Head Tale

In completely random order…

1. Sasha
2. Pace
3. Shea
4. The Flames Kicking Ass This Year
5. Tropical Holidays
6. Helping People With Technology Problems at the Library
7. Our Dozen or So Young Regulars Who Hang At the Library
8. Craft Beer
9. iPhones and Knowing That I Have A Device in My Pocket More Powerful Than The Computers That Sent A Man To The Moon
10. Reddit
11. Staples Office Supply Stores
12. Not Being Able To Name The Favourite Thing Shea Cooks (Tonight’s Tikka Masala Stir Fry was Amazing!)
13. Days When I Don’t Have To Scrape The Car Windows In The Morning
14. Days When I Do (As Long as It’s Not *Too* Cold) As It Makes Me Feel Very Canadian
15. Reading Through Chapter Books With Pace
16. When Sasha Demands To Be Read Her Board Books at Bed Time
17. Anytime I Walk In The House After Work and See Sasha, Pace and Shea at the Dinner Table Waiting For Me
18. Memories of Our Kauai Trip – One of the Best Trips of My Life
19. Staying Up Until The Wee Hours of the Morning Reading a Book I Can’t Put Down
20. Staying Up Until The Wee Hours of the Morning in General
21. Pace Making the Next Leap in His Technological Progress Connecting with a Friend on XBox Live Today So They Can Play Minecraft Remotely
22. How Much The Oilers Suck This Year
23. Pizza
24. Living in the Centre of the Continent
25. That I Still Get the Occasional Freelance Writing Gig
26. Being On the Board of a Local Literary Press
27. Hawksley Workman
28. Fred Eaglesmith
29. Corb Lund
30. The Beatles
31. Books about the Beatles
32. The Movie *Boyhood*
33. My New HaflingerAS Slippers (shout-out to ShoeMe.ca for the wicked deal)
34. Realising that part of the reason I wear through slippers so much is that I wear one pair pretty much 24/7 while at home and that I could have two pairs – one good lounging pair and a cheaper one for when I’m working/sweating/going outside to save the good pair.
35. Old Dutch Cheese Nacho Chips
36. Bushwakkers Brew Pub
37. That Shea’s parents and my parents get along so well, go on trips together, have holidays together
38. Pace not playing hockey makes me sad in some ways but makes my pocket book *very* happy! 😉
39. Looking through old photos
40. Playing guitar
41. Memories of my exchange to England which was probably the single best four-month stretch of my life – not just a holiday but a whole different way of life for a semester
42. Johnny Gaudreau
43. When Sasha says “Allll done!”
44. The sense of calm that pulling back from pretty much all volunteer/political activities I’ve had since Sasha was born
45. Our new Google Chomecast dongle
46. Bacon
47. Bacon and tomatoes
48. Bacon and tomatoes and cheese
49. Rdio.com
50. The smell of a new book
51. NetFlix
52. When Sasha’s sleeping with us and you open your eyes to see her gazing at you
53. Freedom of Expression issues
54. Being an atheist
55. Those rare times when Pace has a clean room
56. Those even more rare times when our entire house feels clean
57. Wednesdays mornings at work – that’s our closed morning and it’s the best time to be in the library when, other than a couple other staff, it’s pretty much empty and quiet (kinda like an old fashioned library!)
58. YouTube
59. The recent Supreme Court ruling against Saskatchewan’s Essential Services legislation and how the current government’s overreach may have helped the labour movement across Canada in a way that no left wing government has been able to do
60. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
61. Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins and Damien Mizdow
62. Barack Obama basically seeming to have no fucks to give now that he’s a lame duck President – snarking back at the State of the Union to drinking a beer during a Super Bowl interview to using Presidential power to unilaterally move forward issues he knows Congress won’t support
63. Science and anything cool that happens in science
64. The Qu’Appelle Valley
65. This video
66. Weddings
67. Dancing at Weddings
68. Our rPod182G Camper
69. Starting To Think About Summer Camping Options
70. Low Carb Beer (I am officially an old man)
71. Reading in the Bath Tub
72. Crossing Things Off My To Do List
73. Waking Up On A Day Off and Realising I Don’t Have To Go to Work
74. Facebook
75. Caesar Salad
76. Steak
77. Caesar salad and steak
78. Caesars
79. Frame TV (saw this channel of rotating HD wallpapers in our hotel room this weekend and couldn’t turn it off)
80. Blogs/Blogging
81. Kurt Vonnegut
82. That Final Catch in the Super Bowl (even if I hated the interception that followed on the next play)
83. That my library has an XBox and Kinect available for programs and patrons to use
84. Following politics
85. Doug Stanhope
86. Louis CK
87. CalgaryPuck Fan Forum
88. Visiting libraries in other communities
89. Calgary (one of my favourite cities I’ve ever visited)
90. That Shea Lost 40+ pounds after Sasha was born
91. Joining a road hockey game on Christmas Day
92. ThisLife.com (if they’d only improve their pricing structure)
93. Pretty much anything written by Marcello di Cintio or Chris Turner
94. Whenever I get my e-mail in-box under control at home or at work
95. External hard drives
96. Sasha dancing
97. Sasha laughing
98. Pace laughing
99. Pace dancing
100. Writing – anything from stories to poems to journals to reports at work
101. Lists!