Quiet uday of chores around the house. Mostly around the change of season. Yesterday it was in the 30's and today it was in the 60's.. Time fort the storm windows to come down… Nearly 100 pains of glass to be gingerly pried off the side of the house and hauled into a packed closet until fall… Not my favorite job… But so nice when its done. The fresh air and the fresh sounds inside are an instant reminder that its spring…also.. Got the fountain running … Another sign that the hard frosts are almost done.

This evening we caught up with jim and sue.. Our good friends whose son dylan died 2 years ago.Jim just got a tattoo of som of dylan s artwork… We got to see it for the first time.

This is some graffiti work that dylanhad done.. Heres some of his other artwork

We had a good meal and great conversation with them.. Then took a nice late night walk through their neighborhood. It was so good catching up with them

Now back hime.. While getting ready for bed, max called. From the road.. He and jac flew out to Wisconsin today to puck up a 10 whelked 1970s diesel army truck back to ny to be prepped for burning man..they

L be camping all the way home.. The thing is. A beast !

What a cool vacation M

Ok… Time to sleep… More tomorrow !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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I took the day off from work because Gabe was off on vacation. It was such a great time. The day began down to Middleburry Vermont. It just checking out colleges and he felt it was good to check a college like Middlebury. It was beautiful and they had some great creative ideas it’s only drawback is it’s too close to us. Ha ha

We had a great time in the car on our way down and  back… It reminded me of what my dad always called “captive time”  in the car.
Once we were home, we had to start On gabes science project. He has to do a movie about the chemistry of photography..

I don’t want to steal gabes thunder, it was an awesome experiment.we Spread a chemical emulsion on black painted metal plates. We then loaded the plates and a 50-year-old Polaroid camera that my freind George had leant us.

We took a 10 second exposure. Then we developed the plates in a chemical bath. The results were pretty cool

It was very cool that such simple chemistry could produce results like this. they have great detail.

Gabe has to make a movie or process… When he does I will post it here. Again ,it is so cool to see what you can do with such simple chemistry.

After the photographs… Diane came home from New York. We miss her so much when she’s gone.

After having a quick dinner, Gabe and I headed to higher ground to hear Grammatik. It was an awesome, awesome show.

Now, too tired to type. Will have to be more tomorrow
Night all, night sam
– Me

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About midnight and just home from a busy night. We had a maker meet up at the Burlington firehouse Gallery as part of the User required show. There were about 45 people there tonight . we got to go from exhibit to exhibit and hear the artist/maker described his or her work. It added so much to the experience after having seen the pieces and having seen how they were made. It was really wonderful.

John and Collin describes our floorish piece.. I was really proud to see it working well. I get to observe it remotely from my computer and see that many people take time to play with it. That's very gratifying.

Here is hexdump

Jenna described her bell story at length. What hangs in the balance is whether the bell gets rehung. It's actually pretty suspenseful.

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Do you ever notice strange things happening all around you all at once? first it's one thing Then another.then it slowly creeps into your consciousness. That's what's happening to me now and the trend is things that are broken.

1. First it was the wash machine.. it is having a trouble code, F2 that means it's having trouble draining. Even after dissAssembling it three times I can't find the root of the problem.
2. Then it was the blender… Suddenly the end of it stripped off.
3. Then it was the windshield on our car … a sudden crack, We had to replace that,
4. but a rock came and chipped the new window on its first day in service !
5. Then the flatscreen monitor downstairs computer started blinking epilepticly . i looked it up and the trouble is three bad capacitors from a bad batch when it was made in mexico in 2007
6. And of course there's the sprayhead our kitchen faucet (though that's been broken for a while)
7. I Can't forget the exhaust hood for our stove..

I'm not sure what's happening… Please failure the Higgs boson holding all these things together ? Maybe there's some strange juju in the air due to the full moon tonight? Meet some sort of crack in space time? I don't know but I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to take Friday off.
Night all, night Sam

– Me

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