{"id":681,"date":"2007-06-26T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/06\/26\/tuesday-night-joysee-shore\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T09:20:00","slug":"tuesday-night-joysee-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/06\/26\/tuesday-night-joysee-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – Joysee shore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diane and I had a great day today. We left our hotel in Parsipanny (sounds like a root vegetable) at about 8 for the drive to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I was the keynote speaker for summer technology camp for high school kids.  <\/span>Newark is about as different from Vermont as two places could be.. The air was hot, humid and hazy as people edged their cars along the packed freeways.. I’m not a great city driver. I’m pretty distractible (no.. really ? )   <\/span>and there was so much to look at as I drove.  <\/span>I was so happy to be driving the Prius.. it’s GPS got us right to the door of NJIT . My friend Maureen met us and guided us in to our unloading spot. A bevy of camp counselors descended on our car and lugged the equipment up to the third floor where my show was to be while Diane went and parked  <\/span>the car. It was great having her here with me..  <\/span>I think there were about 80 kids in this camp.. half from new jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, half from out of state.. Some for inner cities. They were all interested in engineering and science. .  <\/span>The show went great\u2026 I always choke up a little when I do the introduction and dedicate the show to Sam.. but once I’m into the shtick.. I’m ‘on’. All of the equipment worked today.. which is a bit of a miracle in itself.. the kids were great participants and the faculty and staff at NJIT were warm and welcoming as always. This place has such a great heart\u2026<\/p>\n

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   <\/span>After the show\u2026 the samy clutch of camp counselors lugged the equipment down stairs for me.. which is  <\/span>the only part of doing these shows that I usually  <\/span>don’t enjoy.  <\/span>It was about 12:30<\/st1:time> when Diane and I got the car loaded .. We had about 6 hours to kill until our flight to Austin<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. For no particular reason we headed down to the Jersey<\/st1:placename> Shore<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>..   <\/span>It seemed like a better idea than heading into NYC on such a hot and muggy day. The temp outside read 97 degrees as we headed down the Garden State Parkway<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/span>We turned off at Point Pleasant<\/st1:placename> Beach<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> because one of the students had told us it was one of the closest beaches. .. looking for the quintessential Jersey<\/st1:placename> Shore<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> experience.. and we found it.  <\/span>Jenkinson’s Beach at Point Pleasant<\/st1:place> was about as Honky Tonk as you could get.. a boardwalk, expensive rides, rigged (I assume) games of chance.. cool beach food .. and lots of sunburned people. We looked  <\/span>for a place to change our clothes.. For some weird reason changing in the restrooms was a punishable offense.. The only place you could change was a ‘bathhouse’ that wanted $4 apiece for the opportunity to change your clothes in a tiny stall.. no thanks.. We went back to the car and di the classic change in the car routine, then headed back to the beach.  <\/span>We paid $6.50 apiece to be able to go down on  <\/span>the beach and we sat down in a sea of people.. . I know it sounds yucky.. but for some reason, it was just<\/i> what we were looking for. The breeze kept the heat down.. the sun was bright\u2026 and we just spaced out. We’d ate the few veggie sandwiches we’d found at  <\/span>a health food store and fell asleep. I woke up before Diane and just stared up at the sky for awhile and spaced out. ..  <\/span>The kids would love this place.. I missed them all\u2026    <\/span>When Diane  <\/span>woke up, we went down to the water and put a SamStone in the Atlantic<\/st1:place> for him.. It felt good to do that..<\/p>\n

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We’re going vegan in solidarity with Max.. It’s harder than I thouhgt.. and I’m already a vegetarian !

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   <\/span>By then it was time to head back up to JFK.. We spent a few hours driving back up to NYC.. I had work calls for the whole drive.   New Jersey freeways are … err…. uh… picturesque ?!
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<\/span>We also talked to Max and Gabe. Max is home in Vermont<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and sounded hot.. We heard it hit 100 in Burlington today !!! Gabe sounded like he was  <\/span>having a great time Snowboarding in Oregon<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Snow sounds great on a day like today. <\/p>\n

   <\/span>Right now, Diane and I are sitting in the airport waiting for our flight..<\/p>\n

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we’re already an hour late.. which is no fun.. At this point, we’ll probably miss the rental car pick up in Austin<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. We’ll manage. I’m looking forward to seeing many work friends in Austin<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>..<\/p>\n

Hey they’re boarding our flight !..  <\/span>Gotta go.. More tomorrow !<\/p>\n

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-jc<\/p>\n

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Diane and I had a great day today. We left our hotel in Parsipanny (sounds like a root vegetable) at about 8 for the drive to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark. I was the keynote speaker for summer technology camp for high school kids.  Newark is about as different from Vermont as … Continue reading Tuesday night – Joysee shore<\/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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}