I spent the whole day hanging out inside . still feeling a bit under the weather .. I took advantage of the down time to some video editing for a work project.. I also did some laundry . What’s it say when laundry is the high point of your day ? Actually it’s kind of fun. I just finished reading a book called ‘Change by Design’ by Time Brown of Ideo.
He recommends taking time to look at the ‘super-ordinary’.. the stuff you do every day.. and find the extraordinary in it. Today my ‘super ordinary’ was dishtowels.

Not just any dishtowels.. my dishtowels..

Some of them are .. admittedly pretty  boring.. they’re brand new.

Others have a story.. this one.. used to be a bath towel.. washed each and every one of us at one time or another… I wonder if there’s any way to test and see who a towel has touched.

This one has always been a dish towel.. I call this one my ‘ward cleaver’.. it seems I always use it when we’re at the sink talking. just lieke on Leave it to Beaver.

Ah.. this one used to be a place mat.. a wedding gift, I think.. Did one of you give it to us ? If so.. know that it’s been well loved.

This one.. I think.. has been in our joint pssession since Diane and I met..   Though I can’t be sure.. I never kept a registry of my dishtowels.

This one was a giveaway somewhere ..  a lacrosse game ? a soccer game ?

This one .. welll. It was always a dish towel.. who made it ? where’d it come from ?

Ah/ these are ancient.. I think we used htem for .. errrr…. diaper work…   How’s htat for a thought.

THis one was a wedding gift.. it’s a napkin.. I even knwo who gave it to us..

This one is only 3/4 the size it used to be..

So .. that was my big adventure today..

Eventually I managed to get outside.. Diane and I took a short snowshoe with the dogs.. The snow was slushy and deep… I took advantage of te brush being packed down to hke a bit off the trail and visit this old car. I think it’s a Model A.. . I really wonder how it came to be there..

OK.. that’s abotu it for my day.. not too exciting.. but perfectly peaceful.

Nite all Nite Sam
-me

A warm, bluebird day.. bright sky and near 30.. couldn’t ask for better. Gabe had a snowboard meet in New Hampshire again.. so we all piled in the car at 5:30 this AM. I’m still sick.. but I figured I could be sick out there on the mountain.. or hanging out at home.. at least there I’d be outside.

Today’s event was the Peanut Butter and Rail Jam.. there were about 100 kids.. three t simple rails. Pretty standard competition.

He had some great runs. very smooth….

The competition was over about 2:30..   so we pile in the car and drove the 2.5 hours home.. through beautful contryside..  

After dinner, Gab and I finished his split board.. he may use it tomorrow.. though I think he may have the bug that I’m just shaking..

(Yikes !.. just heard a ton of snow and ice  come off the roof.. hope it didn’t hit anything. one time it came down and smashed both of our cars so that neither were drivable… )

After dinner we were all sitting around tlaking about the terrible earthquake in Haiti. Marie and Garret went to the store today and bought a bunch of medical supplies using some Friends of Sam funds.. they dropped them of at Amy’s for the Vermont Haiti Project. The Haiti project has been going long before last weeks earthquake.. but they’re now focusing all their efforts on relief for the folks in Port Au Prince. One of Amy’s friends, a nurse, is heading down to Haiti to aid in the rescue effort. If you have medical supplies , clothes, other goods..to donate  or want to make a cash donation, Please check out The Vermont Haiti Project. Please help out if you can.

Well.. that’s it for now.. I’m going to get soem sleep and try to shake this cold..
Nite Folks, Nite Sam
-me

Very late.. hoem from NY.. spent time trying o get throgh 247 emails just from today.. it doesn’t pay to be offline.  I need to get soem sleep ‘uz I am feelong a little sick.. sore throat. I had a great short trip down to NY> .it was so great seeing max again. I somehow faled to get a picture of him.. so here’s a picture fof the thank you message I left him this morning.. couldn’t find a pen.. so I used mustard.  I wouldn’t relish having to clean it up.

I had a call today at 6AM (@#^%# australia)..   Lef tMax’s apt and headed up to Armonk for all day meetings

I generally don’t talk about work in this blog.. so I won’t start now.. but I had soem very cool meetings there today..   I really like it when I can meet folks from other parts of my company..