Sunday night -V.O.M.I.T. picnic

July 31, 2011 johncohn Leave a comment

Today was another great and peaceful day.. much busier than yesterday.. Two social events.. the first was the annual VOMIT (Vermont’s Own M.I.T. club) picnic.. What a great and eclectic group of nerdy folks.. we had everything from graduates in the 60’s to next years admitees..

We met at the Waterbury reservoir day camping area.. I had brought some fun fire things (flame thrower, pyrodex, potassium permanganate, glycerin) with the intent of doing a special fire lighting experiment.. but the campground was full..not a good place for explosions..small or large.. so we opted for simple charcoal lighter fluid.

Somone.. Maybe Laura ? had the great idea of using our bodies to write MIT.. I suggested MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , but we were a little short on people, so MIT it was.. so .. here we are !

It was a beautiful day for spelling.. here’s a shot of the scenery.. that’s Robin’s meeting.. the mountain in our back yard.. in the background.

It’s beutiful Diane in the foreground..

After VOMIT, I zoomed over to Winooski to see my friends John and Sue who were visiting from California.. They were having a great party at Donny’s Pizza.. which turns out to be run by my friend Dimitrious. .. I got their late.. but there were still plenty of folks.. here are Dimitrious, Greg and Deb, Dennis, Sue John, Ray and his wife.. Very nice to see them all !

here’s another shot of John and Sue and daughter Abby and her boyfriend..

Then home to dinner.. we had both Gabe and Max home for the first time in a long time..TJ was there too.. Dan showed up just in time for dessert with his new Avacado Lemon sorbet.. so yummy !

OK.. can’t keep my eyes open.. more tomorrow…

nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday evening – stars

July 30, 2011 johncohn Leave a comment

Totally laid back day.. nothing happened.. and I’m proud of it.. I think the big news for the day was that I finally decided to shed the growing collection of concert bling on my arm.. Might have said it was getting a bit ratty.. or unhygienic.. but it was my freak flag for the last month.. I just didn’t think i could pull it off on a business trip.. so I pulled it off…literally.. and carefully

shazam. instant adulthood..

The household was relatively quiet today.. though we had two nice visits.. first friend Tim came by with his family Wife Diane, daughter Katie and on Matthew. Tim and family live in CT.. They’ve been up in Vermont on vacation for the last week. It was great seeing them again.. Funny thing is.. I saw Tim just last week at the Vibes . Tim now works at Cisco.. but used ot work at IBM.. where we were in the business of making goofy movies together. Like this.. (note.. Tim didn’t expect to go in the water here.. 27 degrees !)

Before Tim and Diane took off, we had another fun and unexpected visit from my cousins Mark and Kathy. They live in Ca.. and are here for a freinds wedding. It was so great seeing them ! Funny too, because Mark now works for Cisco too..i’m glad he got to meet Tim,

It was fun having Mark and Kathy here..they used to live here in Vermont. In fact.. Mark lived in this house for several weeks when he moved to Vermont in 1982.. he’s the closet thing to a relative I’ve ever had nearby !.. It was great catching up with them….

Later on.. we had a nice dinner with Max at bridge street.. And.. that my friends was pretty much our entire day.. ..

Ahh.. one more thing to share.. Max took this very cool time lapse of the house 2 nights ago.. nifty.. no ?

TimeLapseVT: StarTower from Maxwell Cohn on Vimeo.

OK.. that’s it from here.. more tomorrow..
nite all, nite sam
-me

Friday night – d-oh !

July 30, 2011 johncohn Leave a comment

12L30 and I’m just back from my annual pilgrimage to the Governors Institute of Vermont (GIV) engineering summer camp .. Every year I do a show.. for them.. and every year I feel good that there are so many geeks and geekettes in the land. This year’s crop was particularly wonderful and geeky. !

Today was a pretty cool and historic day for the GIV. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin came there and annonced that any Vermont student who goes to enginnering school.. then moves back to Vermont will get a 1.5K$ per year payement against their student loans for 5 years.. that’s 7.5K$ of npo-strings debt releif if you choose to coem back to Vermont with an engineering degree. How cool is that ?!?!?

one casualty of the night was te door to my building.. as I rushed out of the buuilding with my gear loaded on my go-cart.. I miscalculate on my speed and rammed the door. I’m used to having an automatic opening handycap door which swings out of the way as I come through. This building has no such convenience.. As a consequene.. I tapped the door hard enought to.. welll.. take a look.. I felt SO bad. I’ve offered to pay to have it fixed.. we’ll see..

d-oh !

OK.. it’s past 12:30./ time to sleep.. more tomorrow..

nite all, nte sam

-me

Thursday night – blue rasberry

July 29, 2011 johncohn 1 Comment

I went to the dentist today after not going for more than a year (yikes! how did that happen ?!) Things worked out though.. my teeth were just fine.

Here’s a quick shot of my tattooed tooth with all three boys initials. There was a new dentist there today and it was fu seeing his reaction when he saw my tooth.. he said he’d never seen anything like mine.

Today’s theme was blue raspberry.. a taste and color combo that is not known to nature.. it was, however the only flavor that offered for both tooth polish grit and fluoride.

Brenda my friendly tooth cleaning lady turned out to be a the wife of my freind John-the-geek.. It was great talking with her !

I got back to my office and noticed hte sign that freind jen had put up for a f2f meeting I had been late to this morning. I’m just goign to leave it there. the red is my own addition..

after a long day of work, i went to freind Jim’s house and picked him and his son dustin up and headed up to mallets bay. Our freind Ken had offerd to take jim.jerome and me out on Ken and Donna’s boat ‘obsession’.. We got to the boat around 6:30 What a great day to be out there..