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Five Lists of Five Things I’m Thinking About As Scott Moe Prepares To Release His Five Phase Plan for Reopening Saskatchewan

Premier Scott Moe had a press conference tonight to announce that…he will be having a press conference tomorrow night to talk about how his government has a five point plan for reopening the province now that we’ve flattened the curve…maybe. There’s no doubt that Saskatchewan has done very well during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to […]

¶ Posted 22 April 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Library § List § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, Covid, economics, education, health, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy 7th Birthday Sasha (August 2019)

Here’s my sunshine at the Regina Folk Fest last summer…

¶ Posted 16 April 2020 § Family § Photo § PopCulture § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, music, saskatchewan

Fun With Opposites – Linda from London Public Library

Was nice to see this pop up in one of my social media feeds today – one of my favourite classmates in library school (and a real life rock star librarian!) doing a digital program (and I’ll likely do a longer post at some point about the library’s role and response in the COVID era […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2020 § Internet § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music, ontario, youtube

Friday Fun Link – A Message From Michael

Of all the “inspirational” celebrity messages, sing-a-longs, and tips, I do believe this is my favourite… (And bonus, possibly the first time I’ve clearly heard the lyrics to this song in ~30 years I’ve been listening to it!) 🙂

¶ Posted 10 April 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, language, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Crowded Concourse Before COVID (October 2016)

So weird to scroll through old pictures and see crowds of people in any of them. This was at the new Mosaic Stadium soon after it opened when they hosted a Rams game as a “test” event…

¶ Posted 09 April 2020 § News § Photo § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, saskatchewan

RIP John Prine (1946-2020)

Covid-19 claims another famous singer. Rest in Peace John Prine.

¶ Posted 07 April 2020 § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, music

Saturday Snap – Last Pre-Quarantine Photo (and My Personal Covid Timeline/Photo Essay)

There’s a challenge on social media to post the last picture on your camera roll before you entered quarantine. I thought I’d take that challenge but go a step further to post a few photos and significant dates from my own personal COVID timeline… My Personal COVID Timeline Late November – early December 2019 COVID […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2020 § Library § List § News § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health, history, parents

The Price of Gas Is Lower Than When I Started Working As A Gas Station in High School!

This is from Medicine Hat, Alberta, not Indian Head, Saskatchewan. But it’s absolutely insane that a litre of gas now costs *less* than when I started working at a gas station in 1989 when gas was 45.9 cents per litre (49.9 for Supreme!) – a number imprinted on my brain the same way I still […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2020 § Jobs § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

The First Celebrity COVID Death?

I would never have guessed that Joe Diffie would be the first celebrity COVID death (well, if a tier B 1990’s country singer counts as a celebrity but I liked quite a few of his songs back in the day so why not?) And if this helps even one Red Stater stay home, his death […]