
No Budgie in the cage. That could mean he’s in the SPCA. I hope. However, there’s nothing to say that if there is a blue Budgie bird there it might not be our budgie. As long as it is one and Anne brings one home. If you’re an animal lover like me, and your in the SPCA without a pet, it’s hard not to fall in love. I’m hoping Anne will fall in love with a cute budgie bird there today, if she goes in that is.
I’m taking my insulin in with me this morning as I’m getting my Tim’s. I think Girsh one of the East Indian kids wants me to come over to his place just off of Stadium and pick up some beer bottles. I’ll take all I can carry. Other then that I’ll be home for what’s left of the weekend. Last weekend I was late catching my 9am bus. I’m allowing plenty of time to get out today. This weekend I’ve got a few things to do with Y, not to lose interest in that. Of course piano practicing among other things. There’s no major sporting events this weekend that I’m interested in.
Last night I watched the first ever Smackdown with JR and Tipple H. That was the first time I watched 3 hours of Smackdown and ECW back to back. Apologize if this reads a bit choppy. I’ll be editing it tonight.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
I took the escalator up to the upper concourse for the train and saw Dianne at the front of the train so I thought I’d ride with her. She’d get off at Bay station for her job at Pizza. Where she’s been and other’s have “been trying to get me” to work there lately. Now that I have a cell phone and all makes things easier. Of course having a conversation with Dianne is like trying to get out of quicksand. I try and stay non political/controversial but that evaporated in a hurry. If I do work at Pizza it’s going to be from 9:30pm-1am. Apparently for workers after midnight there is something called differential hours and they drive you home. Besides it’s only going to be for 3.5 hours for 3 night’s a week.
I got out at my usual LRT stop downtown and feeling pretty good knowing we’ve got a chance to get Budgie back. I got in the office and settled down. JT wasn’t working this Friday night so I took his dialer. I tried calling the SPCA number and they are obviously gone for the day and I had Lucianne sit beside me and he was having a lousy night. Anne called after I had my left over Pizza at break and I gave her the skinny on what Dianne told me earlier about a Budgie bird being taken in She’s got the phone number and will be trying today. I was to but I pulled in 3 CC’s and ended up with a $500 recap on a slow Friday night. We did get a couple of the East India kids back. Girsh asked me if I’d like to come back with him to get those beer bottles but I said today. That’s ok.
I headed out of there at 8:30pm with the rest. Next week, I’m using Anne’s resume from Consumer as a template and I’m going to build my resume in this weekend. After the Canada Day, I’m submitting my application into Pizza. I figured even at 3 days/week, that will get me about $175/2 weeks. Just part time hours. That’s 10.5 hours week. That’s if they’ll take me at that. People that worked there said so. Sure, I’m tired after Xl but the other job is inbound calling. Some fresh air and a slight walk up the street and for 4.5 hours just 3 days/week won’t kill me. That’s an extra $350/month. I’d use $200/month for what I need it for. By next Spring if I can put $200/month away by next Spring I’d have enough for the PSR-S900 keyboard I want. Id’ suggest to Anne, she keep my Xl cheques and I’ll keep the ones from Pizza. I can live off of $150/month. They might even want me to work some afternoons from 1-4:30pm. I won’t mind that say Mondays and Fridays. I’d get a Doctor’s notice saying I need weekends off from both places. This way, I’d have 16.5 hours week in. Or 33 hours. This would give me an extra $265/2 weeks. After taxes. This way I would be able to put $400/month and get the keyboard around the end of November then go back to 3 days week. It has possibilities. But I’m just thinking out loud here.
Anyways I walked through the parking lot heading towards Audrey’s. The store was virtually vacant. Downstairs I asked at the order desk if anything had come in for me. I saw a stack of books with invoice forms inside. Holy shit! All the books were off to one side and I thought as the clerk was finding her way around “That stack looks like mine.” Sure enough all the 3 “Warcraft” books came in including the 3 S.L. Veigh “Stardoc” books came in. Large special order books like that make Audrey’s nervous. The only thing they find some comfort in is that, I claim my special orders immediately but I bought my 4 books for last month and then some. So I picked up the 3 “Stardoc” books. I’ll get the 3 “Warcraft” books after Canada Day July 2nd because that’d be well on my way for my 4 books/month plan. I’ve got $60 COH anyway.
