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Saturday Snap – Sasha Grooving

Shea got invited to Pace’s school for a Volunteer Appreciation Tea for some work she’d done to help out with Pace’s class this year while she was on maternity leave. She took Sasha to the tea and it was a pleasant surprise that Pace’s class was also the one chosen to entertain the volunteers. Sasha […]

¶ Posted 07 June 2014 § Humour § Pace § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education, music

My Suggestion for A Better Way to Make Sure A #yxe Father Is Close To His Ill Son #yqr #saskatchewan

Looks like WestJet’s trying to repeat their successful Christmas viral video with another one that will pull your heartstrings for Father’s Day (plus to help make the video go viral, they’ve offered additional flights to Ronald McDonald families for every 100,000 views the clip gets up to a maximum of 500,000.) Of course, this is very generous of […]

¶ Posted 04 June 2014 § Jobs § Sad § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, holiday, parents, saskatchewan

Parenting Sure Has Changed!

In the old days, if your kid fell in a hole you reached for them. Today, you reach for your camera phone! 😉

¶ Posted 03 June 2014 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Nice Weather’s Here…

…so we’re in the backyard as much as possible!

¶ Posted 31 May 2014 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, saskatchewan, weather

Saturday Snap – As A Handyman, I Make A Pretty Good Librarian!

Luckily, my one neighbour has spent many years as a carpenter for the City of Regina (and also does numerous side projects for his own clients as well) while my other neighbour said “I’ve lived in five houses and built five fences!” Add in two son-in-laws of the carpenter helping out (including one who is […]

¶ Posted 24 May 2014 § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Big Changes at MetaFilter

I don’t hang out there nearly as much as I used to (and worse, a lot of my “community web site” time has shifted to <gasp> Reddit!) so it was a bit of a shock to see a librarian colleague post on Facebook about the big changes happening at MetaFilter. Cash-strapped after a recent downturn […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2014 § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, metafilter

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

The Stanley Cup playoffs are heating up but it’s still the off season for some teams. The official Twitter accounts of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Tampa Bay Lightning engaged in what is perhaps the world’s first game of Twitter Tac Toe! “Dad Jokes” are shorthand for lame jokes that inevitably get groans from […]