I set my goals low today and had another day of blissful ‘not doing’. Diane and I began the day with a run.. I should say.. I began my day with a run. Diane had already been up for about 3 hours 🙂 .
My first goal for the day was to find a way to back up this blog. I was getting a little worried with all of the technical problems that MySpace is having that they could lose chunks of my blog . Unfortunately. MySpace has no provisions for backing up or exporting a blog.. Luckily, I found a service called SpaceWrapper (SpaceWrapper.com) that provides an archiving function for MySpace. It created an archive of all the posts I’ve made to date. I plan to use them as backup and as a way of creating a printed copy. One of the byproducts of the process is a listing of the blog titles from the first day I started writing. I found it interesting just looking at the progression of titles.. somehow they capture where my head has been since the day after Sam’s passing. It’s a little hard for me to look at. Because it gets me to relive some very tough days.. but here’s the list in reverse chronological order.
- Sunday night – wild life
- Sat night – Billys
- Friday Night – memory lane
- Thursday night – bats !
- Wednesday night – late posting
- Tuesday night – Joysee shore
- Monday night – New Joysee
- Sunday night – G-d bless the child
- Saturday night – high summer
- Friday morning – back from the U.S.S.R.
- Thursday morning – spiel balaika
- June 20th – red square (pictures later.. again !)
- Tuesday – From
- No time to post
- Sunday night – Happy Father’s Day ad Max’s Birthday
- Saturday night – not quite father’s day
- Friday night – Deer leap
- Thursday night – SamStoens at school
- Wednesday Night – Open Mike Night
- Tuesday night – will spring ever come ?
- Monday night – a Peace of the Rock
- Sunday night – end of birthday weekend
- Sat night – gabe’s 12th brithday !
- Friday night – night at the Opera
- Tursday night – connections
- Wednesday night – books
- Tuesday Night – handwriting
- Monday night -hasty post after busy night
- SUnday night – the dog whisperer
- Saturday night – Tree’s down !
- Friday night. – Musical Soul
- Thursday night – 12th night
- Wednesday night – warped
- Tuesday night – grafitti
- Monday Night – Happy Birthday Sam
- Sunday night – Duality
- Staurday night – Never a dull moment
- Friday Night – Jolts and Volts
- Thursday night.. home again, home again
- Sam’s Birthday Ultimate Frisbee Party – May 28,
- Wednesday night – fishkill
- Tuesday night – million times better
- Monday night – six months
- Sunday night – home at last.
- Saturday night – Middle
- Friday night –
- Wednesday Night – last day of CTRE
- Thursday night – surf’s up
- Tuesday nigth – you can do whatever you want until someone tells you that you can’t
- Monday night – cold water
- Sunday night – Mother’s day
- Saturday Night – Mather’s day eve
- Friday night – taking it easy
- Thursday night – rathole
- Wednesday eveing – how arghhhh ya ?
- Tuesday night. – meeting fun
- Monday night – number 10
- Sunday afternoon – transitions
- Saturday night – Cinco
- Friday night – Max’s home
- Thursday night –
- Wednesday Night – Samstock
- Tuesday Night – May Day
- Monday night – my souls in good hands
- Sunday night – Arggggghhh mateys..
- Saturday Night – Skanky Green
- Friday night – day off
- Thursday night – window pain
- Wednesday night – Wrong place at the wrong time
- Tuesday night – TYKTWD
- Monday night – Johnism
- Sunday Evening – Parents, Skateboarding and Peace
- Saturday – Five months today
- Friday night – at my folks – 420
- Tursday night – home again
- Wednesday night – Ode to Joy
- Tueday night –
- Monday Night – analytics
- Sunday night –
- Saturday night – snow again !
- Friday night – dog days
- Thursday night – socks
- Wednesday night – 3D printing
- Tuesday night – men’s yoga
- Monday night – Sam;s font
- Sunday Evening – Easter – Walking on water
- Saturday night – Looking for Sam Stories
- Friday night – SamStones
- Thursday night – peaceful evening
- Wednesday night – Seder
- Tuesday night – Gylphs and tones
- Monday night – Happy first night of Passover
- Sunday Night – Diane’s Birthday
- Saturday – sleepy afternoon
- Friday Night – At a party
- Thursday night – writing about writing
- Wednesday Evening – I smell Spring
- Tuesday night – the forest people
- Monday night – on the mend
- Sunday night – still with the flu
- Saturday Evening – Sick as a dog
- Friday evening – in route
- Friday morning – ready for home
- Thrusday Afternoon – Last full day in
- Wednesday Night – four months
- Tuesday night – wicked hot
- Monday Night – Beautiful city
- Sunday–evening, catching up from yesterday
- Sat night – short post before long flight
- Friday night – Goodbye
- Thursday Evening – The Ides of March
- One more thing
- Wednesday night – The Circle of life: Welcome baby Liddicoat !
- Tuesday Evening – The lights went out in
- Monday evening –
- Sunday Morning – In
- Sat Night – Packing
- Friday Night – Karl Marx + SamStones Potluck Sat Night
- Thursday Night – Geek Grief
- Wedneday night – cold !
- Late Tuesday – Steez
- Monday afternoon – red/blue auras
- Sunday PM – in Killington
- Saturday night – Gabe’s tough night
- Late Friday Night – back flip
- More later
- Thursday night – my inner slacker
- Late Wednesday – Where are you now ?
