todays theme was ‘stirring’ .. as in you can feel spring stirring somewhere out there.. we still have a good 6 weeks of winter.. but today it was above freezing in the middle of the day. Our neighbor Bob told Diane that there’s already a bit of sap flowing in the maples in midday.. and the air smelled like spring. 

I went over to Chris and Kims to work on our Burning Man art car project.. took some time to admire some of Chris’s beautiful steam punk builds. 

Gabe helped make the tail on this one. 

I had my 9th day of birthday.. with the cake we didn’t ‘t have space to eat yesterday.. my .. 3rd cake for this birthday.. or was it my 4th ?  Gabe and Justin were  here doing a Bioinformatics lab.. and helped us eat the cake .  

from 3-5 Diane and Marcy did an aroma  yoga class here at the house.. the theme was ‘cabin fever’.. and the ord ‘stirring’ came to ne there.. we talked about the 3rd chakra .. the solar plexus.. .. we were there to ‘stir the pot’ ..a nd shake of winter blues.. i’m not actually feeling any particular winter blues.. but stirred anyway. 

from there  Diane, Kathy . and I went to a ‘Gong Bath’ at Balance Yoga’ down the road.. Lynn lead the class.. it is just so amazing. she has singing bowls, chimes, rian sticks.. and these two magnificent gongs.. 

its so cool just lying there and listening. 

ok. hope your juices are stirring. it’s almost spring

nite all, nite sam

-me

In keeping with the family tradition, i’m stretching my birthday out to be as long as possible .. i’m currently on day 8 , 3 birthday cakes, 4 parties..and still going strong. Diane, the dogs and I took advantage of the nice snow to hike 6 miles up and back in honey hollow. At the top I further upheld tradition by making a snow angle whearing just my birthday suit.. it was cold.. but worth it !

the star of this birthday hike were our new chain crampons. I think I could walk up a tree in therse. very helpful when you have snow over ice like we have today. 

at 6:30 we met gabe for a birthday sushi dinner !

here’s the sushi-full famile

we actually had a birthday cake with us.. but we were all too full to eat it. thats been put off until tomrrow.. which is birthday 9 ! at least one more day of birthday !.. wooooot !

note all. nite sam

-me

Just about to land in dulles.. Just spent 9 hours grinding through my email which  felt productive. flight is late so will have to run for my plane I think.. 

Trying to think of soemthign interesting to relate in all of those emails… 

how’s this..  in my email today  I found that I know   two completely different   groups of people  who have (or will be) doing soemthing  totally fun and artsy using the zero gravity simulator.. also known as the ‘vomit comet’ .. 

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/rhapsody-in-zero-g-79f845838a

Glad this flight isnt that bumpy !

Super happy to be heading home for a belated valentines day with my girl.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

I overslept today… big time. I rolled over to see it was 11 AM.!!!!!… I remember my alarm going off at 8.. but must have managed to turn it off in my sleep . The . good thing is , I had only missed one meeting.. and I was optional to it. At first I was shocked.. I hadn’t done that in… hmmmmm.. in fact I can’t remember the last time I did that. .. or anything close. Before you judge me.. I should say I got off my last work call at 2:30 AM on a day that started at 7AM. I’m not complaining.. it was a tough day.. but it had it’s high points.. lots of cool tech, some good work freind intereactions.. but I had no idea how sleepy I was. I’ve trained my self over the last couple of years to ignore jetlag.. which isn’t a good thing, I guess. 

ok.. trying this sleep thing again… lets see how it goes

note all. nite sam

-me