Diane is spending as much time as she can in the garden this time of year. Here’s proof !

It rained like crazy this evening.. I heard an alarm go off in the basement. It was one of the cool new features that our basement redo added.. WHat I didn’t expect was to see the basement flooding after all that work.. It turned out that the new sump pump wasn’t plugged in.. we got that going and things got better.

Overall we loved the rok that was done. Hoping pluggin in the sump will prevent it from happening next time.

nite all, nite sam

-me

Check out this asparagus.. we arent eating it fast enough. I remember when I was in Germany folks went crazy this time of year when the Asparagus started to appear .. They call it Sparglezeit ! (assparagus time !) 

One other thing I foudn today. I’m workign on a presentation about how to get kids more interested . While looking for examples, i came across this great OnBoard project one of the highschool kids built.. and I came 

Amazing what these high school kids can do !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Ya know.. I cant really talk about my work these days.. .. especially not in this blog.. 

But I like that it’s loud 🙂 

note all, nite sam

-me

Our flight home to Vermont was not until afternoon.. so we got a chance to viti more friends. First stop was Mike and Lauras .. they were part of our kids play group that we all started in 1988. They are good friends. We enjoyed catching up.. THeir house is so nice and inviting..  

Diane and Laura caught up while mike and I went up to the third floor studio. Diane and I have stayed in that room several times.. brought back great memories.   

I love seeing mike’s stuff. he showed me a  catalog of a recent collaboration whe did with another yale grad , 30 years younger and living in pittsburgh. I love his stuff.. and the way he thinks of it

Mike and I actually collaborated with my Advisor Rob on an art project..   Rob has two of the pieces in his office.. and Mike has all of the drawings.  It was  an exploration of rectilinear shapes of constant area.. I created it using parts of my thesis code. I generated 10’s of thousands of shapes.. and mIke picked out his favorite 11 (?) .. and had them cut out of thick aluminum plate.. which he then inked.. It was my first (and only ? ) gallery show 🙂 

We then went downstairs and caught up and reminisced some more.. super nice 

From there it was only a 2 minute drive to Rob’s hose. Rob was my other Doktorvater.. and has remained a great freind and mentor for me through these last 30-ish years.. I owe him so much.. he’s the guy who really taght me to speak to crowds.. whcih turned outt o be a reall yimportant thing in my life

Rob  got married a few years ago to a really nice person named Renee’s. Rob , Renee, her daughter Nina and three dogs and two cats live ina. beautiful home adjacent to the Frick museum. It was so great catching up with Rob and gettign to know Renee and Nina 

Strange coincidence..  Rob and Renee have three dogs named Alia, Beta.. and.. .. uh.. cant remember.. but the fact that I work at Beta on an Airplane called Alia seemed like an amazing coincidence. 

this is Alia

And here’s Beta

It was fun seeign all of Ricks stuff.. lots of memories there too. includign a cup from Neolinear. teh company ROb and Rick which included soem of my research work 

great visit.. .. then straight to the airport for our flight back to VT

As we walked around the airport waiting for our flight we stumbled on to this peice of installation art. It was a ‘robot repair shop’.. It was really cute and clever

What wasnt so curte and clever was the beat up plane we had heading back to VT. badly in need of a paint job (which is more than aesthetics for a plane.. its  for air drag)   and no wifi.. oh well

FLying back in to V is always nice.. No matter where I travel.. this feels like home !  I even got soem pics of our house as we flew over !

We got home in time for a nice rivershore walk.. the ground was covered with cotten wood seed. 

and the sunset was spectakulare.. as was diane 🙂 

and we got to see our reind the beaver again !

nice being home !

nite all, nite sam

-me