First of all.. Happy Karwa Chauth !

Today is Karwa Chauth  which (I quote) is celebrated mostly by the married

women in North India. On this day, they observe a fast, praying for the

long life, well being and prosperity of their husband. They break their

fast in the evening, after moonrise. On this sacred festival, people

come together and socialize with friends and family, exchange gifts and

share home-cooked meals. It also provides an opportunity to all married

women, to get close to their in-laws. Karwa Chauth is the festival

which reflects joy, splendor, brightness and happiness of a married

life. (end quote)

I hope those who celebrate Karwa Chauth had a good one. Kind of a cool tradtion, but the very interesting thing is that the guys never have a day where they have to fast for the ladies.   What’s up with that ?

Not much to report for the day.. I continue to burrow further back into my old precolony life though every day still brings at least a doze convresations about the show experience.   One hting that’s fun about that is that I’m now developing a mental list of the most common questions.. They are generally:

1. What’s  up with the handyman, what’s he really like (Mike, what do you want me to tell them 🙂 
2. Did you know that Diane was coming (no)
3. How much of the experience seemed real to you

Number 3 is my favorite.. people want to know if we ever forgot that we were on a tv show.(no). I explain that all of us were completely vested in the experiment and that sometimes that lead us to over react.  But I explain that we weren’t faking starvation, dehydration or filth.. nor were we faking anger when one of hte bad guy/actors harassed us , stole soemthing  or broke soemthing of ours. Nor were we faking it when some of us were yelling at each other due to tension.

What number 3 has got m wondering is .. how much does my current experience seem real to me ? I mean.. waking up , driving to work and spending 8 AM till 6PM talking into the phone.. hearing other folks voices, but never seeing them.. or .. visiting them in second life… how real is that ?

I think the Colony seemed more real to me than my job does.. I need to bring that back into clarity If I’m going to succeed.. and I will succeed.. I need to..

Anyway.. nothing else new.. Had a great IEEE meeting tonight.. then met Diane and the Lavoie’s at higher ground to hear Jen’s, sister’s sister-in-law, Mirah . She was just amazing !  Check her out !

yikes.. midnight again.. gotta sleeeeeeeep  Nite folks. sleep well.. Nite Sam
-me

Two simple themes tonight.. rainbows and ice cream.. two substories to each.

First I got the following picture from friend Haleigh . Here dad had a samstone on his dashboard. She happened to get a shot with the stone reflected in a new rainbow.

Then later in the day I was at Gabe’s soccer game waiting to go home when I saw this rainbow in the sky.. the second in the  day.. pretty lucky.. no ?

And now two ice cream stories.. remmeber last night when I wen went to Ben’s and made icecream for the party goers there ? Well.. it had been a nice small crew there.. so I didn’t even use up a gallon of the yummy milk/cream/chocolate mixture Diane had made up to freeze.   At the end of the night I still had 2 gallons of the stuff.. and I couldn’t just throw them away. ..
   So…. today i took a short break at lunch to make a gallons worth of ice cream in the Work cafeteria.. I did it as a surprise.. so I didn’t have to ask 14 folks for permission.. It was yummy !  I was able to hand out ice cream to everyone in the cafeteria at that point in the day…     Even so.. I could only use up half of my supplies.

So.. after yoga, I went back into town to meet up with some friends from work who are here at a workshop. We met at American Flatbread.. then we headed out to make icecream. Ironically, the closest place was the parking lot that once was the site of the original Ben and Jerry’s.. With some of my buddies help we froze the remaining gallon of cream mix and either ate.. or handed it out.. It was a GREAT scene.. Folks were really appreciative .

Yum @.. almost ready !

OK.. I can’t keep my eyes open any more.. the rest will have to wait till morning. gnite for now everyone.. Gnite Sam
-me