{"id":960,"date":"2010-08-20T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/20\/thursday-night-i-dropped-my-pen\/"},"modified":"2010-08-20T03:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:18:00","slug":"thursday-night-i-dropped-my-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/20\/thursday-night-i-dropped-my-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; I dropped my pen&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_538399141\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Interesting mix of a day.. I worked at home.. since Diane and I were taking Max and Jaclyn back to NYC.\u00a0 That was a new plan as of last night.\u00a0 \u00a0 I broke for lunch and reached for a jelly bean in mid-sandwich. (don&#8217;t you usually ? ).. Anyway, to both Diane and my surprise, most of the jelly beans that were left were licorice&#8230; Yuck&#8230;. Yuck.. Yuck.. Especially wit a pickle and tomato sandwich. But.. Diane loves licorice best.. Isn&#8217;t cool how folks love different stuff.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug1910\/aug1910002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Mid afternoon, Diane, Max, Jack and I crammed into the Prius and headed south\u00a0 We got down to Chappaqua\u00a0 and dropped Max and Jack at the Metro North station.\u00a0 I\u00a0 That meant that Diane and I didn&#8217;t have to drive all the way into the city.. which was a relief.\u00a0 We got the kids some food,\u00a0 hugged them and said\u00a0 goodbye It was so good having them up this week. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug1910\/aug1910003.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">It was about 8PM by that point.. there was just enough time to go and intercept Larry, Leah.. and some of the\u00a0 folks from IBM. They were all gathered for a CMU review. Leah had ordered some food for us.. and it arrived just as we sat down.\u00a0 Everyone else had eaten.. but they hung out and had desert.. It was an unexpected pleasure getting to catch up with the CMU folks and the IBM folks&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug1910\/aug1910007.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I took advantage of the international nature of the crowd to do a little linguistic field work. Those who read this\u00a0 blog often know that I always record folks saying <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dropped my pen in the mashed potatoes&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Here it is in Austrian German, Mandrin, Tamal and Connecticutish<\/div>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" height=\"361\" width=\"600\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"never\"><\/param><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.photobucket.com\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid147.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr319%2Fjohncohn%2Faug1910%2Fdropped.mp4\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>OK.. All for now.. Back to Vermont tomorrow morning. <br \/>Nite all.. nite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps. Just got this great pic of Hannah and her campers making\u00a0 SamStones.. today. Gabe, Nate and Hannah T were there to help. Thanks so much Hannah.. this is wonderful to see !<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images02\/80\/l_a7c67f2fe7824a1eab8e49c3f390672b.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting mix of a day.. I worked at home.. since Diane and I were taking Max and Jaclyn back to NYC.\u00a0 That was a new plan as of last night.\u00a0 \u00a0 I broke for lunch and reached for a jelly bean in mid-sandwich. (don&#8217;t you usually ? ).. Anyway, to both Diane and my surprise, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/20\/thursday-night-i-dropped-my-pen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; I dropped my pen&#8230;.<\/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-960","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\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}