James Lind

Good news…well so far! After replacing the timing gears, for a mere $750 on the car, I have had three days of trouble free driving! Hopefully this has solved the problem. That’s good news indeed. The gears had to be replaced anyway as the car just hit the 200,000km mark on Saturday. It works!

Nikki may be taking the early morning shifts at London Drugs, so she can get some more hours and a better schedule. It will be early mornings; but a work mate says she can get a ride to and from work, so that alone will save her an hour and a half worth of bus rides each day. Her other job however has nothing but conflicting hours, so she may be looking for something different there. 
Nikki is still waiting on an official offer from Katimavik, which is just a formality, and should be here the first week of October. But she hasn’t decided for sure whether she is going or not. I hope she goes, as it would be a great opportunity missed otherwise.

I did some geocaching (see link above to the right) the other night for CBC radio. They wanted a shower radio hidden for a promotion of both CBC and geocaching. I finally got it done just as it was getting dark. The person that found it discovered it the next day at about 10am, after driving in from Delisle. I missed his name on the radio, but hearty congratulations none the less.

So I’m at work and I need to phone Rogers Communications to see if they have chased anybody up a tower and screwed the light bulb back in. Laugh all you want, sometimes it takes months to get done…and you wonder why your cell phone doesn’t work! So I get this woman on the phone..Anna Tomahawkmissile, or something like that. Apparently it’s not HER job to fix the lights…she delegates. Two things, how did she get a position to delegate, and why would she like living in Calgary? One of lifes many mysteries!
I mean, don’t get me wrong, Calgary is a beautiful city if you don’t mind the forty-five minute commute home everyday. And the housing prices are sooo reasonable! And the license for a young person to drive…nice! Keeps kids off the street, well not in cars anyway. And don’t forget…NO PST. But I’m curious as to why a Blizzard from Dairy Queen in Saskatoon is $4.19 + 7% PST ($4.49 total) and in Calgary it’s $5.29 and NO PST?? What a deal! Bu it is the place to go get work, just take your tent to live in, because there is NO affordable housing.
Oh well Anna, I’m probably just jealous!

Anywhoo, the light was fixed two weeks ago or something; but she was keeping it a secret! I mean really now…wtf?

Further in the automobile saga…it died twice again yesterday, so it’s in the shop once again. This time I told him to replace the fuel filter. I have no idea if that’s the problem or not; but it’s the cheapest part to replace. I will update tomorrow on the results of that experiment!

The car died again yesterday…twice. It does start after sitting for five minutes or so. The second time it happened I was at Earl’s, so I just went back in for a beer! I love it when a plan comes together. Anyway, I drop the car of at the garage last night…they try all day today to make it die…runs perfectly for them…of course. Now I have the car back, so far so good.

So to kill my day I stained more fence. There are only two construction related jobs I hate…taping drywall and painting. But it went pretty good and I had to get it done. Next week saskatoon is looking at HIGH temperatures of 7C. Can’t stain at that temperature.

 I’m picking up Nikki from work in about 30 minutes (car permitting). Then we’re off to the craft store to pick up some crafty things for my Christmas pressies! If you want something this year, speak up now…I’m making a list until end of the month and I’m NOT checking it twice!

Back to work tomorrow with just a brutal schedule…DDDDNNNND…it never ends…

I just need to say a special thank you to Ashley for keeping me company on my latest night shifts. I had a brutal schedule the last while looking like this: NNNDDDNNN. Now night shifts are bad enough; but when you sandwich three day shifts in between, it messes with you. For those who work night shifts, and know about the internal clock…you understand. For those of you who don’t; consider yourselves lucky!

Anyway, Ashley has kept me company for all of my night shifts, giving freely of her time and energy. We did everything from online minesweeper, to house hunting, to cyber-shopping! Expensive tastes in houses; but good taste! And you are just too good at minesweeper, I need a simpler game to try to beat you at! lol. Shopping with you is always a blast though! I can’t wait until we can do that in person!

Hopefully, exams go well for you and I am sure that the holiday in Fiji will be a nice break. But then I need you to buckle down and get through your last term. We both know how important it is, so good luck! Am I invited to graduation? I’ll bring a gift! Seriously though, if there is anything I can do…

So once again, thank you Ash, for sharing your time, your life and your love with me…that’s so special!

The doc says there’s a good chance I WILL be able to keep my leg, although the final word is not in yet! There goes my World Cup soccer dream! Oh wait, I just wanted to watch! The dream is still alive!

The leg is very sore though, even getting around the house is a chore. Doc says minimum 48 hours, so hopefully I’ll be good to go back to work for Saturday night. Not that I like work; but I will go stir crazy here after a couple of days. I guess this rules out the golf tournament for me too. Bummer.

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, I hope everyone has made their plans and that the reservations are confirmed! For various reasons we (my mom, sister and I), will be going out for dinner on Saturday night. Then on Sunday, I’m still trying to figure out if I’ll be able to go to Chisa’s fundraising steak dinner for the dance trip to Las Vegas. I hope my leg is well enough to go. She’s my best friend! Okay, Chisa and Jake are my best friends, But Jake lives 1478km northeast of here, so we don’t see each other much! Just our yearly junket to Vegas, or other unexpected trips for him to Saskatoon. www.punshon.ca

Speaking of the best…things continue to get better and better with Ashley! She is such a beautiful person. I consider myself sooo lucky to have her in my life. We still have a few obstacles ahead; but we’re not worrying about those yet! Lot’s of time to cross those bridges in the future. Right now, we’re just enjoying the relationship we have! We just have so many things in common, so many likes and dislikes, it’s sometimes kind of scary, considering we are so far apart. Thank goodness for the internet! Missing my Toast!