we woke today to a fun surprise – our hot water started comign out lookign like motor oil !

Works been really fun lately.. 

always a nice day when one of our workdogs has a birthday !

Happy birthday boy.. I dont even know your name, but you are a kind an swee3t freind to all of us here in D2

 

nite all, nite sam
_me

Another (!!!!) beautiful snowy day. Diane and I took a great ski down at the rivershore before work.. 

I spent part of the day trying to finish up a  project for work  .. I was in a bind.. I needed to find a way to measure the angle  of a motor.. and was about to buy a fancy new encoder.. … luckily I took a a quick look at the motor specs.. and was surprised, delighted, and kinda embarrased  to learn that this motor *has* and encoder.. it just wasnt visible.. 
a small miracle 

that miricale took me all the wway to yoga tonight 

nite all, nite sam
_me

Today we had a great event at work . Lots of folks from all the over the state .. lots of friends mixed in there. too . I ran in to my friend  Angela, whos a state representative and the wife of my good buddy Ryan,. 

Vermont is like a state that feels liek a small town. 
I  love that

nite all, nite sam
_me

We headed out just before 7am. I noticed the odometer was about  to hit a magic number 55555 miles !.   

Even cooler is that it happeend right in front of the old IBM buildings that are finally coming down. People may not remember but Endicott was the birthplace of IBM.. wierd to see it being reduced to rubble

on the way home.. we stopped at the Empire Aero Sceinces Museum..  We’d driven by it for several years.. this time we stopped. It was really an amazing  collection and well displayed.. now that I work at an airplane company. this stuff is even more interestign to me  I took way to many pictures !

they had a cool interactive flying model 

one poignant theing we saw was a story about the plane that hit camels hump in the 1940s.. all but one person died .. the surviver lost both leggs and an arm to frostbite. He ended up beign a successful lawyer here in Vermont and lived a long life
the museum actually had a tank that was on the plane.. it was meaningfull to see it.

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this also was strange to see:

the drive home was peaceful and beautiful.. got  hioem in time to take a ski from the house.

really nice weekend 1

 

nite all, nite sam

-me