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December, 2009:

Buy Nuk Tessli

More information over at Jordon Cooper Outfitters.  It’s only $195,000, includes three cabins, an established business, and a place to curl up and read at all winter long with the nearest neighbor being over ten miles away.

Salvation Army Community Centre is hiring

I am hiring for night staff positions at the Salvation Army Community Centre.  Job details can be found here. Oh one more thing, we are finally hiring for the women’s shelter!  Job details can be found here.  All positions are starting immediately.

Mike Leach Fired at Texas Tech

Mike Leach has long been a favorite coach of mine but this year was a tough one for him.  First of all he banned Twitter after one of his players called him out for being late to a team meeting on it and then it is alleged that he confined a player to a small, [...]

The Christmas Clean-Up and Other Thoughts

Well we are making some progress in getting everything put away around here.  We weeded Mark’s toys down from four storage containers to one (and one for Oliver) which gave him some extra space.  Part of that space was eaten up by him getting his first computer of his own.  It’s offline for now as [...]

Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray

From the Associated Press Nevada couple letting their SUV’s navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road. On Sunday, atmospheric conditions apparently changed enough for their GPS-enabled cell phone to get a weak signal [...]

Jordon Cooper Outfitters

One of the things that I enjoyed this fall was creating the series of Christmas Gift Idea posts that so many people criticized this fall.  While there was some negative comments, the response was overwhelmingly positive from complete strangers who really enjoyed those features and said it made Christmas shopping a lot easier on them. [...]

A good choice

It was good to see Urban Meyer leave Florida yesterday.   I like Meyer and while it is sad that he has to leave Florida under these circumstances, I am glad for him and his family that he made this decision before the stress of the job caused him to die of a heart attack.  As [...]

9 Things I Learned in 2009: Our Weird Love of Celebrity Culture is Fueled by Our Pathetic Lives

First of all, let’s just get this out in the open, is this not the greatest family photo you have ever seen.  Anyway, back to my topic. Somewhere in the middle of the Tiger Woods scandal, I was reading about what it would take for Tiger to get back on top of not only this [...]

It’s My Fault

I was watching

Christmas Eve Live Blog

6:15 a.m. :: I hate early mornings. 6:30 a.m. :: Mark is up and showered and ready to go to work with me this morning.  Rambling Dave just played Six White Boomers on C95. 7:10 a.m. :: Lineup at Tim Horton’s was too long so I skipped that place and went straight to work.  Stopped [...]

Christmas at the Centre

Well Christmas at the Salvation Army Community Centre in Saskatoon is just about finished.  Most of it isn’t my department so I get to avoid the stress of the season while at the same time as a manager, I get to help out when asked.  Everyone is always amazed at how busy we are at [...]

9 Things I Learned in 2009: From Liquidity Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis

30 days after 9/11, I was in Seattle listening to Leonard Sweet talk at Soularize.  He was saying before others that 9/11 would change everything and he was right in many ways but I think people will look back at the credit meltdown in 2008 and the response of world governments in 2009 as a [...]

9 Things I Learned in 2009: Living with a Person with Depression

Several of you have made the request over the years that I share my perspectives on living with someone who has chronic depression. I’ve been reluctant to share for many reasons.  The first reason I haven’t is that part of living with someone who can spiral downward and inward means that I have to be [...]

NFL Network Sunday Morning

I have never been a big fan of Michael Irwin as a pundit.  I have always liked him as a player but his commentary has always been a little too Michael-centric for my perspective.  Last week he made the declaration that he would give up his three Super Bowl rings and his Hall of Fame [...]

Saskatoon has a substance abuse problem

Last night Wendy, Mark, and Oliver came along as I picked up Christmas kettles at the malls and collect them to be counted.  As I was driving from Wal-Mart in Confederation Mall along 22nd Street to Midtown Plaza.   A women just walked out in front of three lanes of incoming traffic.  Below is a screen [...]