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Wisdom Wednesday – “This was the future at one point. Let’s use all this cool tech we have to make people’s lives easier, more fulfilling, and safer.”

Two months ago, my fully remote job of 3 years began a campaign to bring all employees back to office. This confused me, as I was originally hired to be fully remote. I lost that status because we recently moved into a temporary apartment while we shop for our first home. 1/ — Jauwn (@Jauwnio) […]

Friday Fun Link – The Road To Wrestlemania

The longest reigning champion in modern WWE history.  Two dynastic wrestling families.  A former wrestler who became the world’s biggest movie star (and also now sits on the WWE Board in real life.). The company being sold to the UFC’s parent company after being under McMahon family control its entire existence. The major cloud hanging […]

Riding Tren Maya, Mexico’s Controversial New Train

Saturday Snap – Boba Tea

Sasha bought me a Boba Tea with part of a gift card she got from Christmas at the end of a day of errands including visiting multiple art galleries like the highly cultured pair that we are! 😉 Fun fact: Boba Tea costs more at Mosaic Stadium than draft beer!  (This is actually not a […]

Friday Frustrated Link – A Great Explanation of Why Teachers Are Taking Job Action

No “Fun” post this week – only frustration… A great thread from Instagram about why teachers are walking out again on Monday, and why it is so important for teachers and folks who care about the quality of education in this province to stand up to the Sask Party. It’s too important to back down. […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Standing In The Light (and a list of ways I’m the tightest man alive) (Dec 2011)

Looking for an old picture to feature for this week’s Throwback Thursday, I came across one of me standing in my in-laws’ kitchen in December 2011.  What jumped out wasn’t that I didn’t have a terrible 90s-style goatee (which is my current look but also a Throwback Thursday in a way). Instead, it was that […]

Wisdom Wednesday – Your Real Job Is To Be A Translator

I was in an OH&S meeting once where they were talking about buying walkie-talkies so staff could more easily communicate with each other in our large Central branch. One of the clerks spoke up and said “What sort of training will we get?” A high level manager could barely hide her distain as she replied […]

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

Things That Are Societal “Constructs”

Been thinking about this a bit lately in a variety of ways – the “controversy” over gender fluidity/Drag Queen storytimes/”grooming”, the notion of what constitutes “professionalism” as I wear jeans and a t-shirt to work every day while having the most rat-nesty beard this side of Santa Claus, and then the above thought I saw […]

Wisdom Wednesday – Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

I first heard this advice years ago when I was still in the role of Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. In hindsight, I don’t think I appreciated what an amazing job that was to have right at the start of my library career. Our Director (still the same guy all these years later) […]