This morning we went to teh MMU awards ceremony to give away the third annual Sam Cohn musical soul award. The award allows the winner to go pick out a guitar of his/her choice from Advanced music. We give this award to a kid at mmu high school who has a musical soul like Sam’s. Anybody can be nominated for the award by a freind or a teacher. It’s not based on current musical ability, grades or anything else… they just have to love playing music.
It felt good to be back up at the high school… we saw so many freinds !
THi year we got a bunch of nominations. We put them all in a basket and pull one out at random.. that way Sam gets the final choice !
This year’s winner is Eric M. a very nice kid who loves composing muusic. He was so happy and surprised to have won the award.. His nomination said that music would always be a central part of his life.. .. and his favorite band is State Radio ! Sounds perfect. It felt good to make soemone that happy.
We really appreciate the help that MMU and Jen B have given us in setting up this award !
We got home by 9:30 in time to take delivery of 500 pounds of clay that jen had ordered. It came in a huge 18 wheeler semi truck. The truck was too big for jen’s steep road. It was funny seeing this little load of clay come in such a huge empty truck ! I helped the driver move the clay then gave him a samstone as a thanks fpor brining us all more clay.
I worked soem then ran off to a lunch meeting. I stopped at Homer’s on the way to delvier the remote control setup I’d rigged up early this morning for the 1/4 scale burning man vehicle. I’d bowrrowed a 2 channel transmitter and receiver from my freind bernie.. then I’d interfaced that to a new 3 channeldc motor contrtoller. I only had a few minutes at homers between my meetings, but wr managed to get the motors to work by remote control !.. That felt like progress.. HOmer still ahs to finish wiring the motors to the vehicle.. hopefully he can finish that on Sunday.
OK.. getting sleepy here.. time for bed. Tomorrow’s an early day.. Gabe has a Lacrosse game at 8 in St. Albans… then tomorrow night we have the Jam for Sam at Talent from 6-9. Be there or be an equilateral quadrelateral !
Gnite all.. Gnite Sam !
-me