Congratulations to my dear friend Autumn Storm.
With 961 molecules completed she has exceeded 100,000 points on our fabulous cancer fighting team. Autumn joined team Andrax last August and has over 213 days of total CPU time devoted to the project. Running just a single computer, that total time should give you some idea of her dedication and commitment to this cause.
Autumn, thanks so much for your consistent and rock steady support of this research. You have been a fabulous teammate both in your online crunching and offline support of our mates who are fighting this terrible disease. I take my hat off to you dear. When you joined our team, you made everyone around you better by your example. I don't have enough kudos to send your way.
:-D
ReplyDeleteThank you, Trée, for the acknowledgement here and for those sweetest words!
Still a ways to catch up to your 2 million plus, but I'll get there one day...:-)
Hope you are still buzzing from last nights concert and having a fabulous Monday, xo
You are most deserving and most welcome Sunshine. :-)
ReplyDeleteYep, still wrapped in those warmful warm emotions of having a special experience with a truly extraordinary performance. So glad I was able to go. :-)
WOO HOO :0D
ReplyDeletecongrats my friend!
:-) Her compassion is most definitely contagious (not to mention addictive!), and I know I am a better person because of her!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful words, Tree!
Justin, I couldn't agree more. She is a very special one, no doubt. :-)
ReplyDelete:-) So sweet you all are!!
ReplyDeleteEvening poppet, x
Ahh, Sunshine, you must listen to Blunt's "I Want You." He sang it last night and I was blown away. Give it a listen and then imagine him singing it live. Magnificent. Hugs and kisses my dear. :-)
ReplyDeleteOoh, new song, I've not heard that one! Will do.
ReplyDeleteSweet dreams when you get that far and thank you for being so very sweet.
:-)
You can download "I Want You" from iTunes. I do have to say, as I said above, when he sang this last night, and I had not heard him sing it before, it literally blew me away, and for me, was the unexpected highlight of the evening. The way he sang those leading lyrics with the spotlight on his and his guitar at his side, auditorium completely quiet--well, that was one moment where you just had to be there. WOW! Memories for a lifetime. Of course, I'm listening to it again for the tenth time tonight and it just gets better with each listen. Go figure. :-D
ReplyDeleteMake that eleventh time now. :-D
"WOW! Memories for a lifetime."
ReplyDelete:-)! It sounds so very wonderful.
I think what made this part of the concert so powerful was never having heard him sing that song before and then seeing and hearing him nail it with such power and intensity. Even as I listen for the 13th time tonight the version I have, it just does not match the live version from last night. It was a WOW experience, no doubt. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou must listen to this song and tell me what you think.
AUTUMN!! you're the best!
ReplyDeletecongrats on such a wonderful
accomplishment...
and, we are all so lucky and blessed
to know you!
xo lisa
ps... hi Tree!!
sounds like you were at
an awesome concert!
pretty inspiring stuff, huh?
xo L
Sunshine, here are the lyrics--a tribute to Bob Dylan:
ReplyDeleteThe guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
The drunken politician leaps
Upon the street where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep,
They wait for you.
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinkin' from my broken cup
And ask me to
Open up the gate for you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Now all my fathers, they've gone down
True love they've been without it.
But all their daughters put me down
'Cause I don't think about it.
Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my chambermaid.
She knows that I'm not afraid
To look at her.
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see.
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
He spoke to me, I took his flute.
No, I wasn't very cute to him,
Was I?
But I did it, though, because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I . . .
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.
Lisa, Blunt was beyond category awesome. So good to see you leaving a comment. You know I've missed you on my blog in the most terrible way. :-)
ReplyDeleteI listened to a sample, but as probably the last person with a computer to do so, I have been trying to install itunes and it's not working out (:-( beetroot blush!) - will try again when I get back home later today. The sample was enough to give me an idea of how emotive the song is and that listening to it live would be out of this world!!
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa :-)
Lisa, didn't think I could blush more than beetroot, so sweet you are, bad too when you know what I'm like ;)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Autumn Storm!
ReplyDeleteCool, I wished I had as many machines to work on for my scaffold project.
