Very lazy day.. still shaking off jetlag.. I woke up at 10 AM !.. I think a new record for me.. After a quiet day of puttering ’round the house, i got a call from good freind Bill P. .. my old mentor from MIT. He ‘s an independent inventor and one of the smartest guys I’ve ever met.   He’s moving out of one of the old warehouse spaces he rents in Waitsfield and was getting rid of lots of old scavenged parts. Bill has one of the best collections of odds and ends.. of anyone I’ve ever met.. things like megawatt eximir lasers, vacuum systems, annealing ovens.. and lots and lots of small parts. Like all good hoarding inventors, Bill was finding it pretty painful to have to let these go as scrap by the pound. he called me.and I called freind Homer and we went down to see what we could use.    We found tons … literally.. luckily my car was only big enough for a an eight of a ton or so.

Here are Bill and his freind Francoise waving bye to us with our carload of goodies.. .. we really appreciate this stuff.. thanks Bill !!!!

I forgot to take a picture of the entire car.. it was packed.. but here’s a typical box.. it’s full of solenoid valves and pneumatic cylinders.. you may see junk.. but I see a 3 foot robotic spider. (can you see it now ? )

Homer and I drove back home and unloaded our treasures… Diane was pleased to see that most of the big stuff was not staying at our house L0_
Homer hung out with us for dinner which was really nice.. we got to catch up on some projects.. He hadn’t seen the tesla coil Scott had helped me rebuild.. so I gave hi a demo.. I hadn’t filmed it with the better music working.. looking pretty good and robust (thanks to Scott !)

OK.. that’s it for tonight.. I think I’m going to try and get another long nights sleep..
more tomorrow..

night all, night sam,
-me

ps. At the dance last night I saw this picture of me that Gabe had taken for his photo class.. spoooooooooooky !