WOnderful, slow, sleepy day.. nothing planned.. nothing accomplished.. Slept till 9 and fell asleep two more times during the day. I’m recovering from the last frantic three days and saving up for the next 7 which will be packed with a ton of work, three big talks, many meetings, a movie shoot, two parties, a fathers group night and a trip down to three places in NY.

So.. sleepy now is good..

It’s snowing.. finally.. there’s a dusting on the ground.. one of the first for the year, which makes it one of the latest in recent memory.

No new things to share here today.. so I’ll post these pictures from my trip to NYC the last two days.. I thought these were pretty interesting. Max is doing a project for a class which involves casting his apartment mate Will’s hed in Jello. The process requires a plater outer shell with a siicone (Silly Cohn) inner layer. I was able to stay up only until 3Am to watch the back part.. it was fun and weird to watch . Will had to sit absolutely still .. which was pretty funny to watch considering the swirl of other roommates and dogs around him.

Ah.. here’s a picture of my seat-friends in 19B and C who kept me entertained all the way back from NYC. I got a pretty interesting picture of their lives in just 48 minutes. 

 I love people…….

Our one venture outside today was to go see the Richmond Christmas Craft fare in the richmond town center and the Congregational Church (the Congo) .. It was the first Christmassy thing I’ve done this year.. and it felt..OK.. actually, better than OK..

I love how our tiny town produces such cool stuff !

My personal favorite is Kathy and Lou’s secret recipe ‘Bonds Butter Crunch Popcorn’ and Chocolate covered toffee.   THey’re both receipes from Kathy’s Dad who used to make candy for a living. It’s amazing stuff. (Email them at info@bondsbuttercrunch.com if you want to try it yourself !)
 

Ahh.. I gotta go get cleaned up for a party tonight.. more later.. I think.. Night for now folks
Night Sam
-me

Folks,
    Yikes.. looks like myspace lost my post for last night. Here’s a reconstruction…    I got a cool set of pictures from a conference I attended in Chicago in Sept.  The pictures are from photographer  Audra Melton.. and I like them.. Gabe and I had fun trying to name all the different shots..   What woould you call them ?

I think that’s all I wrote yesterday !.. More later today
Night folks
Nitght Sam
-me

So, I woke up this morning in the middle of the weirdest dream.. I was naked in the Winooski river with my laptop and it was the middle of winter. There was a ton of snow and ice, but for some reason, the river was still flowing.. and it was flowing backwards.. back towards waterbury.   I was trying to work on my laptop on something (I think it was htis cursed engineering rap project).. but otherwise enjoying the whole naked-in-the-almost-frozen-river-flowing-backwards thing. I was happily surprised that my crappy lenovo laptop did such a good job under water.  For some reason I was trying to get to Stowe for a meeting (I actually do have a meeting in Stowe this Thursday).. I somehow missed Stowe completel because (duh) the river goes no where near it. I ended up at a noce hotel in Montpelieor instead. They didn’t mind me being naked and covered with ice, but they were really upset that I didn’t have any money to use their phone.. or call a cab..

And then I woke up… 

I tried to go back to sleep to find out where I was trying to go and why.. and what I’d planned to do without my clothes. and why the river was flowing backwards.. . but no luck..

So.. awhat does this mean ? any dream interpretters out there ?

Ah.. speakign of dreams, sometimes they really do come true !. I think I mentioned here that one day on the set, all the folks on the Colony were talking about why they did the show and what they were hoping to get out of it.. We all had our reasons.. Mine was to promote engineering and science to kids.. which I think has worked out pretty well.. Mike Wanted to use the show to help him get his own show, Joey wanted to show his family how much he enjoyed workign with his hands, Vlad wanted to show his grandson how to survive… But the story that stuck with me the most was Johnny V’s.. His only wish was to be the Parade Marshal in the West Covina Christmas Parade..  

See, Dreams do come true !

… and guess what… This sSaturday John V will be the cleibrity marshal in the Covina christmas parade.. If you’re out in LA.. the festivities start at 6:30.. Get there early, they’re expecting a big crowd. If you cant make the parade, visit Johnny V on Facebook and tell him to break a leg…

OK.. all for now.. I gotta go work on this stupid movie. Nite all, Nite Sam
-me