Friday night – Gone Phishing !

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It’s 3am and I just got to my hotel .. I’m down in watkins glenn Ny for a 3 day Phish festival. It’s my frist live Phish show.. though I’ve been listening to the band.. and it’s various spin offs for years. I’ve seen a lot of live shows in my lif.. but the one tonight has got to be one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s too late to say too much about it tonight.. I’ll add some details tomorrow.. Here’s a summary.:

 

Long. long drive down. beautiful scenery.. Got in a little late.. but first set was just starting. Go my pass and made my way to the middle of the crowd.. Ran into friend Tim… how cool is that.. ?

between sets tracked down friends Kim and Chris.. hung out with them and their friends awhile

2nd set was AWESOME.. definitely the best light show I’ve ever seen.. couldn’t keep my eyes off it.. music was fantastic.. just a great night !

folks were lighting candle lanterns.. beautiful but crazy.. (beautiful and crazy !)

The side of the stage

The front of the stage at encore..

Afterwords a bunch of us cruised around in the crowd.. we stopped in to this place selling drums.. there was a great jam going on..

 

It was a GREAT night.. … I love the energizing power of live music.. !. gotta sleep now..

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

 

Thursday night – VoMIT

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Despite a full days work. I had three fun events in my day. The first was a lunch meeting of VoMIT (Vermont’s Own M.I. T club ) board of directors. We hadn’t met in some time. It was so nice meeting my fellow geeky alums..   I’ve been lots of places in the world.. and belonged to many organizations.. but somehow no groups is so charmingly weird as a group of MIT alum

 

Nice treat 2 was a chance to meet with Diane. Deb and Brit for a quick bowl of Pho at Pho Dang (Pho Sho !).. I had spicy tofu smothered in every bottle of hot sauce i could find.. yum !

Nice thing number 3 was my annual show for the Governors Institute for Game Design.. Here are the directors my good friends Ann and Ray.. Ray is off getting his masters in animation. Ann is about to go on sabbatical !

It was a great crowd toning.. sparks were flying.. hair was sticking out.. it was great. When I’m doing these shows s when I know I’m doing what nature intended me to do on this earth.

OK.. long drive tomorrow.. gotta sleep..

 

Night all., Night Sam

-me

 

Wednesday night – The Ben Ten

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Oy… the house is full of ice cream.. really, really good ice cream !. Both Hannah and Ian are now working at Ben and Jerry’s.. as are Kevin and Nate.. between all of them our freezers are literally overflowing with ice cream. The company gives each employee three pints every day to take home.. I think at this point we have more than 30 pints of the stuff stuffed in every freezable place in the house.. Flavors I’ve never imagined possible.. things with bits of pretzels, chocolate covered potato chips.. flavors named after comedians, politicians, musicians, animals, even after other deserts

And.. what’s harder still is this stuff is irresistible. I don’t even like sweets that miuch and I can’t resist a spoon or so of this stuff every time I walk by a freezer .. and we have three freezers !

 

They say everyone who works at B&J’s gets the ‘Ben Ten’ when they start.. the extra ten pounds from eating their own wares… (all respects to friend Ben who’s looking pretty svelte these days (you reading this ? )  But I gotta say it’s probably worth it.  The kids absolutely love working there . It’s good to see that the culture that Ben and Jerry established there lives on even though the place is now owned by a large corporation.. They say it’s like summer camp !. Everyone enjoys the people, the work.. and of course the perks..

Like chocolate coverd macademia ice cream … strowberry cheeskace, americone dream, pistachio, chubby hubby, cherry garcia… all that I can see from where I now sit..

 

I won’t do it.. no I won’t go over there.. I won’t I won’t … I wo……..

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – i know I don’t know

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School’s been out for a week tomorrow and I think I’ve only seen Gabe about 6 times.. Summer is here and the living is easy.. with a new drivers license.. I remember that wonderful freedom of being able to drive off and find friends.. It’s funny.. I don’t think I ever was very good at keeping track of where my kids were at any point in time. thank goodness Diane was very good at that.. The thing that’s different now is that I know I don’t know where they are.. Actually our kids have all been good at staying in touch.. and letting us know where they are… it’s just different when they’re out in the world on their own.   It’s one of those fundamental letting go things.. you have no choice.. it’s part of the natural order of things.. but it’s also hard..

but I wouldn’t have it any other way

 

nite all, nite sam

-me