September | 2012 | Cohn-zone

Let me start by saying happy birthday to my Mom and to my baby Bro !.. Happy birthday you guys.. I love you both !!!

Great day here. hanging kind of low. I seem to have caught some sort of mild stomach bug on my trip to china this week.. Doing a little nothing is what my body, mind and soul felt like doing.. so it was good.

One thing I did reflect on s that today was the temple burn at Burning Man..While I had hoped to be there this year, I had too much stuff going with work to make it happen. I’m not that sad to have missed it..I think I need to adjust my thinking and plan on doing it every several years. a visit there can last you for several years i think.. It was funny. Burning man was very much on my mind when I ran across this cartoon in this week’s New Yorker..

We didn’t exotically do nothing today.. the morning was actually quite full. Diane took me and the dogs on a surprise run in the woods on a new trail she learned about last week. It’s the Preston rook trail off of the Bolton Notch road. it’s only a couple of miles from here .. but we’ve ever seen it. its’ about a 3.2 mile loop that takes you by beautiful preston pond way back in the woods.. then there’s a little .6 mile climb out to Libbys Lookout with a beautiful view of our part of the Green Mountains that i’d never seen .. It was great…

Then back to the house for a while.. a short float in the pool.. then Gae and I went and met Marcello and his family, All of us managed to ‘fall’ off the Richmond bridge. Gabe with back flips.. me jut doing a pencil. It’s about a 40 foot drop.. so feet first works for me.. It was just what I needed to make me forget my tummy bug .

later in the day, I finished the GSM -arduino interface that alows me to receive SMS messages from my phone to control my flame thrower. I’ve been meaning to get this whole thing working so I can show someone what the guts of an SMS controlled flame sculpture would be like.. Inally it works.. Here’s the setup..

here’s the GSM modem, arduino and relay

here’s the SMS sent from my phone

and here’s what happens when the device receives my message .. nice !

OK. thats all for now.. more from labor day tomorrow

enjoy your holiday everyone..

nite all, nite sam

-me

wow, Diane and I just came back from the best party . but more on that in a sec… Let’s start with today, which was an absolutely gorgeous day.. I slept until nearly nine thanks to a healthy case of jetlag.. first thin after that was a great game for Gabe’s soccer team up at MMU.. the weather was perfect.. so ws the game..

on the way home from the game. Diane and I stopped in for our annual anniversary pilgrimage to the round church where we were married 26 years ago yesterday. long time. good time..

i saw this original key to the place there today.

and we met Dave.. who was chief tour guide at the round church today. really nice guy.

after that.. came home and tried to meditate.. which ended up turning into a nap..

Around 4:30 we headed up to Westford for ‘Westfordpalooze’.. a big party in the sicks of Westford held by three families, including my friends Bill and Corey. . I beleive this was their 7th year of holding the party..