Diane and I took the afternoon to travel up to Fairfax with our friend Jimmy to see Runamuk Male. Jimmy is in investor in Runamok and wanted me to take a look. It’s a very cool setup.. the owner Erich and his team make specialty maple products which they sell all over the world. In edition to shipping high grade syrup they have about a zillion flavored syrups.. We got to tour the facility to see how they do their small batch runs.. then we got to taste some of the most exotic ones.. Our favorites were the sparkly syrup with edible mica flakes and the black licorice maple (.. we also tried cinnamon, lemongrass, berry flavors and many others.. it was really delicious and fun !

 

Later in the afternoon we headed to generator to work with the first FRC robotics team. The team  is working  hard to get their robot ready for to show the younger kids at the upcoming FLL event . 

I’m amazed at how much progress they’re making !

 

After that , we went and met my friend Lapo and his GF Change for dinner downtown. Lapo is a really great CS phd student  friend of mine. He taught me the wonders gf P5.js.  which I use all the time now. Chenge is also working on her Phd . She’s an evolutionary biologist.. Lapo calls her the Evo Diva (as in Eco-Devo.. or evolutionary development) . Super nice hanging out with them !

 

On the way home we spontaneously decided to drop in to Barnes and Noble to check for travel books We hadn’t been in there for at least 10 years.. maybe more.. iIt was both comforting and creepy to see that  t’s exactly as it was a decade ago.. same folks having out on a Friday night. 

Some things never change !

nite all. nite sam

-me