Pretty uneventful day. Mostly work calls. I did manage to get to homers for abotu 30 minutes this morning just to say “hi” and to look at his quarter scale model of our burning man car. Homer was  fresh back from Peru sporting a new beard.. lookign good.

He never ceases to amaze me with his ability to turn an idea into metal His quarter scale model of our ferris wheel sofa thing was a work of art.. and completely functional. The final model will be 20 feet tall and will have independently operated, remote control motors for eahc of the wheels. It’s goign to be awesome !I’m going to work out the motor control and remote control stuff.

Here’s the 10th scale (or smaller ?) model that we originally started.. The design has evolved considerably

I can’t wait to begin working on the project again. Homer, Ben. Mitch and I are going to get together hopefully next week to discuss next steps.

After work I went home to work with Gabe on the skateboard half pipe. We were able.. to get the plywood deckign on.. no small feat for us. It looks pretty good. We still need ot get on the masonite outer shething to make it usable..  Gabe tooka  few rides on the rough plywood base abd prounounced the design workable. We’re all proud that we’ve gotten this far ! 

Just as we were screwing in the last piece of plywood my mom and dad showed up from boston… They’re up for the weekend whcih is really nice. They both look great…

THat’s about it for the day.. not much queued for the weekend.. Lacrosse3 tomorrow and hanging out wiht my folks. .. HOpefully enough breaks of sin to get a coat of urethane on the half pipe. We’ll see.. For now.. time for sleep.. Nite folks. Nite Sam !
-me

So.. one of the things I picked up on my last adventure was a bad coffee habit. You have to understand that I stopped drinking coffee in 1988 right before grad school. The rasosn for this are all hazy to me now.. but I rememeber it had to do with how much I love Diane. Anyway… I struggled through graduate school without coffee.. and pretty much up lasted without it until I joined the Colony. I completley missed the rise of starbucks and all the fancy coffees that came with it.  I strated drinking coffee while working on the COlony  because it was hot, and relativly free from pathogens.. or at least the pathogens were harder to taste. Now, I love coffee again.. I dream of it.. I can’t pass it up when I see it at work. I even half to confess I drank half a caraff of cold coffee I found sitting on a desk at work. I like it because it calms me down and lets me focus…It’s like Red Bull for grown-ups.. I like it. I want some now… 

Today was a little tough at work. It was the first day I really felt ‘back’… THere’s so much I need to do.. and so much I have to come back up to speed on. It’s a differnt kind of hard work than I’ve been accomstomed to for the last 2 months.. But it’s all coming back to me. Still, I was reliveed when the end of the day came. I heade over to Gabe’s Lacrosse game.. it was cool, rainey and buggy.. We had to put on hoodys to stay warm and stop the swarming black flies (yuck)

Gabe had a good game.. he did manage to deflect a hard pass with his knee… it’s gonna be a big bruise tomorrow !

I managed to freeze my fingers watching the game… even in may

I should have work gloves.. I never learn.

Night folks… Night gabe..
-me

ps. Diane found this video about the state of the world.. I found it really interesting..

So.. I continue to be in a kind of spacey timeless zone after returning from the apocolypse. I’m in that kind of space where you’re most open to seeing magical asociations… the kind you find in improbable coincidences. I see them as messages from the cosmos trying to tell you something. They’re not usually very easy to read..   The one that keeps hitting me on the head over the last few weeks has to do with  Machu Picchu in Peru. For some reason   the lost city of the Inca’s keeps comig into my conciousness  by way of several freinds.. First  our good freinds Deb, Hannah, Brit. Ian and Matt went down there for a visit  and left a Samstone. A week later, my good freind Uwe from work left a samstone there.. A week later my freind Val from college was down there with her famiylll and a samstone.   Last week my very good freind and mentor Homer was there… today in the lucnh rimm my friends pete and sue told me that theur son  peter.. also a freind of mine.. just returned from placeing a samstone there…
   What the heck is going on ? What does this mean ? Does it mean anything ? I guess we’re going to Peru at some point to find out.   
    THe world s such a cool place .. isn’t it Sam ?
-me

Happy cinco del mayo folks. I’m just home ot an empty house. Gabe and diane are at lacrosse practice. I walked in to find a loaf of Diane’s fresh baked bread. Can I resist the temptation ?   Life here is pretty good.

I’ve been back home for one week tonight from my time on ‘The Colony’. Each day I’m feeling more back in the real world… but I’m still trying to hold on to a few of the things I picked up while I was gone. I’m still managing not to get completly caught up in email and cell phone mania. In fact.. this blog and facebook are the only computer time I’m alowing myself at home (That’s made easier by the fact that I can’t quite get my work email working at home.. too many of my passwords expired while I was out .. and I haven’t felt the urge to fix that 🙂   I’m also doing a pretty good job and not getting stressed out at work. It’s been interesting coming back to my work after 2 months away and seeing what has and what has not changed…. I relize that I left so suddenly that most folks didn’t know where I’d gone.. many didn’t even know I was gone.. I guess that’s good.. 
   One thing I am missing is the friends I made during the Colony project. I’m communicating with them by phone, facebook and email… but it’s not the same as hanging out with them. What we all went through together has made us into really good freinds. I’m hoping that we can all get together again when the show first aires in July ,
(Just talked to one of them by phone as I was writing).  THere’s so much I’d like to say about tehm.. and our shared expereince.. but I can’t do that for several more months.. That’s turing out to be one of the hardest things of all ..
   Well.. not much more to report today.. more tomorrow. gnite folks.. gnite Sam
-me