Not sure what it means when you’re getting music recommendations from your mother-in-law but that’s how I first heard of this singer who also happens to be an RN that my mother-in-law worked with prior to her retirement.
Also important to note that this video has some scenes shot at Nickle Lake Regional Park where we have our seasonal campsite!
“Hard Not To Fall” – Karissa Hoffart
I can’t remember the last time Shea and I took recycling to Sarcan but I’m pretty sure it was before Covid and possibly not since around *last* Christmas since we only take cans every few months once they build up.
Of course with Sarcan having been shut down for a few months plus our somewhat increased consumption (!) during quarantine, we have ended up with a *huge* backlog of cans to return.
Even after Sarcan reopened (June?), we waited quite a while in the hopes that lines would die down. But when we finally braved a recycling depot the other day (not even our usual one as its not even taking Drop & Go since they’re still so overwhelmed apparently), we found it not *too* bad – about four people in front of us and a wait of about half an hour in total.
I won’t tell you where our cans stop and the person in line in front of us begins in the picture below but yeah, we’re due for a *big* cheque!
With the Canada-US border closed for the foreseeable future, I was trying to figure out the last time I went to the States.
For awhile there in the early 2010’s, I’d say we ended up going about once or twice a year, either to Williston which is just over the border or Minot, which is an hour further away but has more to do in terms of shopping and a full mall (and of course, we did a big family trip to Hawaii in 2012 but otherwise, most of our vacations since then have been Mexico/Cuba/Dominican Republic instead of popular US destinations.)
Anyhow, even using the geotagging in my photos, the latest I could find was a Minot trip in December 2014 which surprised me – I would’ve thought we went *sometime* in the past six years, even for a day trip but I guess that since Shea and I quietly decided not to go to the US for any reason after Trump was elected in 2016, maybe not too surprising after all?
Anyhow, here’s a pic from a 2012 trip which included that major tourist destination for Canadians – an American Wal-Mart! 😉
Some irony that the head of the world’s most successful video company would write a book but there you go.
I’ve long been fascinated by how various tech companies (including Netflix) create and develop their corporate cultures and what traditional companies and organizations can learn from them.
Hastings boils down Netflix’s competitive advantage over Blockbuster — which 20 years ago rejected his $50 million asking price for the then-fledgling DVD-by-mail startup — to three things: “a culture that valued people over process, emphasized innovation over efficiency, and had very few controls.” Those principles, he says, are the taproot from which its “no-rules rules” have sprung.
Pretty different “back to school” photo this year – masks being the most obvious change but also missing the tree in our old front yard that was the backdrop for “first day of school” photos since Pace started kindergarten (since we still live in the neighbourhood, I suggested taking the kids there for a stealth picture but Shea thought that was a bad idea for some reason! So the small bush in the neighbour’s yard had to suffice as a new backdrop.) 😉
He’s broken *so* many taboos and boundaries in politics.
But Trump’s taking a lot of pushback after reports of multiple negative comments against the military so maybe, just maybe, this will finally break through to some supporters that he’s not a good person and maybe even help guarantee a loss in November (or at least ensure the military is less likely to support him if it comes to armed conflict – which I don’t think is outside the realm of possibility.)
Anyhow, for some strange reason, this one-hit wonder song from the 80’s popped into my head while reading the coverage of Trump’s latest media storm…
“Nineteen” – Paul Hardcastle
A recovered evangelical points out the obvious – probably not!
Technically I took this photo yesterday but we spent most of the weekend at our seasonal campsite cleaning up after another great year so I’m counting it as my “Saturday Snap” photo this week…
