Feeling a little low energy today.. My big accomplishment for the day was to rebuild my computer controlled hoop. My good one wore out after many hours of play and many countries. This new one is lighter and made to roll up better in a suit case (i hope) .

These things are much tricker to build than they first seem.. For one, they need to very light, second, they cant have anything sticking out.. And finally they need to be robust as they're made to be tossed around. All three of those things add up to a fun pain in th eneck to design. Hope this one travels well.

Ok.. Sleep beckons.. Didn't get much last night…

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Friday evening and finally relaxing after a typically busy week. My head is blissfully empty. I cant think of a single thing to write about.. So ill write about that… I feel like i have a tank with just enough energy to last the week.. And i coast into the weekend as the last drop is exhausted.. Im running on fumes but i made it.. Tomorrow ill wake up reenergized and it'll start again…

Thank you friday

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Ps. Today is my colony buddy michael raines' birthday. Happy birthday monkey man

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Actually a misleading title, we had a great time tonigh.. But first soe observations…

Tonight as we were driving to Matt and Marci's, Diane figured out that this is the first year we haven't carved a pumpkin since… Since when? Certainly in the last 32 years. Hard to believe! I was caught surprised this week as well when I realized that I had missed the night of our normal Halloween party without even giving it a second thought. I guess it's no surprise, Max is in Brooklyn, Gabe's at a party in Montreal and Sam.. Oh Sam, my mind always still goes to three.

This was always one of the favorite nights for our kids.. Always remember big bags of candy being dumped on the floor… And stealing Reese's cups from whoever wasn't looking. Actually they all gave them to me. I have great boys !

Just because our kids didn't need us tonight wasn't going to stop us from trick-or-treating. We had made plans to go help Matt and Marci with Halloween and take almost 4 year old Finn around their cute little neighborhood. It was a blast.

Diane had helped marci, matt, lili and finn decorate their house

Around 730 we headed back home to Marci's and finn dumped his candy on the floor. That back many happy memories!

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We hung out there and Washington the last couple of minutes of the Charlie Brown Halloween special. Again happy memories, but I wonder what any kid would make of that today!?

I have a small stash of candy here and I think I'm going to eat it now. More tomorrow.
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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Tempted to use the word ‘heelish’ to describe today since tonight is ‘cabbage night’ the most mischievous night of the year.. but it wasn’t exactly hellish.. just stupidly busy. I say down to work at 7:45 and besides one trip down stairs to get a piece of bread.. and three times standign to look out a window, didn’t get out of my chairuntil 6:30 PM for dinner.

here’s proof.. my imprint in my chair..

and through the magic of image processing.. even better proof..

the strange thing is.. even for all the triple booked meetings and deadlines.. i think i enjoyed it..

whats wrong with me ?

night all night sam

-me