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wednesday night – driving s ow

Folkd… Sorry up front for what will be a short post from my phone. I’m at a rest stop on. I89.. I’ve been driving for about 8 snd s hslf hours with just under an hour more to go go. I’m on $y way back home from poughkeepsie after a couple of days of meetings. A really nice stay with my good friends bruce and mary beth and two good science shows for about 700 middle school kids at SUNY new palz. I’m really tired of driving…I’m also gerring really ezcited by my coming adventure.the snow seems to have let up so I’m going to get driving again. Much more tomorrow. Nite all$ nite sam!

-me

tuesday night – away for awhile

Friends….
      I have soemthing interestign and important to tell all of you… and I’m not quite sure how to say it.. but here goes:
I have been offered a very interesting and unique once in a lifetime opportunity  This opportuunity is going to require me to be away from my family, away from vermont.. and away from my work  for about eight weeks begining next week. It also means being away from computeres and phones. This will be the first break I’ve taken from blogging every day since November 26th, 2006, just five days after Sam’s passing. I’ll be blogging with pen and paper while I’m away.

I don’t know how any of that will feel other than I know that I will miss Diane, Max and Gabe .. I also know that this opportunity is very much aligned with my lifes’ purpose of making science interesting and fun for people.  Even though this is a tough decision.. I know in my heart that this is the right thing for me to do. 
The 2nd hardest part of this opportunty is that I can’t discuss the details until  well after it’s done. You’ll just have to belive me that I’m doign the right thing. I’ll tell you all about it when the timing is right.  For now I’ve got about 5 more days of online blogging before I dissapear..   I told you it was interesting news!
 
I love you all.. I love you Sam
-me

Sunday night – welded

Nice day.. My folks stayed till just about noon. We had a great time with them up here.
Gabe was up at the mountain today.. so he said good bye before he left..

Later in the day. my buddy Bob from the Cape came buy to talk about a project we’re thinking about. My folks enjoyedd speaking with him  .. Bob is a Psychologist with a background in psychopharmacology. He’s interested in creating some computer applications that would exercise certain portions of the brain while a patient was on certain drug therapies.
Evidently, the efficacy of the drugs can be enhanced by doing this type of stimulus. Bob’s interested in incorporating this in some sort of video game to make it more palatable to kids with early onset Aids induced dementia.  It’ a cool project. I’m goign to put him in touch with Ann Demarle at champlain on the game topiuc (Ann Dif you’re reading.. heads up)  and wiht my cousing Sam at Harvard for a pointer to soemone wiht access to  functional MRI . (Martha P,.. if you’re reading this.. can you send me Sam’s cell number ? )

My folks took off around 1 so that they’d be driving in daylight. We said goodbye… It was great having them up here…

Then Diane and I went for a hike up Honey Hollow with the dogs.. We got all the way up to Wootan’s .. It was a beutiful walk..

Around 4::30 my friend Bruce came over to give me a gas welding lesson.. I was boning up oon a few practicla skills thta might come in handy in the next few weeks. I always do MIG welding.. but I’ve never bene very good at gas welding. Bruce got me started.. He got me doign soem simple welds with real rods.. Then I treid welding with a coat hanger.. just to see that it worked..

OK.. maybe not the prettiest wes in the world.. but.. coat hangers are cheap.. !
OK.. I can’t keep my eyes open any more.. so gotta sign off. It’s goign to be a busy and interesting week. Hope it’s good for us all.. Nite folks. Nite Sam !
-me

Saturday night – valentines day

Happy Valentines day folks. Quite day here wiht my folks. Gabe was up at the mountain with our friend Eddie..    We got a nice Valentines day suprise when we found that someone hand left valentines day flowers on the Sam sculpture outside.  Things like that mean so much to us !

Ma, Pa Diane and I went out for a couple of hikes today. it was sunny and wamrish.. It was good being in the fresh air.   My folks are pretty game for anything outside.

We crossed the Hunnington and notice the ice had broken up and moved down stream.. I remember a few years back watching the break up/. it sounded like thunder.

Areound 4:30 Diane went up to pick up Gabe and Trevor and say goodbye to Eddie. Eddia nad his mom were up since last night checking out colleges. Eddie is a friend of Sam’s from High Cascade.. he’s also th guy that got Gabe and I into the backstage of the SnowScrapers event in NYC last week.. great guy.. and his mom’s a hoot , too !

Here’s Eddie with Gabe, Trevor and Diane.

TOnight My folks took Diane and Me out for a birthday dinner. We chose the Cider House in Waterbury in honor of my dad’s New Orleans hertage. They have Gumbo, Okra, grits. and all that good stuff from his youth.  They also had a grat selection of hard ciders.. Yum !

It was a great evening !!   Nice to be all together..

Well.. that’s about it for the day.. I have some deep thinking to do tomorrow.. so I’ll get off to sleep.. Good night everyone.. Happy valentines day.. Be my love,Sam
-me

ps. Here are soem new pics I got today from Uwe and family from Manchu Pichu.. I think they were beutiful so I wanted to pass them along here.   You can follow their travels at http://web.me.com/uwefassnacht