I had to go to Saint Albans today for work. Before I went, I had to go pick up some signage for shannon. When I was at SB signs, I noticed one of the cars had the license plate DON8LYF. I recognized it as an organ donation sign. I asked the folks at SB about the story. It turns out that the owners one-year-old daughter, got a liver transplant, which saved her life.… While we were talking about it, one of the other folks who worked at SB, Ben, recognize the sandstone that I had in my hand. He knew sam!… It was a really nice connection
We had yog soup night today because the waether was too bad on monday. Always nice to see folks. Our old freinds Tom and Meg came.. Tom lived here in the house about 40 years ago (!).. we actully still have his speakers which are more than 50 years old !
Started the day with a quick ski down the river shore.. Beautiful morning, beautiful snow
We had a quick meeting with our fiannce freind Ric.. which meant we got to play with his granddog Baily.. seriously one of the cutest pups not related to us 🙂
In the evening, Duane, Rebar and I had a meetign at Gneerator planning a talk that the fluffy team is doing in april as part of the Generator’s ‘Reckless Ideas’ series.. We’ll talk abotu the making ofFluffy, life on the playa, then have a dance part outside on the bus.. I’ll keep you posted on details !
This morning Kyle got us all together on a call to tell us the very sad news that our friends Lochie and his fiancee Cass died in a small plane accident in california on Sunday. There were to other people killed in that crash. We are all in shock…
Lochie was one of our most loved BETA folks. He was an Alia test pilot and could fly anything with wings or rotors. He was also on the flight sciences team and was a brilliant aeronautics engineer. He’d left BETA early in the year to go to another comapany, but had just returned to BETA.
Lochie’s fiancee Cass was well known in the burlington arts and business scene. The two of them were friends with many people here…. They will both be so missed. Theres a memorial planned forSunday Jan 28th that will be half at Hulu where Cass worked and half at BETA..
One memory I have of Lochie is around the flight Alia made to Bentonville AR in 2022. Lochie flew the last leg of the the flight and had a Samstone with him. It meant so much to us.. I wrote about it here
Rest in peace Lochie and Cass. you will be so missed !
