Gosh what happened on Sunday?… Not much which was kind of wonderful. Diane ‘Kyle and I took advantage of the deep new snow To explore some of the trails around John’s pond at the top of happy Hollow (I love the name happy Hollow)… There’s been a heavy snow after some rain and lots of wind. It made for a magical icing like affect over all the trees.… The snow is pretty deep in some places over my knees which was nice… This is the first real so far we’ve had. It was beautiful

Later in the afternoon we met up with Max, Becky, and Gabe For some “Foote yoga”… Diane top with a class using all sorts of props like tennis balls to help a stretch your feet. It was so great… Relaxing and revitalize. We are so lucky to have our very own Builtin yoga therapist !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Slow and rainy day here.… We lost a lot of our snow and then are now in the process of getting some of it back. Still gonna only be a couple of inches. Craziest winter I can remember in 14 years

We spent the day doing small jobs around the house. One small job that turned into a big job is that I am slowly replacing all of the lightbulbs in the school house with wirelessly controlled bulbs.… The trickiest one is the one over the pool table.… We’ve been warned you never want to step on your pool table… Not even a little!

Wouldn’t you know when I got up on the ladder to try to replace the bulb I reached over and realized the bulb was loose and the wire snapped. Uh-oh

Dad and I quickly brainstormed and figured out a way of making a gang plank across two ladders just a few inches above the pool table but perfect for the repair

Never a dull moment in this crazy house

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I’ve been having a ton of fun with a photo project I’m doing. Diane and I have decided they were going to get all of our photographs from her 35 mm camera when we were pre-digital, all of our Phone images… And all of the pictures from my blog and a Samsung’s website and get them in one place… No make that several places to make sure they’re safe and accessible. Doing an experiment now at Max’s suggestion to put things on Google Photos. It seems to me that they have the best AI for identifying faces places etc. So far I have uploaded over 125,000 photos and that is not even starting on the 35 mm… But I think we have another 10,000.… The AI is still running but it’s identified about 600 faces so far… Of which I can attach names to about 400… The list is growing every day. I spend time staring at the screens trying to understand who might these people be. ? When I recognize someone I can type in their name and all pictures of that person are reliably identified. It’s amazing… It allows you them to ask when her two people were together or a person at the beach by name .Who are all of these people? Are they old friends that the i can’t recognize? Are they one time acquaintances from a selfie ?

Here are a few examples of the many pages I have yet to work through

Even though it’s challenging and time-consuming… It’s really fun… When I find someone that I recognize I get to spend a little time with them mentally and remember where we were and what we were doing.… It’s like taking a little vacation…

When we know we can’t

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I got a call late last week that the building Where are used to work… I store some of my science for kids equipment flooded and got filled with mud. I had to go in and salvage what equipment I could and throw away the rest so they could clean out the room. Building now belongs to GLOBALFOUNDRIES but they’re kind enough to let me still use it for my outreach efforts.… Getting in there was no small feat… Covid regulations required me to do a bunch of surveys and then show up to get a health check Before I could enter the building.… There are still several hundred IBMer I work in a facility. A really great guy Tim L offered to help me Clean out and sort the mess.

It was a trip down memory lane going there. Like seeing the stairs where I first met ‘Diane in 1982

Tim and I walked down to 966 and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Most of the building had been cleared out but there had been 4 inches of mud due to an equipment malfunction that washed bunch of water into the building

Here’s what my storage room look like

And that’s after I got about 2/3 of the stuff out of there. Lots of it was caked with mud but most of it was salvageable

All of my science equipment was up in tables so it was safe… That included my old favorite Tesla coil that scott helped me build and My original Van de Graaff generator.… I have newer smaller equipment now that I use for kids… But this old stuff is the best

I took advantage of having recycling bins and garbage bins to go through about 40 years of crud that I had gathered over the years

They were some great finds like a pickle fryer that I must’ve made it a restaurant dinner out of some stolen forks

Lots of mess. But lots of cool surprises too

Here’s a model of our house that my brother Billy made for us for some event

My old telephone 802-769-7676 (Which spells soy-porn)

Several boxes of plaques I’ve gotten for work stuff

ACool Clayhead that my friend Chris Wendel made for me back when we were at Mit

Inside it or some Serbian tesla currency

Some unopened discs of OS 2

And tons of scrap equipment that no one could use anymore… It’s hard to let go but better now than later

It’s amazing that in two hours I was able to go through 40 years of junk I felt so much cleaner and lighter after doing it

Nite all, nite sam

-me