Nice day of making things at work.. Our team keeps  getting moved around, but my co-worker Shannon manages to make our workplace fun and functional every time. Today she put the finishing touches on the decor by hanging the unicorn head up over one of our workbenches

Shannon’s so great to work with !

nite all. nite sam

-me

A variant thing happened this evening. ‘Diane and I were at a park nearby Zory committee meeting at the town center tonight. The meeting ended early and  there were plenty of sunlight outside. I decided to crawl out on the roof and take a look at the bell that has been hanging over the town center. The story we’ve always been told is that that is the bill that used to be in our house. Supposedly it was taken from the house during a fire here in the 1970s. About 10 years ago the town library and ‘Mary Ann called to tell us that she had found our belt and it was in the town vault. It was being put up on top of the town center which we thought was pretty cool. We’ve always told the story and believed it was true. Tonight ‘Duncan and I crawled out to take a look at the belt and get some pictures. Lo and behold the bell inscription actually says that it was for the Richmond Academy which was the twin sister building of our house. That building was taken down many years ago.…

It was fun to find this out and may be a little sad to have to retire the story… But I replace it with this story 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

Happy Easter to find the Easter Bunny had left me a  surprise.. my favorite peanut butter eggs.. Thanks you easter bunny !  Diane also made anise iced easter bread.. yum !

Around 10 DIane and I headed to Charlotte to a work session for Fluffy. Today was devoted to cleaning off playa dust  off of everything.. The bus itslef, the Fire control stuff and all the cabling  for the lights. It was a big deal… We got covered in playa desk… Brought back memories. Including caustic dryness of the stuff. We rinsed everything down with vinegar water which helps neutralize the alkaline sand. 

the other task was to explore some possible simplifications of  the clouds. We’re trying to reduce the effort needed to setup and take down the clouds. Aimee lead the effort which involved laying the clouds out on the floor and looking at them from above. She’d worked out the patterns using some versions of the clouds I’d laser cut in acrylic. 

We will have  a decision on any changes to the  clouds this weekend.. then its time to start reimagining the cloud mounting. 

diane and I got home in time to take a quick walk up to Huntington gorge in the beautiful afternoon sun.. 

 

We love where we live !

-nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a great time today showing Hendrik and Johannes around Vermont.  First stop was BETA

 

 

From there we went downtown to Burlington.. we walked chucrch street up to Halversons for lunch.. then went back to BCA to see the “CoCreated’  AI art show . Both Hendrik and Johannes are researchers in AI driven visualization.. so they foudn it interesting.. I think 🙂
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on the way home we stopped in hinseburg for sugar on snow… Yum !

Great seeing these guys !

nite all, nite sam

-me