Today was the big day. Around 4 PM the gates opened and people from inside and outside of bed came in to see the wears that people had made to sell. Diana and I were selling our ornaments as a donation… Our idea was to collect the money, double it and then donated it to toys for tots.… We did a brisk business  all night .

In the end, we made enough to make $1000 donation to Vermont section of the Marine Corp Toys for Tots !  THanks to all who donated !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Good day at work.. then came hoem to finsih of the ornaments i’m making for tomorrows Beta Makerfare.   This year I am making (with lots of help from Diane)… Christmas ornaments made out of battery blanks that we use to make models of our planes batteries.… These are just like the real batteries, but they don’t have any goo in the middle. I also had some Aaliyah stickers printed and got some ornament hangers… I also had to make some additional ornament hangers out of mid wire… Because I didn’t have enough of the real kind.… I also had a few earring holders in case somebody wanted to wear batteries for earrings. I even set up a display case using one of Shannon’s prototypes for her “battery”… 

It was a late night, but we were ready for the fair tomorrow.

note all, nite sam
-me

Dane and I woke up early to take a beautiful snowy walk up catamount Trail before work

Had a good productive day at work 
. At lunch I ran to Michals to get soem parts for the ornaments I’m making for the BETA Maker fair. I ran into my neigbor Ros.. and our freind Marge and her and kevoins super cute baby James

and then at 6 PM my colleagues from Vermonts own MIT club (VOMIT) started showing up. We’ve arranged a tour and I’d expected maybe five or six people but we had 25. Thanks to my friend. Henri, who was also an MIT alum we had enough people to do a tour. My friends really loved seeing what was going on at Beta.

After the tour we all ent out for dinner. 

super nice catching up with my co-alumns

nite all, nite sam
-me

I work week started early this morning. We are hosting some guests from another company. I know a lot of the people from this company through my connections in university and industry. I respect them very much. It was great having them for the day. We had fantastic discussions and I can see a great opportunity to work together. Of course I can’t go into any of that… But one of them out that we had these clocks for all of our facilities… So far they’re all in the same time zone. I had never noticed the one that said lunch which always points towards noon.… It’s like the old adage that even a clock is right once a day… 

Or is that twice a day ? 

nite all, nite sam
-me