Sunday night – untangling

I spent the weekend ‘untangling’..myself . I’ve been finding myself getting increasingly distracted over the last several months.. I’m not unhappy.. just not making as much progress alog my personal mission(s) . This after  a long period of feeling I was very much on that path. I made a point this weekend of thinkign quietly.. and talking to a few trusted friends.. .. no conclusions.. just want to regain the momentum I felt from the past year.. i’m committing to myself to finding my way back to that path..
   In the interim., I did my best to do stuff that was fun/simple this weekend. I pretty much stayed off the computer.. tried to stay off the phone.. hung out with family some.. cut the crass, puttered in the lab..   Last night Mica came over and I helped eher work on her final project for school.. A loight up dress. I tought her and her  mom how to solder, which was fun..

 

Both yesterday and today mornign  I spent watching gabe play lacrosse up in St. Albans.  Two good set of games. He’s playing well. yesterday was supposed to have been rainey.. but cleared enough or two games.. The third was called for thunder. Today’s games were played in pouring (!!!) rain.. thoguh now thunder/lightening. Again, gabe played well.. despite inches of  water on the field.   I love watching him run !..

At times you could hardly see the fueld for the rain..

It was 54 when they started.. it has ‘warmed’ to 57 buty the end of play  Gabe was freezing and soaked btthe time the third game was called due to soggy fields. 

In the spirit of ‘untangling’ I spent the resto of the afternoon untangling two bins of wall wart transformers and electronics cables. It was mindless and cathartic work. a moving meditation of sorts..   

By the end I’d untanglled each of the transformers, wound them up and sorted them in voltages by bags…   At least I’d restored temporary  order to one tny facet of my life.. It felt good.

Well .. my ,mnd is feeling a bit more untangled thanks to the weekend.. time to dive in again..
nite ya’ll. nite Sam !
-me

Sat evening – no txting whl drving

Yesterday I was driving to work and saw a road sign warning me not to txt while driving.. The funny thing is, the sign made me want to txt right back and say ‘ok’.. I didn’t think much of it until this morning on our way to lacrosse I saw five more of these signs warning against txting while driving.. these said “it’s the law”.  I was shocked.. what law ? when ? iane explained that as of June 1st Vermont made it illegal to text while driving..

Now.. I have to confess that I have texted while driving once or twice in the past years.. though I stopped when passengers looked at me like I was on crack. Occasionally I still check email at stop signs… (is that considered texting ?).. but mostly just talk on the phone while driving.

The whole law thing got me thinking.. I’m all for making the roads safer.. and lowering distractions..  I often think of Sam’s accident and what if anything could have been done to prevent that…

… but when’s it make sense to legislate what makes sense ? Will there be a la banning phone use in cars ? Could it become illegal to eat in the car.. ? .. or to put on make up .. ?  Do we have to spell out every dumb thing you can’t do
I’m not sure what I think here ..   ?

Nite folks…. let me know what you think..  Nite sam
-me

Thursday night – I don't no..

Just back from a 643 mile 40 our round trip to Endicott. It was a great, but quick trip .. I had agreed to do shows for two groups of kids. One for our good friend Linda’.. in DIane’s old middle school. And one for my newish freind Dave in his group of homeschoolers. I’d said ‘yes’ to both shows late last year.. (i don’t ‘no’… do i ? )/./ When I said yes.. I’d imagined a leisurly trip to Diane’s home town with family in tow.. As it happens.. I’m insanely busy at work…. and neither Diane nor Gabe were free to travel mid week.. so it was basically down and back in jus over 24 hours. I spent the whole way down and the whoel way back.. and every free minute of the the day on work calls to boot.  (I didn’t miss a meeting)
   As yucky as that all sounds.. it was actually wonderful.. I got to witness for science geekiness for about 550 kids.. I got to see my inlaws, my brother and sister inlaw.. my friends linda , andrela and  david (today was davids birthday) .. and my other friends david and leigh and kids.. I got to visit Diane’s mold middle school and place a samstone there… and I got to vist my my mother in law Marcia’s friend Deacon Tom who’s 33 year old son Jim passed away suddenly the other day. I stopped by to visit Tom.. whom I’d never met.. on an urge as I was driving by his church.. I went inside and yelled out his name until I found him..   We spent abotu 45 minutes talking about our kids loss, redemption, etc.. It felt good to be there for someone else…
   So.. here’s my dilemma.. today’s trip was crazy. impractical, and exhausting . At the same time it was wonderful. reddeeming and rewarding..  I was doign stuff aligned with my purpose.  How do I know when/if I should say ‘no’ to say no to ‘opportunities’ like this..    Glad I didn’t say no this time

night folks.. nite sam
-me

Wednesday night – rofl


     
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Nite all !.. Nite Sam !
-me