{"id":2651,"date":"2011-07-31T23:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2011-07-31T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T03:25:44","slug":"sunday-night-v-o-m-i-t-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/07\/31\/sunday-night-v-o-m-i-t-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night -V.O.M.I.T. picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another great and peaceful day.. much busier than yesterday..\u00a0 Two\u00a0 social events.. the first was the annual VOMIT\u00a0\u00a0 (Vermont&#8217;s Own M.I.T. club) picnic..\u00a0\u00a0 What a great and eclectic group of nerdy folks.. we had everything from graduates in the 60&#8217;s to next years admitees..<\/p>\n<p>We met at the Waterbury reservoir day camping area.. I had brought some fun fire things (flame thrower, pyrodex, potassium permanganate, glycerin) with the intent of doing a special fire lighting experiment.. but the campground was full..not a good place for explosions..small or large.. so we opted for simple charcoal lighter fluid.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3042.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3044.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3047.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3048.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Somone.. Maybe Laura ? had the great idea of using our bodies to write MIT.. I suggested MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , but we were a little short on people, so MIT it was.. so .. here we are !<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3054.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day for spelling.. here&#8217;s a shot of the scenery.. that&#8217;s Robin&#8217;s meeting.. the mountain in our back yard.. in the background.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beutiful Diane in the foreground..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3059.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After VOMIT, I zoomed over to Winooski to see my friends John and Sue who were visiting from California.. They were having a great party at Donny&#8217;s Pizza.. which turns out to be run by my friend Dimitrious. .. I got their late.. but there were still plenty of folks.. here are Dimitrious, Greg and Deb, Dennis, Sue John, Ray and his wife.. Very nice to see them all !<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3062.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s another shot of John and Sue and daughter Abby and her boyfriend.. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3066.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then home to dinner.. we had both Gabe and Max home for the first time in a long time..TJ was there too..\u00a0 Dan\u00a0 showed up just in time for dessert with his new Avacado Lemon sorbet.. so yummy !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jul3111\/IMG_3067.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK.. can&#8217;t keep my eyes open.. more tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another great and peaceful day.. much busier than yesterday..\u00a0 Two\u00a0 social events.. the first was the annual VOMIT\u00a0\u00a0 (Vermont&#8217;s Own M.I.T. club) picnic..\u00a0\u00a0 What a great and eclectic group of nerdy folks.. we had everything from graduates in the 60&#8217;s to next years admitees.. We met at the Waterbury reservoir day camping area.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/07\/31\/sunday-night-v-o-m-i-t-picnic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night -V.O.M.I.T. picnic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[217],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-v-o-m-i-t"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}