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Wednesday night – Turning point

July 17, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

I woke up grouchy today it was (and is) still hot.. I’d stayed up late working and hadn’t gotten everything done.. and had a ton of stuff pending for today. to make matters worse I woke to an email from the hosting site that hosts this blog and http://samstones.org saying that my site had been hacked

heres what you saw when you ent either to http://johncohn.org or http://samstones.org

I got on the phoen wiht the tech from my hosting company and started griping at him (politely) about the way this all came down.. THey didn’t call me or anything.. just shut down the site. He explained that in the case of an infection like this, they have little chois… He patianly helpde me remove the offending files from my wordpress install. I was still grumbling…

He commented that the site was organized funny from a code level.. I explained that I had done most of it in the weeks and months after Sam died.. and that was when I was still leanring PHP. I explained tha a grieving dad writes strange code..

he paused for a moment….

hten he told me that his wife had died 5 years before.. In a quiet voice he told his wife’s story

i told him about Sam.. ..

and we talked about the lessons from loss.. and how easy it was to forget them momentarily like when you let something like a hacked web site ruin your day… we had a good laugh.. a strange laugh maybe.. about that..

We talked for a while.. then realized we both had to roll back to our jobs.. we switched back to customer /client and said good bye…

Sams’ site was back up in a few minutes..

and so were my spirits..

thanks stratlogic guy !

nite all, ntite sam

-me

Tuesday night – Meet the mentor

July 16, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

I had a very busy day today which I spent entirely in the one air-conditioned room in our house. It was about 91 when I went out for lunch and that was about all of the Heat and humidity I could take. As I always say, my IQ drops a point for every degree above 60 and I was getting pretty stupid by midday.

I did have one treat: my old friend and mentor Paul and his wife Deb were up from North Carolina visiting. Deb's first grandson. Who was born just last Sunday .

I hadn't seen either Paul or Deb in about six years. It was so wonderful catching up with them. They both looked and acted great and unchanged. Paul was my friend mentor and boss for many, many years in IBM. When I look back , those were some of my golden years In IBM. It's funny you never know when you're living then just when those golden years will be.

It was really great being able to tell Paul again just how much he meant to me and my colleagues. He's really one of the most important mentors I've had in my adult life.

Again, what a treat to be able to tell him that.

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Monday night – back to Oz

July 15, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

Just a very short post tonight to say how happy to be back in Vermont I am. I was only gone about 30 hours, but every time I leave and come back I remember just how lucky I am to live in this green, empty, liberal, impractical.friendly quirky, lush, unpredictable, rugged, quaint,creative, diverse, pragmatic, caring, cantankerous, political, generous, taciturn, frugal, tenacious, worn, precious, beautiful, imaginative, unassuming, noble , unforgiving, zany, anachronistic, kind, hard-ridden, poetic, frigid, self righteous, surprising, capricious, and wonderful place…

thanks vermont.. i love you

nite all. nite sam

-me

Sunday night – the best 8:15 ever

July 15, 2013 johncohn Leave a comment

Hello from Mt Kisco. Diane and I are here part way back on our trip home to Vt. We were down seeing max and jac. Its hotter than hades here.. well into the 90s.. We hung out on the boat, moving slowly to stay cool

That meant playing ith maxs snake

And goofing around on booga.. The 10 wheeled diesel behemoth they have for burning man

Around 7 our friend carl showed up from texas.. and our friend sumner from Vermont showed up, max, jac, our friend sumner, carl , diane and i found a great air conditioned pizza place for dimmer

We also heard from gabe who's now in Barcelona ! He called at 2:15..which was 8:15 over there. He told us it was the best 8:15 ever ! He sent us some pics of Isabella's place.. It looks fantastic ! Were so grateful toIsabella's family for hosting Gabe and Raya..!

Now im too tired to write..more to tomorrow..