Super busy today but I did find time to go over to UVM to meet with my friends Sally and Dave. We’re still working on a tribute build for my friend Scott who passed away last August. We’re building a plasma sculpture with a vibrating element… They’ve showed us a very cool Lawrence force demonstration which I’ve never seen. A long heavy wire stretch cross the table tension by weight with several amps of current could be made to vibrate in a magnetic field.… The principles are very simple but it was a very vivid illustration of something I always knew but never tried
What better way to celebrate good physics then to go eat Indian food with dave
Today was really nice… It was cold and rainy outside and I worked the entire day… I worked some on cleaning up my calendar, catching up with some correspondence, doing some venting… And then around 6 PM I went into work and got a full six hour day and a beautiful making hardware software etc.… I know that might not sound relaxing but to me it was heavenly
Maybe I don’t understand but relaxing is all about but I know what I like 🙂
The only thing about today I didn’t like is that I missing ‘Diane who’s out on our advanced painting team in Portland… As much as I appreciate the extra week here to get prepped for something at work… I am sure missing her.
I woke up early and started final prep for leaving Portland. My plane was about 430 so I use the morning to do laundry, take down the storm windows, prep the lawnmower, finish some of the tree fertilizing and of course pack… About an hour before Tim was going to come and pick me up to take me to the airport I got a call from Gabe and then call from Diane. We all got on the phone together and discuss the coming weeks weather in Portland. We have been scheduled to put up the scaffolding on Monday… Unfortunately it was a week of hard rain coming. We did some excellent brainstorming and calendar work decided that it would make more sense to push the project out exactly one week. I was able to contact the scaffolding contractor and change my flight in in a matter of 30 minutes we had made a new plan. It was a little bit of whiplash because I have been all set to go out there and have been missing Diane and was looking forward to seeing Gabe , his GF sam and GameStop nova… But I’ve now got my mental calendar settled.…
That gave me an unplanned day off… It was actually kind of good as I’m still feeling a little achy from the Covid booster… Nothing a good nap Couldn’t help… I worked around the house got some time in one electronics project I was working on… And then around six Went up to see Tim and ‘Jen for a lovely meal and a nice hang out and I know it wasn’t the day I was expecting… But a nice day all the same
It looks like I now have a bonus week where I can really catch up on a Couple of projects at work
Still missing the family though… Can’t wait to see them
I got my second Covid booster the day before so I feel a little low today… So I worked around the house. Were heading out to Portland to help Gabe paint his house.. Diane is already there… And I was planning to go out there to join them tomorrow (Saturday So I have lots of prepping things to do around the house… I also caught up on some home projects…
I only time I left the house was to take a walk with my friend Nina… She was going to bring her new baby Helene but it was kind of rainy so the two of us just walked around Richmond and caught up. Nina is the education lead at the echo Museum and we’ve been working together on a couple of projects. It’s really great hearing about how she, her partner Mica and the baby Helene we’re doing…
She’s also been a very good advisor so far to our study hall project at beta… She is really great at it Designing experience tickets kids interested in science… She’s one of my heroes
