My intention for the day was to do as little as possible.. and to avoid doing anything I had to do… I succeeded beautifully. I did absolutely nothing.. and I loved it.
Today is the first day of a week of for me, and I can never recall being so relaxed at the start of a vacation. The changes in my life since Sam’s passing are so deep and interesting to me. .. I find that I’m hardly every stressed anymore. . When I am, I find I decompress almost instantly when I go home.. I’m not sure why it’s like that.. it sort of seems counter intuitive to me sometimes.
I spent the entire morning puttering in my lab.. which Max and Scott cleaned for me as a Father’s day present. It was so much fun hacking around in there with all the tools hung up neatly. I almost didn’t want to get anything out and spoil the effect. My mission for the day was to start building a small microcontroller based weather sensor that might someday become part of the sculpture we’re building for Sam. Homer has a great set of ideas for an animated wind-powered snowboarder.. we talked about having some of the motion and/or lighting respond to the weather in some way. I was working on a chip interface to read light. Temperature and humidity.. I got pretty far.. I got side tracked a bit when I discovered that I could download ringtones to these little 99 cent microcontrollers. I used this to create a very practical home accessory: a can of refried beans that plays Pacahelel’s canon in our refrigerator. Every home should have one. I left it in there until Max found it.. OK.. so it was a dumb idea.
I’m proud to say I can’t remember anything else I did for the rest of the day. .. but I was blissfully happy for most of the day. I remember missing Gabe.. who’s still out at Snowboard camp in
Around six, Diane invited Chai and me out for a walk.. we did the upper loop behind the house.. it was beautiful and cool out. I think it never got about the 50’s all day.. a far cry from last week when it hit 100 here.. On the way down, I caught sight of a fox running across th field in the high pasture. He/she turned around just before ducking into the woods.. I go this grainy picture.. still.. it’s fun to see a fox.. they’re usually hard to spot.
The wildlife spotting was a bit easier inside tonight. As we were eating dinner, a tiny mouse ran across the floor. I was able to corner him/her under one of the cabinets. Cute.. but it doesn’t belong in my house. I put out a live capture trap tonight. I’ll let you now how that goes.
Tomorrow, I have even more nothing planned. I think I’m up to it ! Gnite all, Gnite Sam !
-me