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Thursday night – the bigger pot

I got home at 7 after a very long and busy day. I’m still feeling energized my new job.. That said. the pace of my job is more frenetic than I ever remember.. and.. that’s really saying something.

I got home before Diane and Gabe.. they were still at the store so I started dinner. Like everything, that involves strange  choices . .. I had my heart set on pasta.. I went digging for a pot to boil the water. I picked up our big pasta pot.. it holds a lot of water.. and it’s only the three of us.. .. I put it down and picked up a smaller. pot.. You don’t need that much water for only three people.. The smaller pot felt small and sad in my hands..    not big enough for a family ..  Holding it made me feel small and saddish. . ..I had to push that back. I tossed the smaller pot back in the cabinet and pulled out the bigger pot, filled it with water and put it on to boil..

sometimes you have to move forward in small steps.

nite all, nite sam.

-me

Wednesday night – radio

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Drove back to Vt today after a good series of meeting sin NY. I have coem to love the solitarytime in the car driving the 6 hours each way.. Today I listend to the radio.. Here’s what I heard..

  • NPR for news from a perspective that resonated with me
  • BBC for news from a perspective I can’t understand
  • country western music.. tear jerk love songs songs that reminded  me to call diane and tell her that I love her
  • classical music.. .. today it was late beethoven string concerti.. .. lots of cello.. I love driving to cello music
  • spanish radio stations.. to keep my spanish up.. and I love the chatter
  • college stations.. mostly reggae and headbanging music.. today.. avenged 7 fold ((I thin).. sam loved them..
  • christian radio.. yes. believe it or not.. I listen to this stuff regularly because I love hearing a world view so foreign to my own.   THeir news is a so very different take on thworld events.. I just can’t understand it.. which is wonderful.  I listen to a show called ”open forum’ by a guy named Harold Camping. He is so very passionate.. so leanred.. and believes stuff I can’t believe he believes..all the way down and back he was telling me that the end of the world is going to e may 21 2011..
  • Jazz.. no.. still can’t really listen to jazz…

Thanks goodness for radio

nite all.. nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – three snowmen

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Hellow again from Armonk ny.. I’m here for a patent thingy tomorrow after a long work day in NYC today..

spent the night on the boat last night with max.. so good seeign him as always.. the boat is a fun pied a tere for me in the city.. cold.. but inviting.. I think it was 37 in my room this am.. just like camping out..

I had a packed mornign with work meetings.. then hugged max and headed down town.

I was doing some media trainign stuff for IBM.. which was really fascinating.   I learned a ton in those 4 hours.. more on that later this month. Driving in city shipping traffic was .. uh.. interesting.. several roads were locked with one type of xmas thing or another.. Still.. I managed to enjoy the decorations.

Next stop was JFK airport.. I had to get fingerprinted for a new customs and immigration thing I’m trying. It allows you to skip the immigration and customs line when reentering the us. It was really fun getting photographed and scanned.. the folks at immigrations were really awesome and loving this high tech part of their job..

From there I drove up to armonk. My intent was to work in my room and go to bed early.. but I ran itno a group of IBM folks in this building having a spontaneous party (a bottle of makers mark). I volunteered the bread and hummus I’d bought for dinner.. and hung out and talked with all of them for a while. They were really awesome folks. Made some good work and friend connections.. I really do love this hotel.. everyone here is from IBM.. .. so it’s fun to play ‘who ‘dya know’ ..
The party roke up at 11:30 or so.. so I went out on my mission.. I went outside . (It’s in the mid teens out).. and walked on the trail throguht the woods over to IBM headquarters.where  5 years ago I just happened to be in this same hotel… actually this same building.. and couldn’t sleep. It happened to be the night before my last promotion was being considered.. …So I did what anyone would do.. I went for a run.. it was in the teens that night too.. I went and built three little snowmen.. one for each of my kids..on a rock outside the Chairman’s window..   I guess it worked.. I got the promotion.. Tonight I made the same trek.. in the same cold.. and left a SamStone on the same rock.   Note sure why.. it just felt right..

OK.. that’s all for tonight.. more tomorrow..

nite all, nite Sam

-me

Monday night – unhinged

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Greetings from the boat in Brooklyn.. I drove down here today for a meeting tomorrow. Max and I are sitting here doing our homework at 2:30 in the morning.. just like old times..

Interesting and busy day.. It all started with me waking up before 6 and finding my glasses broken.. I’d slept on them, I suppose. A screw had worked is way loose and one of the lenses was out.  Hmmm.. Without my glasses  I can’t see anything closer than New Hampshire.. Miraculously I was able to feel around and find the very tiny screw.. I managed to grope my way down to the lab and find a jewelers loupe so I could see.. then a micro screwdriver and a set of ultra sharp tweezers.. THankfully I was  able to reassemble them…..

Nice to have my first project for the day done y 7..

I had a busy day at work.. left around 1.. then drove dwon through ice and snow to NY.. I stopped for an hour or so and Ruchir and Rashi’s lovely holdiay party.. then met up with my good freind glehhhhhhhhhn who’s in visiting from australia.. very. good catching up with him.

The roads were really terrible coming down from the north.. so it took me an hour to go the 38 miles to maxes..

Now I’m here  and falling asleep as  type..

THat was my day..

I do have some pictures of the evil snowman that Gabe and I made yesterday.. The thing was bigger than both of us. We needed to use a ramp to get the middle up there.

Gabe’s idea… 🙂

He had this cool idea for making our snowman really different at night.. check this out..

OK.. gotta sleep now.. More tomorrow !

nite all, nite sam

-me