{"id":971,"date":"2007-12-07T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/07\/thursday-night-gotta-sleep\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T09:36:00","slug":"thursday-night-gotta-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/07\/thursday-night-gotta-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; gotta sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_335696248\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    Friends&#8230;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s about 11:40 at night and we&#8217;re driving away to Boston at 4AM.. so this will be really short.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up feeling miraculosuly whole afeter a night of high fever.. I had a 7AM call with my firends in India.. so I got right in to that.. and completely missed Gabe going to school .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rest of my morning was spent on the phone.. until I managed to get iin a shower and drive the car to the Toyata service place.. It was one of those beautiful snowy mornings.. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06002.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><center><br \/>I dropped the car off around 11 and workied inthe Toyata places lunge.. it was quieter and better appointed than my office. I liked working there. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The car still wasn&#8217;t done at 2 so my firend Ray at Camplain came and picked me up for my meeting at the Emerging Media Center (thanks Ray) . I had a very exciting meeting there with a group of studets who are helping me with a prject on explaining why video gamingin is a great reason to be interested in math, scinece, and technology . I was totally blown away witht he thinking these guys had done on the prblem. They&#8217;d wrritten code, flowcharts, etc. I swear these guys are as innovative and effective as any proffessiona; industry team I&#8217;ve ever worked with.&nbsp;&nbsp; I love wroking with them.. We have lots to get done by our deadline in Feb.. but these kids are so sharp.. I know that we&#8217;re goign to do something very cool. <\/p>\n<p>After that mmeeitng, one of th students, Iiian&nbsp; gave me a ride up to teh Rushfords Chirporcti place.. I&#8217;m always happy to see that they have a SamStone prminnantly displayed. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">From there I caught a cab tback to the toyota place to pick up the car.. only to find that they&#8217;d not been able to fix it. It truly is possessed. The battery is constantly draining which requires us to jump the car every time we want to go somewhrer.e It&#8217;s goign back in next week for them to try again to find he cause. . Maybe it <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> my wierd enrgy field that&#8217;s screwingit up ? <\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">finally<\/span> got home at about 7L15.. I&#8217;d bene looking forward to getting home and hanging out some with Gabe.. This week I&#8217;ve kept missing him.. and I&#8217;m needing to hang out with him so badly.. When I got home, he and his bud&#8217;s were out on the sledding hill behind the house. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">A couple of his friends were staying for potatoe pancakes. Unfortunatly, I had somewhere else to be. I say unfortunaltly, but I was happy for the invite. My friend Joe, our famly doc, had invite me and his friend Dan to see Paul Geramia at Good Times Cafe in Hinesburgh, I said goodbye to Gbae and his friends and headed to Hinesburgh to meet up with Joe . <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06014.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and Dan.. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06015.jpg\" \/><br \/>Geremia was an excellent musician.. He was playng slide 12 string guitar.. some old delta blues, some originals. it was my knd of music. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06017.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy Duker and his wife Josephine were sitting next to us.. Duker is an artist and drew this amazing protrait of paul while he sang..&nbsp; Isn&#8217;t that cool ? <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06028.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Around 10L30 I decided I hat to head home.. we&#8217;re leaving at 4.. so I need my beauty rest..&nbsp;&nbsp; In that interest. I&#8217;m going to say gnite right here.. gnite all. gnite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps. Happy Chanukah folks <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0407\/Dec06029.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s about 11:40 at night and we&#8217;re driving away to Boston at 4AM.. so this will be really short. I woke up feeling miraculosuly whole afeter a night of high fever.. I had a 7AM call with my firends in India.. so I got right in to that.. and completely missed Gabe going to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/07\/thursday-night-gotta-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; gotta sleep<\/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-971","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\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}