GasRun. ca is a pretty cool site that uses your location to estimate the day’s gas price then allows you to enter two destination points and the type of vehicle you drive to estimate how much it would cost for you to travel one-way or return between those two points. So, as an example, I typed […]
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Holiday Weekend Catch-Up
I took a couple days off on Monday and Tuesday to have an extended long weekend to go camping with Shea’s and my folks and to attend Shea’s cousin’s wedding. Which means I need to do another extended weekend catch-up of missed blog posts… Saturday Snap As mentioned, we went to Shea’s cousin’s wedding at […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “On the Read Again: Southeast Regional Library Bookmobile”
It wasn’t in service when I worked at Southeast Regional Library but one day coming back from a branch, I noticed this parked in the compound of a local auto wrecker and snapped a picture (and yes, briefly considered making an offer on it!) Man, how much of the public library’s history across North America […]
Journey to the Grey Cup: The 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders
Great TSN documentary (that I feel like I’ve posted already but if so, it’s worth watching again!)
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 […]
Journey to the Grey Cup
A TSN documentary about the Roughriders journey to the 2013 Grey Cup.
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
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…
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.