Sudan is a very far way from Orillia Ontario (though interestingly only half as far from Toronto as Red Lake....but anyways...). Our man Don is going over to Sudan on a very important mission: to teach the local police force where all the best Tim Horton's locations are and how to get the powdered sugar off your mouth quickly when your superior officer has pulled into the parking lot. Seriously. That's why he is going.
Being away from family and friends for long periods of time is difficult for everybody – and it will be challenging for both Don and his family. This blog is a gift from all of his friends to the whole Eastop family as a way to create a virtual place to be together – so this is the Sudon, while Don is in Sudan. This is the easiest way for them all to stay connected during the long nine months of constant partying, hot tubbing and illegal activities at Ground Zero in Orillia......no, no..wait..(that was supposed to be secret wasn't it Sheryl?!).
Of course we all want to help Don and family in their bid to stay connected so this blog has been set up to be viewable by anyone with the web address, comments to any post can be made easily and emails can be sent and posted directly on the blog by anyone using the mail-to-blog address (with or without pictures attached). This makes it very easy for any of us to send messages to Don. On the other end he can do the same for all of us. Being able to see and read about the events across such great distance helps to make it feel much less remote, much less disconnected and less unknown. You can post direct to the blog by using either your regular email program or smartphone to email to john.mcgarr.thesudon@blogger.com. NOTE: This is a LIVE posting – so what you send gets posted immediately for all to see and cannot be recalled or deleted quickly!
The blog has been set up to provide a few people with email notifications when new postings are made – there is a limit of 10 email addresses. This is intended to be a useful reminder for all of us to keep checking back for updates from Don and to make your own postings to him. In order to make sure as wide a circle of Don's friends and family as possible can participate in this, not everyone will be able to get the notices, so some of you may need to inform others of new posts.
If anything on the blog needs to be edited, deleted or modified please send a request to john@freshsqueezedideas.com and it will be sorted out quickly. NOTE: this is a FAMILY blog, so keep the nudity down to a minimum.
Of course, this all assumes that Don will have access to a computer and an internet connection in Sudan, which in hindsight is a fairly significant assumption on our part. So if in fact there is no computer or internet connection......disregard everything you have just read.
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