Woke to tiny flakes of snow and more cold weather. Winters finally come just in time for summer
After a run, i went in to work with my friends on the uvm seed project. This is crunch week and they have to finish by wednesday. I’m really proud of what the team has done. Here’s a team picture
And heres that picture burned into a piece of plastic with our laser
Here’s a teat of the system playing freebird
It’s 32 degrees and snowing. Finally winter arrives in time for May. Gabe’s team had a lacrosse game about 45 minutes away in barre today. It freezing , snowing with gale force winds . I finally was glad to have my down coat on this year !
The excitement of the game was the only thing keeping us warm. The game was tied at the end, then our boys scored on the final 2 seconds of overtime. My heart is still beating hard !/em>
Ok. Only 10pm but i just Gotta sleep
More tomorrow
Note all, nite sam
-me
Long day.. Very busy at work, then a talk this evening at UVM. I spoke ot the CS Students Association about the whole Maker Movement in Vermont. I had to leave at 8PM to get home in time to intercept the tail end of Gabe’s Lacrosse team dinner. There was the whole team sans pads and helmets.. I’m so used to knowing them by their numbers that it was kind of fun trying to figure out which face went with which number.
My part of the dinner was to make liquid nitrogen ice cream.. it was a special request from Gabe. Diane made the chocolate soup, then Gabe and I poured it into a large pan, added the very gold nitrogen and started stirring.. In less than 5 minutes we had 2 gallons of very delicious ice cream !!!
After ice cream we did some other cool stuff with the LN2.. we froze flowers, scallions, lacrosse balls, whipped cream, even balloons.. which shrink down in the nitrogen, then re-inflate magically as they warm
very cool, no ?
ok.. gotta sleep, more tomorrow
nite all, nite sam
-me
Wierd musing of the day.. I just started noticing how so many things are now prominently labeled as ‘gluten free’ .. now,. Im all for labeling to help folks make proper food choices.. I have quite a few freinds who have recently discovered that they are gluten intolerant.. but.. I still think it’s funny that some things like raspberries have to be labeled that way..
I suppose its like sodas that are labeled fat free… I guess you advertise the attributes that you can…
the irony is.. one of my favorite foods is actually braised gluten in a can… now if I could only find free gluten !
nite all, nite sam…
-me (gluten free)
