dad and I had a great adventure on Friday… First took a hike in the morning. Then we drove down to ours to Brattleboro to meet up with an interesting collection of friends. My friend Neil who is a professor at MIT had gotten a bunch of us together and included my friend Lars are used to be a generator was dead at artist asylum and is now attached base in Brattleboro, my friend Leo from hat club, my friend ‘Jen from the University of Vermont and our new friend Tom who is one of the founders of hatch space. Hatch base is a wonderful wood-based maker space down in Brattleboro. It’s a great funky or building and it is full of incredibly talented woodworkers. I’m so happy that Lars is now the executive director of it.… It was a great collection of people I’ve known from all different places all converging in one area. It’s been a great hour looking around the place

From there we drove up to East Dummerston a few miles north to Tom’s beautiful solar powered house. It really is a treasure with all custom woodwork.… Tom’s friend Johnny and his wife wendy showed up turns out that JOHNY was at IBMer for a long time… He’s also a great physical computing person. I think there’s some cool stuff we could all do together. It was a great evening… ‘Diane and I had to leave before dinner because we had guests coming to meet us in Richmond… But it was really nice to spend a little time with everyone before running out

We got back home around a 8:45 and our friends MICHAEL and Liz both showed up from different parts of the world. Both of them were getting together with us for a brainstorming session on Saturday about first robotics.… It was really nice having a beer with both of them.

nite all, nite sam

-me