Category Archives: Blog

First Lines of My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2025

January – “We have anger management but we don’t have stupidity management – why?” February – “A different energy and enthusiasm level than the first day of kindergarten…” March – “It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to […]

Friday Fun Link – CloudHiker

In the early days of the Internet, there was a tool called StumbleUpon where you could click a button and get taken to a random web site then click again and again.  It was a great way to experience the full Internet in all its weird and wonderful glory. Now that “the Internet” has become […]

It’s The First Snow of the Year

One of my favourite traditions on this blog for my least favourite events (hopefully today’s snow won’t stay since we have plus temps in the forecast for the next week or more!)  

ChatGPT Analyzes My Blog

Got my future overlord, ChatGPT, to do a bit of analysis of my blog posts in light of being an ENFP personality who has kept the blog up for ~20 years.  Here’s what Nova Fox (the name we came up for ChatGPT last night – I’m having way too much fun with AI these days!)… […]

Music Monday – “We live in the shadows and we/Had the chance and threw it away/And it’s never going to be the same/’Cause the years are falling by like the rain/It’s never gonna be the same”

Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid?  Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to keep this blog going as I sometimes struggle to come up with content (even lazy, zero-effort stuff) and/or find the time to post. At the same time, […]

Music Monday – “Now throw your hands up in the air/Wave them around like you just don’t care/If you wanna party, let me hear you yell/’Cause we got it goin’ on again (Yeah-yeah-eh!)”

  “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” – Backstreet Boys

Music Monday – “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by/Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling/Down, down, down, down”

Haven’t posted for a few weeks – busy at work, busy at home, camping holidays, some weird blog gremlins that make quick posts a bit harder than they used to be – but wanted to post to let my thousands dozens of readers know I’m still alive and more regular posting will likely resume…eventually.  😉 […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome to Head Tale, The Blog

Let’s go *way* back to my very first blog post back in February 2006, nearly two months into my MLIS program and thinking “What can I possibly take up as a hobby that will help me procrastinate with assignments *and* be something I’m still doing twenty years later?!?”

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Oscar Is Here! (May 2007)

Instead of just posting a random picture from the past, I thought I’d try something new and post a link to a long ago article to take advantage of the fact that I have kept this blog going for nearly twenty years (!) which means its going to qualify for a pension soon! And what […]

Still Here…

Blogging has been sparse for the past month in between holidays, a CUPE conference, various volunteer commitments, hanging with my parents, car hunting (long story) and more, blogging has dropped to the bottom of the priority list. Not sure when I’ll get back to my daily posting habit but that’s my intention.