After yoga tonight my friends Zach and Mani showed up for our last work session before they both go back to college. The two of them and my friend Isaac are helping me build a robotic “mascot” For the first tech challenge robotics project that ‘Diane and I are driving. We’ve had a couple of weeks to do it and we’ve gotten pretty far. We can now get the robot frame to drive around on the floor. I’m building this robot to make it into something fun that we can use for recruiting… I’m also doing it so that I actually know the platform that I’m trying to get other kids to do.… Is proving to be much more complicated than I thought.… “Old dog new tricks”

Speaking of old dog … Chai Had a really good deep water swim in the river today. I think being Boyd up by the water really feels good to her. She still swims like a pup… Despite being… What? 120 years old?

She’s been particularly affectionate the last couple of days… I think she misses Satori in some weird way…

I really do. Every time I walk past her squeaky toy Hedgy I give it a big squeeze

We miss you sweet girl !

Nite all, nite sam

-me