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Category Archives: Family

Sappy Sunday – Happy Mother’s Day

Over the weekend, a guy I used to play hockey with posted a status update with a link to the blog he and his wife kept of their experiences while adopting a South African boy three years ago, a journey that culminated over Mother’s Day.  I’ve direct linked to their Mother’s Day posts but it’s […]

Posted 13 May 2012 § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Good-bye Old Friend

Our car got smushed in a hit and run while parked on the street in front our house late Friday night/early Saturday morning (actually our neighbour’s van got hit with enough impact that it ended up on our car’s trunk!). Our car’s a total write-off which is sad as we’ve had it for a decade […]

Posted 12 May 2012 § MemoryLane § Randomness § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

Posted 09 May 2012 § Politics § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Bucket List for Kids: 50 Things To Do Before They’re 12

By my count, Pace has only done 15 of the 50 things on this list.  Of course, he’s not even 5 yet (next month!) so he’s got lots of time to finish off this list!  And if the rocks hadn’t been so slippery when I was carrying him and/or if he was a slightly stronger swimmer, […]

Posted 25 April 2012 § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”

I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio.  Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song!  (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”

Posted 23 April 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once every […]

Posted 22 April 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Puddle Jumping

Like last week, another photo of Pace having fun with a friend – this time his cousin Dennon.

Posted 21 April 2012 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Look At The Sky

Pace and his buddy, Bryden, having a laugh at Bryden’s second birthday party.

Posted 14 April 2012 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too.”

Being in the US, especially on a major religious holiday, is always eye-opening to me as an atheist. For example, this chart ran with a newspaper story whose title and anecdotal themes suggested people were coming back to faith but which the hard evidence clearly suggests otherwise… I will concede that religion and religious pressure […]

Posted 09 April 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Space Aliens Grill & Bar

A BBQ restaurant with a Space Alien theme AND video arcade? Definitely my favorite place in Minot!

Posted 07 April 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,