Slow day. I decided to work at home because of the blizzard that kept threatening to happen. I worked solidly through the day but still managed not to finish the one thing I had set out for myself to do today….

    I had an interesting Karmic coincidence thing happen to me this morning . Last night my friend Homer and I were having dinner talking about how cool it would be to get a small computer controlled robotic 3D  milling machine (a ShopBot http://www.shopbottools.com/)  to use with kids and school groups to show them how they can  build things in wood and metal by drawing them on a computer. Early this  morning, Homer called me to tell me that there’s one in the Free Press classifieds this morning. You have to understand how rare these things are to understand just how weird  that was.. I suspect that there may only be a handful of these in the entire state.  Weirder still , the seller  turned out to be a friend of Homers from  Northern Vt that he’d lost track of about `1 years earlier. The seller, T, and his wife are retiring to live on a catamaran in the Caribbean. Before they do, they  wanted to find a good home for their ‘baby’.  I’m going to drive up to South Hero to take a look at it tomorrow.  Homer and I are trying to figure out some way of either affording it.. or resisting it.. Stay tuned…

   Anyway.. I passed most of the day pacing around in circles as I usually do when I’m on the phone.. I’ll bet I put in a couple of miles just walking around upstairs. Around five them members of Sam’s old band dropped by to practice.. Diane figured everyone was hungry.. so she did one  of those amazing snap her fingers thing and produced a feast for the ten of us.. (how does she do that)…

      It was fun having that many kids in the house.. though the discussion  with 8 teenaged boys at one table was anything but appetizing

Here’s Gabe pondering his next crude joke…

An Max trying to eat his spagetti off of a moving drink mixer

.. and Urion with a fork growing out of his shirt

Life is never dull around here.. it doesn’t always male sesnse.. but it’s never boring.

I spent a little time after dinner working on the SamStones website again. Again, we’re very eager to collect stories, poems, artwork, photos or anything you have to share bout Sam.. Please don’t be shy about giving us stuff. We really want to build up a collection.  I finally had had enough of computers (eeeek I’m on one again !) so I went up and tackled the huge basket of unmatched socks that had been collecting un top of our dryer… you probably have one of those too.. I spent a happy hour sorting and matching socks. As I did that.. I realized how many of these were once Sam’s socks which we all continue to wear..  You’re still all around us.. man..

-me

 

ps. Today is my baby  seeeeester Mary’s (SPG)  40^th birthday.. last time I remember her having a birthday she was 7.. time flies…  Everyone say ‘Happy Birthday SPG !  Here’s what she was doing about 4 weeks ago