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

Got back to BTV at around 10 am and was able to walk to work. It was a little cold and rainy.. felt just like portland. My friend mike gave me a ride home… since it was still light, I went for a run.. there were flowers everywhere.. so beutiful !

Kyle and I made dimmer together tonight.. was nice to catch up

Nite all, nite sam

– me