Monthly Archives: March 2014

Monday night – Flu shot

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Stayed up past 1 AM last night working.. and had a call at 7 (i thought).. didn’t really sleep much last night.. lines of code goign through my head. .. which is kinda nice.. at least its technical stuff..

Still I managed to be alert all day and worked like an animal until about 5.. I then realized I had just enough time to send off some spare parts for mikes crazy keyboard contraption. THe tought thing is finding out where the band is goign to be long enough for me to get them with overnight mail. I made the UPS place with 5 min to spare…. ..

It feltgood to be out of the house.. SO I was thinking about else can i could do at 6pm at night ..  the most fun I could come up with was to get a Flu shot.. I knwo the season’s already over.. but.. I was feelign kinda left out..

so I stopped in the drug store, rolled up my sleeve… and ‘ouch’…  i’m now part of the clu.. . Whats it say abotu e that getign a flu shot was the high point of my day 🙂 ?

Sunday night – old data

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Yikes.. just saw it was nearly 1 AM and I’m still working. didn’t mean to do that..

My day started at 4am when I took Gabe to the airport for his trip to Portland. He’s out there visiting Lewis and Clark college..  Sounds like he’s enjoying his visit so far…we’ve enjoyed his txts from out there.. including seeing a huge line at Voodoo doughnuts. a PDX must see..

I  got home and caught a few more hours of sleep. I had most of the day to myself which was wonderful .

I puttered around the house. Finished a few long overdue electronics projects. took a  great run out in the woods with the dogs.. and basically chilled out..

 

hmmm.. not much else to report.. other than I did soem data clean up today at work.. It turns out we were stll beig charged for data I had sitting around since the 1990’s.. or maybe even before. I no longer even ne how to long on to the machines where the data lived..

 

for about 3 seconds i contemplated finding the arcane spell that would reinstate my passowrds and let me rifle through the gigabytes of gunk from another millennia.. but then… i relized.. that it was like an attic..

and things are never supposed to come out of attics.. just go in.. so I did the data equivalent of lighting a match and tossed it in .. and deleted all that old stuff..

 

is it ‘what I don’t know… can’t hurt me ? ‘.. no.. it’s not like that.. it’s more  like if I don’t know it.. it can’t exist.. ?  or something like that..

reminds me of one of my favorite billy collins poems.. I’ve used it here many times.. but here it is again

 

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

Saturday night – Twofu

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I had  a much needed day off today.. i took the dogs for a run up honey hollow which felt great… (i was more into it than they were). Around 11 my friend Colin came and picked me up and we went out for lunch. Colin lost his job in the latest cuts and is now trying to figure out life post IBM.   We ended up at a Chinese place in Williston where I encountered Tofu dish number 1 of the day.. a really good General Tsao’s Tofu from Asian Bistro.. Yum

 

Colin dropped me at UVM in time for the 1 PM state basketball finals. it was MMU vs. rice.. and lets just say.. it didn’t end well for MMU. Still it was almost fun.. It seemed liek both teams were tying to put an orange ball through a circle.. and they kept repeating it. I t is amazing what people find to do for fun.

 

 

Form there I dropped by Generator to check out the new laser cutter.. no one was there at first, but eventually Matt and Christy wandered by.. The opening is now the end of March due to permitting.. it’s sure taking us a long time to get started.

 

 

I came home just long enough to turn around and go pick up diane for dinner  with Luci … our target was Pho Dang.. but they were full, so we wandered across the street tot Namaste.. a new Nepali/Vietnamese place across the street. it was really great !!!!!!  .. We had a veggie soup that was really nice. That was tofu meal two !

 

ok.. gotta get some sleep.. gabe has a 6am flight..

more from then

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Friday night – home again

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Back from a mostly unplanned visit down to Boston to see my folks. Got a fair amount done while down there. Spent time with dad in the hospital again.

Managed to cram most of the day's work in on the drive back from Boston. Very excited about work right now. And almost lost my voice given how much I was talking on the way back.

Came home to a lovely quiet house… With no plans for the night. Just what i needed !

Starting to goof off as soon as i finish this

 

I just did 🙂

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Ps im experimenting with some new tools for an upcoming iot hackathon… Im using the app owntracks to track my location using our mqtt message protocol . Heres my drive today

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