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A 41 Year Old Addict Says Good-Bye (And Shares His Observations and Regrets)

The amount of stress I’m seeing in the world right now is overwhelming. People I know from Ukraine and Iran worried about home. People navigating our Covid-filled world whether they’ve never tested positive or tested positive multiple times. Parents trying to find needed badly needed medicine for their kids while teachers face half empty classrooms. […]

¶ Posted 23 November 2022 § Meme § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: philosophy, reddit

Happy House-iversary To Us!

Hard to believe we’ve been in our house for three years today. And what a wildly unexpected three years it’s been! Of course we didn’t know it at the time but when we ended up moving to a house that was a little newer, a little bigger and a little better than the starter home […]

¶ Posted 22 November 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Saturday Snap – Tumbleweeds in the Tylenol Aisle

Good thing the pandemic’s over or else I’d worry about this shortage of children’s medicine! (Funny story – we’re out of kids’ meds at home too and Sasha’s been sick a lot lately so Shea asked the pharmacist and managed to snag a mini-bottle of kids’ Tylenol. Then we got home and didn’t see it […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2022 § Family § News § Politics § Sad § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, science

Some Covid Updates

Hard to believe that two and a half years into the Covid pandemic, I’m debating whether to make a round-up of recent news and observations a weekly feature on this blog. Why Are Hospitals Overwhelmed (Spoiler: Lots of Reasons) Why are hospitals in Edmonton/Alberta so overwhelmed? I am going to turn to the data for […]

¶ Posted 15 November 2022 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, science

The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

Funny how this video says that prior to March 2020, you’d only know about N95 masks if you were doing home renovation projects or lived in a city with high pollution which prompted Shea and I to exclaim at the same time “Or if you grew up on a farm!”

¶ Posted 08 November 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science, youtube

It Finally Got Us! (aka “Do I Have Covid?”)

It’s a very informal sample but through social media posts, talking to work colleagues and other family and friends, I’ve noticed a big increase in the “I’ve avoided it for 2.5 years but it finally got me” reports of people getting Covid. Our family is no exception – after two and a half years where, […]

¶ Posted 18 October 2022 § Family § News § Pace § Politics § Sad § Sasha § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, science

Saturday Snap – Regina Waste Water Analysis

This is fine…

¶ Posted 15 October 2022 § Infographic § News § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, saskatchewan, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Feeling Sick? Stay Home! (June 2020)

¶ Posted 13 October 2022 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, science

Some Recent Covid Tweets

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcoming Covid is people who act like Covid is already over… When COVID started I thought the best thing to do was to learn all I could about what it was and how to avoid it. I thought that the people I cared about would want this information […]

¶ Posted 12 October 2022 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, history, science

Saturday Snap – “Meals That Make Your Mouth Dance”

We don’t consider ourselves “foodies” per se but Shea and I often talk about the restaurant meals we’ve had that “made our mouths dance”. This rarity happens when we find a combination of unique flavours from fresh ingredients created by great chefs. (Side note: highly recommend “The Bear” if you haven’t seen it.) A Korean […]