First really cold day this year.. Diane and I took the girls for a god hike up the Dally loop in Little River today.. Soemone had put small pumpkins on all of the key landmarks. It was cool and sweet.

We took the stevensen trail down which took us but the old steam lumber mill.. Perfect place for a samstone !

After a quiet day we headed back and met ourgood freinds Ron and Paula  out to the bar Signal Kitchen to see my friend Ryan and the bandswayle. It was a really great show . Ryan and our mutual friend Hilary  put the event together as kinda half a closing for the Burlington film festival and kinda half promotion for Ryan’s very fun ‘Makin Friends’ short video series he’s doing for PBS.  Thats how I met Ryan.. the movies are short conversations with highly functional weirdos (like me).. It’s also a journey of self discovery-isnness fr ryan.. who’s SUCH a nice guy.. actually making friends and (I hope) feeling more at home here in the green mountains.

Tonight’s set list was all songs with the word ‘friends’ like the rolling stones ‘I’m just waiting for a friend’ , The cars “she’s my best friends girl’, Garth Brools friends in Low Places, All my friends from LCD sound system, Turbonegros ‘all my friends are dead’ ,  Miz Markie’s -just a friend’ , REO Speedwagon’s Take it on the Run. The Beatles ‘with a l little help from my friends.. And several others I cant remember.

It was nuts and fun and touching and really.good music all at the same time.. glad we went !

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Saw many friends and met some new  great folks.. like Paul.. New to vermont and just started  a very cool company called Ello

It was fun meeting him now, because I’d just signed up for Ello this week !

OK.. it’s very late.. I gotta sleep.

Nite all, nite sam

-me