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
Last night when I was taking chai to the river… Still so strange with just her… I saw an amazing piece of natural art. It was a stick with several burned inscriptions. It was roughly done… But it was obviously left there for someone to find… It had several inscriptions including a hashtag
I’ve been going by and playing with her toys a little… That helps I guess. But it’s still so weird. I’ve been having very vivid dreams about her. I can’t remember my dreams on Wednesday night but Thursday night I dreamed that I had programmed some cool moving video of Satori but I was putting on all of our car doors… She was curled up in a circle and chasing her tail. It was very Satori like and cute. Last night I dreamed that Satori told me that safety for self driving cars was really important to her and I committed… In my dream… To devote my life to that causes in her honor. Not a bad thought.
I spent most of the day like I spent the last couple of days thinking about her… And just being kind of sad. We had some nice visits today from friends. Viktor and Lucie came over for brunch… Then Marshall and Tyler… Then John and Lauren showed up. Ajay and Alex next-door we’re building a new swing for their daughter Carly… So they came over to swim. Later tonight Marcus came over and we all from vegetables.All of this was a good social distancing but it was nice to see folks
Later tonight we met up with max , Becky , gabe and Shaun To all eat homemade ice cream by zoom. It was a little bit of a tribute to Satori . It was so delicious ! ‘Diane made coconut with chocolate flakes and raspberries. It was so great
My dad would’ve turned 90 would be like if you were still alive today… I wonder what he would’ve made of today’s crazy situation.
I was thinking of him all day he such a great guy. I Have such great memories of him. It is a funny and loving guy.
My mom my brothers family my sisters family and our family all got together for a short bit this afternoon to toast him. My mom had found a bunch of pictures of my dad with various babies and we were trying to guess who was who. It was pretty funny
Happy birthday Pa… I miss you every day. I love you very much !
