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Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – One Year Ago, I Had Shingles (June 2022)

…replaced on my roof about a year after a major hailstorm ripped through north Regina and punched machine-gun holes in most houses’ siding in our neighbourhood.  (Our next door neighbours just got their siding done this week!) In a weird way, this was perfect timing as our house had original shingles that were end-of-life so […]

Posted 01 June 2023 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

2022 SPL Report To Our Community

Always interesting to look at other library system’s annual reports at what’s similar, what’s different and also to spark ideas and inspiration.

Posted 31 May 2023 § Jobs § Library § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “What would you say/If I took those words away?/Then you couldn’t make things new/Just by saying ‘I love you'”

It’s always ironic than when my life is the busiest – work, home, family – both immediate and extended, camping, volunteer stuff, medical appointments, helping my parents, etc. etc. etc. – is when I’m most likely to end up not doing daily blog posts (I frequently miss a day but then do it the following […]

Posted 29 May 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Sing A Note

Can’t find it now but whoever posted this (likely on Reddit?) said this reminds them of the random silly amazingness of the early days of the Internet before a handful of tech giants controlled pretty much all content and discourse (and yes, I know there’s irony saying that since this is a YouTube video!)

Posted 19 May 2023 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Pace Turning Sixteen

Hard to believe Pace is 16 on May 19th! When he was born, I was trying to take a photo of him with an “Oscar The Grouch” doll I bought Shea regularly. (We called Pace “Oscar the Grouch” in utero as he was often “grumpy”.) I didn’t it every year like I had hoped but […]

Posted 18 May 2023 § Baby § Pace § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Biggest Challenge: “We’re a small city with a relatively big stadium.”

Yes.  This is quite the challenge we face here in our little prairie city that’s run by people who want to pretend we’re a much bigger city like Calgary or Edmonton or Winnipeg so they push to build giant state-of-the art arenas.  And ball stadiums.  And the best football stadium in the country while showing […]

Posted 16 May 2023 § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Scientific Case For Two Spaces After A Period

This.  Is.  Vindication.  For Myself.  And everyone.  Who took.  Typing.  On a manual typewriter.  In grade 10.  In 1989. (Even Google agrees!) Google Translate puts two spaces after the end of a sentence by inmildlyinfuriating There might even be a free speech argument for two spaces after a period?!?      

Posted 12 May 2023 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Earth Friendly (July 2008)

Posted 11 May 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saskatchewan’s Best Scenic Drives (Revised Edition)

I was working in book publishing when this book was first released so glad to hear that an updated and revised edition is being released.  

Posted 09 May 2023 § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “We’ve come so far and we’ve reached so high/And we’ve looked each day and night in the eye/And we’re still so young and we hope for more/But remember this…”

Howard Donald (55) is the oldest member of Take That who performed as a trio at the Coronation Concert yet with his shaggy haircut and grey beard, he is the one I resemble the most. Hell, even their slow-mo dance steps are a far cry from their energetic boy band routines in the mid-1990s in […]

Posted 08 May 2023 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: