I've been trying to figure

out why our power bill is up so high. I know the aquarium tank racks up a lot of power. I keep the radio on all the time, I’m sure that doesn’t help keep our bill low. Even now nobody is watching the TV but that’s on. We use energy efficient light bulbs and we do have “night lights” on in the apartment but these things all together shouldn’t have our bill as high as it is. Then I realized one of the biggest contributors to our power bill so high is we power up 2 devices over night all the time: The iTouch I gave Anne and my iPad. Both of these devices I’m sure rack up our power bill. I’m going to call Epcor and ask if these devices make any difference to the increase of our power bill rates.

I had a pretty good sleep over night. I looked at the clock about 10:30 this morning and I figured I’ll get up at noon. I looked again and it was 1:30pm! Yeesh, where did the time go?

Coast looks kind of interesting tonight  Prophecy of the Popes. Joining George Noory, author and publisher with a specialty in End Times and prophecy, Tom Horn, discusses his new research on the prophecy of the Popes, and how 2012 will be the fulfillment of St. Malachy's prediction that the Catholic Church will see one final Pope before its destruction. This is kind of a luke warm topic for me but I‘ll listen for a bit.

On the news last night they were talking about Amelia Earhart how she might have crashed landed her plane. A handful of newly discovered artifacts, including a jar of freckle fading cream, suggest that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on the island of Nikumaroro in 1937 and survived for some time. Earhart was interested in publicity and endorsements deals then anything else and some even suggested that she faxed her own death but here’s a better look at the story from i09.

Yesterday I’ve been looking for a solution on how to convert Wav files to midi files. At first I came across “Audacity” in a YouTube video and I had “Audacity” for a long time now but after following instructions, “File/import to midi,” it didn’t work. I know in “Vari audio” there was a midi function, so I tried that and it took the Wav file and converted it to midi for further editing in the key editor. Now can I revert the process back to Wav again? Vari audio isn’t a bad plug in but Melodyne editor is way better but I’d really like Komplete 8 as well. After Tuesday, I’ll need $450 left to get this.

It’s a beautiful day out there, 18* nice breeze nice and sunny. Anne’s out at Superstore to do some shopping and then we’ll have our brunch and the rest of the evening I’ll relax.

LA Kings are now 2 games away from winning their first Stanley Cup and game #3 starts Monday. So they play every other day. If LA wins game #3 Monday night and they’re in LA, then the Kings are only 1 game away from winning the Stanley Cup and that game could be (if they sweep the series) Wednesday night. In which case, we’ll be able to watch it at work. First time in NHL history in this present format an 8th seeded team swept all 4 series to a Stanley Cup. If they win the next 2 games that is. Anyway, that’s all I have for today.  

After work on

Saturday I think I'd like to catch a #5 bus head up over to near the lrt tunnel and take a photo of the big pit being dug out there and see if there is any sign or indication of what's being built there. Then I'd like to get a #2 bus and head on up to Riverside Towers area and take a couple of photos of the construction going on there. After that it's off to Wendy's for a bite to eat and then over to Clareview campus and take some photos of the construction going on there. So thats about 4 stops, including eats.

Ahh, Fridays

the afternoon was ok but for the most part things went by really slow. One of the major obstacles in the political end of my calls I get about half of the customer at the other end when asked if they are a supporter for the party, the most common answer I get is "I don't disclose my political views over the phone. And when someone says "yes" chances are they're unemployed and or "I half to to talk with my other half," or they're unemployed. And of course there are lots of answering machines or screeners asking what the call  is about. I hang up on those and move on. I was doing really good on the OPC last week but this week I fizzeld out.

Apparently the next  playoff game wont be until Saturday night, which is OK by me. It seems this roundthey play 1 game and have 2 days off. So if LA keeps going the way they have been and sweep NJ the Stanley Cup game itself won't be until next Friday. If they sweep NJ in 4 games. So far they haven't lost in 9 games! That's a record.

Yesterday was Kevin Pereira's last ATOS and its a shame. He's going to be a really tough act to follow. I don't know who his knew replacement is but its sad to see him go. We'll see on Monday who they (if anyone).

I've got a full day today and its to my bank and home and one day and I've got 2 off but i'm trying to save up enough funds for Komplete 8 and I'm thinking if I can put every Monday night for 4 hours until about 1st week in July I'll have it.  

Anyway, that's about all I have for now.

Because of Anne fighting with me and all last night, about my leg, I went to bed without a hug or a goodnight. I’m not even going to call her this afternoon. I have a red skin rash about the size of a golf ball between my foot and my knee, that isn’t healing. It began with a protrusion of small dried skin that wouldn’t go away and not even Anne’s Doctor knew what it was when it was about the size of a pea back in 2008. The original skin pea is still there but there is a rash that has developed around it, that is giving us some concern. I put vaseline on it before I leave for work and when I go to bed. Its not spreading that’s the main thing but Anne’s right about seeing a Doctor at the medi clinic. I was there about maybe 18 months ago for some Tylenol 3’s I think when I had some abscessed tooth pain. So I think after work Saturday I’m going to go over and wait.

