It always takes me a couple of days to relax into vacation.. got a good start today. We went for a rtoad run.. then picked up the dogs for a rivershore run. We spent most of the day outside. Diane’s on a new garden.. I fixed the lawn mower and cut the grass.. not my favorite job,.. but a pleasure with a newly sharpened blade.
My friend Scott came over around 2…so I took a break for science . Scott had seen a process for using (almost) houshold chemicals to make metalic Sodium on https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
We had to try it. It’s 30g of Magnesium dust (or turnings..) and 40g of Sodium Hydroxide (aka Lye) . You stick it in a soup can with soem fude.. and but a brick on tip to keep most of the air out. light it and step back. THe replacement recation yeilds Magnesium Oxide (MgO) mixed with metallic sodium (Na) and Hydrogen (H2) .. which burns off. You scrape the MgO +Na mix out and toss it into water and it catches fire !
Ok.. so the shop needs a little cleaning 🙂
around 4:30 we headed into Burlington to meet up with gabe. We were lucky enough to get a chance to meet our good friends
Kevin and Betsy.. who were in town with the son dan, his GF and Kevins brother for Kevin an Betsy ‘s dauighter Meghan’s graduation ! It’s ways so good to see these guys !
30 min later we met up with gabe, his roommate Sean and Sean’s extended family to celebrate Sean’s graduation.Sean’s an awesome guy..
and his family is awesome too.. really. really. reallllllly nice people.. ants, uncles, moms, step dads. dads. brothers.. greandparents. all of them ao nice !!
always great seeing gabe and raya !
from there we went and picked up our friend ellen. We got to see her daughter Juba and her new puppy Daisy (I had a dog named daiy qhen I was a kid.. such a sweet girl !)
We headed to Arts Riot to see Arc Iris. a Rhode Island performance art / prog rock band. They aere touring a show doing all trhe songs from Joni Mitchell’s Blue album. Such an amazing show.. Great first act to Iva May.. Local singer songwriter.
fantastic show. Ran into my friends Ken.. and Ryan there. .
Always great seeign Ryan.. he dropped into philospher mode to help me plan my life..
we came up with a plan.. here’s a pic to commemorate the moment . 
ok. tiem for bed now.. More tomorrow
nite all. nite sam
-me