Gabe left this morning about 5:30 am .. heading back to 2nd semester of grad school ..

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It was great seeing both boys over the break.. gabe leaving means we return to our normal-ish lives

Diane took advantage of the slow down to attach the cupboards. How much Indian picks and hot sauces do we really need ? Good news is she found our tofu press !

I had a full day of calls as i eased back into work.. I took a break and met up with our friend Reid who’s in VT visiting from Netherlands. He had a business making 3D printing filament with Nano diamonds . It’s an amazing material. Super strong and lift . He’s laden samstone for us out out it !

later tonight we had dinner with new roomy Eliot. He gave us a demo of the tool he bought for wire tying his maple sap lines . We had him demonstrate on a wad of kitchen utensils.. impressive!

Ok .. time for a weekend ! Gotta sleep

More tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

easy day at home .. my only time out was a short run with the dogs in the beautiful snow

I came home to find gabe and Raya eating breakfast.. they were eating bear sausage they got from our new roommate Elliott..

the bear was from the hill behind our house…that felt both sad and cool to me

I spent the day programming and catching up on some work stuff . It’s been nice being so off line this break

Gabe leaves tomorrow morning so he, Raya and Elliott made a big dinner with help from Diane . Gabe’s choice was shrimp scampi.. it was so good.. and nice to have yet another big dinner

It’ll soon be quiet again and I don’t want to rush that

Nite all , nite Sam

-me

We learned today That our friend Matt Thorsen passed away yesterday after a long run with cancer. Matt was an amazing guy… We didn’t see him often but it was always around something really fun. He was a photographer for the local 7 days newspaper. We would run into him at all sorts of crazy things like art hop, or BCA shows, or Chris’s burns . One of my favorite memories is a photo shoot he did have hammers “Monroe doctrine” where we all dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and got photographed In a steam punk shower. (You had to of been there) http://johncohn.org/base/2012/02/04/friday-night-the-monoe-doctrine/

Matt was an accomplished and eclectic artist… We had a really amazing eye for photography.

I’ve been to several of his shows… They were amazing and sometimes shocking. I remember a photograph of his father that was taken shortly after his father’s death. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. He had a very interesting and unusual world of you and captured it really well.

The last show I saw of his was at Burlington city arts. It was a fundraiser for Matt’s treatment. He got all his friends to come and i could tell that made him happy It was great seeing him then.

Eva from Seven Days did this wonderful Interview with Matt a few months ago. It was really a wonderful tribute… And I love the fact that Matt got to see it.

https://youtu.be/XWAtXKZmU0A

A month or so ago our friend Sarah and Dan made some Spiderman capes for Matt and his wife that Diane delivered. I exchanged emails with Matt just after that… That was the last time we communicated

I Will miss you Matt… You are an amazing fun and inspiring guy.

I believe there’s going to be a memorial service Format at his and his wife’s Diane’s house on Sunday.
I’ll post anything I hear

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Very slow and easy start to the year. We all took advantage of the bad weather and stayed inside and puttered. I started working with my new Intel move videos Neuro stick… It’s a simple USB device that plugs into a raspberry pie and accelerates machine learning inferencing.By the end of the day I was successfully able to recognize the difference between a bowl of guacamole and an electric guitar… Another great start for the year

Dan had a wonderful yoga gathering here tonight… We had about 15 people over for fish soup.

That’s three good things for the day… I guess that’s enough for one day.

Happy new year everyone

Nite all, nite Sam

-me