The Tesla EV Roadster was unveiled in California. This is an amazing electric supercar that has a lot of potential. the car was designed by an ex-Lotus engineer so that is why it closely resembles the Elise. It is also being built by Lotus for Tesla. The car has a 0-60 time in about 4 seconds, it can go 250 miles on a single charge, and a top speed of 135 mph. All that from an electric engine. Since it is electric the engine produces no noise, is a lot more efficient than a traditional combustion engine, and can be “refuelled” for cheap. If I had a lot of money and lived in the United States in one of the few markets that it is going to be available in, I would be buying one for sure. The cost on it is expected to be between $80,000 to $120,000. The only potential downfall I can see is the life of the battery. They have said it should last 100,000 miles on a charge but they don’t reveal any details on replacement costs. Since it basically uses 6,831 lithium-ion laptop batteries, I have a feeling it could be a costly replacement. Here’s hoping that they are successful with their venture and that these electric cars catch on. Hopefully not another DeLorean.

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Finally, on the way to work today, they started the resurfacing of the trans-Canada from Regina to Emerald Park. It is about time this project got started as the highway is terrible. I’m just going to have to get used to the delays for hopefully only a week and then everyone can enjoy the fresh pavement. Some of the problems with the road were ruts, and cracks, pot-holes, and in some places it wasn’t very level causing jumps. I wonder if the police will come back afterwards since speeding could be an issue on the flat surfaces??

Back to work for the full week again. This time though, I won’t have any soccer games to distract me. Yesterday, I played some football at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. It was basically my first time ever going to the ledge on a weekend to play football. I never realized how busy the park around there was. The parking lots were full and a lot of people were walking throughout the park and having a good time. My football game was fun and I got some good exercise. Probably a good thing I got the exercise since without soccer for almost 2 weeks I might go out of whatever shape I got into.

This is normally the middle of the week but since I have Friday off it is actually just past half. White City vs. Capital Chargers tonight should be interesting. Capital Chargers are a really good team and have beaten us twice so far. Hopefully we will be able to get a good preformance, I believe some of our players will not be around though.

Today is going to be a big day for the red paperclip guy. He is in Kipling finalizing the trade for his house. It has been one year to the day that he started his trading scheme project. I have a feeling this fad tourism that Kipling is going to generate will be good for their local economy. It’s probably hard for them to attract people that far away from anything since it is in the middle of nowhere. I have a hard time believing the guy will actually live in the town. Whatever he decides to do, its amazing what you can do with a paperclip.

Last night White City played QC U18. We won the game 7 to 0. We had a two subs so we definetly had a good turn out. Also, the fact that the other team was an under 18 team helped out too. So, with this win and the default win last week wednesday our season looks to be turning around. Well, just kidding, for our team to have any sort of continued success we need to get lots of people out to games and keep the game simple.

Monday is the beginning of another work week. For me, it is going to end on a Thursday due to my EDO. I plan on keeping myself busy with soccer games Monday and Wednesday. Next weekend is the country music down at Craven. I absolutely extremely dislike country so I have no plans on going out. Maybe I will go to Laserquest on Friday night for Ryan from Zeller’s birthday party. Should be fun times since laserquest is always a lot of fun. Maybe this time they will be able to spell ‘cheater’ correctly and not “cheer”.

Today is the last day that the teachers will be working on my floor for the summer.  After today, they will go on a 2 month holiday and come back in late August.  Myself on the other hand will be working.  On Monday, the office will be very empty.  I expect that once you take away the teachers and the people on holidays, there will only be 4 people on the entire floor.  I have a feeling it is going to feel like I’m working on the weekend or something.  Maybe I could take my computer over by the window and get a good window office for a couple months.  I could knock a couple cubicle walls down and make a super office.  Dreams!!

Last night we were supposed to have a soccer game and this time it wasn’t our team that defaulted. Our team got its first win of the season with a default over CCFC. I believe we are lucky since they looked like they could have been a really good team. I am basing that off of the 4 players that they had playing during our little scrimmage for fun. The scrimmage by the way went pretty good. It was actually way too hot outside to be playing soccer. I felt like I was being melted by the sun. Another thing, 5:45 games are a terrible time to play. I get off work at 4:30 and get home by 5:00 and then once I get my stuff and drive back into Regina its almost game time. I would much prefer the 7:30 games since that way I would have time to eat something before I go out to play. Next game is Monday, July 10th, at 5:45 against QC U18.

Last night the IT people at my work switched over servers and upgraded all the users or something.  It seemed like everything was going good until I noticed that the network drives no longer had any of the files I was working on.  It seemed like they just copied over the folders names but none of the contents beneath them.  Without having this data, it makes my job a lot more difficult to do.  It basically means I am unable to do any work until they finish the copy over.  Luckily I don’t work on deadlines.  Tonight, hopefully, is another soccer game.  I am hoping that we will be able to play tonight since it has been a while since we actually played.  We are played CCFC so it could be an interesting game.

Well, it’s time to get back to work.  The super-long weekend went well and I enjoyed myself.  To recap, on Thursday night I saw Superman Returns.  I thought this was a very excellent superman movie.  I would definetly see it again.  On Friday, I played around with my new mp3 player.  I worked on Saturday. . .  yay time and a half.  On Sunday and on Monday, I must not have done anything since I can’t remember them.  Monday night we were suppose to have a soccer game but the field got double booked so we didn’t play.  We were suppose to play TAYSA U18, which is a team made up players from Emerald Park, Balgonie, Pilot Butte and area.  We would have had a good chance for the win.  With the weekend over, I have a 4 day work week, and then again next week another 4 day week (EDO). Fun fun.