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 that this was actually some sort of perfumed body spray.
Oh well…
So I don’t mean to turn this blog into “all Flames all the time” but after that unfortunate OT loss in the Heritage Classic last Saturday, it was amazing to see the Flames come back from a 3-goal deficit to tie it with three unanswered goals in the third period last night.
The Predators went ahead again scoring a goal with just over a minute left but the Flames again tied it up with seconds to spare courtesy a goal by Matthew Tkachuk (remember that name!)
Then the Flames went on to squeak out a victory with less than a second left in OT with an unbelievable between-the-legs goal by…Matthew Tkachuk.
*This* is the Flames I watched all last year but which haven’t been too visible this year (so far).
So fun!
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…
Wrong team won but with a few days to think about it, probably worth it to see a 3-on-3 overtime outdoors (pond hockey!) and would’ve been even better if it had gone to shootout too!
Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin with.)
I’ve got quite a few thoughts on the many ways our personal and professional lives intersect in this modern age but that’s a post for another day.
Anyhow, she brought her class to my library today for a visit and completely surprised me by having all the kids write thank-you notes for my donation to her class library.
This was one of my favourite notes of the bunch and a good reminder of all the ways books (and a “good liberein”) can make a difference in people’s lives! 🙂
It created a pretty magical “snow globe” effect at the Heritage Classic last night, continued to fall through the night and it’s always a bit of a judgement call but it feels like it’s time to do my annual post of this song as it feels like the snow is here to stay again for another long Saskatchewan winter (though again, if you have to bring in winter, having the first snow that stays come during an outdoor hockey game is a pretty cool and memorable way to do it!)
Pretty cool experience to go to the Flames Heritage Classic game in Regina with my Calgary cousins and our dads.
A variety of ways to look at the results.
How would proportional representation have shaped the results (always with the caveat that even PR supporters like myself have to acknowledge parties knowing the election was happening under PR would change strategies and the results so it’s hard to map FPTP results onto PR models perfectly.)
And I didn’t see this until after the election but Macleans magazine had a hilarious (and relaxing!) way to cover the election – they simply live streamed video of people colouring in a map of Canadian constituencies as the results came in
I’m super excited for the Heritage Classic outdoor NHL game (first regular season NHL game in a non-NHL city ever!) on Saturday night at Mosaic Stadium.
I’ve always been a Flames fan since I have a lot of family in Calgary but they were my second favourite team, at least until we moved to Calgary in 2001 when they took over from the Islanders as my favourite NHL team.
Living in an NHL city moved my fandom to another level and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.
One highlight of our time in Calgary was the Flames’ unexpected 2004 run to the Stanley Cup finals.
I was even able to get tickets to their first home game (third in the series) in the Flames opening round games against the Vancouver Canucks. But that was the only game I got to as I either couldn’t afford and/or couldn’t find tickets to any games (I remember sitting in a pub near my workplace for what turned out to be the final game when the Flames lost the Cup in game six and, in those pre-smartphone days, running to my office to see if any seats were for sale. And yes, I was looking for two but if I’d found one, I probably would’ve left Shea at the pub to go!) 😉
