Tag Archives: Covid

50 Memories of Covid Quarantine

I’ve been fortunate to be able to work from home since March 18 but as I take another big step and prepare to head to my first full week back in the library this week (with our branch to open to the public soon as well), I thought it might be interesting to make a […]

Saturday Snap – What Does This Person Know That The Rest of Us Don’t???

Shea and I finally made it to Costco nearly four months to the day after our last visit, right after we returned from Mexico and right before Covid hit. I had to chuckle seeing someone buying a cartload of toilet paper imagining that’s probably what *every* cart at Costco looked like a couple months ago […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Naive We Were (School Year 2016-2017)

As June comes to an end, I have to post this meme I recently rediscovered. It’s funny how dabbing, fidget spinners and bottle flipping were the biggest issues a teacher had to deal with a few years back! I’m not up to doing a full photoshop job but can only imagine the updated version of […]

Another Reopening Milestone

Last week, Shea and I had our first sit-down restaurant meal in three months and tonight, we took the whole family for our first meal together in a restaurant (well, on a patio anyhow.)

Five Thoughts As I Enter My Fourth Month of Quarantine

I did a list like this about a month ago and so I thought I’d do another one as I’m now a few days into my *fourth* month of quarantine to see what’s front of mind these days… 1. Public libraries *finally* have a date for permitted opening which will be Phase Four Stage Two […]

Music Monday – “Time stand still/I’m not looking back/But I want to look around me now”

I’ve been into my branch a handful of times since it shut down three months ago. But as RPL has begun slowly reopening over the past couple weeks, today was my first day back in branch doing more traditional library work.  This is because we’ve started having mid-sized and smaller branches in the RPL system […]

Saturday Snap – Just A Swingin’

The kids are both happy that playgrounds are finally open again but they also enjoy the convenience of the swing I rigged up right in our campsite!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our First Dine-In Restaurant Meal in Three Months! (March 2020-June 2020)

Usually my “Throwback Thursday” posts go at least a few years back. But this one has me thinking of the past three months – from our last dine-in meal at the Houston Pizza near our house on Friday March 13 after we picked up the kids from what would be their last day of school […]

The Tragic Saga of Officer Stacey McMuffin

There’s been a huge amount of attention to police budgets and police brutality recently. It’s been so overwhelming that a 15-year veteran of a Georgia county police force had a melt down in a McDonald’s parking lot after her food didn’t come out right away and she thought the staff were likely planning to poison […]

Evolution of Covid-19 Case Numbers in Canadian Provinces

This is a good video but guilty of one of my biggest pet peeves of the data analysis of this entire pandemic – not using per capita numbers as a comparator. Without taking into account per capita numbers and barring some notable outliers (hello Alberta!), of course the most populous provinces are going to be […]