Lee Cooper

Turning 30

My little brother Lee is turns 30 today. Whoa. We are all getting older. New house this fall, getting married this summer. It’s almost as if he has become an adult. I still remember the day that mom brought him home from the hospital. Happy Birthday Lee.

Christmas 2011

Dec 26th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I hope everyone had a great Christmas. After a daring battery run to Walmart on Saturday morning, we met up with the Sieberts for coffee/tea and to exchange gifts and Christmas cheer. After that we headed out to Warman to Lee and Brittany’s place for Christmas Eve dinner to open gifts. Wendy talked about the [...]

How to survive holidays with the in-laws

Sep 27th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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With my brother Lee getting engaged, this could come in useful for Brittney on how to deal with us. Writers: If you are not affiliated with an academic institution, avoid saying you are working on a novel. “Freelancing” is way better than any kind of “fiction writing”! The etymological meaning of freelancer as “mercenary warrior” [...]

August Long Weekend

Aug 6th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy blogged about our weekend at the cabin. The photos can be found here. The highlight of the weekend was falling (being tossed off) the hammock by Oliver. Here was my view after my eviction. He has a great future as a bouncer.

Christmas Around Here

Dec 26th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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I see that both Wendy and Mark have posted about Christmas so I thought I might as well. I won’t describe the day as Wendy did a great job of doing that but I will ad in that it was a lot of fun to have friends and family around. For my gifts, Wendy and [...]

Thanksgiving

Oct 11th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Wendy posted a fair bit about our Thanksgiving weekend on her blog. No need to add more here.

Busy right now

Jun 23rd, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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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 [...]

The Christian Book Whore

Feb 20th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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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

Dec 24th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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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

Dec 2nd, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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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 [...]

Guest Post: Christmas Gift Ideas for the Brother In Law

Dec 1st, 2009

by Wendy.

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This is Wendy and this is what happens when Jordon doesn’t log out of his weblog and leaves me unattended. Since Jordon handles most of our Christmas shopping, I don’t have to spend as much time thinking about Christmas gifts as Jordon does. By far the hardest person to shop for on our Christmas list [...]

Mark turns 9

May 18th, 2009

by Jordon.

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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

Dec 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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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

Dec 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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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

Dec 25th, 2008

by Jordon.

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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 [...]