Quite a whirlwind day. Woke up early and drove down to Boston for a single to our meeting. Believe it or not it was well worth it. Got to talk to smart people about cool stuff. What’s better than that?

Got home around eight and finish packing. Diane and I are heading to Austin tomorrow, Then Huston then Florida… I got a remember how to do these vacation thanks

Moore from the road

Night all nights Sam

-me

Super busy day… Around 630 we picked up our friend Veronique and headed out to Middlesex to see my friend Alan give a talk at camp Meade. This was the second in the series. Mine was the first… But it was on a Icy rainy night… So the crowd was small. Tonight the crowd was a bit bigger. Alan did a fabulous job explaining his career with three well-chosen stories. His messages really came across clearly. Veronique is a budding entrepreneur and really appreciated those messages.

I really like what My friends are doing at camp Meede . It’s so fun to have a venue like this and central Vermont!

Good job Alan!

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Like most good Vermonters, I took this morning off to attend to democracy. Vermont still practice it the old-fashioned way. The first Tuesday in March All schools are closed… Some businesses to and everyone takes off work. And he goes and stands in a gym, library or church or Grange Hall to take care of their towns business for the year. I’ve been going to our town meeting every year I was in town since 1981. Many of the same folks are in there. In fact most of the heads are gray these days… Not too many young people in there. I remember the days that these meetings were full of antiwar and anti-nuclear protest… Today was actually pretty tame. Our good friend Clint Buxton presided… Just like his father used to. We all got a good lesson in Roberts rules and for nearly 3 hours we discussed the town’s business. Maintenance budgets, salaries, repairs, police reports… Nothing very exciting… Which made the whole thing very exciting.

It’s one of the few days a year that I see all of my neighbors… And that feels good

We also got to vote… Nothing too big on the ballot today… Had to guess on a few but for the most part all people I knew and liked

Here’s what it looks like from the back of the room

Meeting was dedicated to our friend Mike Hustus died last year… It was a great guy. It used to be a state policeman… Also very senior in the Vermont guard.

Marshal was They are to keep us on track with Roberts rules… Jarrod was there to photograph everything

The rest of the day was insanely busy… I’ve got a lot of prep for next week.… I was really happy when 6 o’clock rolled around and Yoga started. DIane did a wonderful chakra class… Then we all came in to eat

Ok .. enough for today

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Not much happened today outside of work so I’ll just relate a wonderful word i learned from Diane . It’s pandiculation. It means the kind

pandiculation (countable and uncountable, plural pandiculations) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy or on waking, often accompanied by yawning.

It’s a great yoga word .. even our dogs do it when they wake ..

And I’m doing it now .. so time for bed !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me