Ughh.. I was supposed to be out withsoem of my Richmond Father’s buddies on our annual beer drinking/shopping crawl through Church street.. Instead I’m lying on the couch like a wet rag.. Running a fever and feeling as creeky as our attic door.
I’m pretty bummed to miss the shopping.. but it feels pretty nice just chilling on the couch..
Not much to report on today… I woke up feeling pretty creepy but figured it was a pulled muscle..or soemthing. By midmornign I felt fine..
I managed to get the Prius in to Road Res-q to get the Snow’s on . (subliminal message… take all of your cars to Road Res-q.. they’re excelgreat ). Shawn and Phil let me work in gas station while they swapped the tire.. I care..ved out a cool little office in the back. It’s cozier than y own office, I think . They got the tires on.. and I drove off.. or at least tried to drive off. The Prius is possessed .. whenever I get in, the battery goes haywire and it drains, I need to jump it with a tiny battery I carry for that purpose. I’m taking it in to Toyota tomorrow to have it exorcised… they’ve tried fixing it three times.. but no luck. The energy dsissrupr waves from my brain are jsut too powerful. By the time I did make it home, I relaized I was really sick. I drove into the driveway and immediatly felel asleep in the car for 45 min with the motor running.. (outside) I’ve been on the couch ever since.
Hmmm.. what else to report ? … Ahh.. I have had an interesting increase in the freuency of out of the blue contacts from old friends. Yesterday I spoke with Chip, my junior year roomate from Vienna Austria.. We haven’t spoken since 1976.. .. but it was just like old times. He’s running a folk and blues magaziine out of DesMines has a great family and travels to folk festivals all over the US. Playing music and working his magazine. He lists himself as the ‘Tribal Cheif’ of the opreation. I remember that he and I used to buy whatever we could find for cheap and mix it all together in a pan.. we called it ‘Lizard Slime Death Mold’.. and I still call it that.. . I loved talking to him.. He found me on the Web.. and found out about Sam and called me. We’re goign to find a way to get together somewhere sometime to talk old times.
I also heard from my other frien Murat in Vinna. He and his wife Laura and baby Murial and I have stayed in touch pretty welll.. but it was still good to hear from him. I tried to convince him to go to a Robotic Bartending show that was being held in Vienna last weekend..He calls himself a wood doctor. , and only beleives in stuff made of wood … so he didn’t go.. Can you beleive not being interested in robotic drink mixing š
Today I heard from my old friend Greg P.. He wsa in the high school class ahead of me in Houston. He and I worked on a coule of geek projects together.. One I remember was a little air puck that worked suing car AC Freaon. It floated on a small cusion of the gas so it cold move frictionlessly on tables floors, etc. That was a few years before the connection between freon and the ozone hole were established.. I’m sure theres a lasting ozone hole over memorial high school to this day given the amount of that stuff I vented off. Greg is now the CTO of Sun Microsystems (which is a big deal)… We were trading email on how much we owed to the science teachers… One in particular Mike Saathoff… in helping us get in touch with our inner geeks and find our true passion. I just proposed to Greg that we track those teachers down and tell themm.. maybe go give a talk down there.. I’ll let you know
For those of you kids reading this.. think about the teachhers you have now.. the ones that are really passionate are probably helping you decided what you want to do with you life.. Do me a favor and thank them now… so you don’t have to go find them 30 years later…
OK… Gotta go sleep this off..
Love to you all.. Love you Sam
-me