Long slow day here. Diane was at an all day program and gabe was at the mountain. I did odd jobs around the house for most of the day which was peaceful and satisfying. Around 3, gabe came home and we got started on our project for the evening which was making churros. Churros are a favorite fried dessert in many Latin American counties . We were making them because tonight was the inaugural meeting of the group that have and I are going to Cuba with next year .
The process of making churros is pretty. Easy. Its an egg and flour dough. You load the dough into a cookie press or icing bag and squirt it into hot oil. When theyre done youd take them out and roll them in sugar .
I even made a samstone out of churros
Gabe put a dish of homemade dulce de. Leche in the middle and we were good to go.
We went over to sr. Dutchers house to meet the other Cuba bound kids. It was a good first meeting. Were really looking forward to that trip !
One Nonas was a chance to see sr. Dutchers son zachs metal shop ! He has a. 60 year old mill and large. So cool !
Ok thats it for the day. More tomorrow.
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
just back from a really nice quiet dinner from jen and tim’s.. Diane has the last Harry Potter movie queued up to watch.. so I’m gonna make this quick.
Oh.. .. I know what I can do.. I can share some of the great photo’s I got today from new freind Buzz. He was at my show two nights ago in Monkton with a decent camera.. and captured me doing what I love doing ..
Just back from a great night on the town with my family. We met friends and long time mentor Bill, Julie and son Ray for sushi
then headed for the Flynn to see an amazing play. It was called the intergalactic nemesis and it was basically a graphic novel presented on stage as a play with projected artwork. The dialog, music and sound effects were all live. Just watching the sound effects made it worthwhile . The plot was the old standard’ guy-comes-back-in-time-to-save-the-world-from-evil-sludge-monsters-only-to-find-that-he-falls-in-love-with-ace-reporter-with-a-telekinetic-sidekick-who-then-all-defeat-the-sludge-monsters-with-the-help-of-creatures-from-a-robot-planet.’ routine.
I have to confess that my jet lag had me comatose for 15 min of act 1 … But I think my snoring was taken as part of the excellent sound effects.
It was exciting and fun. Even more fun was seeing who else in town was tempted to see such a goofy, bizarre and fun show like this. I wasnt surprised to run into many of my favorite folks in the audience.
Ok. I’m asleep in my feet again. Gotta go climb back towards this time zone
Nite everyone, nite Sam
Had a great sleep last night. 9 hours of sleep. Woke feeling like I was in the western hemesphere again. Still waiting for jetlag.. .
I had a jampacked day with meeting that began in the early morning. One bright spot of the day was a tour of the mask house at work with friends Jim and Amy.. I’ve walked by the building for years but never asked to go in.. Today I was helping out wiht some brainstorming so they took me on a tour.. very cool.. It’s been awhile since I had to suit up to be in manufacturing. I saw such amazing things (but nothing I can share here.. sorry 🙂
At the other end of my day I had a Jolts and Volts show for a cub scout troop in the very small town of Monkton Vermont.. I had a bi of a disaster on my way there.. my electric go-cart (freind larry’s old wheel chair) .. shorted out before I left IBM.. I quickly loaded my gear on a hand pulled cart and made it there in time.. I’ll have to debug the cart tomorrow…
My show went well.. I love doing shows in small towns like Monkton..
ewwww my pickles went moldy !!!
Monkton has special meaning to me now because it was the home of my friend Jim Monzell. Jim was a long time friend an co-member of the local IEEE chapter. Jim died last year just after giving me a grant to build my new tesla coil. Tonight was fittingly , my first use of that coil in my normal show. I dedicated it to Jim in his home town tonight
