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    Absolutely nothing happened today. Not sure I can remember the last time that happeend.. but as always on slow days, I’m grateful for the break..  The only thing of note is that I saw a near final draft of the latest Smarter Planet video that my friend Tim
made with me.. I won’t give it all away.. but it ends with me in lake champlain in the middle of winter..   It’s got soem great animations.. hope you’ll like it.. I’ll post it as soon as I have permission.

   Seeing myself jump in the lake in Winter got me excited about the upcoming Penguin Plunge.. Again.. the plunge is a fund raiser in honor of the Vermont Special Olympics.
It’s really a wilde event.. lots of half naked people crammed in a  tent trying to stay warm in single digit wether.   SOemone calls your team name and you run full speed into the relative warmth of the lake.. The year before last I think it was actually abotu 15 degrees out, whicle the lake was a balmy 34 degrees..
  
   There’s nothing like the shok of hitting the cold water.   It collapses time.. you are in one single moement of cold. I love it .. it’s oenof the most alive moments you ever feel..   As nice as it is, it’s not a good idea to sit around and savor the feeling. i think tyou have only about 5 minutes before oyu loose consiousness at those temperatures.
You run back out of the lake and soemone hands you a flimsy towel.. I remember being so numb that I couldn’t feel the towel on my skin.. you then run back into the tent and look for your clothees.. I don’t recal finding all of mine.. I do remembre my teeth chattering for abotu a half an hour..

It was bliss

This year I’m plnging with my freinds from mexicali again.. They’ve done a great job at fundraising for the Plunge. They’re donanting 10% of their totla take for this coming Wednesday to the special olypmpics.. so come in and eat/drink this coming Wed..

If you want to help us raise money, please consider making a pledge on my fundraing page  here

Here we are year before last moments before goign in..

I cna hardly wait !

Nite folks, nite Sam
-me