Monthly Archives: January 2009

Saturday night – vexxed

Oy.. for some reason I can’t get any computer to read the pictures I took on gabes’ camera tonight. and Diane borrowed my camera for the afternoon to go watch Gabe at Bolton.. so I’m Picture-less… No real problem there.. My day can be described pretty simply:
– woke up
– worked on talk
– went snowshoing with diane and satori (chai is nursing a badly pulled foreleg)
– came back and continued workign on talk
– went to talent to the Jam for Sam Laframboise
– came back and worked more on my talk
– realized it was 2AM and found I couldn’t upload pictures
– began to blog and realized I was pictureless…  No real problem there.. My day can be described pretty simply:
              – woke up
              – worked on talk
            
– went snowshoing with diane and satori (chai is nursing a badly pulled    
                foreleg)
              – came back and continued workign on talk
              – went to talent to the Jam for Sam Laframboise
             
– came back and worked more on my talk
              – realized it was 2AM and found I couldn’t upload pictures
              – began to blog and realized I was pictureless…  No real problem there..
              My day can be described pretty simply:
                      – woke up

                      – worked on talk
                     eeeeeeeek I’m in a loop !

Well.. I’ll post the pictures tomorrow. It was very good goign to see the Jam at Talent for the other Sam. I didn’t know him or his family.. but the feelign was familiar when I walked in and saw a bunch of kids skating for a fallen friend. I spent most of the night talkign to Phil L, the other Sam’s dad. It was great gettign to know him.. at the same time it was hard for me. I remembered where I was in the process of dealing that soon after losing Sam. Phil was there with his othe rson TJ.. and I could see/hear/feel the pain he was going through.. and I could also see that he was doing OK.. and enjoyign the night. That combination of fun and sadness is somethign only someone who’s goine through it can understand. We had that connection for sure…

Anyway.. its late.. and I gotta sleep. I’ll post the pictures tomorrow as soon as I find my own camera

For now.. I hop everyone’s staying warm .. and is close to folks they love.. Nite everyone…
nite Sam
-me

Thursday night – stranger in a strange land


Productive-ish day .. worked at home and spent most of it on the phone. I’ve got some new work stuff that has me excited.. which is good.   One benefit of working at home occasionally is that I can snowshoe or run durign lunch. Today Diane and I took the dogs for a fast snowshoe up the Caramount trail in the foot or so of new powder. It was beautiful.. and very head clarign to be outside. The world looked magical and clean.

I came across this tree funguss all covered with snow. It kinda looked like a fishhead to me.. Do you see it ?

I stopped at the sign out to see if the Samstoen I placed there last week was still there.. it was…

I worked the rest of the day into the vening.. Gabe came back from the mountian after 11 hours of riding (!).He had his hair up n a top knot.. lwhich ooked really … uh… strange.. .

Speakign of strange.. I was reading a book in the bathtub this afternoon about people who make thing. and it began with this wonderful quote form Robert Henlein.. th Sci Fi writer who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land.   He said:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein”

Now that’s a cool menifesto.. no ?
I’ll go think about that.. nite folks.. nite Sam
-me

Wednesday night – jam for another Sam

It’s 11:50 PM and believe it or not I’m waiting for the star of a work meeting. One of the fun things about working for an international company is the opportunity to work with folks all over the world..One of the difficult parts though s finding times when groups that are all over the world can get together to talk. Wouldn’t it be cool if everyone kept the same hours.
    Not much to report tonight… One thing I do want to do is to invite folks to a memorial skate Jam for Sam “raven” Laframboise.

The Jam will be held a from 6-8 PM this Saturday at Talent. Sam L was a great kid who skated regularly at Talent. He and his friend Jason S were killed in a car accident last October.   There’s a $5.00 donation to skate.  The good folks at Talent will be raffling off a lot of stickers (Sam loved stickers), and other prizes.  Red Bull will be selling cans for $1.00 to support the cause Hannah from talent said ” Sam would want it done in the winter cold because it invites people in to a warm place to skate together” .. Please come and support Sams family.. and your fellow fallen skater. 

Goodnight both of you Sam’s.. hope you’re skating hard.
-me

Monday night – Chandu's dad

I was sad to learn yesterday that my friend Chandu’s father has just passed away.  , just days after Chandu returned from visiting his family in Bangalore. Mr. V. was a great man.. I’ve known him since Chandu and I were in graduate school together. Last year, he and his wife and their kids hoisted Diane. Gabe and I during our stay in Banglaore. I’ll always remember our conversations.. The notice I received said that  “He will be remembered as a wonderful husband,
father and grandfather, an outstanding civil engineer, an avid musicologist, a consummate hobbyist, and a man of impeccable style and taste.”.. He was really good guy.. 

Here’s a picture of Chandu and his dad that we took when we visited them

Reading my blog post from that visit brought back many warm memories,

I spoke with Chndu this evening.. he’s just about to head over to India for the memorial service. Our hearts are with him and his family..

nite sam
-me