We’re having our yard landscaped next week so, if I’m lucky, this might be a photo of the last time I cut grass in my life!
(Also, funny coincidence – the kid’s climbing structure ended up going to…our former neighbours at our last house who saw the listing on Facebook and reached out. If I’d known that three years ago, we’ve could’ve just passed it over the fence between our two houses and left it with them at that time!) 🙂
It me!
Generation X is weird.
These 43-58 year-olds are so strange it presents golden opportunities.
Here are 10 mind hacks to use with Gen X:
— Michael Girdley (@girdley) June 10, 2023
The struggle was real – do you record in SP and get the maximum quality, LP for a balance of quality and quantity, or EP and get the most on the tape (I think the answer below is obvious – VHS tapes were expensive when I was in high school and making $4.50/hr at a gas station job. So I always tried to cram as much on them as I could.)
I think you could also see hints of a future librarian I would become as I include not just names of the movies I was dubbing but category and time counts! (Not shown is the database I created of all the movies I had dubbed over probably a couple dozen VHS tapes.)
We’ve seen a lot of wildlife in the green space behind our house – partridges, rabbits, even a coyote. But seeing a moose earlier this week was a new one!
My Apple stocks are either going to sky rocket or crash hard on this news! 😉
If your promotional video is indistinguishable from something you'd see in a particularly dystopian episode of Black Mirror, maybe time to reconsider? https://t.co/6E2gn4gwTC
— stephensben at bluesky (@stephens_ben) June 5, 2023
“Night Time” – George Thorogood
Also, this is an (attempted) picture of me walking the dog at four in the morning when camping this weekend.
(He doesn’t get up often in the middle of the night but when he does at home, at least we can send him out the back door into our fenced yard instead of going for a big hike to smell every patch of grass and sign pole in the park looking for the best spot to pee!)
So much of what we’re taught to believe from our earliest days, by our parents, by our schools, by popular culture, is outdated, incorrect and potentially even harmful such as the notion of “professionalism“.
…replaced on my roof about a year after a major hailstorm ripped through north Regina and punched machine-gun holes in most houses’ siding in our neighbourhood. (Our next door neighbours just got their siding done this week!)
In a weird way, this was perfect timing as our house had original shingles that were end-of-life so having them paid for by insurance was awesome.
And I’m not super-afraid of heights but our roof has a very steep pitch so kudos to the people who do roofing as I’d probably crap my pants up there!
