I woke this morning in Pittsburgh.. showered quickly and drove to the airport. I got to the airport with none o the delays I had anticipated which gave me more than an hour of wandering around time. One of the the things I wanted to see in the airport was the doorway that my friend Mike (the one from yesterday’s blog) had designer here nearly 20 years ago.. Amazingly, it was just down from my gate. I remember seeing all these models of this structure on Mike’s desk. He agonized over the design and worked out every detail. Should the blue be on the right.. or the left ? That process made me realize how much thought goes into everything in our daily life.. Everything man made thing we touch or see was designed by someone..

I worked hard on the flight to JFK.. IA few min after I got off the plane I ran into my friend Tina. She’s from Austin.. We work together closely on a number of IBM projects. It was great running into her because we had several things to talk about.. It really is a very small world.

I got back to Burlington around 4.. then had a couple of phone meetings in the afternoon. By around 5 I was pretty beat.. so I headed home. Ave, Kevin and Nate stopped by just as I got home just to say ‘hi’ They’re on their way tot eh homecoming bonfire at school.. Sam belongs there, too.

Diane, Gabe and I decided to go to the Burlingotn Art Hop this evening. it’s an annual collection of local artists and shops. We staryed at JDK.. and worked our way basically south.

At JDK we met David’s good friend Marshall..who’s a painter. . There’s a certain resemblemnce.. no ?

We stopped at Church and maple and saw some of my good freinds from Champlain who were demoing thier wares.. Her’s Brian.. fresh back from South Africa.

Mike man was there..

As were Awesome and Alex.

We wondered from there down pine street. Most every shop and buliding had soem thing goign for the art hop It was a lttle like a microscopic comercial version of burning man ! There were art instalations. cosutmes, etc.

Here’s a funny group doing a movie using paper rollers which they accompanied with home made folk music. . i think this song was called ‘Jesus goes to Gitmo’
It was pretty strange and funny.

Thereywere still a few hours off of metling so we wandered down pine streed. We ran intoold frineds Robin and Sandy. It wsa Robin’s birthday. We hadnt seen each other in maybe 15 years.. whihc would make me pretty hard to recognize.

From there we toured a few gallerys and stores..

In one exhibit I saw this woman with a funny logo:

We then made the long hike to see the tail end of the fashion event. We went tehre also to meeteup with Tim and Jen..

Tim and Jen’s daughter Marie was on of the models.. she looked good !

From there we went back to the iron pour, but the furnace was still not up to speed. I saw many of my old iron pour friends there.. It was great to see Matt.

And Thea …

We just couldn’t wait for the pour, so we packed up and headed home.. right past the fire dancers..

I tell you .. this really is a bit like a scaled back burning man. lights. pvideo. techno music the works.

OK.. I really need to sleep .. More tomorrow.. Gnite all.. Gnite Sam !
-jc