Slow day here . Mostly stayed in .. it was -8F this morning and –9 when we got home just now. I really love it when it’s cold like this. Especially when it’s bright and sunny like it is now . We did get out for a ski.

The sunshine is really amazing this time of year . It adds sparkle to everything

I worked on the flame thrower a bit today then it was time to head I. To town. We met Hannah and Deb and had a great meal at Butch and Babes . Mac and chews pancakes and general tsao’s cauliflower. Yum

Final destination tonight was arts riot for a tribute and fund raiser for our good friends Hannah and Dave at talent skate park. Talent closed a while ago When they lost their lease. They’re hoping to Re-open somewhere soon.. When they reopen they will be a nonprofit collective.Tonight was a fundraiser to support that.

We are so happy to support talent… Our kids… Especially Sam and Gabe… Grew up there. They loved riding the skate park there. They love the gear, they love the people. We all did too. After Sam died,We had several benefits for the Sam Cohn foundation there .

Tonight arts riot was packed. We saw so many people there we knew both up on stage and in the audience. Many families who felt like talent was part of their extended family like we did

Hannah was wonderful and in the middle of everything

Well the bands play they had video clips from The 17 years that talent was open. Lots of kids we knew.

The first band we saw was Swayle

The second band was rough Frances. With our friends the hackneys playing multiple instruments. They were so good. Their Centerpiece is our good friend urion. He used to play with Sam… And eventually took Sam’s place in the dark Knight vengeance band after Sam died. Urion spent many hours Practicing here at the house. He such a fine man now… With a two-year-old daughter and is an excellent musician. Tomorrow he takes off for a 20 day tour of Asia where the band is opening for slayer and Judas Priest all over the Asia-Pacific region. We are so proud of him

The rest of the band was fantastic too

It was even in mosh pit !

I saw the sticker in the bathroom… It did not describe the night 🙂

It was a great evening… Just got home and I’m waiting for the fire to come up to eat before I can close it down for the night.

Tomorrow it’ll be cold again… Looking forward to it.

Night all, nights Sam

-me

Had a kind of mixed day today with a few ups and downs… Nothing major. The biggest downer… And it was expected… Is that I didn’t qualify for the top flying status level for United Airways. I had flown so much over the last couple of years that I was in a non-published special class of service they gave me some really nice perks… I got kind of spoiled.

Getting that news was kind of a funny feeling. I realize that by stepping away from the Nsame travel I was doing that I would get more of my life back… It’s kind of funny to see things like this are the very few things that I’m losing. All in all a good trade off

Finish the evening with a very nice reception in Waitsfield for my friends Julie and bill who had just come back from Bhutan. Julie’s pictures were really amazing !

As always Jleigh and Ville’s parties are a mix of very fascinating people. I ran into Margaret… A woman From the Boston areaWhose family i know well. I had just had dinner with her brother and sister-in-law on Tuesday night. How’s that for a small world?

Now going to settle down for a long winters nap. The temperature is hovering around -3 Fahrenheit and going much lower tonight. Bundle up everybody

Night all, nite Sam

-me

Just got home late tonight after being in Cambridge all week. The drive home was nice… Light snow. When I got within 10 miles of home though the snow really started coming down and the roads were almost impossible… By the time I got home the snow had become knee-deep.… It’s beautiful!

The high tomorrow is only supposed to be 6°F… I think winter is finally here… And I’m glad

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

My mom called me today (Friday 1/11/19) and told me that my blogs were missing for Wed and THur.. I checked.. and sure enough.. neither were there. I found that  the upload of my  Thursday blog on my phone had failed for soem reason. I can only assume the same thing happened on Wednesday. The trouble is.. I cant recall what I wrote about.. it’s totally unnerving.. as I make a point every day to sit back and think before I write..

 

What happened that day ? ..

I lwent for a great but cold run by the river, then headed to work, where I learned of a family emergency  in a friends family, I had a ton of phone meetings, thin a good but complicated  meeting with friends at MIT. My dinner plans had been with my friend who had the family emergency.. so I didn’t’ have a plan for dinner. I went back to my room and worked until about 9 when I realized I had eaten. I walked out and got a salad at chipotle.. then came back… an worked some more. Around 1-:30 Gabe and I spent about 45 minutes working on a programming project via FaceTime.. which was good fun..

then I went to bed and re.d.

thats it.. I wonder if thats what I wrote about before.. ? 

 

Nite all, nite  sam

-me