I’m now at a point that a day in Vermont feels like a vacation. I had a crazy busy day… With lots of variations.

The dogs woke me up very early… Which was a good thing because I came downstairs and saw our friend Brad in our driveway looking distressed. He told me that his dog Ozzie had slipped her leash and was out on the loose . I spent about 40 minutes driving around town trying to look for that dog… I was worried about our sleep but it was fun cruising around on a Friday morning in my own hometown

All’s well that ends well… Brad found Ozzie wondering around any nearby woods.

I went back and took our doggies for a walk. The river is near flood stage and chai liked that

You can tell it’s getting close to spring… We actually had a few flowers starting to sprout up

I came home and opened a wonderful gift from Elliotts mom… She’s a Weaver and made this really cool table runner

I was able to sneak in to an open spot at our dentist… I actually hadn’t been there for three years. I don’t know why… I think it was because I was in Germany all that time. It all worked out fine… My teeth are in good shape

In the afternoon I had meetings with two sets of students from recent pack of thoughts. It was so great to reconnect with these women. They’re so bright and motivated… We’re going to be doing some projects together

I ended the day with two meetings at generator… We’re trying to put together a big project on first robotics. I think this is going to be so great for the state

Finally… We had a really nice dinner with Eliot’s mom her old friend Linda her boyfriend Bob and daughter Carina and her mom… We quickly realized that Linda and Bob were buying her friend Tim and Jen’s Lakehouse. It is truly a small world

OK… Time for sleep. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

They stole my word! I use the word redacted all the time and my work… I’m working on privacy preserving artificial intelligence Where the word and redacted comes up all the time… Now because of the Mueller report it’s laid out across every newspaper for everyone to use and every radio is repeating it like it’s some magical Talisman.

Redacted!

I want my words back… Everybody else please stop using it… It’s mine I tell you,

it’s <redacted> mine !

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Busy workday with a few fun punctuations.

Our housemate Elliotts momArrive for a short visit… She seems so nice!

Eliot Even demonstrated the pickleometer

Meanwhile across the country in Portland… Diane, and gabes friends were painting like crazy in the new house

Around 5:30 (I was late) My friends Jarrod, Ryan, Elliot and Paul all met at hand of the woods… We also ran into our friend Kat and Becca and Ken son and some friends of theirs from Germany and I don’t want it was so awesome hanging out with my friends… I feel in a group like that you could solve all the worlds problems

After dinner, I drove down to Cambridge… Lots of nice conversations on the phone and I started listening to the book “sapiens”… So far really good.

In a turquoise painted Airbnb… Kind of sketchy but homey enough I guess

OK time to sleep

Night all, nights Sam

-me

Dash me

It rained all day today… That combined with the snowmelt has the river out of it’s banks. We’ve been watching it all day. So far it’s only come out into the field office at the house. The dogs didn’t know what to make of it

But I kept my eyes on it all day. This is what happened in 1992 when we got evacuated… But right now it looks safe.

Busy workday… But took an hour off to have lunch With my friend David. We planned a jolts and colts show for the Vermont deaf community. Last time we did it David did the whole thing in sign language. It was great… That’ll be this coming October

Later tonight Eliot and I went over to see my friend Chris… Eliot had never seen Chris’s artwork. So we had a good time playing with all the steam punk stuff

Home now… And my mom, my brother and my sister just called from a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis. It was good check it out with them

Also just checked in with Diane we’re still painting away in Portland. The place is looking really good

Now I’m getting pretty sleepy… Time for bed

Night all, night Sam

– me