It had to happen sometime and the first of many to come, I'm sure. (I'm just glad it was his mom who let him do the face plant into his exersaucer instead of me! But then again, is it wrong that I took a photo of it?)
When my boss came to Southeast Regional Library as their new director fifteen years ago, one of the first things he did was go out and work an actual front-line shift in a few of our branches to get a sense of the workload, what was effective in how our system operated, what wasn't and […]
Top 13 Money Drains for College Students1. Starbucks (nope)2. World of Warcraft (nope)3. Credit Cards (nope but that student line of credit kills!)4. New computer (I already had a decent laptop but had to buy a new printer and a few other gadgety accessories – still, not too bad)5. Software (definitely not – it's a […]
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Five Things Grandpa Peet and I Talked About During Pretty Much Every Conversation We Ever Had1. The Stock Market2. The Price of Oil 3. The Blue Jays4. The Weather5. The Stock MarketI was honoured to give the eulogy at Grandpa Peet’s funeral this year, him having passed away only a week after Pace was born. […]
Saskabush is like Saskatchewan's answer to The Onion (but with a much more random yet much less frequent publishing schedule.) Not sure how the humour translates outside the borders of the flatlands but as someone who lives here, I find the writer laugh-out-loud funny on a frequent basis. So, in light of the recent provincial […]
Lazy Library is a website dedicated to recommending books that are no longer than 200 pages, on any subject, to help those that find reading to be “time consuming”.Like Michelle, I think it's not as dumb of an idea as it sounds at first and might have some utility in today's culture. (I had a […]
Can anybody explain why I suddenly got a whackload of hits from PostSecret at the start of this month? As far as I can tell, nobody sent in a postcard that said they had a secret crush on me (or that they hated my guts) and anyhow, the links are shown as coming directly from […]
A few other bloggers are doing this so I thought I'd throw my two pence in the ring…Saskatchewan Party – 44NDP – 11Liberals – 3Man, I hope the Sask Party isn't as bad as the Grant Devine Conservatives. But it's looking like 1982 all over again.
Not sure how it started but I used to have a slightly more frequent tradition of clearing out the various tidbits I'd been sent by e-mail, found on the web and some of the other random thoughts banging around my head in one big post, tied for some unknown reason, to a holiday, well-known or […]
