Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Working on the Library Not At the Library So this family Day - since it was really quiet - I started working on my personal library of books, the 25 boxes of photo books, reference, and stuff that I had in my home back when I was in the house.  The boxes are over in storage, since this one bedroom apartment I'm renting doesn't have enough space to unpack them all. So I'm selling them off - through Alibris.  It's going to take a while to go through the books, but there are about a hundred listed on Alibris under my iStudio101 bookstore name.  Right now there's no URL assigned to the store until I get my inventory uploaded and the webpage built.  So that's to come soon.

Cole's Notes is now Cooper's Place. The old G+ Page With the new year, there I have been contemplating changes I want to make.  Technology is always changing and so are my social media responsibilities.  As well, I've been neglecting my multiple blogs and social media (Facebook Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, et al).  With G+ closing down and Facebook being a major PITA these days - I decided to update my long-neglected Blog of Cole's Notes and decided to roll all my writing to this one location temporarily. The original So for the next little while - I'll be turning up links and stuff and adding content to this location to keep the colecoop.blogspot.com URL active - and keep all the old postings in an archive.  so if you're following and subscribing - keep using this URL for the time being. So what is Cooper's Place? The artwork that heads up this blog is a pencil drawing done by my cousin Diane of the first Cooper's place, done ...

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...