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Five Home Selling Tips Your Agent Doesn’t Know

We’ve got our house listed, have already had a handful of showing and I find myself watching videos like this in the small hours of the night (not bad advice but not sure it’s highly top secret knowledge either!) 😉

Posted 01 December 2019 § Humour § List § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

This thread about working in a library went viral because it’s funny, passionate, angry and utterly lovely

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/05/16/working-library-thread-viral-passionate-angry-funny-and-lovely/2/

Posted 19 November 2019 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § List § Meme § MemoryLane § UK § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Seinfeld Had A Humourous Take That Applies To The “Don Poppy” Controversy

A show ahead of its time in many ways…  

Posted 13 November 2019 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Secular Sunday – 78 Questions For Christians

Posted 10 November 2019 § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Moving Home (December 2006)

When I was accepted for grad school, we were pretty lucky to find an apartment that a young woman was giving up (I think she’d done a semester and became a “Christmas grad”) so when I started my program in January, we were not only able to assume her lease but buy out a lot […]

Posted 07 November 2019 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – How To Raise An Atheist Family

 

Posted 03 November 2019 § Censorship § Family § Pace § Sasha § SecularSunday § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

“You ar a good liberein”

Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin […]

Posted 29 October 2019 § Library § Pace § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Elections Fun

A variety of ways to look at the results. How would proportional representation have shaped the results (always with the caveat that even PR supporters like myself have to acknowledge parties knowing the election was happening under PR would change strategies and the results so it’s hard to map FPTP results onto PR models perfectly.) […]

Posted 25 October 2019 § Canada § FridayFunLink § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Winners and Losers of #Elxn43

Usually after an election, there are articles and blog posts about “winners and losers”. But after last night, I feel like we have the rare situation where every party could arguably be said to be both a big winner and a big loser in some very definitive ways. Liberals Won: The election obviously Lost: But […]

Posted 22 October 2019 § Canada § List § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

The Fundamental Choice This Election #elxn43 #canpoli

I’m not sure if it was something I learned in a political science class or read in a book or when exactly I figured it out. But I don’t think it’s especially profound to realise that, at its core, the biggest difference between people on the left and people on the right is that people […]

Posted 20 October 2019 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,