Week in photos

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Tuesday we had another major snowstorm so I worked from home.


I remember when snow days were days off. But, since my company got me a laptop that can do my CAD program, they have turned into days I get more work done. (While wearing more comfortable clothes and movies running in the background.

We did get a good bit of snow and it was quite windy.

So, I’m glad I didn’t have to try and drive through it.

The storm covers a lot of the region.

(If anyone cares I live on the left upper point of the u in the word Massachusetts near the center of this map…)

Wednesday morning I had to go dig out my car.


My antenna on the car is about 8"/20cm tall. So, the snow was deeper than that.


The airport in the city next to where I live got more than half a meter of snow. As it was very windy, it’s hard to know just how much we got as lots blew around. But, it was a fair bit.

The roads weren’t too busy the morning after.


And, it is pretty in the dawn’s light.


We had a good bye party for one of our coworkers being recalled by the military and they gave out "joke" awards to people at the party. I got this one:


One of our robot freezers that we had been testing with the lid off for a few months hit something and a part got bent. The test engineer bet me $0.50 that it was ice.
So, we had to send a camera into the -190C/-300F freezer to see.


Sadly, only ice was down there…

I paid my fifty cents…

I’ve heard of barn raising, but not a barn driving.


At work we were asked if our robot that was designed to lift the test tube on the left could also do the one on the right.

Sure. Robots are flexible about that stuff, right?
Well, we can change it so it can do it.

Saturday we went up to New Hampshire to see our friends.



My wife always looks for the waving bear.


Our friends live past where the pavement ends.


In the summer it is on a lake. In the winter it is on a big flat white space.


The Pokemon do not come out to there.


My wife and Laura are doing this fairy thing where they are making all sorts of fairy things that they are going to go to shows and try and sell. (Fairies in jars, wands, wings, etc.)


Mike (Laura’s husband), me and the dogs all think they’re too wrapped up in it.


Even Mike has joined in making sound chips for them so if you rattle the jars you’ll hear the fairy yell at you.


There was a lot of talk about how they should market this stuff. Mike suggested wand nunchucks. So, we decided they should create a personas of Brawny Wandchuck and her sister Crafty Wandchuck as their spokespersons on the wands.
There was lots of laughter about this, but not filming promotional videos…


Not wanting to get involved with the Wandchuck plan, I spent a lot of time working on my class for next weekend and wondering why the frozen surface of the lake looks like the moon.


Mike cooked a turkey for dinner, which was very nice.


This the dogs liked.


As we left, the things my wife had painted set off a massive allergy attack for me in the car and we had to turn around and leave them at our friends house. Hopefully when the paint dries some more it won’t have that sort of reaction with me. We’ll see.