Peaceful Friday night at home..  nothing on my mind.. pure bliss! . I’ve had quite a few people write me this week wondering if I was OK.. I guess I’ve been sounding pretty low here I have been low.. but not  deep dark low.. Like not a depression.. let’s just call it a recession..   I do appreciate hearing from folks.. even in morse code! The fact that people are out there and are thinking us this time of year is wonderfully sustaining to us. I’m doing pretty well all things considered.  I’ve promised myself to spend sometime this month  trying to get back in touch with what I want to do with my life and where I am going to spend my time and energy. I’m actually looking forward to doing that.

I have a few pictures from the last few days that I hadn’t put up here.. yesterday I was lucky enough to catch a lectutre at work from Art Cohn, the directoro of the Champlain Maritime Museum. Art is a lawyer, diver, socialogist and historian.. and a heck of a good speaker. I’d never met him.. but because of our last names being the same.. I’m always getting folks who think were related. He’s an awesome guy.. He showed some amazing things in his talk.. ncluding soem of the more than 7 ships he’s found in the cold waters of Lake Champlain.

Last night I had a nice night hanging out with Gabe while dianbe went over and visited Elizabeth. i went to pick here up an see Elizabeth’s new place.. Elizabeth has a theme word.. andit’s ‘Simplify’. it’s on her license plate.. and on signs throughout her house.. it’s a goodword.. but I’m not sure what it means.. 🙂 /

Got home tonight pretty pooped from work. Ihad exactly 15 minutes free today at work…   Home never looked so good. I walked in and noticed this cool light up thig that my mother in law Marcia had sent (Thanks Marcia !)..   It’s kind of a smaller version of the big light up branch that we always had in that corner.

I was just lisetenign to the radio tonight.. and hearing more abotu the bad economy.. I’ve really been pretty insulated from the news with no TV.  I’ve only expereinced it through work.. and through our budget.  I guess it’s pretty bad !   I was tickeld by the followign comic that I found in new freind Douglas’s blog.. Made me think of the cool new recesion:

Best thing that happened to me today .. at least during the day.. was getting a flu shot. What’s that say about my day ? Work is really getting pretty bad.

At least the flu shot was fun !

I  am totally swamped by work now.. but I did manage to escape around 6L30 to go to dinner with Dinaeand Gabe at the Lavoie’s…. It’s part of the send of we’re giving Deb and family..

Jen’s house is full of cool stuff.. like these two poetic signs in the bathroom

Their dog Tinkerbell even sang a duet with jen

It was a great night at the Lavois.. They’re wonderful folks

On the way home, I stopped at the Townsends for one last look around their house. They head to hindouras tomorrow.. thenback for a few weeks.. then down to south america.  We have so many memories from that house. I will never orget goign there the night we came back from Florida after Sam died…. Every kids I knoew.. and many I didn’t were in there waiting for us.. and crying.. I walked around there tonight..remembering.. It tok my breath away to remember.

Matt had soem good photos out to look at…

This is whenwe all ‘fell’ off the bridge at Sam’s birthdaym memorial party.

Me pulling gabe on a skimboard at cape cod

the legit crew

OK.. gotta get back to work.. Nite friends.. Nite Sam !
-me

I was just on the phone with my friend Glenn in Australia when he said… ‘better go look at your computer… looks like you have a new president !’ .  I’m so, so happy that Obama has won.   I  beleive this will be a very positive change for this country . I’m hopeful about our countires pospects for the first itme in 8 years.

I’d been watching the election all night.. but things had seemed to slow down. I couldn’t wait to vote this morning.

We had a bunch of folks over tonight after iane’s snowboard yoga.. all hanging out to ‘watch’ the elections. I say ‘watch’.. but we don’t have a TV hooked up.. we lookde on the the computer every 3 seconds..

Vermont was one of the first 2 states called.. We ewent overwelmingly for Obama…

Things looked dicey for the first few minutes.. then they turned around…

e even broke out the good hot sauce !.. Here’s a bottle that Max, Sam and Gabe baught em a few years back.. it’s hot stuff.. what a great night to open it up !

Max just called me from Brooklyn to celibrate the news… he was out on his street whihc just broke into a spontaneous party !..

What a good day !
Gnite all .. gnite Sam…
-jc
-jc