my good freinds michael and sandy came by beta today for a short tour.. it was great seeing the,. Sandy  is in large part responsible for my moving to Vermont. We grew up together in houston.. good friends.. . she headed up to UVM in our junior year. I went up to see here from MIT one time and fell in love qwith Vermont. At a party I met a woman who’s dad worked at IBM.. I reached out to him. got invited up for an interview (the only one in my life so far).. and got the job.. and the rest is a very wonderful love of our state. 

Michael .. coincidentaly alsi spent te in Houston.. but befre eaitehr of us knw him. now theyve been married for .. 40 eyars.. have two gkids and a new grandbaby !. 

it wa so great showign them around beta !

I spent soem of the day getting my alia ornaments to peopke.. one of the folks who made a donation for them was andrea who used to work for mamava.. she showed me a cool printed circuit board (PCB_ that oneof their vendors (partcle) had given out for chistmass.. I love it !

i’m super psyched that the programs from hackclub that I helped start like the current campaigne http://blueprint.hackclub.com   all came from me seeign thsi cool flame shaped pcb that my freind Colin made for beta.. so far we’ve introduced almopst 5000 kids worldwide to teh fun of building crazy PCBS !

You never know what ripples you can set off in teh world !
nite all. nite sam !
-me