Yearly Archives: 2010

Thursday eveining – not just for breakfast..

Another hot, sleepy day. It was close to 90 and my thinking slows to a crawl. The one interesting thing I remember from my day was at breakfast. I met my freind Ari for a working breakfast at his hotel.. the residence inn. The hotel had a nice breakfast spread.. and I hadn’t eaten.. so I paid for the otherwise free breakfast and dug in..

One thing I love about the Residence Inn breakfasts is that they always have jalapenos… I mean, what’sa breakfast without jalapenos.. Trouble is, I’m not a biig fan of scrambled eggs.. so what to do ?

Well.. they had a big vat of oatmeal next to some packets of ersatz maple syrup (how can you get away with Aunt Jemima’s in Vermont ?!?!? ) ..   So .. I says to myself.. self, I says.. Who says that otameal has got to be sweetened. ? I dollopped a double helping of oatmeal into my bowl and then added a double dose of black olives. jalapenos, slasa and nacho cheese drizzle..

Now .. THATS’s a breakfast.. !

So.. your homework for tonight is to try an unlikely combination of your own and report back to me on what you did and how it tasted.. eg. Chocolate ice cream and A1 sauce.. , macaroni and chocolate sauce.. whatever..   Just tell me what you tried..

Mmmm.. that’s makign me hungry.. better go cook.. what will it be ? hummus and choclate I think.

nite folks, nite sam
-me

Tuesday night – Tulum

Today was really quiet and slow..not unpleasant..but I just couldn’t seem to get out of low gear.   Nothing much happened.. so nothing really to report today.. So.. instead i’ll tell you something that happened last week.  It’s a Samstones story. As most folks know, we make these small clay rocks with Sam’s name on it to give out to folks.  We ask them to place them in special places as a reminder of Sam’s wonderful spirit. Over the past three and a half years, these stones have found their way all over the planet.   Every week we hear from 2-3 folks who have either placed or found a Samstone somewhere. We put them on out map here.
   Last week I got a note from Luis who found a Samstone while visiting the Mayan ruin of Tulum on the Yucatan coast.

Tulum was a special place to Sam and to us.. Diane. Sam and I went there as his 8th grade trip..  .. that was just about 6 months before he died. It was a wonderful time.   While we were there, Sam had anecklace made with his name written in mayan glyphs.. He wore it all the rest of that year.. he was wearing it when he died.. Diane and I both wear copies of it eevy day now..  We have those glyphs cut on a rock in our back yard.. and Nate has them inked on his arm

Anyway When Luis found the stone, he saw the link to the http://samstones.org

website. From there he found this blog.. and from there he realized

we’d met. Luis lives in Gudalajara Mexico.. I’d given a talk there in

2006 and we’d met..   

It’s a small and wonderful world…

OK.. all for now…

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – build up

What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? Even if you survived it, could you survive the aftermath?

Season

Two of THE COLONY introduces viewers to a new group of volunteers with

differing backgrounds, skills and personalities, to bear witness to how

these colonists will survive and rebuild in a world without

electricity, running water, government or outside communication.

Filmed

on 10 acres of abandoned neighborhood on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana,

THE COLONY’S simulated environment had been left decimated by Hurricane

Katrina, a naturally occurring disaster zone that was slated to be

bulldozed and turned into a public park. Empty buildings, weedy streets

and the backwoods are all the colonists have to work with as they

scavenge essentials for survival from their surroundings while fending

off threats such as wild animals and malicious outsiders.

Throughout

this season, the colonists face daunting physical and emotional

challenges as they attempt to survive in a world void of all the

niceties they’ve ever known, including environmental dangers such as

disastrous weather and indigenous wildlife.

THE COLONY begins

with the volunteers facing a 72 hour isolation period to

psychologically shift their perspective from our modern world to the

end of the world. Shortly after the integration into the colony, the

threat of survival becomes imminent as hostile outsiders push them into

a physical confrontation. How do the colonists respond and will their

newfound skills be enough to protect their supplies and lives?

