Monthly Archives: November 2008

Wednesday night – shot

Best thing that happened to me today .. at least during the day.. was getting a flu shot. What’s that say about my day ? Work is really getting pretty bad.

At least the flu shot was fun !



I  am totally swamped by work now.. but I did manage to escape around 6L30 to go to dinner with Dinaeand Gabe at the Lavoie’s…. It’s part of the send of we’re giving Deb and family..

Jen’s house is full of cool stuff.. like these two poetic signs in the bathroom


Their dog Tinkerbell even sang a duet with jen

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It was a great night at the Lavois.. They’re wonderful folks

On the way home, I stopped at the Townsends for one last look around their house. They head to hindouras tomorrow.. thenback for a few weeks.. then down to south america.  We have so many memories from that house. I will never orget goign there the night we came back from Florida after Sam died…. Every kids I knoew.. and many I didn’t were in there waiting for us.. and crying.. I walked around there tonight..remembering.. It tok my breath away to remember.



Matt had soem good photos out to look at…

This is whenwe all ‘fell’ off the bridge at Sam’s birthdaym memorial party.


Me pulling gabe on a skimboard at cape cod

the legit crew

OK.. gotta get back to work.. Nite friends.. Nite Sam !
-me

Tuesday night – Hope !

I was just on the phone with my friend Glenn in Australia when he said… ‘better go look at your computer… looks like you have a new president !’ .  I’m so, so happy that Obama has won.   I  beleive this will be a very positive change for this country . I’m hopeful about our countires pospects for the first itme in 8 years.

I’d been watching the election all night.. but things had seemed to slow down. I couldn’t wait to vote this morning.

We had a bunch of folks over tonight after iane’s snowboard yoga.. all hanging out to ‘watch’ the elections. I say ‘watch’.. but we don’t have a TV hooked up.. we lookde on the the computer every 3 seconds..

OK.. they were actually wathing YouTube..

Vermont was one of the first 2 states called.. We ewent overwelmingly for Obama…

Things looked dicey for the first few minutes.. then they turned around…

e even broke out the good hot sauce !.. Here’s a bottle that Max, Sam and Gabe baught em a few years back.. it’s hot stuff.. what a great night to open it up !

Max just called me from Brooklyn to celibrate the news… he was out on his street whihc just broke into a spontaneous party !..

What a good day !
Gnite all .. gnite Sam…
-jc
-jc

Monday night – daylight savings

Another  mercifully slow day… I spent a good part of it staring at the wall at work. Just couldn’t get moving.   Tomorrow should be more exciting. My intention is to use this tough month to spend time getting centered and thinking about where I should be putting my energy. This time last year I was pretty clear on what I wanted.. and didn’t want in my life..The last few months I’ve gotten so busy that I’ve stopped thinking about what I want to do..   Now’s a good time to get back in touch with that..

Since I don’t have anything new to report for the day. let me share something interesting I saw at a lecture the other day  . I’m going to give you a link to a video.   The player for the video is at the bottom of the link. The video shows a bunch of folks throwing a basketball round. Sometimes they use chest passes.. eg. the ball never hits the ground… and sometime they use bounce passes.. eg. the ball hits the ground at least once. Watch the video, and as you do, do your best to count how many bounce passes you see. Don’t count the chest passes.. Here’s the video

Now.. how many bounce passes did you see ? 26 ? 32 ? ….Now.. did you see the woman in the gorilla suit ? If not.. go back and watch it again.. It’s a pretty cool perception test that shos how our minds can miss obvious things when we’re trying to pay attention to soemthign else. Like going to bed…

Nite all.. Nite Sam
-me

Sunday night – time change

I woke today to more sunshine than I figured.. ahh the time change !..
I was up early, but committed to do absolutely nothing today.. and it was wonderful. I don’t think I realized how close to physical exhaustion I’ve been running.  I can’t believe how full last month was. I’m choosing to take this month slow. We’re approaching the 2nd anniversary of Sam’s passing and I can already feel the need to pull into myself more.. I was thinkign of takign the entire month off from work.. but I don’t think I can get away with that.. I wll take the last two weeks off.

OK.. so I did do a few things.. Diane and I took a wonderful walk today up honey hollow from duxbur road, across and down the atamount trail.. about 5-6 miles.. steep and beautiful

We found acool old car we’d never seen before.. It had been shot up .. We made beleive it was a getaway car from a bank heist.

The wootans was looking more beautiful than usual.. it must have been the Obama sign that made it so appealing.

It’s bow season up here.. so the four of us were decked out in our orange-y best.

I stuck a samstone in an abandoned house.

We cae back to find a Samstone in our fire pit.. It had burned through the night.. it still looked fine !

My only accomplishment today was to cut glass for the last two missing panes n the house. The catch was.. they were both cureved.. I spent a couple of hours getting all the old glass and plaster out.. and cutting the new…

The rounded cut is a trick.. it took me 5 panes of glass to get the two good cuts made… grrrrr !

OK.. that’s it for the day.. I’m going to get an early(11PM) night’s rest. Hope you can too !.. nite all .. Nite Sam !
-me