I just fell asleep working on the couch.. I’m way too busy.. still working at 1 AM.. ugh..
I went to the doctor today for a routine check up and as I was waiting for Dr. Joe to come I started lookign at all the notes that kids have left him over the years..
Look at what I found right in front of my eyes.. Must have been sam at age 7 or 8… Is it a rocket ? A shot ?
Can’t really tell.. but I loved seeing it there. I stared at it for about 10 minutes. I touched t.. it was Sam’s.. he had touched it..
I’ve been havign a whole bunch of sam moments over the past couple of days. he was in my dream last night.. and I woke up thinking about his band.. for a second I couldn’t come up with the band’s name (Black Night Vengance).. Things like that are so easy to misplace.. I never want to.
You’re always in my ind and heart sam.. I’m missing you..
One of the pleasures of my new job is that for the first time in nearly 15 years or so, my team is primarily in the same location as I am.. or travels there frequently enough that we all get together..For many years my entire day was spent on conference calls and web meetings they could be ‘fun’.. when they were with folks you knew well. but with folks you never met.. they were a poor echo of the passion, intensity and creative output one got form a face to face meeting…Somehow that’s become bad-speak to say.. but everyone knows it t be true.. Today I spent several ours in face to face meeting.. even though the material was difficult, the simple pleasure of sharing a white board, drinking coffee/tea together and walking together to lunch made the day actually enjoyable !… and far, far more effective than the 6 or so endless phone calls we had in prep…
Even better.. we all met for beer afterward.. we got more done tonight both technically and personally than we could have ever gotten done at work.. much less remotely…
Today is the first Tuesday in March.. and as such, it is Town Meeting Day here in Vermont !. Town Meting day is such an amazing tradition.In towns across the state people take off work and gather in churches, school auditoriums and grange halls and vote on their towns business for the year. Business can include everything from town budgets and school budgets to declaring our town a nuclear free zone. as ours did back in the 80’s.. Even in today’s busy culture I was pleased to see about 250 of my fellow towns folks gathered at the middle school this morning to talk about Richmond’s issues.not bad for a town of 3000 .I was able to hang out for an hour and a half to vote and watch the fun. I got to stay because my email was still down and I could not get meeting notices !!! (bliss) Going there always reminds me how much I love this town.. most folks know most folks. if not by name.. at least by site.. We have our share of characters… some you can predict exactly what they’re going to say and when. others.. you can never tell what they’re going to say..
The meeting is run by the select board.. a group of civic midned folks who dedicate their time in what has got to be a thankless and tiring job.. My good buddy Clint (hand raised here) presided over the proceedings as his dad has in the past. He had his hands full during a debate about hiring/training a paramedic or two for our rural rescue squad. Amid debate one resident moved that we delay the debate on the issue to a later date.. What happened then was a 45 minute debate on debating that would have made Abott and Costello proud.. We had been debating the issue, then we debated if we could delay debate on the issue.. then we debated if we could debate on moving the debate on the issue .. (i kid you not !) Clint did a fine job of keeping us all kosher to Roberts Rules.. even when it got tough.. !
It was getting really confusing… Clint joked that he could use a lifeline just as his dad Toby walked in .. perfect timing.. Toby has run the meeting since I can remember.. I’ve been coming to these for 30 years.. I don’t think he’s been here that long, though. Here they are conferring
Eventually the board had to cal the secretary of states office.. they said the debate could be moved.. but just to a specific date and time within the next 3 months.. I had to leave before it was resolved.. Not sure where it landed.
I’m still waiting to here how the elections all came out.. does anyone know ?
