Late this afternoon we headed to the airport and flew down to DC.. THe Annual meetign of the Natioanl Academyis this Sunaday and Monday. so we made it into a weekend trip to see Matt, Caroline, Anna dn new baby James.. THe great thing is that Matts mom and dear front Kate is goign to be in town too. .. . We arrainged it soe we’d meet Kate at the Airport so we could share an uber to Matt and carolines
We got to Matt and Carolines and got our first introduction to baby james !
Matt gave us a ride to our hotel. We checked in and took a walk out on the mall..
Super fun day at work.. cant go into it.. but loving my work right now
One funny thing .. Diane aand I are planning a trip in November to get out of VT for stick season. we’re exploring options like driving between max and beckys in Santa fe to Gabe’s in Portland.. I’ve been using my good friend ChatGPT to help with the planning. asked it (him ? Her ?) to create a map for us.> This si what it came up with.. Look closely.. looks liek AI still has soem learnign to do
Sepaking of novemenr.. its startubg to really feel like fall. We need a fire many mornings now
After work I put some time into Rebars project for Ben. We have to find just the right type of actuator.. I spent several hours on alibaba tryiing to make sense of some of the specifications
gotta find just the right one.. or the right 8 :_)
Today my freind Ned came to visit Beta. He’d never been here. Ned’s a is oen of the most active people I know.. and he’s also quadraplegic. Neds a psychotherapist who has a great office overlooking the lake. Hea. always has an attendant with him .. and thats sometimes thats been a friend of ours.. including Haydn, Jack and Alie .. Total coincidence because Ned and I met over a techcnial project. Ned has been workign for many years to design a standing wheelchair that is designed for quadraplegics.. One aspect of that is a char that allows its center of gravity to shift. I havent been to hwelpful other than introducing him to people I know.
Anyway,. today was a quick tour of Beta with his aid Mallroy . NED loves techncology.. so it was fun to show him around !
Had lucnh today with our good friend Rebar. Really great catching up with him.. ALso .. looks like we’ll be workign together on another project.. thats greta news because we loved workign with him on Fluffy. Rebar is workign with friend Ben on a super interesting .. and maybe kinda secret art peice with social commentary.. I’ll be helping itht he electronics and software whcih is may happy place.
