First day of vacation. Which meant only 2 work meetings. First stop this morning i did a presentation for the vermont chamber of commerce on the uvm fablab.. Went ok.. Not great. Then i did a little holiday shopping while listening to an ieee meeting. Around 1:30 i headed over to Bens to see if i could help him with his dollar stamped mobile.. Its a thing of beauty…but not yet reliable.. Will be interesting getting this thing working.
Jerry g, john m, his friend henry! Chico, perch and a few others were there as well. Max showed up to help too, which was fun…and very helpful
From there max and i headed to echo to meet with jen, the mmu student who will be working with us on the turtle growth project. It was our first meetin and went well. She will be scanning some baby turtles then making various size models of it using the uvm 3d printer various .. Echo will use the models to compare them with predator skulls to determine when the young turtles can safely be released in to the wild. We spent some time meeting the turtles
Then a bit more shopping.. Then home.. Fun but not relaxing..
Hopefully more down time tomorrow..
Greetings from the passenger seat… Don’t worry, Max is driving… Its been a long day.. I meant to be on vacation, but i spent the nearly all of the day sitting on a couch on max’s boat sort of working…. I say sort-of working because nothing i tried to do today seemed to work. I had hoped to get on the road around noon,but with all the prep and packing, we didn’t actually get on the road until almost 7… Luckily, were both so wired that driving through the night shouldn’t be a problem. It is kinda nice being locked in a small space with one of your kids for 7 hours. I have great memories of my dad driving me around and talking to me… He called it ‘captive time’
Ok.. Ant type and talk at the same time..l i dont want to waste the opportunity…so
Good evening from aboard the boat… Down here for a (very good) work meeting. Stayed at patty and chandu’s last night… Gave patty a ride down into the city this am. Aside from a few work calls, i had much of the morning free… But i had a ton of work to do, so i parked myself on the floor of a building lobby, helped myself to their electricity, heat and wifi and worked for several hours.. Very satisfying i suppose i could have shopped or sightseed .. (Sight saw ?) but, it was raining, i was cozy.. So work prevailed
The meeting was great as was the dinner afterwards… Now on the boat, rocking gently in the tide and listening to the rain
Essentially… That was my entire day… Not too exciting but gratifying nonetheless…
Im down in westchester county ny tonight on my way down to a meeting in nyc tomorrow. Im camped at my friends chandu and patti’s because i didn’t feel like driving into the city tonight. The trip down today was an interesting contrast. It was the first time id listened to the radio since the tragedy in sandy hook on friday.. For several hours i heard various bits of news and analysis about the shooter, the victims and the community . My heart grieves for them.. Alone in the car, i lost it for awhile.. One of the descriptions they had of the principle reminded me of a line in sams obit and i started crying… It had been waiting for me for two days and it had to come out… A few minutes later i looked up and realized i was driving through the town.. I was in sandy hook ct… I hadn’t even known where it was.. And there i was… I sent as much love out there as i could as i drove by the exit..
Only 30 minutes later i was in a room full of friends at a holiday party at my good friends ruchir and rashi’s . The house was warm and festive.. And full of kids…the contrast was dazzling.. I spent a very nice couple of hours catching up with friends, talking about our families, about work.. And about everyday stuff..
In a few short miles I’d driven from darkness to light But its the way it has to be.. The world moves on from tragedy.. It. Has to… We have to… Lets wish the folsk who need it strength and peace… At the same time, lets hold our friends and family close this holiday and send as much love out into the universes as we can. Thats the only way to push back the dark.