ReplyDeleteis it the beet root that is that red,
ReplyDeleteor is it the actual beet itself?
either way, if that deep red colour is involved
i think its a stunning colour,
in fact my front hall is painted
a kind of wine red which might be
like a beet coloured but maybe a hall
or a glass of wine or a beetroot
is better to be that colour than
a face...of course, my face looks kind of
green this morning, somewhat like
an avocado or artichoke or possibly
celery, and my eyes look like beets
except they're green too so maybe
this kind of green/red combo that i feel
is mostly better left to vegetables
than human skin...
anyway, ha! gotcha!
ps i have i tunes installed
only because someone just put the thing there
and thats where i get my son's new tunes
when he sends them from school
and so if i had to install it i would probably
have zero luck...heck, i cant even find my
anteater picture anymore tho i must say
this Kathy here has a perfect whaddaya call
them avitar? i love that! a drawing of the
person....hmmm, that gives me an idea
i'd like to steal....blah blah blah blah blah
need coffeee yabba dabba i should write
tunes too but they'd end up being like
weird al yankovic tunes, hey my kid got to
meet weird al at the grammyafterparty
last year when he was there and he also
got to meet carmen electra and that guy from
lord of the rings frodo i think but not
that many jazz musicians at the partay...
blah blah blah...man do i need coffee or what???
tho you'd think i'd had 10 cups already the way
i'm carrying on here.....wooooooooooooooo!
(help)
Tree, i miss YOU too! you you. like lets just
talk you...you know..."you". i miss him.
(coffee.)
hi A! (maybe i do need that extra 4 hrs sleep)
heeeeeeeeee hawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!
Morning Lisa. I think I can honestly say, no one else can post a comment quite like you--and that's a good thing. :-)
ReplyDeleteSunshine. I listened to this song 15 times yesterday evening and it just got better and better with each listen. Hope you get a chance to hear the whole song. :-)
ReplyDeletesorry...
ReplyDeletei've actually mellowed out
considerably
since coffee...
kind of.
Lisa, are you sure? :-D
ReplyDeleteactually, cancel that last one,
ReplyDeletei think someone spiked my coffee...
Green eyes!! I love green eyes, in fact every man I've ever fallen for has had green eyes...well except Trée. :-D
ReplyDeleteRed wine is a deeper shade of red than beetroot and so much nicer, I save that one for special occasions and for those once in a blue moon type events where I wish the ground would open up and swallow me, I like aubergine, aubergine captures the mood perfectly. :-)
Artichoke? That's quite a nice green, rather serene. Excellent choice! We sound rather colourful! :-)
Anyways, installed itunes successfully on the 3rd try (it required an upgrade of my quick time player), but I haven't had much of a chance to play around with it other than a quick search on James Blunt and the song didn't come up there, so...
But anyway, after all that bother, I'm going to go pick up the CD tomorrow :-).
Bob Dylan, love him! - but Blunt's version of that particular song is just so much better! And that is judged just by the sample.
Still feeling green-eyed myself and now it's Tracey's turn tonight ;-)
and i see that Kathy has green eyes too,
ReplyDeletecuz i just absolutely love her drawing
of self, and i went to look at it closer
and zoom, green eyes!
artichoke, ya, maybe thats kind of earthy.
aubergine...what a great sounding word...
i'll have to look that colour up...its one of
those ones that could be any colour,
like i never knew what chartreuse was...
even now i forget, hot pink, blue, i forget!
anyway, so much for the serpentine serpentine
distraction stunt, A!! (wink!)
nyuk nyuk!
i tunes!! yay! so you can hear this most beeeoootiful james taylor song...i think its
www.jamestaylor.com and even tho its a kind of christmas song, and a joni mitchell tune, its
sooooooooooooo gorgeous!
i wonder if i can send you brians stuff that
his jazz band does....cuz i have about 25
tracks of stuff he's sent as the year progressed...
hmmm, how to transfer....well, you can hear
some of it on his site anyway....dont know if
it loads onto Itunes automatically....its all
a technomiracle as far as im concerned...
now, if i could only find out who is holding
my avatar hostage....(sounds like a rabid
dinosaur, dont it? avatar!!) or some kind of
caviar....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
is Tracey gonna hear this Blunt fellow too??
ReplyDeletewow, i bet he's making lots of money!
i want to go on tour too....!
just gotta get my marketing concepts
a bit more generated, methinks...
plus, i think i have
an attitude problem....
Ooh, take me on tour, with a little practise I sure I could follow the beat by shaking or drumming on something :-)...she says sailing a little further down the serpentine...
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no idea (surprise, surprise) about whether or not you can send, know I would love to hear though after hearing those couple of samples - The boy can play that's for darn sure!
Yep, Tracey, lucky thing, is going to see him tonight, I'm feeling terribly left out. Maybe I can still catch him in Europe though, am even more eager to see him live now that Trée has given the show such rave reviews.
