Skip to content

Monthly Archives December 2017

2017 End of Year Memes: Blog Blows Up, Libraries Live, Seasonal Summer, Tropical Travels

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Testified at a Labour Relations Board hearing.  It’s a long story but for the past few years, the library I work at has been moving towards getting in-scope Branch Heads turned into out-of-scope Branch Managers.  Again, long story with many twists and turns […]

Posted 31 December 2017 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

First Lines From My First Blog Post In Every Month of 2017

This is one of my favourite posts of the year.  I love how it randomly ends up capturing so many highlights of the year, personal and otherwise… January – “Thirty Canadian artists playing covers of thirty Tragically Hip songs to celebrate thirty years of the Hip as part of a 4-hour radio special on the first […]

Posted 30 December 2017 § Blog § List § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Year End “Best of” Lists

Here’s a few year end “Best of” lists for your reading pleasure.

Posted 29 December 2017 § Library § List § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Pace Sees The *Real* Santa!

Pace has seen the *real* Santa (not those fake mall ones!) three times – once when Santa came to Grandpa and Grandma Hammond’s on Christmas Eve when Pace was probably around two or three years old.  (Coincidentally, that Santa had the same eyeglass frames as a neighbour down the street.) 😉 Once at our house […]

Posted 28 December 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § ThrowbackThursday § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Promise Made, Promise Kept.

Shea opened this on Christmas morning (it’s hard to see but that’s an apple and a kid’s toy watch taped in a box)… …and picked this up on Boxing Day. (Uhm, I had it in my head that the only day Apple discounts their products is Black Friday and Boxing Day but apparently not.) 🙁 […]

Posted 27 December 2017 § Family § Humour § Photo § Shea § Technology § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Few Post-Christmas Thoughts

I can’t find it now but I have a memory that in December 2011, I posted a screen grab of a weather forecast showing +4 for Dec 24, Dec 25 & Dec. 26.  (Here’s one from around the same time on the same subject.)  At any rate, it’s been brutally cold this week and I’m […]

Posted 26 December 2017 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “All the lights are shining/So brightly everywhere/And the sound of children’s/Laughter fills the air”

I was a bit surprised to see which was my most played song over the past month, narrowly defeating a handful of songs that I thought *could* be my most played. Anyhow, since I’ve ended up doing a month-long series of posts about cover versions of popular songs, why not finish off on Christmas Day […]

Posted 25 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours…

Posted 24 December 2017 § Family § Photo § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Rudolph’s Butthole Shooter Recipe

Shea and I went to a Christmas party, hosted and attended by a few of the couples we met through our seasonal campsite at Echo Lake this year. All of us (well, except one camper who was pregnant this summer but made up for it at the Christmas party!) had occasionally drank shooters while listening […]

Posted 23 December 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Sad Jingle Bells

This video takes one of the happiest Christmas songs and turns it sad by playing it in a minor key… I’ve also long believed that you can make this popular jaunty carol into a pretty sad one, simply be reworking the lyrics from present to past tense, changing the odd word and singing all verses […]

Posted 22 December 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,