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“The reality is…my real name is Joe and I’ve been living with leukemia for eleven years. And unfortunately, it’s back.”

Pretty shocking development in the fake/real world of WWE, not only that top star Roman Reigns dropped his persona during the opening promo of RAW to announce he had leukemia, but also the revelation that he first battled leukemia *eleven years ago* and this wasn’t public knowledge and/or exploited by the WWE who have exploited pretty much everything […]

¶ Posted 24 October 2018 § News § PopCulture § Sad § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, television

Friday Fun Link – Dollar Street and GapMinder’s Four Income Levels

Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]

¶ Posted 19 October 2018 § Canada § Family § Infographic § News § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, food, history, travel

Saturday Snap – Welcome Home Mom!

With Shea being away for a week away at a conference, I had visions of having the kids show up at the airport dishevelled, dirty, and with funny signs to welcome their mom home. Unfortunately, Pace’s sense of humour is a bit different than mine so he went with a more traditional sign and only […]

¶ Posted 13 October 2018 § Canada § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, travel

Thanksgiving Closing Hours for Canadian Public Libraries

A few years back, I did a post where I researched the closing times for various Canadian libraries on Christmas Eve day. Of course Christmas Eve is not an “official” stat holiday but it’s still a day that many workplaces (not just libraries) recognize as a slow time and/or a good time to close early […]

¶ Posted 08 October 2018 § Canada § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, holiday, ontario, orgdevl, saskatchewan

Reunion at a Funeral

There was a mini-IHHS Class of ’91 reunion at the funeral of Kyle Raaf today. Our classmate, Erin, gave a moving eulogy for someone she described as “not just my big brother but my hero” and her stories of how Kyle had such a positive impact on so many people during his too-short 46 years […]

¶ Posted 26 September 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – Image Cable Installer (Summer 1991)

A bit of a different Throwback Thursday this week. I recently posted about how death was a dark cloud this summer with a handful of people we know and/or were connected to having died. Unfortunately, that trend has continued into September with my parents letting me know that the father of one of my best […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2018 § MemoryLane § Photo § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Mankind and Undertaker Discuss Their Iconic Hell in a Cell Match

WWE’s “Hell in a Cell” Pay Per View is tonight with multiple matches being held in the imposing, over-sized cage. But twenty years ago, HiaC matches were much more rare and that made them much more special. The third ever HiaC match between Undertaker and Mankind had not one, not two but three iconic spots […]