Back from another round of night shifts. Not much to say about that week- just a nice easy week, three parts Kress truck one part loader. Podcasts!
What's that band that has some American expats in it that are based out of Montreal and they're really good? Ar something? No, not Ar. . . hmmm . . . Barr. .  yeah-  Barr Brothers! They were on Q and played a couple of live songs. Wow. I was using the finger-swipey scrub motion to find the spots in the podcast to replay those songs. I can't find a link to it but all these are from iTunes anyways. CBC Q.
Speaking of music via podcast, Tegan and Sara have an entire folk festival concert available from NPR music which was nice and Tegan and Sara-y.
As It Happens had a pair of interviews with a Welsh gentleman whose giant vegetables caught the attention of Snoop Dogg who then posted a video to YouTube inviting him to a concert and backstage to discuss horticultural techniques.
Stephen Tobolowsky entertained, as always. And Freakonomics had an episode on hitch-hiking which I found interesting because of all my hitch-hiking adventures.

It was an astronomical week at work this time around. Not because of anything work-related, though. Just lots of Northern Lights. Little spears of green light thrown by Pallas Athena from her perch up on Olympus. And one night there was the craziest meteor, a lot of us thought it was leftover debris from that satellite that fell to Earth- it was super-bright and gave off sparks, and about halfway through its arc, it turned green. I know Alberta doesn't have much credibility after that Okotoks Twitter Hoax but that's what I saw.
Otherwise work was nice and quiet, I just drove my truck and listened to many podcasts. If you have time, definitely check out this episode of DNTO, at least for the stories told by Jack Tueller, a WWII pilot and trumpet player. They also post to a YouTubeo of him, very very cool.
Thanks to my new friends at NPR's Monkeysee (and the related podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour), I checked out The Tobolowsky Files. Everyone knows Stephen Tobolowsky but you just didn't know his name. He's that guy from that show you like. Seriously. Turns out he's also a fantastic story-teller. Sorry about the obnoxious ads on that website, I just get all my podcasts from iTunes but I dunno how to hyperlink there. One last amazing podcast- the most recent episode of This American Life. If you get them the week they're posted they're free (and you can listen online for free too) so just go listen right now- it's this crazy (true) story about a P.I. agency staffed by soccer moms headed by a guy who starts to dabble in some extracurricular activities...
My drive home from Hinton this morning featured not strange astronomical phenomenon, but strange roadkill- a fox and a cougar, though not together. I've only ever seen one live cougar in the wild and it's sad that now I've seen an equal amount of dead ones.