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Category Archives: MemoryLane

“Straight, Not Narrow”: Has Calgary Quietly Become The Most Progressive City in Canada?

Calgary had their annual Pride Parade this past weekend.  Pride Parades are commonly held in major cities throughout Canada but Calgary’s recent parade set two important milestones – the first time the mayor of the city has appeared in the parade as new mayor, Naheed Nenshi, served as the parade marshall. The Calgary Flames also […]

Posted 06 September 2011 § Family § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Bad Parenting Example #289

Letting your child use an upturned picnic table as a playhouse when camping… 😉

Posted 03 September 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Time Travel, Being Violated By A Police Officer and An Early Hint o’ My Librarian Tendencies

We were at a wedding in my hometown about a month ago.  Sitting at the table during the reception, I was chatting with one of the people I hadn’t seen in a long time but who had lived next door to our house for most of her years in Indian Head.  She was a friend […]

Posted 01 September 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Katepwa Sunset

Why do I live in the city instead of at the lake?  I don’t know of a more relaxing place on earth…

Posted 27 August 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Lyric Check Needed – Stat!

Pace has become quite the little music fan recently, often breaking into “songs” of his own creation or snippets of songs he’s heard on the radio or at daycare or wherever. Still, Shea and I had our jaws drop when he recently started singing “If you can’t make her say oooh-oooh-oooh, make her say ahh-ahh-ahh!” […]

Posted 21 August 2011 § Family § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – Top 20 Countdowns of the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s

A huge collection of countdown overviews for the last few decades including, for example, the year I graduated high school… (via Reddit)

Posted 15 August 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – “BAR”‘s and “BEER”‘s

Great to see that my former colleagues at Southeast Regional Library have started a YouTube channel with a focus on training videos for SRL staff.  It is particularly gratifying to see that they’re still using the Branch Activity Report (BAR) that I created for our rural branches to report their ongoing activities to HQ. My […]

Posted 12 August 2011 § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Happy Belated Anniversary To Me!

Having been sick for the last couple days, I missed a pretty significant milestone that I meant to blog about. Just over a year ago, I took the leap and moved from the blog I’d been using for four years to a new platform, a new host and a new domain.  On pretty much every […]

Posted 11 August 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Aloha!

In 2002, Shea and I joined my parents for two weeks in Kailua, Oahu.  We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be going again in January 2012 which will be the tenth anniversary of our first trip! This time, Shea and I decided we’d like to see something different so we’re going to spend one week in […]

Posted 06 August 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

“Snakes on a Pace”

Took today off to go to the Queen City Ex with Shea and Pace. We just got home after nearly 10 hours (!) at the fair. Pace managed to stay awake in the car home but fell asleep one nanosecond after we put him in bed. His mom and dad won’t be far behind him. […]

Posted 04 August 2011 § Family ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,