WOke early at Ruchir and Rashis’.. Found this picture someone had painted  of Ruchir.. totally captures the his warm and joyful spirit !

drive back up to VT was fun.. listening to a good audio book. ‘The song of the Cell’ by Sidartha Mukherjee. 

Lots of fun and interesting  technical   work goign on at BETA for me now.. but luckily.. tehre’s still soem time for pure fun. Here i’m helping my freinds Ryan and Eliout with their idea for a lite bright for BETA

Tonight was a great youga class.. really feeling like sprng finally. 

nice to be home

nite all. nite sam
-me

Woke today at Ruchir and Rashis.. we had a delicious breakfast of idli and kitcheree.. Rashi reminds me so much of Diane..  Ruchir and I are both such lucky guys 

Ruxchir and Rashi have a beautiful home.. and its full of love . 

we headed to YKY.. always makes me feel good driving up to thia place..  So many smart people in such an interesting space 

Ran into some old freinds .. Bhavna and I worked together on soem of the most fun projects I ever did 

I always loved the mix here.. one door might hide a pristinge offfice with books and awards, the next would be a mad scientist’s desk, the next maybe a laboratory 

great day of meetings.. saw so many old freinds . the topic was fascinating.. too.. bringing new technology to bear on ‘old’ problems.. lots of creative energy in the room !

We left as the sun had just set.. such a. beutiful areas

then back for one more night at Ruchir and Rashis.. my plan is to leave at 6AM tomorrow to get back to work

great day. – I still feel like part of ibm 

nite all, nite sam
-me

Interesting travel day… We started with a hike and I managed to get a really bad tick bite. But I wanna go into the details, but this guy was pretty far under my skin. I had to do a little bit of surgery to get him out and given it was a Sunday I wasn’t quite sure how this was gonna work out, but I was able to call our doctors answering service and was able to get the anti-lyme antibiotic before I left on my trip

I got on the road at about 1230 and drove down to Chappaqua to meet up with my friends Rich, and Rashi. Richard is a dear old friend.. And technically, he’s my boss and my Ibm emeritus role. Above all things he’s a brilliant and kind and creative and fun person. Rashi is also beautiful, wise and fun to talk to. I got to their house around 6:30 and rossi had made richard’s favorite food.: Idly.. They are rice and white lentil buns that you cover in sambar.. Which is like a spicy lentil goo. So basically it’s lentils on lentils. I love it. It’s very commonly eaten at southern India for breakfast but I agree. It’s great for dinner.

Rashi is such a wonderful cook.!

We had a really wonderful time talking about life, kids, food, politics, AI… You name it. It was great !

at the end of the night Ruchir and Rashi were lettign me stay in their daughter Isha’s room (last time id stayed in their other daughter Anika’s room ). Isha is finishing up her PhD in computer science at MIT and Anika is a Senior there..  so their room were free !

today we also got this great picture of Gabe and Mya in Bamberg !..  So nice to seem them  having a great time together !

TOmorrow i’m going to an IBM Internal conference that Ruchir is organizing. I’m very excited about the topic and I’m also very excited about seeing so many old friends

nite all, nite sam
-me

Busy spring day.. came down stairs to see this picutture of our old kitchen circa 1986.. its where our mudroom is now.. braught back some nice memories.. 

then dian and I toolk a hike up the sap lines next to the adaptive mountain biking trails.. beutuful trails connected to teh cross state catamount trail.. not much visited I think

next job was to photograph our old trampline.. we’re moving it on after many years of jumping kids, and sleeping dads (I used to take work calls on this thing and often fell asleep). .. free to a good home !

then the ulimate rites of spring (requires stravinsky soundtrac).. diane and I took down most of the down stairs srorm windows, 3′ x 7[‘ aa12 panes of old glass and ancient frames.. its always an adventure.. its nice to have thhme down.. not only can we let in some air.. but the sounds come in now 

Then I took apart my old travel tesla coil.. it went to a hackathon with a friend and somehow broke.. I opened it to discover both IGBT’s in its high voltage half bridge were blown .. as was the fuse that had literally exploded. I took about 50 pics to see what kind of IGBT replacements.. and after much work with light and camera p;acement got a decent pic and ordered replacements

then later in the afternoon we met deb o at the kennys for a really nice dinner.. One cool thing is that Jen.. whos a wonderful potter’.. had aquired this beautiful raku vase,., she had soem story about its hsitory and thoguth it had been amde by my freind Steve in Boston. Jen knew of Steve because he made a chawan (japanese tea bowl) every day for a year after his son Jared had died from brain cancer.  

Jen was making pottery daily in memory of her wonderful daughter.. and our friend ..Marie when she died in 2021.

It was such a strange coincidence that Jen came to have this vase. I’ll check with steve to confirm its his and get the story of how it got to be in Vermont

we had a really nice time hanging out on the kenney’s porch watching the wildlife.. woodchuck, deer and some pretty amazing birds… what a special place . 

great day !

nite all, nite sam
-me