Very cool day.. I worked at home this morning while my friend Kim was working her magic on my office. Today was the day that the furniture movers came and shuffled all of the scavengered furniture that we found into my room. I got in at 11 AM to find that that not only had they moved the stuff.. but they.. or I assume Kim.. had actually decorated. it was so cool and beautiful that I almost cried.. . literally !..  Kim.. you are so wonderful !!!!!

These pictures really don’t do justice to the magic Kim worked. Yesterday the office was dirty, dingy and basically empty.. By noon today it was funky, cool ..and clean !..

Here’s my funky new couchy thing complete with end table..and running water fountain thingy.

And my new workstation desk nee microscope probe station  and cloth noise panels.

And cool book shlefy things..  complete with fll spectrum lighting.

Kim even hung up a couple of well chosen family pictures.. a beautiful and bitter sweet touch that really made it ‘mine’ .

Oh.. I just love this desk.. it’s an old floating granite probe station with microscope. The whole thing weighs 2200 pounds (!!!)   complete with the microscope. My laptop fits in their perfectly too.  It omes complete with 2 high wheeled ESD stools…

But wait, there’s more.. it has this cool radio proof hood that lowers over the whole thing.. to hide the mess. And.. it says ‘DANGER’.. Is this cool or what ?!?

I even have a new window in my door  and a real whiteboard. . It feel like home !
It felt really great to work in there today

I did have ot leave for a lunch time meeting at UVM. I’m on the board of advisers to the CS department there..We had a great strategy meeting on the future directions for the department..

I had to jump right back into meetings after lunch, so I ducked into my friend Allison’s office..and got on my conference call.  Alison’s on sabbatical in Vienna this semester.. It was cool camping out in someone else’s cool office.. I liked her stuff.

I struck a bit by this poem on her wall.

I finally had a break in calls and zoomed back to IBM for the rest of the day. My cool new office. By my calculation the new furniture made me feel 34 percent more productive and 52 percent happier.. Not bad

I cut off around six and headed for my last meeting of the day. The VoMIT  (Vermont’s Own M.I.T. club) board meeting..at Zen Garden.  I always love these meetings.. what a bunch of smart and goofy people.   I leaned that since our last meeting. my friend George had had open heart surgery to replace a prolapsed mitral valve. he looked great tonight.. it’s the kind of thing you prefer to hear after the fact. We talked about the  MIT summer teachers scholarship (recently won my MMU’s Bill Esholz !).. and ‘Project X’,, the scary robotic project that VoMIT is taking on for the Haunted Forest.   It was a good meeting !.

After leaving there, I did a bit of last minute Passover shopping then went home to see Gabe and Diane..  

I found that a whole bunch of kids had come by this afternoon.. Including Colin .. who’d made us this sign..

And this nice message from Brad…

OK.. I’m struggling to keep my eyes open now.. Gotta sleep. I’ll write more tomorrow.. Sleep well everyone.. You too, Spam
-me