Tonight was a big night. It was the official kick off to our newest First Robotics Competition team 9101 Hive Mind. TMy friend Joe Chase is coaching the team along with my friend Ray from BETA and Henrique from Marvel. We’re being sponsored  by Generator , Beta and Marvel which we greatly appreciate. here aren’t may FRC teams yet in Vermont. our group FIRST iN VT recently got a grant to grow these advanced robotics teams.. so this is an important moment for us. Tonight the team unboxed their parts and got to work designing and building. 

For the next 6 weeks we’ll be at Generator on Friday nights and Saturday all day. Come visit !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Super fun day.> At work, Friend Ben came in to tell the story of his company. He even brought Ice Cream !. It was great hearing the story of B&J’s.. I haven’t ever heard it all. It was super fun showing Ben around the place. He’s quite a maker himself so he enjoyed seeing all the doodads and gadgets we had .   We all really appreciated Bens visit.. What a guy !!!

Later on. we had some visitors for the night. We’d read on Front Porch Forum that a. family that was moving to town for a bit needed a place to stay for the night until the house they’re moving in to was available. We invited them for the night.. They were great . Carlos. Forle, Eliza. Gneji and their curte dog Ixu all have been living in Taiwan for the last 4 years. Before that they lived in Mexico, Austin. Pittsburgh all over. They had some great stories. The kids speak to each other in chineeses, to their parents in Spanish and to us in perfect eniglish.. it was amazing. 

SO fun to meet these guys !

nite all. nite sam

-me

Today Diane sent me a picture I’d never seen of Fluffy out at burning man..

Made me happy !

nite all. nite sam

-me

So.. I’m in the first couple of weeks of an experiment. I got an Apple Watch  after resisting for some time. My worry is that it would make me even more distracted by electronics.. So far.. it actually seems to be the opposite.. since my calendar alerts and other time critical stuff comes on my watch, I’m fining I’m much lsss likely to pull out my phone and get lost in it. I wonder what others who have tried smart watches hove found.> So far, so interesting !

Nice yoga and soup night tonight.

Perfect winter evening

nite all. nite sam

-me