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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Beach Scene, Dominican Republic (February 2015)

Posted 12 January 2023 § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Corona Light? (February 2020)

Our last Mexican vacation was in late Feb/early March of 2020 just as Covid was breaking worldwide.  I spent much of our week taking pictures of Corona beer cans thinking I was clever…

Posted 05 January 2023 § Humour § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

“Life Moves Pretty Fast”: Why Gen X “Got It” Before The Rest of You

As a Gen-Xer, I don’t even know if this article is being sarcastic or not?

Posted 04 January 2023 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “And it’s just like the ocean under the moon/Oh, it’s the same as the emotion that I get from you/You got the kind of lovin’ that can be so smooth, yeah/Give me your heart, make it real, or else forget about “

“Smooth” – Santana (featuring Rob Thomas)

Posted 02 January 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Photocopier Training (October 2009)

I recently took delivery of a new photocopier at the branch I’m currently working at and it reminded me of my first job at RPL where I oversaw all staff training and development…including organizing training on what were, at the time, brand new, full-featured photocopiers!

Posted 29 December 2022 § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Decorated University Hospital, London ON (Nov 2006)

Shea heading into work a month before Christmas in 2006 just as I was wrapping up my Masters program…

Posted 22 December 2022 § LibrarySchool § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – No Covid, No Covid! (January 2022, March 2021)

The good old days when I could mock Covid by making a giant “C” out of our family’s negative tests back in January of this year… …and even earlier in March 2021 which is when Shea was first able to get Covid rapid tests through her work to be used for herself and her family […]

Posted 15 December 2022 § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Everybody’s got the fever/That is something you all know/Fever isn’t such a new thing/Fever started long ago”

I’m home with a sick kid today (plus had ice cream for breakfast as I have a sore throat myself!) so a rough couple of months in terms of family health continues… Ironically, we only dealt with Covid once (Pace for a week in early October) and, knock on wood, no one else in the […]

Posted 12 December 2022 § Family § Jobs § List § News § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sad § Sasha § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Camp Hope (October 2021)

Just over a year ago in mid-October, I saw a friend post on social media that a tent city was being set up in Pepsi Park in Regina and looking for donations. We had an extra tent so I took it down and briefly spoke to some of the organizers (including my friend by phone […]

Posted 08 December 2022 § Jobs § Library § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Carey Price and the Price of Not Knowing

On Dec 4, just before the December 6 anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre, longtime Montreal Canadiens goalie, Carey Price, waded into the gun control debate with a poorly timed tweet defending his rights as a hunter and attacking the most recent changes to gun control legislation by the Justin Trudeau government. In his initial […]

Posted 06 December 2022 § Canada § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,