Beautifully slow day today. I finished up a A few things and prep for Xmas… And just hang around the house. It was raining like crazy over night and we woke up to a near flood.

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Just before eight Diane and I went to Stone corral to meet up with the boys. Red hot Juba Was playing in the place was packed. We actually had to wait to get in because they were at capacity. Red hat you but is a family favorite and our friend Erick… Who is all of the boys English teacher… Plays lead guitar… The other guys are teachers too. Just about the whole town was there so it was really fun catching up with everybody

We all came home and all fell asleep on the couch… Luckily I woke up soon enough to blog and head up to bed

More tomorrow

Night all, nights Sam.

-me

Another spontaneous party at the house. This one in honor of the solstice. It’s the longest night .. and also one of the warmest. It was 55 degrees when I came up to bed? That’s what it’s like in the summer!

As the party began, gabe gave me this great Christmas sweatshirt. It’s a chemis-tree . An Xmas tree made out of the elements. It’s wonderfully geeky !

Another great surprise is our friends COLIN dropped by with his new ambulance! He just naught it off IV UVM rescue . It’s actually the one he trained in as an EMT. He’s gonna drive it down to Houston where he and brother billy are gonna make it into the Jambulance . A mobile emergency music art car

Nice night with lots of friends and lots of pizza !

Time for bed. I have to make best use of this longest night !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Only 4 hours of sleep last night due to a mix of work and recreational programming. For someone used to perpetual sleep deprivation I was pretty knakered

max showed up around 10 so we’re all together 🙂

I was hoping to take today off but I ended up being on calls from 9-5 .

Downstairs I could smell something yummy cooking . Our oven is out of comm until tomorrow so Diane had to get creative for Xmas cookies. She had her pizelle press out. She made pizelles just like her grandmother from Italy used to make.

Then she made stroopwaffles by sticking two pizelles together with Carmel .

Finally she wrapped the hot pizelles around metal forms and made canollis. She filled them with ricotta and whipped cream

Yum !

Late night we went to silo RAS for holiday sushi

We came home and finished decorating the tree . As always we used sam’s Red Bull cans and the garlands we made from them to finish it off. It’s nice to have his stuff around us

Ok time for sleep. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

2am and I just stood up, I’m doing some recreational programming in prep for Xmas and I lost track of time.

I actually love being able to do that !

Kinda late to write more . Let me leave you with a fun talk my friend Oded sent me today. It’s about the role of play in major inventions

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