Thursday night – OnShape and On the town

today after work I helped run an OnShape cad xlass for 9 FIRST robotics kids.. The fine folks at Greenway were kidn enough to offer us the space. Tim from Work offered us some cheese.. and my friends Nathan and Jake offered their time to teach the class. And Seamus and McKenna help recruit the students.. it was a real collaborative effort

It was really great spending time with the robot kids.. and it was good for me to try and finally learn onshape.

We did find one realllllllly gnarly piece of cheese in a fresh new box !

I also got a chance to catch up with my friend Mark S who’s the founder and CEO of Greenway. Its and amazing new engineering college. Here in Vermont at th e site of the old Vermont College. . patterned a bit like Olin college where Mark taught for 10 years. 100 % project oriented .. and focused on real world issues like sustainability It’s turning in to a really special place > ||Its really a beautiful spot

From there I drove straight tto Burlignton to catch the ned of my fre4ind Eric’s 25th IBM anniversary. Eric is a very talented engineer and got his PhD while working at IBM. He’s super admired by everyone. It was great to see him surrounded by all this love !

I missed the pizza.. but it did get to see erik and so many of our old friends. David, Zuch, Jeff, Nate, Rob, Dabile Siko.. many others too ! . A bunch of our colleages from East Fishkill and Yorktown (Chandu, Natesan, Kerim) xcme up as well whc8h I know meant a lot to Eric.

I also got some time to catch up with Chandu which is always fun.

busy , busy , busy and fun day..
nite all, nite sam
-me

Tuesday night – talked to Billy

Billy continues to gather strength every day.. even so, we haven’t really been able to tlak to him.. Today was the first day we could really talk.. and he sounds like himself !!!!

it was so great to be able to talk just for even a few minutes. He’s doing ok.. eager to get out of there.. and feeling very grateful to be doing so well..

On the way home from work I stopped by Sikuras to pick up sushi for dinner. Sumner is coming over…

I love going to Sakuras.. Cooper who works there knows my rders before I even same them.. and he can do that with almost anyone who walks in the door !

they have a samstoen in one of their plants that I must have put there 10 years ago

I got hoem to find Gabe reliving his youth by digging a tunnel in a snowbank that had been made by the plow.. it was so fun to watch. I craweled in there to help a little too.. Finally he was through !

dinner was fun .. then Gabe and sumner headed out.

total deliciousness

nite all. Nite sam
-me

Monday night – blob

Frutiful day at work. After work, Diane aand Gabe met me atnd Rbar over at bens for a quick look at a project that ben. Rebare and I are woring on. Its not my project to disclose.. but I cant wait until I can talk about it.. ts super fun and we call it ‘the blob’

there are some very non revialing mages of it just to whet your (and my) appetitite

here’s the electronics I designed, eertly layed out by rebar

things still going wel with my brother..
nite all. Nnite sam
-me

Sunday night – tracks

the snow gives us a way of waseeing whats going on in our yard at night.. check out these tracks

inside the ladybird bettles are starting to wake up. Even though its still near zero at night. The stronger sun has them leaving their own slimy tracks across our windows

good excuse for us to make some tracks of our own !

More good news from Houston..

nite all. Nite sam
-me