Diane pointed out to me today a funny coincidence She got a fb post from a friend about life simplification just on the day that I mentioned I started all my blog post with such a busy day or something like that. True, it seems like paste my life has been accelerating for the last 30 years. Maybe it's the season but I sense that everyone around me is in that same accelerating swirl all the time. Everything so complex, too.

There was a funny contrast to that last night. Two friends of friends from Sweden happened to be in town and needed a place to stay, Simon and Eric. They are friends of my friend Michael . Both Eric and Simon are expert makers. They came and visited the Floorish team while we were working on the exhibit last night and then showed up here at the house around midnight . I was still working on the project. We still managed to hang out for a couple hours and talk. Then again this morning before work. They were able to show me some of the very cool stuff that they made. Eric had some die cut plastic stuff he'd made that was both simple and elegant

Their full time job is to make thigns and tell folks about it…and that includes traveling the world and meetign other makers (like us) What a great job.. And how simple !

Hope we get to see them again !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Super busy day… ( when dont i start my blogs that way ?) my day was so packed it went by in a blur….

At6 i went in to meet the 6 ibm folks who are here from all over the world for the smarter cities cahllenge.. We have isabella from france, bay from bulgaria by way of portlande, robert from munich, luuetch fromsao paolo, tom? From rochester ny, christian from austria by way of prague.. Teyre he for 3 weeks lookign to help the city of burlington gt the most out of their new smart meeters. They are greatpeople .. And i look forward to working with them

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Insanely busy day. It's 1230 at night and I'm sitting in a parking lot near Champlain Colleges Miller Center. I'm here because we're putting the final integration put on our exhibit for the user required show that will be opening at the Burlington firehouse Gallery next week.

The day began with a welcome ceremony for the IBM smarter cities challenge team at Echo. I'm so looking forward to talking with these folks there from at least eight countries and they're here to help Burlington with its smartgrid work

Then I had an insanely busy, fall and productive workday. I'm really enjoying what I'm working on Right now. The day just flew past. Got a good laugh when a friend of mine sent me this picture from the other nights Bunny and bacon night at nutty Stephs

At the end of the day I had another meeting outside this one at Champlain College. It was a Dinner meeting With around 50 from around the state to discuss the future of Vermont's creative economy. There was lots of discussion about education, the makers movement, venture capital, etc. the one thing that bound us all together is that we truly love where we live.

That was not the end of my day, at 8 o'clock all of the team from the Floorish exhibit met at the Miller Center for a final push on integration. Our mission tonight was To get all of the lights talking to all the computers. We were finally successful at midnight.

It was good to see but boy what a long day. Now home to sleep more tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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Happy birthday my wonderful Diane. You a the true love of my life…

We had a great day today. I took a half-day so that we could hang out. Midmorning we Had planned to take a hike or a snowshoe. It was raining… But not so hard so we decided to go anyway. We had it up from the sugar shack on Bolton Access Road. There wasn't much snow at the bottom of the mountain but by the time we got to the top was more than a foot if you went off the trail. We followed the VAST snowmobile trail all the way to the top of the ridge. It's really beautiful out there… And we made a promise to ourselves to come back and do it during the summer. It's 11 mile hike from there back to our house and that would be fun to try.

We got home right before it really started raining. Diane went off to teach and I went back to work and had a very productive day.

Around four we took off again because Diane wanted to see a movie on her birthday. Unfortunately we couldn't find anything we really wanted to watch so we headed and rented a movie and had a great Vietnamese dinner. And we came back and watched Not one, but two movies: first we watched Argow the movie based on true facts about the Iranian hostage crisis, and we just finished watching breaking dawn, the last in the twilight series. That's more movies that I watch in six months… But it was really fun.
Game came home from soccer around 930 with flowers for Diane and we then had birthday cake. It was really nice.

It's midnight so what a great birthday. Time for bed… (Actually I have some work to do now) more tomorrow
Night all, nite Sam
– Me

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