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Category Archives: Randomness

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 […]

¶ Posted 01 January 2021 § Family § Internet § PopCulture § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history

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 […]

¶ Posted 31 December 2020 § ‡ Comments (0) °

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 […]

¶ Posted 30 December 2020 § ‡ Comments (0) °

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…

¶ Posted 29 December 2020 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history, unitedstates

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 […]

¶ Posted 22 November 2020 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Golfer Skips Ball Across Water And Gets Hole-In-One

Pretty amazing…

¶ Posted 10 November 2020 § Jobs § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

“I Want A Dyke For President”

(via)

¶ Posted 18 October 2020 § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My First Ever Amazon Order (August 1997)

Was digging through the depths of my computer’s hard drive and came across a pretty amazing find…the email receipt I got for my first ever order from Amazon back in summer 1997. A few things to note… not sure why but I used my work email address for the order when I’m pretty sure I […]

¶ Posted 24 September 2020 § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, history

10 Things I Would Write About If I Had More Energy

Death of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg My Latest Thoughts on Covid Watching the Emmys Revamped for Covid How Pace Made Most of a Roast Chicken Supper Tonight Some Thoughts on Pro Sports During Covid – NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL, CFL The US Election The Sask Provincial Election The Regina Municipal Election The New Tyler Childers Album (and […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2020 § Blog § List § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid

Saturday Snap – Decorative Chair

Showed up at our campsite last weekend to find a neighbour had surprised us with a custom decorated chair that had been converted into a plant holder (plants courtesy Shea and her green thumb!)