Monthly Archives: March 2015

tuesday evening – Long may you run

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Momentous day. Today we sold our 2004 Prius.. we bought it as a salvage car after a flood in 2005 with 14,000 miles,

today it had 109,826 miles as I kissed its hood and said good bye.

 

This has been a wonder car.. maybe …even a friend for me through these last 10 year. Its helped me navigate.. literally through some of the best and worst times of my life..

My family loved this car.. sam rode in it.. makes it hard to part with in ways I can’t describe..

I’ll never forget the icy drive taking max down to school again shortly after sam died.. we laughed and cried and slid around on the icy roads as we passed cars flipped over on their sides.. this car was never much for ice and snow.. but it has a heart..

 

The car is in pretty good shape for the  miles it has.. (me too !)  it has some suspension problems that will cost more than its worth to fix.. so nows the time..

last night my buddy jarod came with me as I cleaned the car out at the shop.. we sat in the car and drank some beers and talked..

 

sams necklace was on the mirror, that was the last thing i took out..

 

oops .. almost forgot the weird stuff that accumulates in glove compartments.. like a an impression of Gabes  teeth ?!?

 

today I went by to take the title in.. we’re selling it to a really nice guy.. it will have a nice home..

i sat in the car for 30 min today and cried some.. hard to explain..

 

 

then I listened to Neil Young’s ‘Long may you run’ .. a song he wrote for a car he loved and sold..

 

then.. i got out, kissed it one more time and walked away.. i didn’t look back

i left a samstone hidden in there.. hope they find it

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – very late

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I had my normal geek night tonight. I'm trying to spend every Monday night at the generator working on stuff. Pretty productive night. Had a couple of work calls Which wernt over until 11 and then I hung out with my friend Jared.

Jerry helped me go over and clean out our old Prius. She has almost 210,000 miles and has been a very good car. She has a few structural repairs that may say it's time to sell her.

More on that later. Right now I've got to get some sleep.

Good night from me and satori

Night all night Sam

-me

 

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Sunday night – bluebird day

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I swore to not work today.. and it almost worked. I spent a good number of hours trying to figure out a ‘mailbox full’ bprblem.. but other than that.. tried not to think about work. The 8PM call I had tonight was even canceled.. !

 

I did manage to get outside in the near perfect weather a couple of times. It was in the mid 30’s  and clear blue skies.. we don’t get this pretty of weather often.. so it seems like everyone was outside.. it was hard to go back indoors.

 

I took a picture of the sky to show that there was nary a cloud.. just infinite blue.. wherever you looked

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look at that.. its’ just so perfect. I’m glad that I live under that kinda sky

 

nite all . nite sam

 

ps. here’s the view from across the street..we’re blessed to live in such a pretty place.. I’ll feel a little more blessed when the snow finally decided to give up 🙂

 

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Saturday night – Happy birthday Generator

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Fantastic day at Generator today as we celebrated our 1 year anniversary !..

It started at 8:30 when I helped my good buddy Karen teach about 11 women how to program arduino light up headbands. It was so much fun working with these folks.. they are good makers. At the beginning nine had ever touched a micro controller or soldered.. By the end, all had working headbands and running code @

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Around 4, things started up for the parts, here are 300 cupcakes arraanged in our logo.. A labor of love

 

 

THer was food and drink everywhere !

 

 

i was lit up for the event.. so got lots of selfies.. here are a very few.. including this one , with jules, my ice cream helper

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we made about 5 gallons of ice cream with liquid nitrogen.. it was a crownd pleaser.. ..

 

Ran into so many friends.. including my old friend megan and her boyfriend. 

 

there were speeches from all sorts of folks including board members, M and Champlain folks, city folks including Mayor Miro

 

All in all we had 500 folks by about 3/4 through.. I’m going to guess our total was about 600 ..

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by 8 PM things were winding down and we were there to clean up the mess.. Believe it or not, I had an important work call tonight.. so I listened while I hosed chocolate ice cream goo off of everything I owned

 

at the end of the night friend matt custom made me a shirt !

as I shuffled my stuff off to the car I looked up and saw venus..  what a pretty universe we have.. no ?

man.. busy day.. ready for sleep.. more tomorrow..

nite all nite sam

-me