whoa .. 10 below !!! I guess its really fun 

heres a short vid I made about some light up printed circuit ornaments I made for work . I am selling them as a fund raiser for toys for. tots !

they are proving to be really popu;ar.. I need to make more !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Nice day.. early ski.. and a really nice box of fresh oranges and grapefruit from Diane’s brother Steve !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Day started with diane going through some of gabes costumes getting them ready for their trip to Germany

We took a quick hike up to duxbury window.. 

Then my freind viay and his family (wife Dioti and Daughter Nlini).. THe super fun thing is that Nalini is now in a relationship with my MIT freind Adam.. they met completely by chance when they wereboth teaching in sitka alaska !.. .. it was so fun having them all here.. we had a great indian meal, toured the house and did a little pretend yoga.. 

From there we headed to BETA.. which was super fun to see rhough their eyes

 

AFter that vijay and dipti headed home and the rest of us  headed up to Mikes studion. Adam had been an early collaborator on Mikes Xenbox poject, so I was eager to intoduce them face to face !

It was dianes first time seeing the studio too.. its so beutiful architecturally, interior and techenically.. I love going up there 

While we were in tehre we had gotten like 8 incehes of snow.. so the ride back was long..   but a really fun day /evening

nite all, note sam
-me

DIane and I started the day with a quick ski out on the rivershore.. the snows not very deep yet, but fine for us.. 

later in the mornign we ehaded to the town center for a craft fare.. and for an open house hosted by richmonds newly licenced low power FM radio station WRUJ..   THey are live online now, and will eb bruadcasting on FM radio at 100.5MHZ.. I’m particually happy to see this, because a few of us took a crack at doing this in the early 200’s . we got a licence application in, and rased a fair bit of money, but the ‘regime change’ in Washington of the time dropped the issueing of low power FM. I was super happy to hear that the moeny we raised all that many years ago was still around and helped wiht the start up of WRUH. I’m going to volunteer as part of the tech team.. there are already soem shows playign including one by our freind Don D.   I think this is goign to be fun.. and hopefully helpful in emergencies.. we’ve had several weather emergencies involving power outages over the last several years.. this could eb a good way for the community to stay conencted. 

while down at the town center we checked out soem of the crafts,. and as always checked out the pictures.. they have a small display about hte richmond academy.. the twin sister building to our home (jonescille academy)  that was taken down may years ago.. thee two buildings were nearly identical..thoguh Richmond academy had round windows in a place ours has rectangles

later on tin the afternoon, my good friends Ruchir and Nick got together a video call to serenade our friend Roger who turned 80 today. Roger had a stroke back in april and has been in rehab since then. he just was able to come back home this week. It meant alot to all of us to get together.. 

Thats it for today.. more tomorrow.

nite all, nite sam
-me