The day began with an unusual chill Diane came into our room and told me that it was 24 degrees below zero outside. I immediately felt like I was freezing. i bundled myself up.. came down stairs and hovered by the wood stove. I looked at the temperature and (thought I saw) that it was indeed 24 below.. actually as low as 26 below as I watched. I bundled up to go and get the paper.. that’s when I realized something was wrong.. it wasn’t all that cold out at all. I came back in and puzzled about it for awhile. It wasn’t until i was in the shower that I realized we’d both missed the decimal point after staring at the thermometer all morning. . Rather than being 24 blow, it was a relatively balmy 2.4 degrees below. I felt so funny.. and so grateful 2 below is pretty normal. 24 below can be a real hassle.

My first job today was a science show at Brewster Pierce Elementary in Huntington.. really one of my favorite schools in the state.

The show went really great.. I loved the kids and they loved the show. there’s always a hard part when I dedicate the show to Sam.. the kids seem to understand that I need to do that.

Afterwards Barbara, Chayna,  and Andrew helped me load the car.

My friend David also showed up at the show.. I didn’t know he was coming. David is deaf.. He and I have done a show before for deaf kids. David does the whole show in ASL. We have another show for the deaf coming up in Feb. Dave and I are going to spend some time before then experimenting om how to convert some of the sound oriented stuff into visual or kinesthetic excercizes.

I was late getting back to work from  Huntington and had to rejoin the quarterly Technical Vitality Council meeting already in progress. The meeting was great. I saw so many friends there that I hadn’t seen in many months. I’ve been working at home so much that I forgot how much I missed talking to some of these folks .

I worked at IBM until about 6:30 then unloaded my van from my equipment.. that’s where my little electric go-cart comes in so handy. Max and I built it many years ago.. it now serves as my tug… I use it to move my equipment from my storage closet to my car and visa versa. It’s so much fun to ride through the halls at work.

Jlleigh had called me to tell me that someone had found my bluetooth headset.. and that it was locked in her desk. She told me to pick the lock and get it. while I was in Williston. . so I did.

Unfortunately , id had been run over by a car.. so it no longer works.. 🙁

From there I went straight to ‘On the rise’ . Rand and Julie had invited me to go hear ‘The Firehouse District’ an eastern European / klezmer band. They were phenomenal..Even more so when I realized that none of these Yiddish singing, accordion playing folks were even Jewish !

I was so impressed with the show.It was great being out with Rand and Julie.. I ran into so many folks I knew. I’ve never been to a music show at On The Rise.. now I’m going to try and check them out whenever I can. They have a great calender of shows coming..

OK.. I gotta be up early tomorrow to go to Champlain College.. I better end here.. Gnite everyone.Gnite Sam.. I love you
-me