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Friday Fun Link – The Road To Wrestlemania

The longest reigning champion in modern WWE history. Two dynastic wrestling families. A former wrestler who became the world’s biggest movie star (and also now sits on the WWE Board in real life.). The company being sold to the UFC’s parent company after being under McMahon family control its entire existence. The major cloud hanging […]

¶ Posted 09 February 2024 § MemoryLane § News § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history, movies, television

Riding Tren Maya, Mexico’s Controversial New Train

¶ Posted 07 February 2024 § News § Politics § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: travel

Saturday Snap – Boba Tea

Sasha bought me a Boba Tea with part of a gift card she got from Christmas at the end of a day of errands including visiting multiple art galleries like the highly cultured pair that we are! 😉 Fun fact: Boba Tea costs more at Mosaic Stadium than draft beer! (This is actually not a […]

¶ Posted 03 February 2024 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: food

Friday Frustrated Link – A Great Explanation of Why Teachers Are Taking Job Action

No “Fun” post this week – only frustration… A great thread from Instagram about why teachers are walking out again on Monday, and why it is so important for teachers and folks who care about the quality of education in this province to stand up to the Sask Party. It’s too important to back down. […]

¶ Posted 19 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education

Wisdom Wednesday – Your Real Job Is To Be A Translator

I was in an OH&S meeting once where they were talking about buying walkie-talkies so staff could more easily communicate with each other in our large Central branch. One of the clerks spoke up and said “What sort of training will we get?” A high level manager could barely hide her distain as she replied […]

¶ Posted 06 December 2023 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, language

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2023 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, language

Things That Are Societal “Constructs”

Been thinking about this a bit lately in a variety of ways – the “controversy” over gender fluidity/Drag Queen storytimes/”grooming”, the notion of what constitutes “professionalism” as I wear jeans and a t-shirt to work every day while having the most rat-nesty beard this side of Santa Claus, and then the above thought I saw […]

¶ Posted 21 November 2023 § Jobs § List § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, language

Wisdom Wednesday – Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

I first heard this advice years ago when I was still in the role of Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. In hindsight, I don’t think I appreciated what an amazing job that was to have right at the start of my library career. Our Director (still the same guy all these years later) […]

¶ Posted 08 November 2023 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Sad § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, orgdevl

Friday Fun Link – Boomerang Retro C-64 Video Game

A guy I went to school with got a game published in Compute! magazine in the late 90’s (and got a $500 payday or something wild). These were the days were the code was printed in the magazine and you had to manually enter it to play the game. (I still remember my Grade Six […]

¶ Posted 03 November 2023 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education