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Wordle? Why Yes, I’m Something of an Authority Myself…

Well, maybe not an authority but a recent blog post may have at least convinced a couple people at the Mother Corp that I should be interviewed for a CBC story about the game! 😉 (And I’m going to lose sleep tonight thinking how that beautiful pre-planned quote came off worse than I intended simply […]

¶ Posted 26 January 2022 § Humour § Internet § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language

A Few Random Covid Thoughts

A coworker observed that an occupational hazard of working in a place where we hand out rapid tests kits is the risk of people over sharing *why* they want the tests. This gives you this wild anecdotal taste of how widespread Covid is right now – business owners, parents, students, neighbours on each side of […]

¶ Posted 19 January 2022 § Family § List § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health

Scientific Sunday – Tonga Volcanic Eruption May Be Largest Ever Seen From Space

Pretty good summary of the recent volcanic eruption in the south pacific…

¶ Posted 16 January 2022 § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, science

Friday Fun Link – Wordle, The Latest Online Craze

Wordle is the latest craze to sweep the online world. If you haven’t played, you get six chances to guess a five letter word. After entering your first guess, it will tell you if you have a letter in the right spot (green) or a right letter but in the wrong spot (yellow). Then, sort […]

¶ Posted 14 January 2022 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, language

RIP America’s Dad (1956-2022)

RIP Bob Saget.

¶ Posted 11 January 2022 § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Half of N95 Style Masks Fail To Meet Minimum Standards of Protection in CBC Test

It’s such a tough time to be alive. Something that seems like it should be straight forward – buying N95-style masks because you want better protection against Omicron – could have all sorts of issues with sub-standard quality, even if purchased from legitimate retailers. Or the conflicting information that’s out there – for example, if […]

¶ Posted 04 January 2022 § Jobs § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Some Recent Covid-Related Tweets

One of the hardest things about the pandemic is trying to keep up with the latest news/developments/theories (and the fact these are ever-changing gives a lot of fuel to anti-vaxxers which is a different discussion.) Even as a trained librarian who’s pretty obsessively following the latest in Covid news, I’m the first to admit I […]

¶ Posted 29 December 2021 § Humour § Library § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Music Monday – “I wasn’t meant to be then it ain’t meant to be now/I love this home but now I hate this house/Its been a hell of a year”

I posted this exact song a year ago this week – hard to believe the same sentiment applies a year later and it’s worth a repeat post of the same song. Here’s hoping I’m not starting a new blog tradition and having to post it again at the end of 2022! 🙁 “Hell of a […]

¶ Posted 27 December 2021 § Blog § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, music

Secular Sunday – War on Christmas

¶ Posted 19 December 2021 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, holiday, xmas

Saturday Snap – Libraries Distributing Rapid Tests

Not my usual “Saturday Snap” photo today but instead, a screen shot of someone on Reddit saying they had a good experience at my branch getting their booster shot and also picking up a box of rapid tests. So strange to hear stories from Ontario of people lining up at liquor stores or other weird […]