Tonight we had two new friends over for dinner : Aria and Daniel. They just moved here from Denmark and bought a house in Essex. Its a big move. Aria is my PhD co-advisor Ricks daughter.. I think the last time I saw her she was 4.. she and dan are so great !. they decided to come to vermont after weighing the pros and cons of (I think) 132 different cities and towns in the US.. Burlington area won !. We had such a good time getting to know them and telling them about things to do here in VT. I
Busy day at work.. so busy I missed a call with my freind Vasu who’s in India visiting family. Vasu is from Cochin a town in Kerila that Diane, Gabe and I once visited. Cochin is unique in that it had a large Jewish community back in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pursuit sent me some pictures from the old cemetery there and I caught a picture of our last name in hebrew… Kind of weird
After work. we had one of our FLuffy stand up meetings. this one was at Beta. Rebar gave a nice overview of the collaboration tech we’re using for the project (slack. google drive and google cal.. then Diane and I led an exercise with our cloud models.. and there was Pizza !!!
Diane and I got out of the house early to get a hike in up Libbys look. There was still a bunch of snow.. but it was packed down enough we just took spikes and not snowshoes. It was a beautiful day
We found someone’s snowshoe tracks that left a smile in the snow !
Work was fun but uneventful (though Mike brought ice cream.. a guess thats eventful !
After work we had a Land Trust meeting at the town offices then went home and fiddled with the Fluffy cloud models. Diane had an idea from an old game we used to play with the kids that was called Racko.. Involve these racks where you had layers of cards. We arranged the shape of fluffy’s clouds roughly as they were laid out on the passenger and driver side. Diane had found some racks that were similar to the ones we played Racko with . We layered the clouds as they appear on the bus. From that it was immediately cleared some places where we had to simplify the wiring. The light wiring was crossing back-and-forth across the layers making them hard to install and hard to test .it was a fun exercise
Had a busy and fun day. It began with me showing Ian and his fam aroudn Beta.. Ian and Beth have two young kids and it was fun to see what they were interested in .
I spent the evening working a a few side projects. First , I finished the wiring and 3d printing for a an Emotibit biometric sensor a group of us are using on a project.
Then diane and I finished drawign the LED strips on the laser cut models of the clouds from our burning man bus Fluffy. Our goal this year is to make it more robust and easier to put together and take apart. Our hope is to use these small cutouts to look for some simplifications.
It will eb fun to see if these help our simplifications !
