Luckily, DIane noticed that my drivers licence was expiring on my birthday next week. I’d actually applied for a renewal by mail, but had forgotten to enclose a check (d-oh !) .. That emant I had to go to teh DMV in person just as they opened to get my new license. That can often mean a long wait.. but I was lucky.. I was able to walk right up to the desk. I recognized the woman working there.. I thanked her for all the donate life signs that were in the DMV.. She remembered me and the samstones and had one on her desk. .. She said she loved sam. I gave her another samstone to share.. It was a nice way to start my day
It was a busy day at work.. Though Crawford, Kristine and I took an hour over lunch to hike between South 40 and D2.. We are trying to find a route that would allow BETA folks to walk between building (with landowner permission of course !)
It was a good mucky wa;lk.. very pretty.. we found some parts that might be right for a futre trail.. but it still needs a lot of thought
It was fun gettign to hang out with my freinds !
AFter lunch I went back to North hanger to work with my new freind Bobby on a project.. He’s really fun to work with.. and a very good programmer
I also got to work with freind Cullen, Sam and Alex.. Turns out Alex does electric wood burning like Max. CHeckl this out !
Beautiful work !
Speaking of beautiful work.. diane surprised me when I got home with a freshly repaired buddha incense holder. I’ve had that thing with me since high school.. and the other day it broke 🙁 .. I’d been meaning to glue it back together… but hadnt done it yet
Turns out that our freind Jne… who’s an excellent potter.. was learnign the art of Kitsugi
which is an ancient Japonese method of repairing broken pottery with gold. Wikipedia tells me that Kitsugi is ” a philosophy, (that) treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise”
Jens katsugi is made of epoxy and mica flakes.. but it sure looks like gold.
I am so happy to have my little freind back in one piece !
THank you jen and diane for making this happen !
nite all, nite sam
-me