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It’s Okay To Have Too Many Books, In Fact, It May Be Beneficial

After a lifetime as a reader, studying English in undergrad, working with book publishers and writers across two provinces, attending book & publishing conferences where advanced reading copies are given out freely, even hitting way too many charity book sales and garage sales in my life, I suspect I own roughly a thousand books. How […]

Posted 26 January 2020 § Library § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – The Scale of the Universe

Ricky Gervais is one of my favourite comics (and one of my favourite atheists too!)… (via Reddit)

Posted 19 January 2020 § Meme § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Ranking the Nine Star Wars Movies (1977 to 2020)

Finally got to see a matinee of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” the other day so have now seen all three trilogies comprising nine total films within the main Star Wars universe. Like many kids of the 1980’s, Star Wars was a pretty major part of my childhood. The first “Star Wars” movie (later […]

Posted 09 January 2020 § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2019

Things aren’t so bad.

Posted 20 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § List § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Home Inspection (December 2004)

As part of the process of selling our house, we dug through a box of old files we’ve kept over the years – manuals for appliances, receipts for things we’ve bought for the house, and the original home inspection report we got for our house in 2004. One of the things that stood out having […]

Posted 05 December 2019 § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“Home For Sale – Calgary Version” (And A List of Places I’ve Lived)

Here’s a pic of me with our realtor’s sign when we sold the condo we owned in Calgary in October 2004 and with the pending move (basically two nights left in our current home!), it’s got me thinking back on other places I’ve laid my head… 0-5 (?) – my parents live in a rental […]

Posted 03 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

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: