Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

For the last couple of years, I've been working over Christmas, and not had time to update Cole's notes.  I've been working so far away from Blogging it's been a chore to write anything of use, other than to post to Facebook.  Well this Christmas if different.  I'm using the time off to re-invigorate Cole's nots and get it back to my passion, Journalism, writing and the graphic arts. So in the Spirit of Dutton Peabody of the famous Shinbone Star.  Watch this space.

New place For the last year - I've been housesitting while I downsize my stuff.  The lease is up and I just got the notice that the contractors will be putting on the finishing touches to a new apartment.  I'm getting my keys on March 30th - and start in the new place on April 1.

It's been a while since I've updated the site for design - since I've been too busy to blog - let alone update the design. So I'm going to add this new design template to Cole's notes and will be adding to it as I go. 

Well, I just looked at the blog log.  This is post number 1,003.  A Thousand postings.  And here is the old issue coming up again.  This time from a church of all things. So here's the note I sent to the pastor of the church who emailed me. Dear Pastor  XXXX ; Please, could you contact the Cole Cooper who is your in the parish?  He has given you the address of cole.cooper@gmail.com for his email address - which is my address, the story of it is below: A Googley e-mail issue Sending to colecoop@gmail.com - cole.cooper@ gmail.com and colecooper@gmail.com will all come to my address.   O nce upon a time - October 6, 2004, to be exact - I was one of the first users of Google email beta after getting an invite for the Beta.  At the time - I had a Hotmail address for Obandrinker@hotmail.com, plus a Shaw @ home address.  So after a few minutes in the old system,  I ended up with my name in  Gmail  as   cole.cooper...

Lost in Translation So, there I was cleaning up my computers and organising my office, when I had a chance to look at my Cole's Notes blog postings.  There where five in draft form, and the last time I had published was September of 2016!   Wow, I hadn't realised how much time had passed since I'd last posted there. Then I started to remember what had been going on for the last year.  At the end of 2016, frustrated with credit cards, and too much debt, I decided to cash out from my studio and find something to retire to.  Well, I did sell my house and studio, and moved into a house sitting situation, and picked up two part-time jobs.  At the same time, shutting down the library and studio meant that I didn't have much in the way of computer resources to keep up my writing and photography, so my editing work has been mainly on Facebook and Twitter, monitoring Social Media. I've been using the iPad for email and and twittering - but the keyboards are terri...

Thought for the day Getting organised - there will be some new posts coming in the next little while.  The G+ page is getting linked in and will come here.  I'm still working on te new website and will have a new announcement around Mid-September

In 12 days Albertans will kick off the hunt for the next leader of the Conservative Party right here in Calgary. And we are doing it in true western fashion. Take western hospitality, mix in leadership candidates, and add some delicious barbecue and beer and you’ve got a recipe for a party you don’t want to miss! Come on down and spend the afternoon with MP's Michelle Rempel and Blake Richards on June 18th at Symons Valley Ranch for a pre-Stampede event and possibly meet the next Prime Minister of Canada. Here’s what to expect: Short speeches by leadership candidates Refreshment breaks to soak in the ideas and the sun More ideas presented by the candidates More breaks with time to pull something cold from the beer tubs Q & A with the leadership candidates The event will close with a western party, including a tasty barbecued dinner. The lineup for the evening includes: Hon. Lisa Raitt , M.P., Hon. Kellie Leitch, M.P., Hon. Tony Clement, .P., Hon. Michael Cho...