Beautiful, beautiful day.. low 70’s or high 60’s during the day.. 50’s at night.. My favorite part of summer.. the part that feels like winter.. seriously.. it never needs to get hotter than this for me..

Te last two days at work have been busy and productive.. not much to report there… I did host a lunch for our summer interns. We have about a quarter the amount we usually have. The interns have had a good time.. though they admit it’s been a little quiet and strained this summer. We spent abotu an hour and a half talking about their summer, The colony.. and what they and I wanted to be when they grew up..

Speaking of ‘growing up’ today was Anita N’s last day at work.. at least for a while>She is off to business school at Dartmouth with her new fiancee.. that would be so cool to be heading off to school again..

Everyone brought Anita the perfect going away gift for someone going to grad school.. pasta and Ramen ! 

After saying hi/bye to Anita, I zoomed home, picked up Diane and headed back to Essex to Pat O’s for the opening of the Travis Roy Wiffle ball tournament.  Pat is an old buddy of both Diane and mine from work. I’ve known him for 28 years (gulp !)

Pat has devoted a large part of the past several years building replicas of Fenway and Wriggly fields in his back yard. The fields are exact scaled down replicas of the real thing..

The Fenway field even has a little Citgo sign.. I could see that sign from my dorm room window at MIT.

The event today is an annual fundraiser for the Travis Roy foundation. Travis was paralyzed 11 seconds into his first hockey game in college. He is completely paralized from the waste down. He has focusde his life since the accident on doing motivaitoanl speaking.. and raising money for spinal cord injury research> The wiffle ball tounrnement will raise more than 200,000 dollars for the foundation this year !

Both Ben C and Jerry G. were on hand to through out the first pitch. I;m used to seeign them on the timecycle project.. it was fun seeing them being celebrities. Ben brought peace pops to share with folks which was very generous …   Here are B and J with my friend Ron.

Around 5:30 things started to move.. the crowd got seated..

And Pat, marge O and Travis Roy opened the tournament..

Our friend Mike R. was honored as the volunteer of the year.. which was wonderful..

They then invited down a bunch of local ‘celebrities’  to help kick things off. They had Ben, jerry. the head of Jetblue, Ms. Vermont, a retired hall of fame pitcher from the Red Sox, a UVM basketball start a wounded vet from Iraq (got a 10 minute standing ovation) . .. They also unexpectedly asked me to come down because of the show.. whcih was both nice and weird. ..   (Johnny V.. this would be the equivalent of the Covina new years parade for me)

Both Ben and Jery through out the first pitches.. we’d shared stories about being last chosen for sports in middle school.. but their aim was pretty good today..

I couldn’t wait to get home and see Gabe.. he’s been gone nearly 3 weeks and I missed him so miuch. All night he’s been tlakign about his trip out west. he had a great time.. Max is here too with friends whcih is also relaly wonderful. Max, Aaron, Lianm and I ran into Home epot tonight to find parts for the time cylce and Dan’s new store.. We then came hoem and had soem of Diane’s killer Gneral Tsao’s Tofu.. all vegan for max..   Everyone headed to sleep so I started workign on the timecycles electronics. I got the LED strips and Laser in the mail today from China.. I just got the LED strips workign.. is this beautiful or what ? !

OK.. I gotta sleep.. lots to do tomorrow.. Night everyone. nite sam !
-me