Diane and I had a completely free day in DCC today.. we used it really well. I think we ended up walking 15 miles !   We went for a run in the morning.. then headed to GWU to get a yummy beakast bowl.

we stopped at teh WW2 monument and put a samstone on the Vermont tower.. check out the sunbeam as it hit the samstone !!!

then we headed to the natural history museam for awhile. some of the museums were open despite the shutdown

Then we headed to the US Postal Service museum… We get down to DC fairly often so we’re trying to spread our view out… The reason we chose the Postal Service is that Anna had a book about a famous dog “oney” who is the mascot of US Postal Service the very end of the 1800s. He ended up traveling all over the country and world.. When only died, he was stuffed and putting in this museum kind of weird but kind of cool

check out where this stage coach was from 1!

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On the way home we stopped by the ford theatre where lincol was shot. It was closed. But we got to see a huge tower of books about lincoln

We walked down to the waterfront to have a delicious fish and chips dinner. Everybody was celebrating Oktoberfest, including this doggy.

 

We love this city !

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Diane and I headed down to DC for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. Its one of my favorite nerd fests of the year.  I get to see lots of freinds from all over the ocountry adn the world Traceling with the governemnt shutdown was an adventure. I couldn t beleive how politicized the situation is

the trip down was crazy.. our plane was foced to land at Laguardia because we’d been kept circling so long. I managed to get us on anoyher carrier and we got to where we were going

we headed over to Matt and Corolines for dinne. It was so fun gettign to play wiht Anna and James. Anna is a realy person now !

We love coming down to DC to see these guys. 
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Today was Yom Kippur.. the most important day in the jewish calander.. the day you think about how you did last year, ond what your intentions are for the coming year. I’m getting les and less observant as I grow older, but I do take yom kippur pretty seriously. It’s like an annual progreess review that you do for your self.. its also when you forgive yourself for the times you slipped, and ask other you might have wronged for forgiveness.. It traditioanally a day of fasting.. which I always do. I worked quietly at home.. and lat e afternoon i took a walk by myself up to teh power lines to think.



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I hope all of my friends who are members of the tribe had a good reflection today as well 

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Busy and fun day,.   headded out for lucnh to meet my freind Eliot and his boss Ted at Echo. It’s been a long time since i’d been there and I wanted to see the result of all the new renovations. Great being back tehre and great meeting Ted.. he’s the new Exec Director of Echo.. super great guy. 

After lunc my freinds John and his son Tom cam over for a quick tour of BETA. John is 99 years old and still sharp as a tack. He’s invented many things in the material sceince world.. and I thought he’d love to see all the materials stuff we do at BETA.. they both loved it !

around 5:30 , Diane   and I headed up to Bolton to Meet our good friend and former housemate  Kyle.. we hadnt seen her since her dad John died last August. It was a huge shock. John was such a great guy

As a surprise, Kyle brought our good freind and former housemate and her fiancee… no wait.. her husband !Hunter to hke with us. Was really great catching up with them. We talked a lot about kyle’s dad John. It was very good to be with him both. We got to the summit in time for the sunset.

Great being with our friends

nite all, nite sam
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