Diane and I spent the day starting to sort gabes stuff into stuff thats heading to germany, stuff thats headign to vermont and stuff thats staying here.. We also made a huge pile of stuff for the dump and another huge pie for goodwill.. and yet another pile for facebook marketplace .. 
}it was a busy day.> 

great being here with Gabe.. he’s super busy with a paper.  very happy to be able to help him out. 

also great beign here with Nova.. and Mel’s dog Pep// 

 

its gonna be a busy week !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Had a great night sleep .. then hung out in the mornign with Berto.. their house is such a cool museum

the enmed meetign was very interesting. EnMed is a Texas A&M Med  school where med students also graduate with a masters in bioengineering. Its a wonderful fasiility with advance maker space and faculty from many disciplines of sceince. Our board members are a combination of MD’s , Engineers, and Entrepreneurs. An amazing group.. i’m very honored to be in this group

 

after the meeting we headed to CDI.. the entrepreneurial biomedical lab that billy helps run for the the texas medical center. As it happens, two guys from Obvius, the emdical robotics company that is based on one of Billys inventions. He and I made the prototype    together durign covid. we mailed it back and forth as he did the 3d prigts, and Idid the electronics and software. .. Based on the prototype billy helped create a company called Obvius robotics  . 

it was wonderful seeing how our crude prototype became this elegant machine which is now in human tests. 

it was great seeign all of billys history stuff around here 

Iheaded out to the airport about 4:30.. to avoid the delayscaused by the shutdown . Spent soem tiem wondering aroudn the houston airport. ,,
 

my flight to portland was abotu 4 hours.. it passed quickly bacuase Ihad work , code and blogging to do 
 

gabe picked bne up at the airport and took me to the airbnb.. its nice to be here

we have lots to do.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

TOday we start our trip our west. We’ll be gone the rest of November. Its always hard for us to be here in November. this year we’re goign out to orgon to help Gabe get ready for hsi move to Germany.. then were headign to see Max and Becky for Thanksgiving. I’ll be workign remotely most of the time . 

today diane heads straight to portland.. I head out to houston for a stop to meet with billy and attend a board meeting of the EnMed medical school advisory board that we are both on . 

it was strange both leaving the airport in different directions. 

unfortunately my plane had a mechanical issue and Ihad to change my flight. I got to the hoteljsut as the board dinner was ending .. Got to ride homw in billys hot wheels car.. its a mcclaren that always draws alot of attention.. one of the guys there was from taiwan and actualy had the same car !

we headed back to billy and shauns and got to hang out with them and chris !
I love visiting them.. 

 

more tomorrow !

nite sall. nite sam
-me

Today is veterans day.. .. I want to thank two of my favorite vetrans.. My dad, hugh and my fatehr in law Gabe

 

here are some pics Ifound of my dad when he was in the navy during the korean war 

I found this pic fof Gabe  from a noewspaper.. My brother in law steve must have found it.

Thank you guys for what you did for our country.. ..

Today was our first really snowy day

winter is coming !

nite all, nite sam
-me