Today was really nice… It was cold and rainy outside and I worked the entire day… I worked some on cleaning up my calendar, catching up with some correspondence, doing some venting… And then around 6 PM I went into work and got a full six hour day and a beautiful making hardware software etc.… I know that might not sound relaxing but to me it was heavenly

Maybe I don’t understand but relaxing is all about but I know what I like 🙂

The only thing about today I didn’t like is that I missing ‘Diane who’s out on our advanced painting team in Portland… As much as I appreciate the extra week here to get prepped for something at work… I am sure missing her.

OK time for bed

nite all, nite sam

-me

I woke up early and started final prep for leaving Portland. My plane was about 430 so I use the morning to do laundry, take down the storm windows, prep the lawnmower, finish some of the tree fertilizing and of course pack… About an hour before Tim was going to come and pick me up to take me to the airport I got a call from Gabe and then call from Diane. We all got on the phone together and discuss the coming weeks weather in Portland. We have been scheduled to put up the scaffolding on Monday… Unfortunately it was a week of hard rain coming. We did some excellent brainstorming and calendar work decided that it would make more sense to push the project out exactly one week. I was able to contact the scaffolding contractor and change my flight in in a matter of 30 minutes we had made a new plan. It was a little bit of whiplash because I have been all set to go out there and have been missing Diane and was looking forward to seeing Gabe , his GF sam and GameStop nova… But I’ve now got my mental calendar settled.…

That gave me an unplanned day off… It was actually kind of good as I’m still feeling a little achy from the Covid booster… Nothing a good nap Couldn’t help… I worked around the house got some time in one electronics project I was working on… And then around six Went up to see Tim and ‘Jen for a lovely meal and a nice hang out and I know it wasn’t the day I was expecting… But a nice day all the same

It looks like I now have a bonus week where I can really catch up on a Couple of projects at work

Still missing the family though… Can’t wait to see them

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I got my second Covid booster the day before so I feel a little low today… So I worked around the house. Were heading out to Portland to help Gabe paint his house.. Diane is already there… And I was planning to go out there to join them tomorrow (Saturday So I have lots of prepping things to do around the house… I also caught up on some home projects…

I only time I left the house was to take a walk with my friend Nina… She was going to bring her new baby Helene but it was kind of rainy so the two of us just walked around Richmond and caught up. Nina is the education lead at the echo Museum and we’ve been working together on a couple of projects. It’s really great hearing about how she, her partner Mica and the baby Helene we’re doing…

She’s also been a very good advisor so far to our study hall project at beta… She is really great at it Designing experience tickets kids interested in science… She’s one of my heroes

Nit all, nite sam

-me

I woke up this morning and I couldn’t figure out what I was feeling… And then it hit me I had drunk 2/3 of a bottle of good wine by myself at Part of the memorial Gathering at hosted last night on zoom for my friend Tom Williams…

It wasn’t that bad it actually felt kind a good to feel a little hung over because that’s how I always felt after hanging out with Tom 🙂

Hangover it was nothing that a couple of cups of coffee and a run couldn’t fix…

Had a busy day at work… Highlight of the day is that I got to host the “beta bytes of knowledge” Event for the week… It was my good friend Ryan over speaking on a really well told story about how he came to One one of the early text Driven echo machines… You may never have seen one of these but you certainly heard it if you’ve ever listen to Elvis, Led Zeppelin etc.… It’s an amazing device that uses multiple Tapeheads decree wonderful echoey Sound…

Ryan story it was really fun and touching… And that was that these devices came out in the 40s and 50s and were created by an inventor in Ohio and Mike battle… They were much sod after and we’re quite expensive. Ryan is it musician really wanted to get a hold of one of those.… But he couldn’t afford the few that were still in circulation. So he called up the inventor who is now quite old and was hoping to find perhaps an older unit gathering dust. He was in luck… Or so it seemed… Because battle had 1 inch model that he used for tuning his design. He agreed to sell it to ryan for a very good price… Ryan sent the money… And then waited… And waited… And waited… Months and months and months and it some point he realize he was not gonna get his money back… And he was probably never going to get his echoplex.… At the time Ryan was working at magic hat brewery… They had to habit of making bottle caps with insane… And when you came up with the work anniversary they would make a fun Saint just for you… But when Thousands of bottles Of beer to be sold… Ryan said “got your echoplex yet?”…… You can still find them he says

…He tried a couple of times call Mike battle… He finally reached the guy but he was so ill that he could talk…

A few weeks later he got a call from a family member to tell him that Mike battle passed away… But had this box that was addressed to Rhonni. Long story I know but he eventually got his beautiful device… Better still he brought it and played it it was so fun and other people from the audience got up and played it. Super great story

Later that evening we had a work session for fluffy the magic bus… By the time I got in there they managed to get all of the seats out of the bus. My biggest contribution so far I was buying pizza… It’s gonna be a big project but fun

I’m gonna try to help debug the hydraulics on the lift..l I’m guessing a bad motor cap…



This is going to be a lot of work

Night all, night Sam

– me