it rained on and off all day which gave us permission to put down our paint brushes and enjoy all being together

max , diane and I took nova to the park

then we all went out to brunch at a really nice place nearby

midday I spent watching max gabe playing a crazy difficult video game about cooking !

later we all went to burnside to check out some cool stores including the most amazing light bulb store I have ever seen, a bubble tea place and a really weird and exotic taxidermy and science oddity store

we went home and ran in to our old vermont neighbors oliver tone on the road .. he was the kid that famously got me in trouble with the elementary school when he went home and ate a battery after seeing me do a science demonstration at his school

then we did take out from a new and amazing fish and chips

place a few blocks from gabé. who knew that a fish and chips burrito could be so great ?! brought back great memories of alfors, the fish and chips

place that my dad used to be part of when we were kids

we finished the night at a local Mead tavern called Wyss that gabes neighbor ted really likes . yummy mead and a last call ceremony that involved drums, horns and aztec death whistles !

great full day !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Woke up at our air bnb near the park and made our way back to gabes. Sean and tucker worked on the roof of the house while the rest of took it easy.. I did show max around the scaffolding . We stuck a samstone in a hole in the roof before tucker did the work to cover it up

We took max and becky on. Nova walk at lauralhurst to see the flowers.. its amazingly lush out here

The rest of the day we puttered around the house . Beckys friend rebecah showed up on her way to seattle.. we walked to a food truck stand for yummy lunch and then just hung out. Diane worked on the gardons, sean annd tucker worked on the roof and I took a nap !

Late afternoon we learned that the flaming lips concert that max and becky had come in to town to see with gabe had been canceled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances ’ .. who knows .. maybe covid. Soon after max and Becky’s friend Bridget and her BF john and dog tony showed up.. they were also coming for the. Concert.. se we had to come up with Plan B. A fun challenge for that many people

We decided since they couldn’t see the flaming kips.. wed make our lips flame.. so we piled in cars and headed to KTown Korean barbecue !

All you could eat grilled stuff at your table with lots of yummy side dishes ..That was so fun and tasty and brought back great memories of times ive been to korea With friends!

If that weren’t enough, we stopped at a macha tea ice cream place on the way home.. a zillion choices on how you wanted to eat your macha.. which tastes like really yummy grass clippings !

Max opted for a gold encrusted cone covered with real gold leaf !

Wonderful day with family !

Nite all, nite sam

– me

My friend kyle w. ( we have so many Kyles in our life now !) picked me up at 9 and took me to Beta. I got there just in time for my good friend Aaron’s surprise early birthday party.. I say just in time…because wed scheduled a fake meeting to give him his cake.. but something delayed the cake so we had to think of things to keep the meeting going.. awkward fun!

the cake. (chocolate ice cream cake ) came and we got to sing.. my freind shannon had 3d printed some really cute flexible octopuses as decorations.. very cool

It was great to celebrate aaron.. he is truly one of my favorite people ever !

I spent the morning trying to fix the remaining bugs in my demo which made me pretty grouchy… but at noon I stopped to have lunch with my friend david who’d flown up from boston in his own plane to give a talk for us.. david is an old summer camp friend of our good friend gary. He’s also a professor of aero and astro at mit, and author, and an entrepreneur. His company humatics has an amazing technology for spatial positioning.

After catching up at lunch david gave a really fantastic talk on the history of the appolo program and the history of regional air mobility. Both really resonated with our crew.

I was able to stay just till the end of davids talk, then walked over to the airport to catch my flight back to portland.. it took me only 15 min between giving david a goodbye hug and sitting at the gate for my flight.

My ffriend muhamad at the united desk flagged me down when I git to the gate and told me my flight was delayed and id probably miss my connection to portland.. he quickly rebooked me .. and I he@ded out back west

Gabe picked me up around 8.. then went back to the airport to pick upmax and becky..

We were all together again…

Though never completely.. missing you sam !

Nite all, nite sam

– me

Woke up in wednesday and seemed to break everything I touched.. hardware, software.. stayed at work till midnight trying to fix something..only seemed to make it worse.. by the end of the night I thought id found the problem.. only to find that it was still happening the next morning..

Often better to walk away for a bit when this happens

At least the leaves are ready to sproing !

Nite all, nite sam

-me