Technically… I just turned 60 about an hour ago. It was in a rose garden with my family and our friend Sean. We are on our way back from a great tour gabe gave us of where he’s going to school. It was raining and cold and wonderful
We’ve had a great day just hanging out in Portland. I had an early 6 AM Work phone call… But then went back to bed and fell asleep until about 10. I went for a run while a Diane started making my birthday cake for tomorrow.
Around noon… Max and I went out for a walk about Portland.
First we had lunch at Pokémon .They gave me a free lunch because it was my birthday!
And we checked out one of the local maker spaces
From there we went over to hippo hardware… The most amazing architectural renovation place I’ve ever seen. They had every hinge, knob, lock set, light fixture you’d ever seen it all perfectly organized even know they were all very much used
Then we went to another hardware store which was 100% packed with the line for people to buy snow shovels and icemelt her. They were expecting “snowPacalypse” With as much is 3 inches of snow tonight… It made me laugh a little but I do realize that when snow hits a city that doesn’t usually get it it is a big deal
From there we hiked down to city liquidators. Mostly junk but some cool stuff like this ancient early IBM punch clock straight out of Endicott New York
We all met up back at home around 5:30… And walked out in the rain to see the winter light festival. The weather was terrible but the event was still fun
All along the river were cool light up sculptures. Luckily I had my glasses and gabe and I had our headbands so we fit right in
This was one of my favorite ones and it was made by Maxs Friend and we later ran into
Our final event from the evening was seeing where gabe is working and studying : the Knight cancer research lab. What an amazing place !
We got to see some of the tissue lines he’s growing… These are human Pancreatic cancer cells… Don’t worry they’re not contagious
It was great seeing gabe in his element here
OK… I’m going to stop here because I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. More from my birthday tomorrow.
I think I’m going to like being 60
Night All’, night Sam
– me