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The Price of Gas Is Lower Than When I Started Working As A Gas Station in High School!

This is from Medicine Hat, Alberta, not Indian Head, Saskatchewan. But it’s absolutely insane that a litre of gas now costs *less* than when I started working at a gas station in 1989 when gas was 45.9 cents per litre (49.9 for Supreme!) – a number imprinted on my brain the same way I still […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Going (Mini) Viral Online in the Age of Pandemic

From working on the Ryan Meili leadership campaigns, mostly in the area of social media plus my own personal interest in the topic, I know some of the “rules” about what makes tweets/Facebook posts successful. But ultimately, human nature is a funny thing and no one can truly predict what will make a tweet go […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2020 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § News § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, twitter

Friday Fun Link – Family Man Retires at 39

Tim works at RPL (I know “works at RPL” conflicts with the title of this post but he works here in the same way that a retired 65 year old might pick up a part-time job at a local retailer to keep busy/do something they enjoy/make some “mad money” to supplement their savings.) Anyhow, a […]

¶ Posted 31 January 2020 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Music Monday – “Every whisper/Of every waking hour I’m/Choosing my confessions”

Recommended by a patron at my branch… “Losing My Religion” – Lacuna Coil

¶ Posted 27 January 2020 § Library § MusicMonday § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“Home For Sale – Calgary Version” (And A List of Places I’ve Lived)

Here’s a pic of me with our realtor’s sign when we sold the condo we owned in Calgary in October 2004 and with the pending move (basically two nights left in our current home!), it’s got me thinking back on other places I’ve laid my head… 0-5 (?) – my parents live in a rental […]

¶ Posted 03 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, education, ontario, parents

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 § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, twitter

Saturday Snap – A Strange (and Strangely Exciting?) Raffle Prize at @officialRPL Staff Day

I was a bit surprised to see what I thought was some sort of sex lotion in one of the raffle baskets I ended up winning at the RPL Staff Development Day yesterday. Fortunately (?), my reading comprehension isn’t so great for a librarian and my wife seemed a bit too relieved to inform me […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2019 § Humour § Library § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – #officialRPL Annual Report 1996 #yqr

One of the ladies in my branches’ “Celebrate Seniors!” program (she’s a model on page 2!) showed me an RPL annual report she recently rediscovered. Amazing stuff…

¶ Posted 31 October 2019 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – The Risks of Doing An Election-Themed Display

I mean I’m not personally a fan of the guy but we happened to have Justin Trudeau’s autobiography in our collection so I put it on an election-themed display I did (along with a range of books about various topics and issues that are important to supporters of all parties this election season. I also […]