Wednesday night – helloween

You know, I was thinking last night that I was going to title this post ‘Hollow-een’ because I just wasn’t feeling the halloween spirit.. despite Diane’s very cute Halloween yoga last night

but today really surprised me. First of all. I miraculously had no meetings on my cal.. none.. that’s actually never happened to me on a non vacation day . or at least not in the last 10 years, I think I must have had an all day meeting scheduled that got canceled. I made good use of the time.. I caught up on some programming work for my job that I was itching to get to ..I didn’t get it all done.. but I made good progress. Late afternoon Istopped to do an absentee ballet for next week .. which felt good.

then i went over to homers to put some finishing touches on a demo we’re doing that’s due this week.. miraculously (again) it actually came together as it was supposed to.

Later , I met Diane at Marci’s house for a little proxy trick or treating.. we sat in front of her house a,played with Lilly and Finn and helped hand out candy (ok.. we helped eat candy…)

then Diane and I drove in to Richmond for a little nostalgic walk. we only had two stops in mind.. Gretchen and Marshals for home made doughnuts.

(see marhsall.. he’s ‘waisting time… ‘.. ugh)

then a stop at Bridge street for old times sake.. Marvin always hosts all the town’s grownups there..  what a great guy !

 

it was  a great night . it’s been all three kids favorite holiday…. i think mine too.. Here’s a great halloween memory of Sam

 

ok.. more tomorrow.

happy Halloween all, happy Halloween sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – Gabe’s Ink

It’s Oct 30th.. Cabbage night.. time for mischief.. No real mischief today, though.  The storm really missed us last night. All the schools were closed ..because of expected bad weather but the sun was out  a large part of the day. The big event was that Gabe used his hurricane induced day off from school to get the tattoo he’s wanted forever as a tribute to his brother. He’s given this a ton of thought.. he decided to use the Mayan glyphs that spell sam’s name.  Im proud that he’s chosen to honor his brothers memory in this way..   He had good morale support today.. Raya and Marcello were there to help.. (as was I) ..

he said it didn’t hurt much..


Sam wore those same symbols on a cartouche around his neck..

now Diane, Gabe and I wear those same symbols around our neck..

 

It’s also on the tribute rock in our garden.

You’re a good kid Gabe Cohn..! I love you very much..

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – waiting for Sandy

 

Sitting here waiting for hurricane Sandy.. it’s a bit like going to the doctors to get a shot.. you know it’s goign to hurt, but htere’s nothing you can do but wait for it. So that’s what we’re doing. Things are very quiet here right now.. a few small gusts. but actually pretty calm. .. not a drop of rain has fallen either. I’m very wary of dismissing this storm though.. folks may remember my epic miscalculation around hurricane Irene last year. I was too quick to declare that our town was safe.. that was before I saw the devastation in Richmond and our neighboring towns the next morning

So we will just wait and see. Our thoughts are with everyone who’s in the the path of this monster storm. Good luck !

-jc

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Sunday night – Breaking Dad (part 2)

Last night i told you all about Gabe and my continuing adventures in chemistry. Yesterday we synthesized tri-nitrocellulose from cotton , concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid… We left it out to dry for about 24 hours. The paper we converted didn’t burn too well.. our hypothesis is that it didn’t convert completely and still had some residual  moisture. We decided to use my heat gun to dry out soem of the converted cotton.. check this out !

Better living through chemistry !

Not much else to report for the day.. spent most of it doing recreational chemistry.. and getting ready for Frankenstorm.. !

more on that over the next couple of days..

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

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