Woke up, hugged my in-laws then Gabe, Diane and I drove back to Vermont.. it was a beautiful day to be out driving.. The way is easy now with all three of us able to drive. We listened to podcasts of Freakanomics for part of the drive. I really enjoy them.. especially one on the Upside of ‘Quitting’ .. The story told of the advantages of giving up what you’re doing when it clearly isn’t going to work.. It paid particular attention to the fallacy of ‘sunk costs’ .. that is.. ‘I’ve spent so much effort so far on this … that it doesn’t make sense to quit’. Actually.. the opposite is often true.. as soon as a negative outcome is likely.. it makes sense to give up.. Goes against the old adage ‘Quitters never win and winners never quit’.. but they had good economic theory to back it up.

I’m not suggesting that any of us quit anything in particular… just saying it’s always a good idea to reevaluate your situation.

One thing I did not quit today was driving.. a couple of hours after getting home tihs afternoon, I went and picked up friend Chris and we drove to Lebanon NH to see Mike Gordon and his band play. It was an awesome show..  and even though it was an hour and a half away.. I ran into many friends..  It’s fun to see Gordon playing his own stuff.. with a little Phish thrown in. His stuff is very cool, fun and quirky.. and always musically really, really good.

I left a samstone at the Lebanon opera house.. too

ok.  It’s really late and I need to sleep.. More tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

ps. Here’s a picture i just got of my cousin John meeting his Holiness the Dali Lama. John is the director of Global Health Studies at U of Wisconsin in Madison. John and His Holiness were  together at a convference on global health. how cool is that ?!