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Throwback Thursday – Weeding #tbt

A couple thoughts on a massive fiction weeding project I did at Southeast Regional Library… I’m sure this weeding project was literally the moment that I went from believing “All books are precious tomes of knowledge that should be preserved at all costs” to “Well, I guess if we’re buying new books all the time, we […]

¶ Posted 31 July 2014 § Humour § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, saskatchewan

Journey to the Grey Cup

A TSN documentary about the Roughriders journey to the 2013 Grey Cup.

¶ Posted 27 July 2014 § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Ouzo!”

I remember seeing the New Zealand band, Hobnail Boots (now known as “Hobnail“) when they played the Ness Creek Festival during a cross-Canada tour, maybe in the mid-1990’s? Funny how hearing the opening notes of this song immediately brought back great memories of their entire performance… “Ouzo” – Hobnail Boots

¶ Posted 14 July 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Sunset Swing

¶ Posted 12 July 2014 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “You and me go fishing in the dark/Lying on our backs and counting the stars”

Gone fishing for a week. Expect minimal blogging…

¶ Posted 30 June 2014 § Family § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Full Circle (November 2007)

This is a picture of me sitting at the circulation desk of the Indian Head branch library that I grew up with and ended up as supervisor for in my first job after doing my Master of Library Science degree.

¶ Posted 19 June 2014 § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Happy Father’s Day (One Day Early)

To my own dad and to the kid who made me a dad for the first time (Sasha would’ve been in this photo too but she was back in the campsite doing a really good job of staying away from the water!)

¶ Posted 14 June 2014 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents, saskatchewan

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2014 § Censorship § Infographic § Jobs § Library § List § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, health, history, music, philosophy, saskatchewan, science

My Suggestion for A Better Way to Make Sure A #yxe Father Is Close To His Ill Son #yqr #saskatchewan

Looks like WestJet’s trying to repeat their successful Christmas viral video with another one that will pull your heartstrings for Father’s Day (plus to help make the video go viral, they’ve offered additional flights to Ronald McDonald families for every 100,000 views the clip gets up to a maximum of 500,000.) Of course, this is very generous of […]