I’m actually sitting down with friends watching the Super Bowl at our fiends Tim and Jen . They keep interrupting the commercials to show something like this

I feel like I’m pretty quick on the uptake in most things.. but I never have understood football. I liked it as a kid .. but only because it was a goOd connection with my dad .. and watching football meant under age drinking was ok.. for age 13 on wed get sandwiches and beers and watch football on tv .. it was long before cell phones .. so i actually watched .. always confused .. but that’s how much I loved me dad

Thinking of you pa.. you’d love these commercials

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Ps .. he Kansas won. My brother in law Steve must be happy !

Here’s some delayed good news… Our nephew Vincent and his wife Trish gave birth to a beautiful baby boy Gabriel Frances Mariano on January 22. I’ve been giving them a little time to get their own social network photos out there of baby Gabe before I put it on here… But I can do that now… their Beautiful family is doing great!…

Diane’s father’s name was Gabriel Mariano .And he was a wonderful man. It’s nice to have another Gabriel Mariano’s around !

Welcome baby Gabe !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Ahhhh So nice to be home!… Long beautiful drive back from Boston. I went by way of Manchester Vermont which added about two hours. I went down there for a community TV interview around a high. It was a long drive but I’m glad I did it. Lots of beautiful snowy back roads And terrible cell service.

Got home in time for dinner with Diane and Deb… Then the three of us went to UVM For a pretty cool concert. It was two such brothers Luca’s and Arthur Jussen. One 21 and the other 27. They were amazing pianist. They played a couple of pieces together on a single piano and then one major piece on two different pianos. They say played some short back pieces on the same piano then a Schubert and a Mendelsohn peace… After the intermission they played the rights of spring… Which was absolutely amazing. Honestly it was a little frustrating because where we were sitting you couldn’t see the brothers when they were both playing the same piano… I think half the people in the theater couldn’t see.… Even so they sounded wonderful. They were such amazing musicians. They got three standing ovations!

I stopped by Stone corral on the way home and heard a good band called “the brevity thing”… Named after a line in the big Lebowski.

Now I’m home and really sleepy so I’ll stop here. Glad to be home for a weekend !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Late Thursday night and I am really exhausted. It’s been a fun week. Our prenup hackathon has really worked out nicely. We weren’t sure how many people would turn out… And we weren’t sure what kind of challenges they would work on. It’s all been much better than our expectation. Overall we had about 40 people hacking… That work down to be about nine teams. All of the projects were really impressive. People were great and the mentors we had great. What’s even better is that having all of the IBM mentor is here was a great Opportunity for them to meet each other and to help us improve the system.

I’m still absorbing all that happened… But I’m very,very happy

Oh man… I just got to sleep

Night all, nite Sam

– me