- More later
- Tuesday night.. – PB and A1
- Monday – yoga night
- Sunday evening – shoveling snow
- Saturday night – friends’ birthdays
- Friday evening – On the way home
- Thursday eveining – Uncle HoHo
- Wednesday night – three months today
- uesday night . .In the midwest
- Monday Evening – Snow angel
- Sunday evening – not the dali lama
- Satuday – peace again
- Friday night – peace at the end of the day
- Tursday night – snow day
- Valentines day
- Tuesday Evening – valentine’s eve
- Monday night – Dream visions
- Sunday night – Nice 3 day weekend
- Saturday evening- feeling younger
- Friday night – my birthday
- Thursday Night – my birthday eve
- Wednesday night – pretty spacey
- Tuesday Night –
- Monday Night – beat
- Sunday evening – Welding Day
- Saturday – off color day
- Friday night – Mad Science
- Thursday evening – Back from
- Wednesday Evening – The Sam Rail
- Tuesday Night
- Late Monday
- Sunday evening – queit again
- Saturday Evening – calm before the storm
- <i style=””>Late Friday night – back home again
- Thursday eveing- back at the hotel
- Thursday morning – in the back of the room
- Late Wednesday =
- Tuesday Night
- Monday night
- Sunday evening
- Saturday evening – at Jen and TIm’s
- Potluck and Samstones tonight (1/20) at Jen and Tim’s
- Friday eveing
- Thursday night
- Wednesday evening
- Tuesday evening..
- Monday Evening – MLK day
- Sunday evening
- Late Saturday
- Picture of Sam and Ivy’s dog Stella
- Friday evening
- Thrusday evening – Home again.
- Wednesday mid-day – still in
- Tuesday afternoon –
- Monday evening – posted from a parking lot in
- Music
- Sunday evening
- Saturday evening
- Friday evening
- Thursday evening
- Wednesday Evening.
- Picture from
- Tuesday Evening
- Monday Evening – New Years Day
- Monday – early, early morning
- Sunday Evening – New Years Eve
- Saturday evening
- Friday morning – PS
- Friday morning
- Pictures from this week
- Thursday afternoon
- Wednesday morning
- Tuesday morning
- Monday afternoon – Christmas Day
- Sunday Evening.. Christmas Eve
- Saturday evening
- Friday evening
- Friday morning – Solstice
- Thursday morning
- Thursday morning
- Wednesday afternoon (repost from memory)
- Tuesday evening
- Sam Cohns everywhere
- Monday morning
- Sunday morning
- Saturday afternoon
- Friday afternoon
- Friday afternoon
- Thursday morning
- Wednesday evening
- PS… Skateboard beneifit
- Tuesday morning
- Tuesday Evening / Wednesday morning
- Monday morning – three weeks
- Light a candle tonight at
- Please light a candle for Sam tonight at
- Music from Sam’s memorial service – check it out !
- Sunday morning
- Another wierd Red Bull story
- Saturday
- Friday morning
- This just in….
- Thursday morning
- Wednesday morning
- Tuesday morning
- Zimbawe
- Monday morning
- Bull….. ?
- Monday morning (again)
- Same old s**t
- Sunday morning
- Saturday
- Friday
- Thursday
- Wednesday
- Tuesday
- Monday
- Sunday morning
- My beautiful son Sam
There you have it: 249 of the hardest days of my life.. Someday I’ll print them all and make a book for me to keep.
My only other goal for the day was to head to Homer’s and work on getting one of the images of Sam machined into a block of something to make sure the tool could do it. I’d like to use the shopbot to help make plaques for the Guitar award as well as the programs at Rock Camp and at
Ooops.. we accidently called 911 when trying to dial another number.. the plice came out to chacek on us
A wooden prototype for a scuplture idea for Sam. It a wind powered snowboarder who does board graps. 
It took a large amount of fiddling but I was able to take the image from the latest Sam shirt and load it into the machine. I chose to do it in inverse to see hoe that would look. Here are some pictures of the machine processing the image.
Machineing the image
I took the final result and sprayed it with silver paint, to better highlight the details.. it still looked a little funny.
Late tonight I was at the counter doodling, when I laid a piece of printer paper over the machined surface and rubbed it with a crayon.. I was amazed at the results. It’s quite a good likeness..
My one other outing for the day was an Electricity show I did for this year’s Governor’s Institute for Engineering. The Gov Institutes are week long summer programs for kids interested in math, science and technology. I had been scheduled to do my show on Saturday as the program ended. We’ve decided to go see Diane’s parents then instead.. so The folks at the camp graciously allowed me to move my talk to this evening. It was a bunch of fun.. here are some images form tonight’s show.
Pontificating
Jayela loves batteries. yuck
Illustratng that the heart is an electric muscle
I got home around 11.. My buddy Pete came over then to have a beer and talk about work and life.. we sat around and talked for a while as I shoveled through a mound of dishes.. We have lots of folks starting to show up at the house. Some folks are here for the beginning of the Voices movie project, other’s are just here visiting. When I got home tonight we had Max, Jessie, Emma, Meredith and Cody nearly asleep in a pile in the guest room, and Raye and Travis asleep somewhere else in the house. I think we’re going to have between 6 and 8 folks here full time for the next 6 weeks. It should be a riot.
Merideth from the Voices project
Travis and Raye
Gabe comes home tomorrow from Camp in
OK.. gotta sleep now. More tomorrow ! I love you all. Love you too Sam !
-jc