November, 2009

Retirement of Jordan Tucker’s Jersey and Number

Memories of Jordan Tucker from Allie Ziells on Vimeo.

“>A video from Jordan’s schoolmates – memories, one year later

I had intended to post this by Halloween since it was between Halloween and the “holiday shopping propaganda blitz” that inspired this… One year my brother and I got bored and decided to come up with a list of really bad ideas for the Christmas season and called our fledgling new enterprise Bad Ideas, Inc. Here is some of the products that for some reason we decided against developing:

For the adults shopping list:

- Shower Toasters – for the really busy person who doesn’t have time to stop for breakfast
- Pet Bees
- For the adult who despises cats…Claymores for Cats, a home pest control kit for the do-it-yourselfer to be marketed under the name “Kitty Kitty Bang Bang”
- Claymores for Canines, to show we weren’t going to discriminate (names were still under development but included such marketing gems as “Bark Bark Boom”)

For the kids:

- My Own Pet Piranhas for the tub
- My Own Home Radioisotope Lab for kids
- My Own Guillotine
- My Own Autopsy Kit (think of how much we would’ve made here with the immense popularity of the “CSI” television shows
- My Own Home Surgery Kit

And somehow, with brilliantly inspired ideas like this we remain impoverished…genius is never appreciated in its own time…

Jeff

Copenhagen Agreement to create One World Government

If only he were as proud of the country that elected him…

Obama Video on his Moslem Beliefs

Make your 8:20pm Count

Not many can point to the exact time of their last communication between themselves and a loved one. I can. It occurred on November 13th, 2008, via cell phone text messages, shortly after a father and son finished birthday shopping. Jordan was heading back to his home in Cloquet, and I was on my way back to my farm in Wisconsin. It went like this:

8:20pm: Happy birthday again Jord. I’m very proud of u and glad I got to see u
8:31pm: Yeah thanks for takin me shoppin. I had fun
8:32pm: Good i’m glad. Me too.

One night later and my son would no longer be here to text. I know that because I have checked my phone a thousand times. That last conversation is saved in my phone’s inbox. There won’t be any more texts from or to him but I still check. Just in case this was a horribly bad dream. So my advice to you is to fill somebody’s inbox right now. Say you’re sorry, say you miss them, say you love them, say hello. Make sure your last message sitting in someone’s inbox at 8:20pm or whenever is something you’re glad you told them.

Jordan’s message left on my computer, age 3

Jordan’s last voicemail letting Barb know where he was that afternoon after school, 11/14/2008

Jordan's Resting Place

Just added some pictures, will be adding more this weekend as I try to get a little caught up. I added some pictures from the horses Halloween party. Sorry I haven’t been around much these days, huge projects at work as we expand the clinic network yet again as well as a much larger expansion sucking up all time and energy. I see the farm when it’s dark when I leave and dark when I return. Anyway, adding that as well as some ideas I had for products that never took off – you’ll see why! Will add them later.

The gang got into the spirit of dressing up for Halloween this year. Here’s some shots of them.