I really didn’t do anything today. I made the mistake of looking at my work email this morning and that drained some the fun out of my day 🙁 ..   I spent the rest of the day trying to stay cool. mostly floating in the pool, finishing up the lab clean up and coding  for fun.   We were goign to go to the fireworks tonight.. but the rain made it less attractive.. so Diane and I stayed home and vegged.. that was nice…..

since nothing happened that was worth reporting, I’ll tell a Sam story i recently heard from Nate just last week. Once when Sam and Nate were in Middle school, they wet to the fair..  They must have been 12 or so years old. Sam loved goign to the Fair and checking out the stuff they had to sell. This time, he used his food money to buy a big, cheap pocket knife. One of those almost switch blade types.. not well made, but big.. The nthe two of them decided it was time for some rides. they chose the Zipper.. a crazy carny ride that whips you around up and down and back and forth in a tiny cage…

The machine started up and the cage started spinning.. .. a few seconds in to the ride, the new knife flies out of Sam’s pocket and opens up.. As the ride swung them around, the open knife started  flying around in the cage miraculously missing  the boys .. They started screaming their heads off.. .. but so was everyone else on the ride was screaming too. Finally the ride stopped to unload. .. with no blood spilled.. the guys cage stopped abruptly at the top so the ride guy unloaded the cage at the bottom. just as the car stopped, the knife started to fall through a crack in the floor.. right about the ride guys head.. sam managed to dive for it and grab t before it fell through and skewered the guy ..

seconds later they were at the bottom, they unloaded laughing hysterically.. and the ride guy didn’t know what (almost) hit him.

don’t know why, but i love that story ..

nite all, nite sam

-me