Busy day at work and at home. We’re preparing for the first check challenge championship the Saturday and all scores were due Today… I spent the day in work meetings alternating talking to robot coaches and teachers. All in all pretty satisfying

Another thing that was satisfying is it was 66° outside today… Actually that’s a summer temperature for us

It felt very good. I took a lot of my work calls outside.

Diane continues to scan those photos… She found this picture that Max took of me in our old kitchen Max was four years old when he took this

Neither of the kitchen nor I look anything like we do now

I’m sending this from the room that used to be that kitchen… Now it’s our mudroom

Standing here is like going back in time

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Crazy busy day punctuated with a great hour hike up honey hollow .. it hot 56 degrees . Probably the warmest it’s been since … what .. October ?

I celebrated by wearing shorts in a it hike .. who cares if Thera still a foot of snow ?!

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Tonight is our friend Duane’s 75tj birthday. He’s actually staying up late to sign up for his covid shots as Vermont is open for 65 year olds. Duane is the ringleader for our burning man camp “Duane’s whirld”. (which I actually named back in 2009)

Duane is an incredibly organized, generous , and .. out there person I know . He manages to get 30 or so out of us out to the desert and back every year … tonight we surprised him with a zoom surprise party . And it was actually fun !

So great seeing these folks . I miss them . Gotta get back to the playa

Happy birthday Duane .. thanks for getting us all together

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Ok .. I confess I didn’t blog yesterday because nothing actually happened yesterday..

But lots happened today . Like this owl. Just before sunset, Kyle ran In and told us there was an owl outside her window .. and so there was

It was a shy owl .. looking the other way, but beautiful just the same

Thanks for visiting us

Nite all, nite owl, nite sam

-me