One of the things that ‘Kyle and I are trying this week is to see if we can make real Ethiopian injira. It’s a rolled up bread that is used as both a utensil and as a meal component. It’s made out of the grain teff which is indigenous to Ethiopia and surroundings. It’s got some cool advantages like it’s gluten-free… It’s got some major disadvantages is that it’s seems pretty hard to cook with. On Monday… Or was it Sunday?… We put some of the teff in a bowl with warm water and added baking east… In another bowl we tried the more traditional way which is to use natural yeast in the air.… Fade forward a couple of days and this blue green mass is what we have on the natural version.… Believe it or not the recipe says that’s the way it supposed to look like. Will have to see how it tastes

… Just as a note. I went all of January without drinking alcohol which was just a fun thing to do. I was trying to lose a little weight (I did… About 3 pounds which is what I was aiming for)… But I decided to also try giving up alcohol. It wasn’t hard to do… Though I did miss the ritual of having that one glass of wine. Surprisingly though I found that I was sleeping better without drinking late at night. I’ve never been a big drinker but a Brandy at night are we seem to help me get to sleep… But it didn’t keep me asleep. I slept so much better by not drinking at night. Very interesting experiment… That said the month is over and I had my first glass of wine… It was earlier in the evening so I don’t think it will interfere with my sleep… Let’s see

note all, nite sam

-me

Had an interesting day… For some reason I woke up completely out of “flu”… Everything was kind of going sideways… I had a couple of tough meetings I had to deal with but as the day wore on ended up having a lot more fun than I had anticipated. Got some cool stuff working at beta. Got home and was pleased to see that advice I had ordered for one of our demos arrived. It’s the cutest little smoke machine… Check it out

Oh I love having a job where this is my job :-)

nite all, nite sam

-me

Nice slow. day… I didn’t do any Of the things that I “had” to do… And instead spent a good portion of the day walking with my friend James up on some new trails I’ve never been on a behind Corcoran ski area.… There’s a large ridge that raises sharply on the town side of Richmond. I’ve been up there before but haven’t explored it much. We took a 5 1/2 mile loop up and over… Some great views

And really nice snow

we came down through the old Richmond cemetery… It was interesting seeing some of the very old stones way up in the field

Once we got back to Cochran’s I headed down to Overocker park to meet my friend JOHN to see if we could stick out a better trail from the Overocker parking lot to the river. We made a note to do that when the Bracken had all died down. We found some cool stuff down there… And maybe even a path for a trail

OK… Face with a decision whether I stay up a couple more hours and program or go to sleep…

sleep wins !

note all, nite sam

-me

I know it’s supposed to be ice cream sundae… But today was special. My friend ‘Wendy had borrowed my dewer To take liquid nitrogen into her class. She returned it with a little bit of liquid nitrogen left.… Give me a nice opportunity today. I drove about an hour down to Bethel To make a quick visit to one of the first robotics teams that were helping fund. It was so great to see the team in action. I got a great technical walk-through and really appreciate how exciting first robotics challenge (fRC) Can be. We only have a few FRC teams in the state and I’m trying to help build more.… I took advantage of the trip to make liquid nitrogen ice cream with all of the robot tears. Super fun (Dr. cool… Was thinking of you when I did it)



I got back home and it was too cold really go outside so I headed into bed I did a little bit of work came back and realized I still had some nitrogen. So our housemate ‘Kyle and I made a small amount of pumpkin ice cream… Which is a lot better than it sounded

nite all, nite sam

-me