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I can hear

Well my hearing is slowly but surely returning. The background static is gone and while it isn’t back yet, I can hear enough to function. Blowing my nose is extremely painful (it pops the left ear horribly) but other than that, it is slowly returning to normal. I am off the antibiotics but am still [...]

Resolutions

Dec 31st, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy posted her New Year’s Resolutions so I thought I would post mine. Take the stairs to the top of The Lighthouse at least daily. This seems like a really good idea now that building is only four stories but when the new tower is nine stories this summer, it could be a really bad [...]

Twas the Friday before Christmas

Dec 23rd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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It’s been an interesting week at work and at home. I might as well first talk about work. For me I should be at home but I am at The Lighthouse. I have been working with a really paranoid guy and we had been making some progress. Today some events happened that more or less [...]

The Rupture

Dec 18th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Some of you knew that Wendy has been quite sick with a violent cough. She got it from Oliver who coughed so hard he would throw up and get bloody noses from his coughing fits. While I escaped it, Wendy got the brunt of it and and on Friday night around 3:00 a.m. I went [...]

Around here

Dec 13th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy blogs a bit about how sick I have been and also mentions that it is her birthday today. She is sick as well so if you have time, wish her a happy birthday on her blog.

@ work

Dec 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I was going to post this yesterday but there was a lot to do, not a lot of time to do it and when I got home, Wendy and the boys wanted to take me out to dinner. By the time we got home, had a talk with Oliver about him not being Spiderman so [...]

What’s next is next

Nov 28th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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When I resigned from the Salvation Army, I didn’t really have a plan or a job to go to so I’ll let you read into that all you want. It was a pretty sudden decision but it was time to move to something else. After years of being on call 24.7, I wasn’t sleeping well [...]

This is my life now

Nov 17th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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It’s been a bad week, a really bad week but this was weirdest thing I have had to deal with. At work yesterday my right arm really started to hurt. I hadn’t done anything but it started to hurt a lot. I took off early yesterday to meet Darren Friesen for coffee. I couldn’t put [...]

Monday Morning

Nov 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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It’s my regular Monday morning post but this time via video. Since I mentioned the weekend at the cabin, here is the link.

The Staycation

Oct 7th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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A couple of weeks ago I realized that I hadn’t taken any vacation days in 2011. I have three weeks and over a week of flex time to use so I decided to take some this fall. With Mark playing Kinsmen Football, I can’t really get away or he doesn’t get to practice so instead [...]

It’s Monday

Sep 26th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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The weekend that was: It was all football. Mark had a practice on Saturday and a game on Sunday (they lost). We did go and check out Larry’s Skate Exchange on Saturday. We also managed to buy some Taber Corn on the last weekend they are open. Wendy had never had it before and she [...]

My week in review

Aug 18th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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On Sunday I decided to take the family to Waskesiu for the day. We drove up through Prince Albert, past the Prince Albert Penitentiary and Riverbend Institution (Wendy was curious over where the Salvation Army has our prison barbecue) and then to Waskesiu (Mark thought we were headed to the cabin via Regina but in [...]

An open letter to The StarPhoenix.

Jul 2nd, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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It’s spelled Jordon, not Jordan. That is all. cc: CBC Saskatchewan

Turning 10

Jun 28th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Ten years ago today I published my first post on this site. I wasn’t sure if this blogging thing was going to last but since then I have posted more then 11,000 times to the site and the traffic has grown quite a bit. There hasn’t been many changes to the site. It was first [...]

Wollaston Lake

Jun 6th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Since the middle of last week when the Wollaston Lake fire forced the evacuation of the community to Prince Albert and to two locations in Saskatoon, I have been handling food services at the Saskatoon Kinsmen / Henk Ruys Soccer Centre for the Salvation Army EDS since the first evacuees arrived. What generally happens is [...]