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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Elvis Is My Uncle? (May 2011)

My cousin in Calgary was surprised when some friends arranged for an Elvis impersonator to come to her 50th birthday celebration. This coincided with my aunt and uncle, also in Calgary, having their 50th Anniversary so it became a bit of a mini-family reunion. A picture of all aunts and uncles present made me imagine […]

¶ Posted 28 March 2024 § Family § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cute, parents, travel

Saturday Snap – That Moment When You See Your Car on Regina Rant & Rave

When I met a friend for lunch at Tim Horton’s before work on Thursday, the last thing I expected to see on social media later was a pic of my car in the parking lot! Luckily it wasn’t a rant about my bad parking job or the excess of window stickers I have on my […]

¶ Posted 16 March 2024 § Humour § Internet § Meme § Photo § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Surprising Pattern Behind Colour Names Around The World

Cool video my son told me about…

¶ Posted 26 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Pace § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, science

2023 End of Year Memes – Remembering a Year That Was All About Memory

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? After our son thought our new puppy had possibly eaten his ear buds, I did a middle of the night forensic examination of a fresh dog turd using a plastic fork! Turns out my son had found the ear bud in the pocket […]

¶ Posted 31 December 2023 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – “Oh Man, Oh God”

We all find sanity and solace in different things…

¶ Posted 27 December 2023 § Jobs § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies

Friday Fun Link – Or Just Use Duct Tape For Everything Like I Do? ;-)

ThisToThat.com is a site that tells you the best types of glues to bond different materials together.

¶ Posted 22 December 2023 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Friday Fun Link – Norwegian Death Diving…

…is apparently a thing! (Of course, any country that invents Norwegian Death Metal is going to come up with something like this!) https://twitter.com/crazyclipsonly/status/1731620862556864795

¶ Posted 08 December 2023 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Friday Fun Link – Boomerang Retro C-64 Video Game

A guy I went to school with got a game published in Compute! magazine in the late 90’s (and got a $500 payday or something wild). These were the days were the code was printed in the magazine and you had to manually enter it to play the game. (I still remember my Grade Six […]