Category Archives: MemoryLane

Music Monday – “Sleep pretty darling/Do not cry/And I will sing/A lullabye”

One of my and Sasha’s go-to bedtime songs… “Golden Slumbers” – Paul McCartney

28 Books You Should Read (If You Want To)

I’m probably one of the worst people for loving all of those “50 Books To Read Before You Die”, “10 Books Every Child Should Read”, “17 Books for a Summer Holiday” lists. I mean, they *do* comprise two of my most favouritist things in the world – books and lists. However, I think this list […]

How Pro Wrestling Prepared Me For The 21st Century

As I may have mentioned on this blog before, I grew up watching professional wrestling. When I was around 7 or 8 years old, it was pretty amazing to see heavily-muscled, fantastically-named guys like the super-heroes I read about in comic books – whether good guys (The Dynamite Kid) or bad (The Mongolian Stomper, The […]

Music Monday – “There’s a light/And I can see it in your eyes/There’s a memory of/The way you used to be”

Hard to believe but yesterday marks one year since the most recent NDP Leadership convention where Ryan Meili lost to the eventual winner, Cam Broten, by just 44 votes (less than 1% of all votes cast). As a cathartic process after the loss, I’d compiled a list of “44 Reasons We Lost” in my personal […]

Saturday Night Live Cast Members Through the Years

Wikipedia summary of cast members with timeline Another list of casts by year on a fan site Cast photos by year (via Reddit) Probably like a lot of people, I feel most strongly about the casts I watched when I was in my formative years circa 1989-1991 or so – Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, […]

Happy 11th Anniversary, Shea!

I posted this picture on our third anniversary back in 2006 but see that the link to the graphic’s ended up broken during one of my blog moves. So here’s the image once again – my favourite wedding picture (well, not counting the more spontaneous one of Shea running out of the water just as a […]

Reddit’s 100th Gift Exchange

Reddit has facilitated a number of gift exchanges over the years.  What originally began as a user-submitted idea for a Secret Santa exchange… …now encompasses all kinds of themed-exchanges including snacks, comics, mugs and of course, Arbitrary Day. I’ve participated in a couple of Christmas ones and always enjoyed the process (although this year I […]

Anniversary? What Anniversary?

Just looked back through my previous posts on February 6 of 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. I may have mentioned it in passing in one of those entries or done something on a different nearby date.  But apparently I’ve never once written about the fact that February 6 is Shea’s and my […]

Saturday Snap – Sasha on SaskTel Max’s Video Magazine

SaskTel was out to Regent Place a couple weeks ago to shoot a storytime for their video magazine. This edition’s topic was “Snow” and they used footage of their host at one of our storytimes to introduce a few other segments shot in different locations such as the Saskatoon Zoo. The clips aren’t online yet […]

Travel The World Without Leaving Your Laptop

The day before we left for Hawaii a couple years ago, I did a post summarizing how much of a role various web sites – from Google to Reddit to Trip Advisor – played in helping to plan and just generally build excitement for our trip. I mentioned Google Maps in passing in that post […]