The big news from today was Max and Becky’s engagement.. and I didn’t want to mix that in with the rest of the day’s activities.. SO heres what else happened that day. 

A quick hike up Bamforth to Duxbury Window with our friend Kyle

And a wonderful wedding of our friends Lucy and Drew at the Echo center. Lucy and Drew are Burning man friends !  Great party !!!!!

Now thats a busy day !
nite all, nite sam

-me

The only thing that feels different about being retired for me is that I mostly keep my Fridays open… That means more hang out time with diane, more exercise ands more just goofing around.. 

Today that mean takign a quick snowshoe up to libbys look !

 

happy to be retired-ish

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a large tour from Charlotte at Beta today.. always fun to see what interests the kids and what kind of questions are on their minds

 

Later in the day I went by Generator and checked in on the First Robotics team there They are making such great progress. It’s worked out really well having their team meetings at Generator !. 

Finally ended the day with a different set of kids.. our fathers group had our quarterly-ish gathering at the Public house in Hinesburg. We’ve been meeting for 32 years (!!!) .. it’s so nice to catch up with these guys.. ! We’ve been together for soooooo much stuff !It feels like “home”

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

Still snowing out.. makes me happy!

Believe it or not, it’s not too early to begin thinking about burning man. We’ve begun meeting every Wednesday to begin working on the “robustification” of Fluffy. .. One of our. first goals is to see if we can simplify the installation of the clouds. To assist that, I  made laser cutout versions of all the clouds. The gang met here at the house and began to re-assemble the puzzle.. and see what pieces we may be able to leave out. 

 

Oh.. one book recommendation.. I just finished “The Disappearing Spoon”  by Sam Kean.. it’s a wonderful set of stories about the evolution of the Periodic Table and all its wonderful inhabitants. I really liked it !

Nite all, nite sam

-me