Friends…
It’s very late.. and I need to be up early to go back to Champlain early tomorrow morning. We’re getting down to the wire in our Good Games project and we’re working through the weekend to get it finished in time.
I headed over to Champlain this morning at about 8:30 AM to see if any of the students would be working. I stopped on the way to stock up on caffeine products and sugar.. the two things that make programmers productive.. Stop one was the Richmond Corner Market for soda and candy bars. When I went to pick up the soda, my neighbor Pat.. the butcher there, told me that I was in the paper this morning because of the Champlain project.. That was kinda cool and unexpected. I’m not sure who put that in there.
I also stopped at Duncan doughnuts and got a dozen dougnuts and bagels.. and a box of coffee. I got to the EMC (Emergent Media Center) expecting one or two of the folks to be there. I was so happy to find a pretty biug crowd. Ann had actually invited soem more folks.. and lots of them showed up.
There was Tony-the-perfectionist-artist
Bryan-the crazed-programmer
Ray-the-bossman
Laura-queen-off-the-Flash
Max-who-is-not-a-dog
Mike-the-sleep-deprived-artist-and-techno-DJ
Alex-the-profeesor (I think he looks liek a wise professor.. don’t you ?)
Awesome-the-kendo-fighting-producer (Actually Allison.. but I thought she said her name was awesome and it stuck)
Iain-the-pizza-guy
We geared up and worked all day.. It was really, really, really wonderful teamwork. These kids are so incredibly talented and creative. It’s a real pleasure to be workign with them. I’m leanring so much. The atmosphere was great.. actually the atmosphere was hot and steamy.. we were working so hard it started to get really stuffy in there. At one point this morning I walked into the room and announced that I was having more fun at that moment than I’d had at work since…. uh.. since…. maybe forever.. I really meant it.. now I should really think about what that means.
By noon everything I’d brought to eat was gone. I snuck out for pizzas and more caffeine.. We got a break on the Pizza since Iain works for Dominos.. Thanks Iain, thanks Dominos!
By about 5:30 we were all getting pretty tired.. I had to leave.. but soem of the team stayed and kept working.. It looks by therei upload logs that some of them were there past 8 !. They are so friggin amazing to work with. We got a ton done today.. any we start again at 9 AM tomorrow !
I got home just in time to feed Chai meet up with Diane and head off to our friends Tom and Beth’s house. We were meeting our other freinds Rona, Paula and their son Pat there for a potluck. It was great hanging out with all of those guys. We did a bunch of tlaking about our lives… It’s been only a month since Tom and Beth’s daugheter Kate died. I remember so clearly where my head was a month after Sam’s deth. I know how good it was to have folks to tlak to.. It was a great evening.
I found a goofy picutre of Tom from a few years back. I love it.
Here’s beth with an article in the Essex newspaper about Kate..
It was 11:30ish when we started for home.. Diane found this poster near their back door.. Hey.. maybe it’s not too late !
Gabe was home waiting for us with 4 friends over for a sleep over. They all want to get up on the mountain around 8L30…. We’ll soo how that goes.. they were still eating dinner at midnight 🙂
Oh.. one cool thing I found waiting for us were these pictures from freind Jena’s Mother’s friends who’d just visited Antarctica.. They put a SamStone on Shackleton’s grave in South Georgia Island
Here’s where South Georgia Island is.
OK.. now to sleep !
Love you guys.. Love you Sam
-me
