Had a much needed day off today. We hung out with pat and joe. First stop was shelbourne farms.. A cold, cloudy and very windy day…

We came across this cool wooden sculpture on the grounds there .

 

Next stop was fiddlehead brewery and the pizza place next door

 

The. Downtown.. Went to BCA .. Great show in friend Kerrie's metro gallery.. on the 4th floor.. Visited generator and walked church street

Later hung out with kids. ..and wrestled with some new wireless lights

Net accomplished — near zero.. But hey sometimes i need that

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Woke up to a beautiful morning in Nashville. Headed home on an early flight.. worked all day on the plane which was peaceful

 

 

first stop when I got to Vermont was to go check out TechJam. First person i ran into was my friend Matt Dunne .. who’s running for Governor.. I was proud to get a sticker and a selfie !

 

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I had fun walking around tech jam with my freind Cathy who organizes the whole thing.. we had everything from four eyed warriers to IoT Fish health detectors !

One of my fav’s was my freind Ben’s undersea submersibles. His Copany GreenSea is based here in richmond. They are retrofitting the navigation on this baby.. it’s designed to go (i think) 21,000 feet underwater !

 

here’s my colorful freind Matt behind one of bill parkers beautiful orbs

 

heres my buddy joe with his 5**16 gear reduction motor !

 

Tech jam is running tomorrow.. so go check it out. Well worth the trip !

 

Then home at last. I picked up babe on the way.. Max paid us a surprise visit.. and my Bro and sister in law joe and pat are here.. and deb rah too.. it was a spontaneous party !

 

we were sitting there eating when someone said ‘i smell a skunk’.. uh-oh.. where’s chai.. outside ?!?

 

you guessed it.. she got sprayed full in the face poor girl.. first we stuck he in the garage as we got out deskunking brigade..

 

then up in the tub.. Max looked up a deskunking recipe.. hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and soap.. coming right up

it called for normal 3% hydrogen peroxide.. but I only have 28% (dangerous).. I diluted it down to 3% .. but managd to splash myself in the process… Ouch !!!! burned myself pretty nasty

 

we all chipped in while Diane scrubbed and chai shivvered

 

 

soon Chai was smelling like a rose again.. or at least like a dog !

 

quite a nite

 

ok.. sleeping in my own bed.. wonderful

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Greetings from the society of women engineers meeting in Nashville. I’m here to give panel on the talk today… though I was pretty busy with day job meetings most of the day I did spend some time talking to all of the smart ladies who were gathered here . the society of women engineers is a multidisciplinary group includes engineers(and scientist) from every possible discipline. I help host a lunch on sponsorship and then did a panel on Internet of things that several of my friends. It was fun and useful at the same time. Later that evening we had a reception hosted by IBM that brought together people from all over the company and outside. I was lucky to run into many good friends and even had some very good work conversations as part of that

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The conference is in Nashville… which is always synonymous country music. And even though I don’t like to admit much… I have a lot of country music in me. It Must be married to Houston. It’s not country that I like but it’s probably something like Americana. I think that’s country music with swearwords. I was in the men’s room just couple minutes ago and heard this Brandi Carlile song and got all misty eyed… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3caeaH1z7vs

 

You can take the boy out of the south but you can’t take the south out of a boy

nite all, ntite sam

-mc

 

Great Scott !. It’s here !

CNN reminds us . In “Back to the Future Part II,” Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015, to save his children, yet to be born in “Back to the Future’s” 1985.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/entertainment/back-to-the-future-day-feat/

Amazing to think that movie was made 25 years ago.. and now the date is finally here ! What would you do if you could go back.. I know what i would do.. …

man.. that movie series changed my life.. or at least my style choices..

(thanks to my freind Feiko H of that pic  of me in the delorean)

 

OK.. gotta get going.. Back to the Future !

nite all, nite sam

-me