Friends,

   Tomorrow is a very big day around here. Tomorrow our friends Nate and Julia get married !..  We’re all really excited about that !

Tomorrow is also Floatapalooza. the annual fundraiser when a bunch of folks jump in the winooski in floats and float all the  way to Richmond. It’s a fund raiser for Chill and its really good fun.. if you want more info.. check out 

https://www.facebook.com/events/198408247340976/

 

here we are in it last year !

Hope to see you there !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

super  busy day.. around 4 I was on the phone in a conf call when I saw a bunch of hikers go buy. they looked hot and tired. I put my conf call on mute and shouted out to hikers to ask if they needed water.. they did !

 

they were 7 folsk  from the  Saltash Mountain camp of  Farm and Wilderness.  .. and they called themselves  SAM’s.. how cool is that ?!?!

 

 

they were nice.. as well as dirty and smelly.. i gave them water, gum, and chocolate chips.. they actually stayed for about 45 minutes.. which was a hoot !

 

as soon as they left I had to get back on the phone.. I managed to squeeze in a run.. and jump in the ppol.. where i tool my last couple of calls.. it was pouring…but I didn’t care..

 

my phone did though…  it’s still acting up

 

eventually it turned into a beautiful rainbow evening.. =

 

it also turned into a poison ivy evening.. oh-no..

 Yes mom… You were right… That  WAS poison ivy

 

when I get poison ivy.. i relaly get it..

 

diane jsut brought home a mystery cure for it..gotta try it now !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

I had a nice bonus day at home. Any time I get to stay in my own house it feels like a vacation these days..even when I have a busy day of work..  A 10  hour work day. and it felt like  goofing off. 

I did get out around 6 to meet Gabe for dinner. . We’re plotting a build of some swamp coolers for our upcoming burning man trip… we went ‘down  to Generator to think a bit about the build.. but didn’t get too far tonight.. 

It felt really nice to not get much done..

 

weird.. huh ? 

 

nite all, niter sam

-me

Just back from helping my mom down in Boston. she’s sellign her house and mocvng to Minnesota to be nearer my sister. I’m proud of her for sleling her place, buying a new plance in MN.. and for packing up all of the stuff she’s collected after 15 years of boston. Moving that stuff is an emotional expereince.. especaiully since my dad died about 3 years ago

 

there were only two things I wated from the house (htough I seem to have come back with more than that) .. Those were the 1905 Edison gramophone my folks bought for 30 dollars at an auction in Cape cod in 1963.. and my dad’s Kayak. the HUEY 2

 

 

Here the gramophone. .. which stills sort of works!

here’s a true multimedia story.. 1905 gramophone cylinders, 1965 mag tape of the family, a random family VHS..a nd a DVD with a movie Max was in.. how cool is that >!>! 

 

 

and here’s the kayak.. 

 

and here’s a knot tied by my dad.. I couldn’t bear to untie it.. ..

 

had a good 4 hour drive home.. spoke wit a bunch of my favorite mentors about life, technology, , future, etc..

 

did have to make one pit stip.. there I realized how cool it was to look at LCD’s on gas pumps through your polarized sunglasses…

now.. why in the heck was I wearing sunglasses at 10 PM ? I’d forgotten I was still wearing them !

 

ok. almost 2m.. and i just finished working.. 

gotta sleep

 

nite all, nite sam

-me