11pm and finally sitting down after an amazingly varied and busy day. It started with eary work meetings.. then a break to go buy a car..  With gabe heading to Oregon, we are down one car and we needed to fix that 

by 9:40 I was out of the car dealer and headed to o FAHC hospital for a stress test. I get them every 5 years due to  some family history.. it’s kinda fun.. especially when I run into old friends like Kurt C… and his daughter and granddaughter. 

the test itself was fun .. and painless. and went well. I passed !

 

it was still morning when I got out and I dove into work meetings..

 

at 5 I went to Generator to hear a talk on IoT… 

 

no.. wait….

I was giving the talk.. It was a pretty crowded house.  I think the talk went OK. waiting to get more feedback I do know I talked to long. 

 

came home to find this guy on our sidewalk.. 

now just finished grilled cheese with gab.e

life is full and good. 

I am grateful 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Very busy day today.. thsi 2 jobs thing is keeping me running. 

 

I was very happy when 6PM rolled aroudn for slow yoga.. then a post shavasana feast

we had italian wedding sopup, onion feta foccacia, fresh spring roles from KiKi’s sister Katy , and fresh cherries and strawberries.

 

I love tusdays !

 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Sam would have been 26 years old today. Hard to believe. I felt him all day.. .. many days I do. 

I really, really missed him today though. 

We marked his birthday a little differently today.. we decided to do something smaller this year. We’d just had a gathering for Gabe’s graduation.

We we’re looking for something a little we decided to hike as always.. but have our gathering at the top of the mountain instead of here at the house.  

 

We had a nice small group of folks meet us .. even though it was memorial day. we had a greta collection of doggies as well . (ours didn’t go.. it’s a little much for Chai at this point) 

it was warm and still.. 

 

we actually found some residual snow on the trail !

 

and lots and lots of mud ! 

 

we set up a nice spread up top. .it was fun eating up there !

 

diane made amazon cupcakes.. yum !

 

brads new improved ink 

 

here’s our group 

 

and a toast for Sam !

 

Gabe and I climbed up the rickety fire tower to set off a mortor as always 

 

it was crazy settig this off here.. any sudden movement set the tower to swayign crazily !

It was realllllly loud !

looking back towards camels hump 

 

here’s the condition of the ladders. look how beat they are ! 

 

then down to the lift.. Andy’s daughter Maria met us there .

 

on the way down we ran into these guys who’d gotten their jeep really stuck We saw them drive out an hour later !

 

back in the car, away from the bugs.. .. lookign at sams pendant 

 

same as the one I wear all the time .. it spells Sam in Mayan . 

 

OK my son.. another year past.. and our love for you stays strong. We miss you Sam and love you veyr much !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

I have been workign on a small IoT project .. last night I sent a bazillion tweets about broccoli to test hosw the system responded to differnt emotions. I forgot that I am echoing my twitter feed into facebook. I woke up to hal a bazillion comments 🙂  here is a very small sampling of what I got back . 

it was a good start to the day because tonight diane made delcious General Tsao’s cauliflower on riced cauliflower. Can’t get much more cauliflower than that in a meal. 

 

ok. heading to bed.. 

Tomorrow would have been Sam’s 26th birthday.. thinking about him tonight

nite all, nite sam

-me