Diane and I both took off from BTV this morning. She’s on her way out to Portland, and I’m headding to San Jose for a hackathon and will join her, Gabe. Max and Becky in Portland on sunday. It was streanfe leaving at nearly the same time on differnt planes..
I miss her already !
I enjoyed the trip out and got lots done.. it was fun walkign around IAD with soem spare time.. they had soem great exhibits.. I was wearign my blinky santa hat so made lots of freinds as I traveled through the airports -)
Got to san jose in time to meet soem of the hack clubbers for dinner.. I’m really looking forward to this weekend’s hacking !
i’m super tied in to glimpses of German as I think about Gabe hving to learn the language.. its a pretty cool language.. you cna just keep gluign words together to make new words.. I found this on te instruction of a birdhouse we just got.. it is one word that means “battery safety notice 🙂
I came hoem early to help get the house ready for a chanuah latke party .. we do this every year.. if I remember correctly this time diane prepped 14 pounds of potatoes.. we had the townsends, the wale/cafferkys , kennys.. and avery.. some babyis.. many freinds.. lots of carbs !
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So fun. it was a great eveing.. and out house will smell like it for weeks ! Chanukah Sameach (חנוכה שמח) ya’ll !
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
