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Tuesday night – trapped !

October 28, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Quiet day here.. This morning I dropped Max off at his bus at 7AM.. then came back to work the rest of the day Diane is down visiting relatives.. so I have the house to myself. .which is unusual and both nice and lonely. . I did see a fox running across our neighbors yard mid Monsignor which was really cool !

Since Diane was out tonight, Martha, Ellen and I did self guided yoga and meditation,. then came in and ate a lovely meal that Diane had left for us.. I love that girl ! Here we are being grateful for Diane !

I’ve spent the rest of the evening working away.. though not effectively.. I got less than 4 hours sleep last night.. so I’m pretty loopy.. While I was sitting here, I heard a slight skittering.. and realized that one of our mouse traps (the safe kind) had caught a mouse..

The poor little guy was so nervous. I’m sure he thought that this was it… I could almost hear his greatful surprise wwhen I let him go way far across the street. He looked back at me like I was nuts and ran off…

maybe I am nuts.. but at least i’m kind

Kind of interested to meditate on that feeling we sometimes have of being trapped by our circumstance.. Something deep in there.. but I cant think o f it just now.. too tired..

nite all. nite sam

-me

Monday night – almost 2am

October 28, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Very tough day then nice night Work is more chaotic than ever, The weather is turning colder,, its getting darker earlier and November with its memories is close. I can feel the sliver of my mood shifting …. and am trying to buoy it up

Got a great boost tonight when the whole family wnet out to see Gabrieala and Rodrigo at the flynn. it was an believable show.. so much music from just two people..

Afterwards we went to the daily planet for a drink with max, sara, gabe, raya , lou, cathy, stave and ann marie.. really nice hanging out with all of them.

I just looked a the clock and realize I need to be awake in 4 hours.. yikes.. better head to bed.

note all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – manual labor

October 26, 2014 johncohn Leave a comment

Blissful day without thinking. I soldered, scraped, caulked and cleaned.. I managed to let go of any mental conversations about work,. and melted blissfully into whatever task was at hand. ahhhhhhhh

now i think i’m goign to go take a bath.. this is goign to be a busy week.. i’m goign to try soemthing novel and rest up for it..

nite all. nite sam

-me

Saturday night – Techjam, Bridge street

October 25, 2014 johncohn 2 Comments

Busy and fun day.. Took today completly off from work.. haven’t done that on a weekend in a while..

Worked aroudn the house all mornign trying to catch up from being so busy at work.. Diane finished painting our bathroom.. looks so nice now !

Mid day I headed downtown to check out Techjam. What a GREAT event. I was so amazed to see that many smart and techy people in one place. . I ran into so many friends… I could hear in the buzz of conversation connections being made, careers advancing.. kids getting interested in tech.. I want to say to the organizers (Hi Cathy !) how much I and I’m sure everyone else appreciated them putting together such a powerful event. !

Technjam was just upstairs from generator.. so we got lots of through traffic. the place was jumping ! Great first contacts..

Here’s Cathy R.. Techjam goddess.. and SteM maven running her girls tech lunch .. She’s so awesome ! My friend Cairn is standing to her right.

Ran into my buddy Dave.. whose company Pwnie express is doing great.. We had a really interesting conversation (really. really, really interesting) .. on the topic of Internet of things. He was on the cover of one of the tech mags.. pretty nice !

Jeff and his family had some new home made tech bling. the girls always have soemthign new to show me.. it made my day !

heres fritz the powerful !

Kevin G

Mssr Osler

The .. IBM (and soon to be not IBM) crew

Pascal and ed

Freind Ken from Soundtoys

Two guys working for my buddy bill

old friend Kevin O

The lab B krew

Sean and Dan

Joe C and his robots.

An many, many more folks I saw .. so much positive energy in that room !

Then.. back home to put on the storm windows.. not much fun.. but between Diane, Max and Me.. we made sort of quick work of it.> The last job was to use a 25 foot ladder to clear an abandoned birds nest our of our upstairs bathroom vent.. Max offered to do it because i’m not so good with hieghts.. He pulled out so much gunk from the vent which was over 25 feet in the air.

here’s the birdsnest proper.. birds left over a year ago.. they raised a nice family in here.

final event for the day was a visit to our favorite local restaurant.. bridge street cafe. Closing after 14 years.. We had to go and get one more veggie wrap.. We wanted to say thanks to our good friend Marvin for taking such good care of us over the past many years.. 100’s of dinners, creamies, Halloween wine shots, bottles of A1 sauce.. and so many memories.. We were reminiscing about a time that Marvin s son Wes made a batch of extra, extra hot chicken wings for Max and Sam.. he offered to make them free if they could eat just one. Sam did !>. Max told us that he got some of the hot sauce on his hair.. and that got in his eye .on the drive home.. Owwwww !

Marvin told us there’s a new owner.. that will reopen in a few months.. That’ll be good. We’ll miss bridge street.. but we wont have to miss marvin.. he’s sticking around .