boldog születésnapot to me , boldog születésnapot to me
boldog születésnapot. Dear me
boldog születésnapot toooooooooo-oooooo meeeeeeeeeeeee !

Thats happy birthday in hungarian.. One of the many really nice b-day wishes i got from friends all over the place.. I got happy birthday in Turkish , Swedish, portuguese, hindi, spanish, Chinese Japanese , Arabic, czech, german, filipino, pig latin, samoan, dutch, Finnish, hebrew…. Thanks for them all.
I’m a lucky guy… An feel surrounded by love. And liking the life I’m leading.. Cant ask for more than that.

Today was fun and peaceful… I did some working on a new led hoop, then Diane and i took the dogs out for a 3.5 mile fast snowshoe on the preston pond loop .. It was about 10 degrees… With a very stiff wind. It was beautiful and cold in the new snow. too cold for any naked snow angles im afraid.. we had to keep moving or freeze. It was made double fun because the trail kept disappearing.. It was so great getting outside in the bright sunlight on my birthday

Heading down to -15 again tomorrow.

Then later gabe, luke , diane and i headed out for sushi.. A family birthday tradition

Then home for my birthday cake.. It was dianes apple cake.. Y favorite !

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Then gabe luke and i retired to the lab to make explosives (NI3)

Cant get much better than that for a birthday…
So far 54 feels good !

Nite all.. Nite sam
-me

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I’ m approximately 53.99726 years old right now.. Which is to say that tomorrow is my 54th birthday. 53 was a pretty good year all told.. 54 sounds good , to me some how, too.. 3 cubed times 2.. .. Next prime number not until 59.
No big plans for this birthday.. No wants or needs un-met.. I am happy to be here now… I guess that in itself is a gift.

See you all at 54 tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam
-me

Ps . Interesting but accidental food theme tonight.. Somehow the whole meal had chocolate in it.. Through no intentional plan… The chili had cocoa in it ( smoothes it out) , Diane had made chocolate bread… And i picked a Saranac chocolate lager out of the box by chance (real chocolate.. Don’t know ?).. I finished it off with a chocolate peanut butter cookie.. My endorphins must have needed a boost

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Just yesterday my friend Steven reminded me that it was 35 years ago yesterday that the blizzard of 1978 hit Boston. I was a long haired young student at MIT. I grown up in Houston Texas and only seen snow maybe a half-dozen times Since I was little. I had returned to Boston from Christmas break in Houston only to find the The city already covered in snow.

I found this picture of MIT during the storm. This is right behind my dorm.

I remember getting off the bus and climbing over as snow pile only to find out that it was a car covered completely over. I remember we had almost a week off of classes. It was on it first, until we ran out of food. I remember skiing down Massachusetts Avenue to try to find bread. I remember tanks driving down the street with snowplows on. I remember pictures of cars abandoned on route 128 Almost a week later. I remember skiing down to a bar and listening to bluegrass music in the middle of the night. The whole city was magically stop. No one knew what to do. It was beautiful. I remember the power went out for a while, and the only thing I could see was the lit up Citgo sign over Kenmore Square. I remember for surviving for almost a week on a weird mix of peanut butter powdered milk maple syrup and bananas that I gotten out of a book called diet for a small planet. I don’t believe I’ve eaten any of those things and any great quantity since 1978.
Come to think of it, it was that storm that convinced me that I wanted to live in the north. After almost 20 years in broiling summers, I realized I’d prefer to be cold. I remain so to this day.
Now… We’re expecting another super storm. They’re expecting as much as 2 feet of snow again in Boston. I’m hoping my folks will be okay and have no trouble digging out. I called and they seemed fine.
I guess every 35 years you need to go through a little chaos. It builds character.
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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We had an important event. This week. My wonderful wife Diane has joined the Facebook family. She is now officially ” one of us “.

It’s a funny thing, Facebook used to be the center of my universe… But nowm I find myself not spending so much time on it. there is so much spam and superfluous information there, that I find myself staying away from it. Do you all see that as well?
That said, it’s hard to imagine a world before Facebook. Unlike email, it’s a great way for people to find other people on the Internet. I have reconnected with so many old friends… From college, high school and even before. It’s also really got my ‘engineering is fun’ message out to so many people… Even now, I like it more than I hate it.… Even with a bunch of Farmville invites every day, Cyberstalkers, advertisements, privacy invasions, Dancing Babies, cute cat pictures, romance polls, Get-rich-quick schemes, scams, etc., etc., etc.…

It is interesting to think how social networking has really changed the way we communicate. I actually do think it’s a good force for change in the world.
The fact that I can speaking (Literally) into my iPad, and have it go out to roughly 5000 people via twitter and Facebook is a really interesting Though. When in the course of human history has this been possible? Clearly never.

Anyway… I’d like to welcome Diane to the world of social networking. I hope you find it as much fun and less of frustration than I do.

Night all, night Sam
– Me

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