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Secular Sunday – The Scale of the Universe

Ricky Gervais is one of my favourite comics (and one of my favourite atheists too!)… (via Reddit)

¶ Posted 19 January 2020 § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, science

Five Reasons We Were Able To Sell Our House So Quickly

The deal is done, the papers signed at the lawyer, the only thing left to do to complete the selling of our old home and finalize the transition to our new home is to hand over the keys on Friday (okay, the realtors do that.) Anyhow, beyond the very obvious single answer that “There was […]

¶ Posted 17 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]

¶ Posted 10 December 2019 § Canada § Family § Jobs § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, xmas

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Christmas Traditions (December 2007)

Feeling sentimental knowing we won’t have Christmas here this year, I was looking through my oldest photos for a picture of one of our first Christmases at our current house. Unfortunately, since we bought our house in 2004 and our first digital camera in 2006 (and all our old-school photo albums are in boxes somewhere), […]

¶ Posted 28 November 2019 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, science, xmas

This thread about working in a library went viral because it’s funny, passionate, angry and utterly lovely

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/05/16/working-library-thread-viral-passionate-angry-funny-and-lovely/2/

¶ Posted 19 November 2019 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § List § Meme § MemoryLane § UK § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, twitter

What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]