Late Thursday night and I am really exhausted. It’s been a fun week. Our prenup hackathon has really worked out nicely. We weren’t sure how many people would turn out… And we weren’t sure what kind of challenges they would work on. It’s all been much better than our expectation. Overall we had about 40 people hacking… That work down to be about nine teams. All of the projects were really impressive. People were great and the mentors we had great. What’s even better is that having all of the IBM mentor is here was a great Opportunity for them to meet each other and to help us improve the system.
I’m still absorbing all that happened… But I’m very,very happy
Super busy day at the Citori hack-athon. Second day turned out to be much busier than we anticipated. We had lots of people coming in asking for help and giving us feedback on what needed to change in the documentation etc.… It was really fun.
Tomorrow we see what everybody’s been working on… I really don’t know what to expect but I hope it will be fun. I’ll let you know
Today was the first day of our Greenup – speed up hackathon on Satori. I was a little worried at first… When 15 minutes before we were starting there were only three people there… About 30 minutes later there were 40 people which was just what we wanted.
It’s the first time we’ve had a bunch of people using the system all at the same time. There were a few bumps in the road but overall it was a very good day. We have quite a few teams hacking on the machine and so far things are running pretty well. I’m lucky to have a group of very good mentors here helping us. I’m going to make use of every moment that are here to make the experience on the machine better. It’s really fun hanging out with so many smart people
We had a nice mentor dinner afterwards… It’s really nice to get to know all of these folks

Tomorrow is likely to be a pretty quiet day because people will be hacking wherever they want… Our group of mentors will be there all day working to make the system better. If you’re around please drop by and say hi.
I was driving down to Cambridge early this morning when I heard a story on Vermont Public Radio.. .. It was about a woman who’s son.. who’s name was Sam.. had died of an opioid overdose a couple of years ago.
The woman.. who’s name was Kris told how hard it was for her to have to turn of her son’s cell phone plan.. a year later she had a sad dream about her son.. that morning as she walked.. she put out to the world that she needed a sign from her son.. somehow a few minutes later she accidentally pocket called her son’s number .. She saw it.. and started laughing.. a sign…
A few hours later, a txt came back from the number asking ‘who is thes “‘.. that sort of changed the situation.. for a moment she thought…. no.. that couldn’t be.. .. so she answered. She explained her name. was chris and that the number used to belong to her late son Sam.. a few econds later the txt came back .. it was from a woman named Peggy.. she’d been assigned Sam’s old number.. What was crazy is that she two had had a child we’d died.. her daughter Samantha .. who went by Sam.. had died in a car accident 2 years back.. the two women texted back and forth and realized that they lived only 30 miles aways and that their kids had known each other, likesd the same bands,. took the same hikes. . they are slowly becaming friends from that shared grief…
I had to stop driving to listen.. As soon as the story was over, I tracked down Kris on Facebook.. and sure enough, I found her.. I messaged her about Sam…. We agreed to talk when she and her husband get back from traveling.. I’m really looking forward to meeting them. It turns out she’s even written a book on her and her husband paul’s experience called ‘on Grief Garlic and Gratitude’.. https://www.amazon.com/Grief-Garlic-Gratitude-Returning-Shattered-ebook/dp/B07J2YD765/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
