Monthly Archives: February 2010

Sunday night – Valentines Day (and 恭喜發財 )

Really nice valentines day. I woke up still sick.. but felt much better . Diane made heart  shaped kiwis and rice pudding in a heart shaped bowl for gabe..

I took him up to the mountain.. then Diane and I took the girls for a walk.. We went down to the lower gorge for a change.. the ice was beautiful  and think .. being kinda feverish still I was glad for an excuse NOT to jump in the river 🙂

I also learned that today is Chinese new year  !

恭喜發財 !

Kung Hei Fat Choy

Remember:  you’re not supposed to sweep today so that you don’t accidentally sweep out any good luck !  

That’s it for now.. We’re going to eat our valentines dinner .. More tomorrow..
be my valentine !.. Nite sam.. you’re always mine
-me



friday night – nineteen seventy something

Greetings from my boyhood home.. Or at least my boyhood home transported to massachusetts. I’m in my folks guest room in sherborn surrounded by the furniture, art smells… And people of my youth. It’s like I am 17 agAin even down to the details…. Like not having wireless in the house. (Hence trying to blog on my phone) Very quaint.
Actually.. I dont want to give the wrong impression… My parents are far from being stuck in time. We stayed up late finished 2 bottles of sake and ate too much sushi while watching the opening of the olympics. They have a real tv with challes and everything.. Through that magic I learned that it was time for the winter olympics.. And they were being held in vancover… How cool is that ? See what you learn on tv!
. Ok.. My thumbs are finding it hard to find the jeys. Must be time for Slwwp.
More tomnorrow from boskone..
Nite Akl. Nite sam
-me

Thursday night – Kay

Today was an important day.. My wonderful friend and admin Kay retired after 28 years of workign at IBM. We had a big party for her in the cafeteria.. a ton of folks showed up. SA ton of Kays family were there and they were all such great people. . We all shared stories about Kay. She’s fun to tease because she’s just so darn nice. She’s always smiling and laughing.. and let me tell you.. that’s not always possible around work. Our offices are side by side and hte walls are paper thin.. so we’r ealways laughing at each others conversations. She and her husband have been married for 44 years and their conversations still make me blush 🙂

Kay.. I’m sure gonna miss you !

Here are Dixie and Vicki showed up for the party which was nice.. I miss seeing both of them around..

The rest of the day was a struggle for work reasons..As soon as I got home, Gabe and I got dressed for the mountain and took the new split board we made him up to bolton.. The split board is a snowboard we cut in half that can be fit as climbing skis for the way up.. and then clipped back together as a snowboard for the way down. this was Gabe’s maiden voyage on them.

Here they are separated as ski.. the climbing skins are already on…

We jiked up through the woods wiht headlamps to guide us..

we came back out on a trail, and gabe pulled off the skins and coupled the two halves of the board together.

Then he flew down the montian as I attempted to keep up with snowshoes.. That worked for about 3 secs.. he zoomed down the mountain  on the modified board.

It was so great being out with gabe on this beautiful night. the test run was perfect.. This was such a cool project to do together !
We got hoem around 8.. and gabe presented me with a great surprise.. He’d remade the homemade peanut butter cups that he’d made for my birthday.. biut that the  dogs had eaten

what  a wonderful kid !

OK.. I gotta get seem sleep/ more tomorrow !
nite all . nite sam
-me

Wednesday night – past my prime

So.. I’m 51… and I can’t get over the feeling that I’m past my prime.. not as in that I’m over the hill.. but that mt age.. 51.. is not a prime number.. In fact my last prime was 47 .. my next won’t be till 53..    As I’ve said in these pages before. I see great significance in numbers.. I obsessively factor numbers into their prime factors.. that is.. the prime numbers that any given number can be divided   into evenly.. My current age of 51 is a very fine number..BUT  it can be divided by both 3 and 17.. .. both prime numbers..
So I guess I feel like 17 again (and again (and again))   .
  You may not think so, but Primes play a huge role in our lives..   they may not steer your life like they steer mine.. bt they do protect the secrecy of your cell phone calls and email..
   So.. stop right now and determine the prime factors in your life here. Put in your age, your birth date and your telephone number then invent some stupid superstitions that goes around them and let them rule your life.. That’s what works for me !..

Gnite all.. Gnite Sam
-me