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The Price of Gas Is Lower Than When I Started Working As A Gas Station in High School!

This is from Medicine Hat, Alberta, not Indian Head, Saskatchewan. But it’s absolutely insane that a litre of gas now costs *less* than when I started working at a gas station in 1989 when gas was 45.9 cents per litre (49.9 for Supreme!) – a number imprinted on my brain the same way I still […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2020 § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happier Times at the Hospital (May 2007)

It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

In The Meantime…

…picking away at a very important COVID post (well, very long anyhow!) but in the meantime, here’s a pic of how we showed we love nurses during this pandemic…

¶ Posted 24 March 2020 § Family § Meme § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, cute, health

Saturday Snap – Going (Mini) Viral Online in the Age of Pandemic

From working on the Ryan Meili leadership campaigns, mostly in the area of social media plus my own personal interest in the topic, I know some of the “rules” about what makes tweets/Facebook posts successful. But ultimately, human nature is a funny thing and no one can truly predict what will make a tweet go […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2020 § Humour § Internet § Library § News § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, twitter

Spreading Germs, Stopping Handshakes & Increasing Handwashing: The Best Coronavirus Video I’ve Seen

¶ Posted 18 March 2020 § Meme § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health

Great Article (But I Still Wish We Had A Film Industry in Saskatchewan!)

Layton Burton was one of the few who didn’t have to leave the province when the government cut the Film Tax Credit but he did have to go back to school in his 50’s and completely reinvent himself.

¶ Posted 03 February 2020 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, movies, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Family Man Retires at 39

Tim works at RPL (I know “works at RPL” conflicts with the title of this post but he works here in the same way that a retired 65 year old might pick up a part-time job at a local retailer to keep busy/do something they enjoy/make some “mad money” to supplement their savings.) Anyhow, a […]

¶ Posted 31 January 2020 § FridayFunLink § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Library Director Jason Hammond?

No, not me but still pretty cool…

¶ Posted 07 January 2020 § Humour § Library § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]