I hit red-line today… too much to do.. too much to think about. Nearly all of it stuff I’ve taken on by choice.. not because I had to. I had to stop around 4 because my rain was full.. literally. I could no longer think. My life feels busy in the way it did before Sam died.. and I don’t like that.. yet.. I really like most of the stuff I’m involved in.. A curse of riches… Just too much stuff.. I’m trying to find enough time to step back and pare off some of the less critical things before I go crazy .. It will mean some hard choices. I even wonder about this blog sometimes.. It takes up to an hour every night… .. Time which I could be sleeping, reading, hanging with my family. For now.. it still seems like a good investment. Writing helps me calm down after a busy day

Enough whining.. I have some pictures left over from yesterday to share.. and some from today.. Here’s a few pictures from my stay at Ruchir and Rashi’s night before last. Here’s one of Isha with a loose front tooth

Isha and Anika took my camera and took this flattering shot of me brushing my teeth…

Nika and Rashi’s dad come to say good bye as isha and Ruchir and I drive to work. We dropped Isha at her summer writing camp.

One shot from my day at Yorktown.. My friend Peter turende 50 yesterday.. He looks actually younger now than he did when we were in gra school together nearly 20 years ago. he and my freind Chandu helped me get through a very tough but interesting linear systems class in grad school. Happy birthday Peter !

Flash to today… I woke early and took Diane’s early morning yoga class. then we took a run. It was a good balancing way to start the day.

In the middle of a packed moring, my firend Anirudh showed up..He’s another one of my grad school buddies. I haven’t seen him in at least 2 years.. he’s now a big shot manager at one of our suppliers. It was really nice catching up with him.. we had a good talk about Sam, life, fortune.. and circuit simulation. It was good to see how much un he’s having in his work..

Tomwards the end of the day there was a receiption for folks who’d been honored at IBM in the past year. It was a really nice reception with creat finger food… and even wine and beer !.. Thomas Watson Sr. (founder of IBM) would never have imagined this ! ere’s a picture of a cluster of the honorees. ..

I ran into so many good, good friends at that receiption that I hadn’t seen in months !. it reminded me that I need to get out of my ofice more an walk around the halls.. I saw my freind Kim.. and she howed me her Moreno glass ring that I traded her (vindirectly) for soem work she did to help me..

I also saw my friend John who was happy just to be over in Williston.

After work we had another of our Haunted Forest ‘Project-X’ meetings. We’ve been making progress.. but having soem technical difficulties as well. The pneumatic ift we bought onebay has a mechanical problem. We either need to pay to have it repaired.. or get itreplaced. This is a critical piece of our scary creature.. so we need to reslve this quickly !..

Our goal tonight was to create a mechanical mock up of the head/fave animatronics. We had a good crowd their tonight including Ed.. another VoMIT (Vermons’ Own M.I.T. club) member. He’ looks appropriately crazed in this picture.

We also had KC, Seth and Brendan..

And Lucy and Ceasar… Buddy showed up too..

We were trying to figure out soem proportions for the monstors jaw and face. Seth ran upstaris and did some trials with the jaw size..

We at below and watched.. I’m sure this would have looked pretty wierd to anyone not involved in the project.. It looked pretty wierd to me !

Just as we were begining to work, a huge thunderstorm came rolling in.. the sky turned pitch black.. Here’s Admiral Gabe braving the storm..

By the end of the night, Lucy, Cesar and Seth had built a really good mock up of the monsters head.. complete with eyes and moving jaw.

Oh no.. it ate Seth !

OK.. sleep beckons. More tomorrow.. Nite all. nite Sam !
-me