Today is Blue Monday. Never heard of Blue Monday? What is it you ask?
Psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University has christened January 22 “Blue Monday”, when after Christmas tiredness kicks in; you start to stumble with those New Year’s resolutions you made; spring seems an eternity away. What’s more, the feeling will last all [...]

This weeks quote has to do with one of my favorite topics, education.
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” -Anatole France
That is the problem with many people. I have found in business [...]

Here are my thoughts and recollections of the past week.

I finally got all the problems that were the result of the network reconfiguration resolved. We also hired 2 new technicians who will start at the beginning of February. Both worked for the Beaufort Delta Education Council in Inuvik so they will now be short staffed. [...]

The Conservative government announced that they are going to give homeowners up to $5,000 to retrofit their homes and make them more energy efficient. The program will cost the government $220 million. As Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said during the announcement, “It’s time to recognize that the largest untapped source of energy is the [...]

Pregame Notes: Swedish striker Henrik Larrson is playing up front with Wayne Rooney. The rest of the team is unchanged from their last game. United are in their blue away strip for this game. United haven’t lost on the road to Arsenal since 2001 howeveer this is their first ever visit to the new Emirates [...]

Pregame Notes: Edmonton starts the game again without Steve Staios, who was put on the IR this week with a knee injury, Daniel Tjarnqvist with a groin problem, and Jarrett Stoll, who suffered a broken nose last game. Ales Hemsky is back for the game. Calgary recalled tough guy Eric Godard (4G 4A 87PIM) [...]

Pregame Notes: Ales Hemsky is out of the lineup tonight and Brad Winchester is in. Hemsky was injured Tuesday on the cheap blindsided hit by the Wild’s Derek Boogaard. Patrick Thoresen is taking Hemsky’s place on the Czech-Mate line to start at least. Mathieu Roy is back on defense tonight and Tom Gilbert sits [...]

Northern Lights 2

Originally uploaded by EclecticBlogs.

I was taking the dogs out to their pen the other night so that they could do their business. It was around 11:45pm and it was -34°; the sky was clear and the stars were bright and twinkling. Clear except, that is, for the Northern Lights that were covering half [...]

Words on Wednesday is back. Why on Wednesday? Wednesday is from the Anglo-Saxons Wodensdaeg (Wodens day). In Teutonic mythology, Odin, Woden, Woutan, and Votan (plus hundreds of other names), was the one-eyed patriarch and chief of the gods; the god of wisdom and war. It is for his “wisdom” that I try to make everyone [...]

Pregame Notes: It was announced on the weekend that Ryan Smyth will be going to the All-Star game later this month for the first time. Ladislav Smid was selected to attend the young stars game the night before the big show. Tom Gilbert is in on defense tonight for the Oilers and Mathieu Roy takes [...]