Insanely busy day started early and late. Lots going on at work. After work also had lots going on.

First was an announcement at 6:30 at Main Street landing about a 35k$ grant that Code for BTV received from the Knight foundation. It's going to pay for the Burlington civic cloud. Th perfect companion to burlingtons recent ignite grantt hat will bring gigabit ethernet to most of the city. Our brigade leader Bradley announced the award then several of us talked about our code for BTV projects. I described Lakecraft while My friend Nick gave a demonstration for the folks in the audience.

I also got to see our freind melinda who runs the theatre at main street landing.

After that, had to run over to my friend Craig's to pick up a couple of the keyboards projects that need new firmware upgrades. And then I dropped by redraws for the MIT club winter meeting. As it turns out this is the hundredth anniversary of the MIT mascot Tim. (That's MIT spelled backwards) . No wonder we've never been considered cool… With the mascot like this.

You got a love a place who embraces it's geekyness like this. I wish you 100 more MIT . thanks for all you've done in my life.

Night , night Sam
– Me

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Mixed bag of things today. Busy at work and outside of work. Diane is out of town so gabe and I are trying to keep the home fires burning. And we need to keep them burning…

We have another artic vortex happening here and so it's about 12 below outside and I love it. The dogs and I took a mid-day walk during lunch in the air was so crisp and dry in the sun . It was so bright and clear, it was beautiful.

Gave had a basketball game this evening… (as Screaming fan, Not playing) but we both took advantage of our laziness and grabbed a quick dinner together downtown instead of cooking. We went to the ASiana noodle house which served up huge steaming bowls of Tom kam spicy Thai soup. Cleaned our sinuses and warmed our bodies.

From there I went to dinner number two. And met my maker friends in Williston at three tomatoes. Iour Good friend Jeff Branson from spark fun is in town. It's always really fun talking to him. Such a creative guy and such a great job to have. His role is to drive around in a crazy bus full of electronics doing experiments with kids. Not a bad life?

Ok.. Gotta gt ome sleep. More tomorow…

Nite all,nite sam

-me

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I have a pancake… Today is Martin Luther King's day… And for that I got pancakes. Gabe was off school today so he made me breakfast.

as I was eating my pancakes and thinking about that day when I was nine years old when I heard that MLK had been shot. I remember how upset my mother was.. I remember the funeral on TV. And movies of Dr. King speaking. I was moved back then by his words. And I still am.

I remember hearing recordings of Dr. King speeches all through growing up. I learned from them the power of spoken word, the power of conviction, The power of being right.

I grew up in the Southwest and I remember unspoken prejudices of the time. Things were pretty black-and-white for me as a kid… Dr. King and his followers were good… And all of the Southerners were bad… But we were Southerners… Werent we? I remember being confused by it because we too were different… They're not being too many Jews in that part of the world in the early 60s.

It's tempting to say would come along way since then. But that's so easy to say in my bubble in the most racially homogeneous state of the union. I know there's still much prejudice and hatred in the world. I suppose there will always be ..

But Dr. King gives me hope.

Night all, night sam
– Me

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I often forget how close we are to another country. gabe has been up in st anne quebec at a ski/snowboarding trip oganized by concordia. Diane and left here around 1 and were walking aound Montreal just over 2 hours later.

Our plan was to check out the modern art museum whih i ha never seen. I ha thought it was open until 6 ..but learned when we got there it was only open 'till 5 today.. No problem.. We had a great walk through of the museums really fine modern and early 20th century art. It was so fun and peaceful walking through the spacious and almost empty galleries an looking at all that great art.

We got kicked out at 5 which suited me.. I was starvin. We found a. Really nice lebanese place 'garage beruit'

I had been hankering for stuffed grabe leaves (which i learned this evening are called 'warak enab' in lebanaon .. Not dolma) for weeks and this meal srathed that itch..

We finished our meal around seven and still had about an hour to kill so we wandered around that cold and windy city . We ducked into a bookstore is sitting on the floor and reading travel books until gabe's bus was near town.

As it happened, 4 hours before we wre luky int hat we had parked our car right around the corner from the concordia student center where the bus was to arrive … The kids were just pulling up as we rounded the corner.

2 hours later were back at home.. Preparing for anothr artic vortex..

Ok.. New week beginning, better get some sleep.

-night all,night sam

-me

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