Busy Sunday…    We’re startign work in earnest on the fire effect for Fluffy the burning man bus. First step in that was to transfer all the remaining parts from our house to Nordic.. That included 2 new 100 lb porpane tanks with quick fill valves.. they are sweet. Anyway.. our car looked kinda suspicious with all that gear

We also had our friend allen along.. he’s new to the area and has had fun meeting some of the artists on the bus.. He’s such a cool guy

one fun thing is that the wrench we have that’s big enough for the unions on the device is Diane’s Italian grandfathers hundred year old wrench… Hey you use what you have

On the way to Nordic, we stopped by BETA D1 to take soem measurements on FLuffy. We ran into my friend Aimee who is an intern ant beta and an AMAZING inventor. We got a tour of his tool bus which includes  solar panels, a huge inverter and an old alia battery to power everything, starlkink internet, a heat pump, a cnc mill, a laser cutter a 3d printer and a ton of tools.. Pretty sweet ride !

Friend Sean was there to see some of Fluffy’s rigging.. he’s been a huge help too !

Back at home the temperature was rising

so people started parking crazily again across the street.. UGH !

This is Umiak.. THey are dropping people right out on cochran road.. where they get their  tubes and stand around in the road. I reallt worry that someone is going to get hurt !

later on , our freinds Caroline and Kaleo dropped in they live in Maui and hosted us a month ago. It was great to be able to show Klaeo around.. he’d never been to Vermont

we finished the day with a fast hike up to duxbury window..

busy day !

Whew.. really busy day !

nite all, nite sam

-me

The day… ‘Diane and I went down to lower gorge instead in the water for a while which is always nice.…

The rest of the day we just worked around the house. One of the things we’re monitoring is the parking problems at the Bombardier meadows across the way. As part of our parking advisory Committee we’re trying to figure out prevent the parking there from spilling out dangerously into the street.… Unfortunately no matter what we do people take advantage and park where they shouldn’t..

 

If we cant figure out a way to get folks to be more careful with parking, the RLT may needf to shut down this parkign area.. which would be a shame !

nite all, nite sam

-me

THis evening about 700 of us went down to our friends (and bosses)  Katie and Kyles house in Lincoln for a company wide Summerfest party.

They live way out in Lincoln with a beutiful view of My Abe.. What a place. It was SOOOOO fun getting to see all of our work freinds relaxing in such a beutiful place. THere were bands including my friends Ryan O and  Ryan M… Ryan M had his band Guster there which has strong Lincoln connection. THe music was great, the food was great..   Kyle and Katie are great, BETA IS GREAT !!

there was even a giant slip and slide !

We got to see 3d printed mugs in the shape of our friend Andrew !  (modeled by friend Bryce)

I feel so lucky to be in this crazy mix !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

Busy day at work, I did sneak some time down at Nordic (Earthkeep farm common) to try the first edge lighting of the clouds for Fluffy.. the burning man bus.

This  is  the first time we saw whether putting the LED strips on their side would work … and be bright enough and even enough to use. We were pretty happy with the result !

 

 

 

I think this is going to work !

nite all, nite sam

-me