headi g back to germany with only6 percent battery on my tablet.. not my ch to report for the day anway.. its been kinda a 6 percent sort of day
one interesting thing is that one of the nice TSA agents , Michelle, who searched my bag ( )they dont like my homemade electronics) was a security person on duty at Higher ground 2 weeks ago when I feinted.. she was so happy to see me healthy and walking around
its a funny smal world..no ?
nite all, nite sam
-me
SPent the day dodgig the weather. April 15 and its snowing and blowing like crazy here !
Managed to get out wiht the girls for a walk on the river shore.. Noticed thta my old warn glove looks liek an angry turtle.. how cool is that ?
Very cool to see snow still on the river.. .. spring cant be THAT far away.. can it ?
the big work of the day was to clean the ‘old lab’. This is the small room that is off our living room. It used to be a kitchen.., a pottery studio, evne a bedroom for our friend Doug.. but we still call it the ‘old lab’ becuae I kept all my electronics and chemistry stuff in there.. Eventually I had too much dangerous stuff in there .. so I built the ‘new lab’ underneath the yoga studio in the garage.
Here’s what the old lab looked like this morning
we through a ton of stuff out, set aside a huge amonet to give away.. and took all the left over paint into the garage and opened it to dry..so we could take it to the hazardous waster depot
kinda prettyl no ?
I managed to jam a screwdriver into my hand openign one of those cans.. ouch !
we found many treasures as we cleaned.. liek these school race ribbons from sam
and my old number 4 piston from Maggie , my old 71 vw camper.. it overheated and dropped a valve top.. which is still embedded in the piston. how cool is that ?
I foudn one of my note packs from the old science enrichment class Diane and I taught in the kids elementary school after school 
I foudn a bunch of old electronics things.. like a ttls sequencer from the early 1980s.. must have bene some sort of led thing I was making.
and one of my first LED hats.. .. msut have been mid 80’s because of the green leds
around 5:30 we broke and went and picked up Gabe for an early dinner at Pho Dang.. yum. !
then went home and finsihed cleaning !
that feels liek an accomplishment !
ok.. gotta sleep now. more tomorrow.
nite all. nite sam
-me
Got our taxes mailed out today.. .. that felt good.. I know folks think we have high taxes but living part time in other coutries makes me realize we don’t have it that bad.
we took the rest of the day pretty easy. we did a 5.5 mile loop up in honey hollow. we wenrt sure if we still needed crampons.. glad we took them.. not much snow at the start.. but still deep snow and lots of ice at the top.. more snow coming tonight.. its all white outside now.. with ice on the roads.
fun to see creature tracks.. liek this wild turkey
just for reference.. thats a big bird !
the woods roads are going to need soem cleanup before spring
crazily.. e rean into my good feind John Y out in the woods.. it’s crazy because last I knew, he was living in Peru..
he’s back in Vermont now.. .. and he’s still tall.. took this picture on purpose, just to show his height
JOhn came by the house later which was nice
We were going to go out and meet gabe to here his freinds ‘ band. but the ice storm tonight is keepign us inside.
we’ll see him tomorrow
now time for sleep.. nite all, nite sam
-me
End of a productive week in Munich. and most of the way home. Not much to report after spending most of the day on a plane. The only keepsakes for the day are a couple of group photos..
here are some friends working on cool media
these folks are from a team that won an emmy for making dragons on game of thrones
these guys are making pumping devices with edge based machine intelligence
and these folks are helping us craft some great stories
I love being around such creative folks !
nite all, nite sam
-jc