I used this vacation day to go to the dentist to have a cap reinstalled. I broke a tooth a couple of years ago while eating a really delicious dried apricot in Istanbul. I had a crown made that had all three kids initials on it. I figured it was a good workaround for the jewish taboo around tattoos..
THe crown eventually needed to get replaced … so I had it taken out.. today it was replaced with a new crown.. witht he same 3 lleeters. MSG for Max, Sam and Gabe. Here it is before installation
Here’s Emmy getting it all glued in..
and heres the result
i feel better having those letters in my mouth again..
First full day on vacation.. and still sort of in work mode.. woke up with work dreams.. thought about work.. but lessening through evening. DIdn’t really do much today.. which was just what I needed. I did start cleanign my shop.. which really needs it !
. Gabe and I had planned to go camping tonight.. but it rained through most of the day.. so we took the easy way out and met for Sushi tonight instead. We took the newly minted grads Sean and Henry out with us.. It was really fun … and tasty !
they were cleaning their apartment in prep for moving out..
Quiet day catching up with work around the house. Diane worked on the new garden. I fixed the fountain, weed whacked, got the pool started and set up the trampoline.. It’s funny to think that I’m setting up the tramp for me.. I take many meetings while bouncing on the thing
around 5 we headed in to town to meet gabe at a party for two of his roomates, Henry and Ian who are graduating. All of Gabes roomated were seniors this year.. Gabe was the only Junior. .. UVM graduation was today.. there were so any happy people buzzing around Burlington .
The party was really nice.. a bunch of folks in,a keg of good beer and an exotic food truck (zucchini tacos, coconut pudding and fried buttermilk donuts . Yum !
here are all the grads..
gabe and Raya
came home and met up with our freinds bob and herb.. caught up with them which was really nice..
now time for sleep. more tomorrow from first day of vacation !
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 .
