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A Few Camping Highlights

I briefly thought of backdating a bunch of photo posts, one for every day of our recent camping holiday but realised that’d be a lot of work (not to mention more evidence of my self-diagnosed OCD regarding my “must post daily” goal.) Anyhow, I thought I’d post just a few highlights in a single post […]

¶ Posted 04 August 2020 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Stop Thief! Board Game (1979)

Came across an ad for this board game on a local buy/sell board. They wanted $75 (!) for this “classic” game so obviously not going to be picking it up. But it did bring back fond memories of playing it as a kid. Is it any wonder I came to love technology and gadgets so […]

¶ Posted 16 July 2020 § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, history

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “We are closing for at least two weeks, maybe more” (March 16, 2020)

This was the sign one of my staff hastily wrote during the frantic last day my library was open to the public (which ironically, I suspect was one of the busiest circulation days in my branch’s history as people took *armloads* of books – perhaps realising our project of “at least a couple weeks” was […]

¶ Posted 09 July 2020 § Humour § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, history

Throwback Thursday – Family Portrait at the Library (June 2011)

¶ Posted 02 July 2020 § Family § Library § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cute, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Do you want to live forever/Do you want to go get high/Do you want burn it all down/Before we even try”

“Just A Dream” – Hawksley Workman

¶ Posted 29 June 2020 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Library Run “Famous Quotes” Database

I’ve always loved quotations and used to even “read” quotation books. Now the web has modernized the idea in the form of quote web sites. There are a few options out there but I recently found out that a library system in Kentucky runs its own “Famous Quotes” web site which is pretty cool!

¶ Posted 26 June 2020 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Naive We Were (School Year 2016-2017)

As June comes to an end, I have to post this meme I recently rediscovered. It’s funny how dabbing, fidget spinners and bottle flipping were the biggest issues a teacher had to deal with a few years back! I’m not up to doing a full photoshop job but can only imagine the updated version of […]

¶ Posted 25 June 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Meme § News § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education

Another Reopening Milestone

Last week, Shea and I had our first sit-down restaurant meal in three months and tonight, we took the whole family for our first meal together in a restaurant (well, on a patio anyhow.)

¶ Posted 24 June 2020 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, food

Music Monday – “Time stand still/I’m not looking back/But I want to look around me now”

I’ve been into my branch a handful of times since it shut down three months ago. But as RPL has begun slowly reopening over the past couple weeks, today was my first day back in branch doing more traditional library work. This is because we’ve started having mid-sized and smaller branches in the RPL system […]