10 PM on a Sunday night… things are finally quieting down for the night. I’m in Sam’s room where I need to be. I haven’t given myself tiem to be with him enough yet today. We had a very busy weekend. Last night kids started showing up around 10:30PM for the post Winter Ball party.. By about 1AM there were about 45 kids in the house. Diane created some pretty funny signs for the party goers outlining the rules of the house including the line “not only does your presence fill our hearts up, our poor old septic system gets filled up too …” and then went on to outline the rules against excess flushing, showering etc. We love having people in the house… but we don’t love having sewage backed up in the house. I didn’t get a firm count, but I think about 30 folks spent the night in the house . I wandered off to bed at about 3 while folks were still doing Karaoke in the barn. By some miracle I managed to sleep until about 10:30. By the time I was up, the house was on the 2nd or 3rd shift of breakfast and many folks were sleepily drifting off to their own homes. It was wonderful having some many of Max and Sam’s friends in the house.. and at this point at least, our ancient plumbing seemed to be up to the task. As always, the quiet after the storm is the hardest for us. I found I needed to be by myself a bit. I ended up taking nice snowshoe with Chai.
Late in the afternoon I went over to my friend Paul’s house to play with his very cool computer controlled laser cutter.. I joke with Paul that when you have a computer controlled laser in the house that you know that you have the right job and the right wife. . Gabe had had the idea of cutting Sam’s Mayan name in the grip tape for a skateboard.. and Paul had agreed to help us out. Dave from Talent Skate Park met me at Paul’s and we spent a few hours transferring the image to the grip tape. The results are absolutely amazing
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Paul’s son Nick also designed a really cool ‘Sam Forever’ logo that we also plan on transferring to grip tape.
I love doing this kind of stuff for Sam’s memory
Paul’s son Nick also designed a really cool ‘Sam Forever’ logo that we also plan on transferring to grip tape. I love doing this kind of stuff for Sam’s memor On the way home from Paul’s I spoke with my parents in Massachusetts. .I love them very much and feel for them. Both of our parents are finding the situation to be very tough. They are still in deep mourning for Sam and it’s really hard for them to be so far away. They both loved Sam so much. and they love us so much, too. This mourning stuff is difficult because in the end, there’s nothing you can do for anyone else you can only take care of yourself. My folks moved to Sherborn, MA a few years ago , , and are finding their community to be pretty supportive. I’m glad that Diane’s parents have friends and family near them in Endicott.. .. really cool ‘Sam Forever’ logo that we also plan on transferring to grip tape. I love doing this kind of stuff for Sam’s memory. the way home from Paul’s I spoke with my parents in Massachusetts. .I love them very much and feel for them. Both of our parents are finding the situation to be very tough. They are still in deep mourning for Sam and it’s really hard for them to be so far away. They both loved Sam so much. and they love us so much, too. This mourning stuff is difficult because in the end, there’s nothing you can do for anyone else you can only take care of yourself. My folks moved to Sherborn, MA a few years ago , , and are finding their community to be pretty supportive. I’m glad that Diane’s parents have friends and family near them in Endicott..
I got home around 6:30 just before my friend Bruce and his wife Martha showed up at the house. Bruce was my next door neighbor and close kid friend in Houston from the time I was 5 until I was 21. Bruce and his family were a huge part of my growing up in Houston.. I lost touch with Bruce after I left Houston.. Even though we hadn’t spoken in more than 10 years, Bruce decided that he and Martha needed to come up to visit us after Sam died. We introduced him and Martha to our kids (including Sam) and showed him around the house We had a really nice evening tonight reminiscing about growing up in swampy, steamy Houston, Texas. . . I don’t have many ties to my childhood. It felt really good trading stories about catching poisonous snakes we didn’t know were poisonous, blowing stuff up in the back yard and catching his shop on fire. I’m s glad they came up to see us.. We’ll see them again over the next couple of days…
I need to sign off here and get to work on the web page. We’ve started handing out SamStones with the Samstones.org URL on them. Folks who find them are still finding a half operational site. I’ve got to get that working. I’m committed to having t up by early this week. I wish I were a better web guy… So much to do…. G’nite all. G’nite sam.
-jc