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Monthly Archives February 2015

Saturday Snap – Farewell to #PuntaCana #grandpalladium

Back from our week long holiday in the Dominican Republic and now the long sad process of unpacking and downloading all the pictures we took and catching up on neglected stuff at home begins. We’ll likely get a fuller album up on Facebook eventually but here’s one shot of us from the week taken by the […]

Posted 28 February 2015 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Weird Thoughts You Have While Flying

Very likely that there will be a week long blog holiday as we leave for the Dominican Republic tomorrow for a week’s holiday…

Posted 18 February 2015 § Family § Humour § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Travel Planning, Coincidence and (Another) Once In A Lifetime Experience

Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]

Posted 17 February 2015 § Library § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § Video § Work ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – Bachata Dancers in the Dominican Republic

Posted 16 February 2015 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Nine Hilarious SNL Auditions You Have To See

Saturday Night Live is having their 40th Anniversary Special tonight.  For some people, it’s Python or SCTV or Richard Pryor.  But for me (and most of my friends), SNL probably played more of a role in developing our sense of humour than any other single source. Some great treasures in the audition tapes including perhaps SNL’s […]

Posted 15 February 2015 § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – After Vacuuming Their Heads…

Posted 14 February 2015 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link- A Hard Day’s Night First Chord Solved?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbNaEXmyrw

Posted 13 February 2015 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § UK § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Tropical Vacation History

Some people go every year, some people go whenever they can afford it, and some people will never go to one, thinking they’re fake, inauthentic holidays. Shea and I are in that middle category – though we don’t go every year [edit: I lied – as of January 2020, we’ve been five years in a […]

Posted 12 February 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , ,

In one word, the temperature in Punta Cana is…

Consistent!

Posted 11 February 2015 § Infographic § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Dominican Republic

On our trip next week (next week!), I don’t think we’ll so much as leave our all-inclusive resort for a city tour or a catamaran excursion. But perhaps next time…

Posted 10 February 2015 § Family § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,