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Music Monday – “Well, the nobles said to the people, ‘You better close your public schools/Until the events of death has ending, you better close your churches too.'”

Jack White absolutely kicked ass on SNL this weekend as a last-minute, emergency fill-in guest. Ironically, since he was covering for a country singer who the show cancelled for blatantly disregarding Covid restrictions, White played a mash-up of a few different songs including an old blues tune written about the pandemic of 1918… If that […]

¶ Posted 12 October 2020 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, Covid, health, history, music, television

Friday Fun Link – Favourite Hockey Equipment Oddities

Free Agency Day in the NHL is normally on July 1 bur with all the Covid weirdness, the date got pushed back to today. The Flames signed Jacob Markstrom, one of the highest rated goalies available which is awesome since my team hasn’t had a true #1 goalie since Miikka Kiprusoff. This is as good […]

¶ Posted 09 October 2020 § FridayFunLink § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, history, hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sold! (October 2019)

It feels like a lot more than a year ago that our offer on a new house was accepted. But the truth is that it was only a year ago this week that it became official. At the time, who knew this new house would become so much more than a slightly newer, slightly bigger, […]

¶ Posted 08 October 2020 § Family § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics

My Thoughts On Some Controversial Library Opinions

There was a good Twitter thread recently which posed a simple question: “What’s your controversial library opinion?” I thought it might be interesting to record some of my responses to these opinions whether I agreed or disagree (if this isn’t clear, all the bolded opinions below were submitted by Twitbrarians and the plain text under […]

¶ Posted 07 October 2020 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Politics § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: education, language

Music Monday – “I’m sure you’ve heard it all before/But you never really had a doubt/I don’t believe that anybody/Feels the way I do about you now”

Hard to believe Oasis’ “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” album is 25 years old being released in the fall of 1995. Oasis was basically a one-hit wonder in North America for most people but I was fortunate to be in England in fall 1995 on a University exchange which was during the height of the […]

¶ Posted 05 October 2020 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, music, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Katepwa Lake (August 2011)

¶ Posted 01 October 2020 § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents, saskatchewan

10 Things I Would Write About If I Had More Energy

Death of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg My Latest Thoughts on Covid Watching the Emmys Revamped for Covid How Pace Made Most of a Roast Chicken Supper Tonight Some Thoughts on Pro Sports During Covid – NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL, CFL The US Election The Sask Provincial Election The Regina Municipal Election The New Tyler Childers Album (and […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2020 § Blog § List § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid

Saturday Snap – A Delayed Housewarming Gift

My parents dropped off a very cool housewarming gift the other day – a Century Family Farm plaque our family received on the 100th anniversary of my great-great grandfather homesteading our family farm in 1883 – framed in barn boards from that same farm. We got the plaque in 1983 (I think the same year […]

¶ Posted 19 September 2020 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Favourite US Trip? (January 2012)

After last week’s post thinking back to the last time I think I traveled to the US, I thought it’d be fun to also highlight what was probably my favourite US trip ever for another “Throwback Thursday” post. I was very fortunate to have parents who loved traveling and growing up, I got to travel […]