I woke up to the sound of diane and linda laughing… its such a nice sound.. makes me smile just thinking of it. . when they are togethere.. they are usually laughing. 

Both linda and david are good story tellers.. this morning linda was telling us about goign to visit her grandfateher in the nursing home.. he was from soemwhere in the old country and he kept saying soemthignn that sounded like “kincust me nootah’ whench she thoguht meant/ kiss my butt.. 

That sent us on a an exploration to see if we could figure out what language it was, and what he was really saying… ChatGPT can be useful for all sorts of things… The best I could come up with, though is Yiddish… Which I sorta can understand because it’s mostly German with a New York accent… And that was’kuss mir in tuchas’ . But her grandfather was either check or Italian or something else so he wouldn’t have been speaking Yiddish… So the mystery continues

Mid morning the girls went off for a hike with the neighbors dog oaklee , and Dave and I went to the north end to hhelp get fluffy ready for plex fest tonight.  

we werent using fire, so no need to put up the  mast or check out the profile. our main goals were to test the lights and teh sound system.. 

Pleax is a scrappy little festival.. lots of cool art and music all packed in to a tiny block.. or actually less than a block.   The festival is anchored by Juntique.. a very interesting antique/knickknack shop and this old building that was once  a brake repair place .. both building are stuffed with interesting junque 

one goal today was to see if we could run lights and sound without running the genny.. its not as simple as it sounds. our genny is 10KW .. and while we usually dont use all of that capacity  we use quite a bit of it. Experience has taught me that you cant run both sides if the bus’s ights on less thn 3KW. .. which is almost 2 full 115 15 A circuits.. the sound sysytem alsu uses about a KW..  so unnign without the ginny meant finding 3 15a 115V ac circuits.. which we did with the help of the pleax organizers.. its so nice not to have the noise or smell of the geny !

we had a fair number of people there helpign with setup .. Rebar (of course )  Wiki, Marie, Lefty and firefly.. so things went pretty quick !

David and I used the down time to check out the jnk shops.. including juntique. and a place called Milk Moth whcih is in the old orthodox synagogue !

this place is so interesting. it had teh upstairs which would have been used for women ibservers.. (orthodox are pretty mysogynistic)   and even the bathrooms tat were labeeld in yiddishl… this says Manner .. ie men

the festival didn’t open until much later.. but we hung aroudn for a bit.. then went  and met the girls for a walk around burlington . 

then burlington for dinner on the water. 

editts note: i fell asleep jsut then and this is what i wrote:
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then home for a really nice campfirel 

no bugs on me !

nice day. Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Diane,. Oaklee and I took a quick hke up bamforth this am before work

Aroudn 3 om, Linda. David and Willow arrived from Endicott.. bearing Romas pizza, and all sorts of other yummy treats. .

Its always so great to see them . 

Dave braught me this incedible electronic experimenter magazien from 2023 ! .. more than 100 years old !

lind braught dian a matching outfit that makes them both look like twin s

We had a nice afternoon and evening. we ended up playing Telestrations. a game wehere you are assigned a ord, you have to draw it  and had it to the next person.. tha person guesses what your picture is and writes down what she’he thinkis it is and apsses that on.. the net person draws what the pervious person had written..and so forth until the draing comes bac tot he owner.. its soooo fun and funny.. .. 
I think this is. a picture that soemone .. diane ? drew for the word shaving cream.. and that s me thats supposed ot be shaving. 

Glad our friends are here.. 
nite all. nite sam
-me

After work today I dropped by Hackclubs’ new location in downtown Burlington. its an amazingly nice space. .. it used to be an ice house a hundered years ago.. now its the center of a huge and growing of high school hackers all over the world. I went there  to check in about  a trip im making with them to Open Sauce.. the ultimate maker meet up  next month. Great seeing all my friends there… Several of them are off to Schenzen this week for a hackathon before meeting up in San Mateo for open saice.  

TOnight I was reading IEEE Circuits and Systems magazine and was very happy to see my good friend Dave Allstot had  won this years Kirchhoff award.. what an honor..  Dave had several interviews in the magazine. it was great hearing him reflect on his career. he’s alway been an inspiration to me  !

Congrats Dave.. so well deserved !

nite all. nite sam
-me

Today our wonderful son Maxwell turns 38 years old.. he’s such awesome  person.. super smart.. very loving and fun. .. and .. about to become a dad !!!!!  He’s the guy who made me a dad 38 years ago.. and i’m so glad he did !


Diane and I had fun making a birthday video… We went to several different places and sang all 4 stanzas  of happy birthday at each then stiched 5 together to make this (sorry bout our singing 🙂 

I had so much material with all those additional stanzas and places, I couldn’t just leave them on the cutting room floor… so my biddy claude and I maade a mixmax mix .. 

diane climbed camels hump with rachel ad oaklee and shee wore her wild things max shirt n honor of maxs birthday !

the rest of the day was fun at work.. after work, alex. jack and john loud and chris feloney came by for a tour of beta.. always good fun !

Happy brithday again Maxwell. We love you so much !

see you soon in Santa Fe !!!

nite all, nite sam
-me