Lee Cooper

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

Dec 5th, 2008

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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

Oct 12th, 2008

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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

Jan 20th, 2008

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Wendy has the details on her blog.

Review of the PlayStation Portable

Jan 13th, 2008

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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

Dec 26th, 2007

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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 [...]

Happy Holidays

Dec 23rd, 2007

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Well as I post this I am ready for Christmas. Every fall I start a spreadsheet and over the following months it gets refined and items picked up. We were done the bulk of the shopping well before the craziness of Christmas shopping hits and I actually made two trips to the 24 hour Wal-Mart [...]

Mark is armed and dangerous

May 17th, 2007

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Over the last couple of weeks I have felt the need to equip Mark with enough weaponry to make him feel welcome in Idaho or northern Michigan. First came a slingshot which I was prohibited to own (it was okay to have a pellet gun but not a slingshot) which I have been teaching Mark [...]

The woodpile

Apr 26th, 2007

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Wendy, Lee, and I finally finished moving all of the logs from the maple tree to a pile in the back of the yard. Here it is. Excuse me while I go and take some back medication.

Happy New Year!

Jan 1st, 2007

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I am at work right now. We are short a couple of people right now so I came in early so a co-worker could get a full eight hours of sleep before he comes back to work. Last night’s celebrations involved me coming home, watching some football, a documentry on the restoration of Windsor Castle, [...]

Merry Christmas

Dec 25th, 2006

by Jordon.

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Well the stockings have been rumaged through, the presents opened, and the chocolates are laying out ready to be consumed so it must have been Christmas morning. Wendy and I wendy down to the Salvation Army last night and served soup and sandwiches at the coffee house. Captain Ed and Captain Charlotte lead a nice [...]

My love of football

Oct 9th, 2006

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I was wearing my Denver Broncos hat at work the other day and someone asked me if I was a casual or a hardcore fan. I replied I can tell them the names of every NFL starting quarterback over the last decade and probably the school they came from and the round they were drafted. [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Oct 7th, 2006

by Jordon.

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It’s Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend which for us means it is never ordinary. In the past Thanksgivings have been marked as travel days to Soularize or just getting back from it. A couple of years ago I slept through Thanksgiving, having spent the night before “sleeping” in a Boston airport and enduring a long [...]

Mark’s dog run

Aug 10th, 2006

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Lee built a dog run for Hutch the other day. Wendy just showed me the packaging for it and it is hilarious. The dogs are on the outside of the dog run while the kids are trapped inside it.

March 11

Mar 11th, 2006

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As has been tradition the last couple of years on my birthday, I have live blogged the day. Since I am working until 6:00 p.m., this could make it harder but here goes nothing… 9:00 a.m. :: Woke up, showered, and hung out with Mark. 9:40 a.m. :: Lee drove me to 7-11, I withdrew [...]