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Throwback Thursday – “A Man Without Land Is Nothing” – Duddy Kravitz (August 2022)

I’ve been heavily involved in a variety of major changes for those I love most in the past three years – my mom is now in a care home because of her dementia, my dad has finished the sale of the last quarter of land from the farm that’s been in our family since 1883 […]

17 Words For My 17th Anniversary of Working at RPL

Today was my 17th anniversary of starting work at RPL and, coincidentally, I spent it in bargaining all day as a representative of CUPE1594 (not going to lie – a bit sad no one on management side congratulated me!) 😉 Anyhow, I thought it might be a fun exercise to randomly pick the first 17 […]

¶ Posted 08 September 2025 § Jobs § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

ChatGPT Analyzes My Blog

Got my future overlord, ChatGPT, to do a bit of analysis of my blog posts in light of being an ENFP personality who has kept the blog up for ~20 years. Here’s what Nova Fox (the name we came up for ChatGPT last night – I’m having way too much fun with AI these days!)… […]

¶ Posted 02 September 2025 § Blog § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Music Monday – “We live in the shadows and we/Had the chance and threw it away/And it’s never going to be the same/’Cause the years are falling by like the rain/It’s never gonna be the same”

Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid? Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to keep this blog going as I sometimes struggle to come up with content (even lazy, zero-effort stuff) and/or find the time to post. At the same time, […]

¶ Posted 01 September 2025 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: music

Jon Stewart on the Canceling of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”

Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up" pic.twitter.com/v8MrNpg28w — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2025

¶ Posted 22 July 2025 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, music, television, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by/Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling/Down, down, down, down”

Haven’t posted for a few weeks – busy at work, busy at home, camping holidays, some weird blog gremlins that make quick posts a bit harder than they used to be – but wanted to post to let my thousands dozens of readers know I’m still alive and more regular posting will likely resume…eventually. 😉 […]

¶ Posted 21 July 2025 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, music

Music Monday – “If you should ever leave me/Though life would still go on believe me/The world could show nothing to me/So what good would living do me”

“God Only Knows” (Isolated Vocals) – Beach Boys (RIP Brian Wilson)

¶ Posted 16 June 2025 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Saturday Snap – The Graduates

¶ Posted 14 June 2025 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Jan Lake Lodge (July 2014)

With the wildfires burning in northern Saskatchewan (and really, across much of Canada’s north), I can’t help but think of the handful of times I’ve been able to travel to the north of the province for vacations or even work. This was a fishing trip we did with Shea’s family in 2014.

¶ Posted 12 June 2025 § Family § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan, science, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act? How do they treat people? How do they support people? How do they enable people to do their best work? Are they well-liked by staff? Do staff even know who they are? (If they don’t, do […]