Category Archives: List

Saturday Snap – Happy Thanksgiving!

Went out to Indian Head today for an early Thanksgiving supper with Shea’s parents and my parents plus us and the kids. And since it’s that time of the year, here’s a list… 10 Things I’m Thankful For That we get to have Thanksgiving supper with all four grandparents.  Many people I know aren’t so […]

What Are You Most Excited About For The Calgary Flames This Season?

CalgaryPuck has lots of ideas and here’s a team preview from the Calgary Sun.  But here are some of the things I’m excited about for the Flames this year as the NHL season begins tonight… A completely re-vamped line-up with lots of good young players Same with the coaching group which is (almost) completely revamped as […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Words on a Whiteboard (June 2011)

A Few *Good* Things About Breaking My Wrist?

I’ve had some pretty down moments since breaking my wrist three weeks ago: When the ER doc said it was broken, not sprained. When she said I’d need surgery, not just a cast When Shea and I had to waste three days waiting in hospital in Regina in the midst of a 10-day camping holiday […]

Retro Friday Fun Link – The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

This article should be mandatory reading before someone is allowed to use the Internet!

My Five “Go To” Camping Albums

Here are my default listening choices when camping… “Coyote” – Blake Berglund – our default summer album continues to be a fave this summer “Six Volts” – Fred Eaglesmith– my (current) favourite Fred Eaglesmith album  “Traveller” – Chris Stapleton – last.fm says I listened to “From A Room Vol. 2” more but “Traveller” would’ve been my […]

Nine Thoughts on Facebook Birthday Wishes As I Enter My 45th Year (9 = 4+5. Getit?)

The history of Facebook birthdays is not all that exciting, but some habits?—?like uploading videos and tagging people?—?the company had to teach. Wishing someone a happy birthday on the platform came naturally, and it’s now a function Facebook owns. The platform didn’t introduce notifications for birthdays until 2013; before that, the side of your feed […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Protesting at the Saskatchewan Legislature, Then & Now (February 11, 2000) #skpoli #yqr

From my personal journal, February 11, 2000: Settle in to bed (well, a sleeping bag under a cafeteria table) about midnight. Oh, when we get back from grabbing our sleeping bags, I offer to bring a coffee to the security guard and end up having a big talk with him – about how he got […]

10 Things We Did At The Library Today

Helped a patron find the government forms to apply for benefits he’s entitled to. Hosted a book exchange for a nearby school’s grade seven class. Had a demo of our summer puppet show and promoted the Summer Reading Program to classes from a couple other schools. Went out to a different nearby school to promote […]

Five Great Things About This Year’s Seasonal Campsite

It’s going to be hard to top how well everything – weather, neighbours who had kids around our kids’ ages, view – worked out at our seasonal site last year. But having spent the May long weekend at our seasonal site at Nickle Lake Regional Park, we’re off to a pretty good start! Shea’s Parents […]