Monthly Archives: July 2011

Tuesday afternoon – Further

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Greetings from the road.. from Rutland Actually. I’m typing while my friend Andy drives. We’re heading down to the Further concert in Saratoga this evening. I really appreciate Andy driving as it’s allowing me to work on the way down.. I’m between conference calls right now.. and wanted to get a post in.. because it will be hard to do after the conference.

This week is going to be pretty interesting.. I’ve got the Further show tonight.. then tomorrow afternoon I start 2.5 days of vacation as I go to the Gathering of the Vibes

in Bridgeport CT. I’m so psyched to be working that much live music into my life..there’s something about loud live music that i find transcendent.. It’s like meditating.. only it makes your ears ring the next day..

I’ll try to post some pictures from the show late tonight.. In case I don’t.. have a nice night.. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

ps. Here’s a piece I made last night for our trip to the vibes. Gabe helped me..

peacelight !

 

Here are some pixs from the evening (added at 2:45 AM)

 

Quick stop at the timecycle on the way down

the scene heading over to ‘shakedown street’ the market part of the show

Great tshirt and bumpersticker sentiments everywhere

My buddy andy and his freinds alan and jeff.

over to the show

 

 

Spac is really quire beutiful !

 

folks were vigilant about alchohol.. but for soe reason they didnt ask for my id ?!?! 🙂

here’s the seated part … our seats were row 10 far left.. not bad.. !

OUT CAME THE BAND..  theyve’ve been doing this for 45 years at this point.. amazing.. and they still are loving it !

and.. i WAS AOUT THE AVERAGE AGE FOR THE CROWD. NOT ALWAYS PRETTY.. BUT LOTS OF ENERGY

I am happy here.. vEry. very happy.. something about live music !

ok.. TIEM FOR BED.. HEADING DOWN TO ANOTHER CONCERT TOMORROW.. SO GOTTA GET MY BEUTY REST..

NIGHT ALL

NITE SAM

-ME

 

 

Monday evening – T/IQ

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OMG.. it’s hot..sticky, stinking hot..  ,my car thermometer said 91 when I came out of work. It’s cooler here out in the sticks.. but still too hot to move. I have said in the blog in years past that I think my IQ drops for every degree past 65 F. that would put me way in negative territory  about now..when the mercury.. or now.. more likely thermocouple creeps up into the 70’s I get in touch with my inner iguana.. I flatten myself on a rock .. limit my movement and drop into low gear thoguht -wise//.

I take off all the clothes that modesty will allow.. I go barefoot at work.  I start browsing sites for real estate north of the arctic circle.. .

You might ask.. How can a boy who was raised in the sauna that is Houston TX wilt in a 75 degree day ? I wish I could say.. all i know is that my blood has thickened to a sludgy, salty soup this afternoon .. I’m grumpy, i’m sticky… and thinking longingly  about shoveling snow…

keep cool

nite folks, nite sam

-me

 

Sunday night – Albany day II

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Ahh.. back home after three days in Albany with Gabe. He was down there for summer league Lacrosse.. The games were ok.. but as always for me.. hanging out with him. his friends and their folks was what makes it.  Like last night.. Gabe and his friends Marcello, David, and Jack and their moms and I went to downtown Albany to a really great Mexican restaurant (el Mariachi.. really, good mole .. and it was vegetarian !)

Afterwords, Elizabeth took us on a tour of the Albany state building complex.. if oyu haven’t seen it, you should.. It’s the weirdest and coolest mix of Disneyland meets Stalinist meets 1950’s retro modern architecture I’ve ever seen. it’s this huge plaza with giant reflecting pools, about 6 very tall buildings, a fairytale castle,  a giant egg, a bunch of sculptures.. and .. most notibly.. not a single other person.. We had the huge complex to ourselves.. which was fun and spooky.

thispicture is sort of a mistake.. but .. it looks like the building has legs.. like Baba Yaga.. (know that story ?)

This mornign we got up early and checked out of the hotel.. My high school friend Aida came to meet us at the hotel.. We were nerd friends in high school back in the 70’s.. and we haven’t seen each other since 1977. I tracked her down her a few months ago when friend Sandy told me she’d heard Aida was living in southern VT> I tried contacting her down only to find thtthat a she and her family had moved to Albany.

 

Aidia and her daughter Nawal and I went to breakfast while Gabe caught a ride with Davidd over to the Lax fiend.

It was so great catchig up wiht Aida.. we were swapping life stories.. but only made it up to about 1986. I do know that she’s an opthomoologist. Nawal just graduated from Smith and is studying education and Aidas partner Ramina is an artist doign really cool thing with plants and light.

We agreed to contine the conversation next time I’m in Albany.. It will be good to hear the next two decades of each others lives..

Aida and Nawal drove me back to the firlds.. and I quickly found our gang.

 

It was anothe rreally hot day out there .. T

 

he boys did well. both teams won their last games.. Gabe had soem really excelelnt plays.. I love watching him run..

this was the last  official event of the summer season.. so the coach gave them a pep tlak ad sent us all on our way home ..

 

we stopped for lunch.. which was long enough for me to document abes any bruises adnd scrapes from the game.

the ride home was easy.. and blissfully cool. Thank goodness for airconditioning !

Around Addison we swithched on the last part of the FiFA world cup soccor match.. US vs Japan.. It was riviting.. .. here we are right after the US gave up its 1 nothing lead with only 7 min left to play.. arghh..

we got home in toime to watch the conclusion.. the game was still tied after overtime.. and it went to penalty kikcs.. and …
japan won..!.. The cool thing is that everyone.. including the american team was at least happy that Japan could really use the boost after the terrible tsunami.As much as I was disappointed for the US, .i was really happy for Japan.

 

The day ended with us trying to make a dent in the nearly 50 (yes 50) pints of ben and herry’s that are filling our freezer..


please come help us eat it ..!

 

ok.. gotta sleep now.. more tomorrow..

 

night all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Saturday evening – hot lax day

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Hot lax day.. title says it all.Gabe and I are down in Albany at a mid summer lacrosse shoot out.. Gabes team, VT Tribe played 4 games in 90+ degree weather.. it was scorching (though anything above 60 is scorching for me)..

Despite the heat.. and the losses, the kids had fun.. I was able to keep myself busy by extracting interesting stories from the other parents.. .. which I love doing.. I really do like the kids and parents involved in this sport.

 

By 5:30 the kids and the parents were all pretty worn out..

Here’s why..

OK.. we’re all going out to get something to eat. more later..

-jc