It was a beautiful, glorious, once a year perfect weather day… And I spent it on the couch programming.

I hadn't planned to do it. It wasn't something I had signed up to do. It had nothing to do with work. But, my son Max called me this morning with an urgent plea for help in a crazy project that is due tomorrow. It's for one of the Red Bull hacking contests. Max had applied to be one of the 200 contestants at the very last moment and none of us expected to make the deadline.

But we did. On Thursday max got the supplies kit. the finished results are due tomorrow. What could I do ? What would anyone do if their son was in need of help… Programming or otherwise. The project details are a little fuzzy to me… I know my friend Collin was down helping Max yesterday but I'm not exactly sure what we're doing. I do know it involves a 10 will 40-year-old diesel Army truck that is going to have an animated happy face on. I'm working on a happy face code. That makes me happy.

 

It's actually a real pleasure to be able to work with Max on stuff like this. And despite missing the beautiful weather I really had a good time today.

I say had… Because I think I hear an all nighter coming on. I'll let you know tomorrow. For now I'm going to try to catch a nap so that when Max comes back from dinner we can start again after all it's only 11 PM.
Night all, night sam
– Me