Normal day full of meetings. During a 2 minute gap between meeting, Diane jumped in and asked me to come downstairs for a surprise. When i came down, our friend Julietta was there With some kids id never met. She said hi john then julietta number 2 (the real julietta) stepped out of the mud room. There were two juliettas !

Meet julietta's twin sister Zora… I never knew she had a sister.let alone an identical twin.. I asked her how long shed known she had a twin 🙂

Seriously, zora looked more like julietta than julietta !

Aother drop in treat happened this evening when my cousins son John dropped by. Johns working in main and was in VT to visit hos cousin emma at middlebury.. And us too, i guess. It was so much fun hanging out with him.. He was full of stories

I, however, am out of stories for the moment… Ill cook up some more tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Another insanely busy day… I'm going to take Friday off just to recharge with family. One great feature of today was a short talk i gave to a group of folks at the museum in Barre on the Maker movement. The room was packed with 60 to 80 year olds. My talk was part of the osher series .. A nationwide adult learning movment funded by the legacy of Bernard Osher. This was one of the best audiences ive had in a long tike.. Hey were engaged, lots of ideas and lots of questions. It was such a hoot !

Simce i was in barre i took a few minutes to go over and visit my firend and old admin Jleigh. She was doing great.. I followed her and her day care kids on a short walk so we could catch up.. Shes so awesome..,i loved seeing her. Shes been in chemo for the last couple of months, but still manages a day care and keeps rescue pugs. Shes one energetic woman !

Got home and worked with Froend john to finsh up a long standing project.. While we were working i learned that our good firmed Scott amd GF Kim gave birth to their first son.. Welcome Gabriel !

Ok.. Gotta get back to work.. More tomorrow…

Nita all, nite sam,

-me

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So… Gabe and i were both procrastinating last night.. And some how we ended up shining my UV laser on some olive oil.. We were kinda surprised to see that the normally blue violet beam made a bright red florescent spot in the oil. We tried other oils: canola, grapeseed, etc.. But they all fluoresced a dull green.. Or not at all. So.. Looks like we figured out a way to detect fake olive oil…

Then Gabe told me that he had heard that all the great healthy benefits of using olive oil go out the window when you heat the oil even a little.. Evidently heat breaks some of the good polyunsaturated double bonds in the fats and causes them to saturate with hydrogen bonds…. (Hence saturated fats) That lead father and son to hypothesize that such a restructuring might change the florescence of said oil…

So.. We got out a frying pan and heated a small amount of Diane’s really good virgin olive oil to the point it smoked then let it cool then poured it into a glass We then poured an equal amount of uncooked olive oil into an identical glass. We then shined the UV laser through both..

Pasta fazoul ! It worked… The uncooked oil had the same bright red florescence..

The cooked stuff had a completely different crazy pink florescence

So .. Weve invented a way to detect heat induced saturation of olive oil. I searched the internet and didn’t see anyone else who had reported It.. how cool is that ?

Anything to put off homework… ,

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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