Another surreal day in Cambridge… Work was almost empty. From what I understand Boston is now an emergency zone. Harvard is sending his students home. I’m coming home as soon as I can tomorrow. Not sure when the next time I’ll be able to come down here. This is such a strange feeling… It’s very reminiscent of the colony.

This drain cover I saw on my run this morning was clearly channeling the mood

Despite the lack of people I had a crazy busy day. Lots of meetings… All of them by phone. At 4:30 I had an interesting treat… The “Lego heads”… A first robotics team that I had met in Vermont a few weeks back came to visit me at the Mit-Ibm Center. They were four of them… Two high school kids and their two adult mentors. I told him a little bit about the MIT-IBM Lab… And they told me about this wonderful plan they have for helping Vermont grow their first robotics Lego teams. It was so inspiring!. They had actually reached out to every library in the state of Vermont…. To see if they were interested in helping start a first Lego team. They’ve heard from three of those library and they actually drove up and visited library’s in south Royalton, Plainfield, and near Rutland. They have a fabulous plan for raising money, getting equipment etc. I spent a long time trying to figure out how we could work together to help First in Vermont. I am so grateful That we met the Lego heads.



The team mentor Anupendra had to leave because tonight is holi, An Indian holiday that people celebrate by throwing colored sand each other. I started to tell him about my good friend Gaya who always has great pictures of been covered in colored sand. As soon as I said her name Gaya called me… That’s pretty weird because I talk to her about twice a year. ( queue the Spooky music)

OK… I’m going to try to get some sleep…

More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me