Quick post before boarding a plane.. Im heading for a few days of work travel in the Baltic’s.. Its particularly meaningful to me because most of my great grandparents came fro from there .. Or near the.. Should be interesting. Its also goign to be a busy week,i have lots of work projects coming due now. Will be heads down on that wile traveling ..no sightseeing for me..
Ok.. Gotta go..love to all..
nite all, nite sam
-me
Ive been TOTALLY freaked out by work these last couple of weeks. I have some important deadlines coming up and they are weighing heavily on my mind. So heavily that at 5L 30 this morning I was wide awake and staring at the ceiling thinking about work. was determined that might work freak out wouldn’t continue to bleed over into my personal and family life.. so .. after only a couple of hours of work today.. i ‘goofed off’ .. goofing off today meant getting ot with my lovely wife and lovely dogs into the gorgeous, albeit rainy and gorgeous, fall foliage today.. Diane, the dogs and I took a convoluted walk through the preston trail system today.. we tried to traverse it backwards.. but got off on some crazy side trails. It was really beautiful and restoring.. there aren’t too many words needed to comment on these pics.. . I know that ‘other peoples’ leaf pictures. like ‘other peoples’ sunset pictures are pretty boring.. what I want you to see in these pictures is the mental and spiritual relief I had of being in the woods with my loved ones.. (2 and 4 footed)
we did find this very cool ”in to the wild-esque” school bus in the middle of the woods.. what was that about ?
I spent the rest of the day either working or clearing the front entrance , bringing in wood (it’s fall, after all ) and cleaning out the garage for the cars. The first hard frost is only a week or so away !
At around 7L30 we headed up to Jen and Tim’s to watch the ‘rumble2012’ debate between bill oreily and jon stewert .. .. That reacquired martinis and candy.. both very welcome
hard to describe the debate.. it was hilarious and thought provoking. both men did well.. and I’m proud to live in a country where this type of ideologically nutty debate could happen on line.. I would gladly vote for either of these two men..
ok.. I’m exhausted now.. time for bed..
nite all, nite sam
-me
Ok… How to do this without offending anyone ? Well, here goes. I had an epiphany today… Somehow the debate on wednesday pierced the thick skin of my protective bubble. I was doing my weekly news debrief with jon stewert and Stephen colbert tonight when i learned of the samual jackson video WTFU. I guess I’m hearing of it about a week after the rest of the planet. Im not going to put a link here because a) some will find it deeply offensive.. And b) you’ve probably already seen it. That foul mouthed and amateurish video, which was produced by a liberal PAC run by folks like me (liberal, jewish, irreverent ) was talking right to me. It was funny and brilliant and It made me realize that like most folks i know, im sleeping through this election…watching romney and obama debate tax policy the other night almost put me to sleep…this video truly woke me up. The stakes couldn’t be higher in this election….. Is a clear choice between two very different ideologies… Though both candidates are pandering towards the middle to influence swing voters….listening to them, you could be lulled into thinking that it doesn’t matter which guy wins… But it really does. Romney would take us back to the principles of trickle down where the self interests
Of the wealthy factor more in policy than the needs of the most vulnerable. We cant have that….im not a huge fan of the Administrations track over the last 4 years.. Here were many things promised which were left undone…. But.. Given the impasses in congress and the economy, obama and crew have accomplished quite a bit. More importantly, obama’s heart is in the right place. I believe that he truly cares about the welfare of all folks… And i don’t believe thats true of his opponent..
Now, i know its dicey to talk politics with friends… And i consider you all friends…you can and some will disagree with with me.. But even if you disagree with my politics… Ou too need to wake up to the big choice here.. We all need to WTFU and make sure our voices are heard in November
End of sermon
Nite all, note sam
-me
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Hello from Higher Ground. I worked hard toDay, so im rewarding myself with some live music. I saw that dj shadow was playing tonight. And decide to go
Right now I’m Listening to a really good remix warmup guy . I’m twice the age of everyone else here. Dj shadow is coming up next . He was one of the first remix guys way back in the early 90s. I’ve been listening to him for more than 20 years .his stuff is so cool that Gabe listens to remixes of his remixes ! I’ve probably written more code listening to this guy than any other artist.
I’m blogging on my phone so I’m not sure I can relate
All the weird stories I have around his music. I’ll try to tell one story. One day, 2 weeks after Sam died I was driving in central Vermont. I was alone and crying my eyes out listening to the radio. I said out loud ‘ Sam where the f*ck are you ?!?!’ at that exact moment dj shadows song ‘organ donor’ came on the college station (wruv) I was listening to. I just started laughing. You have to heAr the song to understand
But hey… I’m an old guy blogging on his phone when I should be dancing
Gotta go
Nite all, nite Sam !
-me
Ps. He’s playing organ donor now… This ones for you Sam !