You might be asking yourself, “Why is he buying so many new books?” For one thing, American pricing. Those 3 books I bought last night used to cost me $10.95. Add GST would come out to $11.50/book. Since our dollar is more or less at par with the American dollar, now’s a good time to buy. Also, I like to read and other then buying 6/49 lottery tickets I don’t have a heck of a lot of things I can buy with my $20/week.
So I got those 3 books and headed home feeling pretty good. When I got home I did my admin. I only need 2 more CC’s for today to qualify. I don’t know what we have left to do with CPA. That’s pretty well picked over. AES is also picked over. If I get onto Pizza, I might end up leaving Xl for good.
No Budgie in the cage. That could mean he’s in the SPCA. I hope. However, there’s nothing to say that if there is a blue Budgie bird there it might not be our budgie. As long as it is one and Anne brings one home. If you’re an animal lover like me, and your in the SPCA without a pet, it’s hard not to fall in love. I’m hoping Anne will fall in love with a cute budgie bird there today, if she goes in that is.
I’m taking my insulin in with me this morning as I’m getting my Tim’s. I think Girsh one of the East Indian kids wants me to come over to his place just off of Stadium and pick up some beer bottles. I’ll take all I can carry. Other then that I’ll be home for what’s left of the weekend. Last weekend I was late catching my 9am bus. I’m allowing plenty of time to get out today. This weekend I’ve got a few things to do with Y, not to lose interest in that. Of course piano practicing among other things. There’s no major sporting events this weekend that I’m interested in.
Last night I watched the first ever Smackdown with JR and Tipple H. That was the first time I watched 3 hours of Smackdown and ECW back to back. Apologize if this reads a bit choppy. I’ll be editing it tonight.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Budgie isn't back
yet. We still have the cages on the balcony opened for him. But it doesn’t look good he’ll be coming home anytime soon. He’s most likely lost out there. Anne thinks the bird cage was tampered with. We’ve have stuff stolen out of here before.
Anne had a night off yesterday and I hopped on the bus to the train All the kids are off school making a trip a little more comfortable going in. I’m still hurt over poor Budgie. I got in and found a head set and took my end dialer. The back we had Bud, Subvere, JT, Kingsley, Me, Girsh showed up for awhile but wasn’t doing very well and by 6 his dialer was empty and John McD. When JT, Kingsley and Bud left we were down to 3 tap shooters. Moe moved us over, joined by Peter and Dawn. One of the new girls was a cleaning girl that took Brandon’s cup cleaning job away and a new kid that didn’t exactly know what was going on. The cup cleaning gal left at 8pm. We had 5 tap shooters. There were still the original 3 from the 5pm shift. The back 20, I think they had maybe about 10 people if that. This left me wondering what the heck is going on with our night room? I understand on Monday night when I was off, they had no tap shooters at all. Tuesday night was better because team India was there but most of them had gone by 7pm.
I ended up with over $800 between 3 campaigns. CPA, East were all basically on the last legs of their campaigns. We ended up doing All Star Baseball and surprisingly I was doing ok. I ended up with 5 credit card sales. All in all I had a good night.
But my evening job looks like it’s in trouble and is barely on life support. For 3 days now we’ve had s skeleton crew. I’m worried Rob is going to cut the evening shift because the line hour isn’t there. On the way home, I kept on thinking about Pizza. Not to quite my current job mind you but to have aback up plan in case Rob makes a decision and cuts back the night crew. If this is the case, I won’t work for Rob only if he offer’s afternoons as a 4 hour shift, then I will say from 1-5 but I don’t see that happening.
When I got home I walked around the back to see if Budgie was in one of the cages and called Anne from the grass out back here. I looked around for any sign of Budgie. Nothing. Chirpy had stopped calling him By this time next week if Budgie isn’t back, then we’re going to get another bird for Chirpy. Maybe the bird cage was tampered with, I don’t know. Anne says the next bird she gets she’s going to have him in a separate cage because she claims both birds don’t get any exercise and move around very much in the same cage. Yeesh. We’re still holding out for Budgie but I’m not going to hold my breath.
