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Wendy Cooper

Occupy Saskatoon

After reading a media report that Occupy Saskatoon were housing all sorts of homeless people at Friendship Park, myself, Wendy, and Bert (our caseworker) wandered down their protest.  There was only one homeless person being helped and he wasn’t around so we chatted a bit, took some photos, and then I had to head back [...]

Early anniversary gift

I had wanted to upgrade Wendy’s Samsung Link for a while now as Virgin Mobile has had some entry level Android smartphones out for a while.  Every time I went out and looked, they were sold out.  I finally tracked one down today at Best Buy and decided to pick up a Samsung Galaxy 550.  [...]

It’s Monday

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 [...]

Mark

I haven’t been posting much here about what’s going around the house but Wendy has a couple of posts about Mark.  The big news with Mark is that he is playing pee wee football for the Babineau Warriors in the Kinsmen Football League.  In real terms it means that instead of coming home from work, [...]

My week in review

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 [...]

August Long Weekend

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.

Cuts in Transit Services

I’ll admit, it has been years since I road a city bus for the simple reason that it’s a pretty easy walk from my house to work and Wendy only has to travel two blocks to her work.  At both of our places of work, there are staff there 24 hours a day.  The Salvation [...]

!@#&* WordPress

Well I performed the upgrade for WordPress 3.2 on my blog today and things went very smooth.  So smooth I was thinking I was on par with Matt Wiebe.  Then reality hit when I hit “upgrade” on Wendy’s weblog and the whole thing died.  I restored her database from a backup and slowly brought it [...]

wendycooper.org

After deciding she wasn’t fond of the ads on WordPress.com and $30 seemed a little steep to go ad-free when she can get free hosting with my account, Wendy decided to purchase www.wendycooper.org and migrate her blog to her own install of WordPress.  That was the easy part.  The hard part was picking out a [...]

Back to basics

Wendy decided to move her site from WordPress.com back to Blogger this weekend.  The move went okay but Blogger is having problems importing new blogs right now.  You can find her at iamwendycooper.blogspot.com from now on.  Her RSS feed remains the same and of course you can find her on Twitter at @wendycooper.

Wendy’s Dark Decade

On Friday Wendy wrote a long post that kind of describes where she is right now in terms of her depression and life right now.  I found it quite uncomfortable to read, partly because of the details she wrote about are often painful ones for both of us. A bunch of you wrote me with questions [...]

Monday

The weekend that was: Wendy worked for part of the weekend.  When she wasn’t at work, I was at work solving some things.  We did find some time to celebrate Mother’s Day with the Reimers, purchase Mark’s birthday gifts, and hang out with Lee.  It was a nice weekend when all is said and done. [...]

Jerry’s Food Emporium

Wendy writes about a recent trip to Jerry’s Food Emporium as they launched their new Artisan Hamburgers.  She loved it and has been raving about it (or is that gloating) since the event.  The Cooking Blog has more.

Museum of Natural Sciences

On Sunday, Wendy and the boys wandered over to the Museum of Natural Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan.  Mark gave me a new zoom lens for my birthday and wanted to go out and try it.  Both Wendy and Mark took their camera’s along as well and all of us took some shots as [...]

37 trips around the sun

I turned 37 today.  Not much of a milestone but it was an enjoyable day.  I fell asleep on the sofa last night so I woke up early to the family and a really sore neck.  After some stretching and straining I got up and opened some presents.  Mark gave me a 70-210mm Sigma lens [...]