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Monthly Archives January 2012

Hawaii Trip – Almost there…

¶ Posted 11 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel, unitedstates

Trip Planning in the Digital Age

Here’s a list, roughly from most to least useful, of the sites, apps and other online resources I used in researching our trip to Hawaii. The links I’ve included are mostly to info about Kauai since that’s our first stop but most of these searches were repeated for Maui info. YouTube – I always think […]

¶ Posted 10 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, economics, holiday, metafilter, travel

Music Monday – “All that fibre optic gear/Cannot take away the fear/Like an island song”

Other than those opening lines about it being “cold, cold, cold” (today was +5), I think this is my theme song for the next couple weeks. Oh, and there’s also the line about “You’re caught up in the Internet/You think it’s such a great asset/But you’re wrong, wrong, wrong.” Not sure how much I’ll be […]

¶ Posted 09 January 2012 § Family § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, holiday, music, travel, unitedstates, weather

Pace “Helps” With Packing

¶ Posted 08 January 2012 § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Goodbye Snow!

Pace and I made what will likely be our last visit to the park by our house before we leave for Hawaii next week. Then, when we got home, we found Shea cooking a tropical feast of shrimp and fish. So I poured us all OJ’s and 7-up (and coconut rum for the adults) and […]

¶ Posted 07 January 2012 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, saskatchewan, travel, unitedstates, weather

Friday Fun Link – Best Countries for Work-Life Balance

Canada comes in at #14 which means I’m moving to somewhere in Scandinavia. 😉 Just kidding but seriously, this isn’t that hard. Having daycare spaces for everyone makes for a better work-life balance? No shit. People not working a lot of extra hours makes a better work-life balance? No shit. Low child poverty makes for […]

¶ Posted 06 January 2012 § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, health, orgdevl, travel, unitedstates

In One Week…

…this is where I’ll be! (And with the waterproof case we got for my iPhone from Santa, this could very well be me taking this exact video! Of course, it was +6 in Regina today and a high of +19 (!) in Maple Creek, SK so, with Lihue Kauai coming in at +23, my timing […]

¶ Posted 05 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, holiday, travel, unitedstates, weather

Inside A Toddler’s Mind

Yep. (via Buzzfeed)

¶ Posted 04 January 2012 § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Politics in Full Sentences: The Story of Naheed Nenshi’s Purple Army

A great article on the behind-the-scenes of Naheed Nenshi’s improbable but ultimately successful campaign to become the mayor of Calgary (and if you want to get meta, there’s also a behind-the-scenes of how the original behind-the-scenes magazine article was compiled.)

¶ Posted 03 January 2012 § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: alberta, cool, facebook, science

Music Monday – “Come together/Right now/Over Me”

While Justin Bieber and especially Cee-Lo Brown were “interpreting” Beatles songs on New Year’s Eve for a TV audience of millions, three music legends – Steve Tyler, Alice Cooper and “Weird” Al Yankovic – teamed at a charity fundraiser in Maui to perform in front of a small crowd (filled entirely of people with camera […]