{"id":1116,"date":"2009-09-25T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/25\/thursday-night-campy\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:49:00","slug":"thursday-night-campy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/25\/thursday-night-campy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Campy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was gloriously uncomplicated. I can already feel my life returning a bit more ‘normal’ as our 15 minutes of fame ala Colony starts to fade a bit. OK.. so it wasn’t really completely normal because I spent last night camping with Gabe at Button Bay State park with Gabe and his classmates. It was a fine night for camping.. a few light rainshowers.. but nothing too bad, cool weather and a ton of creative students..\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I showed up a few hours after the kids arrived. They’d already had a chance to build a secret fort in the woods. <\/div>\n

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Around 7:30 we all gathered for a campfire..<\/div>\n

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Each of the camping groups had prepared a skit..\u00a0\u00a0 Gabe’s posse did a touching rendition of ‘ice-ice-baby’ acapella.. It was heart warming.. <\/div>\n

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All the skits were good.. some funny, some scary. some just.. goofy.. It was a riot. I did my part by doing some fire\/light\u00a0 magic (spinning steel wool. ultra powerful green laser\u00a0 and hot air balloon)<\/div>\n

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I have to admit that I don’t remember much after that.. At that point I’d had about 3 hours sleep in the last 36 hours. I was asleep by the time my head hit the pillow I didn’t have. Some chaperon, huh ?\u00a0\u00a0 For all I know the kids took the car keys and drove into Burlington.\u00a0\u00a0 I did here today that I wasn’t the only tired guy. Gabe told me that he fell asleep on the ground outside .. and didn’t wake until 1:30AM when we woke up on the cold hard ground. <\/p>\n

I slept great, though.. a full 8 hours of sleep.. can’t remember the last time I did that !.. Sleeping on the wooden platform was great for me.. just like in The Colony.. <\/p>\n

OI woke about 6:30 and took a short wak.. I saw my first flock of southward bound geese.. It reminded me of one of my favorite songs: Urge for Going by Joni Mitchell<\/p>\n

“.. see the geese in chevron flight
flapping and a reeling before the snow
Well the got the urge for going
… and they’ve the wings to go….”<\/p>\n

Here’s a version of Joni singing it back in the 60’s <\/p><\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z3EofN3Flag
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The boys eventually woke and made breakfast.. Chocolate chip pancakes.. yum !<\/div>\n

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<\/center>I left them at around 8:30… I had meetings sold for the rest of the day.. but I managed to stay relaxed through the day..\u00a0\u00a0 I’m so glad I went on that camput with gabe… <\/p>\n

Speaking of camp out, Discovery just released a spoof video<\/a> that Diane and I had done for the other Colonists.. It’s loaded with inside jokes\u00a0 but even if you don’t get the references, you’ll see how much we miss the Colony and the other colonists.. Check it out !<\/p>\n

OK.. that’s it for today.. I’m in bed already and it’s only 10PM.. this is wonderful. Nite folks.. nite Sam !
-me<\/p>\n

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Today was gloriously uncomplicated. I can already feel my life returning a bit more ‘normal’ as our 15 minutes of fame ala Colony starts to fade a bit. OK.. so it wasn’t really completely normal because I spent last night camping with Gabe at Button Bay State park with Gabe and his classmates. It was … Continue reading Thursday night – Campy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}