Busy day. One of the bright spots was that Gabe gave us the credentials to watch his new puppy nova in her doggy daycare. He’s taking her there a few days a week to socialize… It’s so fun being able to watch her from here.

Around for Diane and I took off towards Middlebury. Tonight was the fall Meeting of the Vermont Academy of science and engineering (V’ASE) .… I love this group. It’s a bunch of senior scientists and engineers from all over the state… We get together just to talk… I’m trying to get a few things done. I’m very proud of what we’ve done in education hour each. Give them away about $20,000 a year in small grants to Vermont teachers in science clubs such as FIRST robotics. (We’re currently excepting proposals for our fall grants… Go look at https://www.vtscieng.org/k-12-outreach)

It was a great meeting… First-rate a public talk by Middleberry professor and Weir mental advocate Bill McKibben… He gave a excellent and quite sobering talk on the state of climate change. It was a pretty good call to action. The other vase members and I were very charged up to see what we should be doing as a state body to lobby the government. More here later.

From there we went over to the Middlebury alumni hall for a great dinner and socializing . It was so great catching up with some of our Sciency friends.

We got introduced as board members… And we welcome the new members. I had a great honor of introducing Dr. Mark Levine the state commissioner on health… He’s the guy who helped Vermont have the highest vaccination rate and the lowest morbidity around COVID-19… He’s a real hero and it was so great to be able to honor him in this way.

We also got to honor Vermont teacher of the year…

I love my geeky friends

nite all, nite sam

-me