Friday night – d-oh !

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12L30 and I’m just back from my annual pilgrimage to the Governors Institute of Vermont (GIV)   engineering summer camp   .. Every year I do a show.. for them.. and every year I feel good that there are so many geeks and geekettes in the land. This year’s crop was particularly wonderful and geeky.   !

Today was a pretty cool and historic day for the GIV.   Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin came there and annonced that any Vermont student who goes to enginnering school.. then moves back to Vermont will get a 1.5K$ per year payement against their student loans for 5 years.. that’s 7.5K$ of npo-strings debt releif if you choose to coem back to Vermont with an engineering degree. How cool is that ?!?!?

 

one casualty of the night was te door to my building.. as I rushed out of the buuilding with my gear loaded on my go-cart.. I miscalculate on my speed and rammed the door. I’m used to having an automatic opening handycap door which swings out of the way as I come through. This building has no such convenience.. As a  consequene.. I tapped the door hard enought to.. welll.. take a look..   I felt SO bad.  I’ve offered to pay to have it fixed.. we’ll see..

 

 

d-oh !

 

OK.. it’s past 12:30./ time to sleep.. more tomorrow..

nite all, nte sam

-me

 

 

Thursday night – blue rasberry

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I went to the dentist today after not going for more than a year (yikes! how did that happen ?!) Things worked out though.. my teeth were just fine.

Here’s a quick shot of my tattooed tooth with all three boys initials. There was a new dentist there today and it was fu seeing his reaction when he saw my tooth.. he said he’d never seen anything like mine.

Today’s theme was blue raspberry.. a taste and color combo that is not known to nature.. it was, however the only flavor that offered for both tooth polish grit and fluoride.

 

Brenda my friendly tooth cleaning lady turned out to be a the wife of my freind John-the-geek.. It was great talking with her !

I got back to my office and noticed hte sign that freind jen had put up for a f2f meeting I had been late to this morning. I’m just goign to leave it there. the red is my own addition..

after a long day of work, i went to freind Jim’s house and picked him and his son dustin up and headed up to mallets bay. Our freind Ken had offerd to take jim.jerome and me out on Ken and Donna’s boat ‘obsession’.. We got to the boat around 6:30 What a great day to be out there..

we caught a ride out to the boat..

the climbed on board.. Jerome helped set the sail

ken, our skipper brave and sure..

nd there was a race already going on..

the guest of honor Jim.. Jim’s son Dylan was our good freind.. he passed away this april.. we did alot of talking about dylan on this trip..

here’s admiral ken .. it was so nice of him and donna to invite us.. what a great day ..

he even let us drive !

we  came assore around 8:30 a. we ate dinner with donna, sue, dustin, scot, danny and izzy  until the mosquitoes drove us away

 

I made a brief stop downtown to offer my congrats to freind steve who’d just been promoted.. it was great seeign the gang there !

Chandu and I managed to fit in abotu a 45 minute walk after everyone else went home.. it was great speaking with him as always

ok.. now it’s quite late.. more tomorrow..   dream of blue raspberry’s ya’ll

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Wednesday night – dog bed

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Spontaneous party at Chez Cohn tonight. I got home to find the house pretty full of people for no particular reason. You know it’s a good party when you find yourself asleep on the dog’s bed awakened by tour own snoring..

 

Here’s Pat cooking a pineapple reduction for some reason or other

Jessie

and lots of others

capped off by too much icecream.. we are up to around 60pints in the household.. help !!!

 

Not much else to report for the day.. ..it’s day 3 of my broken emaill.. still the peace of disconnectedness prevails..  the low point was having to get a hepatitus shot with gabe gfor our up coming treip.. theymade me carry the syringe up stairs to get the shot.. cruel and unusual f you ask me..

 

the high point was hanging out with gabe an wathching his mad gas saving skills. He today topped his own record and nursed the prius to over 60 MPG in sustained driving.. he’s the prius whisperer !

 

ok,, I’m strating to nod off. more tomorrow..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Tuesday night – email holiday

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So.. my work email is messed up . really messed up. Since Sunday  night  anyone who sends me email gets a horrendous hate mail back like this

Your message: Invitation: xxxxxx (Jul 29 03:30 PM EDT in zzz pc yyyyyyyyyy) was not delivered to: John M Cohn/Burlington/IBM because: Error delivering to John M Cohn/Burlington/IBM; Router: Recipient’s mail file size exceeds the maximum size allowed for mail delivery.

What should you do?
You can resend the undeliverable document to the recipients listed above by choosing the Resend button or the Resend command on the Actions menu. Once you have resent the document you may delete this Delivery Failure Report.
If resending the document is not successful you will receive a new failure report.
Unless you receive other Delivery Failure Reports, the document was successfully delivered to all other recipients.

D01ML261/01/M/IBM, D01ML076/01/M/IBM, D01ML076/01/M/IBM, D01ML261/01/M/IBM

 

I spent more than 2 hours on the phone with the help desk folks in India today.. That time gives me a deep compassion for  them and how crappy their job’s are… so .. i know I shouldn’t complain.   Can you imagine dealing with frustrated people all day (or night_  over the phone.. without really getting to know them.. .. and most often not really being able to help them..

There was a very bright side of the day, though.. I usually get  between 100 and 200 non junk emails a day.. a day and a half without emails is … Well, it’s kinda like a vacation.. i can pretend that nothing is past due.. no one is made at me.. the world is good and in balance. .    there’s no bad news in the world (though bad news can find you anyway)

Like any vacation, there’s a backlash.. as soon as my email is fixed I’ll spend two days sorting through what I missed.. then there will be the meetings and memos I missed…

but.. heck.. if they really need me.. theylll resend…

 

maybe I should break my email more often..

nite all, nite sam

-me