Category Archives: Randomness

Our Second Trip to Mexico During Covid?

I said yesterday’s visit to Mexico would be our only one but we enjoyed it so much, we decided to go again to celebrate Valentine’s Day! 😉 (We’re not the only ones missing beach vacations apparently but this is pretty extreme!)  

I’m at an age where…

…I find myself downloading apps to test my hearing at midnight, suddenly worried that a lifetime of listening to loud music and going to concerts that left my ears ringing is catching up to me. (Luckily, at least according to a free iPhone app, I have nothing to worry about…yet.)  

Friday Fun Link – C Major Scale Visualized

This is pretty cool (even though the tone sounds like an auto-tuned hockey organ!)

Saturday Snap – Sticky Situation

How does this happen? Well, one bottle is our home bottle, one was brought back from the lake at the end of summer and is still not used up and one was accidentally opened by a kid who doesn’t look very hard to see if there are any other open bottles anywhere!

Is Hello Fresh Worth It?

Shea and I recently decided to give Hello Fresh a try. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s one of a few competing companies that have sprung up over the past decade or so that sends pre-packed supplies for making a single meal. Many of my friends swear by meal delivery services, referring to them […]

FutureMe: Letters To The Future

I recently heard about this site that lets you write letters to yourself at some point in the future. The idea is for teachers to use it with students, grandparents with grandkids, spouses to each other or pretty much any combination you can think of. You have the option to make your letter public but […]

2020 End of the Year Memes – Covid Pandemic Spreads Worldwide! Covid Quarantine! Covid “Dimmer Switch” Societal Reopening! Covid Vaccine As Christmas Gift to The World!

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I had been on the board of Coteau Books, a well-established small Canadian literary press that had been in existence for almost 45 years, for nearly a decade myself.  Unfortunately, the publisher had been seen a variety of issues compounding over the past […]

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2020

January – “Happy New Month/Year/Decade (and I already screwed up the time stamp of a scheduled post so this didn’t go up right at 12:01am like I hoped but instead, was going to wait until January 12 to show up – oops!)” February – “Walked Sasha over to her school’s Family Literacy Night earlier this […]

Google’s 2020 Year in Search (And A Couple Other Year-in-Review Compilations Too)

And since it was such a memorable year, I’ll add a couple other “year in review” compilations… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbLY46Vaq8    

One Crazy Unintended Consequence of Covid?

It’s never happened before but Shea and I are almost completely ready for Christmas and it’s not even December 1 yet! We put the tree up right after Remembrance Day after making the mistake of saying/spelling “When do you want to put up the T-R-E-E?” in front of a little grade two kid who we […]