Must go look at Kathy's pic...
PS Trée's pic is missing at the moment too, as said, this happens occasionally, just never for as long as yours has been gone, is very strange, maybe you should try uploading it again, unless you've found another you prefer.
serpentine serpentine!!
ReplyDeleteya maybe that dude will play in
europe as part of this tour...
everyone loves playing in europe
at least most of the jazzers do...
brian loved amsterdam when he was there
and said there is so much artistic freedom
acceptance, passion in the arts, and music...
it was very enticing for him...and my friend
Fred, a hard core new yorker,
and most magnificent jazz pianist
making sure he hit italy, france,
the netherlands on his european tour...
he loves the reception and artistic
openness he receives there...
tree's dog is back, but me...i'm a
question mark...do pictures expire
or something? is that possible?
sheesh...
Lisa, no worries, your beautiful likeness is permenantly fixed in my memory. :-)
ReplyDeleteBravo!
ReplyDeleteoh oh, maybe i should post that avocado
ReplyDeleteafter all...
Please do. I absolutely adore avocados. :-)
ReplyDeletewith a face on it?
ReplyDelete(actually i love avocados too...
a perfect food, methinks...)
My grandmother practically raised me on avocados. I still love them to pieces, especially with italian dressing. :-)
ReplyDeleteWOWWWW CONGRATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTS AUTUMN BABEZ! Ur an angel for sure!
ReplyDeleteKeshi.
Feel so weird saying 'thank you', kesh, it's not like I actually do anything! But thank you :-D
ReplyDeleteMorning Trée! :-)
Morning Sunshine. Yes and No to your response. It's true your computer does all the work. But unless you let the device run and make sure it is running, nothing happens. Many have joined this cause, and for whatever reasons, I'm not judging, but for whatever reasons no longer crunch molecules. So, from my point of view, you are doing alot. You are staying the course long after the initial thrill is gone. Hell, I've seen people join our team that had cancer who after just a few weeks decided to no longer crunch. I really can't figure that one out, but to each his or her own and besides, there are many, many ways to make a contribution--so again, let me be clear, I am not passing judgment on those who no longer run the device. But let me say this, the fact that after more than 200 days your computer is still crunching, still producing results, still making a contribution--THAT IS SOMETHING that you are making happen. And for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart my dear Sunshine. Rawk on and stay the course because this disease ain't going anywhere anytime soon. :-)
ReplyDeleteAlrighty then :o)
ReplyDeleteThank you, sweet stuff, xo
colours colours?
ReplyDelete(beets, avocados all of the above?)
Autumn helped me get my
question mark replaced
with a real live person!
she IS an angel!
i've been trying to tell everyone this
right from the start!
or maybe i just thought it in my mind,
i forget, (so as not to embarrass you A!!)
either way its true.
angel.
humble angel, even...
the best kind...
tho any kind of angel
is an angelic angel.
k, i'll stop...
(my bad.)
Oooh, I love the new avvy. The slinky black dress suits you very well my dear. What a wonderful pleasant surprise this afternoon. I'll have to give my regards to our angel. :-)
ReplyDeleteaaah the beauty of black on black on black...
ReplyDeletei shouldnt wreck all your fun, but its my black stretchy pants (lululemon if you must know)
black undershirt and my black tiny knapsack thingy
leaning on me leaning on a totem pole at this
very coolest native art gallery in ontario...i should get the web address cuz they have a magnificent
gallery full of everything from fine native artwork to
crafts and little chatchkas as my people call it...!
Oooh, more garments just means more fun. I do have a rather active imagination. :-)
ReplyDeletewell you are most decidedly unstoppable, sir!
ReplyDeletemore fun, huh?
then i shant ruin your good time and tell
you which garment of clothing
i no longer wear, and no, its not socks....
hey, might as well get into it...
i'm 50, i dont care anymore....
i too, have quite the imagination...
and no cracks about the gallery name please...
ReplyDeleteit is an Ojibway name i believe...
www.whetung.com
i think its pronounced 'wee tung'
not 'wet tongue'....not that i want
to ruin anybodys good time or anything.....
Oooh, I like a woman with imagination. :-)
ReplyDeleteNow, that website name. That I don't think anyone could have made up. :-D
Autumn sweety...
ReplyDelete**Feel so weird saying 'thank you', kesh, it's not like I actually do anything! But thank you
Sometimes u just dun really have to 'do' anything and there's so much 'done' anyways :)
Huggggggz!
Keshi.