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Monthly Archives September 2014

Random Thoughts on #Apple’s Big Event Yesterday

Shea was home and planning to watch the livestream of the event but it was so crappy, we ended up having a nice family evening of watching the archive of the event after the kids went to bed.  Here’s some random thoughts (or if you want a more humourous take)… The reason she’s so pumped […]

Posted 10 September 2014 § Internet § List § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Help My Wife Win A Contest While Promoting Breastfeeding Awareness for #yqr

Shea’s currently involved in a contest on Facebook where the top vote getters will receive free photo shoots and then be featured in a calendar promoting breastfeeding awareness and raising funds for a badly needed breast milk depot for Regina. If you want to help her out, click on this link and Like the photo […]

Posted 09 September 2014 § Baby § Family § Humour § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “We arrived in December and London was cold/We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road/We never saw nothin’ but brass taps and oak/Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats”

Heard the very sad news today that John Mann of Spirit of the West has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Like many people who were college-aged in the 1990’s, Spirit of the West was basically a soundtrack to my life back then.  When I went to England on exchange in 1995, the lyric I quoted in […]

Posted 08 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Sasha Smiling For A Good Cause

Shea’s entered a contest to raise funds and awareness for a breast milk drop-off location in Regina, a service our city lacks but desperately needs. To help her along, I volunteered to post a cute Sasha picture to Facebook for every 25 Likes Shea’s contest entry received. Here’s my first “Cute Incentive” picture…

Posted 07 September 2014 § Family § Humour § Meme § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Last Campfire of the Season

Posted 06 September 2014 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – All The Cool Kids Hang Out at the Library

More on how the earliest recorded signature of Elvis Presley was discovered.

Posted 05 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Our New rPod 182g Ultralight RV

Shea and I had a pretty expensive visit to Indian Head earlier this summer. We went to the splash park and happened to bump into some friends who were back from Calgary for a few days.  In the course of talking to them, they told us they’d just bought a new rPod camper. We’d seen one […]

Posted 04 September 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Happy First Anniversary! Today Marks One Year As Branch Head at RPL’s Regent Place Branch

Wow – time flies.  It’s already been one year since I moved out of RPL’s Central Library to try life in the branches. And overall, it’s been a great move – both for all the reasons I listed at the one month point in my tenure and more. Here’s a few highlights and lowlights from […]

Posted 03 September 2014 § Library § List § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Pace’s First Day of Grade Two

Hard to believe Pace is in Grade Two already. As will probably become an annual tradition on the first day of school, I went back and watched the video I made of his first day in Kindergarten. I’ve always been somebody who loves taking pictures and videos and documenting things and that day, two short […]

Posted 02 September 2014 § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – Fur Elise in Different Tastes

A man sits down to play a piano that’s been put at one of the gates at an airport in Prague.  Other passengers who are waiting get a pretty good performance…

Posted 01 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,