Worked aroudn the houuse thie mornign.. then took a walk wiht the kennys… up to see the new dam. with the new dam,  Gillette pond  is back to its original size.. it looks so great. COngrates tot eh land trust for makign this really happen.. an (and keeping the whole pond from crashing down to our part of town.

A bit later Nate came over to grab soem of the furniture they’d been storing here. Nate and hannah are moving back to richmond.. super nice to have them nearby

Tonight we had a Fluffy team meeting .. the first since burnign man ! ..

I preped by puttign up colorful changing lights inside and out

It was great having everyone here..it had been too long !  Duane got a knew replacement yesterday.. and he was up and helpign today.. pretty amazing !

diane made one of her basque cheescakes.. it was so great !

after dinner we all sat do to talk   about what we learned on this third trip to the playa.. , what worked, what didn’t.. and what we want to do going forward .. Carol zoomed in from florida

All in all it went great. We are going to make minimal changes this year.. and do our best to get out in public more. .. Our next gig is at Hilight on new years eve at the waterfront. THe funny thing is.. where we’re parked now has a door high enough for us.. but only wide enough for oe side of clouds.. Not a terrible thing since no one gets to see the other side anyway.. 


we did a shout out to our friend  Madison Orange.. a DJ hooper, firedancer friend of Duanes  (and now us) who did an excellent set on fluffy out on the playa this year.. 

Glad to all be back together thinkign abut fluffy !
nite all, nite sam
_me

Today is friday the 13th.. supposed to be unlucky, but it wasnt bad at all. We started with a fast hike up to the duxbury window. It was pretty deep snow with ice underneat.h .. clad we had our spikes.. 

It was a beutiful day for selfies.. 

and for samstones

Super cool ice crystals too !

its almost weekend !
nite all, nite sam
_me

Today I went to the dentist for the first time in a long time. Believe it or not it was really fun. My teeth are fine.. and I got to talk to soem old freinds who work at the dentist..

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All the folks there were so great.. As my teeth we’re  getting their once over, me and the super nice dental tech  talked about old cartoons, old music.. old people.. for soem reason it put me in the best mood.. 

I think my world would be better if I went to the dentist more..

nite all, nite sam

-me

Pretty quiet day..   today I reached out to talk to my old friend Jim. Jim is one of my favorite folks from my many years at IBM.. he’s super smart.. and super funny.. he and our friend bruce had lots of fun building chips together for IBM computers.  I have so many Jim stories its’ hard to pic the best one. but this picture says a ton about jim..   He’s the one thats front right in this picture.. 
He’d talked us all in to getting into a ski boat in east fishkill new york.. and motor all the way down the hudsom river to NYC.. where we wet out to the Statue of Liberty to pick up our friend Bills brother.. then we dropped our freind Bard off behind JFK airport for his flight home.. 

did I mention it was 90 miles in a tiny boat.. in the snow.. and all we had to eat and drink was a bottle of scotch ? 

You can read about the wol adventure here

Jim , Bruce and I have traveled all over together working with teams all over the world.. then one day I got a call.. Jim had been in a terrible accident and was in a coma..   days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months and Jim was still in coma.. I traveled down to visit him a few times.. I fugred I’d never get to talk to him again.. 

then one day.. I got a call .. and it was jim.. and he said ‘im back’.. 

and he was.. he’s still the same old jim.. but one thing changed. Jim got even nicer and more sentimental. he loves everybody.. he   calls me to tell me that he loves Sam.. eh and Bruce came up when Sam died.. and they really helped me when I needed it most.. 

It was so great catching up with Jim.. we talked about old friends.. and the people we love.. and for Jim thats everybody.. 

we could all use a little more Jim in us !

nice to talk to you old freind !

nite all, nite sam
-me