Another brutally hot day.   96 degrees at one point.. and humid !

the temp reahced 90 degrees inside the house !

 

got a midday break when I went to a lunch that Miro Weinberg, the  mayor of Burlington had hosted 

of entrepreneurs from Africa from a program is called YALI.. there were 25 really cool, creatives who were spending 6 weeks in the us based at Dartmouth. we had a great Ethiopian lunch in the delightfully air-conditioned Contois auditorium. We had an hour or so to get to know one another. what an impressive bunch.. there were filmmakers, weavers, digital marketing folks.. I really loved getting to know them  

 

lunch was amazing,.. we ate everything uing delicious tear off ethiopian Injera bread 

 

this guy had a shoe brand he was developing. he designed these 

 

got home and worked the rest of the day in my tiny office space huddled over the air conditioner.. 

 

aroudn 6 I took the dogs out to the river.. it felt like a steamy equatorial jungle out there !

 

we all had to go in the river. 

 

our garage sale was still goign on.. freind Kira tried on the bald scientist wig.. what do you thinK ? Can you tell who’s who ? 

 

we foudn soem more treasures.. liek ‘Mr Scone’ from 1985 

 

and this shadow gram I made of a bullet goign theourn a stream of water.. note the shadow of the shock wave in front of the bullet. 

 

ok. thats it for now.. tryign to sleep in the ac again.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Greetings from hades… its’ about 92 F here.. and I’m sittign as close to one of our two air conditioners as I can safely sit. THe dogs and I are huddled in the smallest room in the house tryign to survive the heat wave.

 

seriously.. it NEVER has to get more than 70F for me.. and this is … insane.. I can hardly move.

 

what a crazye day we chose to clean our attic and have a yard sale.. 

 

 

 

here’s our yard sale.. we’ve actually had a steady stream of folks here.. all proceeds go to fund gabes migration west

 

we found all sorts of treasures.. here’s a coke we foudn in sams golf clubs.. i’m goign to taste it later.. 

 

heres a ply bill for the circus at the iddle school

 

here’s a powem I wrote for our friends Vince and Catherine’s  wedding.. Catherine died last year.. it warmed my already overheated heart to see this 

 

here’s the3 sigen I left on my office when we left to gte martried

 

and here’s our good friend Rafes PhD thwesis.. not sure why I have that !

 

ok.. gotta venture out of the airconditioning in search of food

more later

nite all, nite sam

-me

 So nice to be home. Even when it’s sweltering like this. It reached about 90°F today. But it really didn’t bother me. Diane and I spent the whole day working in the attic. We have a dumpster here because we really would like to clean out 3 1/2 decades of junk. Not because were moving or anything… We just would like to have more space. We spent the day going through zillion boxes of all receipts and check books and calendars… In a month that were some amazing finds. So many pictures and letters… Remember when people wrote letters?. Some really lovely memories… And some sad ones.

 

Here’s a good one… Dianne found her Halloween costume from 1985… And it still fits. She went as a table and I went as a chair

 

At 7 o’clock I got a call from my friend Shannon… There’s been a mixup on schedules and they were expecting me to do a science show today. We discussed it over a month ago but I hadn’t heard back so I assumed it was off.… It wasn’t. I was able to quickly get my stuff together and get over there to do an electricity show for the governors Institute. It was so much fun.

At 7 o’clock I got a call from my friend Shannon… There’s been a mixup on schedules and they were expecting me to do a science show today. We discussed it over a month ago but I hadn’t heard back so I assumed it was off.… It wasn’t. I was able to quickly get my stuff together and get over there to do an electricity show for the governors Institute. It was so much fun.

Now back at home going to sleep in air-conditioning. Thank goodness for air conditioning

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

Just landed in Newark on my way home  after 2.5 weeks on the road.. I am so looking forward to being home..  I had a very productive week at work ..  I really love the team i’m working with and the project we’re working on. we’re getting near the final sprint.. .. many challenges ahead.. but  I’m enjoying seeing it all come together. .. 

We’re going into a heat wave  with 90 degree F heat  with 97 F (36 C) on Monday !!!!!!! ..

I gotta say.. I dont even care.. at least yet. I’m so happy to be heading home.  It will be good to sweat there

we’re cleaning our attic this weekend…  perfect weather for that 🙂 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me