It’s been a great break.. some much needed rest, some mch needed partying with freinds.. and soem puttering time. from Sam’s memorial day last Sunday through this morning, our house has been full of people night and day just like old times.. We had max, my folks, trevor, Deb and three or 4 of her kids.. and a few of their collective freinds in some combination every day.. it was wonderful…

My folks left Friday midday, Yesterday we put Trevor on a plane..

nd today the Townsends headed up to Montreal.. and max headed back to school So now.. it’s just the three of us again.. (though this was actually last night before deb and the kids left)

Actually.. it’s just one here.. I drove diane down to Beacon NY to catch a train. I’m in Fishkill tomorrow for work.. so I’m in a hotel.. and it’s very. very quiet.. nice for a change.. ut I do miss our friends and family.

Max and I took a 1 minute stop to see the time cycle on the way down.. I didn’t realize that Max had never seen it assembled..

We had a nice drive down.. mostly we discussed the Logic class he’s taking.. we were doign logic proofs as we drove.. fun in a geeky way…

We had a few minutes extra for a beer in the parkign lot before he caught his train to the city.. kind of fun in a non-geeky way.. sort of balanced the evening..

OK.. I’m going to try working on moving this blog.. More form the road tomorrow..
thanks for everyone’s love and support through last week.. it was very much appreciated.
nite all, nite Sam..
-me

Folks,
i’m hearing from some folks that they can no longer reach my blog.. using the old address of htp://blog.myspace.com/johncohn . They get a message ‘service unavailable; Unfortunately, I have no way to tell those folks where to look now.. I think the new link is http://myspace.com/johncohn/blog I’m so sad/mad.. I’ve worked really hard to keep this blog going and I feel like myspace has screwed it up in a day of untested changes.
If you’re reading this.. you’re not one of the folks I’ve lost.. but any ideas on how to get the word out to anyone else.. Please do me a favor and pass the correct link .. http://myspace.com/johncohn/blog on to anyone you know who’s trying to join me here.. Also.. please drop a comment on this blog .. or send me an email at johncohn@us.ibm.com to confirm you can still see this.. I’m trying to get a tally on who’s still out there.. Thanks !

Thanks for helping me get the word out..
-jc

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If you’re reading this … chances are that you know I started this blog 4 days after Sam died..I started writing as a way of working through my new grief..that and as a way for our family and friends to keep track of how wwe were doing. Frankly, it became exhausting to answer the heartfelt question ‘how are you’ so many times for so many people.. Over the past four years this blog has helped me work through the unthinkable.. at times it’s been the one place I felt I could get words around my thoughts…. as time passed.. it became a mix of what I was thinking.. and what I was doing.. sometimes it captured my most painful feelings.. other times it was only what I was doing with my day.. There were times I couldn’t wt to sit down and write..there were other times I couldn’t stand the thought of having to recount another leaden day.. I almost quit writing so many times..
I never did… so .. with the exception of my time on the colony, I’ve written every night for four years.. That includes at least a dozen countries, probably 80 hotel rooms . Sometimes I’ve had more than a thousand readers in a night.. sometimes as few as 90… As of last week when #$%@ing myspace changed their system there were between 400 and 600 folks reading every night..with just about 480,000 reads. I even wrote code which blonks the lights in our ell tower every time soemone reads the blog. I started blogging in myspace because that was the only thing going at the time…. I had a myspace page.. as did each of the three boys. Now myspace is almost an anachronism.. At its best, it was certainly the worst blogging environment. Now.. they’ve made it worse…
Last week Myspace made a bunch of changes in order to try to keep up with Facebook. In making the changes they’ve taken away the ability to go to a post on a particular date, ..they’ve invalidated all the links I had to prior blog entries. they’ve taken away the RSS feeds that I used to copy my blog to facebook, twitter and my own website htttp://johncohn.org .. they got rid of the cutom headers I used to point folks at the samstone webstie and the sam foundation. they also broke the method I used to blink the lights in our house when someone reads the blog. . and they the have provided a way to back up your content.. or retrieve your old posts. Luckily, I sensed something changing when the interface changed suddenly 2 and a half weeks ago. I quickly wrote some PYTHON ode to grab all of my old posts.. .. not a moment too soon, the next day they removed the method I used to track the content backwards in time.. What pisses me off most is that they have not answered a single of my email queries.

So… I think I’m going to have to move my blog.. I worry that when I move it.. folks will loose contact with me.. but.. I do need to do something.

Will you come with me if I change where this blog lives ? Please let me know…

Right now.. I’m going to sleep…
more tomorrow…
looks for changes in this blog

ntite all, nite sam…
-me

Ahhh.. full day, full belly.. just got back from tim and jens from a really nice thanksgiving dinner..

We have a bunch of people aroudn this week.. max, is up, so are my
folks.. trevor is here and so are de and her kids.. all of those folks
have attracted a bunch of friends.. so the house is full. It’s like old
times and I like it.

max carved ours..

Hannah

barbara

deb

dave

Ian

trevor

hannah

matt

jenn

ma

pa

hannah, max