{"id":946,"date":"2007-04-13T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/13\/thursday-night-socks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T09:11:00","slug":"thursday-night-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/13\/thursday-night-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_252682367\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Slow day. I decided to work at home because of the blizzard that kept threatening to happen. I worked solidly through the day but still managed not to finish the one thing I had set out for myself to do today\u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I had an interesting Karmic coincidence thing happen to me this morning . Last night my friend Homer and I were having dinner talking about how cool it would be to get a small computer controlled robotic 3D <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>milling machine (a ShopBot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopbottools.com\/\">http:\/\/www.shopbottools.com\/<\/a>) <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>to use with kids and school groups to show them how they can <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>build things in wood and metal by drawing them on a computer. Early this <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>morning, Homer called me to tell me that there&#8217;s one in the Free Press classifieds this morning. You have to understand how rare these things are to understand just how weird <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>that was.. I suspect that there may only be a handful of these in the entire state. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>Weirder still , the seller <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>turned out to be a friend of Homers from <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>Northern Vt that he&#8217;d lost track of about `1 years earlier. The seller, T, and his wife are retiring to live on a catamaran in the <st1:place>Caribbean<\/st1:place>. Before they do, they <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>wanted to find a good home for their &#8216;baby&#8217;.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I&#8217;m going to drive up to South Hero to take a look at it tomorrow. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>Homer and I are trying to figure out some way of either affording it.. or resisting it.. Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Anyway.. I passed most of the day pacing around in circles as I usually do when I&#8217;m on the phone.. I&#8217;ll bet I put in a couple of miles just walking around upstairs. Around five them members of Sam&#8217;s old band dropped by to practice.. Diane figured everyone was hungry.. so she did one<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>of those amazing snap her fingers thing and produced a feast for the ten of us.. (how does she <i>do<\/i> that)\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Apr1107028.jpg\" \/> <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>It was fun having that many kids in the house.. though the discussion <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>with 8 teenaged boys at one table was anything but appetizing<span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\">Here&#8217;s Gabe pondering his next crude joke&#8230;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Apr1107032.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\">An Max trying to eat his spagetti off of a moving drink mixer<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Apr1107029.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\">.. and Urion with a fork growing out of his shirt<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/Apr1107031.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Life is never dull around here.. it doesn&#8217;t always male sesnse.. but it&#8217;s never boring.<br \/><span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span style=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt;\">I spent a little time after dinner working on the SamStones website again. Again, we&#8217;re very eager to collect stories, poems, artwork, photos or anything you have to share bout Sam.. Please don&#8217;t be shy about giving us stuff. We really want to build up a collection. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>I finally had had enough of computers (eeeek I&#8217;m on one again !) so I went up and tackled the huge basket of unmatched socks that had been collecting un top of our dryer\u2026 you probably have one of those too.. I spent a happy hour sorting and matching socks. As I did that.. I realized how many of these were once Sam&#8217;s socks which we all continue to wear..<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>You&#8217;re still all around us.. man..<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt;\">-me<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt;\">ps. Today is my baby <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>seeeeester Mary&#8217;s (SPG) <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.. last time I remember her having a birthday she was 7.. time flies\u2026<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Everyone say &#8216;Happy Birthday SPG !&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what she was doing about 4 weeks ago <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt; text-align: center;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/BabyBoyDay1008.jpg\" \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 6pt;\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow day. I decided to work at home because of the blizzard that kept threatening to happen. I worked solidly through the day but still managed not to finish the one thing I had set out for myself to do today\u2026. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I had an interesting Karmic coincidence thing happen to me this morning . &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/13\/thursday-night-socks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; socks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-946","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\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}