What I’d like to also do on my way is to take a few photos of the construction going on over by the Clareview arena site. The arena this Spring was torn down and there’s a lot of construction going on over there from 42nd street to 37th street along 139th ave and down to the tracks. It’s a big chunk of land called Clareview campus. I hope to have some pictures of it Saturday but that depends on when the hockey game is on.

I won $10 on yesterdays 6/49 draw and another number would have got me $80. I’ve never won 4 numbers. Most I ever win has been $10 maybe 2-4 times, year. The jackpot hasn’t been claimed yet so now it goes up to $26M. Anyway, that's about all I have for today.

I went to bed about

3am when I fell asleep. I got about 6.5 hours but I was over tired as it was and set the alarm for 9:30am. I got up a bit earlier then that had put the kettle on the stove and had a shave and a shower and fed the cat and at the computer to make a blog post. 

On local news last night it was announced that our local newspaper The Edmonton Journal (1903) is no longer running a Sunday morning edition citing its not cost effective. I recall when I was delivering the Journal in 1981, we never had a Sunday paper. Most likely the Edmonton will follow in the Journal’s path and go no Sunday edition as well soon. 

The rail strike here in Canada is just about to wrap up with back to work legislation. Apparently the strike was costing Canada something like $5 billion/week. Trains going to Vancouver was costing about $250M/day. Union workers only represent about 3 million workers in the country anyway. 

Well, I got a full week ahead of me here. This morning I’ve got to go to my Scotia bank and make a deposit, just a slight detour. Telus apparently “sees” that I have set up a preauthorize billing arrangement for my flex plan for my iPad. My bill is just over $11 but that’s for May and June. Anyway, that’s about all I have for now.

The other day some of my colleagues

were asking me if I have any photos of me from say my early 20's? The earliest picture I have taken of me was in 1987 and that was in a photo booth. I was 35. Of course I have pictures taken of me in grade school and high school but nothing as a young adult. I wish I had some of every year since I could take pictures but I wasn't interested in photography that much. I think Ellen took a picture of me when I was over at her mothers place sleeping overnight and I was under the covers sleeping. That would have been 1979. Also, I recall while working with GWE (Pre-Xentel days.) a group of us were holding this banner for some sponsor and I was in it, 1989. I also have a photo taken of me 1997 in a Heart and Stroke function. I wish I had a camera back then but chances are it would have found its way into a pawn shop pretty darn quick. Since I had got the digital camera in 2005 of course, there are lots of photos and from the Lodge as in group photos.

I took my blood sugar reading about 40 minutes ago and I was sitting at 16.8! Yikes. I think it had something to do with the sugars in the sauerkraut in the Rubin sandwich Anne made for me but if anything sauerkraut actual controls blood sugar. 

I had a nap earlier about 6:30pm and napped for about an hour and I'm ready for bed. Not a lot going on and I don;t have the energy to get into my Cubase/Wav files. Right now, I could just go to bed. Anyway, that's about all I have for now. .

Two days off is

more then enough. Theoretically I could go in for tonight for the 5-9 shift but I need 2 days off after a full week.

Earlier yesterday I was working on a track in Cubase. I was able to use Garageband and cut a couple of vocal tracks and they show up in vari audio just fine but I couldn’t figure where the metronome in Cubase was coming from. Then I realized I had it turned On in GB. I’ve also got to redo the Wav files because I missed a bit of a step.

The topic on Coast tonight is about how media is lying to the public. I think lying is a strong word here. I think its more not making available all the news that’s fit to print. For example I watch CTV news and they have out of a 1 hour broadcast their first hour is the National and International news. Then a half hour of local news. Local news they cover news, weather and sports. After commercials etc, there isn’t a lot of room to cover the more exotic stories. But Jim Marrs usually talks about conspiracy theories and that’s the angle he usually comes from. But if an alien space craft lands on the white house lawn and says, “take me to your leader.” You can bet that’s going to be front page news. But your not going to get X-files stuff on CTV, ABC or maybe Fox news or CNN.

Sigh, another controversial headline grabbing book out there. First it was Harry Potter for kids. Then recently it’s Hunger Games for teenagers. Now it’s 50 shades of Grey for women but its mostly about erotic fiction type of thing. What‘s with all of these books appealing to specific demographic markets lately?

Not much is going on this week. It‘s a full 37.5 work week ahead. I‘m trying to save up for the Komplete 8 package as LM has it for just under $600. I figure at $75/week, I should have it by about mid July.

The other day Matt Smith (Doctor Who) carried the Olympic torch for the Summer 2012 Olympic games. I’m not big on the Summer games but I do like the winter games because of the hockey. It was nice to see Smith though to carry the torch. Anyway, that’s all I have for today.