{"id":529,"date":"2007-05-31T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/05\/31\/wednesday-night-warped\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T10:53:00","slug":"wednesday-night-warped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/05\/31\/wednesday-night-warped\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – warped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today was interesting. We had one car in the shop, so I opted to stay home and work. It was a beautiful day, so I chose to work in the bell tower.. It’s a great place to work\u2026 It’s comfy, the view is great, there’s always a breeze, cell phone  <\/span>and wireless reception is good and there  <\/span>are few distractions. The only catch is that it’ a long way down to get a drink.. or to get rid of your last one. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>I spent my whole day on the phone. For some reason it was one difficult call after another. Each call had some element of conflict.. it was pretty weird. One thing I realize about myself after Sam’s death  <\/span>is that I just can’t ‘do’ conflict anymore.  <\/span>I have always  <\/span>had a pretty high tolerance for.. conflict\u2026 which is good because I’ve always  <\/span>enjoyed helping get folks to agree around difficult concepts..   <\/span>Now.. I find that any conflict at all.. even  <\/span>the most minor technical disagreement at work.. makes me instantly intensely sad..  <\/span>I have no control over it.. and it’s hard to work through. It’s almost as if some wires are crossed in my head. I think what’s happening is this huge shift in perspective I’ve gotten since Sam died. When I feel  <\/span>people getting personally agitated over ‘little’ stuff it just brings me down. I want to take them and shake them and get them to learn form our experience.. that these small things are not worth fretting over.. really., really, really<\/i> . they’re not\u2026 <\/p>\n

    <\/span>Anyway.. the whole thing kinda wore me out today.. at about 6 Diane called  <\/span>up for me to come downstairs.. she’d left me a hot bath.. and that turned the day around for me.. Not only had she  <\/span>  <\/span>done that. But she’d bought me my favorite Dr. Bronner’s peppermint soap which  <\/span>she hates.. You know you have a great mate when they buy you stuff that they themselves don’t like\u2026    <\/span>Dinner was fun.. Chris, Scott, Mary, and Mason happened to be over.  <\/span>Max cooked steaks (yes. The kids eat meat !) while  <\/span>we ate veggie burritos.. Diane made her first Rhubarb crisp  <\/span>of the ear out of fresh ‘barb from the garden. It was our first grown edible for the year.. <\/p>\n

    <\/span>One cool thing we did was mess around with ‘photobooth’ on Mary’s computer.. it gives you an interesting slant on reality\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Technology is wonderful.. actually\u2026 on that topic.. I got a really cool myspace msg  <\/span>from Lucie tonight asking me if I would be interesting in talking about the positive aspects of technologies like MySpace and how they help kids. families and communities.  <\/span>I’ll let everyone know where that goes\u2026<\/p>\n

   <\/span>OK.. off to bed now.. Oh..  <\/span>one reminder. The first ‘Sam Cohn Musical Soul’ gutar giveaway is going to be this Friday morning at the MMU underclassman awards ceremony.. Be there or be be quadrilateral. Hopefully  <\/span>every MMU kid who’s interested in the possibility of getting a guitar from Sam has gotten someone to nominate the, It’ll be fun to see who gets it.   <\/span>Sam.. remember, you’re selecting the winner from the bunch of finalists\u2026    <\/span>See you there\u2026<\/p>\n

-jc<\/p>\n

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Today was interesting. We had one car in the shop, so I opted to stay home and work. It was a beautiful day, so I chose to work in the bell tower.. It’s a great place to work\u2026 It’s comfy, the view is great, there’s always a breeze, cell phone  and wireless reception is good … Continue reading Wednesday night – warped<\/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-529","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\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}