Last night diane held a community yoga class and a holiday market here at the house. All our friend brought cool stuff to sell… Most of it handmade. Lilly was there doing henna.. I got the ibm logo tattooed on my hand

Last night was also the compassionate friends candle lighting for kids who have died .. We lit a candle for sam and for the 2nd nigh of chanukah

I ended up staying up late workig last night.. Ten didn’t sleep all that well. I dreamed i was in the hunger games and i was trying to. Help kids by making them all sorts of cool weapons..but they were trying to kill me anyway… *sigh*

I had a long and productive day…i was pretty beat by days end… But I was looking forward to the evening.. It was our annual dads ‘shopping’ night. Its a tradition we’ve been doing for a long, long time..by our estimate it was our 20th year. It used to be really about shopping.. Wed grab a few beers at the daily planet then we’d hit the stores…lately we do more beer drinking that shopping. It was so good catching up with these guys.all among my oldest friends …kids most are empty nesters now…we talked of kid and wives and old times… A good time with good friends

We bummed a few birthday candles off the nice waitress and made a makeshift menorah and celebrated the third night of Chanukah daily planet style.

We broke up around 9.. A few of us made a feeble attempt to shop.. But the rainy and warm night didn’t feel much like christmas … So one by one we drifted off..

Not as exciting as it once was..but still comfortable… And comforting.

Cant wait till next year..no scratch that..happy to wait until next year..no sense rushing things

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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