Today we explored George Washington’s Headquarters and looked at the Hudson River from the park that surrounds the house. It’s suppose to rain all week, so that is a bummer. Edda also pulled up onto her feet today. I was in the bath and she wanted to see what was happening, so she grabbed the edge of the bathtub and hauled herself up!
From April 1782 to August 1783, General George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, made his military headquarters and residence at the Hasbrouck family’s fieldstone farmhouse in Newburgh. Washington’s Headquarters is located 12 miles north of the forts at West Point.
The Hasbrouck property, acquired and opened by the State of New York in 1850, was the first publicly operated historic site in the United States. Today, museum exhibits of artifacts recall the events during 1782-83, when Washington’s army stood ready for battle until the final days of the Revolution. In the Hasbrouck house, furnishings, personal effects, and reproductions recreate the daily lives of the general, his wife, his officers, slaves, and servants during their 16-1/2-month stay.
Edda enjoying the Canadian geese on the property.
A long day in Singapore
I arrived at Singapore at 6AM this morning. Now, 12 hours later, I am back in my room wondering when my family will wake up. It was a pretty good day. Things were slow at work, but I did make progress on various beaurocratic details I needed to attend to at both AMD and CHRT. It was nice to see Dakshi, and we did a good bit of walking around outside on our way from CHRT to AMD. Being outside in the bright sunlight really helps with staying awake.
Another Singapore balcony picture 
The view of my room from my blogging post
The view of Singapore from my hotel room balcony on the 60th floor
Much too late..
Jeremy made it to Singapore just fine, he’s staying on the 60th floor of his hotel. I’m going to sleep early tonight, I’ve been staying up until midnight for a few weeks now and it’s really caught up to me. I dropped Ruby off up at Bard so Bob could take care of her.
Big Meeting Monday
Well, there was a big meeting of the minds on Monday. Our project is working in collaboration with UCSB in order to come up with a system that can store this satellite data. of course, nobody really knows what we are actually trying to store or accomplish. It’s rather painful.
But I think one thing is clear to me anyways. It seems like our side is a little more disorganized and vague than the UCSB side. 😛 I’m pretty impressed with UCSB’s technical lead. I feel he’s one the right track to building a system that’ll last 100 years. Apparently, Stanford is trying to piggyback our archive on the Stanford Digital Repository software that might be a lot harder to maintain down the line.
Of course, I didn’t really say much at the meeting. I never can contribute in this fashion, tho I suppose I should if I have opinions. Of course, these meetings tend to be on a high level too, so I figure it would be politically prudent to keep my mouth shut for a little bit anyways.
He’s off to the races!
Jeremy just left for SGP… we are manning the fort in Wappingers Falls.