Hi friends, tonight is the night that Compassionate Friends asks everyone to light a candle in memory of kids who have died. Its supposed to happen at 7pm. .. But… In typical cohn fashion.. I forgot ! Thats even after i tweeted to remind everyone else !
Please light a candle for Sam and all the other kids
Nite all, nite sam
-me
Happy solderday.. calling it that because I basically had a soldering iron in my hand from about 10 AM until about 8PM for one thing or another…
It’s also ‘sequence day’ !.. 12/13/14/ .. next time that happens will be next century !
Today I ran a ‘how to make a blinky headband’ class at the Generator. We had 15 folks signed up.. but by days end. we had made 22 of the things. (if you want.. you can build one too with instructions i wrote that you can find here .. ). Thanks to my two very able helpers Rachel G and Karen W.. I dion’t know how i thought i could do it on my own.. They were awesome. Thanks also to Nance from Aerator for all her help getting ready.
got done with that. grabbed a bite with karen and rachel and talked over the blinky lessons learned.. and had soem awesome veggie poutin at skinny pancake
Then another nearly 4 hour stint at ECHO helping Travis finish up the holiday light display at the front of ECHO. Still lots of soldering and wiring to go. Huge undertaking.. though looking pretty good at this point..
OK.. now for some down time.. more tomorrow
nite all. nite sam
-me
Hectic and strange day.. lots of things coming at me.. most of them interesting and good..
Bugged out late afternoon to join some other folks from Generator for another walk through of the Moran plant.. An abandoned electric generation site near the waterfront. Some friends of mine have an ambitious plan for renovating the rusting hulk and making it into public space and a model of energy efficiency../ maybe even the future home for our Generator makerspace.. pretty interesting for the first commercial coal generator converted to burn wood scraps.
The place has been cleaned up quite a bit since the last time I was there ./ that includes pumping out more than 400 million gallons of standing water.
Now our friend Mary has done some very nice mural work in there . soem of it done wearing waders !
the place is massive.. cold and beautiful.
Seeing it through these guys eyes I can see the beautiful place they want to re-make here.. I am starting to see it too
nite all, nite sam
-me
Just back from our annual fathers’ night out..or ‘pub scouts’ as we call it.. Every teyar we gett ogether to hilifY shop and. t h up. We figured out to ight that weve been doing it for 26 years,, pretty amazing. We are very good freinds.. And have been through raising kids.. And all of lifex up s and downs.. Its an horor to hang out with them…
The last two years weve even given up the pretense of shopping.. We met at the publIc house in hinesburgh and ate.Vegetarian poutin and drank good beer. It felt really good
Nite all, nite sam
-me
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