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My 2024 Stanley Cup Predictions (of the moment)

I suspect this would change pretty much every time I do it. So many good teams this year and always possibilities for upsets (Go Kings!), one of the Canadian teams to bring the Cup home finally (Go Jets!) and Cinderella runs (Go Isles!)

¶ Posted 23 April 2024 § Canada § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Music Monday – “I looked up and you were there/Just sitting there all alone/Holding your fist in the air like/If you need me you’re on your own”

“The Lonely End of the Rink” – The Tragically Hip

¶ Posted 22 April 2024 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey, music

Saturday Snap – A Busy Week in the Hammond House

Sasha went to a recently opened trampoline park with a bunch of friends for her birthday… Pace did his driver’s exam (didn’t make it but examiner said he did he really well and it was mostly mistakes due to nerves that caused him to fail which is apparently the case with 3/4 of first-time drivers […]

¶ Posted 21 April 2024 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education

Friday Fun Link – The Unreality of Pro Wrestling

I need to do a Top 10 list of the reasons I love pro wrestling. But this captures a whole bunch of them…

¶ Posted 19 April 2024 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, television

Friday Fun Link – Barbershop Books at Las Vegas Public Library

Part of the “NFL Inspires Change” program that collaborated on this program which launched in the lead-up to the recent Super Bowl…

¶ Posted 22 March 2024 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Scott Moe Booed at the Brier

The Brier is basically Scott Moe’s base – older, white, rural – and he got booed?!? I mean, a lot of grandparents have grandkids who are being screwed by the Sask Party’s unwillingness to negotiate in good faith with STF. Maybe it’s finally reaching people that Moe has to go? Scott Moe gets booed at […]

¶ Posted 12 March 2024 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, saskatchewan, television

Saturday Snap – Brier Trophy

My library was fortunate enough to have the Brier Trophy present for an event last December as it made various stops around Regina and Saskatchewan in advance of the Montana Brier Tournament which has run from March 1-10. I got my picture taken with a volunteer who kept an eye on the trophy during our […]

¶ Posted 09 March 2024 § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, television

Saturday Snaps – #Rivalry Series #yqr #GoCanadaGo #CanadianWomenKickButt

Had tickets to the Rivalry Series game between the Canadian and American women’s national teams on Friday night and it was a great game and an even better experience. I hadn’t been following it but when I looked it up, I was surprised to see the Americans had won the first three in a row […]

¶ Posted 10 February 2024 § Canada § Family § Pace § Sasha § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, hockey, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – The Road To Wrestlemania

The longest reigning champion in modern WWE history. Two dynastic wrestling families. A former wrestler who became the world’s biggest movie star (and also now sits on the WWE Board in real life.). The company being sold to the UFC’s parent company after being under McMahon family control its entire existence. The major cloud hanging […]

¶ Posted 09 February 2024 § MemoryLane § News § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, history, movies, television

Saturday Snap – Boba Tea

Sasha bought me a Boba Tea with part of a gift card she got from Christmas at the end of a day of errands including visiting multiple art galleries like the highly cultured pair that we are! 😉 Fun fact: Boba Tea costs more at Mosaic Stadium than draft beer! (This is actually not a […]