Wednesday night – unplugged

January 3, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

First day back at work after the holiday break… That meant a couple of hours of digging through emails and paging back into my leaky mind what i was working on. I suppose i should be

proud of myself for so thoroughly unplugging from work over the break.. In fact, i cant remember a time where i stayed so consistently out of touch while on vacation. By midday i had remembered most of what i was doing. After such a great break, .i found myself happy to be back at work and psyched about several things I’m working on.

One interesting coincidental and metaphorical thing i noticed in my life today was on the same theme of being ‘unplugged’.. But in a mor literal sense.. For some reason several of my plug in appliances… My iPhone, iPad and my laptop all simultaneously developed problems with their charging cables .. All currently require some twisting and bending of their charging cables and/or plugs to get the device to charge… Now that i think of it… One of the hobby projects I’m working on for a friend has the same problem as well… All are plugged in. but not charging… Aside from the obvious Freudian interpretation, what can this mean ? Am i disconnected from my source of power ? A my connections getting frayed and loose ? Im going to have to think about this… But ill do it under a down comforter.. I just noticed on my drive home that it was 14 degrees below zero outside right now … Brrrrrrrrrr ,

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – unplugged

January 3, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

First day back at work after the holiday break… That meant a couple of hours of digging through emails and paging back into my leaky mind what i was working on. I suppose i should be

Nite all, note sam

-me

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Tuesday night – First day

January 2, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

Woke to the sound of many kids still in the house. About 25 kids had slept over.. and they were all gathered around our table eating everything in site.. It was a fun way to greet the year.. By about noon they were all gone.. but not before helping us clean up from the party…

The rest of the day as quiet and slow.. diane and i went out with the dogs on skis… the rest of the day I spent digging out of the email hole that everyone has after the holidays. so much email to read, respond and file.. ugh,.. I finally gott the hundered and hundereds down to one page.. That I’ll dig through tomorrow.. for now.. I’m too tired to type anymore.. so

I’ll just say again.. Happy new year everyone.. I hope it’s a good and productive year for us all..

hey.. a guy can hope !..

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – wonderful, interesting and sometimes terrifying

January 1, 2013 johncohn 1 Comment

in 45 minutes 2012 will be history.. and I’m searching my mind for a way to sum up the year. .. its funny.. i was incredibly busy, but I can’t figure out how to characterize the year. My family is doing well/… life is good. Max is making it in NYC as a technical artist/videographer and lives a rich and interesting life, gabe is doing great in school and sports and diane is wonderful as always. Its another year without sam which is always hard… though I’m proud that we’re all out in the world with fun and love in our lives. Work wise.. I started a a new job in a new field in a new organization after doing more or less the same thing for 30 years.. I spent the year learning new stuff, new people, new politics. and managed to survive. Actually.. I’ve enjoyed it immensely.. thought its taking me far longer to learn these new tricks than I’d anticipated.. I guess I’m an old dog. One thing I have done with work is double down on the senior statesman part of my job.. This year took me to more customers, and more ibm sites than I’ve every visited in a year.. Believe it or not, I’ve been in 17 countries this year and given talks to 10’s of thousands of folks.. Some of them were technical talks.. but many were on other topics close to my heart like the importance of play, and how it feeds innovation.

It was an eventful time for the world.. an election, crazy weather, tragedies, triumphs.the same sort of blend that makes life wonderful, interesting and terrifying…

i guess I’d have to sum up the year as that… wonderful, interesting and sometimes terrifying.. I wouldn’t have it any other way…

today was a a great end to the year.. we got in from new york last night after a great visit to max and jac…onn the boat

I woke late still running a little fever , but not so sick that I could stray inside on such a pretty day.. Diane and the dogs and I did our first snowshoe of the winter… there was at least 2 feet of powder out in honey hollow as we trecked through the quiet woods.. it reminds me how lucky we are to live here

we spent the rest of the day getting the house ready for a ton of kids … there must be 60 or 70 of them here now…

My contribution was a small burning man to usher out the year. Gabe and I ignited him with a drop of water on a mix of Ammonium Nitrate, Zinc dust, and iodine.. on a bed of zinc and sulfer… very cool…