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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Crashing Waves at the Witches Brew, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii (Winter 2002)

This is a great shot (though possibly not the smartest thing to do) of Shea and I from our first trip to Hawaii…

The World’s Most Awkward Three Way Handshake

¶ Posted 29 June 2016 § Canada § News § Politics § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history

Baby Gorilla Pounds Chest for First Time

¶ Posted 28 June 2016 § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “I can’t sleep tonight/Everybody saying everything’s alright/Still I can’t close my eyes/I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights”

This is a very fitting song for the United Kingdom in a week that saw the population unexpectedly vote to leave the European Union via a very narrow margin in the “Brexit” referendum and then another upset as England is knocked out of the Euro Football Championships by Iceland of all places (cue jokes about England not being […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history

Game of Thrones’ Best Fight Scenes (Set to Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”)

The final episode of season 6 airs tonight and after last week’s episode (which is the highest rated single episode of a TV show in history), I can’t wait! This clip is a good warm-up for the series finale. Warning: contains so much awesome…

¶ Posted 26 June 2016 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, television

Saturday Snap – ‘Rasslin

It’s good when I end up in a controlling position but I live in fear for when I let Pace up! 😉

¶ Posted 25 June 2016 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Mark Hamill Goes Undercover As A Stormtrooper

¶ Posted 24 June 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Writers Guild of Alberta: The First Thirty Years

Saw this posted on Facebook today – a history of the Writers Guild of Alberta’s first 30 years including one passing mention of myself as one of a handful of people who worked as coordinators of the WGA’s Calgary office over the years.

¶ Posted 23 June 2016 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta

Dollars Spent Per Hour of Entertainment

Too bad this site didn’t have a line for “library book/movie/CD”. 😉 (via)

¶ Posted 22 June 2016 § Infographic § Library § List § PopCulture § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Thoughts On Maintaining Perspective

So I’m having a bit of a rough June… I won’t get into the gory details (or post the photos!) but it involves a minor medical procedure, a longer-than-expected recovery, an unexpected infection which may or may not be a result of that first procedure and which swelled one of my arms up to double the size of […]