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Music Monday – “We live in the shadows and we/Had the chance and threw it away/And it’s never going to be the same/’Cause the years are falling by like the rain/It’s never gonna be the same”

Well, after a couple months of minimal posting (hey, summer off like when I was a kid? Awesome!) and I’ve had some thoughts about how/if I want to keep this blog going as I sometimes struggle to come up with content (even lazy, zero-effort stuff) and/or find the time to post. At the same time, […]

¶ Posted 01 September 2025 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: music

Jon Stewart on the Canceling of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”

Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up" pic.twitter.com/v8MrNpg28w — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2025

¶ Posted 22 July 2025 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, music, television, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by/Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling/Down, down, down, down”

Haven’t posted for a few weeks – busy at work, busy at home, camping holidays, some weird blog gremlins that make quick posts a bit harder than they used to be – but wanted to post to let my thousands dozens of readers know I’m still alive and more regular posting will likely resume…eventually. 😉 […]

¶ Posted 21 July 2025 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, music

Music Monday – “If you should ever leave me/Though life would still go on believe me/The world could show nothing to me/So what good would living do me”

“God Only Knows” (Isolated Vocals) – Beach Boys (RIP Brian Wilson)

¶ Posted 16 June 2025 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Saturday Snap – The Graduates

¶ Posted 14 June 2025 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Jan Lake Lodge (July 2014)

With the wildfires burning in northern Saskatchewan (and really, across much of Canada’s north), I can’t help but think of the handful of times I’ve been able to travel to the north of the province for vacations or even work. This was a fishing trip we did with Shea’s family in 2014.

¶ Posted 12 June 2025 § Family § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan, science, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act? How do they treat people? How do they support people? How do they enable people to do their best work? Are they well-liked by staff? Do staff even know who they are? (If they don’t, do […]

¶ Posted 11 June 2025 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, orgdevl

Music Monday – “When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing/That in a matter of hours we’d change the way we were going/Where would I be now, where would I be now if we’d never met?/Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?”

“Something Changed” – Pulp

¶ Posted 09 June 2025 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Florida Former Flames

With all the US-Canada tensions, I would have taken any Canadian team in the Stanley Cup final this year compared to most years when I cheer for whichever team I like best – New York Islanders to Detroit Red Wings to Pittsburgh Penguins. But this year, I wanted a Canadian team in the Cup Final […]

¶ Posted 06 June 2025 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 10 Promises to Myself (August 2010)

Fairly early in my career, I wrote a post called “10 Promises To Myself” where I tried to outline how I would approach my career and how I would always try to be true to my own values even if there was pressure to compromise for career advancement or financial rewards or even just pressure […]