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Saturday Snap – A Gift of Oranges

Sasha had permission to invite a friend over to watch a movie this afternoon and somehow that grew to five girls showing up today to watch movies, eat pizza, and hang out for a few hours. (We approved this but also chuckled at how it snowballed!) We’ve been (mostly) careful through all of Covid but […]

¶ Posted 12 March 2022 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, food

Friday Fun Link – Bandaloop Takes Flight – Dancing on a Skyscraper

¶ Posted 11 March 2022 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]

¶ Posted 10 March 2022 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, metafilter

Heardle

There are literally hundreds of Wordle variations but Heardle, which plays increasingly longer snippets of a song as you try to get the track name and artist, is one of the most unique I’ve found.

¶ Posted 09 March 2022 § Internet § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Spinning on that dizzy edge/I kissed her face and kissed her head/And dreamed of all the different ways I had”

“Just Like Heaven” – Chvrches w/ Robert Smith

¶ Posted 07 March 2022 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Sappy Sunday – “Take advantage of your day, take advantage of the fact that your kids are young and affectionate and playful and take advantage of the fact you can do these things, take advantage of the opportunity every day to be physical, to work, to do anything.”

Diagnosed with ALS in June 2019 and given six months to live, Calgary Flames Assistant GM, Chris Snow, is still alive three years later. He has even been able to keep working (kudos to the Flames for this!) and turn his bad situation into an opportunity to raise hundreds of thousands for ALS research. His […]

¶ Posted 06 March 2022 § Family § Jobs § Sad § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, health, hockey, science

Saturday Snap – Happy 19th Anniversary, Shea (and Happy 2nd Anniversary of the Calendar Year!) ;-)

Shea and I have been together for 24 years (“more than half my life!” she regularly reminds me), married for 19 years and today, are celebrating our “preferred” anniversary date…as we joke that we have three each year: * the February legal one when we got married in jeans in our living room in Calgary […]

¶ Posted 05 March 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive

Friday Fun Link – 3-Day Novel Contest Locked in A Chapters Bookstore

A writer I know recently posted about a contest he participated in where he spent three days in a Chapters bookstore trying to write a novel. The contest was put on by Book Television, a Canadian specialty channel that closed last year. When I worked in the cultural non-profit sector, I remember writing a letter […]