It’s 1:30 and I just finished up some work. Sitting in the guest room bed in my folks house in Massachusetts. I’m thinking that no matter how old you are.. you’re always eight years old when you’re sleeping in your parents house..
Some of my books form when I was a little kid are in the next room, I think I’ll go get one and read it before goign to sleep..
Here’s my all time favorite : Marina ! Enjoy !
Gotta love a bouquet of sardines !
nite all, nite sam
-me
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
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
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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