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Monthly Archives December 2016

10 Crucial Decisions in the 2016 Election That Reshaped America

No matter who wins elections, it’s often the behind-the-scenes articles and books that come out afterwards that are the most interesting in revealing the strategies, infighting and plain lucky breaks that make things go well or go, well, just about as bad as they went for Hillary Clinton a month ago. This is a very […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2016 § List § MemoryLane § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – My Favourite Christmas Tradition?

One of Shea’s and my Christmas traditions is that we go out for lunch together without kids (usually) sometime in December to a place where we can have a good meal and possibly a pint or other refreshing beverage as well. We were both off yesterday so decided to visit the Rochdale Leopold’s (I’d been before […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2016 § Family § Photo § Randomness § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Randomness § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, language, ontario, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bailey’s (December 2006)

This is a (very popular) classmate pouring shots of Bailey’s for everyone before our final Genealogy class in library school back in 2006. I think it was a morning class so I don’t know if that makes it better or worse that we were drinking at 8am before class started – it is Bailey’s after […]

¶ Posted 08 December 2016 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario

Top 15 Mannequin Challenges

This is the latest trend for all the kids. That’s cool and all but as a big Beatles fan, I’m especially excited that the song in the background is apparently called “Black Beatles“! 😉

¶ Posted 07 December 2016 § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music, sports, youtube

“Snow’s so merciless, poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/In spite of it all”

Montreal / Montreal.

¶ Posted 06 December 2016 § Canada § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Music Monday – “I felt like a king on the 25th day/Most precious of gifts returned my gaze/Not seventeen years, in fact less a day/Who dreamed of red flowers surrounding a grave?/Another trip ’round the sun rewinds misery/The whiskey, the tree and me”

I love that the local independent radio station wakes me up every morning and I doubly love when a song penetrates my brain as I switch from sleeping to being awake. Today, this was the song I heard as I dozed between sleep and wake… “The Whiskey, The Tree and Me” – JJ Voss

¶ Posted 05 December 2016 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

PSA: Do Your Backups!

I’ve had a few computer crashes over the years of varying degrees of severity. This year alone, I’ve had two (that’s just my laptop – I’ve probably had panicked moments with my phone for one reason or another too.) First, my Macbook Pro crashed in June. It turned out that it was a hardware failure […]

¶ Posted 04 December 2016 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Ghost Pepper Wings

Shea: “Let’s try these. There’s no way a store would sell something that’s too hot. They probably put like a microgram of ghost pepper on the wings and they taste a bit hotter than regular buffalo wings.” Pace: “I don’t like hot food but I saw a video on YouTube saying ghost peppers are one […]