Today was the most important day in the Jewish calendar.. Yom Kippur.. The day you’re to atone for all the bad things you did in the last year..like being  mean to people. not workign hard enough, disrespecting freinds and family . And I didn’t…   I mean.. I didn’t atone much.. I certainly did my share of  bad stuff last year.. In fact.. I’ve been quite a grouch all year.. but.. htats part of the process I guess.

I woke this morning with good intentions of goign to services soemwhere.. but jsut couldn’t make myself do it.. Soemhow the ‘organized’ part of organized religion just isn’t feelig right to me now. I did fast for 24 hours as I have every Yom Kippur since I was a kid.. that felt good.. its almost liek biening a vegan.. I feel like I’m always fasting 🙂

I also stayed home to think.. I took Dianes mornign yoga class. then we took a short walk up the Catamoutn trail.. It was really beutiful

We followed an old tone wall in the woods and tlked about the people who built it.. Wo were they.. What were they doing up here ? Was the land all cleared ?

I gcame home and worked quietly.. I tried to make progress on a paper I’m writing.. but got nowhere.. then around 2:15 Homer called to tell me that a local TV station (WCAX) was coming over to doa short peice on the Project-X mosnter. I was conflicted a little.. should I sytay here and

1. Contemplate for Yom Kippur
2. Work on my $&ing paper
3. Drive 25 miles for 5 minutes of fame with our animated and very tall robotic freind

I asked myself.. “what would Sam want me to do” ??? I was in the car driving to Homer’s in minutes.

Here I am not writing my $&ing paper on the way to Homers.

Homer and Michael had rolled the beast outside which was great.. he could stand all the way up.. he’s really quite big

We gave a quick demo for the TV guys Jack and Lance..

I understand that it was on TV tonight..  But.. we don’t have a TV that’s hooked up to the outside world.. If anyone saw it.. please let me know.. There’s a text article on their website..

We finished the day by all going to see the Bill Maher documentary Religulous  . It was really pretty interesting.. I’m not a tv guy.. so I’v never seen Maher… but this was a pretty compelling roast of all organized religion. It was a little mean spirited in places.. but he got his point across. It was the perfect end to a religious holiday .. Diane and Gabe liked it too !

One small irony was that there was a scene in the movie  of a man blowing a shofar.. a rams horn. Jews are supposed ot hear the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur services.. So I got lucky !

Okay my friends.. I’m goign to go work on my paper for a bit.. A good new year to you all…
Love you Sam
-me