Tuesday night – gnome

Typical day for me.. started with a bit part in a movie for work… playing an evil sorcerer

Worked my **** off all day.. on the phone and in person meetings from 7:30 till 6:30.. then home.  The big news in our family today is Gabe’s new braces… a right of passage to be sure. I  remember my whole adolescence was measured out by orthodontia.    Gabe seems to look good in his..

As we were admiring Gabes new meatilc grin, Max came home from the Hiuntington river.. He was freaked out because he’d picked up 15 leaches in the slow warm water.  Ewwwwwwwww….    He was telling us abotu scraping the creatures off when diane noticed that he’d brought home this inch long friend…    double ewwwwwwwww !

We’re now over at Avery’s ready to watch the 5th episode of The Colony. I still think it’s a riot that we have to go to neighbors to watch the show..  It’s getting really strange for me to walk around town.. most folks know abotu the show ow.. and i feel a strange mix of pride, amusement and embarrassment of the attention… I’m not comfortable with the attention… but I like it sometimes too.  I tell folks that I’m an introvert disguised as an extrovert.. no one believes me.. but they should. It’s very weird reading the stuff in the blogs about the show.. and about me.. Some of it’s critical and you  need to have thick skin.  Occasionally there’s some really gratifying stuff. I love how many kids are writing me about their interest in engineering and science.. I’m getting several every day at this point.   Occaisonally there’s just some really bizarre things..   For example.. today I saw the following post on the The Colony Facebook page

Xxxxxx Xxxxxx: 

John

C. is the best….It’s no wonder he’s voted favorite colonist on the

official website….I named my garden Gnome after him as a tribute….I

just hope my Gnome keep it’s clothes on next time it rains.

OK.. gotta get ready to wattch.. I’ll let you know what I think of this episode tomorrow. I ned ot go to sleep right after this.. I need to drive to NY tomorrow at 4AM. If you’re up at that time.. give me a call on my cell.. it’ll be fun to talk !

OK.. Nite for now everyone.. Nite Sam
-me

Monday night – Another amazing story

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So .. Discovery is doing a mini-marathon of The Colony

tonight. They’re showing the first four episodes of the show back to back

starting at 8PM because of increased interest in the show. We’re not able to

atch since we don’t have TV.. but I’ve been watching the feed  on Twitter and Facebook and the feedback is

really pretty good. It’s fun to watch.. ….

About 8:30 I logged into my email just to see the Facebook

feed. In my inbox was a new note from Jessica..a nurse in Florida. We know here

because she’s written to us once before. She was on the transplant team when

Sam made his organ donation Last year she wrote us a beautiful letter about being

on Sam’s transplant team on her first day at work. She told us how much that

day had affected her. It was a beautiful and sad letter.. I reread that letter for

time to time and it always makes me cry..

   Today she was

hanging out at home with her husband. He was watching TV and.. .. you can guess

 the rest.. she happened to walk in the

room just as I was placing the  Samstone  in the water filter. .. These things are meant

to happen.   Discovery is going to do some

public outreach using these stories to promote organ donation.. Sam , you’re story

is still working miracles in this world  ..

We miss you so much.. We love you.. Gnite folks.. Gnite Sam

-me

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Sunday night – saying no .. a little more

Grrrr.. It’s 2am again.. and I’m just getting to blogging.. and it’s a work night.. I’ve been working for about 8 hours tonight on trying to finish the lights for the burning man vehicle.. and I don’t even think I’m going. I still need to finish up the lights and lasers so I don’t let anyone down.. . I think I’m saying ‘yes’ to to many things these days.. jobs at work. talks, projects, hobbies, trips.. eeeeeek , .. my head is spinning. . I think i’m going to start saying ‘no’.. or ‘no thank you’ to a little more stuff and see if that helps..

Right now.. I gotta sleep.. now that’s a big ‘Yes’ !

Oh.. one thing I want to let folks know.. Discovery is starting a big push on The Colony starting tomorrow. They’re goign to be running all of the first 4 episodes starting at 8PM EST  tomorrow.. (Monday).. then a new episode.. number 5. on Tuesday at 11PM EST. Number 5 shoud be pretty intense.. lots happened that week.. Tune in and let me know what you think !
Gnite everyone.. Nite Sam
-me

saturday night – Happy birthday Dad !

greetings from sherborn Mass. Diane, Gabe Max and I drove down this afternoon to suprise my dad for his 79th birthday. My mom was having a small party for him and we decided to show up just for fun. We got here about 6:30 just before the pother guests started to arrive. Dad was really happy and suprised to see us..   It was a really nice gathering of folks.. including my dad’s cosin Sam and his wife Martha. Sam’s a physicist at harvard doing research  in magnetic resonance imaging… he immedialtly started talking to me abotu his research which was very cool. My folks are both doing well… my mom made gumbo loaded full of okra.. THat’s always been one of my dad’s favorite dishes. He grew up in Lousiana… It was really nice being here for the party. I took a bunch of pictures.. but .. alas.. I forgot to bring any cables to pull them down. I’ll post them tomorrow. In fact.. I’ll do everything tomorrow. I can hardly keep my eyes open right now.. Talk to you all tomorrow. Happy birthday dad.. nite everyone.. nite Sam.. (there are tons of pictures of you here)

-me