Monthly Archives: March 2015

Saturday night – the party of the Century – Happy Pi day !

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I woke at 9 .. well rested and restless at the same time. Diane was off working at a show with deb.. there was something I had to do today.. O oh yeah…

PI DAY !!!!  . today was 3/14/15 .. the first 5 digits of Pi.. and that only happens once a centruy. I looked at the clock and saw it was 9:08.. I had to find some Pi !> I got half dressed and jumped in the car and sped into richmond.. My only hope was the ‘new’ bakery ‘Sweet Simones’ .. i’d never set foot in there.. but i hoped to heck they had Pi(e).

the ladies there were so nice.. they had forgotten it was pi day too.. but quickly adjusted their aprons with masking tape to convert their two ‘S’ loo into the letter Pi..

and Pi’s.. they had !>. lemon cream, apple and coconut.. I grabbed a coconut

we then counted down to 9:26    nthe next 3 digits.. taking us to

3.141592653….

Yum !

With that behind me.. the day was already made. I went home and spend a box from spark fun to find my bran new Raspberry Pi II ! ..

Coincidence… nah!

i happily puttered through the day.. a radio controlled blinking headband and blinking goggles.. played with the dogs and took  them for a run up the Catamount trail  run in the rain.. the first rain I might add  of the year..

Diane got home around 6.. later on. we headed to our friends Jeff and Biz.. for a really nice, really geeky Pi day finale.. Savory Pi’s at 7:30.. sweet pis at 9:26:53 of course !

It wasn’t hard to find the house.. jeff had made his own Pi Projector !

he was looking dapper in his Pi Tie

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he gave us his pi tour .. showing us all the raspberry Pi’s running his house

Biz and her sister in law were wearing whoopie pi shirts

KC had on som pi-ware too

they’d made quite a spread.. and everything.. plates, napkins, tablecloths, glasses even the food was festooned with pis. (not often you get to say ‘festooned’ !)

One guys son even sent a picture of his Pi tatooe

then out came the Pi’s

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Then finally the big moment came close.. We counted it down just like new years.. .. at the mark.. we all dove in..

 

What a great and kgeeky way to celebrate one of the truly transcendental holidays of the century. Hope you all had a good Pi day too !

nite all, note sam

-me

Friday night – lounge lizard

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greetings from the united lounge at LGA.. I’ve been here about 4 hours into a planned 7 hour wait.. long story.. but I was so desperate to get home early that I zoomed to the airport to catch an earlier flight home.. I had been told that there would be no problem getting on that flight. As fate would have it.. there was a problem. The flight ended up being oversold.. and I didn’t make it by one seat.. Hence a 7 hour wait..

 

Luckily.. I’m always welcome in the united lounge.. which means all the chocolate covered raisons, carrots and cheap bear you care to eat and drink. In fact.. I think Hell might be designed like an airport lounge.. tons of food that you don’t want to eat.. Chairs just uncomfortable enough that you don’t want to sit.. enough  noise  to keep you awake.. but not intereststed..it certainly feels like eternity.. (

(no offense I hope to my more religious friends.. just speaking metaphorically here )

I’m making the best of it by sitting here NOT thinking of anything..    which I really. really, really need to do ..

 

Long . interesting.. sometimes fun. sometimes frustrating week

 

I’m gonna get some more of the raisins ..

 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – Hailie seasoned

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Life is funny..im supposed to be in japan right now…jumping in an overheated bathtub with a bunch of japanese scientists. That didnt happen because of a change in my day job priorities… But those prioties got mixed up when our client missed their plane. As a result..im sitting (happily) alone in an ethiopian resturant in mt kisco new york.. . That reminds meof one of the best 'had to be there ' jokes i ever came up with spontaneously. ..

A freind had told me that he had recently tried ethiopian food.. I immediately asked him if he found it 'hailie' seasoned.. You know like Hailie Salassi.. The last emperor of the Solomic Dynasty and the Ras Tafari .. Lion of Judah.. . Not to mention the muse of Bob Marley and the whole Rasta culture.

Ok.. You had to have been there 😉

 

My food us here anyway

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Wednesday night (I think ?) – Pickled Onions

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I was walking through a store this evening when I came across the aisle where you buy things like maraschino cherries and those little umbrellas for your cocktail. My eyes rested on a jar of pickled onions.. .. For some reason, these things have always held a special place in my heart.. MY dad would put them in his drink.. I’m guessing in hindsight it was a martini… but I was too young to know.. My first recollection of hard liquor was always tinged with that delicious sour pickled onion taste that meant ‘end of a long hard day of work for my dad’.. He would always let us eat the onions.. I think i was a grown up  before I realized that martinis didn’t taste that good.. it was just the onions.

Seeing them on the shelf tonight made me miss my dad  .. and his martinis and his onions  very much.

Cheers dad…

 

nite all, nite sam

-me