Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Three Monkeys (Feb 2017)

Friday Fun Link – See The Seaweed Situation At The Live Cam Nearest Your Resort

Sargassum seaweed has been a huge (and growing) issue for the past fifteen years or so along the coast of Mexico from Cancun south to Tulum. This site lists the various hotels that have livecams pointed at their beaches so you can have a (rough) idea of how bad it might be when you arrive […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sentiment Still Applies (March 2020)

Wisdom Wednesday – Dilbert As A Management Role Model? (With Bonus Donald Trump Reference in 2006?!?)

In “honour” of the death of Scott Adams, I present one of the papers I wrote in library school. This was my Management class and, you won’t be shocked to hear that I had a lot of skepticism about what we were being taught (you’ll be more shocked to learn that management was my highest […]

One Month Away!!!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Button Maker (November 2013)

Full-on riding the Riders bandwagon the last time they were in the Grey Cup Final!

Wisdom Wednesday – Rebuilding The Working Class

Saw the story I’ve copied below online and it made me think of the current Federal NDP Leadership Race where this is a major topic of conversation. It was also in the first provincial NDP Leadership race I was involved in where I got introduced to the term “Granholier Than Thou” as someone who was […]

Music Monday – “And every, everybody dies/Fighting for their lives, just trying to survive Well now I know, I know why we say/That there’s a better place that waits beyond the grave, oh…”

Saw this on a Reddit thread about gut punch songs.  And if you have a pet, yep – this one will hurt.  It’s about putting a pet down but really, any pet you’ve had who’s died, at the end of their natural life or earlier due to accident or whatever, will hit similarly. “Euthanasia” – […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Year’s Eve in Cuba (Dec 2015)

I’ll start by saying that my wife is an absolute smokeshow (so I know this will be the first line of my annual “First Line of My First Post of Each Month”) next December! 😉 The only time we did an all-inclusive over the Xmas holiday season was when we went to Cuba with my […]

Saturday Snap – Boxing Day Party With Mom