Still enjoying the buzz of hanging out in Cambridge after so many years. .. It was 40 years ago that I lived here.. hard to believe.. but it really doesn’t feel that different. I still instinctively know my way around !

Here’s the view from my hotel.. with a UFO-like reflection of one of the weird ceiling lights in the window.. 

 

here’s a vewi over the city from my mornign run along the Charles. 

 

it was a long work day.. with lots of meetings with new friends. Dinner with David was fun and interesting,.. then I went back to the hotel and met up with my freind Luca who’s coincidentally here inBoston on a mission from Munich. 

 

O showed him around the MIT campus. 

 

here’s the Status  building 

77 mass ave. 

 

the infinite corridor 

 

where my old dorm Bexley used ot be. 

 

a brave rabbit 

 

finally the middle eastern band I got in to hear their last song. 

 

luc

a (who’s italian) along with his  countryman Dante

 

the city si full of lighitng bling !

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said goodnight to Luca.. 

 

now Im too  sleepy to keep typing..

so.. more tomorrow

 

nite all. nite sam

-me 

TOday was a day abotu tickets.. frist my freind Veronique managed to talk her way out of a really bad speding tickt..

 

whic allowd me to get to my hotel room in cambridge in time to enter the Burnng Man ticket lottery.. and I got tickets this year.. first time ever in the first round !

 

it was hwite knuckles.. I was on for an hour on two screens trying to get a chance to buy them 

 

after the tickets were securew I took a run down memorial drive. it was like old home week.. These are paths I ran nearly 40 years ago !

I really like it here. I don’t want to be away from home that much.. but I think I could get used to spending time here !

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

 

busy work day.. then two very interesting meetings in late afternoon. First was the Annual Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering (VASE) spring meeting. We held this one at the Statehouse. 

 

We’d invited quite a few of the groups that we’d funded with our VASE equipment grants and our new HOST hands on science grants. The kids were such a great group to bring into the state house. \

 

wer got to mill around giving and talk to the  teams. It felt SO GOOD to know that we’d helped them all with their projects. At this point, VASE is giggling away about 17K$ / year to help get kids get involved with science .. That’s a big deal in a state where every bit of spending must be confirmed by the voters. 

 

 

note the guys in orange on the left..t there was  a big anti gun control rally at the statehouse at the same time. 

 

aroudn 6 I had to leave. I had a talk to give at UVM. 

 

the UVM talk was to the student brance of the IEEEE.. it was a nuce sizwe crowd. 

 

talk went pretty well..   .. I got to take Gabe and his house mate Justin out for a beer. THere we rean into Will S and Savanah..

 

it’s a wonderfully dsmall town !

 

ok.. fallign asleep while writing again. Time to sleep.

more tomorrow

 

nite all, nite sam

 

Just woke up on the floor at 1AM with my head on one of our dogs . I must have fallen asleep after dinner . Now The house is quiet and I’m wide awake mulling over my day

One noteworthy thing that happened today was that I chose wallpaper for the very first time. Not wallpaper for the house.. but wallpaper for my phone . Believe it or not, I’ve always kept the default backgrounds for my phew and tablets . It’s a little like keeping the sample picture in a picture frame when you buy it.

I thought a while about what picture I might want ? A picture of my house? No .. as much as I love my house, I love my family more .. a picture of my family brings up a choice .. before or after Sam died ? Any recent picture would just have the four of us… Any picture with Sam would be 11 years ago… I couldn’t bring myself to leave him off… So I walked around the house looking for a picture of all of us. Here’s the one I found.

Here’s what it looks like with apps

I know it’s dated… But I can remember what I was thinking when that picture was taken.

Same thing as now…

I really love my family

Nite all, nite sam
-me