A warm, bluebird day.. bright sky and near 30.. couldn’t ask for better. Gabe had a snowboard meet in New Hampshire again.. so we all piled in the car at 5:30 this AM. I’m still sick.. but I figured I could be sick out there on the mountain.. or hanging out at home.. at least there I’d be outside.

Today’s event was the Peanut Butter and Rail Jam.. there were about 100 kids.. three t simple rails. Pretty standard competition.

He had some great runs. very smooth….

The competition was over about 2:30..   so we pile in the car and drove the 2.5 hours home.. through beautful contryside..  

After dinner, Gab and I finished his split board.. he may use it tomorrow.. though I think he may have the bug that I’m just shaking..

(Yikes !.. just heard a ton of snow and ice  come off the roof.. hope it didn’t hit anything. one time it came down and smashed both of our cars so that neither were drivable… )

After dinner we were all sitting around tlaking about the terrible earthquake in Haiti. Marie and Garret went to the store today and bought a bunch of medical supplies using some Friends of Sam funds.. they dropped them of at Amy’s for the Vermont Haiti Project. The Haiti project has been going long before last weeks earthquake.. but they’re now focusing all their efforts on relief for the folks in Port Au Prince. One of Amy’s friends, a nurse, is heading down to Haiti to aid in the rescue effort. If you have medical supplies , clothes, other goods..to donate  or want to make a cash donation, Please check out The Vermont Haiti Project. Please help out if you can.

Well.. that’s it for now.. I’m going to get soem sleep and try to shake this cold..
Nite Folks, Nite Sam
-me

Very late.. hoem from NY.. spent time trying o get throgh 247 emails just from today.. it doesn’t pay to be offline.  I need to get soem sleep ‘uz I am feelong a little sick.. sore throat. I had a great short trip down to NY> .it was so great seeing max again. I somehow faled to get a picture of him.. so here’s a picture fof the thank you message I left him this morning.. couldn’t find a pen.. so I used mustard.  I wouldn’t relish having to clean it up.

I had a call today at 6AM (@#^%# australia)..   Lef tMax’s apt and headed up to Armonk for all day meetings

I generally don’t talk about work in this blog.. so I won’t start now.. but I had soem very cool meetings there today..   I really like it when I can meet folks from other parts of my company..

So, didja ever have one of those perfect set-ups for a joke.. and then… no one got it ?
It’s a really Zen thing.. like.. ‘if a tree falls in the forest .. and no one is around to hear it.. ” kinda thing

Well this really happened tonight. I was flying down to NYC for a meeting tomorrow. Diane had loaded me up with stuff to take to Max and his roomies. One of the things she’d bought for them was some ground buffalo meat .. Max is a vegan, but his roomates are all hardcore carnivore.. anyway. I’m on a  short trip, so I wasn’t checking any bags.. So .. I slipped the still frozen wrapped meat into my briefcase.   

Normally, I always get held up when goign through airport security becaus eof the homeade elctronics I always have in my bag.. (my rainbow headband, TV-g-gone, ardiuino board, etc0> This time, I’d taken all that stuff out, so I expected smooth sailing..

No such luck.. they questioned me about the meat in my bag..    I told them it was just my’ carrion luggage .. get it ?!?! Carion.. as in carry-on… but … like.. carrion..  which  wikipedia defines as ‘(from the Latin caro, meaning meat) which refers to the carcass of a dead animal.’

They didn’t get it . in fact they stared at me as the possible “meat bomber”..
Note to self.. don’t ever try to be funny with someone has the power to make you miss your flight.

The people on the plane were nicer, though. the flight attendant was handing out purple stars and putting them on everyone’s cheeks.. I opted for mine on my hand.. somehow it felt like communion.. but it was a cool gesture..

I got into JFK and took the subway to maxes.. I as waiting for the train when I realized that the Colony was premiering tonight in canada.. i fact.. sa I looked at the  time, I realized that at that exact moment, I was doing my shower scene at the end of episode 1 in front of all those Canadian viewers. ..   So here’s the face of a guy who at the same time is appearing naked on foreign TV.

I love rifding the subway.. I planted a samstone in one of the stations..

I’m now at maxs hanging on with him and a few friends.. it’s great seeing him and them and reptar..

Man .. I’m so sleepy now.. Gotta go to sleep !
more tomorrow..
night folks
night sam
-me