Jus drove down to NY for a meeting tomorrow. Showed unat old friends Ruchir and Rashis house at 12:30 am and everyone in the house is still awake

I love his family !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Had kind of a mix of the day… We got up for a very nice ski with John and Lauren

Then my friend Josh came by on his way from Montreal down to Burlington. I was able to meet is very nice girlfriend ali

The mixed part of the day was I tried to repair Diane’s phone… Got it almost entirely working and then manage to break it when I tried to fix the rest of it. I’ve tried taking it apart about five different times and I have to give up. I’m really sad because it’s an older phone but she has A really cool case for it that would like to keep… I have to work on that.

I’m exhausted got to sleep

Night All,night Sam

-me

Nice snowy day this morning. Finally really winter. Below zero Fahrenheit for the first time this year

Got the dogs out for a walk along the river . Felt great to see the sun. Went from there to by an Xmas tree . Nice to have it in the house

Around 5 folks started showing up for Puckett’s memorial dinner. It’s been 3 years since he died .. It’s so nice all getting together to think of him. Puckett was a good friend of ours. He was in a band with Sam and was a great musician and loved science

It was a really nice group of people… Two babies in the group now lots of good stories. Lots of good food… Diane made Latkes

We left the party about 2 1/2 hours in to go to another lucky party… This one was it bands… I love this party because it’s the biggest collection of my remark friends that I go to. It was tons of great food and drink… But I was so full I didn’t have any. I spent the time catching up with old friends and meeting a few new

people that were awesome

Hanukkah candles were lit and shining bright

And people were enjoying each other and Ben’s crazy House

Someone had a very good idea to catch a picture of all of our burning man crew who were at the party…

Looks like we were closing down the party .. !

We headed back home at the party that was at our house was still winding down… It was nice to be able to say goodbye the folks..

Man am I full and sleepy… More tomorrow. It’s going to be a tiny bit warmer

night all , night Sam

– me

I had an incredibly rich and very day. Bazillion work calls wrapped around a couple of community things.

The first community thing was a coaching session for my friends at Füse… A local marketing corporation. I helped a small team in brainstorming around their corporate culture. It turned into something very fun.

I’ve been park myself in a coffee house for about four hours downtown Burlington Inn working took calls… I had pizza for lunch

2 o’clock I went to UVM to help me judging of the annual computer science research projects… It was really fun interviewing the students. Saw lots of my friends from the faculty and student body there. And ate more pizza

Then drove home to pick up Diane… She was here with 10-year-old Finn our friend who beat me at pool… Then we went in to the generator Christmas bazaar… It was really fun. Our friends from Papa’s porch were playing

There was also an art show at the gallery next-door…

I ran into some friends from global foundries… One of them was one of the artists.

Finally we ended up at Pizza 44 for the closing dinner at Füse. My friend Ryan was doing the DJ stuff

And they had pizza… Tons of it… A different pizza delivery every hour. They made us feel so welcome finally we ended up at Pizza 44 for the closing dinner at Füse. My friend Ryan was doing the DJ stuff

And they had pizza… Tons of it… A different pizza delivery every hour. They made us feel so welcome

Now we’re home… I don’t think I need to eat any more pizza for the whole day

Night all, night Sam

– me