To learn more about this all-new show from DISCOVERY CHANNEL, visit our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Colony/102710631581

Or visit the official site:
http://discovery.com/colony

Oh man.. it’s so weird watching the build up for Colony Season II.. I’m excited, nervous, curious, .. all the things I felt when I was in the show..   I can’t wait to see what the show ‘fee;s’ like.. i can’t wait to see how the characters develop on screen.. and how they react to it off screen..

 I remember so well the weird in between time right before our season aired.. we’d already had the crazy expereince of filuing.. and by now, we were already back into the rhythms of our lives, but we’d not yet figure out how the airing of the show would affect our lives..  For exampe.. This time last year I had no clue that the produces would choose to end the first episode wit 45 seconds of my naked bod…

what similar surprises are the new kids going to have  ?  how will their friendships translate to off screen (the 10 of us are still close and still exchange email every week)  I wish them as much fun as we had 

New kids.. are you out there ?

nite folks.. nite sam
-me

(hey new kids.. you reading this blog ? )


Sunday night – amherst

We’re all just bac from a really nice trip to Amherst Mass forone of Gab’es All Star Lacross Tournements. This is his second Tourney.. it’s so much fun hanging out with these new kids on his teams.. their parents and the kids from the other teams. There were teams there today from Georgia, texas and .. who knows where else. THe weather held both yesterday afternoon and today.. it was hot.. but not too bad.. Overall it was a great couple of days.. the guys won two, tied two and lost one.. thhat’s the best showing for a u15 Vt team ever… so the guys were happy. Gabe had a good time, so I was happy..

The teams were all pretty good.. so the games were both gentlemanly and rough.. gabe got a pretty good chop to teh throat and to the forearm.

Luckily we had Coach Deadhead.. (not his real name.. but he sure likes the grateful dead !).. who’s an orthopedic surgeon take a look.. no broken boans, but a nasty whack ..

We actually choralled the kids long enough this afternoon to get a picture.. Luckily, the piicture doesn’t coem with scent.. they were al pretty frgrent after a couple of games in the 90 degree weather.

One of the joys of lacrosse is getting to hang out with some of the other families.. Gabe is one of 2 kids form his high school on his teama nice kid.. Hsis and Bella.

Lea nad her dad got in a cartwheel contest..

Lea won 🙂

One of the othe rpleasures of these games is that Diane and I get to explore.. We found a min version of Stonehenge near the playoing fields. It marked the solstice,s the equinoxes (equonii ?).. and the moon rise anand settings .. Very cool !

Hey.. they even had a pagan priestess !

as we drove out, Gabe ran back in and placed a SamStone in the ring..

After the games, we all drove to Puffer’s Pond.. a local swimming hole and hang out. I’d heard about it form my friend Mike who’d also been at the tourney watching the younger VT team play. Mos tof the team came with us to the pond. It was a beautiful hang out just liek we have in VT..

All the kids went in.. (which made it much easier to be in the car with them !)..
I went in.. some of the moms and dads did too..

Even Coach B went in !

Here’s ROb and his kids..

Around 4 ew said good bye to everyone and hit the road, intending to go straight back to VT>. but, we stoipped in to a small pizza place to get a drink just as the last game of the soccor wolrld cup was going in to over time.. 0-0 , spain vs netherlands.. 15 minute overtime, no sudden death.. wow !
I don’t even like watching soccor.. but this was too good to miss. We sat down and watched the two teams battle it out.. I was aso moved by the drama of it.. ther emust have been nearly a billon folks watching the game. has that ever happened before ? it was so cool !

Business basically stopped dirng the last few minutes.


We were glued to our seats.. (sort of)

..Spain got a goal.. then .. the clockran out.. and they won.. Even here in a small town in Mass you could feel both sides.. the victory and the defeat.. ! It was pretty cool !

and so ended the Soccer world cup..
and so ended our weekend..
more tomorrow

nite folks, nite sam !
-me .