I had an interesting day on Friday.… I’m trying really hard not to work on Fridays so I had scheduled a couple of socially distance face-to-face meetings that I’ve been putting off. The first was with my new friend Ned. ned is an amazing guy… He’s been a quadriplegic for many years and he’s designing his own standing wheelchair.… He’s been having some technical challenges and I’m trying to help him by introducing him to some people who do those kind of control system things. I went and visited Ned in his very beautiful apartment looking over the lake and the Adirondacks. It’s really a spectacular place. Ned has his counseling practice based there… I can only imagine that his patients have trouble concentrating because the view is so gorgeous.I had a great lunch with Ned and his assistant Max. And that’s very cute dog Charlie

I really enjoyed talking to Ned and had some ideas and people he could talk to you… He’s got some great technical ideas… And some great technical challenges to make it work. Look forward to helping him if I can-

I didn’t have a brief intro meeting with James… He works at global foundries but the funny connection is that his “aunt”… (Not his blood aunt but close enough close friend is my Good friend ‘Ellen’s sister Annie Who’s been my friend since the late 70s in Houston.… Ani had asked me to look James up. He’s such a nice guy… It turns out that his girlfriend used to work with our housemate ‘Kyle… Again another Vermont small world

giraffe the deer I had a really nice dinner at hatchet with my friend Mike… It’s great catching up with him and then I went back home and actually started working in my newly appointed shop. It was the first project I’ve actually done there… And when I looked up it was almost 2 AM… That’s a good sign of a great working shop 🙂

Diane is out in Portland with Max helping dog sit with nova this week… And I really miss her. I’m very happy that after 40 years I still miss My girl like crazy when she’s Traveling.

nite all, nite sam

-me

I dropped ‘Diane off at the airport add a 4:45 this morning… She’s heading out to Oregon … I miss her already :-)

Getting up that early I had a pretty productive day (even though I went home and got another hours sleep)… I managed to pick out some new glasses

Run a bunch of errands… Went to the chiropractor… And went to the store. I realized I had bought some frozen food but had a few more hours (turned out to be about eight more hours) of work to do… What to do?… I just left the frozen food on my windshield… And it was still frozen solid when I got back… No surprise because it’s been close to zero. Just another benefit of living in our beautiful Part of the world 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

The big moment of the day

Simple pleasures are the best of these cold cabin fever days

nite all, nite sam

-me

Fun day.… Active meetings and taking them all at home because we want to keep Covid free until ‘Diane travels on Thursday.

We were able to get out for a nice hour and a half snowshoe Gleeson Brooke

After yoga tonight I did the final sorting and unpacking and packing and straightening… And I think I can officially declared that my new shop is open for business… In other words I can start messing it up now that it’s clean.

OK… This one shelf is still pretty messy. I still have some organizing to do theire

Once again… Here’s what it look like before

Huge thanks to ‘Diane for all the work and painting the floor and the walls and ceilings. Buying all the containers and helping me choosing install the steel shelves

It’s nice to begin working out there again!

nite all, nite sam

-me