This is a picture of me sitting at the circulation desk of the Indian Head branch library that I grew up with and ended up as supervisor for in my first job after doing my Master of Library Science degree.
When I was a kid, my friend and I were really into Greek mythology. He pointed out that the Greeks believed in their gods as much as people today believe in the Bible’s god. But as far as he was concerned, people just moved Mount Olympus higher into the sky.
Shea and I finally dropped our landline and will only be using our smartphones going forward. Some risks and downsides of course but overall, we were basically paying $40/month for calls to and from both sets of parents (which we can still do with our smartphones) and otherwise, 90% of our calls were spammers, surveys, or spammy surveys.
Next step will be cutting the cable cord although that one might be a bit tougher as I’m still pretty attached to the cable (and then satellite) television I grew up on. Hell, I paid part of my way through college selling cable TV subscriptions for Image Cable Systems in rural Saskatchewan. They say you can’t sell something you don’t believe in and I helped Image win National Marketing Awards for the campaigns I was involved in. So yeah, cable TV means a lot to me and getting rid of that will be a much bigger leap to make! 😉
Anyhow, if you need to reach Shea or I, call our cells…
Five years ago on my dad’s 65th birthday, I posted a list of some of the many reasons I loved him – fond memories, funny memories, ways he’s helped me grow into the person I’ve become.
It was probably the most personal thing I’ve ever posted to this blog. And since dad turned 70 this year, I thought Father’s Day would be a great time to re-visit that list.
To my own dad and to the kid who made me a dad for the first time (Sasha would’ve been in this photo too but she was back in the campsite doing a really good job of staying away from the water!)
* Jon Oliver on the mixed emotions football fans feel towards a game that’s more like a religion for most of them and the corrupt body that oversees the quadrennial tournament…
* Who to cheer for in the World Cup flowchart. (England’s not my home country but the England/the UK is where all my ancestors came from so that’s why I cheer for England – even though I also answer “Yes” to the second question on the flow chart which says that having traveled abroad to England is a reason I *shouldn’t* cheer for them. But yeah, Go England!)
In my never-ending quest to have a theme for each day of the week that eliminates the need to put actual thought into my daily blog posts, I’m going to try out the Throwback Thursday theme that’s so popular on Twitter and Facebook these days. And as an extra bonus, I don’t even have to think of something to write – I can just find an old photo! 😉
Let’s start off with one of the oldest photos I have scanned into digital format on my computer – a shot of Shea and I at West Edmonton Mall in 2000. We must’ve enjoyed the trip – less than a year later, we were living in Calgary!
