Just back from a long drive down an back to armonk and nyc. I packed a lo in.. Meetings, inner with k, seeing jim, programming with ma, amping on the roof of the boat, breakfast/work meeting with j, more meetings then a long drive home. All though the last two days I’ve been hearing on the radio about the freak predicted convergence of hurricane sandy and with another weather system..( High pressure something or others ). They’re actually calling it ‘frankenstorm’.. The possibility make it look bad for the east coast.. They’re predicting rain, high winds, power outages, .I have even received warning text messages from stitcher and our school system’s emergency management system .. All this for something that may or may not happen sometime next week.. It would be pretty cool if it didn’t sound so scary.. After what happened last year with irene up here and a few weeks after to Diane’s folks house, I’m paying close attention to this…theres a lot of waiting before then and now… Hope it doesn’t manifest as bad as some of these predictions …
Long day. drove down to NY for a set of meetings..then in the evening, met freind Kevin at Helen Hayes rehab to visit our freind Jim. He was sleepign when we got there… so Kevin and I wnet out for dinner. When we got back,. jim was awake.. He was looking good, restless and talking softly He still can’t communicate very well.. but he could answer questions…”jim how tall is your son” ‘6 4″.. I put on some music I know he likes (Tears for Fears ‘mad world” ) and he started singing along. he’s in there.. just having trouble still getting out. We sat with him for about an hour.. then Kevin headed north.. and I headed south to the boat.
It’s great seeing Max and Jac.. Max and I worked on his Halloween costum.. like all of our costumes.. it involves blinking lights..
I love working with my kids…
I had a busy day, but managed to take time out to get a flu shot.. after getting poked I sat there and thought about how cool it was that there are few situations like this that you could opt in to prevent future pain and suffering.. it’s not a sure thing.. nothing is. but its about as close as you could come. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a vaccine against poverty.. or sadness.. or job loss..or loosing your keys. .
Hey.. you have to think of something while you’re waiting for them to see if you’re going to have an allergic reaction to the shot..
Not much else to report today.. and a great working lunch with friend Chris on VASE (Vt. Academy of Science and Engineering ) at a new Turkish place in Essex Junction. Istanbul Kebab House ., Check it out.. it was really good !
on the way back to work , I stopped by Scot’s house to borrow some nitric and sulfuric acid..
Gabe and I are going to do some nitration experiments…. chemicals are getting harder and harder to get thanks to shows like Breaking Bad.. . … now . does this look suspicious to you ?
Too lazy to get off the couch so I’m trying to blog on my phone . The phones misspelling on top of my own may make the unreadable ( or more readable ?). I had another packed day… But I had to stop at 5, herb called from the haunted forest because they were having trouble with project X, the pumpkin robot . Evidently it got banged up on the way back from makerfaire and it’s head got knocked completely off. They screwed it back on but the 8 or so wires that run the creatures mouth and eyes didn’t fair that well. Surprisingly , things were not as bad as I thought. I found a couple of broken connections in the audio path to the arduino that works the mouth and eyes…. And a loose connection in the power supply to the radio receiver Nd two arduinos that control the pneumatic servos that work his arms . In 30 mon herb and I had him working again This is the big guys 4th year… Or is it 5th ? This is well past his warranty 🙂
