Head Tale

First off, it didn’t line up perfectly but earlier this week, I posted my 5000th post on this blog after nearly 14 years of daily posts from February 25, 2006 to April 30, 2020 (and fourteen years ago, I *never* would’ve guessed that my milestone 5000th post would be about my daughter, let alone my daughter getting a negative result after a test during a worldwide pandemic!!!)

(Oh, and speaking of daily posts, Shea is responsible for perhaps the funniest post ever on this blog – I went out for an end of semester pub night with classmates, leaving her at our apartment alone *and* pregnant.  She posted on my behalf to keep my “streak” going then as classmates saw the post and clued in, they began posting comments knowing the time stamps would indicate how late I stayed out!  The comments got lost in a blog transfer to a new host but I still remember one of my favourite classmates, who died too young last summer, being the ring leader of keeping the comments going!)

Anyhow, science tells me that’s this blog encompasses a span of 5179 days so I’m actually surprised how few days of posting I missed in that span (though there were probably days I had multiple posts – especially early on – that balance that out.)

It’s also true that most of my “Throwback Thursday” posts feature pictures from around same time I started this blog since that’s when we also bought our first digital camera – a Canon model we bought off Ebay from the States.

But today, a perfect Throwback Thursday post fell into my lap after the FB page of Luther College in Regina where I stayed in dorms for my first year and a half of undergrad in 1991-92 posted a pic from one of their “Midnight Breakfasts” which were done near the end of each semester.  This is where faculty and kitchen staff joined together to feed a special meal to the students cramming for finals.

If you don’t recognize me, I’m the overly skinny kid in the red shirt with the mullet wearing what I think was a UNLV shirt!