Diane and Ispent the day prepping the house for the change of seasons.. and for our extended trip to Oregon and SF to see the boys. We did get out for a quick hike at the Richmond town forest.. Its defintely stick season..  nice to get out 
 

AT abotu 7 we headed to the Monitor barn for a dance that was organized by the local food shelf. Our freind Bucky was DJing.. many good freinds there.. .. it was fun to hang out and talk/dance > I hadnt been in the monitor barn for several years.. was nice to be back

we keft there about 8:30// and headed in to CHC Vnas near BETA. My friends Tucker, Derek, Chris.. and a bunch of others were holding their annual Soiree. .its also a fund raiser for local mightrant worker support. 

It was a very differnt kind of party !.   The guys had set up the fire organ in a tarp wnclosure connected to the building.. it was so fun to watch people enjoy it !   the building had been miracually decorated.. Icant beleive its the same place i’ve been working this week to get the fire organ going. Last wieek it was full of tools and vans being worked on. tonight it was beautifully decorated.. great lighting, a fashion runway, a bar and lots of nice nooks and crannys to sit and talk.   THere were a coupl of live bands, a dj and soem great projection mapping backgrounds. I defintely want to meet more of the people in this community !
It was packed.. the vibe was amazing.. seemed like a party you might find in Brooklyn or LA.. At 11 there was a fashon show / rap put on by Tuckers freinds from Black Soul. it was amazing !!!!
 

Super happy to have helped a little with this party.. Hope to hang out more with these guys and make soem more stuff !

nite all, nite sam
-me

I looked at myself in the mirror yesterday and realized I hadn’t had a haircut in a very long time. Now I don’t have a whole lot more hair to cut, but occasionally even I think I’m starting to look a little wild. I went in to see my good friend, Deb caught up with her and got several inches of scraggle  cut off. 

Oh, you accident

now Ilook sort of respectable.. feels kinda funny 🙂
nite all, nite sam
-me 

Super busy day.. one interesting interlude… You may remember that a couple of weeks ago a bat (we think) flew through one of the front windows of our house and broke it. The bat muust have made it through ok .. as there was no sign of it. Unfortunately , the window was in onfe of the big windows over the door of our house.. impossible to reach by ladder from the front of the house . T

I was able to reach the broken glass form the  inside by climbing to the tippy top of a 10 foot ladder.    From there I was able to clean out the broken glass and remove the old putty.   The  catch is, you cant really replace a pne of glass from the inside. I spoent soem time thinkign of makeshift ways to seal the window for the winter.. everythign from cardboard and tape to a piece of polycarbonate that I could feed through the windo, then pull into the frame with cls.. but there was no other way to set a real peice of glass than to reach it from the outside. 

I tried all sorts of ladder configuratiosn from the front step.. but the window was just too high up.. and it was over the sloped awning over the front door which was too steep to stand on.. and probably wouldnt hold my weight

we thought of all sorts of alternatives.. everything from buying scaffolding to rapellign down the house from teh tower.. 

but today I had a brainstorm. We had some folks from a tree company coming by to trim the cedars next to Duxbury Road as well as to see what they could do to try to save the locusts in front of our yard. They are both getting quite old and are starting to split.… We’re hoping to get a couple more years out of them.

The tree guys came and I asked them if for a small bribe, they would let me use their bucket loader, which was really the only way to reach the broken window. Luckily, they agreed and in 20 minutes I was able to put on a harness, get up on the lift with one of the tree guys and place the window and put it.… I’ve gotten pretty fast at doing that considering there’s almost 500 panes  of glass in this house.

Igot down .. and the guys worked on saving our trees.. whixh Ithink they were able to do   

fun way to spend the morning. 

Nite all, nite sam
-me

Its the day after IPO and everyoen at BETA is still buzzing. I noticed a whole bunch of folks had new haircuts.. or beard cuts !!!>. My friends Erick, Noble.. but no one surprised me more than my wonderful friend Ben. Ben was a fixture at Generator before he left to join the other 7 founders of BETA.. Yesterday he shaved off his beard and his   dreads.. I hardly recognized him !!!

Busy daya at work.. Aroudn 4 Idrove home, picked up DIane and we drove to Middlebury for the Vermont academy of Sceicne and Engineering (VASE) Fall Meeting. ..  I really enjoy this group. At our Fall meetign we have. a great keynote, introduce new members  , and make our teacher of the year awards.   This years speaker was Michel Koo DDS .. A professor of dentistry from University of Pennsylvania. Though hes in the Dept of dentistry.. Michel is a real polymath. he studies bo films, micro fluidics, nano robots.. he isa an incredible inventor .. and a really engaging speaker.. His talk .. which was great from the start.. just kept gettign better and better.. we wanted him to keep talking !

it was great seeign all my VASE freinds.. and meetign soem new ones. I was also very happy to be able to present to JoAnn Harvey.. I’v eknown her work for several years and shes very deserving

NIce meeting.. long rainy drive 
nite all, nite sam
-me