Ssarted the day with a very quick hike up to duxbury window

 

Then a really nice visit to our friend Cara )aka Coco) and her husband Tom’s wonderful house up on camels hump road. I know Coco from burning, but I’ve never met Tom. It was really wonderful meeting tom and seeing their place.  They have a warm and cozy place that sits in a small gorge next to the small creek that runs along camels hump road. It’s got great waterfalls and swimming holes and a constant burble of running water. Their dog Hoss couldnt ask for a better place to hang out. 
Tom is a play therapist and a fascinating and kind person.. the four of us hung out talking about play,  religion and The Colony which both coco and tom managed to watch.. It was so fun and relaxing.

 

Later on in the day our friend Sammie V and her husband Souli and their 4 kids came by to say hi. They all live east of the bay area in California. Theire back seeing Sammies mom  Barb and her parter Jim.. Sammie used to babysiit our kids now she’s got 4 of her own !.   We had so mich fun hanging out  with their kids.. Their son Sam was really in to sceince so we had fun playing with the van der graf and tesla coils..    It was gerat catching up with Sammie and Soulie …

 

Super fun being around all these folks  today !

nite all, nite sam !

-me

Today was a fun and busy day. It was the annul TechJam put on by my friends at 7Days. It’s a great meetup  of local tech companies showing their wares and collecting resumes.   Its always exciting and a bit overwhelmign to go there because I run into soooooo many people I know. I love it… and at the same time feel a little strange being able to have only really short fragmented conversations with everyone. 
today I was there representing  2.. organization.   Beta was there in force with  our  mobile simulator and 3 of our studyhall demos..  I was also there as part of the FIRST robotics meetup.  It was a huge day for us.. we had robot teams from across the state from all levels.. Middle school First Lego League (FLL) teams, High school FIrst Tech Challenge (FTC) teams and even 2 big robots from FIRST Robotics Competition (FTC). Our friend Cathy had assigned us a perfect place to meet the public. I nice big windowed room right at the entrance of Techjam. We met hundreds and hundreds of people.. and showed them how fun it was to build robots. We had our 2nd annual (I guess !) robot parade which was super fun.  It was a wonderful gatherign for all of us robot folks.. 

I ran into so many people. My friends Jon wore his “I’m not john cohn’ shirt.    which he wore as a surprise. I have a matching ‘i’m not jon bondy’ shirt  . It would have been really funny if i’d worn that.  Folks always thought we looked alike back in the day.   He’s a cool guy. I also ran in to Eric.. max’s 4th grade pen pal !

 

My beta friends had a wonderful day.. We had the mobile dome and several of our studyhall demos. The place was pretty packed most of the day.. they were all outside in the most beautiful weather.. a great place to watch the sunset !

 

I also really enjoyed the  panel with my friend  John Abele and Sarah Kalil

It was a great day !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I love fridays.. they are the only thing that makes me feel retired at all.  . We strated with a hike u bolton  to teh top of the lift, then down cbrass.. it was a great crisp day

then our friend Chuck came by with a piece of equipment he knew I would love.. its a voltage multiplier stack for an old X ray machine.. it’ makes 5000 volts intow75000 volts.. how cool is that ?   Chuck used to  fix xray machines.. and he knew I’d like this relic..

The first thing I though of is how my friend Scott would have loved to have played with this.. I sure miss scott.. I think of him nearly every day.. ..   Miss you buddy !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Day began with a quick hike up to duxbury window.. colors are goign but the woods are still beautiful ! (as is diane 🙂

Good day at work..    a good day is when we’re actually making things. Today rebar, shannon and I worked with our friends Jake, and Luke on some  cool flying stuff.. then with our other friend jake on some metal work for a beta display.. Check out Shannon with the sparks flying !
(Note.. sorry.. I cant usually post pictures from inside work that show anything.. but I think these are ok)

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me