Hello from Endicott, NY. We’re down at Diane’s folks. We left this morning at 10.. we managed to follow a snow storm all the way down here. It was slow going.. large stretches of 20-30 miles per hour.. I’m glad to be done driving.
I have a bunch of pictures from yesterday that I decided not to run last night in honor of the anniversary of our friend Kate’s passing yesterday…. May favorite form yesterday was this bumper sticker I saw while out for lunch.. I love it !
Yesterday was a crazy day .. I had meetings all morning.. then I tried to take the afternoon off to do some shopping.. but, I still managed to spend much of it on the phone.
Our friend Julie came by on her way up to the mountain.. she was sporting a Sam shirt.. which made eme happy ~
I had a lunch meeting at the Echo Center.. I’m goign to be part of their advisory board.. That entilteld me to a behind the scenes tour of how they keep the place healthy. That gave me a great face to face with a couple of oversized sturgeons..
I alogot a chance to meet soem of their ‘spare’ poiison arrow frogs.. These guys arent that deadly because they don’t feed on the special teermintes that gives their aamazon cousins such a dangrerous poison on their skin.
On the wat back I stopped for a 10 minute meetign with Herb to fetch ne of the power supply components out of the Pumpkin man. We first had to go figure out which truck the beast was stored in…
THere he is !
I forgot how much I missed this big guy !
THanks Herb !
I went back to work ad got anohter good 4 hours in.. aorund 8 I headed over to Higher Ground to see the Matisyahu show with my firend Gary. THe show was sold out and packed. I ran into lots of friends in the corwd including Gabes freinds Jack and Austin… and our old friend Rachael.
Matisyahu is an ex Phsh-head who found releginon and became a chasidic jew/ His music is a cool blend of ereggae, jewish negun style trance and beat boxing. There’s nothing like it He was awesome live !.. as were his two back up bands.. really a great musical soul .. and very upbeat message…
I had to leave around midnight because.. beleive it or not.. I had one more phone meeting around 1AM.. As soon as that was done.. i crawlde off for a few hours sleep..
This mornign we decided to try and leave earlier. The big predicted snowstorm was coming soooner and harder than predicted… we got on the road around 10.. and I said above it was about 9 hours of driving (compared to 5.5 usually.. yuck !)
Gabe spent most of the long drive in his own multi media cacoon in the back…
Meanwhile.. the front seat was having much less fun ! It was a tough day to be driving !
Gabe finally surfaced as we were approaching Ednicott.. The dogs were pretty patient as welll.
OK.. I’m just beet.. 4 hours of sleep last night and a 10 hour drive yesterday.. tomorrow I’m drving into NYC to grab Max and Reptar… I’ll be back tomorrow night…
In the meantime.. good luck digggin out.. Gnite Sam !
-me