Today was my final day at Sonos. Although I am very excited about my new opportunity with iRobot, I am going to miss the friends I have made over the last two years. I learned a great deal and am very proud of what my team and I were able to accomplish. There are many many things I am going to miss about Sonos but the commute through rush hour traffic (pictured above) is not one of them. Knowing this was the last time made the journey just a tad more tolerable. The heavy heart over saying goodbye had the opposite effect.

I leave early tomorrow morning for the Everglades where I will spend several days on a solo kayak and camping adventure.  I hope to come back with some great images and will post again late next week. The children have given me a great deal of advice on how best to avoid being eaten by an alligator. I will heed it all.

Jeanine and I love the fact that Hannah is a serious student and has introduced Kyle to the concept of a study date. Without the time demands of a varsity sport to deal with Kyle has taken his academic performance to a higher level and the hard work is paying off.

Any visit to the optometrist which does not result in a stronger prescription is one I am happy with. I wish the results of my soccer match this evening were as good as my checkup. We came from behind to tie the game at 4-4 but gave up two goals in the closing 2 minutes. I found the back of the net once with a line drive from 25 yards which the goalie was unable to handle.

This is the brush assembly from the electric motor which raises and lowers our downdraft ventilator in the kitchen. The narrow dingy yellow device on the right side of the image is a thermal overload interrupter which was tripping after a few seconds of motor use. Bypassing the device and rebuilding the motor revealed shorted windings and a replacement is now on order. It took several hours of work to disassemble the ventilator before I discovered the root cause of the problem. On the bright side, the replacement motor costs $150 compared to a new ventilator which runs $1400.

I used a long exposure to capture this image of Maya’s soccer team during an indoor training session. I like the resulting photograph more than the ones that more faithfully depicted the scene.