Quick run down the rivershore.. always interestign to see it in the spring. bare ground, new sand pattern and river debris that all dissapears once the ferns come up.. which will begin any week
One treat at work today is that my freind Chris from River Valley Tech center braught one of his tech ed classes to Beta. I’ve worked with Chris for many years on FIRST robotics. I’ve helped him gwet grants from VASE which i’ve organized for the past 9 years.. (luckily, i’ve found a replacement ~!) . He kindly put VASE and FIRSTinVT logos on the students shirts . He also has drone racing teams, submarine competitions and al sorts of other maker teams for his students. .. I helped my friend Sarah give a tour
The students showed us a drone project they are workign on.. Not flying yet.. but getting close !
Later after work.. and after mandolin lesson, Rusty told me about a very cool mandolin (etc) concert that was about to happen in the Congo (congregational church). which was where we were standing. ! The show was Matt Flinner and Joe Walsh. Matt is (I think) a local guy who plays banjo. mandolin and guitatr. Joe is a professor at teh Berkeley school of music in Boston and plays mandolin, mandola and mandocello. It was an amazing show with a bunch of blugrass standards, americana and jazz. They told soem fun stories..a nd did a heatfelt salute to Don.. the leader of the Valley Stage org that has organzied these events for many years. This was to be the last concert in richmond after 10 years(1) of shoes. Don is moving the shows down to middlebury for personal reasons..
lots of love for Don in the room Lots of freinds of our also in the room (DIanes still in portland // she would have liked seeinf how full the room was with folks we know from town)
it was pretty insirign coming out of my 4th mandolin lesson to here therese guys playing in the next room. !
Tonight my friend James and I checked out the Dark Star project at Zen barn. I met James through my freinds Mike and Alia… They introduced me to James after his son Boshop died last year, That kind of intro happens pretty often because of Sam’s death. I actully enjoy (.. not the right word buyt close).. being able to meet others who are workign their way through grief for a bunch of reasons. I like doign it becaus efols were there for me whne sam died.. and I also like it.. bwecause its a way to meet new people. James is a chess teacher and a very interesting guy. He’s also a deadhead.. ZB has a grateful Dead cover band of some sort almost every wednesday. .. I hadn’t been in a long time. Turns out that the Dark Start project front man is my old freind Bil.. who used to be Max’s sax teacher about 25 years ago ! He and the band were absolutely aw4somne .. . It was a great xcrowd.. my friends Coco and Tom were there (it was Toms birthday)..Cathy,. and her husband, and my freind Ted from work,.. Super fun night.
I’ll try to get back for these as often as I can !
Good day at work. Making some fun progress on an important project.
During a call today in one of the phone booths I came across this mathematical limerick. .. cute !
fter work there was a fluffy conclave and potluck at Rebars.Definitely consensus that we are not ready to stop fluffing ! We’re tryign to figure out how many events we’ want to do or fluffy this year.. and how we’ll get enough money to pay for her maintenance and transport..
FIrst night back.. It was raining a bit which was causing the snow to melt.. The rivers were rising. The feild across from us was already filling with water when I headed to work.
After work went up to Mike’s house to work a bit on the EEL. Then we went out for dinner at Waterworks. It was really nice catching up.
The winooski was running super high right outside the resturant. Here’s the view from our table
Nice to be home.. though missing diane nite all, nite sam -me
