Yearly Archives: 2008

Saturday night – house cooling

I snuck away from a whole houseful of people just now so I could lie down and blog. I’m too sleepy to handle a crowd. We’re have a really nice ‘house cooling’ for Deb and family. They’re selling their house and taking off for a year of travel.startoing in south america.   We have all of their/our firends here fr a ‘house colling’.. eg. the opposite of a house warming. Everyone brought south american food to the potluck. it was excelelnt…  I’m going to miss those guys so much . they’ve been suceh an important part of our life these last two years…  I know they’ll be back..

I wanted to get some of these pictures from yesterday out.. I was too tired to blog last night after the last haunted forest show.. I did that short blog on  my phone form the car around 2AM.. (sorry for the spelling.. no spell check on my phone).. hten came home. I lay down to start petting Satorie. .. and the next thing I knew it was 4AM.. I’d fallen asleep on the floor, in all my cothes.. no blanket or pillow.. I felt like a nut..   What I was too tired to do last night was to post these picutres .. First the breakfast Diane made us yesterday..

An these of Vicki .. my good frind at work. She told me she had a special Halloween cosutme picked out.. I found out it was smething realllllly scary.. ME !.. She’d baght a mad scientist wig, plucked it to show an apporporiate amount of scalp.. then  glued the rest to her face as a beard. Then she’d gotten a Tyvek painters outfit from our firned Dixie and hand colored it to look like my lab coat.. Then she put all this stuff that was important to me on the back,… and even had a badge made of me (with Kerry’s help !) .I lent her my lights to make it complete.. She looked more like me than ME !

It was an amazing thing for her to do.. all day folks were comign up to me and asking me if I’d been to the cafeteria.. I was so blown away that she’d done this. .it was so funny.. and so sweet… and.  for me, so needed.. It’s ben a tough time for me lately.. and this just made me laugh and cry at the same time.  And I really needed that laugn ! It’s so good to have frends like her..   I’m still speachless !

Thank you Viki.. you’re a really good freind

I got home in time to see Gabe off for trick or treating.. he’d made this cool ‘Red Bull’ man custumn with oua little help from us.. It was awesome.. he headed out to a party…. and it became the first time I didn’t go trick or treating in 20 years !  It felt OK.

Diane and I spent the evening running the monstor at Haunted forest.. … it was the last night.. and it was fun working it togehter… I’m glad it’s all over.. it was fun..but so much work !

The part of the proprieter was played by peter C.. the sun of my firends Paul and Sue.. I new Peter whne he was a baby.. it was fun working with him as an adult.. He was a great actor !

Around 12:30 the last group came buy.. we closed down the monster then headed to the ‘victory party’.. it was wierd seeing folks out of cosutm. here’s Tom and Ero…  who palyed the proprieter on various nights.

.. and Lilly.. hwo helped us run the beast tonight

Here’s Jana takign a vicotory swig (of soda.. it turns out)

After my half a night sleepign on the floor.. I crawled into bed at 4.. and got a few hours more sleep.. We spent the day  putting fittings, door latches, grates etc back .. painting ..   and cleanign for the party tonight

There are abotu 50-60 folks here now.. many goo friends of ours ans and Debs family.. the food and company are excelelnt.. Everyone broght facts and food about South America…

Deb brought a few boxes of stuff she wanted to get rid of. Kevin ran a charity aiuction.. people baught stuff out of the box.. and the money is goign to be used to buy school supplies for kids in Hundouras.. where the’re going next week. What a cool iand gerneous idea !

Soemonge noteiced that satori and I have the same color hair.. but she has much more..

Dinane pointed out that today is thla dia De Las Muertas– the day of the dead. In Mexico.. it’s celibrated as 2 days.. the first is celibrated for dead children, the 2nd for dead adults. It’s a joyius time.. where you make the persons favorite food.. their spirit is supposed ot come and enjoy the family.. Dian made Sam’s favorite.. Peanut Butter Noodles.. I sure flet him here..

I wrote his name in the last noodles… it felt liek the right thing to do ..

We miss you tonight… and every night my son…

OK.. I thin I’ve been discovered.. gotta go back to the party.. Nite all.. Nigth Sam..
-me

friday night – happy halloween

OMG- justtoo much to try to write now. It’s almost 2am ans I’m just getting out of the jaunted forest “thank g-d it’s over and post mortem” party/meeting. Tonoght was the last night if the haunted forest and of project-X for the year.vit worked flawledsly tonight. It was so strange not trick or treating this year. It was the first time I hadn’t in 20 years ! Haloween was always sams favorite !

Gabe jad a fabulous costume abd wen to a party on his own, diane and I celibrated by working the robot at haunted forest all night.

I hace some great pictures form the day including my wonderful lunch room. Surprise from Vickie.. And of course gabe’s cool costune.. Those pictures and stories will have to wait until tomorrow when I’m not typing from my phone.

For now I gotta drive home and sleep. For now … G’nite . Gnite sam !

-me

Thursday night – money laundering

Long hard day… It began when I got to work only to find my wallet missing.. uh-oh.. I had to bluff my way into the building. … I went on about my business then just before 6 I headed over to the Huanted fores.t. I was meeting Homer to do a little mid event set of repairs…   The beast was covered with snow.. we dusted him off and started repairing.. As generally happens.. we broke two things for every thing we inteed to fix.. it was a brief and hectic comedy of errors.. but by the time we left around 7 everyhting was working well..

First thing I did when I got home was to ask Diane if she’d sen my wallet.. the good news.. is she had.. the bad news is.. it was in the wash when she found it.. She’d put all the things in there out by the fire to dry.

It’s amazing the memories we carry around in our pockets…  Look at these pictures.. not that much worse for the washing…

Max’s first business card.

My original organ donor card… who ever imagined….

Money from all over.. india

Singapore

Serbia

My IBM badge…

IEEE card.

My brothers biz card drilled thorugh with a high poer laser…

Looks like it will all be dry by morning.. my eyes should be by then too..
nite all.. nite Sam
-me

Wednesday night – crystal ships

Not much to report for the day.. I got on the  road very early this morning from Ruchir and Rashi’s. Ruchir even made me a potato/pea curry sandwich for the road.. They are such excellent hosts.   The drive back was productive with phoen meetings..Since most of my time is on the phpne  I’m as productive driving as I am sitting at my desk these days.. wow.. that’s a scary statement.. I gotta get away from being on the phone all the time.

I got back in time for a Reiki session I had over lunch at Marci’s.. I was lying there thinking abotu how I want to spend this next month.. Novemeber is the month of Sam’s passing. I have promised myself time  to get back in touch with what I’m doing with my life.. the last few months have been so hectic, I haven’t made the time to think and follow through on intentions..   I’m goign to take a few weeks off then .. I think..

As I was lying there thinkgin.. I noticed that the New Age station in Marci’s office was playing a slow hippy, new age version of ‘the Doors ‘Crystal Ships’.. one of my all time favs.. It was like one of those  moments when you hear your favorite rock and role song on the grocery store Muzak channel..   Time sure passes qucikly….. (ps. My firend Paul put some SamStones on Jim Morrisons grave a few months back)

Well.. not much else to report… Oh, we got soem more press for the robot in the Free Press this morning. Check it out.

OK.. gotta go carve a pumpkin with Gabe and Diane.. Nite folks..
Nite Sam
-me