I fired up my computer and went to check on my 6/49 tickets hoping for some good news but I barely got one number on 2 quick picks yet. I think a balance of a quick pick and pre set numbers might be the best. One winner last night won $30 Million. 7 winners won $110,002.10, 316 winners won $2,012.90 and 17,563 winners won $68.60 305, 597 winners won $10.00.
Saturday’s jackpot is $32 million.
It’s about 1:40pm as I write this and a summer storm is brewing up out there. Poor Budgie, is cold, probably scared, lonely and hungry. I just feel sick inside for him right now. A part of our family is missing. The storm outside will pass and so eventually will my sadness for Budgies loss. Like Tweety before him Budgie’s memory will not be forgotten.
Last night after lunch I got into more piano practicing and I’m making some progress. I can read some notes on the staff now it’s just putting everything together. I’ll probably take piano lessons to break some bad habits.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
Anne had a night off yesterday and I hopped on the bus to the train All the kids are off school making a trip a little more comfortable going in. I’m still hurt over poor Budgie. I got in and found a head set and took my end dialer. The back we had Bud, Subvere, JT, Kingsley, Me, Girsh showed up for awhile but wasn’t doing very well and by 6 his dialer was empty and John McD. When JT, Kingsley and Bud left we were down to 3 tap shooters. Moe moved us over, joined by Peter and Dawn. One of the new girls was a cleaning girl that took Brandon’s cup cleaning job away and a new kid that didn’t exactly know what was going on. The cup cleaning gal left at 8pm. We had 5 tap shooters. There were still the original 3 from the 5pm shift. The back 20, I think they had maybe about 10 people if that. This left me wondering what the heck is going on with our night room? I understand on Monday night when I was off, they had no tap shooters at all. Tuesday night was better because team India was there but most of them had gone by 7pm.
I ended up with over $800 between 3 campaigns. CPA, East were all basically on the last legs of their campaigns. We ended up doing All Star Baseball and surprisingly I was doing ok. I ended up with 5 credit card sales. All in all I had a good night.
But my evening job looks like it’s in trouble and is barely on life support. For 3 days now we’ve had s skeleton crew. I’m worried Rob is going to cut the evening shift because the line hour isn’t there. On the way home, I kept on thinking about Pizza. Not to quite my current job mind you but to have aback up plan in case Rob makes a decision and cuts back the night crew. If this is the case, I won’t work for Rob only if he offer’s afternoons as a 4 hour shift, then I will say from 1-5 but I don’t see that happening.
When I got home I walked around the back to see if Budgie was in one of the cages and called Anne from the grass out back here. I looked around for any sign of Budgie. Nothing. Chirpy had stopped calling him By this time next week if Budgie isn’t back, then we’re going to get another bird for Chirpy. Maybe the bird cage was tampered with, I don’t know. Anne says the next bird she gets she’s going to have him in a separate cage because she claims both birds don’t get any exercise and move around very much in the same cage. Yeesh. We’re still holding out for Budgie but I’m not going to hold my breath.
I fired up my computer and went to check on my 6/49 tickets hoping for some good news but I barely got one number on 2 quick picks yet. I think a balance of a quick pick and pre set numbers might be the best. One winner last night won $30 Million. 7 winners won $110,002.10, 316 winners won $2,012.90 and 17,563 winners won $68.60 305, 597 winners won $10.00.
Saturday’s jackpot is $32 million.
It’s about 1:40pm as I write this and a summer storm is brewing up out there. Poor Budgie, is cold, probably scared, lonely and hungry. I just feel sick inside for him right now. A part of our family is missing. The storm outside will pass and so eventually will my sadness for Budgies loss. Like Tweety before him Budgie’s memory will not be forgotten.
Last night after lunch I got into more piano practicing and I’m making some progress. I can read some notes on the staff now it’s just putting everything together. I’ll probably take piano lessons to break some bad habits.
Anyway Bloggers, that‘s all for now
e. Jim
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