Worked at home today and remained glued to my chair all day.. I was s o engrossed in work that i barely noticed that it was snowing all day. Around 6:30 Diane came in and scraped me out of my chair to go fro a walk.. Lo and behold… We'd gotten somewhere between 8 and 10 inches of new snow..the snow and the post daylight savings time late afternoon sun were a wonderful close for a busy day
I couldn't resist snapping this pic of Satoris feet. She loves playing in the snow, but im sure this cant feel good.
I was texting with one of my very best friends today And I asked him how he was doing. Texting makes for compact communication. his response was 'happy stressed'. I laughed out loud. A perfect answer. One that describes his and my normal state of being it means both happy and stressed at the same time.. And Even a little bit happy for being stressed. I suspect that there are many adrenaline junkies out there who know exactly what we mean.
In that spirit I had a happy stressed day… I'm working on some really cool stuff at work and, at the same time, I have too many projects outside of work. Today we met for a soldering party on our 'floorish' exhibit. We made good progress… But like any project we have miles to go.
Here's wishing you are all as happy stressed as I
Night all, night sam
– Me
I'm about as far as I could be from Irish but everyone is Irish tonight I guess. You know, I always somehow dread Saint Patrick's Day for a funny reason. When I was Five years old in nursery school, a girl named Monica pinched me really hard because I wasn't wearing green on St. Patrick's Day. Not only did it hurt quite a bit… But I was so embarrassed that i did not know this long-standing custom. I tried to explain that I was going to grow up to be a neurotic New York style Jewish guy, but she explained to me that we were in Texas and everyone was Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I was so confused by this that I completely missed the point that she probably liked to me in a nursery school style crush sort of way or she wouldn't have pinched me in the first place. But I guess that's just besides the point
That was almost 50 years ago but still as the day approaches I search frantically for green things to wear. I don't really like green so I don't have any green clothes. I break out into a cold sweat as the thought of showing up at work wearing something that is not green enough.
That thought almost kept me inside all today. But the beautiful weather finally won out and Diane and I went onan ambitious snowshoe up near bolton mountain. I kept looking over my shoulder wondering if the deer or bear was going to come out and pinch me because despite my best intentions I think I was decked out all in blue.
Well… Hope Everyone is getting their fill of green beer tonight. It's enchiladas for us and not a speck ofgreen. Happy st patty's day everyone.
Night all, night Sam,
<arghhh… the stupid ipad app (blogsy) Ive been using to create this blog just erased this post 4 times.. here goes again>
woke up today knowing exactly what i had to do… I had to prepare our taxes.. I don’t enjoy doing it, but its a good feeling getting it done. Truth be told, i dont actually even do our taxes, I just prepare all the data for our accountant.. and even that is more than i like thinking about money each year. I would be such a bad businessman.
doing our taxes, reminded me of the youtube video that our friend Gary posted the other day. It was about wealth distribution in America. It compared what people thought the wealth distribution in the country was and compared that to what people thought it should be.. then compared both of hose to what the distribution actually is. I found some of the statistics in there to be pretty shocking… for example the fact that some CEO’s can make nearly 400 times what the average worker in their company makes just feels wrong. I was also shocked and saddened to see how much of the country lives at or below the poverty line.. and how little of this countries wealth is actually owned by the middle class.
I know its heresy , but I would be very willing to pay more taxes if it could help make things more equitable…
II also found a calculator in a WSJ blog that lets you place your own family’s income along that curve.. sobering.,.
OK.. on that cheery note.. I’m of to bed.. more tomorrow
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