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Music Monday – “Book flight December but I leave in May/Drugs are generic but still work the same/I get logins for Netflix from my cousin Greg/Thanks Greg!”

You know that experience when you learn a new word or buy a new vehicle or whatever and after never noticing it before, you suddenly see it everywhere? I had a recent experience except it was with a YouTube rap star. A friend of mine in the States who’s a teacher posted a pic with […]

¶ Posted 21 September 2015 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, language, music, reddit

A Look at the Log Files…

I haven’t done a navel-gazing post for awhile so I thought it’d be interesting to list which of my blog posts have had the most views during this year along with the date that they were originally published… How To Make A Rye & Coke Press (Dec 2006) Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones (Oct 2013) Ranking […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § LibrarySchool § List § MusicMonday § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Geocities-izer

This web page allows you to make any site look like you designed it in 1998 using GeoCities… (via Reddit)

¶ Posted 18 September 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Computer System @OfficialRPL #yqr (February 2010)

RPL is moving to a new ILS over the coming week which reminded me of the last move we had five years ago…

¶ Posted 17 September 2015 § Humour § Library § Photo § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, saskatchewan

10 “Must Have” Things I Look For In An All-Inclusive Resort

Shea and I have been on a handful of all-inclusive vacations over the years. Every place has had its good and bad points but overall, these varied trips to Mexico (Mazatlan, Mayan Riviera, Cancun), Cuba (Varadero) and most recently, the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana), have given me a pretty good idea of some of the things I […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2015 § Family § List § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cool, holiday, parents

Saturday Snap – It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… Looking Back to My Four-Month University Exchange to York, England

Hard to believe but twenty (!) years ago today, I took off from Regina, Saskatchewan and landed in Paris, France, a couple weeks before I was set to begin a one semester exchange in York, England (where I took three courses including a Film Production class that gives us the slightly un-PC clip at the top […]

¶ Posted 12 September 2015 § Canada § Humour § List § ThrowbackThursday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (2) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuba Libre! (March 2011)

This is the reminder that popped up on my work computer the day before we left for Cuba a few years back…

¶ Posted 10 September 2015 § Humour § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

Pace’s First Day of Grade Three (and Grade Two and Grade One and Kindergarten)

Shea ended up posting all these “First Day” pics on Facebook so I thought I’d re-post them here for posterity… Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three

¶ Posted 01 September 2015 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute, education

Friday Fun Link – Inspirograph

If you loved playing Spirograph as a kid, you might enjoy the digital version as well!

¶ Posted 28 August 2015 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Back to School

Here’s a shot of the elementary school I attended growing up. I took this picture when we were back to Indian Head for a visit a few years ago but the look of the building including that 1980’s colour scheme hasn’t changed. (The playground however has changed quite a bit.) We went past my elementary […]