12:30 AM and I’m just home from NY.. It took me 7 hours to do the normal 5 hour run due to weather. It was incredible !.. There were the most amazing lightening storms nearly tthe whole why back. I saw 2 lightning strikes.. even almost caught one on camera. I was taking a picture of something else when lightening hit the top of a gas station. THere was a HUGE shower of sparks… I just missed it with my camera. A bit later I wateched a huge television  antenna get hit. I also saw a bunch of ligthening bolts between clowds. it was a great natural fireworks show. . ..

Then there were some great rainbows as the light was fading 

The drive back.. while long, was peaceful.. I spent a good deal of it on the phone. It’s amazing what you can think of to talk abotu for 7 hours including:

– I spoke with Dave H. about concertina. northumbrian pipes, steam powered robots . chemotherapy and H2, 02 explosive devices
– I spoke with Glenn W and his family as they drove around Syndney Australia.. we all sang scary songs together
– I spoke with Brother Billy about the vaguraies of TV editors, burning man, robotics, video editing and solid modeling
– I spoke with Jim E about server IO circuits, office politcs, strategy. friends and enemies
– I spoke with max abotu traffic, exits, and dinner
– spoke with Maggie D about solar pannels and ammeters
– I left a message for Ang abotu Anatollian hounds
– I spoke with Davd D about Burning man, discreet cosine transforms,  walsh patterns, spatial to audio frequency transformations, chamber music and gamalons
– I spoke with Vlad B about flowers, TV producers, death and recovvoery (We were talkign abotu a friend of his whos son had just died. He asked me how long it took to be ‘over’ Sam’s death.. I told him.. I’d let him know )
– I left a message for Allison W about her phone and septic systems
– I spoke with Morgan H about pirates, TV people, Russians,  India, freinds, birthdays , septic systems, rivers and bondage
– I spke to diane abotu Max, Gabe, soap, palm oile. Sodium hydroxide, and staples
– I spoke wiht Homer about shear strength, clutches, kazantzakis, fund raising, my brother projections systems, speed contolers.
– spoke with freind Scott abotu CO2 lasers, diode lasers, transverse waves , EM fields, slivowitz, LED’s , and makerfaire
– I spoke with Prtap P about cloud computers and other high performance computers,
– I spoke with Erc L about TV stuff, tesla coils and michael jackson
I spoke wiht mom about the Museum of scince, Smit college, Engineering ethics careers, and global warming and TV
– I spoke with dad abotu careers , what we both wanted to be when we grew up

I must admit.. I was pretty board.. here’s my world for thsoe hours

now I’m home and ready to selep .. Max just got here.  we’re all under one rooof again !  I like that.. Gnite folks. Nite Sam !
-me