I haven’t posted much here lately for the obvious reasons that life has been quite busy. I am trying to decide whether or not I want to take enrol in Commerce‘s Edward’s School of Business business certificate program. Of course my other option is to do the Chapters self-directed MBA but the business certificate is a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lee Cooper’
The Christian Book Whore
Bill picks up on my post about bloggers whoring themselves out to the publishers for free books and other products. First of all, the price is quite small, EA once sent my brother to San Francisco for the launch of Battlefield 2 and game home with a bag full of schwag and more free games [...]
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 [...]
Selling out for the holidays
I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides. It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]
Mark turns 9
Many of you know that Wendy and I have been quite worried about Mark lately. Mostly it revolves around the fact that he isn’t as heavily armed around the house and he should be. Lee solved that tonight as he gave Mark a Vulcan EBF-25 Nerf machine gun for his ninth birthday. Yes, that’s right. [...]
The doom and gloom of retail at Christmas
So early reports are that sales are down 4% this year retail wise compared to last year. While that doesn’t sound like that much, it is if you are a store owner who depends on Christmas sales to make or break your year. Wendy and I were in Sears in early December and we were [...]
Future Shop
My brother Lee gave Mark a Nintendo DS for Christmas. Mark had been working for me at the Centre helping with some odd jobs and had amassed some cash to save up for a DS (what a coincidence!). With his DS taken care of and a glut of cash, he wanted to go out an [...]
Christmas Day as it happens
8:00 a.m. :: I should be at work. I am not. 9:00 a.m. :: Tim Horton’s is closed! What?! They are “celebrating” family values. That may be a good thing but where do I get my coffee? 9:15 a.m. :: Found coffee at a 7/11. English Toffee cappuccino has become my new friend. My decision [...]
Live Blogging Christmas Eve
With the power of the iPod Touch and the fact that I won’t be far from the interweb this year, I thought I would live blog the minutia of the holiday season. 7:00 a.m. :: Good news, the car started. 7:45 a.m. :: Used the command start to start the car again. 8:05 a.m. :: [...]
The season we call Christmas
I have been in Christmas mode for a while. At work we tend to start it on the day that the Christmas Kettles go out as we start accepting Christmas Hamper applications around the same day. Wendy was in decorating the Residential Unit at the Centre (we decorate a couple of days later than everyone [...]
Turkey, turkey, and more turkey
It’s Thanksgiving around here and to celebrate it we had planned to spend it at the lake. That didn’t work out so well as Lee got sick and needed a day to sleep it off and so we planned to go south today to the lake but then we heard of a massive snowfall warning. [...]
Happy Birthday Lee
Wendy has the details on her blog.
Review of the PlayStation Portable
A couple of you have e-mailed me and asked about the PlayStation Portable my brother gave me for Christmas. I have been e-mailing everyone back but I thought I would post a review of the device here. I have wanted a PSP since Lee got one a couple of years ago and have used his [...]
Christmas 2007
So Christmas 2007 has come and gone. It was an odd one for me. I enjoyed it and Wendy blogged about it here (and she blogged about Boxing Day here). This is Mark’s seventh Christmas and he was the same age I was when my dad walked out a couple weeks after Christmas. I remember [...]
