Nite folks.. Nite Sam you’re always with me..
Very productive day.. worked at home again in the tower. I find I get so much more done when I work up there. It’s quiet and there are no distractions. I was so busy that not much else happened that was worth recording here.. Tonight we had a nice break .. we walked over to Dawn and Jim’s for dinner. It was great hanging out with them. We ended the night with stupid yoga tricks.
For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not
enter the land. Because of the Israelites’ lack of faith, God decreed
that for all generations this date would become one of crying and
misfortune for their descendants, the
Jewish people. (See Numbers Ch. 13–14)
I’d never heard about Tish B’av before yesterday. It’s strange to learn something new about your own culture at age 50..
I hope it was a thoguhtful day for everyone..
It was for me.. OK.. All for now.. Nite folks,
Nite Sam
-me
Ruchir and I took advantage of an hour break in work meetings to hike up Turkey Hill near Yorktown.. It was in the 90’s and humid.. nice breeze at the top. Here we are lookign a bit wilted..
David and Duane cut parts and Diane and I assembled the bearing and thrust wheels that will hold the moving rings of the clock work.
Yikes.. It’s after midnight again.. and I’m runningo on about 3 hours of sleep.. Gotta jump in bed.. more tomorrow .. nite all, nite Sam !
-me
You know, there is nothing stranger than watching yourself on TV.. especially for a semi-shy person like myself (I know.. you’re saying.. semi-shy ?!? .. but think about it a little more.. and I tink you’ll agree). Diane and I watched the second episode of the colony with Max and a few of his friends in an overheated dorm lounge down at pratt. Once again.. I liked the show… At the same time.. it’s odd seeing all the stuff that didn’t make it into the show.. 5 24 hour days are pretty tough to cram into an hour TV slot. The whole complicated progression of making the wood gassifier had to be broken down into a few short beats.. I remember how absolutely amazed I was that we were actually making electricity out of wood fumes.. .. I hope the sense of ‘can that really be working ..?!?!’ came through. For those who are wondering.. we got about 3 hours of generation from every charge of wood. .. which was sufficient to top off our batteries. One thing I really loved about the show was that everything they showed that worked.. actually worked.. if it didn’t work.. they’d show that it didn’t work.. That was really important to me.
It’s hard for me sometimes watching the interpersonal stuff is hard for me.. the stress we were under often led to friction between folks on the cast.. It’s strange to see since we are all good friends now.. I know that the drama makes for more watchable TV. but I’ve never liked conflict…
It’ll be interesting to see what folks thought of this second episode..Let me know what you think I think things are going to get more interesting from here on out..
I need to sleep now.. more tomorrow. Nite folks.. Nite Sam !
-me
ps. For what it’s worth.. here’s part of the twitter feed I captured for the east coast screening.. interesting mix of comments !
