Wednesday night – emits shower of sparks

Fun time tonight.. we ended up having about 18 internes from IBM over for an impromptu end of summer assignment party. Normally the company takes very good care of our interns.. this year, unfortunately, the really good folks (my friends) who normally look after the interns and arrange their education sessions and social stuff were effected by the layoffs.. .. the students worked through this difficult summer under the shadow of the fear of layoffs, the layoffs themselves.. adn now furloughs.. They were feeling a little bewildered by it all.. still most of time managed to have good work experiences..

i did my best to meet witht he group a few times during their stay.. they are great folks.. lots of different backgrounds and interests. we had feebly planned to try and make something cool as a group.. but as the summer wound down we realized there wouldn’t be time.. we opted instead to have a fireworks party here at my house.. and find innovative ways to light them…

we did a few chemical experiments, ran the flame thrower, launched a hot air balloon.. then let loose a pretty nice fireworks show for our neighborhood.. . not bad for august..