Today was filled with prep for the teacher workshops before and after lunch, leading those workshops, having conversations with teachers during lunch, participating in sound check before panel conversation, participating in panel conversation, answering questions one-on-one after panel conversation (which we did until late, and then having a quiet dinner of thai food with the…

List of activities: My back is still tender, but is improved over yesterday I had breakfast with the residents to get to know them. It’s extremely flattering how curious they are about our games. The event from last night was a slide jam where each of the sixteen residents had three minutes to present their…

list of activities made it to studio by 9:00, even though rainy weather made me want to stay indoors woke up thinking about the map for Nemo’s Helper, and making a compressed Colombia, as absurd as that may be. researched the geography, the major rivers of Colombia. I know their names, but not their pathways.…

List of activities: Last night Harry Teague invited me out for dinner. We went to the Woody Creek Tavern which used to be his local. The tavern has a storied history in the late 20th century as it was also the local for the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Harry described a rarefied and…

List of activities read a chapter/story, “Los Simpaticos”, from The Assimilitated Cuban’s Guide To Quantum Santeria. It was fun and beautiful. I noticed that in the ebook version I am reading the spanish phrases are not italicized. Made it into the studio at 10:00 am which is later than I would have liked. Last night…

Today we slept in a little and then zoomed with our boys. Afterward we packed Karin’s things into the car and drove into Snowmass Village — which has a year-round population around the ski resort. Parking in the free spaces was impossible, and we understood why when we realized all of the cars had expensive…

Karin arrived last night after an exhausting drive up from Denver. Today we visited Aspen and a farmers’ market just off of Main and Galena. I bought some chocolate from one of the stalls and roasted green chiles from another. We went to Clark’s Pharmacy and picked up some dry goods: gloves, baseball cap, coasters.…