{"id":64826,"date":"2019-02-09T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/02\/09\/friday-night-birthday-eve\/"},"modified":"2019-02-10T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T09:54:11","slug":"friday-night-birthday-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/02\/09\/friday-night-birthday-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – birthday eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technically\u2026 I just turned 60 about an hour ago. It was in a rose garden with my family and our friend Sean. We are on our way back from a great tour gabe gave us of where he’s going to school. It was raining and cold and wonderful<\/p>\n

We’ve had a great day just hanging out in Portland. I had an early 6 AM <\/em>Work phone call\u2026 But then went back to bed and fell asleep until about 10. I went for a run while a Diane started making my birthday cake for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Around noon\u2026 Max and I went out for a walk about Portland.<\/p>\n

First we had lunch at Pok\u00e9mon .They gave me a free lunch because it was my birthday!<\/p>\n

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And we checked out one of the local maker spaces<\/p>\n

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From there we went over to hippo hardware\u2026 The most amazing architectural renovation place I’ve ever seen. They had every hinge, knob, lock set, light fixture you’d ever seen it all perfectly organized even know they were all very much used<\/p>\n

Then we went to another hardware store which was 100% packed with the line for people to buy snow shovels and icemelt her. They were expecting “snowPacalypse” With as much is 3 inches of snow tonight\u2026 It made me laugh a little but I do realize that when snow hits a city that doesn’t usually get it it is a big deal<\/p>\n

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From there we hiked down to city liquidators. Mostly junk but some cool stuff like this ancient early IBM punch clock straight out of Endicott New York<\/p>\n

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We all met up back at home around 5:30\u2026 And walked out in the rain to see the winter light festival. The weather was terrible but the event was still fun<\/p>\n

All along the river were cool light up sculptures. Luckily I had my glasses and gabe and I had our headbands so we fit right in<\/p>\n

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This was one of my favorite ones and it was made by Maxs Friend and we later ran into<\/p>\n

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Our final event from the evening was seeing where gabe is working and studying : the Knight cancer research lab. What an amazing place !<\/p>\n

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We got to see some of the tissue lines he’s growing\u2026 These are human Pancreatic cancer cells\u2026 Don’t worry they’re not contagious<\/p>\n

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It was great seeing gabe in his element here<\/p>\n

OK\u2026 I’m going to stop here because I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. More from my birthday tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to like being 60<\/p>\n

Night All’, night Sam<\/p>\n

– me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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