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First Snow of the Year (2024 Edition)

Nice and late this year!

¶ Posted 19 November 2024 § Meme § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, weather

Music Monday – “With your feet on the air and your head on the ground/Try this trick and spin it, yeah/Your head will collapse, if there’s nothing in it/And you’ll ask yourself/Where is my mind”

“Where Is My Mind” – The Pixies

¶ Posted 18 November 2024 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – Hiding Anne Frank in Trump’s America?

¶ Posted 17 November 2024 § Politics § Sad § SecularSunday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, history, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Baby Librarian Hammond? Young Man Hammond?

It’s an unofficial tradition (does two people doing it so far equal a “tradition”?) that when a colleague is at one of the branches I work at – either for a meeting or redeployed due to illness or whatever – they leave a doodle of some kind as a “thanks” for using my desk. The […]

¶ Posted 16 November 2024 § Humour § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cute

Friday Fun Link – This Is Mother Fucking Web Site

I remember learning the basics of HTML in 1997 and still joke that some of my first web design jobs were because I could “get a picture to show up on a web page.” Times have changed but I love this site as it brings back so many memories of the core web site design […]

¶ Posted 15 November 2024 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Prom Grand March (May 1991)

So I joined the Prom Planning Committee for Pace’s graduating class. Kids today are much more environmentally conscious but in 1991 when I graduated, I do believe high school proms was a Top 10 contributor to the hole in the ozone layer!

¶ Posted 14 November 2024 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, parents

I’m Hoping To Sneak Up On Shea This Year…

¶ Posted 12 November 2024 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, xmas

Music Monday – “The winds have blown over the ocean/The winds have blown over the sea/The winds have blown over the ocean/And brought back my Bonnie to me”

“My Bonnie” – John McDermott (Fun Fact – we don’t get many celebrity sightings in Regina but I saw John McDermott in the lobby of the Hotel Sask in Regina one year around Christmas when he was in town for a concert!)