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
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
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.
We had a secret mission today.. A couple of years back, linda, david , diane and I took a hike at oaklee corners park in tioga center NY.. we came across some weird stuff in the woods.. we found an abandoned car in the center of the woods.. and a wird clown nailed to a tree nearby. It was very Blair Witch-y
These pics were from March of 2022.
Today.. our mission was to take a 6 foot skeleton avid had bought and put it in that car. We packed up the skeleton, and headed to Oaklee Corners trailhead. LeeAnn met us there.
we tromped around for a log time.. I even used the GPS coordinates of the pictures to try to find the car or the clown.. both were gone 1.. we are certain we were In the right place, I took measurements and compared them to where all the pictures were taken..
where did they go .?!?!
we eventually new we’d done all we could.. and hiked back. tot he car..
mission not accomplished.. but still a nice hike !
we put mr skeleton in the car for his (her /) next adventure
Back home for dinner.. Linda and Davidsdaughter Andrea come over. it was sooo great seeing her !
Heading out in the morning.. so said goodbye to everyone. they are such gfreat hosts !!!
