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Friday Fun Link – Six Generations in One Picture

I think our family on my paternal grandmother’s side had five generations alive at one point but I can’t imagine six generations on the planet at one time (or even seven which the article says is the world record but with no photographic proof!)

¶ Posted 01 June 2018 § Family § FridayFunLink § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, ontario

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – On National Caesar Day, Is This The Best Wedding Ever? (Summer 2017, Somewhere in Ontario)

Like most good Canadians, I enjoy a good caesar. And since it’s National Caesar Day, I’m going to break from Throwback Thursday tradition and instead of posting one of my own pictures of me drinking a caesar or making a caesar or looking lovingly at a caesar on a restaurant table, I wanted to post an awesome […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, holiday, ontario

Music Monday – “Just make your friends/While you’re still young/Before you can’t see through/Anyone.”

“Trick Rider” – Gord Downie

¶ Posted 30 April 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, parents

Tragedy Fatigue

Other than both happening in Canada, both being unexpected, and both resulting in large losses of life, there aren’t many similarities between the tragedy in Humboldt earlier this month and the one in Toronto last night. But the fact that both happened only a couple weeks apart when it feels like events of this type […]

¶ Posted 24 April 2018 § Meme § News § PopCulture § Sad § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, hockey

Saturday Snap – [automated voice] “Thank-you for choosing Bell. You can expect a 10 minute wait until we answer your call.”

To be fair, it was about half an hour on hold then half an hour working through diagnosing the issue but still… (Why, oh why haven’t we cut the cord yet???)

¶ Posted 21 April 2018 § Humour § Jobs § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, television

“I’m not unusual in Canada for how much hockey has meant to me my whole life.”

I put this on Facebook before the Humboldt Broncos Vigil tonight (and after some time has passed, I may share some other thoughts on that) but wanted to capture it here too since Facebook sucks. 😉 I’m not unusual in Canada for how much hockey has meant to me my whole life. I was never […]

¶ Posted 08 April 2018 § Meme § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: facebook, health, history, hockey, music, saskatchewan, television

Saturday Snap – How Can The Library Help In A Time of Tragedy? #humboldtbroncos #humboldtstrong

In tragedies, most people know their roles… First responders race to the scene to face whatever awfulness awaits them. Doctors, nurses and other medical personnel use their skills to do whatever they can to heal the injured. Journalists try to capture, not only the story but the range of emotions that they and their audience is […]

¶ Posted 07 April 2018 § Jobs § Library § News § Saskatchewan § Sports § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: book, history, hockey, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Allow us to take you to the palm trees/Put your mind at ease Lay out in the sun Yuh feel the cool ocean breeze/Take a trip from Canada/I want all of us to go” @tasmanjude #ThePalaceLife

Twenty-four hours until we’re heading for the airport! Not sure how I first came across this groovy western Canadian reggae song (I think it was used for someone else’s travel montage video on YouTube?) but it’s become a staple of my “Tropical Holiday” playlist. The lyric version of this song is easier to understand… …but the live […]

¶ Posted 26 February 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, music, travel, weather

Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris

As the big air competition begins in the Olympics tonight, this is a pretty amazing documentary. Fun friend-of-a-friend name-dropping trivia: The filmmaker is Mark McMorris’ manager who is married to a girl that I used to babysit. My parents even attended their wedding but my invitation got lost in the mail. 😉

¶ Posted 20 February 2018 § Family § Humour § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, saskatchewan, sports