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You Know You’re A Nerd When…

…one of the best things you get as a “Christmas gift” is a literature organizer you pick up off Kijiji from an accounting office on your way home from work Christmas Eve at a fraction of what a new one would’ve cost! Plus you get to be *really* excited about organizing all your various papers […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2019 § Humour § Photo § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, xmas

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, xmas

Saturday Snap – Elfis?

Last year, we gave in and bought a stupid Dollar Store “Elf on a Shelf” rip-off to move around every night for Sasha. Turned out it was actually kind of fun coming up with scenarios and jokes for the little guy and I might’ve got more enjoyment out of it than she did! This year, […]

¶ Posted 14 December 2019 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, xmas

Saturday Snap – Is Edo My Favourite Food Court Choice?

Probably. This seriously doesn’t even look like fast food as far as I’m concerned:

¶ Posted 16 November 2019 § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health

“You ar a good liberein”

Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin […]

¶ Posted 29 October 2019 § Library § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cute, education, language

Weeding As a Life Philosophy

Shea and I got around to a *long* overdue task of decluttering our garage this weekend. Strangely, it reminded me of when I was in my first librarian job and (purposely?) my boss assigned me a major weeding project. They just kept bringing me packed cart after overloaded cart of books and I had to […]

¶ Posted 06 October 2019 § Family § Sad § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics

Friday Fun Link – Regina (and area) Fowl/Fall Supper Guide

Are fowl suppers a Saskatchewan tradition or a Prairie tradition or a Canadian tradition? At any rate, my friend Deron, has once again posted his annual Fowl/Fall Super Guide. I’m hungry already!

¶ Posted 04 October 2019 § FridayFunLink § Internet § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, food, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “I guess it could be worse, it ain’t that bad/At least I ain’t sittin’ in old Baghdad/In the middle of the hot damn desert sittin’ in a tank”

“You Can Have The Crown” – Sturgill Simpson

¶ Posted 23 September 2019 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – How The Fuck Does Fuckin Shit Work? History of Science Rap

This video is at ~5000 views as I type this. Will be interesting to see if it goes viral and jumps a lot higher as it appears designed to do just that…