I got on a plane again today.. I’m heading out to California. I am giving a talk next Tuesday about how we can interest more students in electronics careers. I changed my plans to go out earlier because I just learned that my very good friend Rafe was not feeling too well..
I got out to Rafe and Lolo’s hose about 5:30..
I got a tour of Lolo’s gardens and kefir making operation.. and caught up with Rafe.. in addition to catching up.. I l heard about how he was feeling.. and the treatments he’ll be having. Sounds like he’ll be ok..
I was also in time to see their oldest, Sabine, head out to her Prom.. youngest daughter Sophie and niece Madeline helped get Sabine ready. She looked beutiful. Its great seeing Rafes kids again.. They are adults now.. and really wonderful adults at that !
Refs nice and nephew Madeleine and Mateo are in town.. and rates sister and brother in law Roma and Tom are coming tomorrow for Sabine’s graduation..
mid morning we decided we needed to get out of the house.. so we went and ran Libbys look.. Its a fun run.. even though you need to watch out for roots !
We worked around the house today until about 4:30.. We had several errands to do in town so we heading in to Williston. In the space of less than an hour we
picked up prescriptions
bought a pair of steel toed (actually carbon toed) shoes .. with help from a voucher from work
Bought a new pair of running shoes for me using our REI rebate
.. and ordered sushi. at our favorite place Sakura.
and bought the perfect birthday gift for Gabe,. A solar powered sushi maker man
While waiting for our sushi we got to watch our friend Cooper.. who’s worked there for 13 years.. greet nearly every customer by name, remember their favorite orders.. and engage them on some topic they shared.. (e.g for me its jam bands) It was really amazing. to watch..
While the food at sakura is very good.. I think what makes the place really specials Cooper !
Diane is spending as much time as she can in the garden this time of year. Here’s proof !
It rained like crazy this evening.. I heard an alarm go off in the basement. It was one of the cool new features that our basement redo added.. WHat I didn’t expect was to see the basement flooding after all that work.. It turned out that the new sump pump wasn’t plugged in.. we got that going and things got better.
Overall we loved the rok that was done. Hoping pluggin in the sump will prevent it from happening next time.
Check out this asparagus.. we arent eating it fast enough. I remember when I was in Germany folks went crazy this time of year when the Asparagus started to appear .. They call it Sparglezeit ! (assparagus time !)
One other thing I foudn today. I’m workign on a presentation about how to get kids more interested . While looking for examples, i came across this great OnBoard project one of the highschool kids built.. and I came
