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Music Monday – “Say, say, 2000-zero-zero, party over/Oops, out of time/So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999”

(Party like it’s 1999 or I’m going to go to bed at 9:59pm?) “1999” – Prince

Posted 01 January 2024 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Kerry Von Erich Beats Ric Flair

Watched “The Iron Claw” on Friday night with Shea and it reminded me of one of my Top 10 wrestling matches of all-time…

Posted 29 December 2023 § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Someday? (November 2014)

Sasha looks at her mom in her wedding dress…

Posted 28 December 2023 § Baby § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuban Christmas (December 2015)

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Friday Fun Link – Cocky Fighters Getting Humbled By Mike Tyson

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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – For Weddings and a Funeral (August 2008)

Hard to believe that fifteen years ago we were at Shea’s cousin’s wedding and took this photo of three girls (also cousins) she’d basically raised from babies with our baby. Sadly, the last time we would see the sister on the left was at the sister on the right’s wedding earlier this summer.  She was […]

Posted 14 December 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RSO at RPL (September 2010)

Hosted a visit by the RSO Chamber Players tonight at the Glen Elm Branch and was reminded that the partnership between RSO and RPL is probably one of the most long-standing, most successful in RPL history. Here’s a pic of the RSO at RPL back in September 2010…

Posted 07 December 2023 § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

Posted 05 December 2023 § News § Politics § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “We watched our friends grow up together/And we saw them as they fell/Some of them fell into Heaven/Some of them fell into Hell” (RIP Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023)

RIP to the only performer that ever scared the shit out of me when he appeared on SNL in the early to mid 1990’s.  And what a performer he was! “A Rainy Night in Soho” – The Pogues And at this time of year, I have to mention the greatest Christmas song of all-time… “Fairytale […]

Posted 04 December 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – First Rapid Tests (March 2021)

We were lucky that Shea is a nurse as we got early access to rapid tests before they were widely distributed to the general public. No way to know for sure but I feel like that was part of why we may have been able to avoid Covid as long as we did – anytime […]

Posted 30 November 2023 § Family § Jobs § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,