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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 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

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 […]

¶ Posted 20 May 2014 § Family § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, cute, economics, hockey, language, parents, science, travel, twitter, unitedstates

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Some of the times science fiction led to science fact What Your Country Says About Your Reading Habits What’s the single biggest mistake parents can make? (AskReddit) 40 Ways Kids Ruin Everything Good In This World (very funny!) How The Working Class Was Forgotten 10 Segments That Make Us Ashamed To Be Wrestling Fans And one […]

¶ Posted 06 May 2014 § Baby § Canada § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cute, economics, science, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Christians have their hymns and pages/Hava nagila’s for the Jews/Baptists have the Rock of Ages/Atheists just sing the blues”

A co-worker sent me this knowing I’d get a kick out of it… “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs” – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

¶ Posted 05 May 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, language, music, television

Bon Jovi Baby

This clip is hilarious, not just because it reminds me of the things my own kids do now but also because it reminds me of the folk-punk band I was in while on exchange to England which regularly integrated Bon Jovi lyrics into our own songs (in this case, the song became “I want her/Dead […]

¶ Posted 04 May 2014 § MemoryLane § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music

Saturday Snap: I’m Not Sure If Sasha Is Late For Easter Or Early For Halloween?

Clean-up in Aisle 7! Sasha decided to grab hold of the egg carton in our shopping cart the other day and dump a few of them on the grocery store’s floor. Conveniently, Shea was in another aisle while I was with Pace who said “Let’s get out of here!” and pretty much took off running. (He […]

¶ Posted 26 April 2014 § Baby § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin Gives a NSFW Defense of Gay Marriage

Hell yeah! (h/t to JK or FB)

¶ Posted 23 April 2014 § Censorship § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, television, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Every four way stop that I approached/Hey, I was on the right/When I drove past your house again/Hey, like I always do/I think about the one thing in my life that didn’t come true”

An entire hour and a half long Fred Eaglesmith concert, taped in Holland? Man, I love the Internet for so many reasons…it eliminates time, distance and provides access to stuff you’d never see otherwise. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like in 5-10 years when literally everything that’s ever been broadcast, everything we can see […]