My throat is a little sore tonight which I’m sure is unrelated to the sickness three people in my family had over the last week.

What are the odds I’d get sick too? 🤷‍♂️ 😢

Turns out Neville’s a big Severance fan.

Neville Dogbottom sitting on a couch propping his head up on the arm rest watching a TV showing an episode of Severance on AppleTV+

One of those times when reading to one of my kids before bed and the book is so good I don’t realize they’ve fallen asleep.

Have to re-read the last chapter tomorrow night I guess.

Photo of a page from Station Eleven: No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

Caught a WHL hockey game tonight (Saskatoon Blades beat the Regina Pats). The main attraction at any hockey game is actually the food, of course. The poutine didn’t disappoint. 😋

Ice hockey players in action on the rink during a game, with spectators in the background.

If we could get a week of -15C instead of -30C, that’d be awesome for everyone. 🥶

A golden doodle puppy dog named Neville stands on a snow-covered path surrounded by snowbanks and trees under a clear blue sky.

I complain about going to my kid’s hockey games, but I actually do enjoy (most of) it. I’m glad he’s on a team that takes a chill approach to winning or losing, but still wants to play well and get better. Which makes the community of parents fun to be around as well.

It’s still dang cold sometimes.

I’m live now on Twitch or YouTube setting up a podcast feed for audio posts for my blog. Come hang out and ask any q’s you have about podcasting or winters in Canada. 🥶

Cool - the developer of Balatro is from my province, Saskatchewan, here in Canada. And the game only exists thanks to the harsh prairie winters we get. 😆

“We picked a fight with the Labradoodle of allies?” Jon Stewart / The Daily Show on USA picking a fight with Canada

I’m going to be live streaming this afternoon talking about setting up a podcast feed for audio posts for my blog (1:45pm CST / 2:45pm EST), so feel free to join on Twitch or YouTube.