Saturday night – Peru and garage sale

 

We woke up determined to make more space in our house. We’d  spent several hours yesterday afternoon sorting through stuff in the attack and the ‘old lab’ .. looking for big stuff to give away.. I have more trouble parting with stuff than most of the other members of the family.. so i have trouble letting go of things with sentimental value

… which is just about anything..

even so, we were able to identify a ton of stuff that was just taking up space.   This morning before 7

diane and I were hauling the stuff to the front yar. by 8 am we’d made our first ‘sale’ .. I say ‘sale’… because we’d decided to donate all proceeds to the Sam Cohn foundation.. the charity we run for kids in Sam’s memory.

 

by @pm we’d talked to so many cool people.. and gotten rid of a ton of stuff. By 3 .. we put free on everything .. and that brought in more folks.. by 5 most of it was gone. We can walk through our attic now.. and we raised a little bit of money for a good cause..

not a bad day !

 

one ther vary cool part of the day .. around 11 am I helped kick off an open data hackathon in Lima Peru.. I was supposed to go down there.. but work load in my new job  made that impossible. Instead I did it by skyepe. My friends Walter and Carlos kicked it off.. then I did my thing in Spanish (thanks to Carlos’ skillful translation of my text). I know I butchered it.. but it was so fun to talk to the 100 or so folks down there hacking. I was so pleased with the turnout !

 

 

i can’t wit to see what sort of cool open data stuff they come up with . I love Ope Data.. I love Peru !

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gabe and I are going canoe camping now.. so I’m blogging  early.. talk to you all tomorrow

-nite all, nite sam

-me

 

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